Rapid demilitarization.

Hamas is already strapped to the gills with AR pattern assault rifles thanks to captured, abandoned, unsecured, and sold IDF stockpiles along with other purchases, but you’re absolutely right.

With any luck, a free Palestine will get a Taliban sized plate of war materiel leftovers once the settlers go the way of Rhodesia.

“I was just taking my tank platoon for a stroll on your lawn”

Thank you for clarifying, and good luck on your quest. Arab Jews and local Palestinian Jews later termed Mizrahi were treated particularly awfully by the Zionists, there was even a false-flag Zionist militia bombing of an Iraqi Jewish synagogue.

For your earlier questions, I recommend chapters 1 through 6 of Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé if you haven’t encountered it already.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2430-ten-myths-about-israel

Especially with the Leclercs.

Precision in language is a worthy goal, and another thread and time would be a fine place for a discussion about Theodore Herzl being a gigantic piece of shit who was a wrecker for what may have been a nobler movement among successful high-status Jews in wealthier parts of the Pale of Settlement during one extremely narrow time and context.

Unfortunately, you can’t just start a conversation that’s the equivalent of “swastikas are good luck charms” without seeming like an asshole.

It’s not exactly 90’s Al Qaeda out there. Hizb’Allah is a political party with seats in the Lebanese parliament and their own parallel civil society institutions like clinics. Decades in governance, plenty of reaching across aisles and cooperation with other faiths in Lebanon and such. They’ve tended to be sensitive about how they are perceived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah_social_services

Naquora is tiny. 4,150 people, with a highest elevation of 60m. From what I can tell, the UN HQ is separate from the main village, in a former toll station and a couple buildings on a skinny beach strip that is two streets wide. The IDF really has to be going out of their way to attack UN troops, which is insane if Israel’s goal is to create a regional war where the US bails them out.

Szymon the automatic rifleman has a right to defend himself

These are the UN deployments between the Litani river and the border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Joint_Military_Symbology

That’s fucked up, but I’m glad it’s stiffening the peacekeepers’ resolve. The IDF isn’t gonna stop shooting at UN personnel, and a lot of company size units of jumpy conscripts are gonna have some bad days before this is over. From un.org:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Joint_Military_Symbology

‘least I have a chicken in every pot’

inheriting a genetic disease because my lungfish grandsire wouldn’t put on a fucking respirator around airborne hazards

Cops shared a scene photo in case you haven’t come across it yet. Don’t know if there is a higher quality version.

sobbing over my phone because I couldn’t stop a friend from pairing full-bodied red wine with lobster

The Economist (2022):The pandemic’s true death toll is between 19.2 and 36.3 million “With 95% confidence interval.”

Ungated

Transmisogyny is its own goddamn entire ass terrible thing, and a really useful concept for understanding all kinds of shit in The Discourse.

sister of mercy. I hope your prognosis and future events are slightly less fuckin’ raw and poetically knife twisty!

That fucking sucks! You shouldn’t have to get rolled by germs over and over. If you’re down for some up to date info on what you could do instead, the best short roundup I’ve encountered is here.

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The creator’s site is currently hugged to death, which speaks to the quality of this resource and the magnitude of the viral surge.

A good egg like you probably doesn’t need reminding, but check in on the most vulnerable people in your circles. The stigma around COVID contributes to people suffering in silence and falling by the wayside, and it’s crushing when the world moves on without us.