One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
#PierceMorgan gets eviscerated by Prof. #MuhammadMirandi from #Teheran, previously a top-notch adviser to #Iran's nuclear negotiations team.
Everyone should try to take a 1930's perspective and mentally substitute #Israel by the #ThirdReich or #Mussolini's #Italy and Iran by an opposing Allied Power like the UK or the US.
After listening to this debate, the West's, including Israel's, position doesn't have that much standing anymore.
#WarInPalestine
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Too bad.
In this case, I find the whole counter argument very insightful.
Israel is, indeed, an apartheid state and the war crimes committed by it, e.g. the direct hit on the help convoy, etc., would have disqualified any other country from the West's help but Israel.
The moral yardstick is, even by well-meaning minds, so obviously different when it comes to Israel as to give representatives from authoritarian...
#WarInPalestine
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...states a real semblance of justified grievance. This must STOP.
President Biden was right to halt the delivery of offensive weapons to #Israel.
This can be but a first step.
#Netanyahu has for decades been a grand master of letting US presidents look like school boys when informing them, often after the fact, of aggressive actions against its neighbors or #Palestinians. This must STOP. If Israel wants to be an equal nation,...
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That's what I mean by not B & W.
Ideals are great except when sticking to them too fastidiously cause the "good" guys to lose the overall war.
For example in this situation, if we abandon Israel that could result in making that region into a new Iranian radical Islamist caliphate with strong ties to Moscow. I don't believe that avoids the most human nor environmental suffering so I oppose that course of action for greater good even if I don't like doing it.
"For example in this situation, if we abandon Israel that could result in making that region into a new Iranian radical Islamist caliphate with strong ties to Moscow."
I agree. I don't think that going along with #Netanyahu's extremist policies in Gaza is necessary to prevent this, though.
#Israel is part of the West. As is #Hungary. Rogue leaders must be removed without "dumping" their countries.
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I agree with you, Clara, regarding the predilections of #Erdogan. (Interesting, BTW, that you should use the official #Türkiye;))
#Iran could not conquer #Israel.
However, as we can see by its huge production of drones for the #Kremlin, it can cause havoc regarding the region's #infrastructure.
Also, I have read a bit about the technologies it employs (actually...
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...that question should be directed to a@[email protected]'s Defence Editor, #ShashankJoshi, @shashj). 1)
My gut feeling is that, despite it being propaganda, Prof. #MuhammadMirandi's (see post above) assessment of the weaponry employed in the recent mass attack of #Iran contains more than a grain of truth.
In any event, not only #Turkey could have a claim to #Palestine...
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...I took a trip in a virtual time machine in a discussion here. It leads to nowhere.
Historically speaking, #Palestine belongs to no-one and everyone b/c "everyone" has been their at some point in time:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111969398501009885
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Do look at the linked timeline, the number of empires involved over the course of several thousand years is truly staggering).
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