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@jef First as tragedy; second as farce; third time’s the charm.
@jef Yep. That's about right. 😔🤨😔
@jef no Diablo II?
@jef so the next invasion is gonna be 2046. you're still gonna be alive. you'll need a fourth panel
@jef it looks like this reality's loop

@jef

Looking at the gap, it seems economical crises can stop wars.

@jgg @jef economic crises encourage wars lol
@jef it is a REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. I am watching the United States invade the Middle-East
@eigen @jef Close your eyes when it's a Democrat, eh?

@crazyeddie You forget that Clinton and Obama inherited "their" wars from the Bush Georges and that they focused on ending these wars.

Any other Democrats involved in wars in middle east?

@eigen @jef

@taschenorakel @eigen @jef You could have just said, "Yes."
@jef I used to say, if you listen to a bush you'll end up wandering in the desert and we've known that for 4,000 years.

While far from his worst offense, trump has ruined a great joke.
@jef Add five years, but I’m in this image.
@jef "Drill, baby, drill!"
@jef still can't understand why the middle east hates US so much /sarcasm
@jef may we live long lives and be spared a fourth panel.
@jef feels like one could do dates tied to Brit colonialist declarations that reestablished Israel right over the top of indigenous/ resident people, the six day war, etc.
@D2 Jews are indigenous ppl of that territory. Learn basics.
@martin yes. Read again; I didn’t say they weren’t. But _israel_, by degrees in ‘17, ‘48, ‘67, was a Jewish state plopped on top of a multicultural region, with non-Jews’ rights and ownership violated. Regardless of anti-Israel counterattacks and intifada, those kind of rhyme with Dr Manhattan’s musing.

@martin personally, I like the thought-experiment of ‘what if we gave them southern Utah?’ Already nicknamed Zion. Locals are fanbois who call themselves The Chosen. Some ecological similarities. A desert, albeit colder. Would have pissed off some locals. Better proximity to colleges, industry, cities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And at least it was really-truly OURS.

What we’ve done to Palestinians was reprehensible.

@D2 What rights or property have been violated? What are you talking about? Israel uses a modified Ottoman system (just like the British Mandate). There has been no revolution in this regard.
Israeli Arabs enjoy the highest level of civil liberties in the entire MENA region. What are you talking about?
@martin a minute ago you said I needed to study history, now you’re pretending that Israel formed without controversy or impact. Fuuuuuuck that’s some chutzpah.
@D2 Never wrote it was without impact. It's nonsense.
I'm asking about your "rights and property violations".

@martin

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Not that you’re predictable, but let me just offer your next whattaboutism:

“Israel negates or denies the atrocities it committed, claiming that many of the expelled Palestinians left willingly or that their expulsion was necessary and unavoidable.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

Nakba - Wikipedia

@D2 Wiki has terrible antisemite bias.
The vast majority of people fled the war. Just like in Ukraine. That's not a "Nakba," is it? All civilians flee before war. What a surprise! The ones who were actually systematically expelled were the Jews. But #NoJewNoNews They didn't get any support from the UN.
Another group of Israeli Arabs was instructed to leave the country to create international pressure on Israel.
These immigrants caused a crisis in Jordan (the Arab part of the British Mandate of Palestine), culminating in Black September. Then there was a real ethnic cleansing. Arabs of Israeli origin were expelled from Jordan. Mostly to Lebanon. And then they started causing trouble there and caused government crises from which Lebanon has not yet recovered. It is no secret that no one wants them on their territory. Look at the brutal border walls between Gaza and Egypt.
And last but not least, the Arabs started the war against Israel. Both the Israeli Arabs and those from the surrounding area. Immediately after the declaration of the State of Israel on the basis of a UN resolution. Why? Because the Arabs wanted the entire territory for themselves and wanted to eliminate or at least expel the Jews, the original inhabitants of the territory.
Of the 150,000 Arabs who remained in Israel, they now(2 millions) have the most civil rights in the entire MENA region. They are in parliament, the army; the highest judge (an Arab) tried the former Israeli prime minister (a Jew) 😁, etc. None of them lost anything, no "property violations." An Arab commander with Jewish subordinates defended a kibbutz from a genocidal attack from Gaza 7.10.2023; he is an Israeli hero. And here, wave to an Israeli Muslim Arab woman:
#^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Ella


@jef in the spirit of solving solveable problems, perhaps the middle eastern nations will benefit from resolving and reconciling their local differences peaceably, organising together into a coalition of mutual prosperity, and take the necessary action to end this recurring invasion massacre once and for all at the place where it originates.

there is no valid reason at all for there to be another American invasion after this American invasion.

it would save innocent lives.