Comments on: On Israel and the Palestinians: the diplomat, the admiral, and the reporters https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703111 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:28:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703111 remember they played the same game in Afghanistan, every accidental airstrike was a crime, every suicide bomber was a cry for help or something,

take an example of the kadr kid that killed an american medic, christopher speer,
he got sent to gitmo, the usual suspects doted on him, trudeau welcomed him with open arms,

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703107 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:07:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703107 The other thing about diplomats…

There’s the saying, “To a man with a hammer everything looks like nail.”

To a diplomat, everything looks like an opportunity to put a diplomat in charge.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703080 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 02:07:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703080 Powerline’s John Hinderaker weighs in:

IT’S TIME TO CRUSH GAZA

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/its-time-to-crush-gaza.php

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703077 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:31:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703077 Plus, huxley, what the nature of a “proportionate response” to the sadistic murders of 1300 people might be. Would this mean Israelis would have a quota for women they could gang rape, and for the other horrors? Their opponents are monsters, so they can be, too? The “proportionate response” people are not doing much thinking.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703075 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:21:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703075 I’m reading up on the history of Gaza-Israel attacks. Wiki has two useful articles which show that these attacks have been going on practically non-stop since 2005, though not at the current scale of conflict.

Gaza just won’t stop attacking Israel.

Why so much of the world thinks that Israel is obliged to sit still and take these attacks or be bound by “proportionate response” is a mystery to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict

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

]]> By: Ed Snider https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703050 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:56:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703050 Dalton is an incarnation of those British puke Blimps who argued against allowing the Jews of Europe to come to Palestine in the 1940s because it would have offended the sensibilities of the Arabs. The Brits need to put him on a travel poster so the world will understand them better. A truly hideous man.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703039 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 16:34:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703039 yes it’s not as bad as when reuters called bin laden, a well known Saudi dissident but close,

https://twitter.com/giladalper/status/1712822693727207895

]]> By: IrishOtter49 https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703033 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:48:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703033 Re: Clarity on a parallel topic by Turley (“War is a continuation of politics by other means” – Clausewitz).

There is a reputable school of thought that what Clausewitz really said (or meant) was: “War is a continuation of policy by other means.

It is a distinction with a big difference.

Clausewitz himself is not clear on this point. In this regard he is a typical German philosopher.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703030 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:26:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703030 I’ll post this in the Saturday Open Thread too.

Israel’s Defence Strategy & the IDF – Doctrine, Mobilisation, and Recent Lessons – Perun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xbkakrwmFo

Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Israeli Defence Strategy & The IDF
00:00:48 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:10 — What This Video Is Not
00:04:06 — History
00:13:51 — Strategic Position
00:20:23 — The IDF Today
00:26:27 — The War-peace Continuum
00:30:58 — The IDF, Mobilised
00:40:46 — Nuclear Ambiguity
00:45:17 — International Relations
00:51:19 — Budgets And Military Industrial Complex
00:57:41 — Events As Context
01:00:49 — Observations
01:05:42 — What Next?
01:09:59 — Conclusion
01:10:47 — Channel Update

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2023/10/14/on-israel-and-the-palestinians-the-diplomat-the-admiral-and-the-reporters/#comment-2703025 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:58:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=129543#comment-2703025 Ryan was being “neutral” by calling Hams “militants” or “fighters” and commented on the KIA Hamas officer’s pay stub and how he had a wife and son. Poor guy, died while trying to kill as many Israeli civilians. (sarc)

Other than that, a good assessment by Ryan.

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