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Israel officials themselves said out loud that Israel is committing genocide.

ICC was forced to do it.

The crime is so blazon that if ICC don't do it, the rest of the world can easily point out the laws don't apply to western countries and their allies.

Who officials?

If this isn't genocide, I don't know what would be:

“you must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember”

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved. It’s absolutely not true. … and we will fight until we break their backbone.”

- President Isaac Herzog

“[Israel is] imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

- Defence Minister Yoav Gallant

“[t]o be clear, when we say that Hamas should be destroyed, it also means those who celebrate, those who support, and those who hand out candy — they’re all terrorists, and they should also be destroyed.”

- Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir

“Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli abductees are returned home. Humanitarianism for humanitarianism. And no one will preach us morality.”

- Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Israel Katz

“[w]e need to deal a blow that hasn’t been seen in 50 years and take down Gaza.”

- Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich

“The north of the Gaza Strip, more beautiful than ever. Everything is blown up and
flattened, simply a pleasure for the eyes … We must talk about the day after. In my mind, we
will hand over lots to all those who fought for Gaza over the years and to those evicted from
Gush Katif”

- Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu

“we wouldn’t hand the Nazis humanitarian aid”

- Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu

“there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza”

- Israeli Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said that one of Israel's options in the war against Hamas could be to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip

“we are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba”

- Israeli Minister of Agriculture Avi Dichter

“now we all have one common goal — erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth. Those who are unable will be replaced.”

- Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Member of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Nissim Vaturi

“Hamas became ISIS and the citizens of Gaza are celebrating instead of being horrified. Human animals are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell.”

- Israeli Army Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Major General Ghassan Alian

"This is what Israel has begun to do — we cut the supply of energy, water and diesel to the Strip . . . But it’s not enough. In order to make the siege effective, we have to prevent others from giving assistance to Gaza . . . The people should be told that they have two choices; to stay and to starve, or to leave."

- Israeli Army Reservist Major General, former Head of the Israeli National Security Council, and adviser to the Defence Minister Giora Eiland

“[w]hen you are at war with another country you don't feed them, you don't provide them electricity or gas or water or anything else . . . A country can be attacked in a much broader way, to bring the
country to the brink of dysfunction. This is the necessary outcome of events”

- Giora Eiland

“Israel has no interest in the Gaza Strip being rehabilitated and this is an important point
that needs to be made clear to the Americans”

- Giora Eiland

“if we ever want to see the hostages alive, the only way is to create a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza”

- Giora Eiland

“[water] comes from wells with salt water unfit for consumption. They have water treatment plants, Israel should hit those plants. When the entire world says we have gone insane and this is a humanitarian disaster — we will say, it’s not an end, it’s a means.”

- Giora Eiland

“[C]reate such a huge pressure on Gaza, that Gaza will become an area where people cannot live. People cannot live, until Hamas is destroyed, which means that Israel not only stops to supply energy, diesel, water, food … as we did in the last twenty years … but we should prevent any possible assistance by others, and to create in Gaza such a terrible, unbearable situation, that can last weeks and months”

- Giora Eiland

“the State of Israel has no choice but to make Gaza a place that is temporarily, or permanently, impossible to live in.”

- Giora Eiland

“Israel needs to create a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, compelling tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to seek refuge in Egypt or the Gulf . . . Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.”

- Giora Eiland

“Who are the ‘poor’ women of Gaza? They are all the mothers, sisters or wives of Hamas murderers. On the one hand, they are part of the infrastructure that supports the organization, and on the other hand, if they experience a humanitarian disaster, then it can be assumed that some of the Hamas fighters and the more junior commanders will begin to understand that the war is futile . . . The international community warns us of a humanitarian disaster in Gaza and of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from this, as difficult as that may be. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer . . . It is precisely its civil collapse that will bring the end of the war closer. When senior Israeli figures say in the media ‘It's either us or them’ we should clarify the question of who is ‘them’. ‘They’ are not only Hamas fighters with weapons, but also all the ‘civilian’ officials, including hospital administrators and school administrators, and also the entire Gaza population who enthusiastically supported Hamas and cheered on its atrocities on October 7th.”

- President Herzog

“Be triumphant and finish them off and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live . . . Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them. If you have an Arab neighbour, don't wait, go to his home and shoot him . . . We want to invade, not like before, we want to enter and destroy what’s in front of us, and destroy houses, then destroy the one after it. With all of our forces, complete destruction, enter and destroy. As you can see, we will witness things we’ve never dreamed of. Let them drop bombs on them and erase them.”

-  Israeli army reservist Ezra Yachin

“work[ing] together with all the bodies in the IDF when the goal is clear — to destroy everything that has been touched by the hand of Hamas”

- Head of the Israeli army’s Air Operations Group Lieutenant colonel Gilad Kinan

“[t]he entire Gaza should resemble Beit Hanoun”

Commander in the 2908th Battalion of the Israeli army Yair Ben David

[w]hoever returns here, if they return here after, will find scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future”

- Israeli Army Colonel, Deputy Head of COGAT Colonel Yogev Bar
Sheshet

“Vengeance is a great value. There is vengeance over what they did to us … This place will be a fallow land. They will not be able to live here”

- Colonel Erez Eshel

'May your village burn'!! Yes, yes, as far as I'm concerned, it's a great morale to wish Gaza to be wiped out and set on fire. I have often said revenge is a value. They almost occupied the kibbutzim of the south, slaughtered, raped, decapitated and gouged out eyes, almost 1400 were murdered in one Shabbat. So let their village burn. And if 'La Familia' sing it, it's because they understand that the enemy only understands power! And more power.

-  Revital Gottlieb

"They used the word revenge a lot. I don't think it's revenge - it's justice. If you ask me on a personal level - I flatten Gaza, I have no sentiments. Because the killers of the women and children should not be separated from the citizens of Gaza"

- Keti sh**trit

Erasing all of Gaza from the face of the earth.
That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence and try to enter Egyptian territory.
or they will die.
And their death is evil.
Gaza should be erased.
And fire and smoke on the heads of the Nazis in Judea and Samaria.
Haron is also a Jew who will shake the earth of the world.
A vengeful and cruel IDF is needed here.
Anything less is immoral.
Just unethical."

- Tally Gotliv

"Shelling from the air without mercy!! It is enough to feel sorry for cruel people at such painful prices. It is enough to feel sorry for Gazans who are not involved. There are no uninvolved. Any Gazan who remains in a combat location is assisting a terrorist organization. enough!
Change diskette. Destroy every place where there are terrorists and terrorist aides. from the air!!
Do not endanger soldiers if you can shell from the air!"

- Tally Gotliv

"There are no innocents in Gaza."

- Avigdor Liberman

“the killers of the women and children should not be separated from the citizens of Gaza”

-  Katrin “Keti” sh**trit-Peretz

“the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves”

- Meirav Ben-Ari

“there should be one sentence for everyone there — death”

-  Yitzhak Kroizer

“[w]e must not forget that even the ‘innocent citizens’ — the cruel and monstrous people from Gaza took an active part . . . there is no place for any humanitarian gesture — the memory of Amalek must be protested”

- Boaz Bismouth

“[w]ithout hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators”

- Revital Gottlieb

"Nuclear Missile! Nuclear Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces.
Nuclear weapon! This is my opinion. May God preserve all our strength"

- Tally Gotliv

"Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join! their Nakba, because like then in 1948, the alternative is clear."

-  Ariel Kallner

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1792508631331622926

Good news. To me, it also adds credence to the argument that corporations have much more control over prices than they let on or that the public realizes.

As things stand, the best realistic option is for Russia to withdraw to Feb 22 2022 borders. UN peacekeepers on the border

No. In a perfect world everyone would learn in good public school but if society fails to provide a good quality education for free I don't blame parents wanting their own children to get a good education.

1. Kentucky
2. West Virginia

I’ve only been following elections since 2016, when I was 11 but I like to think I have a fairly decent prediction record. I knew 2016 would be close, predicted a 53-47 senate/dems gaining about 40 in the house in 2018, never bought that 2020 would be a landslide and even here in Canada had Trudeau winning a second term when he was down in most polls. I also always knew this race would be a Biden/Trump rematch.

As of now I’d say Biden pulls this off narrowly but it’s far from a done deal, and as georgiamoderate said a lot can change. We want the answer to this election but simply won’t get it for quite a while. As Adam Carlson (great election analyst, suggest you give him a follow) says, “embrace patience and uncertainty”

Do they.... drag white students away from the publics ?

I have a hard time imagining a single SCOTUS justice would call this deal Constitutional. The Court's been pretty consistent that the terms for holding federal office are listed in the Constitution and can't be added to without a Constitutional amendment. If Trump is over 35, a natural born citizen who has resided in the US for more than 14 years, not disqualified under the 14th Amendment by Congress, and hasn't already been elected to two terms, he's eligible to be president. No government officials can take that away. Plus, in Brady v US, SCOTUS listed a reliance on "promises that are, by their nature, improper as having no proper relationship to the prosecutor's business" as a reason to invalidate a plea deal. Seems pretty open and shut to me that a political promise falls into category

I guess there's a non frivolous argument that a criminal defendant has near infinite latitude in waiving their rights. But expanding that principle so radically as to allowing this situation would be extremely contrary to both liberal jurisprudence and right-wing hackery* that I don't think Alito, Sotomayor, or anyone in between would find it persuasive. This would probably be an easy 9-0 reversal

*This is not to say that I think the right wing justices would be motivated, in whole or even in part, on hackery here. You'd probably get the same outcome if the roles were reversed and it was a Democrat who received this sort of deal. The Court isn't that right wing. The point is that the majority would reach the same outcome if it acted in good faith or if it picked a conclusion and worked backwards - ie this would be an easy case.

Weak argument not rooted in reality. The average person isn’t going to hear it and be convinced. There’s a lot to criticize MAGA over, but racism isn’t a right-wing ideology.

How is racism not right-wing?

The Right, as well as the Left can encompass many ideologies and forms and race could play a role in some ideologies. Once again not all.


For example in the 19th century Europe, Nationalism and Racism were inherently tied together. But was it " right wing "  ?  In today's world yes, but back then, the people opposing nationalism was extremeley conservative monarchists and the Catholic Church.



Would you call Christian Democracy a racist ideology ? Or the Liberal Conservative Strand that dnominates Europe ?

I've been following US elections for over 50 years and have missed two: 2000, when I predicted the reverse of what happened (Gore winning the EC while losing the PV), and 2016, which a lot of people missed.

At this point I simply don't know who's going to win this year, although I like to think it's a highly informed "don't know" rather than a copout. The race is too close and there's too much time left to predict it objectively with any degree of confidence.  As I've said before, if the election was held today I'd rate Trump as a slight favorite, although far from a certainty; it's certainly within the margin of error.  But there is plenty of time and opportunity for Biden to retake the lead. 

To use a football analogy I've used before, Biden is down a touchdown in the second quarter.  There's plenty of time and the opportunity is certainly there, but he can't just stand pat; he has to actually do the work needed to make up the deficit.