Americans like to think we’re better than other countries in a barbarous world. The fact we elected someone like Trump to leader our country, not once but twice, argues that we’re not so special after all. So does slavery, Native American genocide, and the Japanese-American internments. [...]
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Has Hamas won?
“Know your enemy better than you know yourself,” Sun Tzu wrote, or phrasing to that effect. If Hamas leaders are truly diabolical, they would carry out an attack on Israel so atrocious it would provoke a gross overreaction. That’s exactly what happened. What’s in it for Hamas[...]
May 2nd, 2024 - 2:58 pm § in Israel/Palestine
Is Palestinian boy’s death a war crime?
Innocent people get killed in wars. Examples are countless. But the West Bank isn’t at war. There, the Israeli army is policing an occupied zone, where violent incidents have increased since the war in Gaza began. On November 29, 2023, several Palestinian boys were playing in the street near t[...]