Hardkill

For now....

But how can they ever really recover their reputation after the atrocities they've already committed?

Yeah, I was definitely by surprised by this too. I wonder what's the catch.

So far, Hamas actually released two of the American hostages to the IDF. This has been confirmed with 100% certainty. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/middleeast/hamas-us-hostages-released-intl/index.html

Okay, so there probably still won't be a nuclear war in the world. But what about threats to democracy and the global economy around the whole world?

I am skeptical about there being a God.

Did he tell the PA that that the reason why he was expanding the settlements was to promote ethnonational integration in Israel?

But is it true that Bibi did secretly fund the Hamas militants and made illicit deals with them via Egypt for many years in order to weaken the innocent PA?

According to The Times of Israel, Bibi allegedly has been secretly working with Hamas for many years and used them as part of his plan to divide and conquer the entire West Bank and Gaza strip. That means that he wanted Hamas to launch their attack on Israel in order to effectively pin the blame on Palestinian Authority and all of the Palestinians, thereby giving him a pretext for invading all of Gaza and the West Bank. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/?fbclid=IwAR1Il86r4Jm9_AQ2mXZ_EZO4MhOyJQfph-uXOALr5CP13u05GjqmAfFA4vk https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1204923717/israel-gaza-hamas-palestinian-war "The goal for Netanyahu, according to Schneider, was to avoid the building of a future Palestinian state at any cost. And he did that in the way he approached Hamas, by allowing cash to flow into Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas, and making deals with the militants via Egypt." Is this really true?!

Biden will be going to Israel and then Egypt tomorrow.

Apparently, according to a poll in the Jerusalem Post, a majority of Israeli citizens blame Netanyahu for the Hamas attack. They believe that his failed leadership caused their country to be vulnerable to attacks by Hamas. Also, according to that same poll, most people in Israel want him to resign after this war ends. So, so far, Bibi hasn't gotten the kind of rally-around-effect that W. Bush had post 9/11 or H. W. Bush had during operation Desert Storm.

You I can't stand these Republicans like Lindsay Graham who are already trying to make this situation much worse than it is already is. https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/11/sen-graham-says-were-in-a-religious-war-calls-to-level-gaza/

Would you say that we are now living in a new Cold War era? Or are we living in an even worse time than the Cold War era was in the 1900s?

California is supposed to be one of the most liberal states in the country, has had veto-proof supermajorities of Democrats in both houses of the California State Legislature for several years, a Democratic governor for over 5 years who ran as a liberal Democrat who ran on many liberal/progressive policies including wanting to enact a single payer system, legalize/decriminalize hallucinogens, controlling drug prices, etc. Yet, Newsom just vetoed a lot of good left-wing policies that passed the CA state legislature and backed away from his support from making a serious push for single payer system in CA. Many liberals and progressives including myself have lately been disappointed by him.

MSNBC is more liberal or left-wing than CNN, PBS, and NBC/CNBC, right?

I've know some guys who actually met their wives from meeting them at a bar, but I've never heard of any guys IRL who met their gf or wives at a club. Are there actually a lot of girls who do go to clubs to find a guy they would want to date and be in a long-term relationship with?

If the news is true, then why haven't CNN, NYT, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, or ABC or any other more reliable news outlets covered that yet?

To be honest. I am still somewhat skeptical about this piece of news being true. I really hope it is. In any case, the IDF will invade the gaza one way or another. I can't even begin to imagine how horrific this is all going to turn out.

Apparently, the IDF rescued a lot of hostages and killed a lot of terrorists:

Even if freedom and democracy can't work in a primitive country like Iran, Iraq, or Afghanistan isn't there some way to keep the power of a leader of such a country in check by other parts of the government? All leaders should be held accountable, regardless of what country they are in charge of, right?

I hope that NATO can convince Bibi and the IDF to be as level headed as possible.

People in less developed countries also know that many of their children will sadly not live pass their childhood or youth given how terrible the environments they live in are and the lack of good resources they have compared to more developed countries. Therefore, their instincts are to produce as many children as possible in the hope that their family lineages and the rest of their society as a whole will continue to survive.

I didn't realize that blacks still had it worse than Palestinians even after slavery ended in the US.

Oh yeah that's right... Damn. Sometimes, I feel like maybe the Jews made a mistake by deciding to have their homeland in that part of the Middle East.