If international law doesn’t apply in Palestine, it doesn’t apply anywhere else either
The Iranian elite here were never representative of the majority of Iranians.
Not recently, it is just that mask dropped recently
All the billions in the world couldn't buy him a heart or a brain.
With thousands of faculty and students likely killed and campuses destroyed, Gaza's universities are barely surviving Israel’s scholasticide.
Have the Houthis ended the genocide?
No, and if you will define success by only this metric then they aren't successful.
Has the US achieved any of its goals against Yemen? What has the prosperity guardian guarded?
Or to put it differently. When did the US lose against Taliban? In 2001? Or in 2021?
Taking out Iranian drones and projectiles cost the US over a billion dollars and required the coordination of multiple countries. In a war of attrition the US will lose, just like in Vietnam and Afghanistan before.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/missile-drone-pentagon-houthi-attacks-iran-00132480
“The cost offset is not on our side,” said one DOD official.
True. This is something that I need to work on and improve. I am aware of it but don't know how to mitigate it.
To me it looks like my response is well cited with numbers and quotes, but I know that it comes across as abrasive and I don't know where this failure is happening.
Thank you for the honest feedback.
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I always confuse couch with coach, not sure which is which. No need to correct me, let me imagine things in my head.
The Palestinian Authority is secular and was a partner in the Oslo Accords and peace process. Where did that get the Palestinians? Nowhere.
The Palestinians secular or otherwise, cannot meet people half way who don't want to meet them at all. The Israeli right which has dominated politics since the assassination of Rabin in 1995 -assassinated because of the peace with Palestinians- has zero desire to recognize any Palestinian state on any part of Palestine.
The Palestinian Authority is secular and has Christians in it. This proves yet again you have no idea what you are talking about. The Palestinian Authority is not Hamas, often it was in direct confrontation with Hamas.
Yes it is. The Israeli port of Eilat for example went bankrupt due to the blockade by the Yemeni forces.
To date, the US has lost at least three Reaper drones over Yemen, each costing $30m.
Estimates of the total cost of the operation range between $260m and $573m per month – that is, between $1.8bn and $4bn so far.
None of the US and its allies’ actions in the Red Sea have stopped the disruption of shipping lanes. Shipping and insurance costs have soared.
President Biden himself has admitted that the strikes against Houthis do not work. Yet, he has refused to stop them even as experts are suggesting that “strategic inaction” may in fact be more effective. He has also refused to use the most effective way to stop the Houthis: to press Israel into putting an end to the genocide in Gaza. The Houthis have repeatedly made clear that their attacks will stop as soon as there is a ceasefire.
US foreign policy fails again, this time against the Houthis
This is why historical knowledge is important. History repeats itself first as a tragedy second as a farce.
Arab-media can be crappy sometimes. The “Houthis” are the legitimate government of Yemen. The US is waging a war against the Yemeni Armed Forces, not some rebel group.
The Houthis have endured a half-year of American strikes, delivering US President Biden a major foreign policy defeat.
> To date, the US has lost at least three Reaper drones over Yemen, each costing $30m. > > Estimates of the total cost of the operation range between $260m and $573m per month – that is, between $1.8bn and $4bn so far. > > None of the US and its allies’ actions in the Red Sea have stopped the disruption of shipping lanes. Shipping and insurance costs have soared. > > President Biden himself has admitted that the strikes against Houthis do not work. Yet, he has refused to stop them even as experts are suggesting that “strategic inaction” may in fact be more effective. He has also refused to use the most effective way to stop the Houthis: to press Israel into putting an end to the genocide in Gaza. The Houthis have repeatedly made clear that their attacks will stop as soon as there is a ceasefire.
Yemen’s motives are clear, and they have offered to stop their blockade if the genocide in Gaza stops. But regardless of why, or whether you believe the Yemenis are justified or not, the US is losing in Yemen.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/amp/
In most cases, the U.S. is launching $2 million defense missiles to stop $2,000 Houthi drones, a discrepancy that the Yemeni rebel group has noted in its statements mocking Washington.
An airbase housing the US’s occupation forces in western Iraq comes under fresh attack.
My observation based on everyone who was cheering the US military action against Yemen and its unconditional support of Israel.
It is a hyperbolic statement. I think at least 50% of the US public opposes the operations in Yemen and the unconditional support of Israel. But without a solid public opposition, perhaps a general strike, no one is stopping the US from getting into more pointless wars.
Everything can be understood more clearly with class analysis. The US people lost the war but military industrial complex made a killing.
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This is awful. This is what happens when international laws are selectively enforced.
For the sake of innocent Ukrainians and innocents everywhere, someone needs to start enforcing the laws on everyone.
If you told me in 2001 that the US will spend $2.4 trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban I would have thought you were crazy.
Yet that's exactly what happened and the US public are not only okay with it, but eager to repeat it again.
So now I am taking bets on how much time and money do you think the US will lose in the Middle East to achieve nothing except looking foolish in the eyes of the world.
Peeling The American Onion
It Ain't Over 'Til The Last Burger King Leaves Kandahar
> We spent over $2.4 trillion in Afghanistan for 20 years while the poor in America went without food, medical care, decent schools. The water in the Black-majority city of Flint was poisoned by the Governor. A thousand people shot by the police in the U.S. each year. > > The pundits on TV wail: “We’ve abandoned our Afghan helpers! No one will ever trust us again! No one will ever believe us! Our word is no good!!” > > EXACTLY! Correct! Yessss! We should never be believed! Note to the rest of the world: You see us coming? RUN! Nothing but tragedy awaits you. Do NOT help us. If we sign a climate agreement, we will not follow it! If we sign a nuclear deal with your mullahs, don’t believe it. It only means we’re getting ready to bomb you. And you should know that when it comes to we, the American public, there is not a single morning where we ever wake up thinking about you or giving a rat’s ass whether 80% of your people live in a state of oppressive abject poverty. It’s always only about us, baby — and what YOU can do for US, for our AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!
Michael Arria and Phil Weiss unpack a tumultuous week in U.S. politics as Kamala Harris appears to lock up the Democratic Party nomination for president, and Benjamin Netanyahu makes his case for genocide to the U.S. Congress, to rapturous applause.
2002 Arab Peace Initiative
The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية; Hebrew: יוזמת השלום הערבית), also known as the Saudi Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السعودية; Hebrew: היוזמה הסעודית), is a 10 sentence proposal for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 and at the 2017 Arab League summits.[1] The initiative offers normalisation of relations by the Arab world with Israel, in return for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon), with the possibility of comparable and mutual agreed minor swaps of the land between Israel and Palestine, a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.[2]
The Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat immediately embraced the initiative.[4] His successor Mahmoud Abbas also supported the plan and officially asked U.S. President Barack Obama to adopt it as part of his Middle East policy.[5] Initial reports indicate that Islamist political party Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip, was deeply divided,[6] while later reports indicate that Hamas accepted the peace initiative.[7][8] The Israeli government under Ariel Sharon rejected the initiative as a "non-starter"[9] because it required Israel to withdraw to pre-June 1967 borders.[10] In 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed tentative support for the Initiative,[11] but in 2018, he rejected it as a basis for future negotiations with the Palestinians.[12]
Zionists love to claim that Arabs never wanted peace. But the reality is that they rejected all peace proposals that didn’t give them all of Palestine. Since Menachim Begin it was Israeli policy to slowly expand the settlements on Palestinian lands to prevent any possibility of a Palestinian state. Use facts on the ground, i.e. the settlements to force more concessions from Palestinians.
2002 Arab Peace Initiative
The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية; Hebrew: יוזמת השלום הערבית), also known as the Saudi Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السعودية; Hebrew: היוזמה הסעודית), is a 10 sentence proposal for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 and at the 2017 Arab League summits.[1] The initiative offers normalisation of relations by the Arab world with Israel, in return for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon), with the possibility of comparable and mutual agreed minor swaps of the land between Israel and Palestine, a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.[2]
The Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat immediately embraced the initiative.[4] His successor Mahmoud Abbas also supported the plan and officially asked U.S. President Barack Obama to adopt it as part of his Middle East policy.[5] Initial reports indicate that Islamist political party Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip, was deeply divided,[6] while later reports indicate that Hamas accepted the peace initiative.[7][8] The Israeli government under Ariel Sharon rejected the initiative as a "non-starter"[9] because it required Israel to withdraw to pre-June 1967 borders.[10] In 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed tentative support for the Initiative,[11] but in 2018, he rejected it as a basis for future negotiations with the Palestinians.[12]
Sorry if my initial response was harsh. I hate seeing Zionist talking points repeated.
I am willing to try again and take the time to explain the history to you with sources and evidence and you can draw your own conclusions.
By that logic the US is the one preventing peace in the Middle East given how much weapons and political cover they give Israel. The US hasn’t even been holding Israel accountable for the expansion of illegal settlements despite the Oslo Accord and two-state promise since 1993.
Iran is filling a gap that was left when Arab governments stopped caring about the resistance. Otherwise Iran being Shia is unpopular with the Sunni Palestinians.
Oh and most funding actually comes from Qatar and other governments not just Iran. They also receive many donations from concerned people around the world, I am one concerned person.
Sorry if my response was harsh. It is very important to get the history right. Zionists always falsely claim that Palestinians never tried peace. It is the Israelis not the Palestinians who assassinated their leader when he made peace.
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