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Israel has multiple layers of anti-missile shielding. Most of them are generally unknown because they haven't been needed before. The most famous, Iron Dome, is also the weakest, designed against short-range missiles. This is the first significant need for their stronger, long-range layers...

Israel's Supreme Court ended military exemptions for Haredim. If not for the current crisis, this would have been the biggest political development in Israel in decades. Bigger than the judicial overhaul last year. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-794176 This is something...

They all say there was a horrible loss of life at the aid convoy. I believe that. You say the Israeli army put out food lures for people so it could deliberately massacre them, just because. While on camera. According to Hamas and an utter lunatic propagandist from AJ whom you are actually...

You're demanding someone justify an event that you acknowledge might not have happened. That's sure something.

Maybe all the injured can be taken to the Al-Ahli hospital - you know, the one Hamas declared Israel blew up and killed 500 people and the entire world media instantly believed them, with no verification. The exact same thing is happening now. Learn to spot bullshit and speculation. It took...

Hadn't heard from him in years, I was hoping he died.

A few recent items of note: -Egypt is building a giant refugee camp near the Rafah border, able to house over 100,000 people: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/egypt-builds-walled-enclosure-on-border-as-israeli-offensive-looms-e5c12043 -Israeli police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir banned...

One section says it was 3%:35%, another says it was 10%:44%. Why are there two sets of different (terrible) figures?

The evidence of UNRWA collaboration with Hamas came from captured computers, interrogations, surveillance camera pictures, and linking Gazans found dead in Israel on Oct. 7th and thereafter to UNRWA jobs. One of the released Israeli hostages swears he was held captive by an UNRWA teacher. I'm...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna136030 UNRWA's continued existence to this day is perverse. There's one UN agency for all non-Palestinian refugees, and UNRWA for Palestinians alone, to maintain dependency and infinite rent-seeking.

Aaaaand the court just overturned the law. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-historic-ruling-high-court-strikes-down-key-judicial-overhaul-legislation/ Without a Constitution, there's no legal guideline for what happens when the Knesset and High Court disagree. Who gets the last word? Can...

This is the same Smotrich and Religious Zionism party that a recent poll showed being totally vanished in the next election. Can't happen soon enough.

A lot of caveats around that report: * As always, the death toll comes directly from Hamas, which deliberately does not separate civilians from combatants, and has not been independently verified. * It also does not separate the civilians who have been killed by Hamas itself - both those they...

You're so close to getting it. The world isn't paying attention to other humanitarian crises for a reason. There are more journalists based in Israel than in China for a reason.

https://www.jta.org/2023/12/15/global/uk-joins-us-in-announcing-travel-ban-on-extremist-israeli-settlers For the record, this is good. Though it's pathetic that it turned out to be necessary, since Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir acquiesced to settlers enough that the violent ones seemingly can no...

It has already been illegal throughout the entire lifetime of everyone reading this for Americans to participate in the Arab League boycott of Israel. Most Americans never even knew, so it's not exactly oppressive. BDS itself is pointless and zero-impact, which should be of more concern to its...

Netanyahu's method of ouster is getting less "Hoover" and more "Ghadaffi" by the day.

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/business/2023/12/11/layoffs-at-hasbro-1100-jobs-providence-office-closing-by-2024/71883051007/ COVID, stuck-at-home purchasing levels were never going to be "the new normal," especially not during inflation. Still - sucks.

Every accusation of Israeli white phosphorus use comes from Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, both of which have very sketchy and biased histories in this conflict in particular (which should shock exactly zero people who know the dirt on the Salvation Army or Autism Speaks). There...

Things still going well on campus. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/us/harvard-mit-penn-presidents-antisemitism.html