[-] palal@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

The Palestinian Authority somehow took a more extreme position than both Hamas and the Israeli police.

The facts are that helicopters were used to indiscriminately target people in the kill zone and likely killed Israeli civilians, but the helicopters were by no means the only cause of casualties in Re'im. To claim that helicopters killed all 364 people doesn't pass the sniff test.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

Different people complaining, I think.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Took them long enough.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Anyone seriously contemplating whether China would invade Taiwan needs to look at a map of Taiwan. There is no feasible invasion of Taiwan without millions of casualties: it would be a fight infinitely worse than Vietnam. Taiwan is the perfect fortress, with urban combat surrounded by densely-forested mountains and decades of buildup explicitly designed by the KMT to block a Chinese invasion. It's also an island separated by more than a hundred kilometers of open ocean. The KMT understands this, as does the CPC.

The only practical military option available to the CPC is a naval blockade like the US did to Cuba, but the KMT was actively trying to stimulate trade with China in the 2008-2016 period to make a blockade economically infeasible. Today, China imports more goods from Taiwan than from any other country in the world.

All this talk of war is fearmongering and posturing to justify increased defense spending at the cost of a lasting and sustainable peace.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

Back in 1983, when Israel still ruled Gaza, they built a secure underground operating room and tunnel network beneath al-Shifa hospital – which is one among several reasons why Israeli security sources are so sure that there is a main Hamas command bunker in or around the large cement basement beneath the area of Building 2.

As reported on by the pro-Israel publication The Tablet.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, which is why the only evidence Israel gives is of guns behind an MRI machine... An MRI machine which, as you may know, is extremely dangerous to operate in the presence of metal.

When did al-Shifa lose power again? Definitely not 3 weeks ago...

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

I'm sure lemmy.world will try to justify this because of the existence of one supposed Hamas militant on the premises.

Unarmed. Visiting their family.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Benjamin "I funded Hamas" Netanyahu

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

They produce 90% of the world's advanced chips more out of systematic neglect than out of any technological gap.

Intel floundered years of technological supremacy because they were run by an incompetent manager type. They refused to run a foundry model for decades.

Samsung has completely lost competitiveness and the South Korean government is happy to let them do whatever because South Korea is more like the Samsung government of Korea.

SMIC can't get access to EUV machines, but even then they're already knocking on the doors of Intel's current process.

[-] palal@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

"they're not in al-Shifa, they're actually in this other hospital!"

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