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No it isn't a dictatorship like you're used to.
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No it isn't a dictatorship like you're used to.
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Israel seems to struggle with the whole "property destruction is prohibited" part of the occupation. Its exactly why they never signed up to the Rome Statute of the Geneva 4th.So it's you just don't care then.
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Over the last several days, Israeli forces carried out the largest raid in a West Bank city in over 20 years, causing widespread destruction.www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
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He just described the opposite of a dictatorship.
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He/she just said that Netanyahu is only in power because of "terrorists like Gvir"
Interesting you think that's the opposite of dictatorship, especially considering the United Arab list has 5 seats in the Knesset while Gvir has only one.
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Needs for me to say this.
My views on Iran come from experience IRL, of knowing some who eventually got out of there after being arrested by the guard and whose backs are striped with horrible scars, if they're probably fortunate not to have swung from a crane.
It's a brutal regime and I suspect we might live to see the end of it.
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Went to university with a guy from Iran 20 years ago. Absolute top bloke, he said the majority of people there are completely fine with western countries. Only the most hardcore are supportive of the supreme leadership privately. Publicly, not supporting the supreme leadership can be very harmful to one's health & ability to stay alive.
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Yep, also studied with a couple of Iranians doing their PhDs and Post Docs. Loved Australia, loved Iran from what I could see.
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Please explain how a democratically elected Government, where a specific party holds the balance of power and therefore has an outsized influence upon public policy, is a dictatorship.
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This isn't what your mate claimed.
He/she said Netanyahu "is only in power because of terrorists like Gvir".
And yes, you've answered your own question, Israeli isn't a dictatorship.
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If that's the part you think i'm taking issue with then that's on you.
It's not a surprise mind you.
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No one ever claimed it was a dictatorship, his description doesn't represent a dictatorship, that was your claim.
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Yet my exact post said
Let's chalk this up to another bad day of posting at the office for you and call it even.
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It's ok though, Jazny says so.
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He never claimed it was a dictatorship. So your comment was irrelevant.
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Ah you just reminded me of the first game I ever played as a kid, Prince of Persia. Great game btw.
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Times of Israel published an article about this drone double-tap.
13 year old boy, and his 14 year old would be rescuer.
The IDF don't even pretend anymore.
Can only hope the drone operator goes the way of the bulldozer driver recently.
The siege mentality that comes from sanctions and isolation has only solidified the regime. The US is in a 45 year dummy spit. Since when have they been averse to cuddling up to shit regimes?
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While I'm not a fan of sanctions that can really hurt the people, Iran isn't without friends.
Of course the US cuddles up to shit regimes, our government does the same thing if it's to our benefit, that's what we pay them for. They must act to our advantage and it gets real dirty.
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Mohammad Sabahi, an Iranian regime mullah has been assassinated by a citizen. Not sure the motive, whether it be personal or political.
ifpnews.com
Friday Prayers Leader Assassinated In Southern Iran - Iran Front Page
The Friday prayers leader of the city of Kazeroun in the southern Iranian province of Fars died in an assassination on Friday.
ifpnews.com
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Australia's support of Israel doesn't benefit me, my family or my friends, and I find it morally reprehensible. I'd rather our Government ostracise them like North Korea, for example, proscribe Likud a terrorist organisation, and cease trade of military goods, to hold them accountable for the last year and perhaps motivate them to be better.
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Of course it benefits you/us, we'd have already distanced if it didn't. It also benefits us as an ally of the US and it would be incredibly reckless to piss them off.
What do you think would happen if all Israel's allies pulled away and ostracised them as you suggest?
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Have "Private Militias" or companies that control them, ever been charged or convicted for war crimes anywhere around the world?
Or are Corporate entities exempt from the various International War Crimes laws?
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/202...b563-dcbd-ab92-b5fb6c5a0000?lts=1729899914108 (https://archive.is/UHwl6)
'Netanyahu Is Selling Gaza to Private Militias
Noa Landau
Oct 22, 2024
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pushing a plan to transfer civilian control of Gaza to private companies, which will be paid for it.
The government has gone quite some distance from the intent it announced in February under heavy American pressure – that it would transfer civilian control of Gaza to "local actors with administrative experience" that "aren't identified with countries or organizations that support terror." Next came the plan to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in Gaza to the Israel Defense Forces – a euphemism for a military government. Now, due to the army's opposition to being involved in distributing aid, a decision is taking shape to hire a private Israeli-American company to handle his issue.
The company that has recently been mentioned as a candidate, GDC, is a military contractor of the kind that flooded Iraq and Afghanistan during America's occupation of those countries. The masses of studies that have been done about this system over the years found that it carried enormous risks. These are mercenary corporations, and there are major questions about their compliance with international law and international standards.
Essentially, this would privatize military rule over Gaza by handing it over to private companies with private financial interests and nothing beyond that. The goal is to transfer moral and legal responsibility from Israel to these armed militias. And indeed, in a very troubling interview in Tuesday's Yedioth Ahronoth, the company's founder and CEO, Moti Kahana, said that "if something happens, we'll send a message to Gaza's residents – you don't want to mess with us." That's a genuine mafia-style line.
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The current plan gives private contractors the keys to civilian control of Gaza and thereby turning Gaza into another Iraq, which will be a tragedy for generations.
...
In practice, Netanyahu's plan for postwar Gaza consists of military occupation, mercenaries and settlements. That's a surefire recipe for the next disaster.'
Or are Corporate entities exempt from the various International War Crimes laws?
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/202...b563-dcbd-ab92-b5fb6c5a0000?lts=1729899914108 (https://archive.is/UHwl6)
'Netanyahu Is Selling Gaza to Private Militias
Noa Landau
Oct 22, 2024
...
pushing a plan to transfer civilian control of Gaza to private companies, which will be paid for it.
The government has gone quite some distance from the intent it announced in February under heavy American pressure – that it would transfer civilian control of Gaza to "local actors with administrative experience" that "aren't identified with countries or organizations that support terror." Next came the plan to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in Gaza to the Israel Defense Forces – a euphemism for a military government. Now, due to the army's opposition to being involved in distributing aid, a decision is taking shape to hire a private Israeli-American company to handle his issue.
The company that has recently been mentioned as a candidate, GDC, is a military contractor of the kind that flooded Iraq and Afghanistan during America's occupation of those countries. The masses of studies that have been done about this system over the years found that it carried enormous risks. These are mercenary corporations, and there are major questions about their compliance with international law and international standards.
Essentially, this would privatize military rule over Gaza by handing it over to private companies with private financial interests and nothing beyond that. The goal is to transfer moral and legal responsibility from Israel to these armed militias. And indeed, in a very troubling interview in Tuesday's Yedioth Ahronoth, the company's founder and CEO, Moti Kahana, said that "if something happens, we'll send a message to Gaza's residents – you don't want to mess with us." That's a genuine mafia-style line.
...
The current plan gives private contractors the keys to civilian control of Gaza and thereby turning Gaza into another Iraq, which will be a tragedy for generations.
...
In practice, Netanyahu's plan for postwar Gaza consists of military occupation, mercenaries and settlements. That's a surefire recipe for the next disaster.'
