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Sun Aug 31, 2025, 04:17 AM
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I don’t think Israel is doing itself any favors dispassionately.
There was a time when Israel had elite forces which could pull off these daring rescues as they did in Entebbe.

Instead of grinding the Palestine people into the dust and horrifying people far beyond those with entrenched views on this conflict, Israel should have tried rescuing the hostages as they did in the past.

Clearly technology is making people stupider in every part of the world. A lot of really good science comes out of Israel but now also crap like NSO group and BlackCube (this creepy little company Harvey Weinstein used to stalk complainants).

Again mercenary defense contracting etc seems to be replacing more honest nationalism.

There needs to be a global ban on defense contracting and mercenary war profiteering, especially with second rate ai and junk tech with few safeguards disseminated to some of the dimmest people (typically male) everywhere.

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