The last civil war didn’t quite totally destroy the country. Let us try again.

Sending out IEDs that will probably explode in a supermarket and kill civilians is generally considered a war crime. So far 2 kids killed in Beirut by the Israeli bombs in devices.

All points on that curve, at the same time just now, for undefined values of now.

Labour have kept changing policies all over the place so have been difficult to predict.

Haha that was funny. Mentioning the Gulf of Tonkin incident as justification for war and really meaning it

Why do you think Israel has bombed and totally destroyed all universities and libraries in Gaza?

I used to use news sites (BBC, Guardian mainly), but the coverage is seriously limited and quite biased.

No it was not a small attack. It was light infantry against a full miltary but not small. It was planned and they stockpiled weapons and material to last months. What they were not expecting was to walk over the IDF military on the border (none of the videos released by the IDF show Hamas doing this). They were not expecting to get throught the defences so easily to get to the settlements. Remember most of the population of Gaza was ethnically cleansed from the land that these settlements are built on.

They are still fighting. The IDF is using tanks in urban warfare (this is a big tactical no no), so Hamas have the IDF where they want them. Even 2 months into the fighting we still see daily videos of IDF tanks (USD 3 million) being destroyed by rocket launchers (USD 200).

Strategically the Palestinians were being thrown under a bus by the rest of the Arabs so this attack put Hamas in control. It also destroyed the image of Israeli comptence which is a huge propaganda win.

If you look at the prisoner exchanges and the interviews afterwards you see the Israeli prisoners were treated well in captivity and the release was well managed and competent. This especially does not align with the story in the NY Times here. The release of the Palestinian prisoners was chaotic (tear gas was used in some places) and the prsioners were tortured and released with broken bones in some cases.

ongoing ethnic cleansing, possible genocide

sonething that should just be an email.

Excellent article

This is unexpected.