I wish. No, much of the political leadership is well aware these attacks happen. Worse, the extremest groups have entered the IDF, which means that solders are actively participating in those attacks. Things are fairly bad right now, and anyone who claims otherwise is either misinformed or lying (or is happy with things as they are).

With that said, and for somewhat different reasons than in the US, the government in Israel is not representative of the people in Israel, and has not been for quite some time. The amount of investment the public needs in order to unseat Netanyahu is huge, and simply did not happen for quite some time.

But don't give up on us just yet. This level of investment is happening now, which is why Netanyahu is trying to go democracy-in-name-only. He know he's unlikely to win another fair, or even not-completely-rigged, election ever again. The previous government was elected after months of having tens of thousands of people, each and every weekend, protesting outside the prime minister residence.

Well, guess what. We now have hundreds of thousands of people, each week for 24 weeks straight, protesting in hundreds of places across the country each weekend. We also have tens of thousands protesting during the week throughout the time. Our members of government have not had a quiet uninterrupted time at a restaurant or a speech at a conference for half a year now, and that very much includes when they fly abroad.

Netanyahu sees that. He know what it means will happen at the next elections. So he's made a pact with the worse of the worst. Straight out Jewish supremacists, homophobic nut cases and religious fanatics. So, yes, things are not good right now. In fact, they are downright horrible. But they will get better.

By and large, this statement is fairly true, at least in terms of how intentions translated to actions. Here's what you need to understand, to put things in context, however: Netanyahu haven't been running the country for at least five years now. Now, four of those five he's been nominally in charge, but he's been wrapped up in fending off, first his own criminal charges, and then the huge (compared to what came before it) protest against him. He simply let systems run on auto-pilot, which meant the extremists took over. They were simply the most well organized.

The thing about the alternative government we briefly had is this: the only thing uniting it is the understanding that a person charged with taking bribes from tycoons, of being recorded offering a major newspaper publisher to pass a law banning its main competitor in exchange for favorable coverage and dictating people writing for the paper, is unfit for running the country.

You'd never see Bennett, a right wing nut-case, and Abbas, an Arab, sitting in the same government together (and cooperating surprisingly well, at that). It was (and still is) an emergency, so people who'd never otherwise cooperate pulled together.

And they did quite well, all things considered. The country started feeling as if someone is at the helm again. And, no, dealing with settlers harassing and even killing Palestinians, and whole IDF units actively helping them, was not handled at all. It is my honest opinion that this was not a result of approval of this happening. I can tell you that other things were handled. For example, the Israeli Arab society is suffering from a lot of unlicensed weapons, resulting in a huge amount of murders. The number of murders have kept creeping up consistently, year after year, for a long time now. The previous government has actively managed to put a dent in that, resulting in a decrease for the first time in decades.

Which leads me to believe that it was not racism, even from people like Bennett and Libermann, that led to the Palestinian harassment not being handled. They showed poor judgement in what to handle in a bunch or other areas as well, and they all carry the same theme: the monopoly a state should have over the application of law and power. They failed to take back power from other groups that de-facto declared autonomy from the state, and many of those groups were not targeting Arabs at all.

Which is why I keep saying: the situation is far more complicated then the snippets of news make it look.

Since you obviously know all there is to know, and cannot gain any new insights, not even from an actual eye-witness who also happens to speak the language in question, then I don't think there is any point in continuing this discussion.

As with almost every other reporting on Israel, this statement, while not without a grain of truth, is so misleading I can call it flat out wrong. The thing is this: the Israeli society, even just the Jewish part of it, is extremely heterogeneous. The protest does include a lot of those factions, and some of them do fit the bill you mention. Labeling the entire movement like that is, I think, just wrong. At the actual demonstrations there are plenty of signs explicitly stating equal rights=equal rights to all.

That would have been one thing. That is not what happened, however. What happened is that is that Bibi promised them billions, and still has not received said positive announcement. So far, the only party to come out and make the announcement is the political side. Intel did not corroborate this at all.

It's a total spin. The operative word here is "Netanyahu says".

Netanyahu's government is in the midst of trying to turn on full fascist mode. Subjugate the judicial branch to the government (it already has control over the legislative branch), take control over the media, and in general, follow Hungary's model for "democracy in name only" (not that we've been in excellent shape before this, mind you).

Unsurprisingly, the economy isn't playing ball. Fascist governments go hand in hand with corruption (already the case in Israel), and those tend to favor low knowledge industries. Since Israel's #1 export industry is high-tech, which is high knowledge, the whole economy is unstable. The Sheqel is dropping, new investments in the High-tech industry are at an embarrassing low.

The Israelis are not taking it lying down. For almost half a year now, every week, and often in the middle of the week as well, hundred of thousands of people take to the streets to protest. Netanyahu, of course, is blaming the economic slowdown on the protests, contradicting every independent expert out there.

So Netanyahu producing a spin: the government approves a subsidy to a new Intel chips plant. To be clear, Intel may have asked for one. This new plant would replace an existing plant at the same location. What's clear, however, is that Intel has not yet made a decision to actually open one. There was no announcement from Intel's side.

So the proper title for this article is: "A politician has made an announcement".

All the ones that passed are based on ChatGPT. All the ones that didn't are not.

What's more, they took problems that were, in all likelihood, part of the AI's original training set.

Yeah, this isn't a very interesting "contest".

Just one more thing.

I realized early on that I'm rapidly outgrowing Kdenlive. I didn't actually decide to leave it, however, until a bug in it ate several hours of work I've done. At the end of the day, it's all about stability.

I kind of did. The thing that I really needed was 2D animation. I wanted things to happen on screen, and I wanted them to be synchronized with the video's audio. This video is fairly loaded with examples of such animations. Kdenlive simply didn't have anything even remotely resembling the support.

Of course, once I learned how to use DR's (very complicated) tools, I really can't go back. In one of the videos I found out, after finishing filming it, that I had a stain on my sweatshirt. I ended up digitally erasing it. How cool is that?

When I started my YouTube channel I was using kdenlive. When I realized I've outgrown it, I went and looked for an alternative. I ended up with Resolve for two reasons: Price and Linux support. The Adobe echosystem was both way too expensive, and hardly worked on my platform of choice.

At the time I also evaluated Blender. My impression was that it was almost there. I wanted precise control over the timing of the cuts, and Blender's interface simply wasn't geared toward that sort of work. I evaluated a lot of FOSS programs, and by far the only one that did the trick was kdenlive. Maybe I would have stayed with it if I'd find a good 2d animation program to go along with it. Needing 2d animation was the reason I considered Blender in the first place, but on that front too it proved not the right tool for the job. The learning curve was simply not worth it for the end results I was looking for.

The switch to Resolve was painful. I went with the speed editor right off the bat, but something about the flow worked really differently than kdenlive. It took me several videos to get comfortable enough to start adding effects in again. The first time I did an animation, a 20 seconds sequence took me about 4 hours to prepare. But working at it, I got better.

I'm quite happy with it now. I wish there was an open source alternative, but it's a great tool at a quite reasonable price, even assuming you don't go with the free of charge version.

I did. Same results. If you want to dispute that, please do cite your sources. Since you're claiming something did happen and I'm claiming it didn't, the burden of proof is on you anyways.

So many problems with that statement I'm not even sure where to start. I think it's best if we settle the first point about Hamas before we bring in more contested claims into the argument.

Israel did not found Hamas.

The source of this particular lie is probably that Israel did give financial aid to it at some point. Yizhak Rabin got it into his head that they will be a moderating influence against the PA, which shows a complete lack of understanding and very bad judgement. It's still not the same thing, however.

It's a combination of two things, I think.

The first is precisely that. NSO group has been getting a lot of (justified) bad press lately, and being an export restricted company, the Israeli government has not been able to legitimately dodge the flak.

I'll be clear: the Israeli government gets a lot of crap for anything even tangenially related to Israel as a whole, justified or not. In this case, however, it is justified.

The other part is how those countries made their way into the allowed export list in the first place: We just ousted a very corrupt prime minister who cares about himself and his pending criminal charges and nothing else. This is as opposed to the typical (and current) PM, which is just normally corrupt, and is under no current criminal investigations.

Netanyahu seems to have put countries with just newly minted diplomatic relations on the list as an incentive to those countries, so he could boast another diplomatic achievement, as an aid in the continuous elections cycle we've been in for the past three years.

The new government is fairly likely to live out its days, and the current PM is due to change with another in half a year anyways, so there is less incentive for the wholesale garage sale of decency that's been going on lately.