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Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 2, Insightful) 522

"bulldozing Palestinian homes to build Israeli ones" occurs when they're built without planning permission, which happens in every country, including Israeli homes. It's just that when the country is Israel, and the illegal builder is Palestinian, it becomes an International incident.

By the way did you know that Jews aren't allowed to live in the Palestinian territories, and that under Palestinian law, selling land to a Jew is a capital offence?

Comment Re: Israeli Fanboys (Score 2, Informative) 522

The reason why "finding a peaceful resolution" has consistently failed is that the Palestinians have responded to every serious offer by starting a war.

There have been several opportunities for a Palestinian state, but unfortunately each time it becomes a possibility, they prove that their only true national aspiration is to kill as many Jews as possible.

Comment What else should they be doing? (Score 1, Insightful) 522

Out of interest, what would your country do if a neighbour invaded its territory and slaughtered its citizens? By the USA's own admission, Israel is doing more than Western powers to protect enemy civilians during wartime.

Perhaps the allies should have surrendered to the Nazis, or arranged a ceasefire when they got to Berlin, to spare German civilian casualties? At least the Wehrmacht didn't make a strategy out of using their own population as human shields.

War is tragic, and firing from behind civilian infrastructure doesn't grant an automatic victory. Palestinian suffering will be over when they choose to build a better life for themselves instead of waging a genocidal war against others.

Comment Civil Discourse (Score 1) 167

The comments to this article are, unsurprisingly, full of propaganda and bigotry, with no reasonable discussion of the technology or how it's deployed.

That's why we can no longer have civil discourse. Every topic has to get pulled some absolutist politicised position, nothing can be discussed on its merits. Furthermore, no grey areas, where there are at multiple, often subjective, aspects to an issue and reasonable people may differ, are allowed.

Submission + - Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines 2

AmiMoJo writes: Richard Stallman has announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, an effort to "to start guiding people towards kinder communication." The Guidelines differ from a Code of Conduct in that it's trying to be proactive about kindness around free software development over being rules with possible actions when breaking them.

These new GNU communication guidelines can be found at GNU.org along with Stallman's commentary.

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