Palestine is a region, not a nationality. The one time it was historically used was b/w 1920 to 1948, and the term "Palestinian" was specifically used to describe Jewish inhabitants of the area, not Arabs. In fact, it wasn't until 1964, when the Soviets advised Arafat to rebrand his people as "Palestinians", that that term started to describe Arabs. As I described elsewhere in this page, it was to flip the David-Goliath script against Israel

As for the "civilians" killed, if you're talking about Gaza, a lot of those "civilians" gleefully took part in the October 7th abductions and massacres of Israelis in Israel! In fact, when Hamas started releasing their initial hostages, their security forces had to separate your "innocent civilians" from the hostages who were being released, to protect the latter before they were handed over to Israel. Then there is the fact that the Gaza ministry of health has repeatedly lied about the figures. In fact, an indepth analysis of the casualties showed that for every Gazan combatant that was killed, Israel had killed about one civilian, which is one of the lowest civilian to combatant ratios killed in any war. Just as a comparison, try doing this analysis for Ukraine, and see what, if anything, has Russia done to minimize any casualties

Your final statement doesn't even begin to make sense. If one looks at the number of Jews worldwide from 1933 to 1945, it went down from 11 million worldwide to 5 million. The growth in the Palestinian population has happened throughout Israeli "occupation". If Jerusalem wanted to exterminate the Palestinian population, they did a horrible job of it

Annexation of conquered territories has happened throughout history. In fact, it may even happen whenever the Russo-Ukraine war ends: Ukraine certainly won't have Crimea, and may even lose a part of the Donbass. Somehow, in your world, Israel is the only country not allowed to annex territories after winning wars that they didn't start! Not gonna happen

During the Naqba, the Arab muslims (they were not called "Palestinians" then) were encouraged by Arab governments around them, like Jordan and Egypt, to leave the area, and return once Israel was wiped out. Their problem: Israel was not wiped out, but the Arab countries where they fled refused to give them citizenship, preferring instead to use them as pawns to negotiate return to Israel.

It's worth noting that after 1948, Jews all over the Arab world started moving to Israel, to get rid of the dhimmi status under which they lived. Israel happily absorbed them, and never demanded that their return to their original countries be on the table as a part of any negotiations. But unlike them, the Arab League made it a point to make their return to "Palestine" a goal, so that the Jewish state could be wiped out

Yeah, Cusco is pretty evil! Cheering on the genocide of Iranians by the islamic regime, as well as that of the Jews by jihadists around them. Also, as of today, the total death toll of Iranians is something from 36,000 to 50,000, based on Iran International's investigations

I think a part of the confusion is the term "Jew" being used to indicate both an ethnicity, as well as a faith. But the islamic objection to Israel - as expressed not just by Hamas or islamic jihad, but also by Fatah and the entire OIC - is their faith. Had Israel been an islamic republic taking in all the same people but provided they were muslim, neither the Arab League nor the OIC would have had any issues

Okay, for a moment, let's say that the Hebrews deserve to be expelled from Israel b'cos they massacred the Canaanites. The logical place to then send them would be Ur, which would be in southern Iraq, where they originally came from. So will the shi'a Arabs then kindly vacate Najaf, Kufa, Karbala, Basra so that all the Hebrews can return there?

You cite the bible: the qur'an calls for all infidels to be killed whenever possible, and if not, be defeated and subjected to islamic law. That's how it was for the Jews when mohammedans ruled the area - from the Umayyad caliphs to the Ottoman sultans. If you are upset about the Jews taking over the area after massacring the Canaanites, how about spreading that outrage to the Arabs conquering an area from Mauritania to Iraq, or the Turks conquering everything from the Balkans to the subcontinent? In fact, the muslims - mainly Arabs and Turks - massacred about 300 million people from the 7th century to the 20th. That would make even Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot blush, let alone Hitler or Tojo

One can get an external optical drive connected to the computer via USB. Then, as AC above suggested, set that as the first boot device in the BIOS, and one is off to the races

If one is going to get rid of telnet servers, why have telnet clients either? If all they're going to get are encrypted packets, then why have a client that wouldn't assume that it needs to decrypt them before serving them up to the host?

I think they're expected to either use Remote Desktop, or if the applications themselves depend on it, something like xwayland

Yeah, bcos there are TCP ports dedicated to x11, namely ports 6000-6063. But w/ all the DEs moving to Wayland, that would no longer be an option, since this new architecture requires using Remote Desktop if one wants to create a secure connection

The one reason nano is so much easier to use is that one can use cursor keys instead of having to memorize random keys to move the cursor. Aside from that, even for programmers, I don't get vim: the one time I had to use a programming editor, I used something called crisp, which would allow one to highlight and select an entire column in a file to manipulate text - that too using a combination of menu commands and cursor keys (DOS had an equivalent editor called Brief, from Borland)

Do they? I'd have thought they just use ports, or something like it

Displaying the contents of a text file was/is relatively easy: just type $ cat foo.bar and you'd get the contents of the file. If you wanted to edit it, though, your 2 options were ed and vi. The former was a line editor, so one couldn't do much, unless the file in question had just a line. Vi was the other option, and it was a pain to use, unless one knew all the commands

If somebody has X or Wayland and a DE on top of it, why would s/he want to use vim? Why not just use one of the editors that come w/ the DE? Hopefully, the DE devs leave that utility alone, whatever else they do w/ the rest of the project

Even if X or Wayland weren't there, I'd rather use something like nano - hope it comes as a part of the default installation, than vim

Other thing I'm wondering - are they competing w/ Notepad and Notepad++ to make it equally vulnerable?

Whenever a genocide happens, the population of the target goes down, not up! Like in the case of the holocause, or like in the case of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. You're just demonstrating yourself as a cretin at best, and a jihadist at worst