> Yeah that totally Israel built a fucking wall, bombs hospitals and refugee camps, and seize any donated and medical supplies going into Palestine.
Oh, the poor children. Israel is eating babies.
This is the moral question, and I don't care any more than you care about Arafat personally attaching bombs to school buses: you use the morality to bolster the thing you actually care about, and fine, but I don't care. I'm not trying to win hearts and minds for the pro-/anti-Israel psyops.
> Oppenheimer who had ties to the communist party is heavily suspected to leak the information to the soviets.
Sure. This is plausible. He lost his security clearance, he appears to have been a probable communist, the movie was utter shit.
It does conflict with your "in order to prop up Israel" story, though, because the USSR was anti-Israel. The 1959 conference in Mecca was essentially the advent of Arab nationalism with formal non-alignment, and Israel/Palestine was (as noted with, e.g., the JRA stuff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Red_Army#Activities ) used as a polarizing factor by the US and USSR to try to push alignment along either NATO or Warsaw Pact lines. The USS Liberty, right, that was part of a big proxy fight, USSR was propping up Egypt/Jordan and US was propping up Israel, it's been that way for as long as the modern version of Israel has existed (though we've managed to flip Egypt and Jordan).
> JFK questioned it, and it seems very likely he's been assassinated for it.
Oswald was a communist and a USSR-sympathizer. If you're going to say he was acting at the behest of or that he was assisted by the Mossad, whatever. It strikes me as less likely than the CIA being involved.
> But it's not.
Morality-driven semantics. Call it a banana if you want; I don't care. Commies are the ones that think words create reality. You know what I mean when I say "country", and it fits the definition, and so I call it a country. This is a neutral descriptor, but you want to insist that it isn't a country because you don't like it. I'm not going to do motivated-reasoning semantics with you. If you don't like some definitions of the word "country" then fine; it fits the others. Birmingham and the broader West Midlands are referred to as "the Black Country", not because they are a distinctive independent sovereign territory but because this fits "A tract of land; a region; [...]; the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship". The Black Country is a distinctive tract of land, it is a region, it is the land of many people's birth or permanent residence. "It's not a country!" is stupid to say of the West Midlands; I don't know why you'd like to try to argue the point that Israel is not a country, but it looks to me like it fits the bill.
> It's under depute with Palestine with no clear borders.
The US has disputed borders with Canada. Granted, it's not the same kind of border dispute, but tell me whether there is any disagreement on the borders of the Black Country.
> That's why it's called the two state problem, not the two country problem.
Nothing is called that. There is no such term.
There is a "two-state option" or "two-state solution", a "one-state solution/option", etc. Palestine is not actually recognized as a state by most other nation-states and this is a political distinction rather than a moral one or one that reflects any reality. The two-state option is a proposal to recognize Palestine's government and fix the borders and push the countries to coexist, the one-state option is to give the whole thing to Israel or to Palestine, the three-state option is to give the West Bank back to Jordan and Gaza back to Egypt, there are a million proposals and none of them will happen without bombs dropping, but you've misapplied the term. Palestine itself currently sits in an uncomfortable limbo, like Taiwan, where it's a de facto but not de jure state.
Real fuckin' frustrating situation once, TW assigned us a new IP. And I could get up through TW but not through the rest of the internets. I had two lines at the time, static IP line for running servers and then the residential one (like, okay, if I get kicked off for running torrents, at least my mail server doesn't go down). So that machine was also on the LAN and I sshed to it and did a whois and the IP we were assigned had been allocated to TW about two hours before that. So, clearly, it was some BGP announcement that hadn't propagated. Try explaining that to tech support, though. Ended up just waiting it out for a few hours.
(The static IP was on a business line; business tech support was *way* better, but also the business line was way better so I never had to talk to tech support.)