Notices by nicholas_saunders (nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social), page 3

@HistoPol @jeff @2ndStar

Yeh, the evil empire was evil.

Yeh, Putin is a dictator.

Maybe Tucker is a tool, or, in KGB lingo, a useful idiot.

But NATO has been provoking this since 1991.

@HistoPol @specked it takes a remarkable level of naivete to believe that the UNWRA osn5part and parcel with Hamas.

There are no logistical obstacles of note to humanitarian aid. There are political, legal, religious, and other considerations.

Let's not pretend that a shortage of trucks is the problem.

@KeesD92 @f800gecko @other_ghosts @palestine so, your premise would seemingly be that Israel wants to hinder humanitarian aid, and you would also gloss over any moral or legal obligations to ensure that such aid only reaches civilians.

@other_ghosts @f800gecko @palestine Certainly we all look forward to the ICJ investigation, although it sounds more like the ICC would have jurisdiction, but what's notable here is that you cannot conceive of the possibility that anyone was ensuring that humanitarian aid only reaches civilians. Much less the legal and moral obligations in regard to that concern, of which I certainly don't recall your acknowledgment.

@pfefferle antisocial media

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral

Where you write "...face the truth of what Israel is doing," you don't specify what military action would've been legal following the #AlAqsaFlood operation.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral so absolutely no response as to what military action following the #alaqsaflood operation would've been either legal or moral, then.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral

Where you write that "focusing specifically on a hypothetical response to that particular event alone ignores the long history of Israel's occupation...," you've both dodged the moral question of:

What military action following the #AlAqsaFlood would've met with your personally high moral standards?

As well as setting the context as not just as Arafat has sought, but what now South Africa would seek.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral I asked you one question. One.

You declined to answer on either a moral or legal basis.

Here is the question:

What military action would've been legally or morally acceptable to your high standards following the #AlAqsaFlood operation?

You've dodged this question.

It's a very reasonable question. Your inability to form a coherent reply isn't terribly interesting.

No nations. No borders. That's not an answer but a dodge.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral

"It was also a direct consequence of actions by the state of Israel."

If so, then #hamas has no moral responsibility here at all. I find your philosophy interesting.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral

"Morally I reject states so there is nothing a state could do militarily that I would consider moral."

What you've actually advocated for was no military response to the #AlAqsaFlood operation with this statement.

And, yet, you've in no way, ever, said that the Al Aqsa Flood itself was immoral.

I would point out that #hamas is a state actor, but you've already explained that legalities hold no interest for you.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral no, dude, you just explained to me that the Al Aqsa Flood was as a direct result of Israel's actions.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral if the al aqsa flood was a direct result of Israel's actions then Hamas has no culpability. And, no agency.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral

https://mastodon.social/@nicholas_saunders/111868592884257168

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral so you've ceded the argument, rd, and just want to point links to others making points for you.

@RD4Anarchy @thetechtutor @aral make it about you? Not at all.

You've simply chosen to not answer my basic question -- so you have, to that extent, made it about yourself.

On the other hand, you throw insults my way, instead of, ya know, answering that real simple question which you've dodged countless times now.

@KawaTora @mondoweiss @palestine I don't know that America so much supported Nazi Germany as was isolationist, but the rest seems reasonable.

@kaia @methyltheobromine thank God that bezos patented the one click purchase button or ali express would have all of my money.

@TonyStark @dukepaaron

.. we have a problem with genocide..

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Lovely rhetoric accusing #stephenfry of favoring #genocide implicitly. Pretty sure he's not a fan.

What is this? Ideological bullying?

It's not quite

When did you stop beating your wife?

But a very similar form. Somewhat Orwellian in that the language is controlling.

@aral @tek @aiefel when you're ready to discuss the tunnels under hospitals let me know.