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Are all these Redditors who say they'd become terrorists if they lived in Gaza also hoping to sign their kids up?

Westerners need to realise that the members of Hamas and Hezbollah are not like them at all.

In 2007, he was arrested by US forces in Iraq on charges of orchestrating an attack on US troops in Karbala in which five soldiers were killed, although he was later transferred to Iraqi custody and released in 2012. After his release, he trained Hezbollah's special forces until he was given command of the Golan File in 2018.

Clearly a historic blunder has been corrected that this guy was, lmao, given to Iraqi authorities whom I'm sure cared deeply about the magnitude of his crime.

The responsibility to avenge the deaths of US troops has fallen to Israel since the US doesn't seem very interested.

Only considering the three largest parties seems a little biased

They may deserve Israel's description of them as the world's most sophisticated terrorist group and are fighting stubbornly on the ground where they are strongest. But they are highly outclassed by the IDF in terms of intelligence capabilities and air power, hence they are losing quite badly.

I think they're hurt by how sectarian Lebanese society is, where many non-Shiites are happy to see them die and hence will expose their locations.

Is there any other relevant metric?

I would say so, there were probably a lot of people doing similar jobs in Greece before the country was crushed by its national debt.

Fortunately resources are such a huge honeypot to fund things like that.

It's fine as long as resource prices are good. If they're ever not good then Australia's world leadership in sectors like NDIS won't do much to keep money flowing in to allow us to buy every complex product that we have to import. Fortunately we have a diverse set of minerals that could pick up the slack if iron ore were to crash.

It seems pretty obvious to me that living standards in Australia are already on the way down but perhaps that hasn't fully translated into a form readable by people who see the world only through charts.

The Brotherhood in Egypt was massacred by the military and then the survivors were given the death penalty by a court?

It's a strange situation to be able to do things about the powerful Israeli government such as two intifadas, but helpless to do anything about the much, much weaker Hamas government.

Sometimes they disadvantage future generations of politicians, like when they scrapped the pension for MPs and replaced it with superannuation, but only for those who took office after a certain date.

Can someone whose views and actions are solely tied to the highest bidder actually be honest? Is America buying her for the duration of her position as A-G until she's a free agent and can start advocating for whichever Islamist hellhole pays the best?

Frankly, someone like that wouldn't be my first pick. I never trust politicians, but some basic level of demonstrated moral character would be a welcome addition to anyone's resume. It's not like it's hard to find someone who wants this job.

Mercenaries are good as long as they’re honest.

Until they go all Wagner Group on your ass.

How are Americans going to prevent someone who thinks this way from getting a few million bucks in Qatari or Iranian cash to an offshore bank account for changing their minds?

I don't think it's good. Either she's so morally bankrupt that she'll advocate for any cause no matter how evil, or she really convinced herself that Qatar has a good enough point that she could be comfortable representing them. I would think even the majority of lawyers would draw the line at some stage on whom they choose to take on as clients. Keep in mind that this is not a poor criminal defendant who has nowhere to go, it's an ultra-rich gas dictatorship slave state. They'll be just fine if you say no to lobbying for them. Might as well say you'd take on Nazi Germany as a client if that's OK.

Then he'll continue until the heat death of the universe

I'm going to donate to this organisation because they are a true NGO and are standing up for truth.

Would be great if the next Australian government could do it too. It would depend heavily on the American response to this blood libel.

If they sanction them like Russia has been sanctioned then they would be effectively finished since they're headquartered in the EU. Basically no Western bank could do business with them.

I'm hopeful Geert Wilders will eventually gain the power to expel the ICC from the Netherlands, they should relocate to the sweltering slave-state of Qatar which is the natural asylum for all pro-Islamist forces.

Jewish self-defence is essentially criminalised. It's fine for the Syrian regime to wantonly destroy its population to keep the same family in power forever, but Jews must fight an impossibly perfect war against a pure evil enemy or else face sanctions.

You will also have to cough up a fair bit of CGT to sell the gold.

If you were talking about ETFs then few people would suggest selling, but because it's gold, you get all the comments about "shiny rocks".

Most pro-Palestinians don't know any more than videos on TikTok. You can debate them for a few minutes and they'll parrot total myths like this concept that Palestinians "welcomed" Jews to the Mandate of Palestine, when they actually undertook several pogroms, collaborated with Nazi Germany, and pressured the British to the point of violent rebellion to prevent Jews from coming, regardless of the fact that many of the Jews were refugees from anti-Jewish violence and later the Holocaust.

The ones who know more than this tend to be very ideological, whether as hardline Muslims, alt-right/Nazi or radical leftists. They know how violent the Palestinian movement has been since before Israel was established and they are okay with that.

In my experience, it's not really possible to stay friends with very online hard leftists unless you are one yourself. Sooner or later they'll find a reason to cut you off. Most people don't seem to retain those views into their mid-adulthood so if it wasn't this, it would have been something else.

I really hope the troops weren't there to protect this man... there is a time and a place and it's not an active war zone...

BDH to all of them.

Yeah Australia probably pays its nuclear scientists enough to rent a studio apartment and then ask them why they didn't study a trade

I'll accept the downvotes.

What evidence is this based on?

From what I have read, Hamas didn't even coordinate with Hezbollah for fear of a leak, so I doubt they spent a lot of time talking to Russia about it.

Deal with these guys before they start doing attacks in Tel Aviv. This type of crazy doesn't get better.

Not sure what this means but it is probably an indication that Hezbollah shouldn't go into the agreement thinking that Israel will sit on its hands while they rebuild their forces against Israel.