See Amnesty International website(Feb 26th, 2024) One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply, Amnesty International said today.
The scale and gravity of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s relentless bombardment, destruction and suffocating siege puts more than two million Palestinians of Gaza at risk of irreparable harm.”
The supplies entering Gaza before the ICJ order have been a drop in the ocean compared to the needs for the last 16 years. Yet, in the three weeks following the ICJ order, the number of trucks entering Gaza decreased by about a third, from an average of 146 a day in the three weeks prior, to an average of 105 a day over the subsequent three weeks. Before 7 October, on average, about 500 trucks entered Gaza every day, carrying aid and commercial goods, including things like food, water, animal fodder, medical supplies and fuel. Even that quantity fell far short of meeting people’s needs. In the three weeks after the ICJ ruling, smaller quantities of fuel, which Israel tightly controls, made it into Gaza. The only crossings that Israel has allowed to open were also opened on fewer days, further demonstrating Israel’s disregard for the provisional measures. Aid workers reported multiple challenges, but said that Israel was refusing to take obvious steps to improve the situation.
Across the Gaza Strip, the engineered humanitarian disaster grows more horrifying each day. On 19 February, humanitarian agencies reported that acute malnutrition was surging in Gaza and threatening children’s lives, with 15.6% of children under two years acutely malnourished in northern Gaza and 5% of children under two years in Rafah in the south. The speed and severity of the decline in the population’s nutritional status within just three months was “unprecedented globally”.
I don't think it's tricky. Where you live and have been born and where your family has lived ought to give the right call that your home. The US has here shows an example here with everybody that is born on US territory has the right to be an US citizen. My best friends sister's first born boy is an American, the father is an Austrian and she is a Finn now living in Vienna.It's a tricky issue who is justified to a piece of land. — BitconnectCarlos
Gaza was a prison even before Hamas. People couldn't get in an out without the permission of Israelis. And Netanyahu supported Hamas, as it was perfect for him to show that you cannot negotiate with the Palestinians.IMHO as long as Hamas, a totalitarian regime, controls Gaza -- Gaza will be a prison for the palestinians. — BitconnectCarlos
And why on Earth you even seek a "protocol" for handling a terrorist attack? If there's a "protocol" I think it's quite obvious: raise security for it not to happen again, seek out the perpetrators. Then look at what the reason for the attack. If it isn't an estranged lunatic individual, for whom prison/mental asylum is the answer, but the attack is part of a political struggle, then seek a solution for the political problem.What is the protocol when 1200 are killed, 300 kidnapped, and many other raped? As an American, it is war. Anything else is out of the question. — BitconnectCarlos
It’s out of Marx’s Das Kapital. — NOS4A2
As having studied economic history in the university, this sounds quite strange. :brow:When the factory system came into being in England, an army of workers were readily available because the State had expropriated them from their land. It was either go into the factories and work for sustenance wages or else to beg, steal, or starve. — NOS4A2
I don't think so. I still think that their focus is on the societal aspects of mathematics, starting perhaps with the way it's taught.I don't have enough maths knowledge to drill down into this, but no doubt axioms or presuppositions (and their justifications) lie the core of postmodern investigation. — Tom Storm
Or is on the table.Even ethnic cleansing, genocide was on the table. — Punshhh
A bit off the topic, but this also is something not so obvious, was it the atomic bombs or was it actually the Russian attack on Japan? Or both?Nuking countries apparently is a good method to obtain peace, sure. — neomac
Winning a war is one thing, what to do then is another. Winning the peace is the fact that is missing here.Anyways, if nuking is a good strategy for prompting surrender and permanent peace, then that's also an option for Israel to consider, right? — neomac
Actually with Germany this becomes even more clear when you think of the two Post German states! Which one experienced a revolt against it's occupier as early as the 1950's? Which had to build the Berlin wall to keep it's citizens from fleeing to the other Germany? And which Germany basically collapsed as a house of cards and end up in the dustbin of history after the unification of the two states? And finally, which Germany is still an ally of the US and is totally happy that the US has bases in it's territory?How about Germany? — neomac
Exactly. And that means you really have to take into consideration what the losing side WILL ACCEPT! True peace is what both sides can accept. But if you don't care shit about the enemy you have beaten or think of them as human animals who are incapable of handling themselves and are totally irresponsible, then you reap what you sow when the enemy comes back after a decade or two. Or continues simply continues the war with the limited resources it has.the problem is that ALSO peace depends on narratives and it remains unreachable if it is grounded in incompatible narratives about peace conditions. — neomac
Military build-up is an outcome of an agenda, it's not an agenda itself. NATO expansion was only one small reason, another was simply that there's only the narrative of Russia as an (threatened) empire. Russia simply cannot see itself as a nation state, because it isn't one made for just Russians.It’s the military build-up and the consequent power projection of Russia that enabled and encouraged the Ukrainian invasion WAY MORE than the trigger of NATO expansion. — neomac
I might have to disagree here, even if you make your point well. Religious zionism is far more intolerant at making compromises. At least the founding fathers assumed that in the future they ought to make peace with the Palestinians/Arabs.Secular zionism wasn’t ideologically more prone to support a Palestinian state than Israel today — neomac
The pro-Israeli narrative goes to extreme lengths to tell it like this, because all that the Palestinians want push the Israel and the Israelis to the sea, right? And the Isrealis are the adults in the room here.. On the other side what was the Palestinian endgame? Always very confrontational toward a Israeli state, and expectedly so. — neomac
These kinds of incidents do tell something. As did for example the case where Israeli hostages taken by Hamas tried to surrender to Israeli forces (whose objective is to liberate them) by waving white flags were gunned down. Or the video shown in South Africa's case of Israeli soldiers singing "there are no civilians in Gaza". Yes, those are individual events, but when you have many individual events, then something can be said about them in general. But it's hardly an act of "the most moral" army as Netanyahu has described them. To believe so is as whimsical as the idea that the 30 000 Hamas fighters lurk in every building and under every cemetery in Gaza, which some seem to believe. Historical clarity comes later and likely in this case there's going to be a fierce battle to control the narrative.I’m going to reserve judgment until we know more. But it’s absolutely tragic. — Mikie
Facts?No, racism, no mythology, only the facts from me: — BitconnectCarlos
"Palestine" has always described a geographic location. It did not become a people until the 1960s. So yes that will raise eyebrows. "Palestinians" are a people without a history, at least not one that extends back further than the 1960s. They are a recent invention. — BitconnectCarlos
I think in this case they are even less willing to assist in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, when their people are already outraged how Israel is killing and starving Palestinians.The Arab countries don't want them in either due to their history. — BitconnectCarlos
I think it's quite apt in this occasion.Whether "prison" is an appropriate term is debatable. — BitconnectCarlos
It's actually the basic concept of Douhet's argument from the 20's: strategic bombing ends wars more quickly. And simply the invasion of Japan planned for late 1945 and 1946, Operation Downfall. But notice that it didn't happen as Japan did surrender. But here comes the part I have tried to explain: The US had then a plan that made peace to prevail. The US didn't annex Japan or Japan wasn't cut into pieces by the allies (even if the Soviets took the Kuril islands, which has causes problems). The US left the Japanese emperor alive. The US did many things that the Japanese could accept, even if the surrendered.I didn’t mean to suggest that the Japanese attack and the Islamist attack were on the same scale, just that the American nukes more than aiming at destroying military capabilities, strategic infrastructures or decapitating/disrupting the Japanese chain of command, were aimed at demolishing morale in the civilian population and force total surrender. — neomac
Politicians in Moldova’s Kremlin-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to “protect” it against “pressure” from Chișinău.
“[We resolved to] appeal to the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Russian Federation, requesting measures to protect Transnistria amidst increased pressure from Moldova,” read a resolution adopted by hundreds of Transnistrian politicians in Tiraspol, the region’s capital and largest city.
The appeal stops short of directly asking Moscow to integrate Transnistria into Russia, as had been predicted by one Transnistrian opposition politician in the days before the resolution was adopted.
...and then continued the open air prison of Gaza by closing the land and sea borders and had the occasional bombing of the place. That just now has hit a new crescendo.Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005. — BitconnectCarlos
The typical racism that jingoists use. Reminds me of the Serbs and their fixation with Kosovo Polje and how important for Putin is ancient Rus being the craddle of Russia, hence Ukraine and the Ukrainians are so artificial. It always starts from despising the other and questioning their overall existence and mythologization of one's own past.Where are the ancient Palestinian burial plots? Where is there anything that is ancient Palestinian? Jews are the indigenous — BitconnectCarlos
(CNN) The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza, a CNN investigation has found, leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed.
Now I'm even more confused. You do realize that we have been around as an independent state only from 1917, so I really don't know what you are talking about.IIRC you mentioned a historical instance where Finland won a war (against Russia?) and as a result won a bit of land from the aggressor. — BitconnectCarlos
When Japan tried to wipe off and sink whole Pacific fleet of the US, invaded the Phillipines (then a colony of the US) and Guam and Aleutian Islands of Alaska are something totally different on scale to a terrorist strike perpetrated by a non-state actor as tiny as Al Qaeda was. So it's a bit strange to say that Roosevelt responded with oversized force. There's no doubt that the US was attacked with the objective of taking it's territory (the Phillipines). The stupidity of this action from the Japanese is really a good question.1. When the US got attacked by the Japs in WW2, the US nuked the Japs twice, as soon as nukes were ready. Is this an "empathetic response” or a first necessary step of a “clear strategic” path for Japs to democracy, peace and prosperity for Japan in the next half century which American politicians/diplomats conceived? — neomac
Yes. Assuming they make sense. Did the reason why the US had it's longest war in Afghanistan make sense? The reason given was that "If the US doesn't occupy Afghanistan, it might possibly become a terrorist safe haven." It was repeated over and over again, but in my view it's even far more crazier than the "Domino Theory" in South-East Asia.In short, long-term strategies can still be worked out of “empathic responses”: indeed, it’s the empathic element that can ensure a united/greater home support for strategic efforts around the world. — neomac
How about "War on Blitzkrieg"?2. “War on terror” doesn’t seem to me an example of unclear strategy, even if it ultimately failed. — neomac
It is said that prior to invading Iraq, George Bush didn't know the difference between a Sunni or a Shia. Pretty important to understand if and when you attack Iraq and think it's going to be a short, cheap war and the Iraqis will thank you. So maybe there indeed are better strategies. But when it's a unipolar moment, why listen or even think about others. Either they are with you or against you, right?Maybe one can think better strategies or better ways to implement them in the hindsight, yet politicians do not have the chance to test different long-term solutions before picking the best one. They are compelled to follow a certain path under lots of national and international pressure, and despite all the unknowns. — neomac
EU is basically a confederacy of sovereign states, so wtf with it being "undemocratic"?That's easy. The EU is an undemocratic, untransparent, bureaucratic monster of an institution — Tzeentch
Which actually also is a benefit for smaller countries when they have to hassle with Russia. Another good effect that EU membership gives. Without the EU, Russia could bully European countries picking them individually.and saves it the hassle of having to deal with each European nation seperately. — Tzeentch
Perfect example of your faulty argumentation. As you can notice, Brzezinski is talking about 'brutal age of ancient empires'. It's the Noam Chomsky's of the World who do this, and they aren't running the US.This once again proves one cannot be too cynical when analysing US foreign policy. — Tzeentch
The transatlantic alliance is America's most important global relationship. It is the springboard for US global involvement, enabling America to play the decisive role of arbiter in Eurasia - the world's central area of power - and it creates a coalition that is globally dominant in all key dimensions of power and influence. American and Europe serve as the axis of global stability, the locomotive of the world's economy, and the nexus of intellectual capital as well as technological innovation
See Living with a New EuropeEuropeans often fail to grasp both the spontaneity and the sincerity of America's commitment to Europe, infusing into their perception of America's desire to sustain the Euro-Atlantic alliance a penchant for Machiavellian duplicity.
No, if you say person, be it Brzezinski or Mersheimer says something, then they really have to say that. Not something similar.They paint a clear picture. I could dig through them to find the exact quotes, but I have done that enough times to know you will handwave them simply because it's not something you want to hear. — Tzeentch
I think the reason is that they formed a country called Israel and usually the citizens of that country are refered to being Israelis. The Jewish homeland and all that, remember?Why are Jews never referred to as Palestinians? — BitconnectCarlos
1 (a)The Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the
Jewish People, in which the State of Israel was
established.
(b) The State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish
People in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious
and historical right to self-determination.
(c) The realization of the right to national self determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the
Jewish People.
2. (a) The name of the State is "Israel"
On the contrary, that state of Palestine is a non-exist is quite true. There's Israel and it's occupied territories.But no, Palestinians are not Jews. They're indigenous to a magical, non-existent land known as "Palestine." None of it makes any sense. — BitconnectCarlos
What land have we gotten from Russia? I'm confused.Why doesn't the UN go tell Finland to return the land it won from Russia? — BitconnectCarlos
From those I've read the Grand Chessboard and even if Brzezinksi can be quite accurately be seen as proof of the evil intentions the US has for Russia (assuming one ex-security advisor literally speaks for US foreign policy), he never states what you said about Europe. For example he goes so far as to say that a Russia divided to three parts would be the best. But that's about Russia, not about the whole continent.If after 500+ pages of discussion these thinkers and their works are still a mystery to you, I can't be bothered to educate you either. (I have mentioned, quoted and linked them many times) Do it yourself:
The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski, 1997) — Tzeentch
Actually a very interesting document, but it also doesn't AT ALL SAY WHAT YOU ARE IMPLYING IT SAYING. Keep Europe divided, keep it in chaos during war? Nothing like that! And anyway, why was the US so OK with European Integration in the first place???Defense Planning: Guidance FY 1994-1999 (aka "The Wolfowitz Doctrine", Paul Wolfowitz, 1992)
Nonsense, actually they can. And the US showed this during the Cold War. And just how?I’m not sure how clear strategies can be even conceived in a period of international uncertainties and power balance shifts. In the absence of a clearer strategy, maybe one can simply try to gain time and prepare for the worse. — neomac
I think the real problem was that many countries thought after the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia a) would never get on it's feet and b) never would return to it's old imperialist ways. People genuinely thought that Russia could join NATO. Yet both a) and b) happened. It took a long time, several wars, several annexations (both in Ukraine and in Georgia) and simply one all out war for people to understand this. People eagerly dismiss all the "rebooting efforts" the US made on the way. Just like the US thought that through time Communist China wouldn't be run by Communists, even if they themselves say that they have figured the correct way to go with Marxism.In addition, I think in a sense NATO (or actually the US) is too powerful and therefore can get away with military aggression. The EU wouldn't be but it could be powerful enough with sufficient nuclear deterrence to really be just a defensive organisation. — Benkei
?The US will be forced to pivot sooner or later.
When that happens, NATO and American influence in Europe will be used to send Europe into chaos, the seeds for which have already been sown when the US sought to change Ukraine's neutral status which was the key to stability between Europe and Russia. — Tzeentch
Quite incredible idea. This goes into the tinfoil hat category.What is happening is that the US fears that Russia and/or Europe will become the laughing thirds when the US is sucked into a large-scale conflict in the Pacific. Provoking war between these two is the way it intends to stop that from happening. — Tzeentch
This is the kind of anti-US bullshit that won't fly, if you don't even give any kind of actual reference of Wolfowitz, Brzezinski actually saying this.People here are simply misunderstanding the US' central strategic challenge, which is to keep the Eurasian continent divided (as described by Mackinder, Wolfowitz, Brzezinski, etc.) in times of peace, and in utter chaos in times of war. (and also to stop any regional powers to arise in the Western Hemisphere, but that's another topic). — Tzeentch
No. They are not. You cannot reproduce with reptiles being a human. But with Americans you can. :wink:Because US politics doesn't align with EU interests and they are warmongering reptiles. — Benkei
NATO has shown it again and again that there is no automation for this. Remember Freedom Fries?If we stay in NATO sooner or later we will be pulled into a war which isn't anything else but the death throes of the end of an empire. — Benkei
And you could have not participated, just like I think you didn't participate in the Iraqi invasion of 2003. And yes, face then the wrath of the Americans, just like the French with "Freedom Fries".Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya are already 3 wars the Dutch were pulled into where we shouldn't have been. That only happens because we are in NATO and the USA is portrayed as an ally, except of course or isn't when it's the agressor. — Benkei
Why?We (the EU) need our own defensive alliance and leave the US and create a fourth power. — Benkei
What's the logic of breaking up the Atlantic relations, which is the primary objective for Russia? Russia is far more powerful than any European country, so this would benefit them very much.Yep :up: if Europe can get its act together (I intentionally expanded "the EU" to "Europe"). — jorndoe
Well, compared to putting down the Warsaw Uprising, a battle that took 64 days with a city with less people and which ended up with 15 000 dead fighters from the Polish Home Army and 150 000 - 200 000 civilians killed, we can surely say that IDF fighting methods are different from Hitler's army and the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger. (The remark on the actual whole Iraq war isn't here comparable, as you should know it was also a civil war between the sunnis and shias and not all urban comment.) So yes! The "most moral" army (as Bibi puts it) isn't in the Dirlewanger-brigade level...Regarding humanitarianism I would tend to agree, and Israel has actually fought this war fairly humanely. — BitconnectCarlos
By January 1945, 85% of the buildings were destroyed: 25% as a result of the Uprising, 35% as a result of systematic German actions after the uprising, and the rest as a result of the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the September 1939 campaign.
(BBC, 9th February) Gazan officials say more than 50% of housing units in Gaza have been destroyed, left uninhabitable or damaged since the start of the conflict. They say more than 500,000 people will have no homes to return to, and many more will not be able to return immediately after the conflict because of damage to surrounding infrastructure.
The map below - using analysis of satellite data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University - shows which urban areas have sustained concentrated damage since the start of the conflict.
They say at least 150,000 buildings across the whole Gaza Strip have suffered damage. North Gaza and Gaza City have borne the brunt of this, with at least 70% of buildings in the two northern regions believed to have been damaged, but their analysis now suggests up to 62% of buildings in Khan Younis have also been damaged.
That's the problem. Because actually the current Israeli administration is thinking exactly like you. They have no real post-war plan, they are making things on the fly. Day by day. They seem to hope that it becomes so unbearable that the Palestinians simply have to be moved somewhere else. They aren't interested in thinking how those Gazan Palestinian people and children will remember this and how the fight will go on once a new generation comes to age.I don't deny such notions exist. We're only human after all. I have no idea what the post-war order will look like, only that a military response towards Hamas is justified. — BitconnectCarlos
Naturally most of the vote for Trump, of course, but notice that the Israeli lobby is so powerful in both parties. And isn't Bibi just waiting for Trump to arrive?Millions of Evangelical votes? Do you have any compelling evidence that millions of Evangelicals would vote for Biden, if only Biden let Netanyahu do whatever he wants in Gaza? — neomac
At least there's something we agree on.I do not find Russia’s stated security concerns even remotely as credible as Israel’s. — neomac
Actually it isn't. During the Cold War Israel understood it's role against Soviet leaning Arab nationalism. But that is ancient history now. The US-Israeli connection is far more than than. And Bibi (and likely others) can play the Washington game too. They have the Israeli lobby of whom the most powerful group is the Evangelicals, not the American Jews. Hence actually US leverage is smaller. You can see this easily with for example with Obama. Bibi didn't have to go through the White House or the Secretary of the State, he could easily meet politicians in the Congress directly.Notice that the American diplomatic leverage over Israel should arguably be very high since Israel is international isolation is increasing and isolationist trends are growingly popular among Americans. — neomac
It is election year, so I would assume millions of votes do count. Biden can sacrifice the Arab-American vote and some young progressives in the campuses, not millions that would vote for him.As I said, I would exclude the Evangelical issue (at least the way you argued it, preserving the support of the Jewish lobby may be enough compelling to Biden), and give more weight to hegemonic concerns that also led the US to get involved in the beef between Russians and Ukrainians. — neomac
That the most realistic way to put it. And that's why this conflict has gone for over 75 years.IF it’s really matter of nation-state struggle over the same land on both Israeli and Palestinian sides (the war between Ukrainians and Russians is not the same, Russians have their state while threatening integrity and independency of the Ukrainian nation-state), then that’s a dead-lock and they both, Israelis and Palestinians, are compelled to fight it out even at risk of ethnic cleansening on both sides. — neomac
That's the more unlikely reason. Various ism's come and go. But naturally Israel hopes it can get this role of being the defender of the West against the Muslims threat. That Israel's fight is your and mine fight too.IF it’s matter of fighting as martyrs for pan-Islamism, pan-Arabism, or just as Iranian-proxies Palestinians are an extension of Arab/Islamic/Iranian imperialism which even the West may be compelled to fight (as the West is fighting Russian imperialism), not only Israel. — neomac
I think European response to the war in Ukraine here shows that this isn't the case. Even if European countries are OK with refugees (mainly women and children) coming to their lands, they are more eager to give Ukraine weapons. Nobody than Iran is giving any weapons to the Palestinians. And for Palestinians, they have the Nakba as close to heart as the Jews have the Holocaust.IF it’s matter of peace and safety for civilians, then Palestinians are MORE EASILY compelled to emigrate to more hospitable lands than Ukrainians and Jews (indeed, it’s what Jews did to flee from the Nazis), because their Ummah-brothers in neighbouring Arab/Muslim countries have ALL THE LOVE AND LANDS to host and protect ummah-brother Arab/Muslim Palestinians (unless the Ummah-brother story is all bullshit). — neomac
When enough people are killed in the first place, we don't care about our laws we have been so proud of. That's the frightening part. It is all about numbers.So, because of this warped, stupid way of thinking, thousands more children will be starved and killed. And our enlightened, philosophy-reading hobbyists will continue to cheer.
How repulsive. — Mikie
Actually, I think all the problems and confusions we have in math starts from what you mentioned. Math for humans, and I would dare to say for animals too even if they math is "nothing, one, two, many", has started from the necessity of counting things. And we have thus put this small part of math as to be the basis of math, as the initial axioms everything starts from.Naturally, the tendency is for humans to interest themselves particularly in the kind of maths that is instantiated in their world, and be less concerned with N dimensional hyperbolic manifolds and klein bottles and transfinite arithmetic etc. — unenlightened
Actually stop there as this is a very good point. Because naturally for Putin it's allways about security concerns (even if he cannot stop blabbing about Ukraine being a natural part of Russia as the cradle of the Russian state). And we have to accept that "security concerns" are the reason for war. After all, my country was (and is) a "security concern" for Russia just where it is.OK, I'll put it as simple as I can. If the Westerners have to take seriously Israel's security concerns (and I argued why they should, unlike Russia's security concerns) — neomac
And you are incapable of understanding the question, it seems.Previously, you showed me to what extent you could empathize with the Palestinians, now you are showing to what extent you could not empathize with the Israelis. That's all. — neomac
Quite similar to the Israeli view. Likely even more demonizing than the Israeli far right.OK and prior to the current horror show, what was the morale of Palestinian civilians (the non-Westerners, the Westerners) about Israel exactly? — neomac
Somewhat confusing statement there.If Israeli supported the laws of war as you claim (and putting aside the issue that international laws of war do not seem to fix any specific ratio civilian/militant casualties for proportionality assessment) how much Palestinian increased morale and the morale of World of people concerned about Palestinian morale do you estimate would benefit Israeli's security concerns? — neomac
This is by his supporters seen as part of his genius. Because it (or the weapons race in general) was really ruinous for the Soviets. Even if btw. the weapons armament program had been already started by Carter, which the Carter supporters aren't keen to admit.His Star Wars Initiative was ruinously expensive for us, as well as the soviets. — BC
Simply go and fight like how the US armed forces did, when they destroyed Al Qaeda in Iraq. Understand that you have to give a reason for the civilians to support you or at least tolerate you. Don't put them into a corner where there's nothing for them: that will just say to the Palestinians that the way of war is the only way forward.How exactly do you want Israel to respond to 10/7? — BitconnectCarlos
And it simply doesn't mean that mathematics is culturally relative. It's about education of mathematics, not about math itself.No, that is wrong and you either did not read the rest of the post or ignored it, that much I expected many posts ago. — Lionino
AND THIS IS MY POINT!It says in the article "a proposed mathematics curriculum framework, which would guide K-12 instruction in the Golden State’s public schools". Another manual says that addressing students’ mistakes forthrightly is a form of white supremacy. — Lionino
I think it is representative. It is a simple question about geography, something we cannot do anything about. The question of defense is in politics easy here. No difference between the left and the right wing parties. If we had an over 1000-km eastern border with Canada, I wouldn't ever gone to the military: it's not something for me whose has so low physical fitness. Or so I thought, I never imagined to be an officer. Likely we wouldn't have conscription.All right, I can respect that. And, for my education, how representative do you think your views are among Finns today? — neomac
Section 127 -National defence obligation
Every Finnish citizen is obligated to participate or assist in national defence, as provided by an Act.
Either there are regularities or we are quite the kind of imposers!The general issue then is: are there regularities in nature or are we only imposing them to be able to better plan our lives. — Pez
Sorry, but I'm an old reserve officer... so I would fight and die for my country if needed. I cannot know what I would be as a Palestinian, but likely I wouldn't be fleeing my country. That's the best option we Finns know when faced by an overwhelming enemy which we cannot militarily destroy is to defend yourself and hope it's too costly to continue the war and you get a peace deal where you remain independent. Being a refugee and you know how much respect refugees get in this world. Fuck that!Let's say Netanyahu is a psychopath and can/wants to murder ALL Palestinians in Gaza for fun, would you ssu still want to remain in Gaza and risk the life of your entire family to be massacred for Netanyahu's fun or would you try to flee to more hospitable lands of the holy All-Peace&Love Pan-Arabic Pan-Islamic Pan-Brotherhood Islamic Arab Ummah AS FAST AS POSSIBLE (like Jews massively fled to the US when persecuted by the Nazis)? — neomac