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 Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
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Sounds just so, but we definitely left the groundwork for American culture to infect them, if not 'win'.

I think one of the guys in Generation Kill talked about locals coming out with AKs to confront the Americans because some of their kids had been handed Playboy.

And yet they did not demolish the cell towers that came later with all the unfiltered internet.


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Israel is making moves on China after the latter allegedly brokered some agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It's been pretty clear that Israel has 0 concern for US interests, and it's getting to the point that excluding Turkey from the F-35 program while Israel was one of the first customers delivered is getting rather absurd.

I hope they don't have too much access to US microchip technology because they would be more likely to hand that over to the Chinese than anyone else.

Bibis legal moves seem like a good opportunity to reduce military ties. They refuse to allow re-export to Ukraine while they sell our tech to our adversaries. I wish we had better spokespersons than the squad to explain why we should let the settlers and the Hasidim try to run their society without our support, but oh well.


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So Israel is ready to be the topic of conversation again

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How does Israel's method of selecting judges compare to other parliamentary systems?


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I really don't get why they are bothering with lawmaking. It's really simple:

1) Rebuild the temple

2) Anoint a King

3) All the rest of the government is dissolved, no need to worry about judicial review ever again

4) After a few generations, the nation of Israel turns away from God, the Temple is destroyed and population scattered by invasion, rinse and repeat.


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I don't really understand the situation, but why hasn't Netanyahu been forced out by the Parliament at this point?

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prob cause he got everyone on his payroll

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https://conflictfieldnotes.substack.com/p/revenge-killings-of-isis-members?utm_source=direct&r=oalqp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


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simple schoolboy wrote:
How does Israel's method of selecting judges compare to other parliamentary systems?


Apparently it is a bit of an outlier. Perhaps if they limited the reforms to having the legislature involved in selecting judges it would go over better.


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Probably.

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Probably.


Sephardic/ Orthodox should have set up their own federalist society. You gotta march through the institutions in a timeframe of decades, trying to speed run it is considered gauche.


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These thoughts exercises are tiresome...

This is awful, but don't tell me what to imagine.


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We're talking about it now.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/19/iran-executes-three-men-accused-of-killing-members-of-security-forces

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Immediately after their execution on Friday, state media re-ran video posts of what were presented as the defendants’ confessions, which Amnesty International said had been extracted by torture.

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On Wednesday, a Twitter account published handwritten notes by the men appealing for public support. “Don’t let them kill us,” read one note, which went viral on social media.

Friends of the families of the men said one of them – Kazemi – had been suspended upside down by interrogators and shown a video of his brother being tortured. Kazemi was also allegedly subjected to mock executions at least 15 times.

In an audio message recorded inside Dastgerd prison, Kazemi said: “I swear to God I am innocent. I didn’t have any weapons on me. They [security forces] kept beating me and ordering me to say this weapon is mine … I told them I would say whatever they wanted, just please leave my family alone. I did whatever they wanted because of the torture.”

Kazemi’s sister said in an interview with the Shargh newspaper before the executions: “We demand to see evidence. They should present evidence that shows my brother was present at the time of the murder. The only evidence in this case is statements by others; one says ‘I heard from someone that it was Majid’, and another says that ‘Bahmani told us that Majid was there’.”

“We don’t intend to cause trouble,” she added. “We are neither against the supreme leadership [Iranian government] nor anyone else. We just don’t want our brother’s blood to be unjustly spilled.”

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