Very good! I'm making a point.

That you're a douche? Point made a long time ago.

making a point =\= having a nervous breakdown

and booo

I am certainly not having a nervous breakdown.

I am laughing at you.

The point is that caring is stupid because if you care about one thing what if someone brings up something else that's bad too?????? because you aren't allowed to care about two things so in conclusion caring is stupid.

When you think about it, it's really the people who -don't- post torture porn to make a point on the internet that are the true hypocrites.

Amen. See my comment above. Even if you're a morally vacant sonofabitch like these Syrian troops, you don't torture prisoners for the same reason that you leave an egress route when you ambush someone, or the way you try to clear a building from the top down whenever possible: you never want motherfuckers to feel like they have no way out and must fight to the death.
I put 28 rounds in a 30-round mag to avoid double-feeds, jams, and magazine spring degradation. If you're an insurgent and you box me in and I'm on my last mag, 27 of those rounds are coming your way, and the last one's going out the crown of my skull. I've never gone black on ammo, but things were bad enough once or twice that my molle started to feel awfully light and I found myself trying to count my rounds. It feels a bit like drowning.

I don't imply any of that, little SolRo.

So what's your 'final solution to the Palestinian question'?

The final solution is Edward Said's binational one-state solution, which is gaining popularity. How that actually comes to be is extremely complicated, and there are various forces at work to realize the model to their own ends.

As it is, two separate states seems unlikely for so, so many reasons.

Here's a start:

Do a land trade. There's areas around the Dead Sea that are almost entirely Palestinian but are in Israeli hands. Israeli settlements are penetrating into Palestinian land which is largely uninhabited by Palestinians.

Hamas must recognize the need for a Jewish homeland and that Israel has a right to exist. Israel must make reparations and assist with infrastructure projects in Palestine as well as address the 3rd class status of Palestinians in Israel starting with a constitutional amendment (they should actually start by writing a Constitution in general) that protects the rights of minorities.

These are just a few first steps.

Something I've been messing with for fun is how to provide fresh water using desal infrastructure to Jordan, Palestinian territories, and other areas as a means of rewarding peace agreements such as this. For the price we paid to go to war in Iraq we could have delivered continuous fresh water to everybody in Sinai, Jordan, Palestine, and much of Yemen. Water drives much of the animosity towards refugees across the Middle East. I think part of any union of Palestine and Israel will have to come attached to enormous amounts of international aid.

None of this is remotely possible as the secular aspects of Israel become ever more frail as they are surrounded by ever more terrifying spectacles (Yes, Syria and ISIS being in their front yard is kind of important to understand how Israelis are thinking right now). The current state of Israel and Palestine insures that a Palestine free state would be a fetid corrupt ghetto controlled by Islamists, and one-state solution would almost certainly entail an internationally funded massacre on all sides.

I just don't see how anyone even remotely intelligent could think one of the richest and most militarized populations in the world getting access to land of one of the poorest doesn't end in a massive land grab and eviction of the poorer people. And that's if you ignore the horrid racism and religious entitlement Israel has going right now.

Well, that was a seed cast upon stone.

maybe you're just being stupid? Or doing a shitty job of explaining it?

Are you trying to suggest a two-state one state solution?


How about you just explain why a pure two state solution is such a bad thing?

I don't have time to explain to you why 40 years of negotiations have failed.

The problems with the two-state solution should be evident to anybody that actually cares about this problem.

"Are you trying to suggest a two-state one state solution?"
The binational solution is an old one. You don't care about this issue. You're also an idiot. Google.

Yes, I broke the rules. Sorry about that.