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  1. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Neither of us knows what a change in Israel's or Hamas' leadership would bring. We can only speculate at this point, especially with how much escalation and volatility is looming over the region right now.
  2. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    No, you don't. I'm commenting on sources you have cited in your own posts before. You have made threads about this subject and posted videos featuring Sam Harris and/or Douglas Murray in more than one of those. That's what I'm referring to. As long as Israel remains the far more powerful party...
  3. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    I think this part of my previous post addresses the above: That Iran is hostile to Israel, and vice versa, doesn't change that Iran is the weaker party in multiple key ways. I don't know what you mean here. It's a fact that in almost every Arab country, the average citizen has little to no...
  4. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Netanyahu's government is guilty of aggressively undermining a two-state solution: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-hands-smotrich-full-authority-to-expand-existing-settlements/...
  5. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Yes, Iran supports Hamas. I don't see how that changes my point that Iran is militarily, politically, and economically weaker than Israel. I see Iran as a hostile actor in the Middle East too, but a recurrent and mistaken assumption in this thread seems to be that if someone criticizes either...
  6. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Neither Hamas nor Israel seems inclined to support an enduring two-state solution right now. Both of them need to do so, and both also need to not kill civilians. Do you agree or disagree with that?
  7. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Iran's military is vastly inferior to Israel's in terms of technology, funding, and training, and Iran has nowhere near as many powerful allies as Israel does. It also has no nukes (at least so far), unlike Israel.
  8. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Except, of course, that I haven't exclusively attributed the problem to Israel. I would answer this if I talked about Egyptian politics online. In a nutshell, though, what I can say is that the average Arab citizen has little to no say in geopolitical decisions. If they did, many things would...
  9. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    There is not a single entity or country currently threatening Israel that is not substantially and significantly weaker than Israel. Also, the Middle East has many non-Muslims, so the idea that "Islamists" have "systematically and relentlessly purged" them is simplistic hyperbole. Religious...
  10. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    No, the message is that policy reforms, negotiations, and a genuine push for a two-state solution would go a long way toward establishing peace in the region. Killing tens of thousands of civilians won't achieve anything other than prolonging the same problems that have existed for 75 years.
  11. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    According to whom? You? I think you have made it clear that the way you see the situation prioritizes Islam as some sort of ultimate threat and that basically everything else about the struggle is reducible to "Islamists" or their actions, whether merely perceived or real. Israel is the...
  12. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    A nuclear power backed by many powerful countries including three other nuclear powers—the US, the UK, and France—is not "oppressed." It is fully in charge of its affairs, has a strong and extensively armed and funded military, and has a lot of geopolitical, financial, and military support from...
  13. Debater Slayer

    Student Protests Against Israel Are Wonderful

    Or they identify the struggle of, and sympathize with, the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians the IDF has killed, injured, and/or starved so far. It is possible that some of those students may even know someone from Palestine or have family there themselves. Not everyone who disagrees...
  14. Debater Slayer

    Peak Australian Islamic groups seek to whitewash religion of religiously motivated terrorism in my view

    Religiously motivated terrorism, hatred, etc., definitely exist, but I find myself agreeing with this excerpt from the article: Rephrasing that part to something like, "violent extremism motivated by some forms [or a subset] of Sunni Islam" seems to me reasonable and probably less likely to...
  15. Debater Slayer

    Happy Passover

    This is a thread for posting good wishes on a religious holiday. It is not a debate thread, as Interfaith Discussion is a non-debate forum. Let's please avoid debate here.
  16. Debater Slayer

    April 25: Sinai Liberation Day

    Today, April 25, is Sinai Liberation Day, marking the date of Sinai's full return to Egyptian sovereignty and the departure of all remaining Israeli forces from the peninsula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Liberation_Day The return of Sinai to Egypt was part of the Israeli-Egyptian peace...
  17. Debater Slayer

    Meloni's assault on Italy abortion clinic

    A fascist (in the literal sense) acting like a fascist by helping to chip away at rights and freedoms she disagrees with. I wish I could say I was surprised.
  18. Debater Slayer

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Yes, I'm aware that some people have lifelong mental health issues. I don't think anyone can say with certainty that a person who has them will never experience improvement even if only via more effective management or treatment of the condition in question, though. That the condition may be...
  19. Debater Slayer

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    I'm not saying that doctors should lie; I'm saying that the very statement that a patient's mental health will never get better is quite literally impossible to ascertain given the gaps in our current knowledge about mental illness, the brain, and the connection between both. There is not a...
  20. Debater Slayer

    Foreign Aid bills - this would not have happened under Trump

    What are your thoughts on sending billions in military aid to Israel considering its actions in Gaza (e.g., killing over 34,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are civilians)? (I'm keeping the aid to Ukraine a separate topic for the purpose of this post, since I see fundamental...
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