Israel at war day 131
- IDF estimates that Hamas head Yahya Sinwar is stuck in Khan Younis and cannot flee to Egypt.
- The Defense Ministry has accounted for 5,500 soldiers who are already wounded and projects that 20,000 soldiers are expected to be wounded in 2024 from the ongoing war
- The IDF named soldier killed in Tzfas as Omer Sarah Benjo, 20, from the town of Ge'a.
- Hezbollah says will only stop cross border shelling when 'Israeli aggression' in Gaza ends
-The IDF says fighter jets are currently carried out a “widespread” wave of airstrikes in Lebanon.
- One woman soldier killed in Tzfas rocket attack that targeted a IDF base. Hezbollah fired precision missiles at the army bases.
- Rockets fired at Tzfas, this morning 7 injured
Magen David Adom says it is transporting seven people in the Tzfas area injured in rocket attacks to hospitals. Thre people listed in moderate condition and the other four are lightly injured. Reports claim at least eight rockets were fired at the city.
Israeli media reports Hezbollah fired the rockets at military bases in Tzfas
- Biden told Netanyahu that in any new hostage deal, Israel will may have to release more Palestinian prisoners for each freed hostage than it did in the previous pause in Gaza fighting, two U.S. and Israeli officials said.
- Some 100 representatives of families of hostages are set to take off for the Hague, where they plan to file a war crimes complaint Wednesday against the leaders of the terror organization at the International Criminal Court
Tom Suozzi’s campaign provided a blueprint for Democrats nationwide who are competing in purple states. The strategy is to challenge Republicans on their traditional issues––crime, taxes, and immigration, but also attack the two main weak points for Republicans – abortion and Trump..On the other hand, could it be just the candidate’s heavy Israeli accent?
ReplyDeleteNo. The Republicans are going to get walloped in Congress in 2024. BTW. Can anyone explain Speaker Johnson's position on immigration? First he tied Ukraine to the border, then when the Senate did that, he rejected it, so then the Senate passed a Ukraine bill without border provisions, and now he is saying he cannot support it without border provisions? Please explain and take into consideration the probability of getting a better bill if Trump is elected. The Democrats most likely gave in on to help Biden, but the next time Congress takes it up, it will likely be less conservative with provisions for the Dreamers and a pathway to citizenship.
DeleteThey'll be fine. Better than now
DeleteIt is shoin about time for the peacefully dismantling of the zionest state. All our troubles will be over
ReplyDeleteThis is about the same as saying and believing once we have our own Zionist state all our troubles will be over. And about as realistic as those who advocated doing so before WWI were being.
DeleteYeah, if only there wasn't a Zionist state in the forties, there wouldn't have been a Holocaust.
DeleteYeah, if only there WAS a Zionist state in the forties, there wouldn't have been a Holocaust.
DeleteThere could have been i.e.The Peel Commission
DeleteMost refused to accept.(Had the Jews accepted the British were ready to force it on the Arabs)
The Peel Commission severely limited Jewish immigration to (even) the Jewish part of Palestine (15,000 a year) The holocaust would have on almost unabated had it been accepted. Being that the Arabs didn't accept it any form and it also included the forceable transfer of the 225,000 Arabs living in the Jewish part, the results of accepting would have been a disaster.
DeleteFalse, except for generations of myth makers
DeleteJews weren't prepared then yet to settle for less than a full pie
False, except for generations of myth makers
DeleteJews WERE prepared then to settle for less than a full pie
I found this in "Foreign Affairs" today:
ReplyDelete"Despite all the talk of American dysfunction and decay, the reality is quite different, especially when compared with other rich countries. In 1990, the United States’ per capita income (measured in terms of purchasing power) was 17 percent higher than Japan’s and 24 percent higher than Western Europe’s. Today, it is 54 percent and 32 percent higher, respectively. In 2008, at current prices, the American and eurozone economies were roughly the same size. The U.S. economy is now nearly twice as large as the eurozone. Those who blame decades of American stagnation on Washington’s policies might be asked a question: With which advanced economy would the United States want to have swapped places over the last 30 years?
"In terms of hard power, the country is also in an extraordinary position. The economic historian Angus Maddison argued that the world’s greatest power is often the one that has the strongest lead in the most important technologies of the time—the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, and the United States in the twentieth century. America in the twenty-first century might be even stronger than it was in the twentieth. Compare its position in, say, the 1970s and 1980s with its position today. Back then, the leading technology companies of the time—manufacturers of consumer electronics, cars, computers—could be found in the United States but also in Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. In fact, of the ten most valuable companies in the world in 1989, only four were American, and the other six were Japanese. Today, nine of the top ten are American.
"What is more, the top ten most valuable U.S. technology companies have a total market capitalization greater than the combined value of the stock markets of Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. And if the United States utterly dominates the technologies of the present—centered on digitization and the Internet—it also seems poised to succeed in the industries of the future, such as artificial intelligence and bioengineering. In 2023, as of this writing, the United States has attracted $26 billion in venture capital for artificial intelligence startups, about six times as much as China, the next highest recipient. In biotech, North America captures 38 percent of global revenues while all of Asia accounts for 24 percent.
"In addition, the United States leads in what has historically been a key attribute of a nation’s strength: energy. Today, it is the world’s largest producer of oil and gas—larger even than Russia or Saudi Arabia. The United States is also massively expanding production of green energy, thanks in part to the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. As for finance, look at the list of banks designated “globally systemically important” by the Financial Stability Board, a Switzerland-based oversight body; the United States has twice as many such banks as the next country, China. The dollar remains the currency used in almost 90 percent of international transactions. Even though central banks’ dollar reserves have dropped in the last 20 years, no other competitor currency even comes close."
American is still exceptional.
Although is it still?If so?
DeleteIn Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: ..the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world: our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I am trying myself to choose an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it, but in vain; the old words “despotism” and “tyranny” are inappropriate: the thing itself is new; and since I cannot name it, I must attempt to define" Racial/gender/hierarchical/social/
quasi-religious un-pc checks were holding back the tsunami though,however as he predicted once those checks were steadily eventually removed..
Interesting,when GW Bush cheered American predominance,Foreign Affairs magazine downplayed that
DeleteI think Tocqueville was referring the American freedom of speech. Whereas we pride ourself on it, you cannot speak against the basic American values of liberty, free enterprise, equality before the law, for if you do, you are on your on. He wrote in Europe, if you spoke against a king or anyone, some duke or prince would take you in. You would have sympathizers. Here, if you go against the American Way, you are done.
DeleteRabbi Y Cohen, personally, I am a George HW man. He understood how to use American power, much like Bidden is doing today. George W Bush abused it, as if might makes right. He was a Wilsonian spead American democracy whereas his father was a Mahan/TR Republican, preserving American interests. I thought I would try out Foreign Affairs because of Kennan. So it is not so good? I just started reading it.
DeleteA reasonable foreign policy upshot of the Bush family.Though Bush Sr. had a little element of each,at least as much as was part & parcel of the consensus.
DeleteNonetheless it's worth also noting as mentioned before that Foreign Affairs is indeed hardly as apolitical as you imply.
So what publication do you recommend for foreign policy for reasonably educated people rather than the masses? This blog has reawakened my interest in foreign policy.
DeleteForeign Affairs is a democrat groupie.Hardly some unbiased rag
ReplyDeleteSo are they wrong? It is a democrat groupie to think America is exceptional? I guess I too am biases because no one will ever convince me that America is not great.
DeleteBiden should not be telling Bibi that he "must" do anything.
ReplyDeleteOkay I'll let him know.
DeleteBibi, dont let palestinians out of prison unless it is 1:1 why should it be more than that? Can someone please explain that ? Maybe Biden can?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you need Biden to explain it? There seems to be a whole bunch of progressive liberal democrats who are blinded with hate to President Trump who can explain why Israel are the aggressors.
ReplyDeleteI also took a course on Politics of Weapons in Space in 1980. See this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/us/politics/intelligence-russia-nuclear.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk0.XoQ6.u0igsgPyCxPM&smid=url-share
(BTW Star Trek episode mentioned is "Assignment Earth.")
Thinking back, it amazes me how many government courses I took (well duh, my degree is government) and the pinnacle of my career was becoming intelligentsia of the BMG coffee room and Lone Ranger of Hefkerville.
Shhhh..spies are lurking by the soda machines
DeleteWhen did this site become so sophisticated with high level conversations? I used to enjoy the yeShiva hock, now it's hard to follow the deep discussions of the commentators
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