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I was asking why the post-1948 ceasefire lines are more legal than the post-1967 lines ? If you decide to go after the 1947 UN partition, keep the 1947 lines as the only legal border. If the 1948 war can redefine what's legal, then the 1967 war can do it as well.

I personally think the borders should be decided between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The only agreement to date between them has been the 1991 Oslo accords, with A, B and C zones. Further talks about definitive borders stopped with the Second Intifada in 2000.

So all palestinian Arabs are autochtones and all palestininan Jews are colonists. How many generations to lose that status then ?

Legality ends up following the de-facto reality. What's the future of the legality of Golan annexion ? With the new Syria, its soon going to become legal.

Jewish people coming back to live on its ancient homeland has no legal basis; It's their collective will which allowed its coming into existence (continuous immigration from other countries since the 1840s).

The legality of its existence wouldn't help it survive even one second.

Have Israel and Palestine determined borders ? A ceasefire line is not a border after the ceasefire is broken and the front line moves

Do you still think that today its a colonial project ?

Israel was literally born out of political scheming

Its more of a popular jewish movement that over 100 years changed the ethnic composition of the Palestine region from 1-2% in the 1840s up to 30% in the 1940s.

Political scheming is secondary and was born well after the 1840s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palesti...

A dwindling minority. They emigrate to Israel If they can.

Christian population is going down in Palestine, and up in Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazan_Christians#Hamas

Israel: Surrender or we'll destroy your city Hamas: Only if you let us rebuild and prepare the next war Israel: Starts destroying the city by bombing emptied buildings, these having received warning from Israel beforehand UN: Oh look, a genocide

You're right; I meant to refute the following point: NASA nixed the idea of propulsive landing for Dragon 2 for this reason (safety)

It wasn't because of safety, but because it would have needed tests, development and certification (for a new type of landing) while already having an established method (splashing into the sea).

Soyuz uses propulsive landing

I just love spending time in rush hour traffic \s

45 000 deaths is genocide ? What's the civilian/military ratio ?

A peaceful march in Gaza ended in bloodshed and intentional aiming at appendages by IOF snipers.

Could you provide a source, please ? I'm genuinely interested to investigate it

They wouldn't dare speak against Hezbollah. Or they were Shias ?

Hamas + PIJ had a fighting force of ~45 000 at the beginning of the war.

They chose to fight it in a heavily urbanized area AMONG CIVILIANS. What human outcome would you expect out of the situation ?

There were 750km of tunnels in Gaza

TIL that Balfour déclaration created the jewish people, and maintained it through history

Please leave your finger at the reception desk :)

I see his experience as governor of Idlib matching his moderate rhetoric. He has clearly evolved his views from his younger years of international jihadist towards syrian nationalism, including tolerance of minorities that make part of the syrian people, and economic development (christmas trees and free mass, or a more reliable electricity supply than Damascus for example)

Well, you haven't read it properly then:

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mohammad_al-Julani]

When asked about al-Nusra's plans for a post-war Syria, al-Julani stated that after the war ended, all factions in the country would be consulted before anyone considered "establishing an Islamic state". He also mentioned that al-Nusra would not target the country's Alawite minority, despite their support for the Assad regime.

Idlib governance

In response to the unrest, al-Julani made several concessions. He released hundreds of detainees from a previous summer's security operation, including his former deputy Abu Maria al-Qahtani, who had been arrested along with 300 others in a purge of his movement. He also promised local elections and increased employment opportunities for displaced persons, while warning protesters against what he termed treachery. [38]

And are they there ... illegally? Or legally?

In France, if you are illegal, you get free healthcare.

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aide_m%C3%A9dicale_d%27%C3%8...

To fix your word, just wrap it in-flammable tape. Not sure it's going to work, thats what they did with Starliner anyways.

Hmmm, those palestinian Arabs that made peace with the Jews in the 1948 civil war are still there; see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghosh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al-Fahm

One, Hamas isn't doing this

Sinwar himself said it :

Then a courier arrived with a message from Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, saying, in effect: Don’t worry, we have the Israelis right where we want them.

Hamas’s fighters, the Al-Qassam Brigades, were doing fine, the upbeat message said. The militants were ready for Israel’s expected assault on Rafah, a city on Gaza’s southern edge. High civilian casualties would add to the worldwide pressure on Israel to stop the war, Sinwar’s message said, according to people informed about the meeting.

Source https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-thinks-it-could-...

By pigeon, of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

You cannot go there, there might be life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection

/s

In that case, detonate the bomb above its axis of rotation. Unless the rotation axis is precessing as well...

Actually, they were making good progress until Bezos put Bob Smith as CEO, coming from an oldspace background, whose decisons stopped the company in its progress to reaching orbit. [1]

Now that he is finally out, let's hope the new CEO will put back Blue Origin on the right track. So many years lost !

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/bob-smith-is-finally-g...

Good idea, but the lake is too narrow for that

From the Starship Noise Assessment https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2022-06/AppendixB_No..., it looks like you need maybe 20 miles distance for a tolerable level of noise (around 100 dB)

So I'm not sure regular launches from the lake will be tolerated by the lake shore's inhabitants. This is why Starship launch platforms should be 30km from shore (not 20km as I wrote previously)

Not from Zurich, but from an ocean platform 20km from the coast of every big coastal city. High speed trains (350km/h) will go direct to the airport from every city less than 500km away. I agree landlocked Zurich will have a hard time to get a spaceport.

Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport