Pretty much. Netanyahu never wanted a ceasefire to begin with. My guess is that any talk of a path to a two-state solution or a ceasefire has just been a stalling tactic used by the US to deal with any criticism of Israel's war crimes. I wonder how long the State Department can keep this charade going, quite honestly.

Good choice -- Inter is probably the best, most comfortable UI font IMO. Or Roboto.

It depends how you're using the term 'genocide'.

While the CCP might not necessarily be intentionally mass-killing ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, there is very strong evidence that they are doing their utmost to stamp out Uyghur culture and forcibly assimilate them. In the process, people are being incarcerated, tortured, and raped, amongst other things.

It could be argued that this is a crime under international law, where the definition of genocide includes

intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Or you could argue it is ethnic cleansing instead. Either way, it's a lot more serious than just overzealous "counter-terrorism" measures.

On the flip side, I don't consider OpenSUSE, Fedora, or Debian to be all that beginner-friendly either.

The right to bear arms is a constitutionally-guaranteed right; the founders considered it intrinsic to maintaining the system of government.

Yes, for the purposes of maintaining a well regulated militia.

It's a shame the Founding Fathers apparently didn't forsee a future when people would interpret that plain language to include teachers instructing children in a fucking classroom.

The term 'genocide' might be contentious, but 'ethnic cleansing' and 'occupation' shouldn't be. They literally describe Palestine since the creation of the state of Israel itself.

That's no justification for selling a >$1,000 MacBook Pro with only 8GB of RAM, though. It's specifically marketed as a professional-class machine.

Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also added certain details that didn't seem based on anything like actual evidence. Although I admit it wasn't anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.

If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.

There's also the right-wing obsession with "grooming" and protecting kids from "sexualization". It happened with gay people 50 years ago and now it's trans peoples' turn.

That's an incredibly reductive oversimplification. The modern state of Israel exists due to the political Zionist movement which began in the 19th C and the sympathy for the Jewish people following Nazi Germany's eugenicist attempt to wipe them out.

A couple of millennia before that, you had the conflicts of the competing tribes and civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, which resulted in the Jewish diaspora.

Religion has typically been weaponized to justify one group of people taking control of resources and land from another, but it has rarely been the root cause per se.

Problem is, Israel has made it pretty clear they don’t care if they lose US support (or don’t believe it can politically happen)

It's definitely the latter. Israel would very much care if they lost US support, as the drop in funding and military materiel would weaken their power in the region considerably.

Anything by Martin McDonagh, especially

• In Bruges
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• The Banshees of Inisherin