Where should Israel go back to then?

Israel doesn’t have to go anywhere. No more than South Africa went somewhere after Apartheid ended in that state. Or Cuba vanished after the Batista government collapsed. Or Germany vanished after '45.

But the war criminals leading the current genocidal policy towards the people in their care. They need the same treatment as Milosoviec, Omar al-Bashir, and Saddam Hussein.

Drag Netanyahu to the Hague and prosecute him for crimes against humanity. Dismiss the current illegal and unconstitutional Kinesset and hold new free and fair elections in Israel. Provide reparations for the displaced Gaza and West Bank citizens, and launch a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to recover damages for the crimes committed against them.

That is the only moral path forward for Israel.

they could’ve easily just targeted specific individuals

They did target a specific individual - the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon. Everyone else was collateral damage.

Bombing a police station because there’s a chance one of the cops might try to arrest me.

Bombing the court house so there’s no place for my trial.

Bombing the mayor’s Special Committee On Investigating City Bombings to cover my trail.

Bombing the local field office of the newspaper that’s writing a report on all these bombings.

More people are saying I’m the bad guy, but this is just adding the number of people I have to add to my list of future bomb targets.

Once again, it needs to be noted that this entire operation was designed to assassinate one guy. The part of the pager shipment was an order made by the Iranian consulate in Lebanon.

Since the Israelis didn’t know which pager was going to the ambassador, they just rigged them all to explode. Then everyone who got caught in the crossfire was labeled “Hezbollah” after the fact.

even though they’re (trying to) occupy the exact same plot of land

Explaining to my Cherokee friends that, really, you’re no better than the European settlers who displaced you because you both wanted to live in Florida. Suddenly, they’re not my friends anymore. Can’t believe they were anti-white racists the whole time.

Also a great place for training bots and gauging responses.

More that we could switch to a smaller and more disposable shipping fleet, where any damage to a ship was negligible to the volume of trade

The Haitians in Springfield who got accused of eating geese in the park are currently all there to revitalize Ohio’s automotive industry. Republicans love their car culture and hate their car manufacturing workforce.

You joke, but libertarians lost a war to Tonga

I’m reminded that the US military is currently being embarrassed in the red sea by a non-state actor with zero air superiority

Houthi rebels in Yemen are leveraging the mathematics of actuarial accounting to shut down the Red Sea. The cost of sending a ship into a free-fire zone skyrockets, compared to the cost of simply sailing around the Horn of Africa.

If the Americans were doing the flotilla strategy of the WW2 era - where FDR realized he could build cheap concrete shipping vessels faster than the Germans could sink them - then the Houthis would be an ugly nuisance rather than an insurmountable stopgap.

But international shipping has a zero-margin for losing ships. They’re not sending these things out on the ocean with the expectation of some attrition.

Vietnam as a historical example and Afghanistan as a recent one.

The biggest asset these countries had in their favor was distance from the American industrial core. First Nations people employed many of the same techniques used in Vietnam and Afghanistan but were ruthlessly slaughtered. Guerrilla movements in Latin America - the FARK in Columbia and socialists in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador got massacred by American military power. These countries are wholly within the US sphere of influence now.

Let’s not forget what’s going on in Israel rn vs all the proxies.

Israel is a textbook case of advanced weaponry tilting the playing field. Air superiority, naval support from the US, and a high tech anti-missile/anti-personal system along with one of the most advanced spy networks in the world all allow this relatively tiny nation to punch far outside its weight class. By contrast, less developed countries like Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Sudan routinely serve as punching bags for more advanced states.

Alright, so here me out. We need guns to protect ourselves from the Chinese government. What do you say about that? Just saved you $620B

Two sticks you can rub together.

Yes.

Accute Love Triangle: Two people who are boning, but they wistfully pine for a third person from afar.

Obtuse Love Triangle: Two people pinning for the same third, when they’d be better off hooking up with each other.

Equilateral Love Triangle: When there is no age-gap discourse in the polycule.

Right Love Triangle: When the odd-couple finds the perfect person to square them off.

Stereographically Projected Love Triangle: A romantic Isekai

Like Russia does?

Israel and Russia remain close geopolitical allies.

Basically what the French did to Haiti, several centuries ago. Kill off all the native peoples and bring in a slave population to handle the manual labor.

insert dubiously sourced anecdote by anonymous IDF officer

handing my friend a screwdriver

“You can use this for simple crafts and home repairs”

Me, backing away from the screwdriver in terror

“Nice try, but I know what that is. They use that thing to build the Space Shuttle.”

We’re talking about rentals, dude.

We just had a major rental catrelization scandal, by which landlords collaborated to keep vacant units prices above the clearing rate to deny their tenants anywhere cheaper to move.