Israel-Hamas War 2023

[OttoVonBismarck]

There is no validity to Palestinian nationalism because ethno terrorism is intrinsically illegitimate. We of the West must always stand against it, especially when it is also associated with Islam—the eternal enemy of the West and the chief anti-Western ideology.

[Razgovory]

Are some nationalism's better than others?  Lettow's southern nationalism seemed different than Swiss nationalism.

[DGuller]

I wonder whether the Israeli attack was actually a blunder. Wouldn't it have made sense to save it for when disrupting Hezbollah C&C mattered most? 

I read in some article (summary) somewhere thst maybe the Israelis were worried their scheme would be discovered.

Then again maybe they had intel that hezbollah was preparing something big and wanted to prevent or delay it.

I imagine this isn't something Israel could sit on indefinitely.  It only takes one guy to drop the pager and see C4 fall out of it to raise the alarm.  A zero-day hack, on the other hand, is something you can sit on for a long time, and I do wonder what hacks Russia and China have in their arsenals that they'll deploy if there is ever an active conflict with the West.

[The Minsky Moment]

Are some nationalism's better than others?  Lettow's southern nationalism seemed different than Swiss nationalism.

Some nationalisms definitely manifest in more ugly, violent and dysfunctional ways than others.