You admit then that Trump's goal is to destroy the US as a major power? That he wants to disable its population to destroy its military capability? That his goal is to get money from Putin's take-over of the various Soviet assets?

Kickbacks for the influential and powerful, enabled by technology facilitated manipulative messaging that targeted the weakest minds to generate the impression of popularity. Social psychology made into a weapon against society.

I pity you, that so full of hatred you can not see what you have become. I am giving you the truth and you refuse it, you claim to want information but deny it, and yet claim that you are righteous and victorious in absentia. Take you meds and go to bed.

As to the verified and how, that is the act of a professional army. You verify that what was targeted was destroyed. This is how the rare events where hostages or where surrendering fighters killed are identified as well. There are others killed, and there is deception by Hamas with its control of public information, but the results are clear. The targeted Hamas leadership, the hidden Hamas barracks and weapons depots, their underground tunnel network, and large groups their armed fighters have all been killed successfully.

Read more carefully, it is the measure per targeted building. That is how you compare performance and moderation in wars in urban areas. The US is the leader in ethical acts here. The point of the comparison is both qualitative in describing the fortifications, and quantitative in describing the average number and yield.

The Israeli and Palestinian claims of nation-hood are conflicting. The idea of the two-state compromise would be the best solution if all parties wanted to compromise, but that is not what exists now and is not what has ever existed. Hamas was created by the rejects from the PLO's rush peace with Israel as Jordan made peace and returned their militarily occupied territory in the West Bank. Hamas has functioned only as a terrorist group attacking civilian areas with rockets and bombings in the past decades; further it has sunk beyond redemption with its recent attack whole-heartedly demonstrating that its ranks harbor criminals rebranded as their fighters. There were mass targeted sexual assaults against Israelis, desecration of bodies, and genital mutilation during their attack on the Nova festival and surrounding communities. There were targeted home invasions, including murder at random, as well as abductions and kidnappings of families. These are not the acts of a military force in a national formation war, they are the acts of criminal gang hiding under the Palestinian flag and underneath the violent perversions of the teachings of Muhammed that inspires the like-minded ISIS, Boko Haram, Taliban, Iran, and all of the Iranian proxies.

Among the aid routes established by Israel to facilitate the transfer of aid to the Palestinians held hostage by Hamas, it was only the northern routes that were closed during the first 6 months of war. They are open now. The southern routes have remained open the entire duration. That said, the southern routes were also at reduced capacity because of the lack of drivers willing to cross into Gaza as well as some illegal protests.

They are true. The points you imply are not true as stated, instead they are the direct products of the Hamas control of public information given to the media. IDF sources verified that roughly 1/3rd of the deaths were combatants. Their combat methods are moderate - on average using a single 1K bomb where the US used 3-4 0.5K bombs per building targeted in its fight against the similarly urbanized ISIS strongholds. While ISIS fortified buildings, Hamas has purpose-built fortresses. The largest impact craters show visual evidence of underground detonations.

While it is true aid was reduced by the temporary blockade of the northern routes into Gaza, it was dones to ensure security because those same routes were used by the terrorists to attack the Nova festival and the surrounding communities. It was an entirely calculated attack by Hamas which resulted in both direct Israeli deaths and indirect Palestinian ones through aid disruption given the known concentration camp state that Hamas ran holding Palestinians hostage. Hamas killed both groups deliberately for PR value as enemies dead or "martyred", and plans to continue kills as many as it can in the future based on public statements by its leadership since the Nova attack.

I appreciate your application of ethics. One note however - the correct methods include evaluating the future deaths risked by each course. If you do not kill the terrorist at the cost of x others, will it allow the terrorist to kill x or more? This calculus is very easy regarding terrorist leaders and signs their death warrants. To be fair, if you kill the terrorist and x, you must also consider whether that increased the total deaths unnecessarily since their surrender would be a valid alternative. If they will continue to fight if left alive, they must be killed as quickly as possible given the x constraint and expected future deaths.

I think they are simply the useful idiots for a PR-aware terrorist group. Netanyahu is a soldier turned politician desperate to avoid jail for corruption during his previous terms. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization holding the entirely of Gaza hostage and deliberately killing as many Palestinians as Israelis. Israel has to impose operational security to protect its soldiers while Hamas controls the information given to the media. All of these things are true. Israel as a country deals with all of this and upholding the rules of war as they were designed through terms largely forgotten because of how professional armies operate and dominated in press coverage of previous armed conflicts. Israel has the added challenge of countering the Hamas PR propaganda and enforcing those rules to preserve them and reduce future deaths.

Israel must demonstrate that the terrorist tactic of building offensive military capabilities underneath nominally protected sites legally voids that very same protection and transforms them back into valid targets. Israel must demonstrate that the terrorist tactic of deliberately hiding offensive weapons underneath soft populations fails and results only in deaths for the subjugated soft populations - like the Palestinians that Hamas murders the same as their declared enemies. The alternative is that Hamas and every other terrorist group will always hide all of their weapons under soft populations and total deaths increase in every future conflict. Those that Hamas and other terrorists start included, giving them free reign to attack while their PR propaganda dominates. I hope that the protestors simply do not understand this.

Was there any agriculture in the Jurassic era? Were there any human civilizations, or even humans? Were there any mammals larger than shrews? These are rhetorical questions. Food doesn't just magically happen, it takes extensive planning and careful land management to keep fields productive. You lot should try not eating for a week and see what less food does to people. Now, imagine thousands and millions in that state ready to eat even if they have to take food from you.

Exactly, this is a basic point. Lost primary sector productivity from ecological damages, compounded throughout the rest of the economy as supplies are disrupted or simply not available (droughts have killed pepper crops, etc.), and as customers become rarer due to damaged transit systems and increased travel risks. The other three or so posts right now have missed that concept so much as to show themselves paid to ignore it. Paid through social psychology and tribal mentality benefit or financially - both give the same result here. That has to be fought against while words are enough.

Liquid fuels will remain the best way to solve the remote and detached agricultural field problems in the near and intermediate terms. In the very short term, your farm vehicles using diesel might be retrofitted to use bio-diesel (basically plant oil mixed with diesel to improve emissions). Eventually long running distributed renewable energy powered hydrogen production and conversion into syngas (easier but at the cost of different kinds of emissions), and hydrogen for binding with with liquid organic carriers (LOHCs, these have no containment issues and are suitable for distribution through the existing fuel line infrastructure) which will make diesel entirely obsolete. Farther ahead, it is also likely that battery electric vehicles supported by capacity flexible fixed installation vanadium redox batteries charged by those means will also spread out to the supporting market towns that supply farmers like you.

All Russian business groups with interests that exceed the shortsighted vision of Putin should consolidate forces and kill him. Putin destroyed the FDI market irreparably, and the Kremlin failed to create a market where your value is fairly assessed. Improve every profit by killing Putin and destroying the dominance of the Kremlin.

Just admit you want your own NKVD and call them Grenztruppen. Then deal with the disappearances/executions and other crimes against humanity that secret police all inevitably perpetrate.