So TL;DR it has no teeth really.
The lights turn on, and the cockroaches scatter. Look at that.
I actually respect people who are racists and open about it, in a way. They're very wrong, and obviously resistant to education on why, but at least they're being true to what they think is right. A lot of these people have to know they're rotten on some level.
Crave it. The other way would be cruel.
IRL I'd go somewhere else, of course, but that's not the spirit of the question.
You must have caught that schmuck on a really bad day. I'm not upset by it, because we are really hard to tell apart. Some people do take mild offence, but it's a pretty unfair thing to expect someone to guess.
Often, it's good to point out you're Canadian abroad, because we're just less hated globally. Occasionally being "American" can be handy, especially in America.
Not necessarily. Israel has a lot of special carveouts built into US law specifically for it. For example, they're the only country that can spend US military aid money on their own suppliers.
Can’t but wonder if the Houthis aren’t used to US and UK bombs being dropped on them by now and if thus this will make that much of a difference (weren’t the Houthis mountain people, same as the Afghans?).
Pretty much what the news analysts are saying, even. I'm unsure why Biden and Sunak felt like this was a good idea. I really can't see any possible upside. Now they look even more crooked in the region than before, because the only thing they acted on are the cargo ships loaded with dumb crap for the West, and the Houthis look cool and relevant directly fighting them. The threat to shipping is even higher than before if anything, and the whole place is even closer to going WWI.
They could have just parked their warships there and kept eating drones. It would have costed a lot in interceptors, but you'd think even a few more weeks of situation normal would have been worth it.
No, holding it would be fine in some situations. It's probably resting on a chair arm or something while my head is on the seat.
It's hard to say, because it's not the first thing you learn about somebody. If someone's dressed remotely nicely, I can instantly tell they're from the city, and I suspect it's more likely they're a liberal, but I don't really know unless it comes up.
The one caveat is that the sides are not equal. The Israelis have the resources to set up a 2-state solution unilaterally if they wanted, while the Palestinians are in an active famine right now. They're just not willing to bear the economic and security costs of that, so the cycle continues.
Free in both Gaza and the West Bank is the main one. "From the river to the sea excluding a 40 km gap roughly in the middle" just doesn't have the same ring. There's also the one-state interpretation, where the Jews are still there but living alongside Palestinians as equals (nice but currently implausible IMO).
Taken without any context, it actually says nothing about Israel at all, or the exact nature of said Palestinian freedom somewhere between those two landmarks. With context it means more, but the context varies considerably depending on whether it's, say, a peace-loving Jew or Hamas saying it.
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Please tell me you just code golf or similar, and aren't making things for people to actually use and maintain.