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Reddit probably looked into the background of this weird investigative agency come art project and realised that they had been cherry-picked for a reason.
I recall someone sharing a link to a notionally non-partisan humanitarian relief fund - was it you @Mr. Tea ?
Yeah, I posted a link to my FB fundraiser, although I dunno if people I'm not already connected to can see it. But I understand Medical Aid for Palestinians (the charity involved) do excellent work, so you could just donate to them. Or MSF or Red Crescent would probably be a good bet, too.
I think Hamas's status as not-a-military-power might be a bit less "manifest" than it was three weeks ago.
That's true, I suppose, but if anyone in Israel was waiting for something from Hamas that would give them the opportunity to say "These bastards mean business, so we have to show them we mean even more business" certainly got that on 7/10.
Not really, no. Or, it depends what is meant by "military power". It's definitely possible Hamas leadership was looking at the inevitable response as an opportunity to show it's stepped up to the level of Hezbollah, i.e. can fight the IDF to a draw in prepared positions on its own ground, but that remains to be seen. And even with Hezbollah, the big caveats are the normal unwillingness of Israel to take serious casualties and international (and possibly domestic) pressure imposing military limits on the IDF, all of which may not apply now.
That's a great book. Finkelstein has made some good appearances the last couple weeks, including yesterday on the useful idiots podcast
