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I am afraid I don't understand what you wrote, the OP tried to portray Muslims as peaceful people not prone to committing genocide. That is obviously not true. As for 'covering it up', yes, it is an offence today in Turkey to acknowledge Armenian genocide. I think Pakistan too does not...

You should not ask that question. No religion of Middle East has pure hands. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_genocide

True. That is what I was saying. Confucian societies perfectly match science and technology. The problem comes in innovation. That requires a healthy disrespect to status quo and that does not exist in Confucianism. The Confucian proverb is "The nail that sticks out is beaten down" (出る釘は打たれる...

Calculations don't mean much, what matters is final result. In that respect, though the costs are high, Hamas has achieved some results: By making Israel insecure, immigration into Israel will be reduced (or may even be negative due to emigration) and hence pressure to build new settlements on...

I know this is a taboo topic, But mention I will: 'Chinese culture (or Confucianism)" places great emphasis on adhering to values passed down from the ancestors. This philosophy of shunning heterodoxy in favor of orthodoxy means "Chinese culture" has to depend on someone else of "non-Chinese...

Iran tells Hamas it will not enter the war with Israel Supreme leader accuses the terror group of not giving any prior warning of the Oct 7 attacks. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/15/iran-tells-hamas-will-not-enter-war-israel/

This is probably an issue for the navel gazers outside of Pakistan than for those inside it. The insiders worry more about what to do when the money runs out next year.

No criticism of secularism; just questioning the wisdom of expecting to see a region that has been in a state of conflict for millennia suddenly discovering the joys of non-violence. Human behavior does not change like Windows or iPhone software every year.

even 5% of 300 million people is plenty of dollars for the fashion Moghuls at $300 a shirt.

Should tigers start eating cabbage too? People in that area have been fighting sectarian wars for over 3,000 years. Old Testament is full of genocidal wars. Read about Tel Megiddo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo

Have you seen the price of a shirt at Nieman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue? They can afford to pay ten times more to the garment workers.

Then why is the 'world' unable to resolve conflicts in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen after all these years? I get a feeling that the 'world' has given up on these conflicts as intractable problems. Why are they less "Holy" than Gaza? They hold invaluable historical and archeological artifacts.

If you believe in all those, you should drink whatever those Israelis are drinking. Because, you are not describing ordinary people, they are some sort of Übermensch (Superman).

Nearness to events (in time) colors our judgement. This is a type of civil war, people in very close quarters fighting among themselves to decide who should be extinguished and who will survive, as a stable two state solution seems infeasible after 75 years. If you watch Ken Burns' Civil War...

Are you saying there won't be terrible wars anymore because of 'social media'? Syrian and Yemeni wars have caused deaths of half million each and still are continuing. Everyone is seeing everything reduced to rubble in those countries; What has 'social media' achieved? Iraq, Afghanistan...

I was just comparing the destructiveness of this war (as yet) to other Middle-Eastern wars in recent times. Iran-Iraq war is estimated to have cost more than a million casualties since Iran used 'Human wave' tactics with young children and hence there is no record of how many of them perished...

This war looks terrible due to all the destruction of buildings, but in terms of casualties, it is still a minor war compared to Iran-Iraq war and the wars started by Al-Qaeda on 9/11.

Let's look at some numbers. The most destructive non-nuclear bomb can be made for about $16 million. The cost of just placing a shopping cart size lander recently on moon was about $70 million. This has been the most economical lunar lander program. Most asteroids that may be harvested are...

All true, but the fly in the ointment is Israel doesn't know what it should do to prevent a similar attack again in the future. That is why they are keeping the war at full throttle even though there is not much left in Gaza.

Is that statement by Netanyahu just a political stunt or based on history?