Sure but the billion dollars we give them comes with the condition that they gotta buy all their christian bibles from us... so it practically pays for itself :)
@realcaseyrollins Sounds like you have the general facts but the timeline is all mixed up...
The palestinians were there for some time, they out numbered jews by 10:1.. then at the end of WWII the UN decided to give the Jews who were displaced from the war a home in israel, so the UN decided to take the land away from the native people living there and give it to the jews instead. The Palestinians have been fighting against that...
The people who argue the jews were there first are talking 2000 years ago.. jews have not been the majority population in israel for thousands of years until they invaded and took it by force after WWII. Most palestinians were living there for dozens of generations at least.
@realcaseyrollins Yea in my mind this is just a general rule.. the people born on a land have a right to be citizens of that land.. its simple, it works.
Students asked if they could culture my belly button. Not only is that a hell yeah for #science, but also I was pretty tickled that they felt comfortable asking this at the end of the first week of classes!! #teachergoals #microbiology (probably lots of normal harmless Staphylococcus epidermidis)
@realcaseyrollins im not talking about antient history.. im talking basic on the current generation and anyone they were alive to remember (so the last 3 generations or so)... Who was there first 2000 years ago doesnt matter, what matters is who was born there out of who is alive today.
@realcaseyrollins If one side needs to win, then it should be palestine, since they are the ones who were there. So if its one side or the other then 100% should be palestine who is allowed to win.
@realcaseyrollins Not unilaterally... You have two nations behaving in ways that are unaccetable.. one is commiting genocide of an entire people and taking their land from them... the other are punching back in similarly dirty ways but has very little man power to carry it out...
To unilaterally do something about hamas, the little terrorist, while doing nothing about Israel, the big terrorist, would be quit unjust. I am all for stopping the hamas, but so long as that goes hand in hand with kicking the occupying force (Israel) off of Palestine's land, and freeing the palestinian people so they can leave their walled territories and reclaim their homes.
Its not simply "stealing land".. its the countless number of people that were killed and suffered as a result... They stole their land, piled them up in ghetos, turned off their water and electricity, and slowly let them die in their own feces in the blistering heat... they have done this for nearly 100 years...
Israel has been a terrorist to the palestinians for 100 years... and the palestinians (who were living there for countless generations) have acted as terrorists in return.. Doesnt justify what they did, but also doesnt erase the far worse that Israel has done to them.
@realcaseyrollins Israel has already commited mass genocide, stolen a nation from its people who were already there, and commited long-term acts of terrorism on the palestinians for multiple generations now....
They should start by apologizing and giving the land back to the people who were there first, that would be a nice start.
Their personal comms would be illegal to interfere with, and take place on private channels yes.
But they have public comms on the station that operate 24/7 that are legal to communicate with and are on HAM radio bands.. Talking to the ISS is something quite a few hams do every time it is overhead.
The ISS is perfectly legal with a license, which I have used to contact them.
You also do not need high power at all, you can do it with fairly low power.
@lupyuen macos doesnt even have a standard interface for their "find" command... how do they expect stuff to work!
@freemo how typical. no one cares until you work up a stink.
@thor This change to the sign might actually convince me to want to go!
@louisrcouture I suspect you heard the **fake** news about the 8 billion? It wasnt real.
@lxo Sounds like we mostly agree then :) I too have noticed that "super power"
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