I don’t give a squat about H****r or his laptop. My point was they all knew it was his and what was on it and seemingly a concerted effort to quash the story or paint it as Russian disinformation when the FBI knew exact what it was. The press sat on the story or went along with the Russian disinformation story in order to not wound Joe. I really do know how you can draw such a distinction. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/the-h****r-biden-laptop-disinformation-is-exposed/4e8baf05-447c-419e-80d8-7424827c7b52

They do not have clean hands in the court of puvlic oppinion, but each time their is a co flict Israel does not start it. The court of public oppinion does not appear to believe that Israel should have the right to defend themselves.

As to surgical strikes or not I bekieve that is their intent. You and I bith know that Hamas hides among civilians so if you try to attack Hamas you get civilians. No one in their right mind should take the Palestinian Authority's word for anything. They are proven liars. Look at the hospital they hit with their own rocket and tried to blame Israel for. Israel has made many mistakes, but defending themswlves aggressively is not one of them.

You are correct that we see things very differently. I understand that you have gone back and looked at some of the history, which most who are condemning Israel have not, and I appreciate that.

Unfortunately I think that in many cases you are looking at the wrong articles and are not going back far enough.

You have cited the Oslo Accords more than once and yes the PLO finally accepted Israels right to exist and then the Palestinians chose an even more radical government. The only Palestinians I really feel sorry for are the small group of Palestinian Christians that have been persecuted by Hamas and now have to endure the attack from Israel as well. If the Palestinians don't want women and children to die all they have to do is stop hiding within the general populace and return the hostages. If they do that Israel will finish destroying all the tunnels and leave. Thats on them.

Iran won't end the war. They wanted it, they funded it and they trained Hamas.

I don't understand how you can recognize that if Hamas is gone they will get some otjer terrorist group to tale their place and still say theee are innocents involves. They are just teaching thos innocents to h**e Israel too.

I really don't know what else Israel was supposted to do. If they.don't go after Hamas the attacks will never end and if they do the world suddenly decides they are the bad guys.

Iran and Hamas are evil. That is just a fact that shiuld enter into the equation, yet our college students are siding with evil that has publicly stated their desire to destroy both Israel and us. It is lunacy no matter how badly you feel for the Palestinian people. The vast majority of them brought this on themselves.

Its not like Israel is targeting women and children. They are targeting Hamas so they are hiding in the middle of women and children.

I read The NY Times account and Pecker claimed that so called “catch and k**l” was a normal part of his business model and detailed many, many top celebrities that he protected. The “only” difference was when he was asked how many of those celebrities were running for office. As to Cohen you know the defense will impeach a convicted perjurer (criminal courts and congress) and the jury will receive instructions as to what weight to lend to his testimony. Additionally, I’m pretty sure the defense will argue that in any p**********l e******n your opponent does opposition research and you do what you can to mitigate damage to potentially harmful allegations. In Trump’s case the stories seem to be a bit more salacious than the usual candidate (although not unheard of).

To destroy the leadership and the military structure that Hamas has built over the years, as well as it's infrastructure under the ground and cities is the current goal of Israel. In doing so it will minimize the severity of the future threat coming from the Gaza Strip for years to come. That is what is happening in Gaza and you are quite correct that it is coming at a great cost to the Palestinian people, but they are the same people who have elected a terrorist organization to govern Gaza and they have supported the attack of 10/7 as well as all previous attacks on the Israeli people. No one wants to see women, children, and even men k**led, but Israel did not ask for this war however for the security of their people they will fight it and they will pursue their goal of eliminating Hamas to the point that it is no longer a near term threat.