That’s a lot of rationalization and excuses for why you won’t speak out against the rampant racism within your group.

Here in Canada we’re needing to create protest bubbles to prevent people from harassing Canadian Jews: https://globalnews.ca/news/11265909/protest-law-blocking-school-place-fo-worshp/

Look at the people in that image. They are protesting Canadian Jews because they’re angry at Jews on the other side of the world. It’s antisemitism.

We went through the same thing with the Antivaxxer Convy protests. Bunch of racist assholes back then were using their antivax bullshit as a reason to go out and harass random Asian people on the street.

This movement is no different. And how effective do you think your movement will in influencing government policy when the government is busy making policies to prevent your group from engaging in antisemitic attacks?

The point of this group is obviously not to change anything, and it’s turning into a hate group because no one within the group is speaking out against the antisemitism. Look at the image in the article I linked to. By their actions (harassing Canadian Jews at a synagogue), they are antisemitic people and how is anyone supposed to distinguish between that group of antisemitic assholes and any other “pro-Palestinian” protest? Given what I see posted here daily I’m doubting there is anyone that actually cares about Palestinians, it’s just an excuse to express hatred and fit in with the group expressing hatred. We’ve seen this kind of shit happen before.

In Canada, our grandparents fought a war against antisemitc assholes, so you aren’t going to intimidate very many Canadians into joining your cause when it’s entangled with antisemitsm and violence. If you’re looking the other way about antisemitism in your movement, you’re in a hate group and people will oppose it. If you really believed in your cause you wouldn’t feel the need to use violence to impose your views on others.

Don’t worry… already on it.

NATO is a defensive alliance so the only thing a US veto would do is prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. But that wouldn’t happen until the war is over, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen until Russia’s economy collapses. At that point Russia won’t be a threat for awhile so kick the US out, add Ukraine as a member since Ukraine would be a stronger ally than the US anyway.

We already know all of that and work is already being done to improve the alliance among non-US NATO members. The US is already considered non-reliable and the only benefit of the US being a member is that it puts some doubt in the minds of adversaries long enough to build up the militaries of the non-US members.

Israel, Iran, China, and Taiwan are all outside the scope of NATO.

Canada, Greenland, and most of the EU do fall under NATO protection though. It’s a defensive alliance with well defined boundaries, member countries may have interests in other parts of the world, but since none of Israel, Iran, China, or Taiwan are NATO members it’s not something NATO deals with. Unless one of those countries were to attack NATO of course.

Russia is in no shape to make war on Europe right now, they have their hands full with just Ukraine, and face economic collapse. Iran is in a similar situation. Trump has stopped his 51st state talk, but he’s insane so you never know. China invading Taiwan? Trump is weak (he only talks tough) so you never know. But China is authoritarian and as we’ve seen of late authoritarian regimes don’t seem to be doing well running military campaigns so it’s possible they don’t even have the capability of invading Taiwan.

Antisemitism is on the rise because people like you do a lot of victim blaming. Attacking Jews because the internet propaganda made you angry is not justified. It’s not happening “because of how the Jews act” or whatever rationalization you’re attempting here. Antisemtism happens because antisemitism is being spread on the internet without being challenged because people don’t want to upset their friends in the anti-Israel movement.

You’re ranting about a religious group being religious? Your atheist religion has made you lose perspective a little bit.

Trump can keep on saying he has all the cards but we all know he’s a few cards short of a deck.

Yeah I generally prefer dairy products coming from a farm as close to me as possible. Dairy from another country just seems insane. Before the 51st state nonsense maybe I’d buy cheese from the US, but now I don’t want anything made in the US.

Well there is counter tarrifs on some US goods we’d hypothetically pay… if we were still buying US products, that is.

You’re doing the leftist reductive thing so complex issues become a simplistic “it’s all the system, man…”

This doesn’t make you look as clever as you think it does. It’ll eventually turn you into a conspiracy nut where everything is because of “them”. Please make an effort to stay on topic.

Are you not aware of the treaty? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action

Or are you not aware that Obama won the Noble Peace Prize?

Or maybe you just don’t have a sense of humour so you think a joke about Obama getting the Nobel Prize before doing the treaty is “mental gymnastics”?

• W. Bush says Iran is in Axis of Evil bullshit basically telling Iran “you’re next!” while invading Iraq. Iran starts a nuclear program in response.
• Obama fixed things by making a treaty with Iran, and got the Nobel Peace Prize (though not in that order which was a bit weird, but whatever)
• Trump cancels that treaty and assassinates an Iranian General
• Biden tries to restore the Obama treaty, but Iran doesn’t trust the US (wonder why?). So no treaty, but also no war with Iran.
• Trump gets in again drops some really big bombs on Iran

“BOTH SIDES!” say both the MAGAs and leftists in unison.

Yeah and the little green men that showed up in Crimea in 2014 definitely had nothing to do with Russia! That’s what Russia said and we all believed them, right?

Are you pretending Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis are not Iranian proxies or are you actually that uninformed about these things? Iran regularly calls them their “Axis of Resistance” if you didn’t know. Iran’s proxies have been definitely attacking Israel for a long time.

How long can Iran have to send endless waves of Arabs to die as canon fodder before someone puts a stop to it? All of the Arab countries are too authoritarian and corrupt to do anything about Iran, so here we are.

Yeah it’s a clickbait site for people who think they’re too smart to fall for clickbait.

Is there an actual article about this or only a summary? Like what’s considered a verbal attack? A breakdown between physical attacks seems like important information. Did they only start gathering this information in 2023 or is there more historical data to compare it to for context?

Wait… are we framing her as a kidnapped child or a POW? Gotta make sure everyone is on the same page when making propaganda about this.

An operation involving naval and air forces by which a belligerent completely prevents movement by sea from or to a port or coast belonging to or occupied by an enemy belligerent. To be mandatory, that is, for third States to be obliged to respect it, the blockade must be effective. This means that it must be maintained by a force sufficient to prevent all access to the enemy coast.

So… according to the link you’ve provided Israel is actually required to board the ship or they can no longer prevent shipments of weapons coming from Iran?

Essentially aid entry is allowed so long as you agree to security arrangements that are both reasonable and lawful.

Has there been any indication these flotilla activists attempted to make such security arrangements with Israel?

Gaza is under a declared blockade, Maritime Law (the oldest of international law) allows detaining any ship bound for a blockaded port. It’s really cut and dry, they very publicly declared they were bound for a blockaded port. It’s not like Israel boarded a ship that just happened to be in the area, these freedom flotilla yahoos very publicly declared they were bound for Gaza, which under Maritime Law permits Israel to board it.

International law is an agreement between nations and doesn’t actually restrict nations from doing things that will hurt your feelings. You’re going down the sovcit path when you pretend international law is whatever you want it to be.

You sound like you’re doing Warhammer 40K roleplay. It also involves pretending to be loyal to a fucked up empire. It’s more believable than the fantasy world you’re describing.