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  • Further, the investigation found Eygi was standing amid an olive grove over 230 yards away from Israeli troops — more than two football fields away. “Even an Olympic stone thrower cannot make half that distance,” Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli who often joins anti-settlement protests in Beita, told The Washington Post. A soldier on a roof had been aiming his gun toward her and Pollak, he said. After a few minutes of calm, during which Israeli forces didn’t fire off any more ammunition or tear gas, Eygi was shot in the back of the head. Though no footage was captured of the shooting, witness testimony strongly suggests that the lethal gunshot came from the soldier on the roof.

















  • Possibly; I think the Afghani organized leaders had a well -thought strategy and the benefit of a different US leader who was ruled by their own fears and very much ruled by passion, in general, and displays they made tell of it.

    Sounds like you are listing your fears. We don’t share them with you. We didn’t chose this fate, but liberation comes at a cost and freedom isn’t free.

    Of course not. Last I checked, I’m still a decent shot with an AR, although my personal firearms are with an elderly relative, because they’re more fragile than me. I do, however, take the view listed in #31, here: https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula K Le Guin.md , while also being poignantly aware that’s probably a position of considerably more privilege than Afghanis or Iraqis. I won’t shirk an unavoidable battle, but I will always, always seek a peaceful resolution, where possible, for the sake of everyone, including the periferal people of both parties. War is an atrocity that causes horrendous suffering, for all of God’s/Allah’s creation, whether once would consider that literally or figuratively, in my view. A salaam alaikum, my brother or sister. I’ve no quarrel with you, while also urging peace where possible., for the sake of those who will suffer, for it, who do not take up arms.


  • First sentence: I am very well aware, and opposed the invasion, from the beginning. Second sentence: I can see that perspective and largely agree, except we seem very much to value deplomacy, wholly on our own terms. Nonetheless, no need pushing us all closer to a nuclear world war, or even another “incursion” and punish the people of Iraq more. We’ve seen what that does and escalation, as well. And there may be alternative solutions between your point and mine I’m currently failing to see, and I acknowledge I may feel very differently, if I lived there. I would advocate for peace, solely for the sake of those who have already suffered, so much, under the heel of my country. I mean no disrespect or ill will, brother. Salam.