That’s why when Israel put its foot down and said “nope” pretty much everyone played along, as best exemplified by the absolute shitshow that was Western reaction to the 2006 Palestinian elections.

What reaction was it that you regard as a shitshow to the 2006 Palestinian elections?

The kind of abject horror that’s now making four different heads of state say “we are not exporting weapons to Israel” (with varying degrees of truthfulness) to placate their populations simply wasn’t there.

Yes, that’s taken an additional 20 years of Israeli massacres.

So to respond to your point: Western governments and people did want to being peace to Palestine, but it was viewed as just another regional conflict, not as settler colonists ethnically cleansing an indigenous population with Western support, so they were just another participant in the farce.

None of that has anything to do with the point regarding Hamas and whether its behavior has been in some way central to Western awareness of Gaza.

They also wouldn’t need to, because the West wouldn’t give a shit about Gaza without Hamas activities to put Palestine in the news.

Is your argument that Hamas running a disproportionately conservative mafia state in Gaza, funded by Israel and American ‘allies’ like Qatar, and the resulting tensions between Hamas and Fatah, wherein elections have been impossible for nearly 20 years now, has been in some way pivotal towards Western awareness of Israeli crimes?

Or has it been that the past 25 years of total domination of the Israeli right over the Israeli government has resulted in a government policy by the Israeli right that is, necessarily, more naked and brutal than ever to appeal to their core constituencies and hold onto power, alienating foreign allies to shore up domestic support, and Hamas’s contribution has been limited to boosting the polling numbers of Bibi et co?

Different people deal with the lack of focus from ADHD differently. For some of us, being able to constantly swap between activities lessens the mental strain caused by ADHD. For others, having multiple things to do allows them to focus on one of them.

In that case you should know that the period of the conflict where such a thing was possible ended when Rabin was assassinated and Netanyahu took his place.

… okay? How does that affect the fact that, demonstrably, Western and US interest was very acute and intense long before Hamas was a major force in the matter?

This is, after all, what you said and I objected to:

They also wouldn’t need to, because the West wouldn’t give a shit about Gaza without Hamas activities to put Palestine in the news.

As soon as the trolley was invented, it was all over 😔

I’m fine with dying, eventually. It’s aging I don’t want to go through.

oh god oh fuck

Nah bro, I’m past the big 3-0. My knees are still good (though I’ve got plenty of other aches and pains to make me feel ancient), but I’ve got friends already complaining. We’re all getting old and decrepit. Big RIP to youth 😔

As a humanitarian disaster?

Yes. Since the fucking 90s.

Before I respond, are you talking about the 2005-2007 period?

No, the 1990s, when it was one of the issues in US foreign policy.

I’m pretty sure that was after 2006.

Hamas has been receiving Israeli support since the late 80s when it was founded.

My point here is that despite their many flaws, they actually get things done,

What? Speeding up the genocide by being the Israeli right’s perfect foil in this grotesque kayfabe?

and their getting things done is a large part of why the Palestinian cause has gotten as far as it has.

… Gaza is on the verge of total genocide, and the West Bank is looking to be next. Is that progress for the Palestinian cause?

They also wouldn’t need to, because the West wouldn’t give a shit about Gaza without Hamas activities to put Palestine in the news.

… Gaza was a big fucking deal back when Fatah was in power, and it was when Fatah was at the head of things that the peace process came closest to becoming reality, with significant Western interest and support.

Hamas is the perfect partner for Israeli genocidaires. That’s why Israel funded them in the first place.

Most of the works were copies to begin with - the loss of the Library of Alexandria is a loss of a possible source of transmission for literally hundreds of thousands of ancient texts. Considering how many priceless pieces of literature have survived by only a single copy, mourning the (multiple) burnings of the Great Library is far from mourning a nonissue.

The whirr of a fan is regular and unchanging, which helps drown out irregular noises. Irregular noises are hell.

It was astounding and unexpected. I’m still not the biggest fan of irregular sounds, but not having to refocus on them every time they happen is amazing.

Knowing was slightly helpful, in a “Well, now at least I know what’s lacking and that it’s not laziness, but focus.”

On the other hand, getting medicated has been… I hesitate to say explicitly life-changing, because at this point in my life it’s not really changing anything essential about how I live my life… but it has greatly improved my quality of life. Little things, being able to tackle everyday chores without massive executive dysfunction, or being able to focus on tasks for longer. And my sleep is actually restful now. That’s fantastic too.

And the lack of misophonia when I’m medicated is heavenly. Never knew what it was like to not despise every little irregular sound around me. They’re still bothersome, but not to the point where I want to bash my skull in against the edge of a table after hearing people indistinctly chattering for more than ten minutes.

Found out I was within the last year. Explained a lot about my childhood, and adulthood for that matter. I slipped through the cracks for so long because I was never ‘hyperactive’.

PugJeSuis

It owns the libs, therefore, it’s good, obviously.

Deficient, juvenile, and narcissistic. And they make all the marginalized groups they claim to defend suffer for it.