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I wonder why nobody complained when all the Jews were displaced from their ancestral homeland leaving just 0.3 % while the rest were dispersed all over the world.

!20 years ? If you go back 1200 Years there are no Muslims in the area, as Islam was just starting out. They were mostly all Jews inhabiting what was called Judea, any others were nomadic peoples who moved about the Middle East. Subsequently, Islamic armies conquered the Middle East, as far as the Punjab to the East, and North Africa and Spain to te West. Exactly how recent did YOU want to consider ? I'm willing to go as far back as you like.

A lot can change in a year. D Trump can ( hopefully ) be in jail.

Maybe I'm wrong, but can you find me a post in these 6 pages of posts where someone ( other than me ) mentions them and their release ?

Maybe someone should mediate the release of the kidnapped hostages before trying to mediate a cease-fire. Everyone seems to have forgotten about them, but that is exactly the condition A Blinken mentioned for any cease-fire discussions to occur.

Now you claim that B Netanyahu's drastic fall in popularity is evidence that Oct 7 was something 'darker' than negligence. Previously you claimed in the same postwhere you claimed thay it was 'obvious to you' that little effort was made to repel the Oct 7 attack and let 1400 people die, as an excuse to wage war on Gaza. What will you claim next ? That since the sky is blue, that must be evidence of nefarious motives by the Israelis ? ( the scatter-gun approach to discussion; throw shit against the wall, and see what sticks )

And we can discuss the policies that Israel used to get to the situation we are in today. As well as the policies by Arab neighbors, and the Palestinians themselves, who contributed to the mess. You might even find that we agree on a lot of things. But that is not what I object to in Mistermack's post. He makes the explicit claim that Israel welcomed the death of 1400 of their people in a bloody massacre, as well as the kidnapping of over 200 people, who have not been released yet, all as an excuse to gain a little sliver of nearly worthless land. That's like saying it's a good thing Hitler killed 6 Million Jews as it gave the Allies an excuse to wage WW2 more determinately and finally win it.

And that changes the point how ? Mistermack hates Israeli Jews and ALL others that support them. Reminds me of idiots who claimed the World Trade Center was brought down by the American Government and Big Business because it is extremely valuable real estate. I guess if you can't make a valid argument, you use demerit points ...

You can like Palestinian people but hate the methods they use, just as you can like Israeli people ( some of whom are Palestinian ) but hate the methods they use. That is a perfectly acceptable discussion to have. But hating Jews and ascribing all sorts of bad intentions to them, like having 1400 of their people butchered and over 200 kidnapped, means you, and the person who up-voted your ignorant post, are anti-Semite. ( or possibly, had a great uncle named Adolf ) Is that 'asshole' enough for you ?

Sure. And women want to be raped. They dress provocatively to entice men to commit rape so that men will be jailed and feminists will rule the world. Seriously, how do you come up with this stuff ? And do you mind if I call you an anti-Semite ? B Netanyahu is still in deep shit; I don't see him lasting after the end of this special operation ( to use V Putin's words; didn't you defend him also ? )

There are no terminology textbooks. Military terminology changes wwith the times.

Relativity has been around since Galileo ( at least ) and it doesn't need a classical analog; it IS classical.

Chaos theory and diverging oscillations that OldChemE has mentioned.

Newton's Shell Theorem states that a spherically symmetric object affects other objects gravitationally as if all of its mass was concentrated at its center and since in an infinite isotropic homogenous universe we can always consider a spherical volume, no matter how large, the object can be considered a shell, and, aside from local gravitational interactions, the global gravitational force on a body inside of that shell is zero. Even if that 'body' is light.

Newton's Shell Theorem discredits your first proposal and no evidence of 'tired' light has ever been found to date.

This article provides a simple explanation ... "An important property of gravity in Einstein’s theory is that it can create more gravity. The result is “non-linearity” – the gravitational influence of two bodies isn’t just the sum of their separate influences!" From The gravity of gravity « Einstein-Online

Aren't you glad that you didn't wager a year's salary that AI running on Quantum computers would generate a Quantum Gravity Theory ?

The gravitational field itself is a source of gravity. IE Gravity gravitates or is self coupling.

I would hope the majority of Palestinians push their terrorist government for something more humane. Yet we have young Palestinian/Hamas terrorists calling their mother, on Oct 7, to say " Be proud of me mother; I have killed more than ten Jews today "

Quantum computers perform very complex calculations on large amounts of data. The theoretical number of computations that can be performed simultaneously is 2n, where n is the number of qubits available. That does not mean that they can think, learn or imagine. My apologies for straying off topic.

You go with observations where they can be made. Where they cannot, you go with the predictive aspects of existing theory. Unfortunately classical GR fails at very small separations and hi energies, making infinite predictions. These same infinities appear again when trying to quantize the gravitational field, mostly as a result of gravity itself gravitating, and they cannot be eliminated by the traditional method of renormalization which has worked for QED and QCD previously. Other approaches have been tried, and while SuperString theory seems to be a dead end, Loop Quantum Gravity still shows some promise. As to when we'll have a workable quantum Gravity theory, it's anyone's guess, but unless AI becomes self thinking/learning instead of simply offering the 'best fiit' answer from a multitude of stored responses, it certainly will not be provided by AI.

SOME Israeli policy makers have proposed the 'ethnic cleansing' solution to the Palestinian problem. Meanwhile the elected Palestinian government, Hamas, has, as its stated mandate, the 'ethnic cleansing' of the state of Israel off the face of the Earth. Seems a LOT more 'obvious' to me, String Junky.

Oooh. And I thought I was unforgettable ...

I see ... The kid who went to a party during COVID, became infected, brought it home to his grandmother, who subsequently passed away, is morally equivalent to a person who rapes a mother and then cuts her throat. Both victims are just as dead. ( sounds even sillier when you say it out loud )

Yet thousands of rockets still manage to get in ? I agree, no death can be justified, but there is a difference. Many of us went out during COVID and may have infected elderly people and got them killed as a result ( millions died ), but it takes a whole different level of nastiness to get up close and personal in order to butcher someone with a knife. I don't think I could do it, and I presume you wouldn't be able to either.