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Palestine as a country has never existed and Jews have as much of a historical claim to the regions as Palestinians do.

This is a bit of a controversial topic that's surely bigger than this thread, but I'm going to leave it here anyway for other people reading this.

You talk about trailer parks/low income families vs rich families, but I think that Idiocracy is not about income, it's about being dumb. Part of which is just cultural (ignorance), but part of it seems to be intelligence. And as far as I know, there's no evidence that any kid can become as intelligent as anyone else with proper raising and education. Research seems to pretty clearly show that IQ is heritable to a significant degree, and while it can be needlessly lowered in many ways (like malnutrition or high stress in critical development phases), in the absence of these issues no enrichment is able to raise it.

Despite how controversial it is in some circles, the Wikipedia article on the topic seems to be pretty good.

However, since the movie really is not deep, it's possible that its whole point was just that the idiocy is cultural, and in that case the above obviously doesn't apply. I'm just saying what it seemed like to me.

Israel has killed thousands and displaced millions…because they think it’s their god given right to conquer the land. most of the country agrees that arabic people should not have the right to live in land that was palestine a few years back.

The goal of palestinian nationalists is literally the same thing with the roles reversed. I fail to see a difference apart from the fact that Israel is stronger and we're more critical towards it since it's a democracy and should know better.

One of the issues is that there are no leaders apart from Hamas in Gaza. It is possible that the majority of the population would want different ones (there is not much evidence of that, but it's difficult to get that information), but Hamas made sure that there are none.

This is the video

The source is supposedly Al Jazeera. It certainly looks real, but I'm not going to call it "confirmed" like the dude sharing it just based on that. We'll see in the following days hopefully.

I linked sources in a comment below the one you're replying to. It is possible that all 3 are mistaken, but since 2 of them are non-israeli and as I know not particularly biased, and you're still accusing me of being a propagandist, kindly take a walk and stop posting.

I know nothing about the "40 babies" claim, but our ambassador, who to me is a completely trustworthy person, explicitly said that she was shown photos of beheaded babies by Israeli officials.

Calling other people idiots and then continuing with the rest of that message is not a good look.

Personally I'd wait for a while, because at this moment Hamas claims Israel attacked a hospital and Israel claims Hamas had a failed rocket launch that destroyed a hospital. Both are plausible, and I haven't seen any confirmation of either variant from a 3rd party so far (might have missed something though).

If it is Israel, it's a huge fuck up.

edit: A video supposedly taken from Al Jazeera Arabic livestream seems to most clearly show the supposed rocket misfiring, and it looks pretty damning. If that's real, I hope the media who immediately called it Israel's fault based on just the word of Hamas get called out, but I'm not holding my breath yet - the situation is a clusterfuck and there is definitely a lot of disinformation being spread.