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Steven Brizel's avatar

Good riddance to another Hamas leader! The Charedim know that Ted secular left has nothing but contempt for them and will not join the secular left in any coalition

William Bilek's avatar

"the West must understand that the Iranian state isn’t functioning normally; it is merely surviving"

Unfortunately, that is all that the regime needs to do, to "win".

John's avatar

There are grammatical mistakes in your English that make some of your writing hard to understand. Today for example - "Al Hadad has" - should be had. That mistake appears a couple of times in that paragraph. The problem with this kind of mistake is it forces the reader to reread the paragraph to understand whether the guy is in fact dead. Most days there is a certain vagueness in some of your writing that comes from the lack of a full understanding of English grammar. Get a better editor.

Maxim's avatar

“al-Haddad has gone unavenged” is entirely correct as this obviously does not refer to an action by Haddad, but by the surviving Hamas leadership which indeed “has” not done anything so far to avenge his death.

John's avatar

Another ambiguity. If the guy was killed today or yesterday when would it have been avenged? That is what the writer is trying to say? That the guy who was just killed, his death has not been avenged? Maybe. No native speaker reading this carefully will fully understand it the first time through. That is my point. And this is most everyday.

Maxim's avatar

I understood it perfectly well (and the sentence after it makes this even clearer). In fact I have trouble to come up with a way to misunderstand it. What else is this sentence even supposed to mean?

Steve's avatar

"To maintain this hold on power, the regime sustains itself through a sophisticated web of gray banking and illicit oil sales. Funds are systematically laundered through exchange houses and shell companies situated in free-trade zones in the UAE and Turkey before seamlessly reaching European markets. The problem is that a vessel or shell company can operate cleanly for months, passing basic sanctions screening, only to be officially designated by the Treasury Department long after the illicit funds have been moved and new shells have opened to replace them."

Old Story

Michael Franzese National Geographic

https://youtu.be/IJUzXLozQhc?t=1317

David Rubin's avatar

Would the Center Left agree to drop the military requirement for Haredim? Seems unlikely.

Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Why would any Israeli want to agree to them shirking obligatory duties?

Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Is it possible to enable voice readout on every article?

Can't imagine the hissy fits amongst those in the American sphere as the micromanagement imposed nonsensical ceasefires and peace proclamations become publicly dismissed as the entities writing dialogue for the Americans are out of touch🤥 obtuse and obfuscational 👀

https://substack.com/@thatdude1/note/c-260324361?r=36c3b5