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I don't think most Palestinians want the war. Most of them just want to love their lives just as most people in the world do. When people voted for Hamas back then, they specifically didn't wanted what Hamas did afterwards. At least I have seen polls that strongly indicate that. People were angry back then that there wasn't enough progress on the matter.

Leadership is a different matter. Hamas is a terror organization, they achieve their goals by means of terror and that's what defined them. So they of course want terror. Don't know much about Fatah, but they seem to be much more interested in political solutions.

Israel gives them a hard time though as they keep demonstrating that they want to replace the Arab population in the westbank with Jewish settlers.
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I don't think your provoking theory holds because before the massacre on 7th October, the situation between Gaza and Israel was improving. That's also why intelligence didn't think Hamas would start such a massacre.

Israel tends to eventually destroy infrastructure that's (dual-)used to increase Hamas terror infrastructure. Unfortunately, that's virtually all of existing infrastructure right now.

Why hasn't Gaza normalized it's relationship with Egypt? They have closed their borders to Gaza as well because Hamas is friends with Muslim brotherhood and apparently Egypt thinks a proper border with Gaza would do harm to Egypt.
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People always say "with crypto, you are your own bank" like it's (only) a good thing and not realizing how hard it is to do right.
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I can totally see how the settlements and politics of Israel in the westbank would prevent a viable Palestinian state.

I know less about Gaza (haven't been there to begin with), but my impression is that Gaza had much more freedom within it's borders. It's unfortunate that the people there voted for a terror organization back then that as their very first act murdered the opposition and has no interest at all to work for the benefit of the Palestinian people.

Recognition of borders by Hamas will obviously never happen, so as long as they rule in Gaza or might potentially rule in Gaza or the westbank in the future it would be way too much risk for Israel to expose their borders.
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That doesn't really answer the questions.

In addition: there are 1-2 million Palestinians already living in Israel as normal citizen.
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I don't think this answers my questions. Anti-Zionism is about the idea that there should be no state of Israel.

How should this be achieved without war and a genocide-like event? What are people that are in favor of Anti-Zionism specifically hoping for?
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That's a good point. Have you tried to get an answer to that yet? For me it works out quite often to look for a reasonable explanation when something sounds unreasonable in first sight.
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Yes, it does not understand (or has learned) the rules of the game then. For that being the case, it should be able to apply the rules correctly in a slightly different context.

Would it be possible to train an LLM on the rules how we would teach them to a human?
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Does it matter? Apparently, laws were broken by the US administration once again. In working democracies, people don't just disappear.
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Living in Germany which is a relatively small country by size, it is stunning to hear about all those story about long going power outtakes. Never heard of that before.

Experienced a relatively large outage a few weeks ago. I think I had one every ten years or so. Happened at 8pm. Online monitoring system (Mobile Internet is able to run on backup power for a day) said it would be fixed by 11pm, but it was actually fixed at 9pm. I watched Netflix on my tablet for the time being.

Needles to say, there's no big market here for such generators.
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I wonder which number theory proofs will happen from the fact that MTG has introduced prime number related mechanisms to their game.
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Countries in general have a strong dislike for regions trying to become independent. There's just no way California will be able to become independent. Not sure about the US laws though, but in Europe there isn't even a legal framework for achieving something like this.
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How would you replace the incentives for R&D for medication, for example? That often costs billions of dollars.
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Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to concrete works.
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Put 10,000 hours into writing a book. Watch somebody with more resources or media coverage take full credits for it and/or make money instead of yourself. Copyright is a good thing. Same principle applies to the core of similar laws.