1. Israel's sugar daddy will give (as in gift) them all the munitions they need. They'll never come close to running out.
2. This is the country that's been crying wolf over Iran being months away from having the bomb for something like twenty years now, while having up to several hundred nukes of their own. Why should we believe them when they're crying wolf about running out of munitions?
> There was a chance for normalization in the 2000s - especially under Shimon Peres - but the rise of Hamas ended that.
You mean in the 90s, but the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin ended that, no? The Likud called for his death.
And the Hamas rise has the same roots of the IRGC. Marxists against religious fundamentalists during elections, of course the US support and fund the religious fundamentalists (through Irak for one, through Israel for the other), and 10 years later everybody's surprised when fundamentalists are crazy and attack for no reason.
> You mean in the 90s, but the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin ended that, no
Nope. The Oslo Accords and the process leading up to the Camp David Accords was actually pretty popular domestically speaking with Rabin's assassin being domestically reviled, Israel unilaterally removed settlements from the Gaza Strip, and Gazans were allowed work and free passage in Israel in the 2000s, but the Fatah-Hamas rivalry became a chain reaction to spiraled into brinkmanship and constant suicide bombings, pipe rockets, and mortar attacks in Israel in the 2000s.
This soured a whole generation against the two-state process and hardened opinions in Israel.
A similar normalization was about to happen via the Abraham Accords and IMEC, but October 7th happened barely 3 weeks after the Gulf States announced they would normalize relations and unify supply chains with Israel, the EU, and India [3]. This was going to be legacymaking for Mohammed bin Salman [4] before it was stymied by 10/7, and a reason why Saudi Arabia also privately lobbied Trump to strike Iran [5].
> of course the US support and fund the religious fundamentalists
Nope. The US supported nominally leftist Fatah in Gaza, as Mohammad Dahlan was our guy [0].
After losing the Gaza Civil War he became one of the most powerful men in UAE by becoming MbZ's righthand man. He was the interlocutor who helped the UAE expand it's real estate (the Belgrade Waterfront project) and weapons portfolio in Serbia [1], acted as emissary to normalize UAE-Israel relations as well as what became the Abraham Accords [1], and is being positioned as a potential leader of Gaza and the West Bank [2] after the war ends.
There were plenty of other alternatives, starting with sanctions against Israel and followed with military action. The boomer generation's support for Israel created a very odd relationship that was entirely one way. Younger generations will certainly reverse this.
That does not count the money we've spent fighting their wars. We could have cut that off and sanctioned them at any time if they worked against our interests. Israel's strategy has been to compromise US leadership to stop this from happening, and until recently it was successful at that.
And as I mentioned, there are other alternatives like sanctions against Israel and military action against Israel. It's a tiny country, 100% reliant on outside support to exist. The US has always had the ability to end Israel.
I don't care about China at all. I'm actually suggesting that the US fight Israel because it's attacked us by staging a soft coup of our country's leadership.
> Edit 2: @Dang - Flagging is not meant to be used as a downvote.
Sure, but complaining about downvotes is against the guidelines, and @replies are not a way to get moderator attention. The way to get moderator attention (including asking for flags to be reviewed) is to email hn@ycombinator.com.
Repeatedly posting the same sentence as a way of protesting or attracting attention is poor conduct in a community like this, and makes it harder for moderators to help you.
Well, that money is buying weaponry created by US companies for the most part. My point is the federal government budget over that same time period is in the many trillions, and $300B is just a fraction of a percent of that.
in the past few years, OpenAI and other companies like it have received relatively the same amount of money the USA has spent on weapons for the past 70 years it seems.
so relative to that, yes, it is cheap...
Too often people were getting down-leveled because they didn't know any better. The level comparisons we show on the homepage compare scope and responsibilities. People frequently think levels are based on compensation but compensation is the byproduct of it.
The biggest facepalm moment I had was when we switched Levels.fyi from gulp.js to next.js. Our pagespeed, hosting costs, etc all took a significant hit. We're experiencing the same issues as described in the post and weighing our options to transition as well. Avoid next.js / vercel at all costs.
Appreciate it! We're still on nextjs. Will def put a blogpost together as we optimize / move away. Thankfully, AI makes large-scale mostly repetitive migrations like these much simpler.
I was hopping between a few canvas tools recently. Primarily tldraw & excalidraw for some quick spec work. Was surprised to see that both don't have better support or even apps for iPad. Feels like a missed opportunity given how many people on iPad would want to use this sort of tool. I know the website still works but it's just a bit clunkier. Another feature request: shape detection.
We support iPad about as good as we can, with stylus pressure and some tricks to avoid slowdowns due to the high input rate. I actually did the ink in Excalidraw too, so it at least worked last time I touched it! But the difference between iPad Safari input latency and native latency is gigantic, really heart breaking to work on. Not sure if a native wrapper would improve things. If I did a native app, it would likely be a minimal drawing app for handwriting only. I recently started prototyping an Android app with the new low-latency jetpack ink APIs and they’re fantastic, beating perceived latency vs iPad even on a 60fps screen (Daylight).
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