I think you can have high birth rates in two situations. We've seen in the past that it happens when women are powerless, effectively chattel. I believe that it might also happen when you have a pro-… (View Post)

The dollar is up against the euro on the week. I was fully expecting it to be down a few cents on the basis of the thread header. I guess money talks and the underlying strength of the US economy is … (View Post)

I think it's that the defence of provocation has been applied far too widely (i.e. at all), and so it has been argued that the killers in these cases are temporarily not in their right mind as a resu… (View Post)

The Israeli military could have occupied Gaza less than a month after the Hamas attack. I'm sure Hamas would have fought a bloody insurgency, and I don't know whether Israel would have been able to d… (View Post)

It's been a deliberate Israeli decision to refuse to occupy territory and instead have Gaza as a permanent war zone. The only way to defeat Hamas would be by occupying Gaza and creating a replacement… (View Post)