Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable

Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by slg on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:56AM (#26388020)

I don't really see those as directly comparable. The problem most people have with the countries you listed is the specific regime in power. Depose the leaders, have a free election, and many of those complaints go away. The problem that many people in neighboring countries have traditionally had with Israel is its existence. You can't change the Israeli government in a way to satisfy those demands. It is more than just "complicated politics" for them.

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by 8note on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:03PM (#26388126)

You certainly could swap out the regime from being a Jewish state to being an Islamic state? Constitutional change would solve that issue

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by slg on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:18PM (#26388360)

That wouldn't provide any real solution to the region's political problems. Jewish people make up some 75% of the country. The only way to turn Israel into an Islamic state would be through conquest. The country would still have Occupied Territories except the map would be inverted.

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by eli_gottlieb on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:21PM (#26388413)

Yeah, I can't imagine why all of us Jews aren't voting for the policy of an Islamic State in the Levant. That platform has obviously never been tried before, certainly not by the region's most disgustingly, genocidally evil terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by mola on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:13PM (#26388283)

Yeah, well after the holocaust no jew will give up sovreignity and rule so it can be a minority in an islamic state.

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by konart on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:17PM (#26390921)

>Depose the leaders, have a free election, and many of those complaints go away.

I love when people oversimplify things like that.

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Re:Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via s... by slg on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:51PM (#26392137)

I thought it was obvious that I was both simplifying the situation and talking about the long term repercussions. I recognize that holding a national election tomorrow in North Korea wouldn’t result in any real improvement.

The important point is that Israel’s problems are largely detached from the flaws of its current leaders. Meanwhile the problems in the listed countries are often created or reinforced by their current or former leaders.

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