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@Oddthinking, I just want to get the full story of this case, as it's presented currently doesn't make sense to me either way.

@Oddthinking, wouldn't it be the same for a tall person who doesn't volunteer (or can't) pay more for a seat with extra leg room because the seats are too small for them too?

@WeatherVane, they were traveling together, so if there are only 2 free places on the plane it figures that they all would not board, especially when dealing with minors accompanied by an adult.

@Oddthinking, according to the woman the free seat to accommodate the person of size took precedent over her payed ticket. The best would be an official Southwest response that clarifies what happens, but I didn't see one. Maybe a news article. Because it sounds strange to me, as well as the response of Southwest in the video that puts the blame on the person of size for not taking advantage of their policy, but still it's another person who missed their flight. This simply doesn't add up to me.

@Kazami, Getting concrete from as aid that is meant for new civilian infrastructure and instead building military tunnels with it is diverting humanitarian aid.

@RayButterworth, Book of Joel has two parts, one where Israel suffers (especially agriculturally) and the second part is how God f!@#s up Israel's enemies. It's a very long way to say f!@# around find out. I don't think that Hamas got the meaning of it. All the Kibbutzes attacked are mainly agricultural. The plows that turn into swords are Israeli plows and Israeli swords, with hundreds of thousands reservists called up, it matches. And now we are at the find out stage.

@RayButterworth you don't build 500 km of tunnels infrastructure in a week.

@Kazami, from the article: "Now, these same pipes - which could have been used for Gazan farmers - are being used by Hamas to manufacture rockets." All of the infrastructure that was left after the 2005 withdrawal was left so that the Gazan people will be able to reuse it and continue the economic functions that were active in the Settlements. Including fully functioning agricultural infrastructure. They decided to take what was meant for economical development into tools of violence. They heard Isaiah 2:4 and said "yes, but the opposite".

@Yay295, it puts this source of aid at risk. If it's found out that they are used for bunkers then there will be pressure on the source of this aid (in this case, japan) to stop the aid. If I was giving someone aid and then found out that they are using part of it (even a negligible part) for violence I would rethink my aid giving.

@Kazami Concrete can be used for rebuilding old infrastructure and for building new infrastructure.

@CGCampbell, yes, thank you. Fixed now.

@mirh, the medium article you linked to does not falsify the Telegraph allegation nor the authenticity of the Hamas produced video that shows exactly this. It also claims that that Russia doesn't repurposes civilian microchips for military use when there are clear evidence from Russian rockets that they do exactly this. And is dismissive of Hamas capabilities. They have built rockets and tools of war from everything from traffic signs to condoms. The only thing that it does is state that the video is from 2021.

That wouldn't be the first time that a Hamas or a PIJ rocket misfires and kills Gaza residents, or overshoots and kills west bank Palestinians. It also doesn't match current IDF ROE, that has used multiple ways of communication to warn before attacks. While it doesn't directly answer the question, but if the IDF doesn't take responsibility on the attack, it wouldn't post a tweet that takes responsibility on any of its channels.

The attack on the Baptist hospital was likely a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket and not an Israeli strike. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/…

@JohnStrachan Entering and reentering Israeli-controlled west bank territories is seamless, there are no borders or checkpoints, you will not even notice that you passed the Green Line.

@JohnStrachan, from my experience cruise ships dock in the morning and leave in the afternoon, which means that you dock in Ashdod in the morning and need to be in Haifa the next day at around 4 PM, which leaves you 36 hours at best, taking into account the time needed to take and return the car, driving times, sleeping and eating and also time to actually see and enjoy visiting the places, I think that a possible 4 hours wait at a "border" crossing (according to some news articles) is too high a price just to "touch the soil".

@JohnStrachan (continuing last comment). A more "sure" way for you to visit Palestinian territories would be to take a half-day tour leaving from Tel Aviv if your timetable allows this. Otherwise, if you just want to step on non-Israeli soil your quickest option would probably be to drive to an Israeli-controlled west bank territory (no in Jerusalem, as Jerusalem is an Israeli territory), to where there are no restrictions on travel and no border crossing.

@JohnStrachan, I can't answer your question regarding how to properly enter PLO territories. But, first, a correction: Bethlehem is under PLO control and is considered "Palestine" no less than Ramallah or Janin. Moreover, crossing back to Israel from Palestine can take a lot of time, even before we take into account any possible Covid related restrictions. This is not something that I personally would do with the "threat" of missing the departure time of my cruise ship. Just the drive from Ashdod to Nazareth is ~2 hours long, without traffic. I would recommend you rethink your plan.

This really should be (if at all) at English.SE asking if "invention" is an appropriate word in this case, not try to claim that the articles claim that she invented something patentable.

@fredsbend, I don't see here any fake news, she did build it and her family is actually using it, she did get those rewards and she is in a special program of the Mexican gov. for gifted children. The only "fake" here is a choice of a single word by the writer or editor which could be just explained as an embellishment to a "feel good" news story. This is just a non-issue, and I simply don't see what the fuss is all about.

@Oddthinking, I also agree that this is opinion based, at first the OP didn't post English links using the word "invention" so I voted to close it as not a claim, but now, I agree with you that this is opinion based.

This seems to me like a question about editing and the semantics of certain words, there is no disagreement on the facts just on whether or not the journalists used the proper word to describe it, I really don't understand why this question is here.

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If you still don't understand why this question, and its assamptions about the bible, are appropreate here, I encourage you to ask a question on Meta, where you will be able to get replies from other users and the mods.

But if all you have is "The bible says it's true and I believe it", while I (and the other users) respect your believes, such an answer is not a good fit for this site.

To conclude, this question does belong on Skeptics.SE (don't know about Hermeneutics), and an answer to it probably should be based on non relegious sources. If you have sources that support your claim (in this case I guess you claim that King David was an actual histrical figure) I encourage you to post it as an answer, if you have relegious sources (other than the bible) that corraborate the claim, you can try and post an answer using them and see what the comunity will think about it.

@matt_black, it's not unprecedented that the writers of the Bible would change history and even make it up to advance and promote their political and theological view.

@matt_black, when I say that the bible is a religious text, I mean that its primary purpose is to confer and support a certain religious and theological view and idea, not to chronical history as close to the truth as possible. The Bible contains things like the Cyrus declaration, for which we have the actual historical artifact, but it also contains things which go against the very laws of nature as we understand them today. That is why we can't count on the Bible as a historical source, but at most as a starting point to an investigation into the past through scientific means.

@gideonmarx, This is not how skepticism or this site work. Any claim is doubted unless proofs supporting it can be provided, even if that claim is made by God himself. If you have scholarly sources that support the existence of King David, provide them with an answer.

@gideonmarx, I presuppose that the bible is a religious text before a historical document and that the historical facts that appear in it need outside confirmation from secular sources or other scientific disciplines (archeology etc.) before it can be as the historical truth. From what I know this is the procedure for every religious text that is examined by scholars.

Are they enforced in any way?

@ShimonbM, there is no problem with it, only that the source is different, the source for the claim in the question is a 2007 book, while the source for the answer is the prime source, a 1923 magazine article. Even if the book cites this as its source, Morgoth went and found the original article and cites it.

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this was an issue in his family when he was growing up. Atheists without Jewish background didn't talk about having/not having a Bar Mitzva in childhood.

@Oddthinking, I've read the artical (not the comments) and I think that Silverman is the best example. He doesn't want to describe himself as Jewish because he doesn't like that word, fine whatever, but he still describes himself as "child of Jews", during his childhood he didn't go to sunday school at a church, and he didn't fest during the rammadan, he had a Bar Mitzva, and his sister didn't have a Bat Mitzva,

@Oddthinking, I'm still waiting for you to open a meta question on the defenition of Jews.

In the case of Buchris? Yes, she was 19 and he was 20 years older than her, but she was under his command, so she was under his authority.