While social media giants have received the brunt of the attention for providing a platform to hate groups, firms that enable more basic kinds of services to these deeply controversial groups appear to have largely abdicated that responsibility—or rejected the notion that refusing to do business with certain groups is the right thing to do.
The US and Israel failed to achieve four main goals: regime change in Syria, the partition of Iraq, the defeat of the Houthis in Yemen, the Palestinian “deal of the century”. Added to this, Israeli-US rejection of any fair Palestinian state has strengthened Palestinian resolve against Israel.
Israel has increased its firepower and military capabilities, but Hezbollah also moved from being a tactical local organization to becoming a strategic player in the Middle East. The group’s superior fighting abilities have been enhanced by new military hardware. This has had the effect of rendering war in the Middle East unlikely any time in the near (or medium-term) future.
I am just sick to my stomach as I watch Fox news — the six o'clock show under a clueless blond bimbo with a butch spiked hair moron babbling nonsense, is supposed to be covering #GoogleGestapo — the malicious illegal censorship and manipulation of information as well as the deplatforming (digital assassination) of conservative voices, often destroying a lifetime of work without due process. The Communications Decency Act explicitly immunized platforms from content issues in return for a promise of total openness. The panelists I just saw are the more uninformed pontificators I have ever seen.