Israel has published a video showing a fortified tunnel under al-Shifa hospital which it asserts was made by HAMAS.

If this is true, as it may be, HAMAS may have violated the rules of war by building that tunnel. Using the tunnel for fighting would surely have violated them.

That would not however imply open season on patients and doctors in al-Shifa for the Israeli army.

Even leftist Jews, who advocate an end to the occupation of Palestine, feel in danger from the surge of antisemitism that is stimulated by present condemnation of Israel's occupation policies and war crimes.

It takes some moral maturity to separate (1) Israel's treatment of Palestinians from (2) Jews as such from (3) Israel's existence as a haven for them. It's the same moral maturity that we need in order to separate (1) HAMAS from (2) Palestinians.

We all need to develop and activate this maturity, now more than ever.

Surveillance advertising's data collection makes people vulnerable fraud.

Doctorow says we should ban surveillance advertising. I say we should ban the surveillance, period. Regardless of what the surveiller's motivation is, collecting personal data in a database harms people.

For instance, suppose the data is not used for advertising but is used to set what you pay for medical insurance. If the data collected from a fitbit includes _where you are_ -- and it can hardly fail to do so -- that is a grave attack on your privacy.

Ohio Republicans plan to increase subsidize the "crisis pregnancy centers" that use trickery to lead women away from getting abortions.

They use trickery to fool women into consulting them, rather than consulting a real abortion clinic as those women set out to do. And once that first trickery gives them an opportunity, they use trickery to convince women not to get abortions.

Then they use trickery to deny their use of trickery.

I call the proposal a "subsidy" because it seems to go beyond making private donations to those disinformationists deductable.

The article says that several states subsidize this disinformation -- all of them Republican-controlled, I presume. The Republican slogan should be Disinformation Я Us.

(satire) *Only Sex Education In Country Now Just Pressing Ear To Shared Wall To Hear Noises From Next Door.*

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