Egypt’s current government is pretty good at suppressing opposition. Generally that’s not a good thing but it does mean that Egypt can probably handle Hamas.

I don’t know what exactly Trump has in mind but I think the key factor is giving Gazans citizenship in an Arab country. They can keep the land if, for example, Egypt agrees to annex it.

It’s probably the only way to end the conflict without waiting several generations and hoping that cultures change over that time, and a significant improvement to the quality of life of most people in Gaza.

The land itself is not the deciding factor. The conflict would end if Egypt agreed to annex Gaza and no one was forcibly displaced. I think any rational Israeli would agree to that (this may not include the current government) but Egypt doesn’t want it, and reasonably so.

Why would he say something so easily disproven at this point?

His reputation for honesty and good judgement is ruined!

What was Biden actually doing (as opposed to just saying) regarding the West Bank which you liked better?

(My impression is that Biden’s sanctions on the settlers has no practical consequences, but I’m not 100% sure of that.)

I don’t think this is the same thing unless Trump told Netanyahu to delay the ceasefire, and I haven’t heard anyone claim that he did.

Trump appears to have pushed Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire, which Biden failed to do. I wouldn’t be surprised if the delivery of these bombs was part of the backroom deal between Trump and Netanyahu which led to the ceasefire.

I don’t know what will happen after this ceasefire expires, but until then it’s a little early for those who criticized Biden’s policy on Israel to criticize Trump’s.

I’d say that Turkey has stopped seriously trying to join the EU, but that’s because I don’t know what they want or don’t.

My comment was intended to sound cynical, but I totally failed to actually make it sound that way. (I edited it just now in an attempt to fix that.) Europe’s relationship with Turkey is dominated by geopolitical and economic concerns, not moral ones.

Turkey extradites to Iran? That seems like something that wouldn’t help join the EU.

TikTok also was and still is acting like the law is in force - the law does not require it to shut off. They aren’t taking any legal risk.

Note that the law does not prohibit TikTok from operating. It prohibits companies like Google and Apple from distributing it, and according to this article, they are in fact not distributing it.

Even as TikTok was flickering back on, it remained unavailable for download in Apple and Google’s app stores.

TikTok shut off voluntarily and that appears to have been an excellent PR move, but we won’t know for certain until Trump does or doesn’t do something about it in the next few days.

It’s an own-goal for Biden - an unpopular law that starts being enforced the day before Trump gets to stop enforcing it.

Yes, this wasn’t an admission because it’s a well-known fact that is not inconsistent with Nintendo’s earlier actions. The headline is deceptive and people don’t read the article. The article itself contains no new information and it is only worth reading for someone who has been deceived by the headline and needs to be set straight by the same people who wrote the deceptive headline. It’s click bait that shouldn’t exist.

Neo-Nazi madness

Wow, that is savage. Doubly so because it’s coming from a man who chooses his words carefully. Lemley is doing the exact opposite of the obsequious grovelling that Zuckerberg and others are performing for Trump.