Read the guidelines. It isn’t a relevant tech discussion and the Middle East is a sensitive topic that likely results in flame wars.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Well the article in question was discussing an interesting new phenomenon.
And Gaza is rarely on TV news.
(I'm sure you can appreciate the difficulty in talking about something without linking it. But I am not going to link it nor discuss the contents because it will instantly close the thread. I have fallen for that too many times)
That’s a geopolitical event and does not pertain to technology, startups, hacking, or even science. There’s several forums and subreddits to discuss politics.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] thread> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And Gaza is rarely on TV news.
(I'm sure you can appreciate the difficulty in talking about something without linking it. But I am not going to link it nor discuss the contents because it will instantly close the thread. I have fallen for that too many times)