What right do U.S and Israel have to bomb universities? How's that supposed to help the people overthrow the regime?

On April 1st, 2001, the Netherlands became the first nation in human history to legalize same-sex marriage. Years later, in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court likewise declared marriage a fundamental right protected by the Constitution. President Barack Obama, in a speech at the Rose Garden, declared "love is love" as he celebrated the ruling as "a victory for America." And most Americans seem to agree. A gallop poll suggests that approximately 88% of democrats and nearly 50% of Republicans support gay marriage. So it seems the debate is over. But should it be? In 2007, an Assumptionist priest by the name of Barry Bercier wrote in his book, Skies of Babylon, that if traditional marriage were re-defined to include same sex couples, "the result would be nothing less than the end of the world of man." Sound dramatic? Well -- what is marriage? If marriage were merely a proclamation of love, and if the fundamental purpose of marriage were to reward people who love each other, then gay marriage should be legal. But society does not give certain legal rights, financial benefits and tax breaks to people simply because they fall in love. At least, until two decades ago, that's not how it worked. Barry Bercier defines marriage as "the public and legal recognition of the pre-political duality of the sexes and the significance of the duality for human beings and the social and political order." In other words, marriage -- traditional marriage as it existed across every civilization for nearly all of human history, is the recognition of a unique relationship that pre-exists law and human constructs. That is, the institution of marriage - from Mesopotamia, to Egypt, China, Rome and every Western nation until 2001 -- recognized the duality of the sexes through law because the duality is the nucleus from which life emerges. The relationship between male and female -- man and woman -- whether you are gay, straight, black, white, bisexual, asexual, rich or poor, is our beginning; our source. For every human being, the duality of the sexes is our 'sine qua non' -- without it, life would not exist.

The *ICC* stands for the *International Criminal Court*. It is the world's first permanent international criminal court, based in The Hague, Netherlands. It was established in 2002 by the Rome Statute, an international treaty. It investigates and prosecutes individuals (not countries or governments) for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. It acts as a court of last resort and only steps in when national courts are unwilling or unable to genuinely prosecute the crimes. Most countries that actually fight wars, including the US, Russia, China, and India, never joined the *ICC*. 80 percent of armies in active conflict are not *ICC* members. Arab states constantly accuse Israel of violating international law, yet only Tunisia ever joined the *ICC*. Arab countries demanded Europe accept Syrian refugees, but none of them signed the Refugee Convention themselves. Saudi Arabia and Qatar took in zero refugees. International law cannot enforce itself. It is politics pretending to be law. International law did not save the Muslims of Bosnia. Bill Clinton did, by ordering the bombing of Belgrade. It did not stop the Rwandan genocide. Nobody did. A million Tutsis were killed. Right now, South Africa, which accuses Israel of genocide, abstained from a UN fact-finding mission on potential mass deaths in Iran. The spread of democracy comes from American power and example after WWII, not from imaginary global rules. Real law offers protection in exchange for obedience. International law is just politics: whatever powerful states agree to, or whatever is convenient. The *ICC* is not part of the United Nations. It is independent, though the UN Security Council can refer cases to it. Many major powers that frequently engage in conflict have not joined, including the United States, Russia, China, and India. Around 125 countries are members, but a large number of countries likely to fight wars have stayed out. Only a small number of Arab countries have joined.

All* internet traffic between data centers and countries is routed over a protocol called BGP(Border Gateway Protocol). Each "hub" inside the global BGP-network is known as an Autonoumus System (AS), from each AS a number of IP-address blocks are announced to let the outside world understand where a particular IP-address resides in the global network; essentially saying: "These addresses live here, send their traffic to us. In practice, an AS is simply a network run by a single organization, an internet provider, a university, or a large company. Iran's internet architecture is designed with a "hub and spoke" pattern. Think of it as a wheel, the spokes are Iran's national internet service providers (ISPs), and the hub is the regime-controlled gateway. All the ISPs (the spokes) must route their traffic through that central hub to reach the outside world. There is no back door, no alternative route out. This was not an accident it was a deliberate architectural choice. If you control the traffic flow inside the hub, you can somewhat easily shut down and filter the internet. In practice, this means the regime can flip a switch and the entire country goes dark; not because thousands of individual networks were shut down one by one, but because one choke-point was closed. It is the digital equivalent of a country having only one international airport. Nerd stuff: *BGP is the dominant inter-domain routing protocol (between different AS/networks/countries), but traffic within a single network could use other internal routing protocols. Observe the connectivity table here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as49666 You'll see a list of AS-numbers, the type of peering, country of origin, name and such. Type "Down" means this is a downstream i.e. AS49666 is the upstream transit provider between all peers considered as down, meaning if they want to communicate with any other AS they have to transit through either one of their upstream ASes.