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I think we can all agree that they're both delicious.

Like with most animals, it depends on the sauce.

...Did GG just actually leave? Not just the thread, but the entire damn forum?

I hope not. One shouldn't take all these discussions too personally.

I have no idea how immigration to Canada works (you'd have to find someone who has made the US->Canada transition themselves), but I guess it's something that should be well thought out, since you're not on your own, but responsible for a whole family.
Does the company you work for maybe have offices in Canada? A friend of mine considered emigrating from Germany to Sweden for a time, his company fully supported him, offered him a job there and even offered help with language courses, housing and stuff. He ultimately didn't go through with it, but it seems that big international companies do have advantages sometimes in that regard.

You see, women are like cats.

Pro-tips:
DO carry a laserpointer with you at all times, to keep the relationship interesting.
DON'T mix dry food under her wet food, trust once lost is hard to regain.

Oh well, that kind of ruins my joke, thanks Belgium. 

Right, the official condemnation is that last link I posted:

Today, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip. As soon as the rockets were discovered, UNRWA staff were withdrawn from the premises, and so we are unable to confirm the precise number of rockets. The school is situated between two other UNRWA schools that currently each accommodate 1,500 internally displaced persons.

Why would it require a big military presence? Because Israeli's wouldn't be willing to do it without one?

Israel probably wouldn't put soldiers at such risk, no. And I was never in the military, but I can't imagine what you have in mind that it would not require something that looks very close to total occupation. If you imagine it is that easy, you might have a very wrong image of the realities there, and also of the practical implications of such an idea. I mean, even in this hypothetical debate, we are not talking about a bad neighbourhood or something, it's more like a barely pacified warzone with what amounts to an army of enemies (Hamas is estimated to have 15000-20000 men under arms in Gaza).

Are the UNRWA schools and their security staff seen as "occupiers"?

Probably not, since they are not a military presence, certainly to a lesser extent than Israeli forces (their hated enemy) would be. Maybe UN troops could pull something like this off, though there is the problem from which country these are coming etc. Also UN forces have come under fire too in many cases, like in Lebanon for example. Islamists have no problem with attacking the UN, and depending where they come from, it might not make a huge difference to them (you know, Christians in the Holy Land and all that).
People generally tend to see foreign troops as occupiers, and with Israeli forces this would be much worse. I mean, even here there are some people who see the American troops here as occupiers, and that is an entirely different situation.

I understand that you mean well and all, but this seems very impractibale to me and in the current situation it's not very close to looking realistic (as unfortunately are most peace plans).

Have they ever proposed as a term of a peace agreement a carrot of some sort? Actually giving something to the Palestinians rather than just stopping some bad thing they were doing?

Without looking it up: They have offered an independent Palestine. They have released thousands of prisoners. They withdrew from Gaza and abolished the settlements there. Abolishing the settlements in the West Bank is controversial in Israel, many want to do it, many don't, some governments were pretty much willing to go ahead with it though, back when the 2 state solution seemed like it might happen.

Also remember that while there were peace talks with Fatah, all talks with Hamas are merely about ceasefires, since Hamas does not want peace.

HAs there been any evidence at all of Hamas storing rockets/munitions in actively used schools and hospitals?

Yes, even in a UN school.

Will the coalition's demise now lead to a parliamentary election in Ukraine?

From what I've read, they're aiming to have elections at the end of October.