Mike Pompeo was one if the best in recent times
CIA chief met Mossad too and meeting Benji tmrw
I donāt get the boycott Israeli goods thing. The Americans are providing them with money and weapons so will the same people boycott Netflix, Apple, Twitter etc ?
Or stuff made in China etc?
ā¦on just about everything.
Christ but weāve lost some big hitters over the last few years
Itās performative protesting so thatās unlikely.
It has no justification anyway, itās horrific and disgusting.
The buts are:
It didnāt happen in a vacuum, as the UN secretary general noted.
And the second but is it doesnāt justify war crimes and collective punishment in response.
Which brings us back to:
Iām surprised people havenāt changed their profile picture to the Palestinian flag , when did that die out ? 
Marks & Spencers burnt all the flags
Your man Tom Hand his daughter is thought to be alive and a hostage of hamas as opposed to dead as previously thought. The father was on virgin news again earlier appealing for her release - heās an odd, odd chap but look letās hope his daughter comes out of this alive now.
none of us can imagine the rollercoasters of emotion, grief and hope hes gone through in the last few weeks. to go through what he has and in the glare of the media cant be easy. god only knows how id come across if something like that happened to madame
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Is it me or is nobody protesting to release the hostages ?
It seems the big difference is the protests are against Israel, a democratically elected government supported by other democratically elected governments and people feel they may be susceptible to change things if enough public pressure is brought on. Hamas have the hostages and they are an illegal terrorist organisation and are probably unlikely to bow to public pressure.
The poor man was taken advantage of by RTE when they stuck a microphone in his face just after he was told his daughter had been killed. The man was in the throes of absolute despair, totally wrong to broadcast that interview IMO.
The poor man said how his initial reaction at hearing his daughter had been killed was āyes! yes! It meant she wouldnāt have been taken to Gaza which would have been the worst possible outcome. They do terrible things to people in Gaza.ā
The man was beyond distraught. It should never have been broadcast.
And now it turns out the little girl is alive. Please God sheāll be returned safely.
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He was in a complete state of shock. Shouldnāt have been on tv and nobody should be judging him either.
Post by an Israeli Arab taken from elsewhere on the INTERNET:
Today in Israel, Iām not allowed to voice an opinion. Palestinian citizens of Israel have been forcefully silenced and threatened for any social media activity that isnāt in line with Israeli Hasbara. Thereās a serious witch hunt going on. Full blown McCarthyism.
Hundreds have been detained, fired from their jobs. Hundreds have been threatened by Jewish citizens with physical harm. Authorities and law makers threatening to revoke our citizenship.
Iāll remain quiet for now in regards to the main issues rather than taking the risk of being ratted out like four of my friends who have been arrested for:
- Following an Instagram page called eye on Palestine.
- Sharing a post by an Israeli Jew on Facebook that accused Israel of genocide (the Israeli Jew has not been arrested, the Arab who shared the Jewās post did get arrested).
- Posting an instagram story sympathizing with the children of Gaza and calling for a ceasefire.
- Being ratted out by her Jewish āfriendā who shared screenshots of a private conversation they had on facebook, where she said thereās no evidence of beheadings. Sheās been detained for three days, bullied by tens of thousands online, with the screenshots broadcasted on television.
An Arab medical doctor got fired because of an old profile pictures on Facebook that contain Quran texts. A political analyst got arrested for posting an objective analysis of the breach on the 7th.
Meanwhile Jewish citizen have been calling for a final solution, mocking Palestinian suffering, and dehumanizing them. Telegram groups with thousands of members rife with organizing pogroms and lynches without any consequences. Hell, theyāre even posting videos of urinating on Palestinian dead bodies, stabbing them and poking their eyes out. Zero consequences.
My supposedly leftist Jewish colleagues have turned into vengeful right wing snitches.
I have been threatened by my Jewish neighbor (that Iāve had good neighborly relationship with) telling me heās sick of hearing me speaking Arabic in the building, when I stood my ground, with his veins popping out of his neck he threatened āIāll do another Nakba to youā.
Most importantly, weāve been warned not to protest by the police commissioner as the police wonāt hesitate to use live ammunition. So we just have to live with the grief, the shame, the anger and the sense of defeatedness while all of this is happening.
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Hardly surprising when theyāre also firing Irish staff in Dublin.
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