Turenne
July 31, 2024, 11:05pm
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They would in their hole.
Kyle
July 31, 2024, 11:30pm
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Hopefully Iran murders every Israeli currently in occupied Palestine⌠tbe only good Israeli is a dead Israeli.
They are right dirty bastards.
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Itâs becoming more and more apparent that the rocket attack in the Golan Heights that killed 12 kids was manufactured by Israel with a view to invading Lebanon.
Now, my Lebanese sources here tell me that the IDF would be scared shitless of boots on the ground in Lebanon so Iâd expect airstrikes to ramp up by the end of August.
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Massey
August 1, 2024, 8:16am
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This lad thinks thereâs an actual dome over Israel and itâs plugged in using a 110 lead and a transformer
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Fitzy
August 1, 2024, 9:12am
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Not just some Hamas guy. Ismail Haniyeh was pretty much joint leader of Hamas. He was leading the ceasefire negotiations. A big fish in a big pond.
Starting a war with Hezbollah will be extremely stupid and will not go well for them.
Iran is now in a corner also and probably hoping Israel attacks Lebanon.
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Fitzy:
Not just some Hamas guy. Ismail Haniyeh was pretty much joint leader of Hamas. He was leading the ceasefire negotiations. A big fish in a big pond.
Starting a war with Hezbollah will be extremely stupid and will not go well for them.
Iran is now in a corner also and probably hoping Israel attacks Lebanon.
If trump wins in November itâs game over for the world.
Thankfully he wonât which will trigger a lot of his supporters when he losses to a woman whoâs parents were immigrants.
Theyâve also announced that they killed Muhammad Deif, the head of Hamas in Gaza, in an air strike last month.
balbec
August 1, 2024, 10:36pm
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One minute your lording it through the streets of Tehran and the next theyâre scraping you off the wall.
balbec
August 1, 2024, 10:37pm
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Be interesting to see if the Saudis, Jordanians and Egyptians help to shoot them down.
Massey
August 1, 2024, 10:48pm
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Will you give over with this shit.Every day the world is ending with you.Give it a rest FFS.
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Turenne
August 2, 2024, 3:58am
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Trump doesnât care about foreign affairs thankfully. It will embolden Putin but that is it.
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Fitzy
August 3, 2024, 8:17am
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This is a brilliant piece by Nesrine Malik about Gaza. We really need to have a long look at ourselves in the west. Our acceptance of who can be killed and how they can be killed is disgusting.
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Massey
August 8, 2024, 11:46pm
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Cheasty
August 13, 2024, 8:17pm
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I very much recommend this 7000 plus word article.
Two days after the Hamas attack, defence minister Yoav Gallant declared, âWe are fighting human animals, and we must act accordingly,â later adding that Israel would âbreak apart one neighbourhood after another in Gazaâ. Former prime minister Naftali Bennett confirmed: âWe are fighting Nazis.â Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu exhorted Israelis to âremember what Amalek has done to youâ, alluding to the biblical call to exterminate Amalekâs âmen and women, children and infantsâ. In a radio interview, he said about Hamas: âI donât call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals.â Deputy Knesset speaker Nissim Vaturi wrote on X that Israelâs goal should be âerasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the Earthâ. On Israeli TV he stated, âThere are no uninvolved people ⌠we must go in there and kill, kill, kill. We must kill them before they kill us.â Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich stressed in a speech, âThe work must be completed ⌠Total destruction. âBlot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.ââ Avi Dichter, agriculture minister and former head of the Shin Bet intelligence service, spoke about ârolling out the Gaza Nakbaâ. One Israeli 95-year-old military veteran, whose motivational speech to IDF troops preparing for the invasion of Gaza exhorted them to âwipe out their memory, their families, mothers and childrenâ, was given a certificate of honour by Israeli president Herzog for âproviding a wonderful example to generations of soldiersâ. No wonder that there have been innumerable social media posts by IDF troops in Gaza calling to âkill the Arabsâ, âburn their mothersâ and âflattenâ Gaza. There has been no known disciplinary action by their commanders.
This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood â we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before â and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood. Look at what happened to us in 1918 , German soldiers said in 1942, recalling the propagandistic âstab-in-the-backâ myth, which attributed Germanyâs catastrophic defeat in the first world war to Jewish and communist treason. Look at what happened to us in the Holocaust, when we trusted that others would come to our rescue, IDF troops say in 2024, thereby giving themselves licence for indiscriminate destruction based on a false analogy between Hamas and the Nazis.
But another part of my apprehension had to do with the fact that my view of what was happening in Gaza had shifted. On 10 November 2023, I wrote in the New York Times: âAs a historian of genocide, I believe that there is no proof that genocide is now taking place in Gaza, although it is very likely that war crimes, and even crimes against humanity, are happening. [âŚ] We know from history that it is crucial to warn of the potential for genocide before it occurs, rather than belatedly condemn it after it has taken place. I think we still have that time.â
I no longer believe that. By the time I travelled to Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. It was not just that this attack against the last concentration of Gazans â most of them displaced already several times by the IDF, which now once again pushed them to a so-called safe zone â demonstrated a total disregard of any humanitarian standards. It also clearly indicated that the ultimate goal of this entire undertaking from the very beginning had been to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory. In other words, the rhetoric spouted by Israeli leaders since 7 October was now being translated into reality â namely, as the 1948 UN Genocide Convention puts it, that Israel was acting âwith intent to destroy, in whole or in partâ, the Palestinian population in Gaza, âas such, by killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the groupâs destructionâ.
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