God, why are any of you shocked?
The people who justify and apologize for terror, supporting terror? The people who apologize for putrid authoritarians regimes because they are anti-western and hate the US, now - how shocking - supporting fascists terrorists and mass murder? The People with Che posters and hammer and sickle flags supporting totalitarian ideologies and their atrocities? Those people dominate your highest institutions. You even vote for them, that disgusting shit stain sanders nearly became US president and the only problem people had was with a fucking border wall (do you support walls now? How about open borders with the muslim world?). Obama, that other shit stain, took a shit eating grin picture with a Che poster in Cuba and if he weren't president he'd be posting on twitter in praise of this attack, directly or indirectly.
The IDF has stated that Hamas as an organization will cease to exist. Take that as you will.Aside from the obvious bombing of explicitly military targets, I wonder what Israel’s approach into Gaza will be. They don’t have the resources to just apprehend and detain every single man aged 16-45. Its gonna be another Iraq where they’re patrolling in residential districts, never knowing which people hate them and which people don’t, settin off IEDs, gettin picked off by the occassional sniper, just ugly stuff. Their goal is to eradicate Hamas, but Hamas is backed by a lingering ideology, which is not something you can shoot at.
Not sayin they shouldn’t go in to kill any combatants they can and rescue any hostages they can, but I just don’t see what any tangible victory looks like. And many Palestinians, a good chunk of which were not even born when Hamas was elected, will be collateral damage.
I feel like the Democrat party in the US do not want a war with Iran and they don't like Bibi either. Obama's relationship with Netanyahu was pretty nasty and there's the whole Iran nuclear deal thing. I feel like the liberal media's terrible reporting is tied to this in some way.
Little refresher: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ins...yahus-strained-relationship/story?id=44414492
This would ironically be exactly what the Wagner Group could be hired for. No political problems if they die, some distance from the war crimes they commit and no need for much more then food, ammo and a number they can call for artillery support.Aside from the obvious bombing of explicitly military targets, I wonder what Israel’s approach into Gaza will be. They don’t have the resources to just apprehend and detain every single man aged 16-45. Its gonna be another Iraq where they’re patrolling in residential districts, never knowing which people hate them and which people don’t, settin off IEDs, gettin picked off by the occassional sniper, just ugly stuff. Their goal is to eradicate Hamas, but Hamas is backed by a lingering ideology, which is not something you can shoot at.
Not sayin they shouldn’t go in to kill any combatants they can and rescue any hostages they can, but I just don’t see what any tangible victory looks like. And many Palestinians, a good chunk of which were not even born when Hamas was elected, will be collateral damage.
Not just the West. Literally every single sane person who just wants to live in peace.Fundamentally incompatible with the West.
Not sayin they shouldn’t go in to kill any combatants they can and rescue any hostages they can, but I just don’t see what any tangible victory looks like. And many Palestinians, a good chunk of which were not even born when Hamas was elected, will be collateral damage.
You can't convince me. I will always hold the Democrats responsible for Israel's current state. On and btw, between 2016 and 2020 there was a breakthrough peace deal brokered between Israel and UAE and shift in Saudi's view towards the country. And exit from the Iran nuclear deal etc etc. Anyway I don't want to talk about US politics either so whatever.Quit it with all the fucking US politicking. Unless you want to get into what things may have happened between 2016 and 2020 that could have weakened Israel and strengthened Hamas in a world post the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Serious question: Aside from being a place in the bible with religious significance, what does Israel have that the US (and a lot of her citizens) feel the need to defend/side with?
If it’s just religious, even God abandon/punished them when they defied Him. So, they aren’t always in the righteous with their decisions.
everything we're seeing now snowballed from this: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel
Pretty much.everything we're seeing now snowballed from this: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel
Aside from the obvious bombing of explicitly military targets, I wonder what Israel’s approach into Gaza will be. They don’t have the resources to just apprehend and detain every single man aged 16-45. Its gonna be another Iraq where they’re patrolling in residential districts, never knowing which people hate them and which people don’t, settin off IEDs, gettin picked off by the occassional sniper, just ugly stuff. Their goal is to eradicate Hamas, but Hamas is backed by a lingering ideology, which is not something you can shoot at.
Not sayin they shouldn’t go in to kill any combatants they can and rescue any hostages they can, but I just don’t see what any tangible victory looks like. And many Palestinians, a good chunk of which were not even born when Hamas was elected, will be collateral damage.
Not sure the authenticity of this but if true, gatdamn balls of steel
It is basically how it has been happening for generations across the world. It was either ethnic cleansing or displacement. We have seen that recently with Azerbaijan and Karabakh region.The only real solution would be to expel every Palestinian living in Gaza to Egypt and let the Arab countries deal with 2 million refugees. That's the only way Israel could really solve the Gaza problem. Ethnic cleansing. It would set Israel's relations with the Arab world to square one. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt got closer to Israel because they shared a common enemy (Iran), but the public opinion in those countries wouldn't accept friendly relations with a country that would force 2 million Palestinians, Arabs like themselves, to leave their homes. Such a thing could even lead to actual war with the Arab world.
The only real solution would be to expel every Palestinian living in Gaza to Egypt and let the Arab countries deal with 2 million refugees. That's the only way Israel could really solve the Gaza problem. Ethnic cleansing. It would set Israel's relations with the Arab world to square one. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt got closer to Israel because they shared a common enemy (Iran), but the public opinion in those countries wouldn't accept friendly relations with a country that would force 2 million Palestinians, Arabs like themselves, to leave their homes. Such a thing could even lead to actual war with the Arab world.
I don't want to stir the pot but as an outsider in the argument but I am on Israels side Gaza is considered an illegal occupied state like Crimea as of 1967 by the UN.The only real solution would be to expel every Palestinian living in Gaza to Egypt and let the Arab countries deal with 2 million refugees. That's the only way Israel could really solve the Gaza problem.
Well, Israel and Saudi Arabia are friends no longer. I suspect other Arab countries will follow suit soon.
I have thought for sometime that there will have to be victor at some point but nothing is without consequence. If Ukraine ever takes back Crimea, this will be a possible scenario where those who are hostile might have to be deported to Russia to stop the possibility of insurrection. Ukraine could become like Israel if not.It is basically how it has been happening for generations across the world. It was either ethnic cleansing or displacement. We have seen that recently with Azerbaijan and Karabakh region.
Well, Israel and Saudi Arabia are friends no longer. I suspect other Arab countries will follow suit soon.
Not possible as long as the current Iranian regime exists.That was the objective of this attack.
It has been a talking point in the past indeed. I would not be surpised if it were to happen. Though Crimea is a special case. I would think of eastern regions of Ukraine.I have thought for sometime that there will have to be victor at some point but nothing is without consequence. If Ukraine ever takes back Crimea, this will be a possible scenario where those who are hostile might have to be deported to Russia to stop the possibility of insurrection. Ukraine could become like Israel if not.
That was the objective of this attack.
No one cares what they accept or don't accept.that will make Arab nations say: "We won't accept this anymore."
I actually don’t think this is very tin foil-y. Bait Israel into an overwhelming response > Arab world galvanizes against Israel > ???? > virgins for you, virgins for you, virgins for you!One of the Twitter theories about this attack is that Hamas wants to provoke Israel so badly that it uses all its military force to squash Hamas. That deadly deadly revenge against the whole of Gaza will lead to so many innocent Palestinian women and children killed that it will galvanize the Arab world into action (war). It's a tinfoil hat theory, but it explains why Hamas would even try such a foolhardy attack, knowing full well that any military success will be squashed within hours. And why the insurgents did their utmost to kill innocent civilians by the hundreds. It's not about military success, it's about baiting Israel into doing things that will make Arab nations say: "We won't accept this anymore."
You live in cloud cuckoo land if you think that solution would work.The only real solution would be to expel every Palestinian living in Gaza to Egypt and let the Arab countries deal with 2 million refugees. That's the only way Israel could really solve the Gaza problem. Ethnic cleansing. It would set Israel's relations with the Arab world to square one. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt got closer to Israel because they shared a common enemy (Iran), but the public opinion in those countries wouldn't accept friendly relations with a country that would force 2 million Palestinians, Arabs like themselves, to leave their homes. Such a thing could even lead to actual war with the Arab world.
They would be total idiots if they came out in support of Hamas, no matter time or place. Even if they secretly support them it tarnishes their credibility and undermines their message.Also the people blinding coming out supporting Palestinians/Hamas are idiots with no sense of time and place. Right now they've just murdered 1000+ civilians, regardless of the history they're in the wrong completely here.
Well there was the small matter of a determined effort by the nazis to completely eliminate Jewish people from the world which might have precipitated such a rash move.everything we're seeing now snowballed from this: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel
Well there was the small matter of a determined effort by the nazis to completely eliminate Jewish people from the world which might have precipitated such a rash move.
Some may not want to see it but the Palestinians en masse will be better off without Hamas and have a chance to have representation that wasn't hijacked from them by a sock puppet regime. Hamas has put more of "their" people in harms way than they have ever done in protecting and caring for them. There is a path to relative prosperity in the future but only if Hamas is out of the picture; it may seem like i'm just weaving platitudes but it is what it is.The IDF has stated that Hamas as an organization will cease to exist. Take that as you will.
He answered a call from a journalist that his son was hiding under fire and simply said, "Give me his location, and I will bring him back home." An hour later, the son called his father from Golan's car.
Festival massacre survivor tells his story.
"I was there at the festival, there were rockets so people got nervous and everyone started to leave,
We drove towards the main road, where we saw many cars standing in what looked like a traffic jam, at the end there were policemen and soldiers forming a roadblock and blocking the road.
This was not a police checkpoint, these were terrorists impersonators.
They waited until there were a lot of people standing in traffic then pulled out a machine-gun and started spraying the cars with bullets, at least 300 dead.
300 people gone, what they say on the news is wrong.
We were the last car, so we drove reverse.
We took two bullets to the windshield, a bullet penetrated Lior in the shoulder and I was injured by broken glass in my hands.
We managed to get away from them with the car barely working, we opened waze and Lior told me "I served here, let's go to the military base: Gaza division."
Driving towards the division's base, we were sure that we will be safe there.
But they already raided this base at night and killed all the soldiers of the base in their beds, by then they had already taken over the base.
We arrived at the gate with the car all broken.
I saw at the gate's entrance what I was sure were soldiers but actually were 13 terrorists standing ready in crouch position with AK47s and M16s looking at us from a range of about 20 meters then started spraying the hell out of our car.
We were shot all over, all the door were holes, a bullet hit me in the head, tore a part of my head off. Evyatar took a bullet in the pelvis, Lior to the shoulder.
We're all in blood, they threw a grenade at us, suddenly I didn't hear anything, looking to the right, to the left shouting, "Lior get out".
I grabbed Lior and got out of the car, we started running and they kept shooting at us, I heard the bullets pass near my head and kept taking shots near my legs, I still have shrapnel in my legs from the bullets.
We ran and saw the fence of the base, it was about three meters high, we jumped over it through the barbed wire, all my hands were cut.
They kept shooting at us, but not a single bullet hit us, they didn't manage to hit us somehow.
We kept running, and hid there in the snipers' bunker, We were there for about 3-4 hours, without water, bleeding, I made myself a tourniquet, Lior also made a tourniquet.
We were sure the rest were already dead behind, I didn't look back.
Then a team of Shayetet 13 (Israeli navy seals) arrived at the base, and real war started inside, some additional 30-40 soldiers were gone.
I heard the screams of death, pull back, pull back, death, they were shooting RPGs at each other, right in the middle of the war we were.
We finally went out to them, we were afraid that our soldiers would shoot at us because we looked like terrorists with shirts wrapped around our heads.
We left with our hands up, I told them not to shoot that we are Israeli.
They told us to lie on the floor and questioned us, checking that we were Israelis, I told him our names and that we were wounded.
At the end a helicopter came to rescue some wounded soldiers, I grabbed the soldier by the hands and looked him in the eyes, I told him "My brother I have a little girl at home and a family, you are taking me with you in that helicopter". He looked and me and told me "yalla" (come on), "cooperate".
So we started to cooperate, lifting injured soldiers on my shoulders, Lior helped lifting the stretcher to the helicopter, trying to save people as much as possible,
People were screaming to hold on tight, and don't die in my hands, it was like a movie.
He took us at the end,Thank god now we are recovering."
In terms of victory, the problem is, as far as the Israelis are concerned, it means 'no muslims'. And as far as the Palestinians are concerned it means 'no jews'.
Victory for the rest of us would mean neither of them being allowed to stay on that patch of land, and having it cordoned off as a museum site.
You live in cloud cuckoo land if you think that solution would work.
This isn't directed at you but I've seen multiple people in here talk about forced displacement of people and some even on the borderline of genocide.
I'm pretty sure some don't even know the history of the world or previous mass tragedies when they openly talk this nonsense. Every forced displacement of people on large quantities has always been followed by a genocide. Some clown earlier was suggesting this; while the EU and the USA would support this and including bombing Iran.. the USA would not have the balls to support Israel doing this.
From the Armenians, to European Jews to Rwanda a forced displacement has been a precursor to a genocide.
How exactly do you move 2.1 million people against their will? They would simply throw their bodies on the ground and refuse to move, so what do you do? At gun point threaten to shoot? And if they don't move? You either shoot and commit said genocide or your bluff is called. Then what? Do you know how much manpower you would need to then physically move that many people.. Jesus Christ I don't think Israel has enough soldiers to do that, you would need 2/3 people to carry 1 at a time. There's not enough trucks in Israel to then ship them out? You think the USA or the EU would lend a hand.. I doubt it .
Israel should just kill the terrorists, arrest all the Hamas network and force some kind of puppet government. Truth is there is no easy solution but some kind of final solution that some of you seem to suggest wouldn't fly. Even Israel wouldn't do it; they would probably lose US support. US support is more valuable to the Israelis if it means putting up with Gaza.
Also the people blinding coming out supporting Palestinians/Hamas are idiots with no sense of time and place. Right now they've just murdered 1000+ civilians, regardless of the history they're in the wrong completely here.
I really don't get where these palestinian/hama's supporters are coming from.
There are, unfortunately, a whole lot of those people. About 100:1 underneath the typical social media post.Anyone defending this is as bad as the people who did it.