Israel-Gaza war

[Blue3]

Me too. I’m very wary of sensationalist headlines under the fog of war.

[Blue3]

Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza requires more decisive action, in order to restrain the Israeli government to take revenge on the Gaza population. It is monstrous to tell one million of Gazans to flee, in what looks like the prelude to a massive ethnic cleansing. The statements of president Herzog are equally monstrous.  Herzog claims that there are no innocent civilians and that all the population of Gaza bears a collective guilt for Hamas atrocious actions, which sounds like an incitement to the most savage and unrestrained revenge and must be interpreted as such. During the following hours a terrific and unrestrained horror could unleash in the martiryzed Gaza. The impending massacre could be also a turning point for the Western World aligned to Israel, because nothing will be the same for us if we do nothing to prevent the most unspeakable horrors. This is a serious historical moment

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1712915377137521094?t=kwTG5nzqblpwU82EZHnG7g&...

I'm glad Biden finally acknowledged this... especially after the evacuation order, and what the Israeli president and others have said.

[Blue3]

Is the Israeli military using white phosphorus in its military attacks? That seems like a war crime to me.

They've denied it. It's also only a war crime in certain circumstances and Israel isn't a signatory to one of the relevant protocols:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/israel-military-white-phosphorus-gaza-lebanon

Didn’t they admit to using white phosphorus a few years ago?

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1034849460344573952


https://twitter.com/thefouchoe/status/1714346340736471285



1. Senior State Department official publically resigns to protest Israel
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-resignation-gaza_n_65306079e4b00565b622b1fb

2. "Mutiny brewing" at State Department over Israel
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-gaza_n_6531a23ae4b0da897ab75ce4

https://twitter.com/AllezLesBoulez/status/1715004653681672342

[Blue3]

Since the Russia-Ukraine War thread is sticked, should this one be too? Perhaps once the ground invasion launches?

[Blue3]

God bless Jimmy Carter.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1719419239025488311?t=-mF1ASi76DpBiUnow2gJGw&...

I believe Carter was the first to call Israel an Apartheid state, sometime in the 2000s.

[Blue3]

When did Susan Collins take control of the White House?

[Blue3]

There is already a thread for this.

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=566181.3450

You said the same thing in there as well, so you don't need a new thread to give yourself more attention.

That's in another forum, which is not about U.S. politics. This is.

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1722613218437480704

[Blue3]

It's worth noting that Netanyahu hates this guy, who repeatedly has challenged him for Likud leadership, and he does not speak for the Israeli government. He's just a bomb-thrower on Twitter.

It says UN Ambassador and leader of Likud?

[Blue3]

So Israel went from "no way we bombed that hospital" to "oh look, this was Hamas about that hospital, and that was Hamas about that hospital, if was Hamas HQ..." and we still don't think they bombed the hospital??

[Blue3]

Hezbollah has gone woke
https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky/status/1726730470702895605?t=CiKFwN1xiSxwhGNCOrAHs...

How is that "woke"?

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1732892743188521437?s=46&t=fXGbuzJ5t_xzX4...
https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1732762635731390594?s=46&t=fXGbuzJ5t...

[Blue3]

You know they're mostly Hamas... how?

And you justify them sitting naked and blindfolded in the desert, after being searched... because?

[Blue3]

You know they're mostly Hamas... how?

And you justify them sitting naked and blindfolded in the desert, after being searched... because?

They're not naked. Look closely and you can see their skivvies.

And they're mostly Hamas because that's...who Israel is fighting in Gaza. Are you under the impression that they're going around Gaza and taking random prisoners for giggles? That seems like a spectacularly bad waste of resources during an ongoing war.

Naked refers to people in underwear too... they're not protected by the elements.

And some in Israel have defined every male about the age of 14 as Hamas. They said all who remain in orders they told to evacuate would be treated as enemies... despite all the logistical and humanitarian issues with that. Come on, you know there's no chance all of these are Hamas. We've been watching how Israel is conducting themselves. You seem divorced from the reality.

[Blue3]

Yeah, I don’t think bombing Qatar is a good idea actually.

It would feel good in the moment. But that can be said of a lot of the Israeli strategy in this war, and yet...

Well if the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE do bomb Qatar, no doubt the largest US Air Force base in the Middle East will be indispensable to such an operation; I wonder which country that base is located in!

just annex Qatar, make it an unincorporated territory and offer the guest workers US citizenship which would easily result in Qatar having an American majority

What in the world did I miss... why do people want to bomb Qatar? From my understanding it's been one of the more peaceful, stable, and neutral countries in the Middle East? (compared to others in the Middle East)

[Blue3]

67% of people aged 18-24 in this Harvard-Harris poll view Jews as oppressors.  Note the wording, Jews and not Israel government or Zionists.

I can see why they voted that way, the wording is misleading, they wanted certain results, so they decided to not follow their narrative.

[Blue3]

Question: how many rocket attacks, or any other attacks, has Hamas carried out against Israel in the last month or so? Not extremely short-range in Gaza itself, as a defense, but actually into Israel?

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/naledimashishi/status/1746867953855864873

[Blue3]

So in that article, Rick Scott says everyone in Gaza deserves to die…

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1751316412696526858

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1752875163035594774

[Blue3]

So they're bombarding Rafah now? That was little time to evacuate (and to where?)

[Blue3]

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1757108015423963386

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1756990510487449645