Israel/Palestine Thread

It was a horrible thing to happen those poor men, but it may start to become the tipping point for global opinion....people starting to realise that that Israel and the IDF may be as bad as or even worse than Hamas and very far from the 'good guys'.

I might be missing something here but if Israel want a ceasefire surely they could just stop attacking and tell Hamas they won't attack again unless attacked?

I can understand the need for a mediator for talks but calling a ceasefire isn't dependent on both sides agreeing to it.

Or am I bring naive?

Remind us, how many Israeli's have been killed by Hamas since the ground invasion of Gaza and how many Israel's have the IDF killed in the same period?

I count 3 civilians killed by Hamas vs 4 killed by the IDF (open to correction, but mental stat if true)

So this Israel being under imminent threat of attack or fighting for their existence tripe just doesn't hold up with the Israeli civilian death stat.

Israel could easily stop bombing Gaza, declare a pause in bombing for say 2 days and really put the international pressure on Hamas to follow suit. As I said, Israel can do that and not risk their country being overrun by Hamas.

Sean Bell on sky news talking about gunshots typically have a 15% fatality rate suggesting it would have had to have been a large firefight for all 3 to die.... No, Sean, gunshots are 100% fatal when it's an execution shot!

I am surprised that the IDF have admitted they shot them and even mentioned they were topless (possibly to show no hidden bombs) and waving a white flag.

If it had been three Palestinian men, who'd never done a thing wrong in their life, they'd be just labelled as Hamas and their executioners given medals. It's sick. What's even sicker is the people posting on an Irish site trying to facilitate and prolong such atrocities by repeating propaganda and lies.

I posted yesterday in relation to the story of the civilian with the AK47 who was killed by the IDF inside Israel. They shot him on sight and later found out he was "one of their own". Their attempted cover-up failed.