Israel-Gaza: 'We are at war', says Benjamin Netanyahu

I don't think so, nearly 30,000 people murdered is genocide however you paint it. It doesn't matter who the people are or what they are called. Bombing people indiscriminately, destroying their homes indiscriminately, destroying the very fabric of their society - schools, hospitals, ambulances. Starving them into submission - or until they die. Politicians, religious leaders and generals openly stating that this is their objective. That's genocide, and you do the people you support no favours by encouraging them - in fact, that makes you a participant in the genocide.

It's a fantasy to think otherwise, but there are a lot of zionists out there who will try to tell you different. Don't let them - there is a reason that they are widely known as "zionazis".

Tell me you don't understand the conflict without telling me you don't understand the conflict.

Well played Iran. They have created mayhem for US/Israel and caused a major distraction for their ally Russia.

They will probably leave it at that for now and will stop with their funding/support for Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis etc - NOT!!!

I can't imagine the US leaving them run short on anything they look for.

On another note I think the Irish girls should refuse to play them in the basketball.

Oh s/he understands just fine, but has no issues with what Netanyahu and his murder machine are doing.

This is the laziest trope thrown about - "If you disagree with me you support Hamas and are antisemitic"

I can disagree with Hamas/Muslims in general and the way Israel is treating them. What happened on 7th October was horrific, yet what are Palestinian people supposed to do (Palestinians not Hamas). They been caught in the cross hairs since 1948. You keep referring to a state defending itself since 10th October 2023; what about the continued apartheid policies the Israeli government have continued so fervently administer.

You are quite willing to jump to the defence of a people that is willing to accept war crimes against the same children you seem so concerned about, The same people who are on state television for complete annihilation of, that (and I quote you) hold hostages -almost 7,000 compared to roughly 200 Hamas (and lets not forget that a state armed force taking civilian hostages on imaginative charges is a war crime itself.

This is laughably naïve and equally unbelievable at the same time. Hostages handed over and you think Israeli armed forces would simply turn around and head back?

Israel has purposefully crammed over 2 million people in to a strip of poor land 25 miles x 6 miles. For clarity; take the peninsula from Tralee to Dingle and picture 2 million people trying to scratch out an existence with the everyday threat hanging over them and their children. The house they build, if near the border, risks being arbitrarily bulldozed. They even police the coastline to precent deep water fishing, reducing food availability. They've now suggested poisoning the land with sea water to ensure there is nothing left for them to cultivate indigenously. They treat them like vermin and leave them little hope of ever being treated with a semblance of humanity, this only leaves Hamas to fill the void. Israel knows this and is happy to have the bogey man to justify their evil. They're quick to pontificate about the Holocaust, yet are equally quick to dole out the same treatment.

Israeli defending itself

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68261286

Please do not put words in my mouth, I speak for myself.

And for your information, I have serious issues with anybody or any organisation murdering people.

I'm reporting that post, btw.

Why should Israel surrender?

Israel needs to ensure that the Palestinian scum do not ever even think that another Oct 7 is ever a possibility.

MOD: I'm going to assume that "Palestinian scum" comments refers to Hamas. If another comment gives me reason to doubt that, your time here will be ended.