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Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    If you keep repeating it enough times, maybe you'll even start to believe it yourself



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭Eibhir


    Some very strange narratives being spun. You see posts accusing people of being left wing liberals and fascists!!

    It's just lazy labelling posters anti semites who condemn Israel's actions. We've seen all the clichés. The Israel is fighting for its very existence is the most galling for me. It's been a privileged apartheid, super power backed state since its inception.

    I know Israel is part of the EBU, but the country being part of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1973 has poor optics and indicative of the open door policy for Israel.

    Germany's ultra pro Israel stance is ridiculous too. The Holocaust was an horrific event. But 2 wrongs don't make a right. You have to judge and react properly to events as they happen now. No free passes because of events 80 years ago.

    Post edited by Eibhir on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,595 ✭✭✭circadian


    what a thread ,

    only one opinion allowed. anything else uninformed racism and dirty Jewish propaganda

    Citation needed.

    blatant racism anti Semitism and fascism rebranded as liberalism.

    Elaboration required, otherwise hyperbole. Citation needed.

    clear
    proof of lies misinformation and slimy half information drops ignored
    for the cause of social media virtue signaling and populism

    Evidence required.

    those
    who cry for the poor Palestinians ignore the footage of them cheering
    the returned hero's with their hostages and the blood of children and
    old people on the 7 th October and the support for their horrible cause.
    Source needed.

    allowing and protecting them when they use hospitals and UN facilities to run a terrorist army

    Evidence required.

    im sure there are innocent people dying but a lot of them died on the 7th October too

    Yes.

    perhaps
    escalating a huge war isnt the way to go when your best defense is to
    mobilize a obnoxious completely unself aware gormless leftists in Europe
    and America . the very same people who would be the victims of hamas
    terrorism for their liberal views

    What is a leftist exactly and what part do they have to play in a conflict 70+ years in the making?

    if they want an end to the war
    hamas can surrender and release the hostages that they haven't killed
    yet or he people of gaza can turn on them and with the support of the
    idf clean gasa of hamas.

    How exactly can the Gazans turn on Hamas? They are not armed and are in fact now starving as a result of an enforced Israeli famine. How many hostages have Hamas killed? How many hostages have the IDF killed?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,550 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    And none of them, not one, ever mentions the thousands of innocent Palestinians who were killed. Maybe they think all Palestinians are Hamas?? We've heard that before.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    "Although a top IDF official said that this change had nothing to do with US pressure, the timing was unmistakable in coming right after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last week."

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-795724



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,772 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Apparently the conversation with Netanyahu was bad tempered and Biden read him the riot act for 30 minutes. Looks like it finally dawned on him he had used up all his credit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭REDBULL68


    Ye looks like the army are withdrawing, and with Israel reading off a list of what went well (obviously not that didn't) I think it's a ceasefire prob tues/wen ,with the surviving hostages released, against palestine prisoners, The repercussions of this will carry on for many years ,there will be many international court cases, involving individuals and indeed many countries.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,415 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I hope the ceasefire is announced very soon as aerial bombardment is what has been the most destructive for the people of Gaza. Cutting Gaza into two and blocking the return of displaced people would mean an entrenchment of the acts of genocide rather than a retreat from them. The displaced people will still be suffering enormously even if there is an end to active hostilities

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,486 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    oh would you look at that, murder a few aid workers, lose the overwhelming amount of your public support and then suddenly as if by magic, the pretext of blocking hundreds of aid trucks because of dubious (🐮💩) fears of weapons smuggling instantly evaporates

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-322-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-on-sunday-highest-number-since-war-started/amp/



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,415 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Still almost 200 trucks fewer than were needed before the October 7th blockade despite the fact that Gaza's entire food production capacity and all of their food storage reserves have been fully depleted/destroyed

    Before the blockade, there were about 140 trucks a day just to supply food, and another 300 to supply the other necessities, clothes, equipment, medical supplies etc

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    They probably need more than 500 trucks a day just to supply clean water, blankets and food now that the entire infrastructure of Gaza has been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced with no access to any of the means for survival in a desert environment as it approaches the summer season.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,550 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Like many I just wish that this was all over and that innocent people didn't have to suffer anymore. It would be great if Hamas was gone and hostages released and if Israeli abuses also stopped and land-grabbing was outlawed. All the old die-hard politicians put out to grass and new people in power who have empathy and fairness at their core. Both countries could then agree on a two-state solution which should be properly managed by the UN.

    We probably won't see it though and it will be 'as you were' in a short time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,766 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Agreed. How to accomplish this with Hamas in place is part of the challenge. At least in the case of Israel, there's a chance an election might change some things. No chance in Gaza while Hamas are there. As their spokesman said

    "Abu Marzouk responded to reported discussions about a new military force in Gaza comprising troops from various countries, including Arab states, by saying: “As a movement, we will fight against any force, whether it was from any nationality, in the Gaza Strip."

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hamas-gaza-biden-israel-interview_n_660c54c2e4b09f580bc5bcb2



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,550 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Neither side are happy with the other side remaining in power. Getting to the stage where they are happy is the conundrum. Won't be easy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    I know Bibi is sometimes cast as the sole bad guy in charge of Israel but is there much hope that his replacement will be any different? His policies to Gaza and the West Bank over the last few months don't seem thst unpopular with the Israeli voters even if he is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Some people are making it back to Khan Younis as the IDF leaves. Finding their homes in ruins or else no even able to locate where their homes had been. Total criminal destruction wrought on civilians that were in a tough position to begin with and now left destitute



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,415 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The man has to be stopped. He has been told that the human cost of an onslaught on Rafah would be devastating and completely unacceptable to the international community. Proceeding with that would destroy what is left of any good will there is for Israel globally

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Posts: 577 ✭✭✭ Regina Gigantic Illness


    More anti-Semitism in the west and denial of the Oct 7th atrocities.

    "46% of UK Muslims support Hamas, only 1 in 4 believe terrorists committed atrocities on October 7"

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/poll-46-of-uk-muslims-support-hamas-only-1-in-4-believe-terrorists-committed-atrocities-on-october-7/

    Don't know how so many people think its ok to support a backwards regime while enjoying the benefits of living in a liberal democracy.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/06/one-in-four-british-muslims-believe-hamas-israel/

    https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-796002

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/antisemitism-uk-london-israel-b2501340.html

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/15/huge-rise-in-antisemitic-abuse-in-uk-since-hamas-attack-says-charity

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/educate-together-row-after-antisemitism-allegations-in-wake-of-ceos-protest-post-and-call-for-boycott-of-israel/a489962002.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭REDBULL68


    Apparently deal was done ,but Israel wanted all the hostages, which Hamas couldn't do as initially they were spread out amongst other small factions, I fear Israel will now regroup and attack Rafaa,Israel knew this all along and Biden, makes sense, today they allowed people back to their destroyed homes, they will now claim, we allowed civilians back to a safe area.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Your logic appears to be:

    "It's perfectly fine for Israel to murder and maim innocent women and kids because some lads in the UK don't believe that other lads in Gaza did what they are accused of"

    If I am taking you up wrong, then what exactly is your point? Why are you trying to justify genocide? Is that your intention or do you not realise what you are doing?

    The other stuff you linked to is just the standard assumed victimhood shtick.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Posts: 577 ✭✭✭ Regina Gigantic Illness


    If Israel are committing genocide they're doing a really bad job at it. Isreal are at war with Hamas and civilian casualties happen during war. In other wars the civilian casualty is much higher. Hamas stats are more for emotive effect, they don't distinguish between civilians and combatants, they include the civilians that they (Hamas) also kill in their stats, and their overall figure is just a ball park number and is not accurate, it's just for propaganda purposes.

    I'm highlighting in my post the ignorance directed towards Jews living abroad. They are alot of useful idiot's doing the propaganda work of Hamas. And the resulting effect is rising anti-Semitism in the west. This needs to be tracked overtime, Europe in particular has alot of responsibility in stopping the rise of anti-Semitism.

    Personally I would like to see Hamas gone and Gazans living under a more democratic secular government. Not a terrorist organisation that kills gays, thinks of women as cattle that pump out babies. It's a horrible male dominated violent society that needs to change.

    All your protesting for is to keep the stats quo, with Hamas in power and that is disgusting. You might not realise what your doing but that's what your doing indirectly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    If Israel are committing genocide they're doing a really bad job at it.

    Please elaborate, argument is unclear.

    Given how many Jewish persons live today were the Nazis doing a really bad job at committing genocide too?

    Definition of Genocide: https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/learn-about-genocide-and-other-mass-atrocities/what-is-genocide
    Anatomy of a Genocide: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/

    I'm highlighting in my post the ignorance directed towards Jews living abroad. They are alot of useful idiot's doing the propaganda work of Hamas. 

    That's antisemitic in itself isn't it, to call 'Jews living abroad' "ignorant," "useful idiots" because they oppose a genocide, particularly one in this case having been committed by Israel? Maybe I’m lacking critical context here if so I apologize.

    In other wars the civilian casualty is much higher. 

    Please show your work.

    https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Jon tackles US Israel hypocrisy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,646 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    Islam is a backwards ideology, any phobia of it is well founded. Who is committing mass casualty terror attacks in Europe?

    For years and even currently the Church was dragged through the mud, posters here laughed at religious Christian people, is that Christianaphobia? What about Russiaphobia, Russians are called Orcs on the Russian thread. What about Trump supporters, is that Trumpaphobia?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Anders Breivik is a Christian isn’t he?

    Aren’t the churches raping their way across Europe?

    Perhaps bigotry against Christians is warranted given such bigoted turnabout

    Or we can just acknowledge the folly of bigotry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    By the same metric, if the Nazis were committing genocide of jewish people in the 40's, they did a "really bad job" of it.

    Feel free to pro-rate the number of jews killed per Axis soldier per month of that conflict and the number of Palestinians killed per IDF solder per months over the last 6 months. Then compare those rates.

    I anticipate you'll change your mind about "doing a really bad job at it" being some sort of metric as regards genocide.

    Methinks you didn't think your polemic through before parroting it from somewhere else.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,083 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    You can't really accuse the Nazis of being inefficent just for failing to get Jews in America and elsewhere around the world. They still managed to kill over half of all the Jews in the world. Compare and contrast. If Israel was trying to commit genocide, how come they haven't managed to kill even a significant percentage of the population of Gaza, never mind of all the Palestinians in the world?

    And secondly, if anyone really believed Israel were trying to commit genocide, how would it be possible to even consider supporting either Biden or Trump, under any conditions, without also being complicit in that genocide?

    I don't think you can get out of complicity to genocide by asking the genocidalists to be a bit nicer about letting aid in. And supporting other heads of state or would-be HoS who are complicit in genocide, even a softer, gentler genocide, really doesn't cut it somehow.

    If Israel is committing genocide, then Biden is complicit and he can't get off that hook by ensuring that aid gets through.

    And anyone who supports him is complicit too.

    Alternatively: nobody really believes that claim.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭scottser


    I hope the Palestinian Authority is suing Israel for the cost of rebuilding.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,337 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Don't make an argument without thinking it through and then try to shift the goalposts. Either the rates of murder are a metric proving or disproving genocide or they are not.

    You may or may not be aware (depending on how blindly you lap up zionist propaganda) - but Gazans are in the midst of a zionist-manufactured famine which will no doubt lead to even more murdering and death



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