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

If an Israeli walks up to you and starts punching you in the face. please don't make any wild accusations against them if you call the Gardai, such as explaining that the Israeli is punching you in the face.

"wild accusation" = "refusing to blindly swallow zionist blatant gaslighting attemtps"

Still not seeing the posts here.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/un-general-assembly-resolution-israel-occupied-palestinian-territories

The land thieves still unpopular .

silly q time. So the whole waklie talkie and pager scenario……..inside each device there was some kind of explosive and this explosive was detonated at roughly the same time (first day was pager, then walk or talkie) How was the signal for detonation done?

They turn up for me on page 774.

I'd say the Yanks did it for their Zionist buddies.

So much for trying to prevent a regional conflict -

"Israel’s military chief has told troops that extensive air strikes in Lebanon targeting the armed group Hezbollah could pave the way for them to “enter enemy territory”.

"You hear the jets overhead; we have been striking all day. This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah," Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xe8nkj9wyo

Well IDF tanks are at the border now and reserves have been called up. With the intense bombardment and Hezbollah's military leadership wiped out , there may not be much resistance to any ground invasion . We could in the coming days see Iran pressuring Hezbollah to give in despite publicily saying they will avenge Nasrallah's death. It's telling they haven't responded to the killing of Haniyeh either despite the threats to do so.

It wouldn't surprise me

what is going on in this thread? Why haven't Boards fixed this issue?

We don't need to wait for them to "strike military facilities" - Hamas and Hezbollah just go straight for the civilians. And a surprising number of people think that's fine.

Here's the thing though, well two things really: there are rules about when it is acceptable to risk killing civilians, and that is not "never". So no, if an army hit Tel Aviv it might or might not be a war crime, depending on a number of factors related to whether the attack was legal in the first place, what their military aim was and whether it could be achieved without the deaths of so many civilans.

And second: Hamas and Hezbollah are both standing armies. Hamas was the official government of Gaza until Oct 7th and ran both the police and justice system. As well as the education system, although they didn't waste money on paying for that themselves - the UN and other international organisations did that. But they were in charge of the Ministry for Education.

Hezbollah was pretty similar - they had representatives in the Lebanese parliament and in practice ran whole swathes of Lebanon.

This notion that they were both some sort of secret group obliged to operate in the shadows is just not true.

Not a silly Q.

There are three systems for different missiles. Iron Dome is one of the three systems