Israel are going to start WWIII

Going by the announcements, that the US are sending the super doper anti missile system next week, I'd say its already in place and Israel will attack Iran fri or Sat, ya don't tell people unless it's already there .

Israel blows them up.

There is a lot of focus on the needless killing and maiming of civilians but we also have to look at what Israel has done to the country. As you said, it has been levelled. It is unihabitable.

This is a UN report from November 2023 (don't expect cheerleaders to read it). Imagine how bad it is now. 45% of housing units were destroyed in Nov 2023.

Gaza: Destroying civilian housing and infrastructure is an international crime, warns UN expert | OHCHR

 The world must act now to end the horrifying and massive attacks against civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza, which comes at a tremendous cost to human life, a UN expert said today.

“Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they will systematically destroy and damage civilian housing and infrastructure, rendering an entire city – such as Gaza city - uninhabitable for civilians is a war crime,” said Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing.

The expert said systematic or widespread bombardment of housing, civilian objects and infrastructure are strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law, criminal law and human rights law.

“Such acts amount to war crimes and when directed against a civilian population, they also amount to crimes against humanity,” Rajagopal said.

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I also notice this UN report from 2018 which was interesting. Israel sure do hate the UN spying on them.

Gaza "Unliveable", UN Special Rapporteur for the Situation of Human Rights in the OPT Tells Third Committee - Press Release (Excerpts) - Question of Palestine

With an economy in free fall, 70 per cent youth unemployment, widely contaminated drinking water and a collapsed health care system, Gaza has become “unliveable”, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, insisting that all parties — particularly Israel — bring an end to “this disaster”.

MICHAEL LYNK, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, drew attention to Israel’s persistent non-cooperation with the Special Rapporteur’s mandate.  As with his two predecessors, Israel has not granted him entry to visit the country, nor the Occupied Palestinian territory.  He recalled that cooperation is a fundamental obligation of the Charter of the United Nations.  The World Bank described Gaza’s economy in free fall, contracting by 6 per cent during the first quarter of 2018.  In fact, the United Nations has stated that Gaza may well be unliveable by 2020:  safe drinking water has almost disappeared, the economy is cratering and “the state of unlive-ability is upon us”, he said, urging the international community to insist that all parties bring an immediate end to this disaster.

Not genocide though. Fair play.

I dont see why, china always play the long game , they have no recent history of frontal invasion type stuff and it would be bad for business.

I read that the IDF s policy in Lebanon is troops move forward they shoot anyone they see. This will result in massive civilian casualties

This is described in an article see guardian UK /comment

Im not sure why they are shooting at UN peacekeepers

They are breaking international law by blocking food supplys to gaza if this trend to shoot civilians continues Lebanon could be another gaza in terms of civiliian casualties

Well, they could have actually taken the initiative to allow the international sympathy gained after 7 October to actually build empathy for their side of the story and shown restraint instead of enacting vengeance. Hamas is not capable of consistently launching similar style attacks and the Israelis are well capable, on full alert, to defend their border. This was Israel's opportunity to show that it is genuinely only concerned with defending itself, not being the attacking party.

Hamas, and those who back them, knew exactly what they were doing on 7 October and Israel has walked straight into the trap — like their American allies post 9/11 they have escalated the issue beyond the Rubicon, instigated wars they have no ability to win in anything beyond the short term, sown an entire new generation of new (and probably stronger than ever) hatred against them — and they look to be testing the resolve of their most important ally.

Restraint, a longer term view of the operation, not reacting with vengeful emotion. That's what they should have done.

Yes, it is a war crime, not sure any one is seriously denying that.

Not all War crimes are Genocide.

Morw than likely China is watching what goes on in the various conflicts where the USA has some commitment, and gathering as much data on military performance, capability, and what not.

Seeing how the USA responds is a way for China to make a more calculated action.

The USA may be a colossal military engine, the likes this planet has never seen before, but even they can be undone by geographical limitations. 3 separate conflicts scattered around the globe will put a heavy strain on their ability to come to the aid if their allies.

James O'Brien made the point yesterday that it took over a year to get to the levels of Israeli inhumanity we are seeing currently. You don't go straight in to firebombing refugee camps and killing journalists, aid workers and UN staff - you have to work up to it.

Do Israel blow them up or do Hamas use them as shields? If you build your base of communications at a hospital you are putting your own people in danger are you not?

I suppose the fact that it is complicated might be of some comfort to the children videoed burning alive, them and the 40k other people. It is clear as day that is real is hell bent on ethnic cleansing

Would it be permissable for another country to engage in all out war against Israel considering the threatening rhetoric of the current Israeli Government towards them

Would you take issue with someone describing the deaths and starvation of Israeli civilians in that scenario as just unfortunate because it was total war?

You have set a dangerous precedent: any country can now engage in total war and if any other country objects they can point to Israel and say commiting war crimes, while regrettable, is justified because they are engaging in what they believe to be self defense. We should just forget about international law and laws of war altogether.

Some EU members have already gone against Israel's genocide by recognising the Palestinian state.

Largest export destination in EU is Ireland, as I illustrated earlier we import more from Israel than Italy or Spain

Israel while being absolute war mongers are not aiming to destroy a nation or a ethnic group. If they were, they wouldn't have any Arab nationals in their country, and most certainly not have Arabs in high positions of power.

Lets be clear here. The very existence of israel was built on the genocide of the Palestinians by zionists. The israeli state could not have been formed without the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and zionists were quite open about driving out Palestinians and calling for mass migration to displace them. Any Arabs inside the occupied territories of israel are merely those Palestinians who israel hasn't genocided yet. Yet being the key term.

Netanyahu himself described the Palestinians as being a "demographic bomb".