It seems like a Jewish right wing are determined to start a Middle East war and WWIII . Israel is the equivalent of a Fascist state and it’s time to call them out as such .
It's more of a social democracy rather than a liberal state, the term liberal has come to mean so many different things to people that it is now meaningless.
Israel would be like a Nordic State but with a much more significant part of the economy worker owned and led.
This bit is interesting
“ Councillor Frank Fahy (FG ) suggested adding Russia to the motion, but his amendment was rejected. “
The whole situation is depressing. I know we've seen some of the worst sh it imaginable from Israel and Hamas the last year or so but i have to admit that report on sky news yesterday about the boy burning to death whilst still in his hospital bed really has knocked me for six.
Hard to believe this is where the human race is in 2024.
The head Sunni Cleric in Lebanon also called yesterday for Hezbollah to be disarmed and replaced by only UN or Lebanese army in the South.
The Lebanese people are using this opportunity to rise up against Hezbollah and its rein of terror and brutality.
The really depressing thing is that most governments are perfectly happy to tolerate this, worst of all in Europe.
Being against the excessive force that Israel is employing is not the same as supporting Hamas. People have to stop conflating the two.
How exactly do you know it was unintentional
The IDF must be one of the most incompetent armies in world given all the other unintentional deaths during this conflict and over the years. It's remarkable given how consistently the IDF have been shown to lie that you believe without question what they say. I feel a what about Hamas coming... I wouldn't believe a word of what they say either. All these organisations inside and outside of Israel, including the ICJ, stating they have mounting evidence of Israeli war crimes, yet political analyst knows better. You have about as much credibility in your denials as comical Ali denying the Americans were in Baghdad when we could hear the tanks in the background as he spoke.
The worst thing is that this is just a rare instance of one of Israel's victims actually being reported. Similar, and worse, has been inflicted upon tens of thousands of innocent people but they don't bother reporting on it other than a number. The amount of disturbing stories I've come across about 4 or 5 year old kids that the IDF have slaughtered have been horrific, but they almost never make it into mainstream western media.
Yes, we keep hearing about 'the only democracy in the Middle East' and 'one of the most liberal countries in the world' and yet it's a country behaving like an authoritarian state, committing multiple war crimes and suspected of probable genocide (with the full knowledge of its population).
Mainstream media have to verify and get multiple confirmation on stories they cover
Are you seriously arguing that they should run stories from social media that can’t be verified and quite possibly AI generated (or regurgitated from likes of Syrian civil war)
BTW no journalists are being permitted by Hezbollah in Lebanon now
Yeah, it's not a remotely convincing argument at all. I'd find it easier to believe that the sun revolves around the earth. Much easier.
They won't, because it's all they have. It's impossible for any respectable person with any sense of honour to support what Israel is doing in the Middle East, so instead the pivot is toward the idea that such a person must therefore be a de facto supporter of Hamas instead.
It's laughably transparent.
Speaking of creating shitholes;
It must have slipped your mind to mention the extreme views and mores of those in the current Israeli government and those who support them.
When you have a situation where, literally, tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered in a year, it gets difficult to report on every bit of carnage that occurs in any kind of detail.
pro hamas, and anti semite
Israel are hiding behind the veil of defending ourselves, I don’t think Israel want peace with their neighbours unless those neighbours conduct themselves in a manner acceptable to Israel.
Well, all they have is both sidesism, whataboutery and the tried, tested, and debunked tactic of labelling all criticism of the IDF's actions as antisemitic.
Nothing was accidentally left out.
Which for me is why stuff like X is a necessary evil. It must drive the Israelis mad they can't control the propaganda space anymore.
Rumours circulating in Israel that Palestinian leader Sinwar was killed today in an air strike on a old school building in Gaza which was a meeting place for Hamas and Islamic jihad...
Hopefully but we'll know soon enough
To be fair, that's as expected as an announcement that water is wet. An announcement like that wouldn't really constitute anything, never mind an uprising.
The Sunni lads traditionally are as big a fan of the Shias as Pat Spillane is of the latter's tactical influence on Northern GAA football teams
It is but it has to be pointed out as well, there are an awful lot of people in Lebanon and wider afield who are delighted to see Hezbollah battered and pray that the Iranian regime is next.
True, but as much coverage went to naming and picturing the four Israeli soldiers that died in a strike on a military base a couple of days ago as roughly the last 1,000 children that were murdered in their homes / schools / hospitals / refugee camps combined.
Israeli officials now saying it is a high probability that it is Sinwar, the cadaver has been taken away for DNA testing.
They'll be some wailing and caturwalling this Saturday in the marches
Downright odd that they were even named. The western media describes the conflict as the 'Hamas-Israel War' - why they would even feel the need to publish the names, photos and ages of four male soldiers who were fighting in military uniform in such a war is a very strange editorial decision.
Is that why these liberal irish and american students want to prevent those they disagree with from speaking at events, is that why our liberal govt want to introduce the "hate speech" bill?
What has this got to do with the thread?
Michael D will be busy letter writing
So much for that story that Sinwar was surrounded by hostages. It appears that there none in the vicinity of him.
Good Riddance to him anyway.
It and a hard winter will finish him, it's up there with the death of Arafat.
Isn't it mad that they can definitively state that "three terrorists were killed" even though they don't know who they were.
They have confirmed that it is Sinwar. They knew they were combatants, it seems it was not a targeted operation just a chance.
