Israel are going to start WWIII

BBC and Telegraph journalists have been very vocal complaining that Hezbollah are not letting them visit the region, how come?

Do you mean all the countries that have peace settlements with israel and recognize israel?

Pretty much the same. I’ve Jewish mates in the US who would do anything for you, but when backpacking I found Israelis to be the loudest, rudest, most arrogant people going.

Possibly discussed here (or other similar threads) already but I wonder is it possible for Ireland to do something like that (Occupied Territories bill) or will it break EU law? Trade is an EU competence, there is a trade agreement between the EU and Israel currently.

I remember I was scanning the wikipedia page about it and it said the AG had advised them it could be illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_Territories_Bill

Even if he was wrong, there likely will be some case in the CJEU taken over it if the govt. here ever brings something like that in.

One of the big differences is that many of the Israelis that were used by Israel for propaganda purposes after October 7th were women.
I remember various young Israeli women who died in the attack, and in death they were weaponised, as "Hamas murders an Irish girl", "Hamas murders a Canadian girl", "Hamas murders a German girl", "Hamas murders a Canadian girl" and doubtless there were others that I missed. On closer reading it turned out that these poor "girls" were Israeli citizens serving in the Israeli military, with dual nationality. Clearly their deaths were very sad events for their families, but the other reality is that they were part of the repressive machinery of the Israeli state. It may be that they carried out humanitarian work for the Palestinians, but if so I missed that part.

The people who have debased the "anti-semitism" phrase are those like yourself who have continually used it in an attempt to shut down debate on Israel's behaviour. You have used it to excuse the most appalling behaviour by Israel and the worst treatment possible against Palestinians and your other neighbours. If this has resulted in some people now equating Israel, naZionism, anti-semitism and Jews, you don't get to complain because it is precisely you and your supporters who have achieved the conflation of these different words/concepts.

It might come as a surprise to you that the only people who yell Zionist as loudly as some on here are the KKK and other right wing Aryan supramecy groups, but, as you say, have at it.

Wrong again - these days it's people like the KKK and other far-right groups who are naZionism's biggest supporters. Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile. They embrace those who are like them, and recognise you as their soulmates.

When I saw this bit:

according to Starmer's statement

I stopped reading, because Starmer is one of the main enablers for Israel's genocide. You might not remember his part in the destroying British Labour party support for a just settlement in Palestine.
I wouldn't believe a single the man says without checking it three times with independent sources for veracity.

I'm can't recall any condemnation of the US for offering aid, you might link to where that was done. But some of us remember the floating dock that the US built early this year "in order to bring in aid"; at the time it looked like an attempt by the US to buy some good publicity for themselves. So where is the dock now, and how much aid did they deliver using it?

There has been plenty of condemnation of the US overall stance though, which is that it has been facilitating this genocide for over a year now.

Butthen it's neither today nor yesterday that the phrase "white man speaks with forked tongue" was first used.

First we get the truth, with a link,

and then along comes Hasbara with a lie, and logically, with no link.

Are you from the US? It certainly sounds like it.

You might consider whether Israel would have managed to kill so many people if the US (and to be fair Germany) weren't happy to keep supplying Israel with the weapons they use to murder Palestinians.

Supplying a little aid to improve the optics doesn't absolve the US (or Germany) from the major part they have played in this genocide.

Yes, this excuse that because Israel is supposedly facing an existential threat, it is then free to commit as many war crimes as it feels like is absolute garbage. Whether facing existential threat or not, the exact same international humanitarian laws apply and Israel is not free to massacre or slaughter innocent Palestinian civilians. These are still hideous war crimes and are completely illegal.

The people that claim to be hostorically associated with occupied Palestine have NO DNA link to the area at all. And it is the Palestinians that are the real Semites.

And another 36 women and children in a school in Gaza. There'll be big celebrations among the IDF tonight again.

That building, the Israel Defense Force headquarters, is not a military installation. It is an administrative office building just like any administrate headquarters of the army of any democratic country. There are no stockpiles of weapons; no rocket launchers, no munitions works in that building. Take some time to research the military bases in Israel. In a country as small as Israel, I think you'll find that the IDF military bases are not located near schools or hospitals and they are as far away from civilian areas as possible.