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

It's almost Israel's fault that they keep starting them…

I wonder is Barghouti in the list of prisoners to be released. I noticed Iran have gone very quiet lately. It maybe that Donald will actually bring some stability to the region. Bibi would love nothing more than a war with Iran, but Donald, given his aversion to conflicts overseas involving America, may not give Bibi what he wants.

I think Donald is keen on the Saudis and Israelis normalising ties so he might surprise a few people in that regard. He and Bibi may fallout. I know some of his appointments would suggest otherwise, but let's see what happens

Netanyahu might be in prison in Israel or The Hague soon. He'll very likely be voted out at the least.

Which wars did Israel start? Go on name them.
Did they start the currrent one with Hamas?

Cue the long-winded explanation of how Hamas didn't start this war..

Why are the people whose new favourite phrase is "student union" invariably blindly sycophantic towards one particular side?

One curious thing I've noticed among a few posters on this site is that correlation between fawning over zionist genocidal criminal politicians on here and the new found automatic disdain for Irish politicians on various threads. It doesn't really appear to have any consistent basis in logic other than "that person is Irish, they have some role or power or influence in some regard. I must denigrate them immediately regardless". We did see it earlier on in the ongoing genocide when articles related to danger to Irish peacekeepers was resulted in an automatic dismissal with disdain of those peacekeepers. It's just very strange.

I guess it's like any cult where as soon as they have you hooked in, they try to turn you against your previous family/friends/life. It's a bit sinister really when you look at how it is affecting some individuals. On a larger scale it won't ever achieve anything.

Delighted that Hamas have at last signed up to the ceasefire and there is now a ceasefire in place. About time.

It's very good news. Hopefully the daily horror stories of innocent civilians being killed are coming to an end (and won't resume again).

I give it 6 hours before the blood-lusting Zionists maim and kill a household of women and children. They'll call it a "Preemptive strike" or "destroying a hamas weapons cache" and the most one sided war in history will continue as usual

It won't take them long to break it and start firing missiles at Israel again. Next time Israel won't hold back and will wipe Gaza off the map.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-says-he-repeatedly-foiled-hostage-deals-urges-smotrich-to-help-him-stop-this-one/

There is none so blind as those who do not wish to see….

It's not a strategy, but we can only hope. Plenty out there to put Bibi away even before the Hamas war. Perfect pal for Trump, corrupt POS hiding behind his position to avoid prosecution.

Because the killing won't stop.

Palestinians will continue to die from starvation, malnutrition, lack of medical facilities, lack of sanitation, a bullet from an IDF Sniper and so on.

Thinking that Israel will stop the killing of Palestinians is delusional. They been doing it non-stop for many many years.

Not sure if you've seen Gaza lately but it's pretty much ground zero.

Literally tens of thousands of people the vast majority of them peaceful, killed and the same number again seriously injured in a completely avoidable war.

Without blaming any side, it's absolutely ridiculous in this day and age.

Likewise civil government meant to replace Hamas

 – rebuilding, running schools, hospitals, public funds, water etc – would be a mix of some PA, some local leaders, 

“international partners” and the UN.

They need to do this right this time. What's the point in rebuilding the place if those Iranian backed rats just embed themselves in and under all the most expensive structures we build for them making it a target for the IDF.

We basically had American money blowing up EU money in this war. With this ceasefire will Israel recognise the current borders of Gaza and **** off or are they likely to annex parts of Gaza?

Israel built many of the tunnels under Gaza.