Israel/Palestine Thread

Words actually fail me. There is so much wrong with this post.

Two more reports from Haaretz.

As has happened many times before, Settlers are interfering with the delivery of humanitarian aid. They simply want Palestinians to die so they can move in and steal the land.

The second piece is significantly more ominous. If Smotrich succeeds, there will be no words to describe the catastrophe he will unleash. Everything Israel has done to date will be in the ha'penny place. Remember - it is Smotrich who uttered the "concentration" and "cleansing" words in in last couple of weeks.

Activists from Tsav 9, a U.S.-sanctioned far-right group with ties to IDF reservists and Israeli settlers, tried to block the road leading to the Kerem Shalom crossing at the Israel-Gaza border to prevent humanitarian aid trucks from entering the enclave. The left-wing Jewish-Arab NGO Standing Together announced that it will be present at the Gilat and Kerem Shalom crossing to ensure the safe passage of aid into Gaza.

In the next day or two U.S. President Donald Trump and his right hand man Steve Witkoff will have to make a strategic decision: whether to confront Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly and publicly and force on him a cease-fire and an end to the war, or to give in and let Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich carry out his plan to destroy Gaza.
The diplomatic cauldron is on the verge of boiling over, and it looks as though there's no more time"

Chaim Levinson

I guess you're right - the firing of warning shots was nothing like the killing of a suspected criminal evading arrest. But I never said it was.

You do understand that States hosting Diplomats have a duty to protect them?

Not that Netanyahu would ever travel to anywhere in Europe (as that would be his second last stop) but if he did, do you honestly think e.g. the French Army would be firing shots in the vicinity of him?

So, a driver got mixed up with Google Maps and the IDF fire shots. Hmmm.

Let's see what what Israel concocts. If its anything like the IDF extermination of 15 medics, it'll initially be a pack of lies of course.

Palestinians are protesting against Hamas, for the third day.

Are you referring to Al-Shifa because those IDF propaganda videos in 2023 were proven to be bogus. But why don't you provide a link to back up your claim. Or do you plan to disappear again 😉

It seems that the mood is very much changing quite rapidly. Gazans are openly protesting Hamas (they are subject to execution) and Israelis are doing the the same (maybe not subject to execution but a bit of roughing up by the IDF is possible).

After Yair Golan's doubling down on the "killing babies as a hobby", he's joined by Moshe Ya'alon.

'The mood is changing': Israeli anger grows at conduct of war

Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sparked outrage on Monday when he said: "Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don't return to acting like a sane country.

"A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of depopulating the population," he told Israeli public radio's popular morning news programme.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back, describing the comments as "blood libel".

But on Wednesday, a former Israeli minister of defence and IDF chief of staff - Moshe "Bogi" Ya'alon - went further.

"This is not a 'hobby'," he wrote in a post on X, "but a government policy, whose ultimate goal is to hold on to power. And it is leading us to destruction."