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

yet again a fascinating final paragraph utterly detatched from reality. Gotta get the digs in no matter what.

Ok thanks that's all I was asking . Hamas won't allow them . Egypt won't allow them . So they are sitting ducks for IDF air strikes . Horrific really.

No I understand Gaza will be a wasteland for the next decade at least .

But you accept that moving them all out is ethnic cleansing? That's a specific question on ethnic cleansing lin case you missed it. You don't seem bothered by it.

10 years you say. And ultimately do you think the Gazans would ever return home? What's the long term picture for you? For example, will Israel annex any of Gaza?

I asked this already - do you think the same will/should happen in the West Bank?

5 questions there. I suppose I'll get a vague irrelevant sentence back.

How many people will Israel kill today ?

Is there any end to Israel’s evil ?

Seems Gaza might get respite for a short while whilst the IDF go and burn down Tehran. Israel now in full berserker mode.

Haaretz:

• The IDF said Gaza has become a secondary front in the war, with the primary focus now having shifted to Iran.
  
• Netanyahu said that Israel will strike "any site and any target of the Ayatollah regime." "In the very near future, you will see Israeli air force jets over the skies of Tehran," he said.
  
• Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that if Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei "continues to fire missiles at Israel's home front – Tehran will burn."

Of course they haven't. Alleged War Criminal #1 will make certain they don't because it doesn't suit his political agenda and he needs to save his own backside. He doesn't want the hostages released either.

That's why he reneged on the last ceasefire - to keep his new best mate Ben-Gvir (convicted terrorist) on-side. They're the quintessential "International Crime Gang" - seems they're also now best buddies with another Crime Gang in Gaza too.

Birds of a feather.

Nice to see you back posting by the way.

Saying "US troops fought Israel's battles directly in the 60s" is actually completely historically incorrect.

What are you talking about, The Six Day war? Yom Kippur? The only US military involved in either of those wars were the ones killed by Israel in an maybe-not-an-accident encounter.

If you're going to talk about Israel, Gaza, Palestine, the history of the region, can you not just stick to the actual facts? Do they not speak for themselves?

imagine been a British soldier and been asked to go to the Middle East to help the Israel murder machine

Surprise surprise - Israel using the Iran campaign to quietly go about their Genocide in Gaza.

Is there any Nation as murderous as this?

"Gazans who spoke to Haaretz in recent days described a marked escalation in attacks amid Israel's strike on Iran. An eyewitness from the Jabalya and Al-Mawasi refugee camps said heavy gunfire was opened on Palestinians approaching aid distribution points"

Jack Khoury

■ GAZA: The Hamas-run Health Ministry said that 57 Palestinians were killed and 315 others were wounded by IDF fire in Gaza over the past day, adding that 26 died as they waited to receive humanitarian aid. Reports in Gaza and health officials said at least 13 Palestinians were killed in shooting incidents near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points.

I wonder if the Iranian people trust Netanyahu - an inveterate liar?

The hypocrisy is sickening:

Iran:

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Israel is on the side of the Iranian people.

Gaza:

When asked how he expects to make peace with people who have lost their loved ones — in some cases their entire families — to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, Netanyahu said "any civilian death, and any death of any child, is a tragedy."

Indeed - yet other posters would have you believe it is Israel that is under existential threat.

But that's just a cloak to hide their true intentions - intentions that have been clear for a long time as you say. And if you listen to Israeli ministers and senior officials, they have no problem stating it on the record.

Which of course will be use as damning evidence at the ICC and ICJ.

A small piece of good news -

"The four main Israeli company stands at the Paris airshow have been shut down after exhibitors reportedly refused to remove some weapons from display.

The stands at the aerospace industry event were hidden from view after pressure on the organisers from the French government, a source told the Guardian."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/16/israeli-stands-paris-airshow-shut-down-french-government

One thing to put the destruction of Gaza into perspective is that it's only a bit under half the size of Louth. If you bombarded the half of Louth between Drogheda and Tallanstown for a couple of years, you would say this is unnecessary to the point of complete absurdity. OK, largely because Louth is bad enough as it is, but also because it's an insanely small area to concentrate that much firepower on for that long.