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Hamas strike on Israel

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  • #48242
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672135#Comment_123672135

    Queue the 'perfectly normal, happens everywhere' replies, assuming they even bother to engage.



  • #48243
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672142#Comment_123672142

    What point are you trying to make, it isn't very clear how this relates to war crimes and possible genocide?



  • #48244
    Rocket_GD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672135#Comment_123672135

    A poster on here will tell you that they didn’t see it directly so who knows it could have been 30 Irish dancers led by Flatley that could have done this?

    There’s no end to the lengths IDF defenders will go to continue to bury their heads in the sand and see no wrongdoing.



  • #48245
    freebritney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭freebritney


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672065#Comment_123672065

    But of course, a Lt Colonel in the US Special Forces who witnessed war crimes with his own eyes is wrong while a Walter Mitty from Cork is correct. I notice you attack the person and not his story. Are you still asking about the overweight parents of starving children.



  • #48246
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,566 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671955#Comment_123671955

    nope criminal damage, that is all it was ultimately.
    treason is redundant, only the far right are obsessed with this redundant law that belongs in a children's story book.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • #48247
    freebritney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭freebritney


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671859#Comment_123671859

    I really have to go to town on you again for this statement as it's so ridiculous.

    1. If you are a Green Beret you have passed the Special Forces Q course. You are not non-operational, you are a Green Beret and in the case of an officer, the leader of an A-team.
    2. You do not rise to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in any military and be untrustworthy, never mind a combat arms unit like the Special Forces.
    3. Lt Colonel Aguilar was in the US Army 75th Ranger Regiment, another unit not known for it's tolerence of untrustworthy leaders.
    4. You are a Walter Mitty spoofer who has spouted the Hasbara line and been caught. (the X account you quote is a lunatic who believes Sandy Hook was staged)
    5. Israel is committing countless war crimes and a genocide in Gaza.


  • #48248
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,867 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671864#Comment_123671864

    Typical from you. I mentioned the severe mal nutrition he spoke about. You conveniently ignored that. What excuse will you come up with, just deny that's it happening I suppose. Also in relation to the shootings we have the testimony from a former GHF contractor. You will ignore that too ,or it'll be some such rubbish that's it's isolated incidents or he couldnt be sure who it was. Keep up it Political Analyst but no one takes your apologism for war crimes seriously bar your fellow Pro Israeli travellers.

    Post edited by nacho libre on


  • #48249
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,867 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672065#Comment_123672065

    Yeah he is likely everything they despise because he highlights their wrongdoing. You don't like that so naturally you would be desperate to discredit him in any case, which is why you trawled twitter to find a disgruntled ex collegaue of his who it turns out is an unhinged individual. Your mission is to discredit anyone or organisation who speaks out against the IDF because you are an apologist for Israeli war crimes. As i said previously no one bar your fellow Israeli apologists are buying it.



  • #48250
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,269 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671859#Comment_123671859

    If that Twitter account is indicative of where you get your opinions from, it's no wonder that every time you hit the Post Comment button you litter the site with the most stupid, cretinous, nonsense imaginable.

    You may need to broaden where you get your ideas from.



  • #48251
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123670977#Comment_123670977

    Because there are no problems already? Terrorist attacks, high crime and unemployment rates, grooming gangs, low respect for women and lgbt people. Maybe we should send them all back to the Middle East like some on here want to send all Israelis back to Europe even though over half fled Muslim countries because of persecution.



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  • #48252
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    I question the humanity of anyone that even attempts to rationalize and/or condone what is happening in Gaza. I'm not one for often commenting on what happens in the ME but it's beyond sickening that the great powers of the world are letting and in the case of the US funding this.

    We are well past the time for a western coalition to enter Gaza to distribute aid and call a halt to this. With or without Israeli or US permission.



  • #48253
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I have discovered a channel on YT called Double Down News.

    They have a few videos detailing what is really happening in Israel and Gaza since Oct 7th, and its truly shocking.

    In years to come, we will look back on this terrible period in human history, and many leaders, countries, political parties, tv channels etc will find it very hard to explain how they supported Israel through what they are doing.



  • #48254
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672370#Comment_123672370

    They will do what they always do. Claim ignorance.



  • #48255
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672388#Comment_123672388

    Theres no excuse any more.



  • #48256
    freebritney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭freebritney


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672333#Comment_123672333

    This is the glaring issue the rabid racists can't seem to understand, Israel's constant destabilising actions in the Middle East are a huge cause of the immigration to Europe. Instead of waving Israeli flags, Tommy Robinson and yourself should be pushing to reign them in.

    Israel should be hemmed in and isolated from the international community like North Korea, better to keep the genocidal lunatics over there than them coming back to Europe.



  • #48257
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,804 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672398#Comment_123672398

    If the Israeli football teams, athletes and eurovision singers haven't been excluded from competitons by now, then they never will be.

    A pariah state.



  • #48258
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672398#Comment_123672398

    Most ‘refugees’ are economic migrants, even our government are admitting this now, where a year ago it was a ‘far right’ position.
    Israel didn’t cause the Syrian civil war or form ISIS. Those problems were there already.
    Zionism was a far right dog whistle two years ago.
    also the entire Middle East is far more racist than Ireland. The West is an outlier in that. The rest of the world is far more racist than the ‘West’.

    Post edited by Potatoeman on


  • #48259
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671224#Comment_123671224

    Palestine is not a member state of the UN - correct.
    But that's not what you originally posted.

    You confused Palestine being "recognised" (which any other State can do at any time - e.g. France) with Palestine becoming a member of the UN.

    France, or any other State, can recognise Palestine without recourse to the UN at all.



  • #48260
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,007 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672370#Comment_123672370

    You'll also have posters on here deleting accounts and coming back with new usernames.



  • #48261
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123671859#Comment_123671859

    hmmm - random/anonymous twitter account versus Jeremy Bowen and the BBC.

    I know who I'd trust more.



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  • #48262
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672065#Comment_123672065

    So good you had to post the same rubbish twice?



  • #48263
    Spudmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,155 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

    So the Israeli Military say Hamas doesn't routinely steal aid. But I suppose we knew the Israelis were most likely lying about this anyway...



  • #48264
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Anyone remember the multitude of posts quoting the Israeli Govt. who said they have concrete evidence that Hamas was stealing aid?

    I do.

    There have been others posts about this in the last few days, but I think there's a bit more detail below.

    Hardcore Israeli supporters will wave this away. But for those "marginal" supporters, just remember that everything the Israeli Govt. states to justify its atrocities in Gaza always always turns out to be a massive porky.

    Do not swallow the Hasbara - it is poison and lies. And that's not hyperbole - the Israeli Govt. has lied to everyone, including its own citizens, for 659 days.

    Haaretz:
    Senior IDF officials told The New York Times they never found proof that Hamas systematically stole humanitarian aid from the United Nations in Gaza – contradicting claims by the Netanyahu government that formed the basis for blocking aid deliveries for months.

    According to two senior IDF officers and two other Israelis involved in the matter, the UN's aid distribution system, which Israel had criticized and sought to replace, was "largely effective in providing food to Gaza's desperate and hungry population."

    The IDF told the Times it has "well-documented" instances of Hamas exploiting humanitarian aid to fund terrorism, but did not dispute the assessment that there was no evidence of routine theft from the UN.



  • #48265
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,202 ✭✭✭political analyst


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672090#Comment_123672090

    Disputing Dr Maynard's allegations is not like denying what colour the sky is. So your "sky is blue" hypothesis is a non sequitur.



  • #48266
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,093 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672611#Comment_123672611

    Noticeable that Israeli lies have completely been exposed in the last few days. Very striking too that western media outlets are no longer even mentioning Israeli denials when reporting on the war crimes.



  • #48267
    political analyst
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,202 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Not all cases of emaciation are caused by starvation.

    Maybe those cases of child emaciation in Gaza are caused by genetic disorders - cousin marriage is very common in territories that have populations that are mostly both Arab and Muslim.

    Mod - warned for trolling

    Post edited by Leg End Reject on


  • #48268
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,681 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672698#Comment_123672698

    Seriously?



  • #48269
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Seems the GHF took a step to try and recover whatever credibility they thought they could. In fairness, it was a good idea - offer aid distribution only to women for one day.

    Given many of those women have lost husbands and sons and do not have the strength to walk the long distances or leave young children behind as they wait hours for aid, it is a touching gesture.

    Oh, wait, the murders continued and many were women were teargassed.

    IDF and GHF are an utter disgrace to humanity. Monsters.


    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74z4gy5g31o


  • #48270
    dmcdona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,069 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Jeremy Bowen explaining why air-dropped aid is not going to help:


    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4242pnjko


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  • #48271
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672816#Comment_123672816

    I can only imagine the chaos that dropping aid on a starving population is going to cause. Many people will be killed in fighting and a crush around these pallets.

    All while enough food aid to feed the population for months just sits the other side of the fence.

    It's disgusting.



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