Israel/Palestine Thread

We are not obsessed with Palestine. We are free from the obsession that kings and empires have a right to dominate colonists.

We side with freedom from oppression. The British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Ottoman, Roman etc culture is formed by the idea that empire is good. In Ireland we identify with anti imperialism.

(Not all of us, but there are arseholes in every society)

you only have to read a few of their posts to realise your assertion is correct

Latest snippets from Haaretz:

• The killing of Hamas terrorists continues unabated
• Majority of Americans support recognition of the State of Palestine and that Israel's campaign has been excessive
• Australia tears alleged War Criminal #1 (at large) a new one and Australian Jews support it
• Majority of Germans support the suspension of arms to Israel
• Orthodox rabbis excoriate Israel

The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that a family of five, three of them children, was killed in an attack on a tent in the Al-Shati camp in western Gaza City. A strike on a building housing displaced Gazans in Zaitoun killed four members of one family. In Khan Yunis, three people were killed in a strike, including a 3-month-old baby. The Hamas-run Health Ministry reported that three Palestinians died due to issues relating to hunger and malnutrition in the past 24 hours .

Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe that all UN member states should recognize Palestine, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. 65 percent of respondents said the U.S. should take action in Gaza to help people facing starvation and 59 percent of Americans believe that Israel's military response in Gaza has been excessive.

After Netanyahu dubbed Australia's prime minister "a weak politician who betrayed Israel" on Tuesday, Anthony Albanese told reporters he does not "take these things personally, I engage with people diplomatically. He has had similar things to say about other leaders." Australia's Interior Minister Tony Burke told Radio National that "strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry."

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, representing the country's Jewish community, blamed Netanyahu for engaging in a "clumsy intervention into Australia's domestic politics." Netanyahu's attack, the letter said, "demonstrated a woeful lack of understanding of social and political conditions in Australia" and "played straight into the hands of opponents of Israel and antisemites, to the detriment of the Australian Jewish community."

Nearly two-thirds of Germans support Chancellor Friedrich Merz's decision to partially suspend arms exports to Israel, according to a YouGov survey conducted for dpa, which found that 65 percent of respondents backed the move, while 19 percent opposed it and 16 percent were undecided.

"Over 80 Orthodox rabbis – including chief rabbis past and present of several countries – signed a petition released on Tuesday urging Israel to address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and condemn settler violence in the West Bank. Calling the crisis in Gaza 'one of the most severe in recent history,' the rabbis state that Israel is not absolved 'from assuming its share of the responsibility for the profound suffering of Gaza's civilian population'" – Linda Dayan

The world has consistently condemned what Israel has done, is doing and plans to do.

And it has done nothing tangible to actually stop Israel from perpetrating some of the worst war crimes seen.

Israelis themselves are about the only people who can do anything - they are protesting en mass but even that has not stopped the murderous juggernaut.

And so it begins - the final solution.

I can't stand seeing Rubio. There is the face of a man who has completely sold his soul and lost his own self respect but just continues on down the dark path for expediency. A massive ****.