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Israel/Palestine Thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,943 ✭✭✭Odhinn




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,075 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    "I'm back"

    Back spouting horse sh!te



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭rogber


    Fxck Israel and USA, what else is there to say? Full scale destruction of Gaza continues with American blessing



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭Miniegg


    I am genuinely curious - what drives you to post disinformation and put such obvious illogical viewpoints out there?

    Has it ever entered your mind that you are wrong? That the countless independent bodies, human rights groups in Israel and out, academics focusing on genocide, and many politicians, and now the UN - that all those calling this genocide are right? That the whole world, including the many Jewish people opposed to this, aren't antisemetic or supporters of terrorism?

    That if Hamas are so powerful, and able to dupe the world so easily, why haven't they been able to do this previously? Are you never curious how such a elaborate and seemingly omnipotent propoganda machine, capable of fooling the institutions responsible for international law, havnt been close to giving Palestine a state yet? Instead, Hamas are regularly and roundly condemned by almost all world leaders.

    It seems to me like you have an immovable opinion on this conflict. It doesn't matter what genuine evidence there is, you will trawl the internet to find the flimsiest or most biased pieces you can, and that is all it takes to reinforce your already immovable opinion. Even when your links are debunked, as almost all of them are, it doesn't seem to affect your viewpoint, or does it make you pause for thought?

    The red velvet cake link was in particular a crazy thing to try to argue for. Do you genuinely believe that was real?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,216 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    The man/woman is living in an alternate reality where Israel can do anything it wants and it is all the fault of someone else. Anyone pointing this out is accused of being 'Hamas' and being 'anti-semetic'. Best pitied and ignored



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭CFlat


    Are Israel going to bomb the UN now looking for Hamas? Actually, I wouldn't be one bit surprised if they did. You're on the wrong side of history pa.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Interesting article by Ismail Salahuddin

    https://english.palinfo.com/opinion_articles/gaza-and-the-death-of-conscience/

    Gaza is not only a tragedy; it is a teacher. It teaches us that evil no longer hides, it wears the clothes of democracy, speaks the language of law, and is applauded by those who claim to be progressive. It teaches us that conscience can collapse globally, under the weight of profit and power. It teaches us that Palestinians, through their sumud, their steadfast refusal to disappear, remain the last keepers of dignity in an age that has lost all shame.

    Their endurance is not only a resistance to occupation. It is a resistance to the death of humanity itself.

    One day, the bombs will stop, the rubble will be cleared, the dead will be counted. And history will ask us a question more terrifying than any image we have seen: Where were you when Gaza was erased? What did you do?

    There will be no excuses left—not silence, not complexity, not neutrality.

    The ruins of Gaza will hold the answer: we saw, and we failed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭tarvis


    Tonight’s news show an absolutely flattened Gaza with over 100 killed today. The UN asks countries to stop selling arms to Israel when vast areas are already reduced to rubble.
    Stable door Horse long gone comes to mind.

    Mr T’s perambulations around UK palaces seems so empty in the face of this destruction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Luxembourg stands up and announces it will recognise Palestine this Monday while 16 countries warn Israel against attacking the Sumud flotilla. We need them to send warships to accompany the flotilla.

    Sixteen countries, including Turkiye, Spain, Brazil, and Bangladesh, issued a joint statement on 16 September warning against “unlawful or violent” action targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla as it sails toward Gaza.

    The statement was signed by the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Spain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, the Maldives, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Slovenia, and South Africa.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,248 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    What is most chilling about the genocide in Gaza is the widespread support it enjoys from the US and Europe politicians. It's wholly brazen and yet the US and Europe continue to endorse and support israel to a level that makes them willing accomplices. Even though it is politically very unpopular with US and European voters, there isn't the slightest chance of the US or EU representing their voters views on it.

    However it pans out in the end, in the future I believe historians will recognise the Gaza genocide is where the US and Europe lost any claim to moral superiority over the rest of the world. We almost never hear any talk about the rules based order anymore. Nobody in the rest of the world wants to hear about it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,075 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Correct. The US in particular has completely lost it's moral authority. The EU is close behind. I can only theorise that Israel's lobby is very very strong and those politicians that turn a blind eye to the genocide do it for greed/reward and because they hate muslims. That said, the citizens that still buy the lies are very very gullible/dim and probably hate muslims too.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,493 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    There are more than 50 different vessels in the flotilla with thousands of people on board (44 different nationalities). One wonders how the terrorist state are going to handle their arrival : the risk of this being a PR disaster for Israel is quite high.



  • Site Banned Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭political analyst


    Presumably, the commission based its findings on info that came from Hamas-run territory. The UN has zero credibility, i.e. sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers in Africa, failing to prevent genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, Iraq oil-for-food corruption scandal, the cholera outbreak caused by peacekeepers in Haiti after the earthquake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,943 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    And the group of hundreds of genocide scholars who declared it a genocide? What's the problem with them?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 11,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    You really should have stayed out of this thread - you are so full of sh1t its not even funny any more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,493 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    What international organisation 'do' you respect and consider as credible?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Iecrawfc


    Would anyone be suprised if israel, (with tacit US support) takes out the flotilla with casualties? They're a psychopathic regime and dont give a crap about speeches of condemnation from the rest of the world.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    Might be a step too far even for them, but expect heavy handed blockage of Flotilla.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 58,485 ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod: @political analyst do not post in this thread again



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭purplesnack


    I dunno, they're gone into full berserker mode. I wouldn't put anything past them at this stage



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,403 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arutz_Sheva

    It's a religious zionist news org, which has a radio station based in a settlement. Completely unbiased.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭Miniegg


    So your argument is that Hamas still runs Gaza? How is that going for them?

    This omnipotent Hamas - who's fighters are also capable of disappearing and reappearing at will (afterall, Hamas control centre was the justification for almost every house, school, hospital, college, mosque, church, farm, well, library that has been blown up and subsequently bulldozed) - are still in complete control of a country of rubble that is not only overrun with an invading army, but where that same army have food, aid, power, medicine, baby formula and clean water blockaded at the borders?

    It wasn't Hamas who stopped international journalists from reporting on the conflict.

    The UN have the job of often having to govern the worst humanity has to offer, be it the genocidal forces in Rwanda, Bosnia, Congo - this Israeli regime now sits amongst them for the scale and barbarity of their crimes.

    Their job isn't an easy one, but it is one that is gravely needed - I doubt many who don't subscribe to nonsensical ideologies founded first and foremost in bigotry and supremacy (and willing to burn the world's institutions down when they stand against this) would see the UN as having zero credibility.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    Israel is committing genocide. They need to be kicked out of everything international and blockades put on their air and sea ports. More support in New York for excluding them.

    A coalition of advocacy organizations and fan groups called on European soccer federations to boycott Israel in a Times Square billboard that went live on Tuesday, kicking off the #GameOverIsrael campaign months ahead of the World Cup.

    The billboard went up on Tuesday in New York, which is set to host eight matches in the World Cup next year, including the final. Canada and Mexico are co-hosting the quadrennial international competition with the United States.

    Israel's financial markets are in a slump because of a loss of confidence in Israel's future :)

    Israeli stocks are on track for a five-day losing streak as the intensification of Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza triggers renewed investor anxiety, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

    The report indicated that the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange 35 Index (TA-35) dropped as much as 2.3% on Tuesday, “at one point recording the steepest losses globally, before recovering slightly to close down 0.2%.”

    Business community has started to walk away rather than be tainted with genocide.

    Prominent Democratic public affairs firm SKDK has ended its contract with the Israeli government, which had enlisted the firm to push its narrative about its war on Gaza.

    The $600,000 deal, first disclosed by Politico in March, was set to run from April through next March. SKDK initially highlighted the situation of Israeli captives before shifting to booking Israeli officials and commentators on major news programs to defend the ongoing genocide in Gaza.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭wildgreen


    The Sumud flotilla should try to land at different ports along the Palestinian coast to prevent the genocidal Israeli state from blocking their access. A new D-Day is coming.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Does Ireland have warships that could be sent to accompany the flotilla?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,248 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    why would they need warships to deliver aid to starving people ? are the isrealis going to fire on another thing today to make them even more despised?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Posters are saying that warships should be sent to protect the flotilla delivering aid, not me. I am just asking whether those posters and others are prepared to send the Irish navy there to do the job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,075 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,824 ✭✭✭✭Red Silurian


    If we are a neutral country we shouldn't send the navy in, if we are no longer neutral, we should

    When it comes to this war we are about as neutral as Germany were in the 1940s, so I say yes, send the navy in



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