Israel/Palestine Thread

I would trust Bernie Sanders over virtually any other American politician to deal with the Gaza crisis:

The attack on Qatar has brought regional tensions into sharper focus:

EU continues to be a joke. They are proposing sanctions against six billion euro of trade with Israel out of 42 billion euro trade (2024). The EU want to be clear that they do not want to publish Israel for murdering somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 Palestinians. They won't even be able to pass their shambolic sanctions :)

“I want to be very clear: the aim is not to punish Israel. The aim is to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza. All Member States agree that the situation in Gaza is untenable. The war needs to end,” Kallas state.

The proposals, which do not currently have enough support from a qualified majority of the 27 member states, aim to impose tariffs on some €5.8 billion of imported goods from Israel.

If.....

Honestly you're a parody at this stage....

This mirrors exactly what Ori Goldberg and others have been saying. The entire country are genocidal and on board with the mass killings, because the victims are 'only Palestinians' and Palestinian lives are irrelevant and worthless.

This would be the mindset of the genocidal fanboys from outside Israel on social media too.

... and ireland?

The brazen criminality of the IDF in Gaza was most ironically highlighted in December 2023 if I recall correctly. Three of the israeli hostages (men) managed to escape from their captors and approached an IDF unit in Gaza seeking rescue while carrying a white flag. The IDF soldiers gunned down the first two hostages, and continued to fire at the last hostages over the course of 15 minutes while they tried to seek cover and shelter while trying to scream they were israelis. When he finally emerged, the IDF soldiers executed him.

All of the hostages were unarmed and approached the IDF soldiers carrying a white flag. But such is the behaviour of the IDF that anyone in Gaza is targeted and killed. Ironically, they would still be alive if they had stayed with their Hamas captors who fed them, watered them and protected them. Also ironically, the IDF soldiers couldn't tell the difference between a Palestinian and an israeli. The incident of IDF soldiers massacring unarmed civilians only attracted any reporting because the victims were israeli hostages.

None of the IDF soldiers who killed the israeli hostages faced any disciplinary action, and the IDF confirmed there would be no changes to their ROE in Gaza as a result. From that moment on it was clear to me that the genocide came first, it came before any concern for hostages.

I think we can be pretty certain that the tens of thousands of children killed weren't Hamas fighters.

Considering there's verified reports of Israeli snipers actually shooting young children, it's pretty hard to say Israel isn't targeting children.

Or are the children actually tiny Hamas members in disguise? So they belong to the snow white brigade they're secretly building Hamas tunnels whilst singing "Hi Ho"?

And if you think I'm being flippant with you, yes I am. This is because there's a mountain of evidence of genocide. Every day there's accounts of atrocities. And no-one is held accountable. If I remember, the only time that anything was done was after the world food program cars were tracked and blown up, the IDF reassigned the people who did it.

And when Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Israeli hostages who were unarmed, holding their hands in the air, waving a white flag, stripped to the waist and shouting in hebrew, the only consequence was that the soldiers were given counselling. One of the hostages actually ran and hid in a building. He kept shouting that he was israeli and the troops told him to come out and he's be safe. When he came out, they shot him.

What they did was murder. they killed three defenceless, unarmed civilians. But their rules of engagement don't just allow it, they demand it. Nobody batted an eye when that happened. It was only later after the bodies were identified as Israeli that there were any consequences. If they'd been Palestinian, there wouldn't have even been an investigation.

So, every day this stuff happens. Every day there's indiscriminate killings. For months no food was allowed in. And loads of respectable orgs have compiled lists of all the known actions, all the comments from the administration and have concluded that there's a direct intention to commit genocide.

But sure, stick your head in the sand. Pretend that this is the most moral army in the world when they've deliberately starved millions.