Israel/Palestine Thread

Mad hope ye didn't miss your flights!

Can understand why they would need stringent security to be fair (a mix of lots of enemies / lots of stuff they don't want to get out). Bad as it is, at least if they are doing it to everyone thats just the way it is.

If Irish people are being targeted for their nationality and harassed like that, that's another thing entirely though

I travelled there from Heathrow with El Al and that was pretty standard check in procedure. You had to take all of you luggage straight to the gate and check in there, after an interrogation about why you were going to Israel, how you bought your tickets, where you were going when you got there. They basically asked the same questions three or four different ways to try and trip you up. It was the same coming back as well and that was during a relatively peaceful period.

We're getting reports on a daily basis from Red Cross, Red Crescent, MSF, UN, Journalists, Scholars of Genocidal Studies, former IDF personnel, that's before we even need to look at videos of babies being left to die in incubators, ambulance/paramedic personnel being summarily executed plus journalists being killed before our eyes.

We can all see what's going on over there Blanch, it's called genocide.

The US has tied itself to an out of control Israel and is burning political capital with allies and burning bridges with rivals to the detriment of its own self interest.
Saudi Arabia has moved under the Pakistan nuclear umbrella.
India has moved into the China/Russia orbit.
US power is a shadow of what it was a generation ago.
A divided, unequal society creaking under an enormous debt burden with a narcissistic, lying, low IQ simpleton as president. His UN address was arguably the most embarrassing of any US president in UN history. Where will the US be at the end of the Trump administration?

Disturbing reports that Trump considering recognising Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank.

Amazing how you think the Jewish people have a right to a land most of them hadn't lived in for some 2000 years, but that the Irish do not have a right to what was the most Gaelic part of Ireland just over 400 years ago. Your hypocrisy is off the charts, but that ain't a surprise to anyone really.

Israel planned to disrupt the UNGA special meeting on Palestine. They were going to carry out this cyber attack on US soil. Sheds light on Eurovision voting for Israel.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/un-devices-cell-network-surveillance-found-b2831950.html

The U.S. Secret Service says it has dismantled a stockpile of devices in the New York area that were “capable of crippling telecom systems and carrying out anonymous telephonic attacks,” as world leaders arrive in the city for the U.N. General Assembly.

The agency said it discovered the network of electronic devices that were used to “conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials” and could send up to 30 million text messages a minute.

They discovered the devices within 35 miles of the U.N.’s Manhttan headquarters.

“It can’t be understated what this system is capable of doing,” said Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office. “It can take down cell towers, so then no longer can people communicate, right? .... You can’t text message, you can’t use your cell phone. And if you coupled that with some sort of other event associated with UNGA, you know, use your imagination there, it could be catastrophic to the city.”

James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, told the outlet that only a handful of countries, including Russia, China and Israel, could pull off such an operation.

Israel is effectively using decommissioned armoured personnel carriers as suicide bombers on steroids. Civilians are being terrorised by them.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-explosive-robots-they-turn-night-day

I remember it. There were metal detectors at the entrance. That was about it.