Israel/Palestine Thread

Which of the 238 journalists executed in Gaza by Israel are spineless?

And how about the IDF lads dressed as doctors executing the wounded?

Very apt quote for the result of Israel funding Hamas for the last 20 years and building tunnels in Gaza.

You seem to be happier with the idea that Israel shouldn't have targeted terrorists because they were set up in hospitals, schools and people's kitchens.

You do realise no one is going to not target a civilian location and allow the embedded enemy continue targeting it's people.

It's a Muslim country, I'd expect nothing else

Tell me about any war were these types of things haven't happened. Not saying it's right but it happens.

As for world pariah...only in your head

Tell me what wars where it did happen?

Why do you think Israel told IDF soldiers to delete their social media accounts before they went abroad? Simple - the IDF videoed their war crimes and Israel was afraid they'd be arrested. Some were.

Certainly, the US agrees that on the world stage, Israel is a busted flush. Why do you think all those nations recently recognised The State of Palestine?

World Pariah for sure - the calls for banning Israel from international sports and other events like Eurovision are deafening. As posted, Israel have already been banned from some events. Just like Russia are banned because of their war crimes.

Try Google - it's easy.

I think what should have been said, is that its yet to be proven that Israel funded them. For now all we can say is Israel funded directly or indirectly Hamas and other terrorist factions within Palestine. In what's believed to be an act to de-stabilise Palestine and prevent a one state Palestine from forming. Now do you agree with that.

The hostage families pleaded with the Israeli Govt. to end the war and bring the hostages home. With the constant bombing they feared their loved ones would be killed at the hands of Israel itself.

Seems that's precisely what happened to Tamir Nimrodi. Nimrodi may have been released and still be alive today if Israel had not reneged on the ceasefire last March.

May all the dead hostages rest in peace.

The bodies of three hostages held by Hamas, Uriel Baruch, Tamir Nimrodi and Eitan Levy were returned to Israel from Gaza on Tuesday night, their families said on Wednesday morning, following forensic identification. The IDF said that the fourth body handed over by Hamas on Tuesday does not match any of the hostages.

Nimrodi's forensic identification is also the first official confirmation of his death, more than two years after October 7. According to his family, Nimrodi, 18 years old, was killed in an IDF airstrike in Gaza. Baruch, 35, was murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023 near Kibbutz Mefalsim after escaping from the Nova music festival and his body taken to Gaza. Levy, 35, was also murdered on October 7 and his body taken to Gaza.

Good piece from Khoury:

"The Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit will become a litmus test.

If the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas holds, if aid begins to flow into Gaza at a reasonable pace, and if real steps are taken to rebuild Gaza, what now seems like a highly-publicized international show, may one day be remembered as the beginning of a genuine process.

However, if the promises made during the summit end up collapsing under the weight of their own rhetoric, as has happened many times in the past, it will go down in history as yet another reiteration of the tired, old narrative, in which peace begins with a grand photo-op and ends when the cameras stop rolling"

Jack Khoury