Israel/Palestine Thread

Not "others" BB - just you. And I didn't ask, just suggested that you do given your negative posts about this thread and its contents.

I'll continue as I have - posting information and reports from mainstream news organisations to inform "the others" who appear to appreciate the content as it relates to the thread title.

Do feel free to challenge any reports I post that you think are "propaganda" or "not credible" and I'll corroborate them. But I won't stop posting because you don't like the message or the messenger. And I did pay the subscription fee so would like to get value.

By the way, my post tally is less than a quarter of yours.

Pretty biased BB in my opinion. There's also a certain coterie who appear to support Genocide and War Crimes and can't bring themselves to condemn it. Yet demand that everyone condemns Hamas (which they do).

There will always be "sides" and polar opposite views on events. But I find it hard to understand how that is possible when talking about the ongoing extermination of an ethnic group. One can condemn the acts of a nation without condemning the nation itself.

So I'll go with you seeing it as "wrongly".

Israel just can't help itself being an aggressor - grenades and tank fire at UNIFIL troops (Irish Peacekeepers unharmed)

"The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has said Israeli forces fired at peacekeepers and dropped a grenade in their vicinity in southern Lebanon yesterday."

I found this piece very interesting. Mohan makes a good point about the humanitarian agencies apparently ignoring atrocities by Hamas.

"Following the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, and the Israeli military's withdrawal from roughly half of the Gaza Strip, Hamas reasserted control over most of the territory.

Since then, numerous corroborated testimonies – some supported by filmed evidence – have emerged of executions of political opponents, particularly brutal torture of civilians in the street in broad daylight and killings or beatings of civilians who merely expressed gratitude toward the U.S. or criticized Hamas.

Needless to say, all of this took place without any due process. Given these facts, I was astonished to look at the X accounts of two of the world's largest human rights organizations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and find that, at the time of writing, there has been not a single reference to these atrocities…

I can understand considerations about the need to maintain legitimacy with one's constituency, but human rights work is not a popularity contest and must never become one"

Yariv Mohar

Good news for the Hostage Families - hopefully the IDF will allow the bodies to be recovered.

Hamas informed mediating countries that it began recovering between seven and nine bodies of deceased Israeli hostages, the Saudi Asharq TV channel reported.

According to a source familiar with the matter, the group has confirmed the locations of the bodies, adding that Hamas has requested that the IDF withdraw from certain areas on the Israeli-controlled side of the Yellow Line in order to complete the searches.

Well, the thread title kind of gives the game away. I'd imagine posting about Yemen/Sudan would be curtailed fairly quickly.

And your "continuous outpouring of abuse" is exaggerated. Yes - strong condemnation because that's what Genocide requires. But "abuse"? No, not in my opinion.

But perhaps people are reacting to the likes of Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Herzog and Netanyahu and the rest who are well able and well known for hurling abuse at individuals and countries - including Ireland.

And not only hurling abuse - IDF have been lobbing grenades and tank fire at UNIFIL troops lately.

This Nikki Haley ?-

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/nikki-haley-finish-them-missile-israel