Israel/Palestine Thread

The same groups that won't allow Irish signage on the island of Ireland want hebrew signs.

It is a war in the sense of what wars are, that is two or more enemy combatants engaged in warfare.

And about Hamas, don't tell me, tell to the one who apparently doesn't find any motive or reason for terrorists to do terror.

Why did they do October 7th attack?

Many have speculated. Could be to undermine U.S brokered talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia that were going on at the time, cynical ploy to position Hamas as the main defender of Palestinians, possibly to provoke an Israeli overreaction and put the agenda of a free Palestine back in the public consciousness, maybe something to do with Iranian goals in the region (everyone says they are proxies).

Nobody knows for sure, unless they are in Hamas.

Either way, could be some of the potential reasons above, or it could be "cuz they iz Muzlimz".

Why don't you look into it yourself and come back with the most likely reason?

 I don't care you find it offensive or lazy or god forbid it islamophobic,

Just so I have this straight, in Cordell world, making up nonsense lies to dehumanize a people of a particular religion is wrong if it's against Jewish people, but fine and dandy if it's against Muslims?

I'll tell ya something, as a self proclaimed independant thinker who gives us doses of "reality", you aren't painting a convincing picture.

No, unlike most palestinians those civilian victims had nothing to do with any war.

possibly to provoke an Israeli overreaction

Yes, and they failed to achieve that, instead they got what any level headed observer would consider a very restrained response coming from a strong military and nuclear power. It could have been much worse.

"cuz they iz Muzlimz".

Why write it like this?

The irony of this post that specifically uses name calling in it, you couldn't make it up.

Idiotic and disgusting.

Google has a disturbingly close relationship with Israel. Not to encourage paranoia or anything but…many IDF veterans from, say, Unit 8200 have senior posts in the company.

Virtually no revelation would surprise me in that regard:

When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”.

The demand, which would require Google and Amazon to effectively sidestep legal obligations in countries around the world, was born out of Israel’s concerns that data it moves into the global corporations’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities.

If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels.

If, for example, the companies receive a request for Israeli data from authorities in Italy, where the dialing code is +39, they must send 3,900 shekels.

If the companies conclude the terms of a gag order prevent them from even signaling which country has received the data, there is a backstop: the companies must pay 100,000 shekels ($30,000) to the Israeli government.

Both Canada and the US have the same dialling code. I presume that would be clarified in some other way.

In plain language, Google and Amazon agreed to disclose information to Israel they are not legally permitted to disclose. There’s the consciousness of guilt here and of impunity. They had the gall to formally agree to this because they knew they would never have to answer for it.

I guess Bibi may be gone as soon as there is a possibility of even an uncertain peace lasting.

Why are Israel refusing to allow independent journalists to report from Gaza DayInTheDog?

Murdering them is a lot more tricky. Endless paper work, old boy.