Israel/Palestine Thread

Interesting - will a military court trump the Israeli AG? If it does, the notion of an independent judiciary vaporises.

Haaretz:

• A military court said Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara had three days to respond to a request to drop the charges against soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility. Last month, the five soldiers' lawyers requested to dismiss the indictment against them, citing the leaked footage of the alleged abuse and the alleged involvement in the leak of the former IDF's top lawyer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi.

Yet more evidence for the ICJ.

Haaretz:
Israel will allow Jewish settlers to live in northern Gaza at some point in the future, Defense Minister Israel Katz said, a claim he previously made and then retracted on Tuesday.

Speaking at a conference hosted by the religious Zionist newspaper Makor Rishon, Katz vowed that Israeli forces would never fully retreat from all of Gaza, and rejected that he had backtracked

Keep looking over there.

There's no genocide of Druze in Syria because Israel prevented it. Had they not had a presence in Syria, we would likely be having another conversation.

So why on earth did you post this?

Considering that you deny the Russian genocide in Ukraine, I assume you would be fine with genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Druze in Syria?

You may as well have posted "you would be fine with genocide and ethnic cleansing of <insert random ethic group here>"

Shame Israel isn't preventing Genocide in Gaza - per multiple directives from the ICJ and UN resolutions. But your posts have clearly shown you're totally ok with the extermination of Palestinians.

So, your logic is that Israel has the right to invade any other sovereign territory just in case that State does something Israel doesn't like?

If that's the logic, presumably you'd have no problem with Israel being invaded in order to prevent the Genocide of Gaza? Which is real - not fantasy.

Do you believe it is wrong for nations to defend themselves or is it just Israel that should have that right ?

So let me ask you a third time - how many Israelis in Israel have been killed by another state/country in the 5 years?

Israel will be attacked

This is the justification Israel has been asking the world to swallow for decades so that it can go out and destroy anything and everyone it doesn't like. But the facts do not support this justification at all. Israel is disliked pretty much by everyone because of its belligerence, aggression, war mongering and now, Genocide.

Absolutely no-one has any issue with Israel defending itself.

But everyone has come to realise that Israel's actions are nothing to do with defence. It's pure landgrabbing. And don't take my word for it, read anything recently stated by Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Katz and Saar. It's not about defence at all.

And as you approve of that, you cannot have any arguments about Russia annexing Crimea and attempting to take more of Ukraine without being called out as a hypocrite.

You say that no-one has an issue with Israel defending itself, but I remember in 2023-2024 when Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel starting on the 8th of October of '23 and nobody cared until about a year later when Israel responded with the pager bombs and physical retaliation against Hezbollah.

Then the usual suspects piled on Israel as the bad guys, even though things like the pager bombs were about as surgical as it possible for a strike to be.

Whats your take on the 19 new settlements in the West Bank being approved by Israel?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjg18xe0wwo