Israel/Palestine Thread

they don’t mirror anything. The hunger in Gaza is imposed. The PA hunger strikers are doing it voluntarily.

So its about publicity and getting their names recognised. That'd be about right.

Former US military veterans in the state of North Carolina staged a public solidarity action for Palestinians on Saturday, by raising an illuminated “Free Palestine” banner over a major roadway in the city of Asheville.

@SeanW - are you just putting this down as another one on the "do not respond" list as reality is incompatible with your narrative?

Genocide happening anywhere should be a concern. If you are not a genocide scholar then why should any credence be given to your view on the subject when it comes to Israel since you are clearly incapable of being objective, and, as you have indirectly admitted, is rather uninformed as a consequence compared who do know what they are talking about. With this in mind we know if the ICJ rules against Israel you will see it as flawed, again your dissenting opinion might have merit if you were a scholar on the subject but we know it will be purely based on your inability to criticise Israel. I suppose your fall back will be the scholars who have determined Israel has committed genocide are not neutral either:)

Genocide only seems to be a concern to some when they can blame Jews or Israelis.

Yet again I have to point out - the only people I see blaming Jews for Israeli conduct in this horrible conflict is you.

Again I'll ask why you are so comfortable collapsing Jews worldwide into Israeli state crimes, that are very real (no matter how much you try to use Jewish people around the world as a shield)? Above is yet another example of collective blaming.

Do you not understand Jewish people around the world have no choice in Israeli state policy? You must be aware of it, because I repeat it every time you lump them all in as one hive minded entity.

Your cynical use of vulnerable communities to shield the Israeli state from accountability is pathetic, dangerous, and of course antisemetic.

Then how can you so certainly assert that genocide is not happening in Gaza? You have yet to answer that.

I see genocide only really matters if it’s closer to where you live or how much trade is being done with them?

That shows 0 empathy to human life and is all about proximity and €.
That’s not how genocide is defined unfortunately Sean.

I hope we can agree that actions are more serious than words? If calling for the destruction of a state is a bad thing, actively preventing a nation from forming its own state or protecting the basic rights of its people is surely far worse?

Keir is not bothered by Maduro kidnapping and is not concerned about mistreatment of prisoners. He will be forgotten very quickly and soon.

Palestine Action activist Teuta Hoxha has paused her hunger strike in the United Kingdom after more than two months without food while demanding immediate bail and the right to a fair trial.

The group Prisoners For Palestine wrote on Instagram on Monday that Hoxha is in serious condition and needs to be hospitalised. It alleged the 29-year old has been denied proper treatment by prison authorities.

Hoxha “needs urgent medical care in hospital to prevent refeeding syndrome. The prison is refusing [her] medical treatment, which is required to prevent death in extreme cases of starvation”.

Refeeding syndrome, a potentially fatal condition, happens when nutrition is restarted in a starving person too quickly. There was no immediate comment from prison or government officials.

Ethnic cleansing never sleeps, like a cancer it eats away.

Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli military has expanded the so-called “yellow line” in eastern Gaza, forcing Palestinians into ever smaller clusters of the enclave, Al-Jazeera reported on 5 January.

Israeli troops are pushing further into the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Shujaiya, and Zeitoun in eastern Gaza City, according to correspondents on the ground.

The Israeli army is coming closer to Salah al-Din Street, the major road connecting north and south Gaza, forcing displaced families sheltering near the area to flee, the Al-Jazeera correspondents stated.

Israel directly controls all territory east of the yellow line, which is virtually cleansed of Palestinians. Israeli troops shoot and kill any Palestinians crossing the line from the west, including women and children, who try to return to their homes.

“The ongoing Israeli attacks on the ground, the expansion of the ‘yellow line’ are meant to eat up more of the territory across the eastern part, really shrinking the total area where people are sheltering,” reported Al-Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud from Gaza City.

This is what apologists for Russia say too . With this in mind A few weeks backs I came across an article from a Russian website that you used the same craven playbook as you: the EU was engaged in a witchhunt/ politics against Russia. The irony is you are as hypocritical as Russian apologists. If you are so sure of your position, address the questions put to you by other posters, because otherwise it seems you know you can't counter the questions put to you.

Ben Gvir calls for lynchng of Barghouti, the wild Middle-East!

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir publicly called for the execution of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti during a meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party at the Knesset, Israel’s news agency JNS reported on 5 January.

Speaking at the meeting, Ben Gvir said Barghouti “should be taken out” and endorsed capital punishment, arguing that Israel should “learn something from the United States,” specifically “the death penalty for terrorists.”