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Post by Saint on Oct 17, 2024 22:45:25 GMT
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Post by Steve on Oct 17, 2024 23:07:47 GMT
yes a 'Gotcha' moment. But unlikely to end this war, Iran will just sponsor another psychopath to be their local leader in Gaza
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Post by Orac on Oct 18, 2024 9:15:14 GMT
It seems to me while others having been working on their long-winded speeches about how they will dominate and destroy Israel, Israel has been doing some hard-yards type quiet work in the background.
Another psychopath will be chosen, but each time this happens a whole pile of resources, effort and confidence are destroyed.
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Post by RedRum on Oct 26, 2024 6:58:42 GMT
All we need now is for that other butcher Netanyahu to be assassinated to bring peace to the region.
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Post by ammonite on Oct 26, 2024 11:18:35 GMT
All we need now is for that other butcher Netanyahu to be assassinated to bring peace to the region. I wrote something along these lines in another political forum and was immediately banned. In a war involving two sides, it is perfectly acceptable to decide for yourself who you believe is in the wrong, or in the right. In the case of the Israeli-Palestine conflict which has been going on now for 75 years, there has been both Wrong and Right from both sides, but to me the definitive measure is that of the suffering of ordinary people, civilians, women, children, old people, people in schools, hospitals, homes and refugee camps. I am not a Muslim or a Palestinian, and I am certainly not Anti Semitic and would stand up against any form of racial or religious discrimination. I also very firmly believe in Israel's right to exist. But what the IDF have done in Gaza is equally as bad as what the Russians did to the city and people of Mariupol in Ukraine, there is no excuse for it what so ever - 42,000 + dead, 70% of which are women and children. On the opposite side of the coin there can be no excuse for what Hamas terrorists did on October 7th 2023, but Netenyahou is been led by far right Jewish extremists, and the IDF have gone far too far .... So yes, I agree, the sooner someone puts a bullet into these people, the better.
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Post by Steve on Oct 26, 2024 12:22:50 GMT
seconded ^
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Post by RedRum on Oct 29, 2024 8:56:30 GMT
All we need now is for that other butcher Netanyahu to be assassinated to bring peace to the region. I wrote something along these lines in another political forum and was immediately banned. In a war involving two sides, it is perfectly acceptable to decide for yourself who you believe is in the wrong, or in the right. In the case of the Israeli-Palestine conflict which has been going on now for 75 years, there has been both Wrong and Right from both sides, but to me the definitive measure is that of the suffering of ordinary people, civilians, women, children, old people, people in schools, hospitals, homes and refugee camps. I am not a Muslim or a Palestinian, and I am certainly not Anti Semitic and would stand up against any form of racial or religious discrimination. I also very firmly believe in Israel's right to exist. But what the IDF have done in Gaza is equally as bad as what the Russians did to the city and people of Mariupol in Ukraine, there is no excuse for it what so ever - 42,000 + dead, 70% of which are women and children. On the opposite side of the coin there can be no excuse for what Hamas terrorists did on October 7th 2023, but Netenyahou is been led by far right Jewish extremists, and the IDF have gone far too far .... So yes, I agree, the sooner someone puts a bullet into these people, the better. But it is not a war in effect. As you say the Palestinian people have been treated appallingly by Israel for decades and under international law Palestinians have the right to resist using force if necessary. The west as co-authors of these laws, have a duty to uphold these laws and aid the Palestinians in their 'fight' against colonialism and occupation. October the 7th was appalling and every right minded person should condemn the actions of Hamas unequivocally but when exactly does resistance become terrorism. It cannot be the number of deaths because as we have seen, before the 7th and after, killing Palestinians is very easy for the Israeli state. We, also do not know how the 7th was 'allowed' to happen when it is quite clear that Israel was warned by both Egypt and the US that an attack was imminent. We. also do not know any real facts about the day itself because Israel and the US have told so many lies, babies beheaded, babies on a washing line and mass rapes..... The only thing we do know is that a lot of hostages were taken on that day and that Hamas killed many Israelis, we also know that a lot of bodies were found incinerated which could not have been by Hamas because the light weapons they carried were not capable of destroying a human body. You might think from this that I support Hamas but I do not but unfortunately for the Palestinians they are all they have got.
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Post by Saint on Oct 29, 2024 9:40:47 GMT
October the 7th was appalling and every right minded person should condemn the actions of Hamas unequivocally but when exactly does resistance become terrorism. Tricky! Resistance becomes terrorism when non-military personnel are targeted? Whatever the answer, Hamas' actions on 7th October were simply inhuman, No provocation can justify that. Israel's response has been no better.
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Post by Steve on Oct 29, 2024 9:54:30 GMT
With Israel's nutter infested parliament voting to cut off UN aid to Gaza it really is time for the West to get tough with Israel. But we won't see anything ahead of the US election vote next Thursday www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp2ejzpxeo
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Post by RedRum on Oct 29, 2024 10:40:51 GMT
October the 7th was appalling and every right minded person should condemn the actions of Hamas unequivocally but when exactly does resistance become terrorism. Tricky! Resistance becomes terrorism when non-military personnel are targeted? Whatever the answer, Hamas' actions on 7th October were simply inhuman, No provocation can justify that. Israel's response has been no better. I agree Hamas's actions were inhumane which keeps in line with the Israeli view and treatment of Palestinians over decades. The UN has consistently condemned Israel for its colonisation for decades but as far as the Palestinians are concerned nothing has changed. There are a record number of Palestinians dead, many of which are women and children, in the West Bank since the 7th which has nothing to do with the Hamas attack. How long should a people wait, relying on others, before they rise up against oppression? The answer is really quite simple, the UN should have moved to halt the illegal acts of Israel by serious boycotts from the very start. Perverse as it seems, the Hamas attack may have aided the cause of Palestine with so many countries now recognising Palestine as an independent state, something the UK would have done if Corbyn had been PM. When this all ends and independent observers finally get into Gaza, the truth will be laid bare.
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Post by Saint on Oct 29, 2024 10:48:43 GMT
Tricky! Resistance becomes terrorism when non-military personnel are targeted? Whatever the answer, Hamas' actions on 7th October were simply inhuman, No provocation can justify that. Israel's response has been no better. How long should a people wait, relying on others, before they rise up against oppression? Undoubtedly, they're entitled to fight back against oppression. The question is: how should they fight against oppression? Not all forms of resistance are acceptable. I don't believe either of us thinks what happened on October 7th can be justified in any way. It was unmitigated savagery. Merely pointing out that the Israelis can be just as bad won't change that.
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Post by RedRum on Oct 29, 2024 12:14:17 GMT
How long should a people wait, relying on others, before they rise up against oppression? Undoubtedly, they're entitled to fight back against oppression. The question is: how should they fight against oppression? Not all forms of resistance are acceptable. I don't believe either of us thinks what happened on October 7th can be justified in any way. It was unmitigated savagery. Merely pointing out that the Israelis can be just as bad won't change that. I am not seeing how you can have a 'limit' on how much 'savagery' people can have when faced with an overwhelming force that has subjugated you for decades. What Israel are doing now and have done since the 7th has been nothing different to what they have been doing for a long time albeit the 'volume' and openness has increased significantly. I agree that not all forms of resistance are acceptable 'to us' but we are not Palestinians and we do not live under the conditions that they do and have done for decades. The French resistance in WW2 committed some appalling 'crimes' in defence of their land which we would condemn as unacceptable if the Palestinians had committed them. It is a really difficult question which we in our comfortable lives are poorly equipped to either applaud or condemn on both sides.
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Post by Saint on Oct 29, 2024 12:18:13 GMT
Undoubtedly, they're entitled to fight back against oppression. The question is: how should they fight against oppression? Not all forms of resistance are acceptable. I don't believe either of us thinks what happened on October 7th can be justified in any way. It was unmitigated savagery. Merely pointing out that the Israelis can be just as bad won't change that. I am not seeing how you can have a 'limit' on how much 'savagery' people can have when faced with an overwhelming force that has subjugated you for decades. What Israel are doing now and have done since the 7th has been nothing different to what they have been doing for a long time albeit the 'volume' and openness has increased significantly. I agree that not all forms of resistance are acceptable 'to us' but we are not Palestinians and we do not live under the conditions that they do and have done for decades. The French resistance in WW2 committed some appalling 'crimes' in defence of their land which we would condemn as unacceptable if the Palestinians had committed them. It is a really difficult question which we in our comfortable lives are poorly equipped to either applaud or condemn on both sides. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some of what the French resistance did was glorious, some was appalling. Same with the Palestinian resistance. What Hamas did on 7th October was a stain on the history of humanity. It was horrific beyond words.
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Post by Orac on Oct 29, 2024 12:39:24 GMT
I have not seen the footage of this event because i know my limits.
However, there is one piece of footage that i have had described to me.
A young lady is tied in the back of a pickup (iirc) and is shouting 'please don't kill me, please don't kill me" while she is shouting those words, her face comes off.
Baboons
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Post by RedRum on Oct 29, 2024 13:49:57 GMT
I am not seeing how you can have a 'limit' on how much 'savagery' people can have when faced with an overwhelming force that has subjugated you for decades. What Israel are doing now and have done since the 7th has been nothing different to what they have been doing for a long time albeit the 'volume' and openness has increased significantly. I agree that not all forms of resistance are acceptable 'to us' but we are not Palestinians and we do not live under the conditions that they do and have done for decades. The French resistance in WW2 committed some appalling 'crimes' in defence of their land which we would condemn as unacceptable if the Palestinians had committed them. It is a really difficult question which we in our comfortable lives are poorly equipped to either applaud or condemn on both sides. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Some of what the French resistance did was glorious, some was appalling. Same with the Palestinian resistance. What Hamas did on 7th October was a stain on the history of humanity. It was horrific beyond words. That's my point, we did not call the French resistance a terrorist organisation, in fact we, quite rightly supported them. We are not and I am making an assumption here, Palestinian or indeed Arabs so our perspective is not the same.
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