On Thursday, Israeli airstrikes hit Syria’s two international airports in Damascus and Aleppo, putting them both out of service, Syria’s SANA news agency has reported.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression on the two international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, taking them out of service, according to a military source,” the SANA report said.
“The source added that shelling the two airports that occurred simultaneously at 13:50 (1:50 pm local time) this afternoon caused material damage to the airstrips which resulted in being out of service,” the report added.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) also reported simultaneous Israeli airstrikes on the Damascus and Aleppo airports. So far, no casualties have been reported in the attack.
The airstrikes come amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in the wake of the Hamas attack on southern Israel. A day earlier, Israel reported shelling from Syria and said it hit launch sites in the country with artillery.
But Israeli airstrikes on Syria are common, and Thursday’s bombing is not necessarily related to recent escalations. The attack marked at least the 26th time Israeli warplanes bombed Syria this year.
Israel claims its bombing campaign in Syria is part of an operation against Iran and Hezbollah, but the airstrikes often kill Syrians and hit civilian infrastructure. Syria’s airports have become a common target of Israeli warplanes, including in the wake of a devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and northwest Syria in February. Israeli airstrikes on the Aleppo airport after the earthquake cut off aid deliveries into the city.
Some are fully aware they’ve been itching to take out Syria for a while. They created their 9/11 excuse to launch the second phase of their operation using the U.S. Navy.
Perhaps that is the real reason Joe had another carrier sent.
Naturally. Moving a carrier group against Hamas is just plain idiotic.
That would be yes. They are hoping I guess that will scare Hezzbollah from attacking.
The bunch running Washington right now is dumber than usual which is saying a lot.
Or maybe just more evil and void of any restraint. Milley? Sullivan? Blinken? Nuland?
Powers? Sherman?
Do you look forwards to seeing the war extended?I sure don’t.
No! I am sick of it. From Vietnam onward, the Politicians and Oligarchs can’t get enough of it.
Ferengi Rules of Aquisition
War is good for business.
The closer you get to the front lines, the smaller your profits are…….
Nonsense! You would love to see the war extended. You’d love to see Gaza obliterated. You’d love to see every Palestinian in the West Bank killed. You’d love to see Hezbollah exterminated, Assad assassinated and Syria turned into an abattoir in the hands of Sunni Jihadis.
What you don’t want to see is any extension that causes Israel any more suffering/damage/pain. That’s the only extension you oppose.
We know who you are . You’re a bloodthirsty, lying, death-worshiping, “chosen” tribal Zionist.
They stole the Golan Heights from Syria a long time ago, that was step one.
The worst thing that’s happened to the Palestinians over the past 10-20 years is Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia selling out to the U.S. and stopping their support of the Palestinians, or at least greatly reducing it. Saudi Arabia could have put a lot of pressure on Israel by threatening to raise oil prices, for example. Saddam Hussein called out these sellouts in a meeting of the leaders of the Middle East once (caught on audio recording with English translation).e west, they will be demonized and maybe even removed.
Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states have never “supported” the Palestinian Arabs. They’ve just used them as propaganda props.
And that’s the problem with the Arab countries. There is no honour amongst thieves.
Lady Graham and Summer will join thier throats together to denocunce Syria if it responded in kind .Soon the WSJ and Fox would join seeing hands of Iran and other not friendly to Israel. Anti semtic outbursts would be conflated with the reaction to egregious Isareli behvaiors .
But its time for Syria to start attcaking Israel.
It is time for Syria to cut its ties with Hezboalla, and try to make peace
That’s an absurdly one-sided view of the situation. Syria has suffered, for years, through an illegal invasion and occupation by the US, from american funding of jihadist terrorists attempting to overthrow the regime, from american support of kurdish rebels who are either terrorists themselves (the PKK) or associated with the PKK; and from repeated illegal bombings by Israel. Hezbollah has helped Assad in his fight, as have Russia and Iran.
How can you cry about Iran supporting HAMAS and think it OK for the USA to support the Nusra Front and the PKK? How can you cry about Hezbollah shelling Israel from Lebanon but think it OK for Israel to bomb Syrian infrastructure UNPROVOKED? The double standard hypocrisy you spout is offensive.
In a nutshell, yes.
So the Kurds are not entitled to nationhood?
As much as the Palestinians are. If we are to “assist” the Kurds in ethnic cleansing the arabs, turks, and persians who live in what they consider “Kurdistan” then it’s a little hypocritical to deny the Palestinians their right to an arab palestine under self rule, no? Or; if we are content to allow the Israelis to continue to eat away at what were assigned as Palestinian lands in 1948, and deny the Palestinians the right to resist, then we should support the Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians and Turks in suppressing the Kurds, right? Either way is fine with me; I just can’t stomach the hypocrisy of thinking “we like Kurds, they deserve a country; but we don’t like Palestinians, Israel should exterminate them”. Or, for that matter, “we like Albanians, Kosovo should be free; but we don’t like russian speakers in the Donbas, Ukraine should crush them”. Those are the thoughts, and policy, of an ignorant child.
“… american support of kurdish rebels” is entirely opportunistic, and if history is any indication, the Kurds will end up royally screwed, like all those before them who have enjoyed America’s “support”.
Agreed.
Peace with Israel? Internally inconsistent . Peace is death for Israel.
Israel doesn’t want paece. It wants land. It wants submission.
End US aid to Israel.
End Israel!
It’s time for Israel to drop the religious state apartheid crap and become a secular democracy. Peace will occur instantly.
Israel is doing its best to provoke one, but would wish to time it for after their done “mowing the grass” in Gaza when the brave god-sped IDF pilots are done putting paid with discriminating 1.5 ton bombs to the terrorist baby beheaders.
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WW 3 has truly arrived
The attack marked at least the 26th time Israeli warplanes bombed Syria this year
not once has Syria retaliated against Israel, much less attacked them.
i wonder where the oil that uncle sam is overtly stealing from Syria ending up.
certainly it’s not enough to warrant shipping all the way to the US on oil ships.
That oil is being stolen merely to prevent Syria from benefiting from selling it, not because the US wants or needs it or the revenue, which probably wouldn’t offset the costs of the theft. It’s collective punishment of the Syrian people.
For what?
For living under a government Washing ton wants to topple.
To help support the Kurds that we are using to split Syria.
“We”?
The US
no we don’t need any of that oil here in the US.
more oil is exported from the US every day than is imported.
Right. Last year, the US exported about 9.5 million barrels per day and imported about 8.3 million barrels per day.
They are quietly building up Hezboallah.
Good.
So you look forward to extending the violence into Lebanon.
I look forward to Palestinians unified in their struggle against Zionism.
Hezbollah is far more powerful than hamas. If they enter the fray, the situation changes. The IDF will pay dearly.
Yes-Israel will pay dearly.but when Israel has absorbed enough casualties,a couple of countries will get righteous nuking-people will curse,the world will go on in a more dangerous fashion. The “progs” will then complain for another 50 years.
Israel needs to reconsider that ground invasion.
They cannot let their citizens be raped,murdered,beheaded,and led into bondage-things of biblical proportions.They will have to re-establish a measure of deterrence. Otherwise they will be worn down and picked apart. Fork the haters of the left or right-never again is very real.
You are the hater and you prove it again and again.
You are a shameless hypocrite and liar..
The “beheaded” BS is black propaganda; so it figures you’d be spouting it. Lies are all you have.
Also, Israel kills many times the number killed in the Hamas attacks, year after year.
The IDF are the terrorists and war criminals.
he Israeli army names for their attacks on Gaza):
+ Operation Summer Rains (June 2006)
+ Operation Autumn Clouds (October-November 2006)
+ Operation Hot Winter (February-March 2008)
+ Operation Cast Lead (December 2008-January 2009)
+ Operation Running Echo (March 2012)
+ Operation Pillar of Cloud (November 2012)
+ Operation Protective Edge (July-August 2014)
+ Operation Black Belt (November 2019)
+ Operation Breaking Dawn (August 2022)
+ Operation Shield and Arrow (May 2023)
Each of these attacks pulverizes the minimal infrastructure that remains intact in Gaza and hits the Palestinian civilians very hard.
Palestinians cannot let their citizens be mass murdered,.They will have to re-establish a measure of deterrence.
In 2004, Israel’s National Security Director Giora Eiland said that Gaza is a “huge concentration camp.” This “huge concentration camp” was erected in 1948 when the newly created Israeli state’s ethnic cleansing policy removed Palestinians into refugee camps, including in Gaza. Two years later, Israeli intelligence reported that the refugees in Gaza had been “condemned to utter extinction.” That judgment has not altered in the intervening 73 years. Despite the formal withdrawal of Israeli settlers and troops in 2005, Israel remains the occupying power over the region by sealing off the land and sea borders of the Gaza Strip. Israel decides what enters Gaza and uses that power to throttle the people periodically.
When the Palestinians conducted a non-violent Great March of Return in 2019, the Israeli army responded with brute force that killed two hundred people. When a non-violent protest is met with force, it becomes difficult to convince people to remain on that path and not take up arms.
As this conflict takes on the air of permanency, the frustration of Palestinian politics moves away from the impossibility of negotiations to the necessity of armed violence. No other avenue is left open. Palestine’s political leadership has been either tethered by the European Union and the United States and so been removed from popular aspirations or—if it continues to mirror those aspirations—it has been sent to one of Israel’s many, harsh prisons (four of 10 Palestinian men are in or have been in prison, while the leaders of most of the left parties spend long periods there under “administrative detention” orders). Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling has argued that the Israeli policy toward the Palestinians has resulted in “politicide,” the deliberate destruction of Palestinian political processes. The only road left open is armed struggle.
“They [the IDF] will have to re-establish a measure of deterrence.”
By terrorizing the population of Gaza? That makes the IDF terrorists.
So you endorse terrorism as long as its practiced by “the right” terrorists?
It is Israel that has extended the violence into Lebanon. You are clearly a Zionist and therefore have no credibility on this issue.
Which is a good thing because Israel is a geopolitical crime-in-progress, which beyond its crimes against the Palestinians, has a record of criminal violence against all of its Arab neighbors. (The Israelis insist that they are peace-loving innocents with neighbors who want to kill them all. Yeah, right! As Lincoln said “You can fool some of the people all of the time.” But not the rest of us.)
Anyway, no crime has a “right to exist”, and no criminals in the commission of a crime “have a right to defend” themselves. But they frequently insist on trying, and when they do, they eventually must be taken out by force. Which is the inevitable fate of Israel unless they mend their ways.
Meanwhile, all of Israel’s neighbors need the means to deter and defend themselves against (psychopathic?*) Zionist barbarism. So yes, Hezbollah needs all the precision guided missiles it can acquire, and Iran and Syria assisting in that effort are doing God’s work.
* Does adopting the attitude “They want to kill us so we have to kill them first”, and then acting on that premise in a manner that generates a suicidal self-fulfilling prophesy … is that a form of psychosis?
Iran and Syria are repressive torture states who sow pain and death.
Israel and the US are repressive torture states who sow pain and death.
And much more of it.
From what i can find, it is going to Iraq or Turkey.
Anyone who just knee-jerk supports Israel’s treatment of Palestinians should NOT receive votes for public office in the USA! I watch Newsmax and Fox News and I have been unable to tune in since last weekend. The nonstop “poor little Israel” mentality of the media is a disgrace! What were these same people reporting when the Ukraine was murdering Russian-speaking people in Eastern Ukraine? When Israel settlers storm and attack Palestinians in their homes? When Israel extrajudicially assassinates people? When Israel attacks and murders activists bringing aid and relief to Gazans? Outrage on this planet is SELECTIVE when it comes to Israel and its besieged and attacked and threatened neighbors!
The oil funds Kurds,?
It’s probably going into the international oil market, which is how oil works, or at least used to work until the U.S. began its sanctions & embargoes after Russia invaded Ukraine.
While there do not appear to be too many specifics provided about the exact reasons for the Israeli precision strike (something that Israel has every right to withhold, given that too much information released to the public can risk compromising sources and methods), Israel has a record of restraint and attempting every reasonable method of reducing civilian casualties (strikes against known terrorists use special forces instead of explosives for fear of civilian casualties, something that results in significantly more military casualties for the Israeli government) and a proven track record of only using precision strikes against either known terrorist or national security threats, such as with “Palestinian” militants in the “Gaza” area and Iran’s nuclear weapons program. While we may not have all of the information for their reasoning currently, we can be reasonably sure that Israel is looking out for the protection and safety of their citizens through all reasonable means available.
Actually, Israel does NOT have a “record of restraint”. The ONLY people who claim that are the Israelis themselves (and not all of them, Haaretz is frequently critical of Israeli aggression) and their lapdog sycophants in the US congress and media.
The bombings in Gaza right now are showing that; Israel has bombed hospitals, schools, mosques, and residential neighborhoods, and has already killed over 300 children.
No one should have ANY confidence that Israel is “looking out” for anyone’s safety.
Do you expect the Gazans to turn over Hamas baby killers to the Hague? If you use civilians as shields-the civilians die.
Are they “using” civilians as shields? It’s Israel that won’t allow civilians to leave Gaza. 2 million Palestinians literally have No Place to Go. Hamas operates from Gaza because they are all Gazans, were born in Gaza, and under Israeli law legally have no right to leave Gaza.
They are caught between a rock and a hard place-blames Hamas.
Use civilian facilities as military bases as Hamas does-civilians suffer.
So if a murderer hides in an apartment building it is justifiable to destroy the entire building and everyone in it? That makes you no better than them, in fact worse, as your victims far outnumber the “murderer’s”. And, Israel doesn’t even TRY to verify that shelling came from a particular source; again, Haaretz has reported on this; they level, and justify afterwards.
” Israel has a record of restraint and attempting every reasonable method of reducing civilian casualties”
Zionist lies, but then, that’s all you have.
This is not true, but lets think for a second as to why the Israeli military would target areas that could cause civilian casualties? Perhaps the non-representative (barely half of the population of Gaza supported a statement of attacking Israel) illegitimate Hamas terrorist organization hides its weapons, equipment and personnel in civilian infrastructure oftentimes through either coercion or without consent in order to influence the media and the general world. Israeli governmental policy toward “Palestinian Resistance” has taken every possible step toward “reconciliation” and general de-escalation, with Israeli security forces even pulling out of Gaza, granting the region effective self-government, their ostensible goal, yet terrorist attacks and calls for genocide from these organizations did not cease. Israeli Security Forces routinely allow children hoping for “martyrdom” to attack their tanks and personnel, yet even this muted response wouldn’t qualify as self-defense? While I am certainly aware that throughout its long history the state of Israel has made some mistakes, their overall commitment to peace, the prevention of genocide and always making the right decisions have never wavered in their almost 80 years of history as a legitimate, recognized nation.
“Israeli governmental policy toward “Palestinian Resistance” has taken every possible step toward “reconciliation”
You are a filthy liar, IOW a Zionist.
If a statement I have made is actually unsupported or untrue, you are free to point it out. However, as it stands currently, I have laid out examples and reasons as to why and how the Israeli government has demonstrated and supported that position and others, while you have simply claimed that my statements are false or called me names, something that does nothing to improve your standing. As a legitimate, recognized nation protecting its population against terrorism and attempts of genocide, the world has come together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, as we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
All you’ve done is spew false Zionist propaganda in defense of mass murder. You’ve cited no actual facts.
You’re another Zionist monster.
Why would my statements be propaganda? How would my statements be false? When have I defended or called for “mass murder”? How would my statements be unsupported when, for example, the Israeli government using special forces in raids against terrorists is well documented and easily accessible information? As such, it should be exceptionally clear that the only real villain of this conflict is the groups and organization that commit terrorism and attempts of genocide against an innocent civilian population.
The death toll speaks for itself. Israel kills thousands of Palestinian civilians every year.
You are a bold faced liar and an apologist for mass murder.
“organization that commit terrorism and attempts of genocide against an innocent civilian population.”
Which is what Israel has been doing ever since its founding.
Israel is a nation of racist monsters.
Okay, why would the Israeli military target areas that could cause civilian casualties? Perhaps the non-representative (barely half of the population of Gaza supported a statement of attacking Israel) illegitimate Hamas terrorist organization hides its weapons, equipment and personnel in civilian infrastructure oftentimes through either coercion or without consent in order to influence the media and the general world. Israeli governmental policy toward “Palestinian Resistance” has taken every possible step toward “reconciliation” and general de-escalation, with Israeli security forces even pulling out of Gaza, granting the region effective self-government, their ostensible goal, yet terrorist attacks and calls for genocide from these organizations did not cease. Israeli Security Forces routinely allow children hoping for “martyrdom” to attack their tanks and personnel, strikes against known terrorists use special forces instead of explosives for fear of civilian casualties, something that results in far more military casualties, yet this muted response wouldn’t qualify as self-defense? If killing were truly the reasons for this conflict, wouldn’t the conflict cease when Hamas became the de-facto government in Gaza and gained controlled of the entire territory of Gaza without an Israeli Security presence? I’m not going to bother addressing the vague claims of “racism”, as you do not bother providing actual reasons and arguments as to why this would be true, and as such it remains another unsubstantiated claim.
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Your defense of the IDF as lenient towards Palestinian protesters is a laughable lie, but like a true psychopath you keep repeating your lies and claiming they justify Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians. You belong in a psych ward.
in its latest criminal bombardments, Israel has already killed more civilians than hamas did in its attacks, but the Israeli blood lust is not satisfied. It never will be. Your lies about Israel’s restraint are truly vile and you are a moral monster, i.e. a Zionist.
For every terrible story of Israeli victimization, there are multiple other examples of Palestinian victimization by the terror imposed by the US-sponsored state of Israel, and here, it is important to note that there two kinds of terror experienced by the Palestinians, especially the two million plus Palestinians stuck in the open-air prison that is the Gaza Strip. There’s the immediate and sudden terror of a bomb or artillery shell destroying one’s home, school, park, or hospital, creating mass bloodshed. (An award-winning Israeli documentary released in 2013 exposed how Israel turned millions of Gazans and other Palestinians into literal human laboratories for the testing of new weapons.) And then there’s the ongoing dull terror of savage poverty and hyper-ghettoization imposed by the US-backed racist, Judeo-fascist, apartheid and ethno-state of Israel. The US media, essentially a propaganda arm of the American Empire, has nothing to say about the savage contrast between the opulent First World lives enjoyed by those on one side of the Israel-Gaza border and the severe Third World wretchedness endured by those on the other side. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency:
“The Gaza Strip has a population of approximately 2.1 million people, including some 1.7 million Palestine Refugees. For at least the last decade and a half, the socioeconomic situation in Gaza has been in steady decline. ..A[n] Israel-imposed and US-backed] blockade on land, air and sea was imposed by Israel following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007. There are now very few options left for the people of Gaza, who have been living under collective punishment as a result of the blockade that continues to have a devastating effect as people’s movement to and from the Gaza Strip, as well as access to markets, remains severely restricted….The blockade and related restrictions contravene international humanitarian law as they target and impose hardship on the civilian population, effectively penalizing them for acts they have not committed…Food security in Gaza has deteriorated with 63 per cent of people in the Gaza Strip being food insecure and dependent on international assistance. The continuing intra-Palestinian divisions exacerbate the humanitarian and service delivery crisis on the ground. With 81.5 per cent of the population living in poverty, an overall unemployment rate of 46.6 per cent (48.1 per cent for Palestine Refugees living in the camps) at the end of the third quarter of 2022 and an unemployment rate of 62.3 per cent among youth (15-29 years, refugees and non-refugees), the already fragile humanitarian situation in Gaza threatens to deteriorate further. The economy and its capacity to create jobs have been devastated, resulting in the impoverishment and de-development of a highly skilled and well-educated society. Access to clean water and electricity remains at crisis level and impacts nearly every aspect of life. Clean water is unavailable for 95 per cent of the population. Electricity is available up to an average of 11 hours per day as of July 2023. However, ongoing power shortage has severely impacted the availability of essential services, particularly health, water, and sanitation services, and continues to undermine Gaza’s fragile economy, particularly the manufacturing and agriculture sectors.”
“In July 2014, Israel’s military invaded Gaza and killed 1,881 people, including hundreds of children. US politicians and mainstream media didn’t call it terrorism, the attack wasn’t labeled as ‘unprecedented,’ and the US and its allies didn’t demand that Israel be held accountable.” Prior to that, Israel invaded Gaza, killing many thousands, on January 3, 2009, and November 14, 2012.
Here’s s fact Jack!
Since the Palestinian attacks on Saturday that have so far killed 1,300 Israelis, the bombardment of the Gaza Strip has killed 1,900 and wounded 7,696 Palestinians, including 2,000 children and 1,400 women.
Before this latest round is over, the most moral army in the world will slaughter many more thousands in Gaza.
That’s not restraint!
Also, Zionists and neo-cons, along with their born again dupes, led the effort to get the US to invade Iraq.
That was the beginning of the end for US democracy and our economy.
So to hell with the interventionists, left & right, jew & gentile.
End all US aid to Israel!
Remember, those billions are all borrowed from the the banksters, and the interest will accrue forever, as the debt is rolled over again & again.
The Captain said to him
“All we need is a little determination;
Men, follow me, I’ll lead on.”
We were — neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on
-Pete Seeger
amazing how many people in the US followed uncle Joe’s lines.
None of your words lead to peace in a real secular democracy.
Only fools and liarsclaim that if left to its own unchecked device, a kinder gentler Israel would emerge to ensure justice and human rights for those whose dwindling land they thirst and liberty they detest.
This does not address both my response and initial statement, which explain how Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces demonstrate respect for and follow both “justice” and “human rights” throughout their counter-terrorism operations against “Palestinian” militants. A “kinder, gentler” Israel does not need to emerge, as Israel has done nothing if not demonstrate this in its response against terrorism and the attempted genocide against its own people.
Israel is filled with racists murderers and advocates of racist murder.
Your tired lies convince no one.
Even if your arguments weren’t mostly false and poorly framed, pasting the same word salad into every reply tends to result in people not reading the original parts, if there are any.
“Self-government” in Gaza was never something the Israelis had any purview to “grant.” Gaza is outside the borders of Israel, which are defined in UN Resolution 181.
The reason I have “reused” several arguments is that they are relevant in multiple responses, and whether Israel had a “purview to grant” effective self-government is irrelevant as that is what numerous terrorist organizations based in these areas claimed was their goal, yet terrorist attacks and calls for genocide from these organizations did not cease in the aftermath of these changes. If you truly wish to go down the “mostly false and poorly framed” route, its ironic that your effectively supporting the creation of a “Palestinian” state here while also declaring that “statism is terrorism” in another thread.
I don’t “support” the “creation” of a Palestinian state. I oppose all states, including the Palestinian state (which already exists and is recognized by most other states in the world, and as a UN observer state, and, most pertinently to current events, as a member state of the International Criminal Court).
I tend to resist the claim, made by several anti-Israel commenters here, that all pro-Israel commenters are “paid” “hasbara.” But when an account pops up with tens of cut and paste comments, consisting entirely of old hat boilerplate, in two days, I have to wonder whether the person doing the cutting and pasting is getting paid by the hour, or by the comment, or is just too goddamn dumb or lazy to actually think about what he or she is jabbering.
If you do not support the political goals of any of the entities involved in this conflict, what exactly are you doing? I am stating that terrorism and attempts at genocide continue to be unjustifiable, and as such Israel has and continues to have a legitimate right to self-defense in eliminating such groups. You calling me names and implying spending time defending such common-sense positions makes me false or disingenuous is simply unfortunate, as I will continue to support the rights of people to exist in peace.
“If you do not support the political goals of any of the entities involved in this conflict, what exactly are you doing?”
Opposing the terrorist activities of the entities involved in this conflict.
“I am stating that terrorism and attempts at genocide continue to be unjustifiable, unless it’s the Israeli regime engaging in terrorism, in which case the terrorism magically becomes ‘self-defense’ because REASONS.”
Fixed, no charge.
Where have I “called you names?”
Israel is not a terrorist state for having to make the difficult decision to attack terrorists even when they hide in civilian areas, the same way law enforcement would not be engaging in “terrorist activities” if they continue pursuing an active shooter as he runs into a crowded mall. You imply in your earlier response that you have come around to seeing me as a “hasbara”, apparently some kind of influencer? Additionally, you use curse words in describing my actions. Aren’t you supposed to be a moderator on this site? Why don’t you support me in taking a reasonable anti-war, anti-conflict stance, as there is a risk of much more of that if Israel does not launch or is not successful in its counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations throughout the region.
“You imply in your earlier response that you have come around to seeing me as a ‘hasbara’
I imply no such thing. I simply point out that when a new Disqus account appears out of nowhere and immediately launches into cut-and-paste spamming of pre-fabricated talking points, there are grounds to wonder why.
The job of the moderator on this site is to enforce a few guidelines against e.g. hate speech, not to “support you” in any stance.
As I’ve explained earlier, I have legitimate grounds to “reuse” arguments when they are relevant in multiple responses, and what exactly would be wrong and/or suspicious with a new account appearing to do the thing most accounts are created for, commenting? As the person actually behind this account, I can confirm that none of these points are “pre-fabricated” as well. I have not implied it would be “your job” to support me, I have simply pointed out it would be nice to take the actual anti-war position on this issue. As the world comes together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
“I have simply pointed out it would be nice to take the actual anti-war position on this issue”
Which is exactly what I do. And exactly the opposite of what you — and your ideological twins, the supporters of Hamas — do.
How and when would I have ever called for the equivalent of a Hamas level response? If your instead implying that not wanting Israel to be successful in its counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations is anti-war, your free to explain what exactly you think would happen if they are either not successful or do not respond. Noticeably, you seem to be making accusations against me, when all I have done is to advocate the common-sense positions that terrorism and attempts at genocide continue to be unjustifiable, and as such Israel has and continues to have a legitimate right to self-defense in eliminating such groups.
Peace is as easy as becoming a secular democracy with a permanent constituent assembly.
To imply Israel does not have a parliament and is not a representative government is false, while the demand to make Israel “secular” is both unwarranted and appeasement to its enemies. Political entities do not get a say in how a country is run by committing atrocities against its civilian population or attempting to eliminate them militarily, and as Israel is a legitimate state created to protect the Jewish people from genocide after the largest genocide in human history against them, it follows that the state created to protect them would have elements of their beliefs in its governance.
Cowards…!
But Israel has the “rights “ to defend itself by attacking first.
Israel bombing other nations again, making them the aggressors.
So if terrorists kidnap babies and small children “to dirty the them- if rape is used as a tool of war-these terrorists are not aggressors. War is Peace.
Israel has been the aggressor ever since its inception, stealing Palestinian land and forcing Palestinians into exile. That damn country makes me ashamed to be Jewish.
Syria will be partitioned soon. Turkey will be rolling in from the north, US will stay in the East to create a “state” for Kurds and Israel will move from the west. Russian days in Tartus and access to the Middle East is over.
US will stay right next to that oil
More Zionist wear crimes, yet Zionist controlled media and governments in the West insist that only Palestinians are terrorists.
If the U.S. and the west had never gotten involved, these would just be two tribes (originally split from one, BTW) that were still idiotically warring after thousands of years. The only reason that this is a problem that should concern us is U.S. involvement, starting with the theft of Palestinian land to create the modern state of Israel, and the U.S. military and political support of Israel.
What I’ve long found really odd about all this is that most of the most rabid Zionists I talk to or meet are not even Jewish. They’re Christian psychos who think of Palestinians the way that racists think of Black people, i.e., lesser humans.