Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 167 Palestinians over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza’s Health Ministry, as the daily US-backed slaughter continues amid a total Israeli blockade.
In the same three-day period, 24 bodies of Palestinians killed by previous Israeli attacks were recovered from the rubble, and 391 Palestinians were injured by Israeli strikes. The Health Ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the Health Ministry said in its latest update on Sunday, which it released about midday Gaza time.
On Friday, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said that it has run out of food stocks in Gaza due to the Israeli blockade. “Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meal kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days,” the WFP said in a press release.
“For weeks, hot meal kitchens have been the only consistent source of food assistance for people in Gaza. Despite reaching just half the population with only 25 percent of daily food needs, they have provided a critical lifeline,” the WFP added.
A few weeks earlier, all 25 bakeries operated by the WFP in Gaza were shut down due to the lack of supplies. “No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed,” the WFP said.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, warned on Saturday that “children are starving” in Gaza. “The Government of Israel continues to block the entry of food + other basics. A manmade & politically motivated starvation. Nearly 2 months of siege. Calls to bring in supplies are going unheeded,” he wrote on X.
Both UNWRA and the WFP have said they have aid ready to be delivered to Gaza but the shipments are being blocked by Israel. “More than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance – enough to feed one million people for up to four months – is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza by WFP and food security partners as soon as borders reopen,” the WFP said.
The US has strongly backed Israel’s collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza, a clear war crime under international law. President Trump claimed on Friday that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “we’ve got to be good to Gaza,” but there’s no indication he’s putting pressure on Israel to ease the blockade.
Trump to the rescue. Like what, 55 days in? But "we're going to take care of that". F*cking when? And never mind about the bombing of tents. We don't want to be TOO good to Gaza. /s
Trump says he told Netanyahu ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza’ and allow more aid
President Trump said he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week on the aid blockage to the Gaza Strip, telling him “We’ve got to be good to Gaza.”
“Those people are suffering,” Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One as he revealed what he said to Netanyahu during a phone on Tuesday.
Trump, in his first public comments about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region, said there’s a “very big need” for food and medicine in the region.
“We’re going to take care of that,” he added.
When asked how Netanyahu responded, Trump said the prime minister “felt well about it.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-he-told-netanyahu-we-ve-got-to-be-good-to-gaza-and-allow-more-aid/ar-AA1DG4CE?ocid=BingNewsSerp
At least with Donald John Trump we know where the buck stops and who is directing things. Under Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. nobody really knew who was making decisions in the White House. Chief of Staff Ron Klain? Chief of Staff Jeff Zients? Dr. Jill?
“At least with Donald John Trump we know where the buck stops and who is directing things.”
Yes, we do — things are directed by whomever he listened to most recently, and the buck never stops.
Very little comfort. 55 days went by before Trump spoke up about it. Not exactly something you'd want to use as an example of him making his own decisions.
Trump has made clear his opinion that the bloodbath of the past year and a half has been a public relations DISASTER for Israel. For the first time since polling began, a clear majority of Americans have a negative view of Israel, particularly among the young. This even despite a sympathetic Pro-Zionist media in the US. And it’s not as if the “Iron Fist” approach to the Palestinian problem has never been tried before. They’ve been using it for years.
”Trump has made clear his opinion that the bloodbath of the past year and a half has been a public relations DISASTER for Israel.” What’s your point? Until he lifts a finger to oppose the Israeli genocide, no one gives a shit about what he thinks or feels.
As if Trump doesn’t have enough powerful enemies clamoring for his scalp, you want him to call down the wrath of the American Zionist lobby like thunder upon his head?
And here I thought he was supposed to be different than Biden. His balls might not hang as low as Biden's but they certainly disappear like Biden's.
During a bid to pass a resolution blocking arms sales to Israel, Sen. Bernie Sanders denounced AIPAC's massive spending on elections.
I thought you said both parties are bought and paid for by AIPAC.
So, Bernie not being one of them means the democrats don't accept money from AIPAC? Are you serious?
You think Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accept AIPAC funding?
Are you serious?
And I'm sure there are more. Once more, democrats are also on the AIPAC payroll. A lot of them.
Top Individual Contributors: All Federal Contributions, 2023-2024 – https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
Elon Musk = $0 to Democrats, $291,482,587 to Republicans.
Miriam O. Adelson = $0 to Democrats, $148,294,900 to Republicans.
I'm sure most Republicans are on the AIPAC payroll. Trump's entire Cabinet certainly are.
https://www.trackaipac.com/trump
And that proves democrats don't get money from AIPAC? Hardly.
This is just one example of what I'm talking about:
The largest recipient of AIPAC’s campaign support in November, which came by way of its PAC, was New York Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres, who was profiled by the New York Times in November as an example of a young Democratic politician who has sided firmly with Israel, as opposed to those in the so-called “squad” of progressives who have spoken critically of the country’s military actions. AIPAC sent Torres more than $201,000 in donations from its PAC in November, according to the filing.
Several other Democrats who voted to censure Tlaib were among the top recipients of AIPAC funds in November, including Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ($141,058), New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer ($61,176), and Florida Rep. Lois Frankel ($33,050).
https://truthout.org/articles/fec-filing-shows-aipac-made-record-donations-to-congress-in-november/
Miriam Adelson gives $100 million to Trump campaign, making good on reported pledge.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/miriam-adelson-gives-100-million-to-trump-campaign-making-good-on-reported-pledge/
The Trump Administration – https://www.trackaipac.com/trump
I didn't deny Trump getting Miriam's money. I was proving to you that both parties get money from AIPAC.
Democrats don't support ethnic cleansing.
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They allowed, enabled and supported the ethnic cleansing for 13 months. And then they lost the election.
Democrats allowed Israel to “defend” itself, as Republicans do, however, the Biden administration disagreed with Israel’s decisions, sanctioned illegal settlers and then paused the supply of thousands of large bombs to Israel in opposition to Netanyahu’s move to invade the Gaza city of Rafah. And then they lost the election to a far-right fascist who lifted the sanctions and gave Netanyahu the green light and the bombs to resume their campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Yes, the democrats allowed Israel to defend itself to the tune of allowing them to drop 80,000 tons of bombs that leveled 70% of Gaza and displaced 90% of their people. And yet you talk about meaningless sanctions on settlers and pausing the shipment of 2,000 lb bombs as if that made a pinch of shit of a difference.
Here's an example of what a joke Biden's red lines were:
In a letter dated October 13 to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant from the U.S. State and Defense Departments, the Biden administration contradicted its own earlier claim that Israel was not blocking aid by admitting that it was. The letter requested Israel to “demonstrate a sustained commitment” to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians, including by allowing 350 truckloads of aid per day into Gaza.
Failure to meet the criteria within thirty days, the letter stated, “may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law.” In other words, the letter warned that if Israel did not allow in significantly more aid, the United States might halt arms shipments.
Israel was given thirty days to comply—a duration that conveniently put the deadline after the U.S. presidential election.
In a State Department press briefing on November 4, one day before the election, a reporter accurately observed that since the letter was sent, the humanitarian situation in Gaza had worsened instead of improved, and department spokesman Matthew Miller admitted that Israel had failed to comply. He then joked about Israel still having more time before the deadline, prompting laughter in the room by remarking, “it’s not the end of the semester.”
The inquiring journalist then rebuked both the spokesman and his colleagues in the media by rightly objecting, “I suspect that the levity is a little bit inappropriate.”
Israel in fact had reduced the amount of aid it was letting into Gaza, but since the leaked letter was just another propaganda sham to begin with, after the thirty days had passed, the Biden administration declared that it would continue to provide the weapons necessary for Israel to continue its genocide.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/how-trump-greenlighted-the-resumption-of-israels-gaza-genocide/
For decades U.S. presidents, regardless of political party, have provided Israel with military aid, which is illegal since foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
And if Harris had run her campaign opposing military aid to Israel, then the Dems would have still lost the election.
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For Israel to defend themselves from terrorism in the name of Islam.
The President most associated with providing significant military aid to Israel is Barack Obama. His administration negotiated a record $38 billion agreement over ten years, a significant increase from previous levels.— And I, as most American voters, voted for Obama twice. The first President in over 50 years to win the popular US vote by over 51% twice.
My Statement on the Middle East
Today, President Biden put forward a clear, realistic and just plan to establish an immediate ceasefire and end the war in Gaza — a plan that ensures Israel’s security, returns hostages taken on October 7th to their families, increases aid into Gaza and relieves the suffering of Palestinian civilians, and engages Israelis, Palestinians, Arab countries and the broader international community in the process of rebuilding Gaza.
A ceasefire alone won’t ease the terrible pain of Israelis whose loved ones were butchered or abducted by Hamas, or the Palestinians whose families have been shattered by the subsequent war. It won’t resolve the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, or answer contentious issues surrounding a two-state solution or continuing settler activity in the West Bank. But what it can do is put a stop to the ongoing bloodshed, help families reunite and allow a surge of humanitarian aid to help desperate, hungry people. It can save lives, here and now — and it can lay the foundation for what will be a long and difficult road to a future in which Israel is secure and at peace with its neighbors, and Palestinians finally have the security, freedom and self-determination that they have sought for so long.
As the tragedy in Gaza has unfolded over the past eight months, we’ve witnessed an often fierce public debate here at home — and around the world — regarding how the United States should respond. But no matter where each of us stand in these broader debates, an enduring ceasefire is something we should all support — for the sake of Israelis, Palestinians and the world at large. I am deeply encouraged by the steady, tireless efforts of President Biden, Secretary of State Tony Blinken and our diplomatic team to bring this awful war to an end.
— Barack Obama (Jun 1, 2024)
Barack Obama says ‘all of us are complicit’ in the Hamas-Israel war.
He said Hamas’ actions were “horrific”, but “the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable”, and that these were two seemingly contradictory truths that needed to be acknowledged in order to “act constructively”.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/barack-obama-says-all-of-us-are-complicit-in-the-hamas-israel-war/foadd7e7c
Sorry you are not doing well in life or even have a life.
Just for balance, George Soros personally donated $170 million during the 2022 midterms to Democratic candidates and campaigns on top of that he spread more money.
Do I want him to oppose the influence of a parasitic lobby and nation and actually put American interests first? Hard to believe, but yes. Hard to believe someone masquerading as a patriot (you) would cheer on someone who is selling our country’s future to a bunch of rich Zionists.
https://www.trackaipac.com/trump
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Now tell us how much the Democrats got from AIPAC. Or don’t you care?
Now tell us how the Democrats support Trump's plan of ethnic cleansing Palestine.
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Sanders is an Independent.
Sanders was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, finishing second both times.
Trump is a fascist.
He’s an Independent when he’s out and about preaching to his donor base. He’s a Democrat when he’s in DC.
What's your point? It certainly can't be that the democrats aren't bought and paid for by AIPAC just like the republicans because nobody can be that naive.
What's your point? It certainly can't be to criticize Trump's approval of over $14 billion in military aid and weapons sales to Israel, in violation of international law.
AIPAC or not, foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
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My point was both parties are bought and paid for by AIPAC. And you haven't been reading my comments if you think I haven't been criticizing Trump.
Only one party is calling for the genocide of Palestinians.
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Netanyahu thanks Trump for weapons to "finish the job".
‘Reject AIPAC’: US progressives join forces against pro-Israel lobby group. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/11/reject-aipac-us-progressives-join-forces-against-pro-israel-lobby-group
https://x.com/JvpAction/status/1767175062958784985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1767175062958784985%7Ctwgr%5E1a5a82a7f6069745ea309a3ea775ed5038e87607%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2024%2F3%2F11%2Freject-aipac-us-progressives-join-forces-against-pro-israel-lobby-group
And the party that was defeated in November enabled and supported the genocide for 13 months prior to losing that election. Trump being blunt about it is the only difference. The words "unwavering" and "ironclad" were used repeatedly by Harris describing her support for Israel while Israel was butchering tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.
Harris called for two-state solution, and said Palestinians deserve "dignity and security". Biden said "I'm not supplying the weapons" for an Israeli operation in Rafah and paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. Republicans criticized that decision.
Biden's administration issued a new round of sanctions against groups and individuals involved in illegal Israeli settlements. Trump overturned Biden's sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
The words "finish the job" were repeatedly used by Trump and Netanyahu.
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And during Harris' 4 years as VP, what did she do to make a two state solution possible? Nothing. And what did she do when the Palestinians were getting slaughtered in Gaza from Oct 7th, 2023, until Nov 5th, 2024? Nothing. Other than agree with what Biden was doing. And that was allowing 70% of Gaza to be leveled with US provided weapons. And you talk up Biden for pausing a 2,000 lb bomb shipment although his administration allowed 80,000 tons of bombs to be dropped on Gaza. I'm not defending what the Trump administration is doing, I'm pointing out what the Biden administration DID. You seem to forget those 13 months of Israel disregarding one Biden red-line after another. The genocide was ongoing when Trump took office. The fact that he poured gasoline onto that fire doesn't change the fact that there was a fire.
You seem to forget that Biden is no longer president and that genocide of Palestinians has been going on for 76 years.
The fact that Trump supports Israel's ethnic cleansing agenda has nothing to do with the Democratic party.
You were exonerating the democrats for their part in the genocide on Gaza.
I never said the democrats were responsible for what Trump is doing now. Again, I only pointed out what the democrats did.
I'm not "exonerating" the democrats for their part in the genocide on Gaza.
However, you're ignoring international law.
How?
Why?
Instead of being a smart ass why don't you tell me how I was ignoring international law.
When have you mentioned international law?
The ICC has jurisdiction over the nationals of countries such as the US that have not joined the Rome Statute. Palestine is a member of the ICC, and the ICC has jurisdiction over alleged crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
You:
I'm not "exonerating" the democrats for their part in the genocide on Gaza.
However, you're ignoring international law.
However, you're talking shit.
After 100 days in office, mad King Donald is bewildered and lashing out at his supposed enemies. He's driven by vengeance and greed, Old Testament stuff. His demise is coming right up.
Genocide Joe “Decent” Biden 2.0.
“Hey, feed them while you bomb them and terrorize the shit out of them” ~ said the humanitarian.
Why is he even pretending at this point?
BTW, I read more reserves refuse to serve.
It's foolish to listen to Trump seriously until proven right…! He's just ranting some statements without having any authorities to the CM… And CM may just ignore them…!
"Felt well about it"? That the intended terrorism perpetuated by nonintelligent design with malice being caused is so utterly evil and we all know what exactly its like but we cant say it or we're blackballed as antisemitc?
And then benny the bloated goes to a friggin brunch to discuss bombing the starving? How more nefarious can this be? Why didnt they send benny to cecot where he belongs????
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“No woman, no cry”…
One more reason for Hamas to lay down their arms and release all the hostages. Until then, Israel must continue.
Hamas has had 19 months to put a stop to this mess that they initiated. However, when Hamas threatens that there will be more Oct 7's, this means they would like to do this all over again if given an opportunity.
“We love death like our enemies love life” – speaker at funeral of terrorists
Official Palestinian Authority TV | Mar 8, 2023
PA Terrorist
Hamas: We love death like Israelis love life
Hamas leader Muhammad Deif: "Today you [Israelis] are fighting divine soldiers, who love death for Allah like you love life, and who compete among themselves for Martyrdom like you flee from death."
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: "We love death like our enemies love life! We love Martyrdom, the way…"
Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas— Feb 28, 2014
Hamas TV to Israelis: We "love death more than you love life"
Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas | Nov 18, 2012
Hamas spokesman: We are not afraid of Israel because we love death
Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas | Nov 18, 2012
Hamas using Palestinians as human shields: "We desire death as you desire life"
Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas | Feb 29, 2008
Peace will come to the Middle East when the Palestinians love their children more than the love trying to destroy Israel.
Peace will never come to the Middle East while Christian Zionists support the genocide of Palestinians.
There is no genocide! The population has increased nine times since 1948. That is not how ethnic cleansing or genocide works or else Israel is really bad at it.
Two million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel proper as citizens on land that hypocritical activists say is ethnically cleansed.
Gaza genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
European and American ancestry make up about 2.2 million (36%) of the Jewish population in Israel.
2.2 million European and American Israelis don't have a Biblical right to illegally occupy Palestinian land. Not now, not ever.
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Having ancestry from Area X does not magically make you “from” Area X or preclude you from living in Area Y. If that was the case, then Palestinians would also have no right to live in the area, their own ancestors having also come from elsewhere.
Researchers compared the ancient DNA with that of modern populations and found that most Arab and Jewish groups in the region owe more than half of their DNA to Canaanites and other peoples who inhabited the ancient Near East—an area encompassing much of the modern Levant, Caucasus, and Iran.
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Do you think the Canaanites magically sprang from the ground in Palestine? They came from elsewhere.
Where else?
Canaanites were a mixture of local people who settled in farming villages during the Neolithic period and eastern migrants who arrived in the region about 5,000 years ago.—ScienceDaily, Ancient DNA
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I am an atheist, but Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in the people of the Book, and that God chose the Jews to receive the Ten Commandments and lead them to the Promised Land.
In reality, Jews from all over the world came to Israel to build one tiny Jewish State which is at the forefront of science and technology.
The Bible mentions people from diverse regions beyond just East, North, West, and South. The Bible does use these directions to denote the boundaries of the known world.
I'm atheist. So what? One doesn't need religion to have ethical standards. The Ten Commandments mentions "Thou shalt not kill".
In reality, Israel is a fascist apartheid state and you're a Zionist liar.
The Bible refers to the Philistines (Pelesheth), who inhabited the coastal region, which is a precursor to the area later named Palestine, which was once at the forefront of science and technology.
Even those “local people” came from elsewhere at some point.
That is also true!
Zionists came from Europe.
Christopher Hitchens made one minor mistake. Arabs born in Palestine have a right to a state, they were offered one, turned it down, and they immediately went to war with the other party to gain everything and they lost.
You made one minor mistake. Israel does not support the idea of a two-state solution.
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So do and some don't, but you cannot form one with those who do not recognize your right to exist.
Correct! What is your cultural heritage and where do you call home now? I would not want you to be a hypocrite.
Palestine is a geographical area, not a specific people. It have never been an independent state or nation. Hence the UN Partition Resolution offering two stateless people an opportunity to build to independent nations. One said yes, the other chose war and lost.
My “cultural heritage” is southern Missouri farm boy/hillbilly, and these days I call Florida home (from what I’ve been able to ascertain, the particular parcel I rent was once part of a slave-labor cotton plantation, and at some point before that home to a tribe that the Spaniards killed off with some mixture of violence and unfamiliar disease).
My genetic heritage is very mixed, including some Ashkenazi Jewish as well as Russian, Finnish, German, British, Irish, Spanish, etc.
So your ancestry is European, so how was the land you are living on acquired and where is your indigenous land? Just asking, cause I don't want you to be a hypocrite
The land I am living on went through some unknown chain of acquisitions prior to the arrival of the Spanish, who killed off the people then living there and occupied it. Eventually the Spanish monarchy gave its special magical blessing to a few hundred Spanish colonists to “claim” it (it was called the Arredondo Grant), but then Spain ceded the land to the United States before that settlement really got going. I’m not sure if the late 18th/early 19th century nails I’ve dug up in my yard are from the late Spanish, early US, or in-between British period.
In what way could any of that possibly make me a “hypocrite?” I’ve not made any claim to the land on my own behalf, justified by ancestry or otherwise, nor did the US agree to some other set of borders as a condition of UN membership like Israel did.
"In what way could any of that possibly make me a "hypocrite?" — You said that 23% of the Jews in Israel have European ancestry. Your ancestors are from Europe as well. That would make you a hypocricte.
You can't tell people where than can live based on DNA or cultural heritage, otherwise you might send all whites back to Europe, all blacks back to Africa, and all Asians back to Asia.
Indigenous tribes everywhere have had to make place for bigger or more strong groups who formed Countries.
"You said that 23% of the Jews in Israel have European ancestry."
No, I didn't.
Usually when I point anything out about where people in the region are from, I note that 70% of Israeli Jews are native Palestinians, and oppose telling people where they can live because of DNA or cultural heritage.
Perhaps you should devote a little less time to copy and paste and a little more time to keeping track of who you're arguing with.
There is one tiny Jewish State in a sea of Islamic States. Do you have a balanced scale??
The Jews of Israel are the only ethnic and religious minority in the MENA region with the full right of self determination. Do you have a balanced scale??
Every Israeli and Israeli settlement was removed from Gaza in 2005 and it appeased no one– Lesson learned!
Can you name a time in history when Jews were forbidden to settle in the West Bank??
Do you have a moral compass?
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 was adopted on 23 December 2016. It concerns the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Can you name a time in history before Zionism existed? Until World War II, anti-Zionism was widespread among Jews.
So, in the meantime Israel can act like barbarians and continue slaughtering innocent noncombatants as they see fit. It must be because Israel loves their children and that gives them the right to butcher Palestinian children, right numbnuts?
In 2017, Hamas released a new charter that supported a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established. https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-borders-4912532b11a9cec29464eab234045438
Incitement to genocide is a violation of international law.
You have to know that that is bullshit, as they know it is not mathematically feasible anymore. You forgot about the right of return for six million so-called Palestinian Arab refugee into Israel proper, which is also not mathematically feasible.
You don't get to start all these wars and they go back to the status quo every time you lose, or there is no consequence for your actions.
Hamas has been very honest about their intent to destroy Israel. Even the Palestinian Authority recognizes Israel but does not recognize their right to exist. — It is not their choice!
So you complain that the original Hamas charter demanded the elimination of Israel … but also say that the newer Hamas charter allowing for peace and giving up part of the Palestinian state’s land (the 1967 borders would leave a lot of land under Israeli control that is legally part of Palestine according to UNR 181) isn’t “feasible.”
Apparently the only thing you consider “feasible” is for Israel to get all the benefits of, and none of the obligations of, “international law.”
Obviously you have never read UN Resolution 181 and the Arab refusal to accept it from day one and laughed an immediate war.
While every other refugee population in the world, such as the millions of displaced persons after the Second World War, has decreased with the passage of time, the Palestinian refugee population continually increases. Therefore, those refugees from 1948 have today become approximately six million registered with UNRWA.
The Arab world’s demand that 6 million so called refugees be allowed to return to the State of Israel, known as the “Right of Return”, becomes a weapon, as an influx of that magnitude would cause the demographic destruction of the Jewish State. This would be in violation of Paragraph 11 of Resolution 194, which required that those returning should and desiring to “live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.” The Right of Return, being a weapon for the demographic destruction of Israel, fits neither the “live at peace” clause nor the “earliest practicable date” clause. There is no practical way for Israel to accept and enable its own demise.
UNR 181 incorporated no “right of return” to “the State of Israel” for non-Jewish Arabs.
It did, however, set Israel’s borders, and those borders remain its borders.
Until 1967 when they attacked Israel before that there were no Israeli settlements in Gaza or the West Bank.
King Hussein of Jordan signed a pact with Egypt on May 30 1967, only days before the Six Day War on June 5th, Nasser announced:
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel…to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical time is here.
In case you hadn't heard, they lost again!
In case you haven't realized, Zionism caused all Israel's wars.
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You left out some vital information as they were responding to actions taken against the Jewish people.
The King David Hotel was the site of the British military command and the British Criminal Investigation Division (CID). The Irgun chose it as a target after British troops invaded the Jewish Agency on June 29, 1946 (Black Sabbath), and confiscated large quantities of documents. At about the same time, more than 2,500 Jews from all over Palestine were placed under arrest. The information about Jewish Agency operations, including intelligence activities in Arab countries, was taken to the King David Hotel.
A week later, news of a massacre of 40 Jews in a pogrom in Kielce, Poland, reminded the Jews of Palestine how Britain's restrictive immigration policy had condemned thousands to death.
Irgun leader Menachem Begin stressed his desire to avoid civilian casualties and said three telephone calls were placed, one to the hotel, another to the French Consulate, and a third to the Palestine Post, warning that explosives in the King David Hotel would soon be detonated. —Virtual Jewish Library
By the way, a "score" refers to the number twenty (20) in old English.
The Irgun didn't represent "the Jewish people" any more than the Ku Klux Klan represents "the white people."
The Irgun was a Jewish underground organization, founded in 1931 by a group of Haganah commanders, who left the Haganah in protest against its defense charter. The Irgun rejected the “restraint” policy of the Haganah and carried out armed reprisals against Arabs, which were condemned by the Jewish Agency. Many of its members were arrested by the British authorities
Yes, I suppose comparing the Irgun to one of the smaller Ku Klux Klan offshoots would be more accurate than comparing it to the Klan proper.
Israel was founded through the activities of three terrorist groups, the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, and the Lohamei Herut Israel (Lehi or Stern Gang).
When the British refused to open Palestine to unlimited immigration, these terrorist groups attacked the British administration and their white paper policy, which contributed heavily to to the removal of the British from Palestine, the abandonment of The League of Nations mandate and the creation of the state of Israel.
By the way, Israel is committing "Genocide".
It was not founded by those groups, there formed to protect Jews.
Those groups were formed to terrorize Palestinians and steal Palestinian land.
The Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party. Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.
The untold history of the Israel Defense Forces.
UNRWA definition of a Palestine refugee in 1952: "A Palestine refugee is [a person] whose normal residence was Palestine for a [minimum period of two years] preceding the outbreak of the conflict in 1948 and who, as a result of this conflict has lost both his home and his means of livelihood."
As you can see, the definition of "refugees" omitted the reference to persons of Arab origin in the 1948 General Assembly proposal, and included all stateless persons who had been residents of Palestine for a minimum of two years.
List of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel
The 1947 UN Partition Resolution 181 for the division of two stateless people in Palestine.
The partition resolution was accepted by the Jewish leadership, rejected by Arabs. The plan was also rejected by the leadership of Arab nations which opposed any partition of this territory, and any independent Jewish presence in the area.
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, started by five Arab nations for control of the disputed territory broke out on the end of the British Mandate, which came to an end with the 1949 Armistice Agreements, as Arabs lost the war!
All Israel's wars were started by Zionism.
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David Ben-Gurion's quotes were originally written in Hebrew. First of all did you get the exact translation?
Second– What Arab leader, there are 22 Arab Countries?
Palestine was never a Country. There has not been an independent nation in that location since the Romans sacked Jerusalem 2000 years ago
And last– Why does the banner of Islam fly over 99.9% of the Middle East and north African landmass? Why do you believe it should be 100%?
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
“STATE-FORMING ZIONISM” AND THE PRECEDENT FOR LEADERSHIP – T. HERZL, V. JABOTINSKY AND D. BEN-GURION https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/040914332_Zouplna.pdf
UNR 181 was accepted by the Zionist leadership, which had and has no claim to being "the Jewish leadership" any more than the Ku Klux Klan has a claim to be "the white leadership."
And to the extent that "accepting" or "refusing to accept" UNR 181 has any meaning, that Israel DID accept it as a condition of US membership, it remains binding. Including its borders.
You are in error as usually. 181 was void when Arab leadership refused to accept it. Please think before you
After Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former Palestinian mandate. On the evening of May 14, the Arabs launched an air attack on Tel Aviv, which the Israelis resisted. This action was followed by the invasion of the former Palestinian mandate by Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. They lost, and the UN granted Israel Stateship in 1949
The UN charter doesn’t give “The Arab leadership” veto power over UN resolutions.
I know that your bullshit is profoundly ignorant of international law.
International law supports Palestinian's legitimacy of their struggle for independence and liberation from Israel's colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.
International law strongly condemns those Governments that do not recognize the right to self-determination and independence of all peoples still under colonial domination and alien subjugation, notably the people of Palestine.
You overlook the fact that incitement to genocide is a war crime that has consequences.
Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide – https://law4palestine.org/law-for-palestine-releases-database-with-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-continuously-updated/
You don't get to whitewash history to suit your pathetic Zionist ideology.
People Injured and Traumatized During the “Great March of Return” – https://www.un.org/unispal/document/two-years-on-people-injured-and-traumatized-during-the-great-march-of-return-are-still-struggling/
Please site the international "law" that you are referring to??????
Geneva Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154496
The General Assembly Resolutions are not law.
You said: "International law supports Palestinian's legitimacy of their struggle for independence". My question was: "Please site the international [law] that you are referring to??????" —–Please do not dodge the question again.
Please take your pissweak argument to the ICC.
Nice dodge?
Just shows you what a bunch of shameless hypocrites these leftist, so-called "progressive" liberals in the US news media are. They've lost the right to ever again lecture the American people about any "human rights" abuses taking place anywhere in the world. Their lack of in-depth coverage of the mass murder campaign in Gaza and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the West Bank speaks volumes about their warped sense of morality.
The fascist Trump administration are shameless hypocrites.
Gaza Death Toll Since Israel Shattered Ceasefire in March Reaches 2,000, Entire Families Wiped Out. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/25/headlines/gaza_death_toll_since_israel_shattered_ceasefire_in_march_reaches_2_000_entire_families_wiped_out
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The genocide in Gaza has been going on for over a YEAR and a half. Trump has only been President for 3 months. The first day of his Presidency on January 20, he secured a Gaza ceasefire that lasted for 2 months, until March 18.
The genocide in Gaza has been going on for over 76 years.
Trump did not secure a ceasefire deal, and he has been blatantly violating international laws since 2016.
Trump said war criminal Netanyahu was "doing a good job" and gave Israel the green light to resume their killing spree.
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Once more, Trump had no problem with the genocide in Gaza before the election. He even chided Biden/Harris for not giving Israel everything they needed and promised he'd do just that so Israel could "get the job done". And bringing up the "cease fire" would have more meaning if it didn't morph into what we have today. First, he said he didn't think the cease fire, that Israel violated repeatedly, would make it to phase 2. After that self-fulfilling prophesy came true, he blamed the civilians in Gaza and said if they didn't overthrow Hamas, they'd all be dead. Then he okayed Israel's resumption of their genocide and then allowed almost two months of a total blockade of any aid getting into Gaza before he even fucking addressed it. You can't cherry pick this situation and make it sound like Trump made a serious attempt to put an end to Israel's ongoing slaughter.
And Trump continues it with a cherry on top.
"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can endure the most who will conquer" is attributed to Terence MacSwiney, Irish Republican Mayor of Cork, who famously died on hunger strike in 1920. This quote emphasizes that true strength and victory lie not in the ability to cause harm, but in the capacity to withstand suffering and hardship.
MacSwiney's life and death during the Irish War of Independence, particularly his hunger strike, are often cited as examples of enduring suffering in the face of injustice. His quote is a powerful statement about the resilience and moral force of those who resist oppression and injustice.
The quote highlights the importance of perseverance and resilience in the face of adversity.
MacSwiney's quote suggests that those who can endure the most, even to the point of death, demonstrate a greater moral strength than those who can inflict harm.
The quote implies that suffering and resistance, rather than inflicting harm, are the key to achieving true victory.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/28/pope-francis-refused-to-be-silent-on-gaza-will-his-successor-follow-suit/
The media ignored this of course. Doesn't fit the agenda.
Honesty has always been like this. If it doesnt fit the agenda and manipulation it is discarded. WW1 was a great example, showing german soldiers bayoneting little cute french and belgium babies!!! While King Leopold of Belgium was during hitler-like shit in the congo…
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I remember the blatant lies about Kuwaiti babies being thrown out of incubators and stomped on the floor by Iraqi soldiers, happily spread by our Pro-War media.
Many Evangelicals and half of Catholics are already having fits that the new pope might follow in Francis' footsteps. They instead want to go backwards in time with Latin Mass adn all the other old dated stuff.
Like shelter the homeless?
feed the hungry?
thou shalt not kill?
Sell all you own and give it to the poor?
Proverb 25 verse 21 and 22?
Stuff like that?
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That little Palestinian boy's short life in a hellish concentration camp is now mercifully over. The adults in the world failed him and thousands of other innocent dead children in the Gaza Ghetto miserably. But don't worry, all this slaughter of the innocents is being done to fight "terrorism".
Trump will be celebrating his 100 day "achievements" with all the gold, glory, noise and carnival attendance while men, women and children die with his weapons and money. He will say nothing about that, except maybe Hegseth will brag that "our military is back being number one again starting in Yemen"