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When people show you who they are, believe them. Hamas and Iran have been quite clear - Hamas in their charter, and Iran on X and everywhere else - that they want all Jews dead. Why does the world pretend they don’t know and don’t see this? Screw the BBC, screw apologists in the Squad and on CNN. (Also MSNBC)
My daughter texted me this morning to tell me to avoid the news today to spare me the nightmares she knows I experience when viewing such things.
I’m all for making Gaza an uninhabited strip of glass. This has been going on too long and there is literally no other way I can see to end it.
You actually remind me of the Palestinians, Compost. Your comments are like rockets lobbed into civilian areas.
Does George Soros have you guys posting these talking points from inside a school/hospital?
Lol. That is a myth. Just like your claim that the plantation economy in the Antebellum South was "Communism" and that children are being castrated at Planned Parenthood offices. So, maybe you should stop lobbing your stupidity everywhere.
Hamas dreams of another Babi Yar but lacks the Hitlerian leadership needed to achieve it. So it sends its youth, who might otherwise be productive and peaceful, into the maw of a highly trained military force. The first few hours of soft targets will seem like victory for these sadly brainwashed youth but the payback will be devastation for them, their friends and relatives.
Shame on any who try to put a moral face on this attack. It's just the last gasp of the old, feeble, irrelevant and bitter…
Yeah. It's kind of a Tet offensive thing. Very impressive coordination, logistics and action, but at the end of the day, not going to amount to much, except causing a massive retaliatory response.
Israel has largely constrained from doing what they want to do, due to the presence of media, international observers, etc. It would be a complete PR disaster if Netanyahu et al. really did what they wanted, such as another Nakba, Deir Yassin, Tantura, etc.
Hamas, however, doesn't have to worry about that. They have historically shown that they really don't "worry" about too much at all, except for trying to find ways around Israeli security.
The "settler" strategy for Israel has been very smart. Stay under the media radar. Send people in to take land, build on land, or move into people's homes, etc. - and if the settlers are attacked/killed, you have the pretext for military action and/or let the settlers take action (i.e. Huwara).
I don't think this rises to the level of a Nuremberg-style issue, because the two sides have been at war for quite a long time, so it's just cycle or attack and retaliation. Plus, I don't see the Israeli government being really interested in having a trial for members of Hamas. They usually don't get down that way when it comes to these types of issues.
The strategy that will probably be implemented is to have as much of a media blackout, expel as many journalists and observers as possible, then get buck!
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