As they should. You don't want any members of Hamas slipping out of Gaza into Israel, so you fully encircle them.
Good on Egypt to keep the humanitarian supplies up. If I were Israel I would accept the offer, under the condition that they are able to inspect all supplies going in and monitor to...
Make no mistake, Hamas is an enormous security threat to Israel, as demonstrated over the weekend. This charade of "there is nobody in Palestine but women, children and the elderly" is not fooling anyone. Hamas is rampant throughout Gaza and is the primary target of Israel's counter aggression...
I wish somebody would tell Erdogan that if you want to win a war, proportionality of attacks are always going to be deeply unbalanced.
USA dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, vaporizing between 100-200 thousand people instantly, to win a war and force Japan to surrender.
Britain firebombed...
Sucks to suck.
If you walk through the streets butchering civilians, you have to be out of your mind if you think the opposing military is going to treat you in a humane way, regardless of what international law says. I said the same of some videos that emerged of Ukrainians taking extra...
USA 🇺🇸 has announced a new $200 million usd defense package for Ukraine. The package will include...
- AIM-9 Missiles for NASAMS
- GMLRS for HIMARS
- 155mm artillery shells
- 105mm artillery shells
- Precision aerial munitions
- TOW missiles
- AT-4 anti-armor rockets
- Small arms
- 16 million...
New defense package for Ukraine, from Germany 🇩🇪 , valued at 1 Billion Euros. This package is very important for the Ukrainians as they head into winter. The package includes the following.
- 1 Additional Patriot air defense system, including radar, command vehicle and 8 launchers.
- 60...
There are lots of Americans living and working in Israel. Any time there is a war going on in an area, American Special Forces are put on standby in case they have to get civilians or important persons out in a hurry. This isn't unique, or abnormal.
I would argue that it has none core tenants genocide as it is defined. I'd be curious to hear how a population that is growing at an incredibly fast rate and has growing pockets in other regions of the world, is facing genocide?
Look, would I go set up a music festival adjacent to a Native reserve in Canada? Probably not. You're probably putting yourself at risk of undo harm by the unhealthy people that live at the reserve. That's fair. But would I, at any time, suggest anything other than self-defense and / or the full...
Is he bi-polar by chance? I'd love to be a fly on the wall of a conversation between a bi-polar Erdogan and Dementia ridden Biden... Hell, let's throw in a narcissitic sociopath like Putin and somebody suffering from delusions of grandeur such as Kim Jung Un. Sounds like a great reality TV show...
The U.S. is Israel's ally. That's nit changing. They've made it abundantly clear. That's like saying that North Korea doesn't abide by international pressure and demands, because China doesn't get it on it.
It's not the United States' job to police their ally, nor it it China's job to police...
Almost every exisiting country on Earth has stolen, commandeered or won / lost land in a war. It's not in any way unique to the Israel / Palestine situation. Borders have changed substantially throughout history. Land owners have been evicted. Some have been eradicated. It's the normal course of...
That assumes that Israel is in Palestine's house. Which brings us to the timeless argument of whose claim to the land is more legitimate. Considering there is no universal agreement on that (hence this ongoing dispute) it's technically "nobody's house" as recognized internationally, therefore...
Two things
1). Each country (or bloc) has the right to determine who they view to be a terrorist organization and who they view as a legitimate military, with legitimate standards. There is no universal agreement. We all make decisions in accordance with our values and shared security.
2)...
But nobody supports Palestine... Everybody just supports Israel committing genocide... Nobody asks for accountability. The Jews get everything and everybody else in the region get nothing. 🙄🙄
Thank you for posting this. It cuts through the pure victim narrative, like a hot knife through butter.
Ahhhhhh I see... Illegal occupation (which I actually agree with you on) is justifiable means to cheer on and support the killing of somebody else's child, mother, etc... indiscriminate firing of rockets into resential neighborhoods is the justified response to illegal occupation, got it.
So...
I can agree with you that the Western world should be meddling in Middle Eastern problems. You'll get no pushback here! I fully support the idea of getting the hell out of the way and letting the Middle East tear itself apart in conflict, as it has for centuries. I despise my tax money being...
I'll comment on it.
It's horrible that civilians are caught in the crossfire. Again, I'd take hundreds of thousands as refugees in my country (if I had that kind of power) simply to get them to safety. That said, this is a predictable reaction to a cowardly attack on civilians by Hamas. The...
I have a simple rule of thumb. I don't expect a country to abide by international rules or laws, if their opposition in a conflict doesn't abide by those same laws.
I'll make you a deal, I'll start holding Israel's feet to the fire regarding international laws, when you (and others) start...
