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Yasar, if you don't think Israelis are fighting "for the defence of their homeland", I don't really know what you tell you. That's a lost cause for anyone thinking otherwise.

RMZN, none of that applies when it's in retaliation to an attack. And to reiterate, Gazans have skyrocketed in number even since the blockade. I'd like you to subtantiate this intent to "prevent births", because it sure-as-shit doesn't look that way from the lay of the land on the ground, factually. The only "forcible transferring" has been under wartime conditions when clearing areas, or with the children of parents who've killed Israelis. Wah wah, try again, deflating slide-whistle sound.

As far as the 40% of Arabs within Israel being down to 20% - first of all you're going to have to cite/source that too, and secondly, that's 20% more Arabs than there are Jews permitted to live & breathe under Hamas or Hezbollah territory. Guess the Israelis keep the moral high ground there, eh? 'Cause we're intellectually-consistent people here and all. (y)

"Another", Scott? That's, what, 5 tanks by now? 6? Good luck man, few thousand more to go, I'm sure the remaining limping & scattered remains of Hamas can bring down the rest before they're annihilated the rest of the way. Heh.
"none of that applies when it's in retaliation to an attack." Except it does. And If you dont think so you would also have to agree to the fact that Hamas has the right to kill every single Israeli in Israel in an act of self defense. After all they would just be "retaliating", right?

"Israel’s Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women, stated that: “All of Gaza’s infrastructures must be destroyed to its foundation and their electricity cut off immediately. The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza” "

https://x.com/bezalelsm/status/1726198721946480911

"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true."

https://www.scribd.com/document/681086738/Israeli-Intelligence-Ministry-Policy-Paper-on-Gaza-s-Civilian-Population-October-2023

"5.The three options under examination are
Option A: The population remaining in Gaza and the import of PalestinianAuthority (PA) rule.
Option B: The population remaining in Gaza along with the emergence of alocal Arab authority.
Option C: The evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai. (a.k.a textbook ethnic cleansing)

6.From an in-depth look at the options, the following insights can be derived

Option C - The option that will yield positive, long-term strategic outcomes for Israel, and is an executable option. It requires determination from the political echelon in the face of international pressure, with an emphasis on harnessing the support of the United States and additional pro-Israeli countries for the endeavor"

"We are putting a complete siege on Gaza … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed,” Gallant said in a video statement."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/israel-announces-total-blockade-on-gaza

"More children have been killed in just over three weeks in Gaza than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years, according to the global charity Save the Children. For example, it said, 2,985 children were killed across two dozen war zones throughout all of last year."

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-11-1-2023-children-killed-4a352398b32887e60a658e0270f0a021

"Children younger than 18 years, women aged 18–59 years, and both men and women aged 60 years or older (groups that probably include few combatants) constituted 68·1% of analysable deaths"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02640-5/fulltext






"that's 20% more Arabs than there are Jews permitted to live & breathe under Hamas or Hezbollah territory"
It was literally the Israeli government which forcibly removed illegal Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005 lmfao.


"Approximately 1.8 million Palestinians form around 20.8 per cent of Israel’s population"
 

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"none of that applies when it's in retaliation to an attack." Except it does. And If you dont think so you would also have to agree to the fact that Hamas has the right to kill every single Israeli in Israel in an act of self defense. After all they would just be "retaliating", right?

"Israel’s Minister for the Advancement of the Status of Women, stated that: “All of Gaza’s infrastructures must be destroyed to its foundation and their electricity cut off immediately. The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza” "

https://x.com/bezalelsm/status/1726198721946480911

"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true."

https://www.scribd.com/document/681086738/Israeli-Intelligence-Ministry-Policy-Paper-on-Gaza-s-Civilian-Population-October-2023

"5.The three options under examination are
Option A: The population remaining in Gaza and the import of PalestinianAuthority (PA) rule.
Option B: The population remaining in Gaza along with the emergence of alocal Arab authority.
Option C: The evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai. (a.k.a textbook ethnic cleansing)

6.From an in-depth look at the options, the following insights can be derived

Option C - The option that will yield positive, long-term strategic outcomes for Israel, and is an executable option. It requires determination from the political echelon in the face of international pressure, with an emphasis on harnessing the support of the United States and additional pro-Israeli countries for the endeavor"

"We are putting a complete siege on Gaza … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed,” Gallant said in a video statement."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/israel-announces-total-blockade-on-gaza

"More children have been killed in just over three weeks in Gaza than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years, according to the global charity Save the Children. For example, it said, 2,985 children were killed across two dozen war zones throughout all of last year."

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-11-1-2023-children-killed-4a352398b32887e60a658e0270f0a021






"that's 20% more Arabs than there are Jews permitted to live & breathe under Hamas or Hezbollah territory"
It was literally the Israeli government which forcibly removed illegal Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005 lmfao.

Hamas *is* stating their goal as being to kill every Israeli in "self defence". They literally are, their words. Hey, look, if they can be successful and win, achieve their goal, more power to 'em. But they don't get to complain about losing, about their sworn enemy taking off the gloves in the face of something like that.

The "complete siege of Gaza" is a response to...? C'mon now, you say it. It's okay to acknowledge it didn't come out of nowhere, you can be objective once in a while. They were attacked. The dead Gazan civilians can take it up with their dads & brothers & uncles & sons who were so hell-bent on sparking open war.

You still haven't backed up how the (incredibly sad as it may be) high number of child deaths equates to "genocide". "Genocide" has intent - before the war there were multitudes more young people in Gaza than ever before - both sides agree on this. There's been a population boom in Gaza prior to this war, a major one. Ergo the Israelis haven't been "acting to halt births" in Gaza. People are free to have as many kids as they want, and do.

As for the last part, "in 2005". Yes. 19 years ago, and the Israelis haven't been there since 2005. Your point is noneistent, as said population boom has *been since 2005*". This isn't difficult stuff to grasp.
 

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Yasar, if you don't think Israelis are fighting "for the defence of their homeland", I don't really know what you tell you. That's a lost cause for anyone thinking otherwise.
Read my post again. I never even insinuated any such thing.
It is an impartial explanation of what you guys are arguing about.
It is up to you to decide how to interpret it.
My job is to make sure you guys are not out of order.
And we will try to make sure that any argument stays within forum rules.

There is no way I will be drawn in to this argument.
 

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Hamas *is* stating their goal as being to kill every Israeli in "self defence". They literally are, their words. Hey, look, if they can be successful and win, achieve their goal, more power to 'em. But they don't get to complain about losing, about their sworn enemy taking off the gloves in the face of something like that.

The "complete siege of Gaza" is a response to...? C'mon now, you say it. It's okay to acknowledge it didn't come out of nowhere, you can be objective once in a while. They were attacked. The dead Gazan civilians can take it up with their dads & brothers & uncles & sons who were so hell-bent on sparking open war.

You still haven't backed up how the (incredibly sad as it may be) high number of child deaths equates to "genocide". "Genocide" has intent - before the war there were multitudes more young people in Gaza than ever before - both sides agree on this. There's been a population boom in Gaza prior to this war, a major one. Ergo the Israelis haven't been "acting to halt births" in Gaza. People are free to have as many kids as they want, and do.

As for the last part, "in 2005". Yes. 19 years ago, and the Israelis haven't been there since 2005. Your point is noneistent, as said population boom has *been since 2005*". This isn't difficult stuff to grasp.
So according to your logic that is totally fine then, right? Why keep trying to deny the obvious fact that israel is seeking to ethnically cleanse the palestinian population, as stated multiple times by Israeli government officials and Israels founding fathers themselves?

"The dead Israeli civilians can take it up with their dads & brothers & uncles & sons who were so hell-bent on genociding the native population"




"Genocide" has intent" and said intent is proven by the statements of Israeli officials. Just like with Ratko Mladic during the Srebrenica Genocide

"You still haven't backed up how the (incredibly sad as it may be) high number of child deaths equates to "genocide"

Forced Population transfer is Genocide, blocking food and aid falls under "(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", systematically killing civilians falls under "the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group", as was ruled under the Srebrenica and Rwanda cases

"The offender is culpable because he knew or should have known that the act committed would destroy, in whole or in part, a group.” See also Musema, (Trial Chamber), January 27, 2000, para. 164."

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/ij/ictr/3.htm


"There's been a population boom in Gaza prior to this war" yeah, Gaza has received major waves of palestinian refugees for decades, resulting in the growth of the population.

" the Israelis haven't been "acting to halt births" in Gaza", cutting of food and water supply, bombing hospitals or outright murdering women and children does in fact fall under "acting to halt births".




"and the Israelis haven't been there since 2005", its almost like they banned Israeli settlers from moving into Gaza since they are currently conducting a literal blockade lmfao
 

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The UN definition of Genocide:

"The current definition of Genocide is set out in Article II of the Genocide Convention: Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group"

Israel checks all the boxes.

Not only does you graph have no source, you fail to understand that Genocide is a legal Term. Srebrenica was ruled to be a Genocide, despite "only" 8000 Muslim Bosniaks being killed. The number of death dont matter as much as genocidal intend does. And Israeli officials showcase plenty. Just like the Serbs once did.
No, Israel does not kill anyone for belonging to some national or ethnic group. Millions of Arabs live under Israeli control and they live even BETTER than in their own Arab countries.

Hamas on the other hand always killed people just for belonging to the group.
 

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