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Some "freedom fighters."
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I agree wonderful humanitarian hero's all.
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I'm not your researcher.
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Actually it looks like I did the hitting as you're sulking about the IRA heros for the last 24 hours
.......why are you so b-tt hurt?
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A you tube video about red buses ..
...think I'll pass.....
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Well I hope he’s right because if I was one of these people I wouldn’t mind those people oppressing me any day especially the 2 blonde s hugging each other in the middle. I would let those chicks get on top of me and oppress me all they want.
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You've hit nothing ,in fact the imagery you keep posting shows you're all emotional .......ahhhhhhh
Bogan posts up a red bus in flames bawling his eyes out he's that emotional .......ahhhhh .....do want some big boy tissues you ?
The brits weren't innocent you Troll open a history book .
Seems its OK for Israelis to slaughter because they're Jewish. Sounds reasonable
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The growth of humanity also took a hit and has effectively been stunted. We can't witness a genocide, do nothing about it, and then imagine that we're going to grow beyond that kind of willful indifference and blindness. We're all taking a hit. Watching a religious-nutter bully maul a weaker and fragile victim with impunity doesn't sit well with any of us, but we have to stuff it down and pretend that Biden represents the will or the morality of the American people.
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Palestinians could have had their own state in 1947. They refused. It's too late.
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@Phite
Hamas, your heroes, uses human shields. Hiding behind civilians.
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Gazans voted for Hamas and put Hamas in power. These are the consequences. Sucks to be Gazan.
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Free Gaza from Hamas
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The Palestinian population has increased 8-fold since the Nakba The Palestinian population was 1.37 million in 1948, but by the end of 2012 the estimated world population of Palestinians totaled 11.6 million. This indicates that the number of Palestinians worldwide has multiplied eight-fold in the 65 years since the Nakba.
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The ceasefire was broken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
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Hamas.
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Phite quote When individuals choose to ignore Israel's illegal occupation, their illegal settlements, and their indiscriminate mass murder of innocent women and children, then we can safely assume that those individuals have extreme and unnatural affections for an illegal state that builds illegal settlements, and is now murdering innocent women and children.
Then your assumption is wrong. And I am certain that the Israelis do not want to kill women and children, but they are going to wipe out those bastards who attacked their people and slaughtered men, women, and children, using AK47’s, close up and personal. And those Muslim terrorists have already stated that they are gong to do it “again and again” So, the Israelis would appreciate it if the cowards and rapists who did that would stop using women and kids as human shields to hide behind.
Phite Babies born in the mud with nothing for the mother or baby but assured hunger, filth, and disease.
The population of Gaza has increased from 400,000 to 700,000 in 20 years so, that scenario is obviously wrong. And if they live in filth and disease, it is because the HAMAS leaders take their stolen UN aid and live in luxury in Kuwait, while HAMAS in Gaza uses all of that money to build tunnels and rockets.
Phite qupote Support for bully-cowards is unconscionable . . .
Yes, your support for Islamic terrorists is unconscionable. (”First, they come for me, then they will come for thee”)
Phite quote The growth and potential of the surviving Gazan children (everyone, really) has been effectively stunted. They are beyond going back to normal. They must think that the world hates them as much as the religious nuttter, nutanyahoo and biden hate them.
Pity that you can not make the same connection for Israelis, who have been fighting off a billion religious nutters for 80 years.
Phite quote The growth of humanity also took a hit and has effectively been stunted. We can't witness a genocide, do nothing about it, and then imagine that we're going to grow beyond that kind of willful indifference and blindness.
HAMAS insists that it is going to wipe out Israel, and you know what that means, and then you think it is wrong for the Israelis to shoot back?
Phite quote We're all taking a hit. Watching a religious-nutter bully maul a weaker and fragile victim with impunity doesn't sit well with any of us, but we have to stuff it down and pretend that Biden represents the will or the morality of the American people.
If a member of a supposedly “oppressed” minority group entered your house, shot your wife and your son, beheaded your baby, raped your daughter and took her hostage, would you sit around blaming yourself for “persecuting” the poor minority member, or would you go and get a gun and go after the bastard? When the Arabs and the Persians stop shooting at the Israelis, in order to please their non existent God, then the Israelis will stop shooting back. Simple, really.
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Well said , I couldn't agree more.
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Use of child labor
According to an article by Nicolas Pelham in the IPS Journal of Palestine Studies, child labor is employed in the smuggling tunnels with the justification that children are more "nimble." Despite calls from human rights groups for the Gaza government to stop the practice, regulation of child labor is lax. Pelham reported that "at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_smuggling_tunnels
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BOGANS HEROS VENT THEIR FURY ON WOMEN ......
GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.
The experts expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.
“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.
The experts expressed concern that an unknown number of Palestinian women and children, including girls, have reportedly gone missing after contact with the Israeli army in Gaza. “There are disturbing reports of at least one female infant forcibly transferred by the Israeli army into Israel, and of children being separated from their parents, whose whereabouts remain unknown,” they said.
“We remind the Government of Israel of its obligation to uphold the right to life, safety, health, and dignity of Palestinian women and girls and to ensure that no one is subjected to violence, torture, ill-treatment or degrading treatment, including sexual violence,” the experts said.
They called for an independent, impartial, prompt, thorough and effective investigation into the allegations and for Israel to cooperate with such investigations.
“Taken together, these alleged acts may constitute grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and amount to serious crimes under international criminal law that could be prosecuted under the Rome Statute,” the experts said. “Those responsible for these apparent crimes must be held accountable and victims and their families are entitled to full redress and justice,” they added.
* The experts: Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences; Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967; Dorothy Estrada Tanck (Chair), Claudia Flores, Ivana Krstić, Haina Lu, and Laura Nyirinkindi, Working group on discrimination against women and girls.
The experts are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN human rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms. Special Procedures mandate-holders are independent human rights experts appointed by the Human Rights Council to address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organisation and serve in their individual capacity.
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Mate, since I would not trust a Muslim any farther than I can throw a camel, then whatever they say I just do not believe. People believe other people who are most like themselves. The Israelis are a democratic western style country. So, of course I believe almost everything the Israeli say. Especially, since Muslims in western countries shave proven to be violent, untrustworthy, welfare dependent, and crime and terrorism prone. While Jews have made a significant contribution to western science and technology, even though some of them are liberals, who seem to want to destroy the very societies which have given them succour. But even Anglos like you are guilty of that.
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Israel defying ICJ ruling to prevent genocide by failing to allow adequate humanitarian aid to reach Gaza
One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply, Amnesty International said today.
The order to provide aid was one of six provisional measures ordered by the Court on 26 January and Israel was given one month to report back on its compliance with the measures. Over that period Israel has continued to disregard its obligation as the occupying power to ensure the basic needs of Palestinians in Gaza are met.
Israeli authorities have failed to ensure sufficient life-saving goods and services are reaching a population at risk of genocide and on the brink of famine due to Israel’s relentless bombardment and the tightening of its 16-year-long illegal blockade. They have also failed to lift restrictions on the entry of life-saving goods, or open additional aid access points and crossings or put in place an effective system to protect humanitarians from attack.
“Not only has Israel created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, but it is also displaying a callous indifference to the fate of Gaza’s population by creating conditions which the ICJ has said places them at imminent risk of genocide. Time and time again, Israel has failed to take the bare minimum steps humanitarians have desperately pleaded for that are clearly within its power to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” said Heba Morayef, Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International.
“As the occupying power, under international law, Israel has a clear obligation to ensure the basic needs of Gaza’s population are met. Israel has not only woefully failed to provide for Gazans’ basic needs, but it has also been blocking and impeding the passage of sufficient aid into the Gaza Strip, in particular to the north which is virtually inaccessible, in a clear show of contempt for the ICJ ruling and in flagrant violation of its obligation to prevent genocide.”
“The scale and gravity of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s relentless bombardment, destruction and suffocating siege puts more than two million Palestinians of Gaza at risk of irreparable harm.”
The supplies entering Gaza before the ICJ order have been a drop in the ocean compared to the needs for the last 16 years. Yet, in the three weeks following the ICJ order, the number of trucks entering Gaza decreased by about a third, from an average of 146 a day in the three weeks prior, to an average of 105 a day over the subsequent three weeks. Before 7 October, on average, about 500 trucks entered Gaza every day, carrying aid and commercial goods, including things like food, water, animal fodder, medical supplies and fuel. Even that quantity fell far short of meeting people’s needs. In the three weeks after the ICJ ruling, smaller quantities of fuel, which Israel tightly controls, made it into Gaza. The only crossings that Israel has allowed to open were also opened on fewer days, further demonstrating Israel’s disregard for the provisional measures. Aid workers reported multiple challenges, but said that Israel was refusing to take obvious steps to improve the situation.
In the case it submitted to the ICJ, South Africa argued that Israel’s deliberate denial of humanitarian aid to Palestinians could constitute one of the prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention by “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
“Now even the fodder is becoming scarce”
Across the Gaza Strip, the engineered humanitarian disaster grows more horrifying each day. On 19 February, humanitarian agencies reported that acute malnutrition was surging in Gaza and threatening children’s lives, with 15.6% of children under two years acutely malnourished in northern Gaza and 5% of children under two years in Rafah in the south. The speed and severity of the decline in the population’s nutritional status within just three months was “unprecedented globally”.
Hamza, a resident of northern Gaza, whose wife Kawthar gave birth to their fourth child on 17 February, told Amnesty International on 20 February that his family of six was barely able to secure half a meal per day amid severe shortages of food and water. After flour and corn supplies ran out, they resorted to grinding barley and animal feed to make bread. “Now even the [animal] fodder is becoming scarce,” he said.
His wife gave birth at the already no-longer-operational Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia. She had no breast milk after delivery and has struggled to feed her newborn baby.
“After an anxious search around the hospital, a woman gave us a small quantity of milk which we fed the baby through a syringe. My aunt managed to find us some milk today, I don’t know how, and she didn’t say how much it cost her. There is no rice, no meat. I went to the market yesterday to look for food and came back home empty handed: no meat, no chickpeas, nothing.”
The looming threat of a full-scale ground assault on Rafah in southern Gaza, where over 1.2 million civilians are currently sheltering, would have further devastating consequences for the humanitarian situation.
The limited supplies trickling into Gaza are entering through two crossings along the perimeter with Israel and on the border with Egypt. The two operational crossings – Rafah, on the border with Egypt, and Karem Abu Salem, on the perimeter with Israel – are both in southern Gaza. A ground operation in the area near where the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem crossings let trucks into southern Gaza risks cutting off the flow of aid entirely and destroying the last remaining vestiges of the aid system.
“All around me people are broken”
Amnesty International spoke to ten workers from five humanitarian agencies or organizations in mid and late-February who described horrifying conditions in Gaza, as well as ongoing, severe access restrictions. All said their ability to get aid into and around Gaza had either remained the same or gotten worse since the ICJ ruling.
Humanitarians highlighted Israel’s failure to take obvious steps, such as opening all available access points and crossings to enable them to transfer aid more rapidly and on a larger scale to areas in need or to ensure that humanitarian operations did not come under military attack.
A UN Security Council resolution passed in December 2023 demanded that parties “allow and facilitate the use of all available routes to and throughout the entire Gaza Strip, including border crossings” to ensure vital assistance reaches civilians “through the most direct routes.” Despite this legally binding resolution, Israel has refused to open further crossings to facilitate humanitarian access.
Fathia, a mental health support practitioner, told Amnesty International of the challenges she faces with her family and work. She described the difficulty of trying to get her 78-year-old mother who has developed a form of dementia since they were displaced to understand why they don’t have enough food.
“My sons are hardly earning any money and we can’t find or afford even basic food. There is nothing and the little there is unaffordable. My mother cannot comprehend this; she thinks we are neglecting her. I have come to the point that I wish my own mother died rather than see her suffer thinking we are neglecting her. All around me people are broken because they can’t feed their children, their families, and I am unable to offer them any useful advice or support because I, myself, am broken,” she said.
Israeli protesters demanding the government stops allowing aid into Gaza until the hostages are freed have repeatedly blocked access to the Karem Abu Salem crossing, forcing it to close repeatedly, sometimes for multiple days. Such disruptions do not relieve Israeli authorities of their obligation to take necessary measures to maintain unhindered flow of aid.
Other access points and crossings exist. Some were closed by Israel after 7 October. Others have been kept closed for years by Israel. Israel tightly controls what enters and exits Gaza, including people and goods, as part of its illegal blockade, which has become significantly more suffocating in recent months.
The situation is particularly dire in the north of the Strip, which Israel has effectively cut off from the rest of Gaza. Between 1 January and 12 February, OCHA reported Israel had denied permission to more than half of the requests by humanitarians to access the north. On 6 February, OCHA reported Israel had granted none of the UN’s 22 requests to open checkpoints early, including to access areas north of Wadi Gaza.
On 21 February, one of the aid workers interviewed said: “There’s basically no access [to the north]. We had the ceasefire in November where we pushed a lot of trucks north. Other than that we have not been able to get trucks north at any scale. In 2024, it has been even less. Some people are already starving.”
Blocking and delaying life-saving supplies while people starve
Israel continues to tightly restrict the import of essential supplies to Gaza. All imports to Gaza must be pre-approved by Israeli authorities. In February, humanitarians continued to describe frequent, unpredictable and “arbitrary” rejections and limitations.
Israeli officials repeatedly blame humanitarian organizations for any gaps in aid delivery, alleging they are incapable of dispatching and distributing more aid, or due to looting in Gaza. But humanitarians described an array of ways in which Israeli authorities impede their work. They offered a list of basic steps Israel has failed to take to facilitate aid delivery: from allowing in sufficient and essential supplies, which they regularly reject; to opening checkpoints earlier, which authorities have repeatedly refused; to respecting basic security guarantees for aid convoys, aid workers and aid offices, which have instead come under recurrent attack.
In addition to goods, Gaza desperately needs fuel to allow people to purify water, process food and run medical equipment, like incubators. Since 11 October, Gaza has been under an electricity blackout as a result of Israel cutting off Gaza’s electricity supply. Israel also completely blocked the import of fuel from early October until 18 November 2023. While it has now allowed some fuel to enter Gaza, the quantities remain jarringly insufficient. As of late-February, Israeli authorities also continued to regularly reject humanitarian requests to bring in other power sources, like solar panels, generators and batteries.
“No human beings should be forced to suffer the inhumane conditions Gazans are being subjected to. Instead of lifting their brutal blockade, Israeli authorities are planning to escalate their attacks with a deadly military operation into Rafah that will have horrific consequences for civilians and risks cutting off the only lifeline for aid entering Gaza. Only an immediate and sustained ceasefire can save lives and ensure that the ICJ’s provisional measures, including the delivery of lifesaving aid, can be implemented,” said Heba Morayef.
“Instead, the USA has, for a third time, vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, effectively greenlighting more killings and mass suffering of Palestinians. Countries with influence over the Israeli government, including the USA, UK, Germany and other allies must not stand by and watch as Palestinian civilians die preventable deaths due to bombardment, lack of food and water, the spread of diseases and lack of healthcare. In light of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, these states’ support for Israel’s actions, including its flouting of the ICJ’s ruling, is indefensible and could violate their obligation to prevent genocide.”
Amnesty International is also calling on states to ensure that UNRWA receives adequate funding to continue its operations after a number of states suspended funding to the organization based on allegations that some of its members took part in the 7 October attack. UNRWA has long served as a sole lifeline for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East offering indispensable humanitarian aid, shelter and education.
All states must uphold their obligation to prevent genocide by taking urgent steps to ensure Israel complies with the ICJ’s provisional measures, including by pressing Israel to rapidly open up access to Gaza and end its brutal blockade once and for all. All states must also immediately end the transfer of arms to Israel, as recently asked by 24 UN Experts.
Background
Today’s humanitarian catastrophe in the occupied Gaza Strip is the result of Israel’s 16-year-long blockade and its further intensification and recurrent devastating military operations. Since 2007 Israel has maintained control of Gaza’s air space, land borders and territorial waters, tightly restricting the movement of basic goods and people in and out of the Strip, fuelling a humanitarian disaster. Israel has forced Gaza’s population to live in increasingly dire conditions, which have, since October 2023, deteriorated with such speed and severity that the entire population now faces an engineered famine.
Israel’s blockade is a form of collective punishment and is a war crime. It is one of the key ways in which Israel maintains its system of apartheid against Palestinians, which is a crime against humanity.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas and other armed groups launched indiscriminate rockets, sent fighters into southern Israel and committed war crimes. According to Israeli authorities, at least 1,139 people were killed and more than 200 people, mostly civilians, including 33 children, were taken as hostages by Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. As of 1 December, 113 hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza had been released.
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“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza – other than to deny people access to food,” Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian.
“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide. This means the State of Israel in its entirety is culpable and should be held accountable – not just individuals or this government, or that person.”
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Sorry Paddy. I am off to hospital for the next four days, and I have to get ready. I will be very happy to counter your leftist, pro terrorism propaganda when I get back. If I don't get back, then I will see you in Hell and we can continue this discussion there. It is probably a nice place full of bad girls, which are the ones I like. And also bookies, gamblers, rock and roll stars, drug dealers, and atheists. The place is really going to swing. And all of my friends will be there, or will soon enough.
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Sorry Paddy. I am off to hospital for the next four days, and I have to get ready
Good luck with that Rolf.
. I will be very happy to counter your leftist, pro terrorism propaganda when I get back.
I will be very happy to counter your rightest , pro terrorism/ genocide propaganda when I get back.
Hell sounds good I'm in .......
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Um yes. That's why he brought up Hamas and their use of human shields. Your counter? Ignore that fact and move on to another ad hominem. Increasing populations of Palestinians over decades means nope, no genocides have been going on. So nope, the goal isn't to kill all women and children. The goal is to destroy Humas, who uses women and children to start bloody wars it can't win and then hides behind them. Who butchered children at will in a surprise attack. And vow to do so again and again till Israel is annihilated. That's genocidal but you don't care about that, right? At the behest of Iran who funds the nonsense gullible people continually fall for. And they do so because they've failed at vanquishing the much, much smaller nation of Israel themselves.
If you truly were concerned about the children being bombed you would travel to the region and give Hamas and Iran a piece of your mind. Or at least write them letters informing them who you are and you won't stand for this any more. You should tell them to publicly acknowledge Israel's right to exist and declare they won't let the other Arabs use them in proxy wars again. Iran defund all other illegal terrorist groups it's funding. To kill Israeli children that you don't seem to care about. Your outrage should be at the instigators if you were to be objective. The ones who never accepted the legal state of Israel.
But no, you won't do that. Much easier to be antisemitic.
Michael Fakhri charges haven't stuck. Are you now going to be stuck on him? Doesn't he come from Oregon? The state that legalizes drugs and rioting at times?
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A recent UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide false statements about ties between the agency and Hamas.
“The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members,” Reuters reports, saying UNRWA workers “reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.”
This is another one of those stories about Israeli offenses that are so stunning that at first you can mistakenly believe you must not be reading it correctly — especially since the western political-media class haven’t been treating it like the jarring news that it is. If we had anything remotely like an objective news media in the western world, reports that Israel tortured United Nations staff to get them to make false statements against a UN aid agency would be the top story everywhere for days.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-accused-of-torturing-un-workers
Now go ahead and side with the torturers. You know you want to.
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The right of Jews to the Land of Israel is a complex issue with religious, historical, and political dimensions:
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Palestinians missed opportunities for a two-state solution in the past, instead focusing on destroying Israel.
In 2021, a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed that 39% of Palestinians accept a two-state solution, while 59% said they rejected it, preferring to destroy Israel.
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Now go ahead and side with the torturers. You know you want to.
You're mistaken. I don't side with your heroes, the raping child killing terrorists. Israel is in the right as you know that to be a fact; but you're bigotry rules your life.
The Palestinian staffers, accusing, hmm, any physical evidence of rape and torture like when the hostages were freed from Hamas and there was lots of evidence they did nasty things but bigoted hypocrites down played it?
Seriously, what do you have against reality? And don't try and be indigent about Israeli so called 'lies' when Hamas and the Palestinians lie threw there teeth regularly with one exception, they promise to kill, and rape more Israelis because they're jealous. Heck you'd be flattered to right their speeches.
See, when you had a chance at peace, your own country and sanity and turned it down just so you can chant 'death to all jews' and strap bombs to your own children, well even an objective observer like myself has to admit Israel is 100% righteous in what they're doing. Should have done it sooner.
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One cannot expect any fairness or decency from Israel a scum state populated by scum.
The chairman of human rights organisation Amnesty International in Finland has described Israel as a “scum state"
Frank Johansson made the comment on a blog the Finnish tabloid newspaper Iltalehti.
The phrase used by Mr Johansson was “Israel on nikkimaa”, which one Finnish blogger also translated as meaning “punk”.
Referring to discussions with a friend who had lived in Israel for several years, he added: “he has come to the conclusion that 'Israel is a scum state.'
“On the basis of my own visit, which occurred during the 1970s and 1990s for the final time, I agree."
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I disregard the comments of ignorant bigoted scum like you
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