I thought of Iraq and Bush as well. Has the same vibeThis does not sound legitimate at all and fails the sniff test.
So a terrorist happens to be carrying a usb drive with chemical weapons plans on them while committing the October 7th attack?
This is way less believable than the Saddam has WMDs trope we as the american public fell for. We know how legit that ended up being.
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Our pets heads are falling off!!!
Like many American Jews, Jonah Goldman sides politically with the left, including its push for the rights of Palestinians.
During college, he was active in J Street, the liberal Jewish advocacy group that opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and lobbies for a two-state solution.
But in the aftermath of Hamas' gruesome raid on Israel this month, Goldman has never felt so isolated from people he long considered his allies.
Rest of story at link. I’m quickly reminded of the meme of a person watering a sapling with a noose around their neck and the other tied to the sapling’s branch.
Interesting how parents on both sides knowingly raise their kids into possible early deaths. Each striving to push the other out behind a true wall of human shields. One sets the tone for martyrdom, the other for occupation.
I encourage everyone to just give this 3 minute song a listen to see how truly ignorant all of this.
You guys are blaming Israel for the plight of the Palestinians but the Arab nations won’t take them either and use them for propaganda. Their elected Gaza government is a terrorist organization.
The last two times someone tried to help them they tried to kill Hordan’s king and then started a civil war in Lebanon. Both Jordan and Lebanon pushed them to Gaza at gunpoint. They supported Hassam and tried to overthrow Kuwait.
The last two times someone tried to help them they tried to kill Hordan’s king and then started a civil war in Lebanon. Both Jordan and Lebanon pushed them to Gaza at gunpoint. They supported Hassam and tried to overthrow Kuwait.
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Israel has done absolutely nothing wrong...for years...and years...and your examples are a tad more complicated than that...
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Israel promises 'unrelenting attacks' on Hamas; US, Obama urge caution reuters
Israel's military said it was preparing for "unrelenting attacks" to dismantle Hamas while former U.S. President Barack Obama warned that "any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire."
The Palestinian health ministry said the Gaza death toll in two weeks of air strikes had topped 5,000.
Israel pounded hundreds of targets in Gaza from the air on Monday as its soldiers fought Hamas militants during raids into the besieged Palestinian strip where civilians are trapped in harrowing conditions.
Hamas on Monday said it had freed two Israeli women among the more than 200 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel in which the Islamist group killed 1,400 people. They were the third and fourth hostages to be released.
Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi issued a statement suggesting that Israel had no intention of curbing its strikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip and hinting that it was well prepared for a ground assault.
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In public, the United States has stressed Israel's right to defend itself but two sources familiar with the matter said the White House, Pentagon and State Department have stepped up private appeals for caution in conversations with the Israelis.
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Obama, in a rare comment by a former U.S. president on a foreign policy crisis, issued a written statement warning Israel not to cause so many civilian casualties in retaliating against Hamas that it would alienate generations of Palestinians.
"Any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire. Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes," Obama said in a statement posted on social media.
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"The Israeli government's decision to cut off food, water and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis," he added.
"It could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel's enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region," he wrote in the statement published in Medium that also condemned Hamas' attack and reiterated his support for Israel's right to defend itself.
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At least 5,087 Palestinians have been killed in two weeks of strikes, including 2,055 children, the health ministry said.
The Israeli bombardment was triggered by the Oct. 7 assault, the bloodiest episode in a single day since the state of Israel was founded 75 years ago.
With Gaza's 2.3 million people running short of basics, European leaders looked set to follow the United Nations and Arab nations in calling for a "humanitarian pause" in hostilities so aid could reach them.
A convoy of humanitarian aid trucks delivered water, food and medicine to the Gaza Strip on Monday - the third since aid began flowing on Saturday - but the United Nations said fuel was not included and reserves will run out within two days.
The U.N. said desperate Gazans also lacked places to shelter from the unrelenting pounding that has flattened swathes of the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The conflict meanwhile was escalating beyond Gaza.
Israeli aircraft hit positions in south Lebanon held by Hezbollah which, like Hamas, is a group allied to Israel's long-time foe Iran. The Israeli army and Palestinians clashed in the occupied West Bank and Hamas fired more rockets into Israel.
Hamas's armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated southern Gaza, destroying two bulldozers and a tank and forcing the raiders to withdraw. Israel made no comment on the incident.
Israel's military said it was preparing for "unrelenting attacks" to dismantle Hamas while former U.S. President Barack Obama warned that "any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire."
The Palestinian health ministry said the Gaza death toll in two weeks of air strikes had topped 5,000.
Israel pounded hundreds of targets in Gaza from the air on Monday as its soldiers fought Hamas militants during raids into the besieged Palestinian strip where civilians are trapped in harrowing conditions.
Hamas on Monday said it had freed two Israeli women among the more than 200 hostages taken during its Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel in which the Islamist group killed 1,400 people. They were the third and fourth hostages to be released.
Israeli Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi issued a statement suggesting that Israel had no intention of curbing its strikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip and hinting that it was well prepared for a ground assault.
...
In public, the United States has stressed Israel's right to defend itself but two sources familiar with the matter said the White House, Pentagon and State Department have stepped up private appeals for caution in conversations with the Israelis.
...
Obama, in a rare comment by a former U.S. president on a foreign policy crisis, issued a written statement warning Israel not to cause so many civilian casualties in retaliating against Hamas that it would alienate generations of Palestinians.
"Any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire. Already, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the bombing of Gaza, many of them children. Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes," Obama said in a statement posted on social media.
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"The Israeli government's decision to cut off food, water and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis," he added.
"It could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel's enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region," he wrote in the statement published in Medium that also condemned Hamas' attack and reiterated his support for Israel's right to defend itself.
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At least 5,087 Palestinians have been killed in two weeks of strikes, including 2,055 children, the health ministry said.
The Israeli bombardment was triggered by the Oct. 7 assault, the bloodiest episode in a single day since the state of Israel was founded 75 years ago.
With Gaza's 2.3 million people running short of basics, European leaders looked set to follow the United Nations and Arab nations in calling for a "humanitarian pause" in hostilities so aid could reach them.
A convoy of humanitarian aid trucks delivered water, food and medicine to the Gaza Strip on Monday - the third since aid began flowing on Saturday - but the United Nations said fuel was not included and reserves will run out within two days.
The U.N. said desperate Gazans also lacked places to shelter from the unrelenting pounding that has flattened swathes of the Hamas-ruled enclave.
The conflict meanwhile was escalating beyond Gaza.
Israeli aircraft hit positions in south Lebanon held by Hezbollah which, like Hamas, is a group allied to Israel's long-time foe Iran. The Israeli army and Palestinians clashed in the occupied West Bank and Hamas fired more rockets into Israel.
Hamas's armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said its fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated southern Gaza, destroying two bulldozers and a tank and forcing the raiders to withdraw. Israel made no comment on the incident.
Opinion | Israel Needs Unconditional Surrender From Hamas
The Jewish state’s goal in Gaza should be the same as the Allies’ in Germany after World War II.
www.wsj.com
Opinion | So Much for the Embargo on Iran’s Missiles
The U.S. lets sanctions expire as Tehran’s proxies fire away at Israeli and American targets.
www.wsj.com
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Don't people like you insist that Obama is really acting as the President of the United States? At best Biden is barely able to function as a figurehead president. At least that sounds more intelligent than saying that Trump is still the president of the U. S. as some Trump nuts do.
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Lifschitz gives glimpse of hope to other hostage families
Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Tel Aviv
EPACopyright: EPA
Our correspondent reflects on today's press conference by one of the two elderly hostages newly released by Hamas.
There was steel beneath her frailty, as Yochedev Lifschitz held the gaze of one journalist after another and gave measured details about her kidnap by Hamas - her wheelchair submerged in a sea of microphones and television cameras from around the world.
"I've gone through hell," she said.
She described how the attackers kidnapped her from her house in kibbutz Nir Oz, carrying her to Gaza on a motorbike, punching her and hitting her with sticks - until, she said: "It was so painful that I couldn't breathe."
In Gaza, she said, she joined a group of 25 hostages, and was then separated into a smaller group with four other people from her kibbutz - and guarded inside a network of tunnels.
She said she was treated well, had a mattress to sleep on, and one meal a day of pitta bread, cheese and cucumber. She also said a doctor was sent to examine them every few days.
"They were scared we’d become sick," she said.
She ended with critical words for the Israeli government "We were their scapegoat," she said, describing the infiltration of Hamas into their fields three weeks before the 7 October attack. "They showed us what they were capable of, burning our fields, but the IDF didn't take it seriously."
Yesterday, this 85-year-old woman was living with Hamas in the tunnels under Gaza.
Today, her story holds the world captive: offering precious information for Israel's security forces, relief to her family, and to the relatives of those still held there, a longed-for glimpse of hope.
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Displaced Gazan: 'We need a ceasefire now'
Faysal Shawaa is in Gaza but has been forced to leave his home, with his wife and son. He told BBC Radio 4 the situation he's in is very difficult."We lack in everything; food, medicine and of course there is no electricity. We are lucky we have solar energy that comes two or three hours a day."
Shawaa said other than that "it is miserable" and that they are waiting for some good news "to end the bombardment of the Israeli army everywhere."
He added: "In Gaza they are killing people every minute. They are destroying infrastructure, buildings, everything is destroyed.
"We have nothing left in Gaza."
Shawaa explained that every night they hear the air strikes nearby "everywhere" and that "we need a ceasefire now. We need a solution for the situation.
"Every year we have some kind of Israeli invasion in Gaza, they destroy Gaza and then we rebuild Gaza. Enough is enough."
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You forgot to include “Kenyan tan suit wearin’ Merica hatin”
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