Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[davek]

Yanks going in to protect their colony in the Med.

 

[Yarrgh]

Or a message to Iran. This will become messy with no winners.

Whatever the reasons, a show of force and being ready to hit the ground quickly is no bad thing. Anything that helps prevent others getting involved is a good thing.

 

[Tramps_mate]

What even is the point

Of course he backs Israel, his wife is Jewish!

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

The USS Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden both forgot where to go.

Biden make Reagan look like Pitt the Younger!

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Of course he backs Israel, his wife is Jewish!

If he says the wrong thing he won’t be allowed to invade her Gaza Strip!

 

[PhilM]

Could be couldn’t it? My thought is no. American hostages to be picked up one way or the other from the savage Hamas

The US warships and air power in the region is there to remind Israel's neighbours to not get directly involved - at least overtly - or they'll face a barrage.

 

[Ruairi77]

Or a message to Iran. This will become messy with no winners.

meanwhile here in the States, republicans moan about funding Ukraine too much and Israel too little.

 

[tantavisiteler]

 

[RAFUH]

Long read, but worth it.

This bit for me

"Am I pro-Israel or pro-Palestine? I have no idea.
I'm pro-not-killing-civilians.
I'm pro-not-trapping-millions-of-people-in-open-air-prisons.
I'm pro-not-shooting-grandmas-in-the-back-of-the-head.
I'm pro-not-flattening-apartment-complexes.
I'm pro-not-raping-women-and-taking-hostages.
I'm pro-not-unjustly-imprisoning-people-without-due-process.
I'm pro-freedom and pro-peace and pro- all the things we never see in this conflict anymore

Whatever this is, I want none of it."

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

What a numbskull. They're bloody kids caught up in this unholy mess. And the kids are the long term way out of it, provided they don't succumb to hate and division. Which such antics only serve to feed.

 

[dublinbluenose]

We're back at the "you're either with us, or you're a terrorist" of George Bush after 9/11.

Nothing learned in 20 years and the media are all ready to get on board again for the ride.

So depressing

 

[davek]

Don't worry, it's Halloween soon....

 

[tsubaki]

Hinkle is another person that people should be very wary of posting, but that was really bizarre from Curtis - not only is there Arabic clearly visible in the background, but she's tagged in the photojournalist too.

The kindest possible interpretation is that she was trying to say these are Gaza kids looking at terror from the Israelis and then been told to wind her neck in; I appreciate that makes very little sense but trying to pretend those were Israeli kids makes even less.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Still reading this like 'oh well they weren't beheaded so that's fine'. Seems like classic diversion tactics to me.

The blood is firmly on Hamas and the 'people' (more like animals) who carried these attacks out.

When Jews rose up against the nazis in various ghettos in ww2 were the Jews to blame? The French resistance? The greeks in Crete? What hamas did is deplorable but there is a cause for their actions. The Israelis, like the Germans created their own terrorist. Don’t cage an animal and cry when it bites

 

[davek]

Hinkle is another person that people should be very wary of posting, but that was really bizarre from Curtis - not only is there Arabic clearly visible in the background, but she's tagged in the photojournalist too.

The kindest possible interpretation is that she was trying to say these are Gaza kids looking at terror from the Israelis and then been told to wind her neck in; I appreciate that makes very little sense but trying to pretend those were Israeli kids makes even less.

She has an Israeli flag beneath her name...