Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[davek]

Surprise, surprise, the genocidal maniac scum were lying again.

TBF, absolutely no one believes their BS anyway.

Everyone knows they've murdered innocent men women and children.

The only division is over people who oppose them and support them.

 

[davek]

Yep
Showing how are using a scout hut as a rocket site, not mentioning the fact that scouts is probably not on for a while.

lol

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Right, but if he had simply phrased the question as "high-ranking members of the State Department" (meaning 'not you'), it changes the whole tenor of the interaction. The reporter deliberately aims to make the spokesman as uncomfortable as possible for the purposes of making him look bad, and for avoiding the out of saying, "Like those people talk to me about concerns like that. Ask them." The reporter doesn't want to ask them, because this isn't their first rodeo and they'll deflect the question more effectively. It may also be that he doesn't have enough clout these days to get into that press conference, or ask a question.

Personally, I think 'gotcha' journalism like that changes fewer minds than it hardens in opposition. It's good content, if your intent is to get retweeted by people both agreeing with and opposing what they're seeing, monetize the content and show upper management a high engagement score. It's not good journalism. It's also not good for press-government relations, in the sense that the government should see opposition reporters as part of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, rather than opponents in a game of cheap political theater. Hard questions, yes. Rig the game to get a desired emotional response, no.

To put it another way, Jon Stewart was right on Crossfire almost two decades ago. We're pushing political hack reporters like Begala and Tucker Carlson front and center these days, rather than treating them like the hacks they are. This guy's bio suggests he's not a hack, so he shouldn't act like one.

Bingo

 

[davek]

BREAKING NEWS​

The US is opposed to a new long-term re-occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel, a spokesperson for the US state department has said.
Speaking at a daily news briefing, Vedant Patel told reporters that the US did not support any forced relocation of Palestinians outside Gaza.
"Our viewpoint is that Palestinians must be at the forefront of these decisions and Gaza is Palestinian land and it will remain Palestinian land," he said.
The spokesman was responding to a question about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments to ABC, in which he said Israel would have "security responsibility" for Gaza after the fighting ends.
As a reminder, Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005 after 38 years there.

What a pantomime. They "oppose".

Israel is their client state. They own the place and everyone and everything in it.

The phoney distinction between what Washington 'wants' and what Israel are prepared to do is non-existent.

 

[d34noj]

What about Hamas ffs, get a grip. 10,000 innocent civilians dead at the hands of an elected government and you're still crying about the actions of a terrorist group.

Isn't the 10,000 number stated by Hamas?

Noted that 57% of Gazans support Hamas - the same organisation who butchered 1,700 innocent civilians in a single day, 300 hostages taken, raped and murdered, including videoing themselves putting babies in microwaves.

As far as I'm concerned Israel are well within their rights to defend themselves.

Palestine have been offered peace 5 times in the last 80 years. They don't want peace, they want the land.

 

[Wat Tyler]

 

[Wat Tyler]

Isn't the 10,000 number stated by Hamas?

Noted that 57% of Gazans support Hamas - the same organisation who butchered 1,700 innocent civilians in a single day, 300 hostages taken, raped and murdered, including videoing themselves putting babies in microwaves.

As far as I'm concerned Israel are well within their rights to defend themselves.

Palestine have been offered peace 5 times in the last 80 years. They don't want peace, they want the land.

You been at the crack pipe?

 

[Goat]

Isn't the 10,000 number stated by Hamas?

Noted that 57% of Gazans support Hamas - the same organisation who butchered 1,700 innocent civilians in a single day, 300 hostages taken, raped and murdered, including videoing themselves putting babies in microwaves.

As far as I'm concerned Israel are well within their rights to defend themselves.

Palestine have been offered peace 5 times in the last 80 years. They don't want peace, they want the land.

Their land, you mean.

 

[d34noj]

You been at the crack pipe?

Which bit isn't factually correct?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Isn't the 10,000 number stated by Hamas?

Noted that 57% of Gazans support Hamas - the same organisation who butchered 1,700 innocent civilians in a single day, 300 hostages taken, raped and murdered, including videoing themselves putting babies in microwaves.

As far as I'm concerned Israel are well within their rights to defend themselves.

Palestine have been offered peace 5 times in the last 80 years. They don't want peace, they want the land.

LOL is that you Bibi?

OK, so how many is it? The UN broadly agree with hamas ffs

57% support hamas...so, even if true does not mean you can kill them all. Did the British army flatten NI towns because the IRA killed brits??

What do you know about life under Israeli occupation for the last 70 years? Every day is torture, you will ignore this and focus purely on the 7th october - actions by a terrorist group which have resulted in near genocide and demolishing of a city by the israeli government

Defend themselves....blowing up schools, hospital, refugee camps, ambulances? OK, mate.

None of this would have even happened if Israel had not persecuted these people for decades.

Peace? Really, how do they find peace when their lands have been taken, their families murdered and their children imprisoned?

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

quick, send it the football lads and the fuzz.

 

[d34noj]

Their land, you mean.

Whose land? The land Jews inhabited literally 2000 years before Islam was invented?

Arabs took the land in 636AD, yet Jews inhabited the land as far back as 1700BC - then Alexander the Great, then the Maccabean Revolt, Romans, Persians, it goes on and on.

 

[d34noj]

Which bit isn't factually correct?

That's not an answer mate. Which bit isn't factually correct.

 

[Tipp blue]

Their land, you mean.

Whose land? Death owns that land.

 

[Wat Tyler]

Which bit isn't factually correct?

1700 weren’t killed, highest estimate was 1400, some have it at 1000.

They took 200 hostages not 300.

There’s been no evidence of any rapes and absolutely zero evidence of babies being microwaved, but a shedload of evidence of Israel actually bombing babies in hospitals.

If they’re within the right to defend themselves, Are Israel within their rights to bomb schools, hospitals and bakeries? You do know they’ve literally said “it’s not about accuracy it’s about destruction.”

As for being “offered peace 5 times” if someone takes money out of your account and offers to give you some of it back and you refuse, are you then the baddie for not accepting these terms?


So to go back to your question, you should be asking “which bit IS factually correct?”