Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

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That was immediately bloody obvious. That she wasn't a Palestinian Arab, I mean.

Think it was aimed at millions of people across the world who wouldnt have a clue, so would believe the video. They done the same with the calendar in the hospital when they called it Hamas plans and were fact checked by the community to say it was days of the week in Arabic.

When your stooping to lies and dirty tactics to explain your actions, then you know your stsrting to lose support.
 
This is so important.

True religious Jews oppose what the Israeli government is doing in their name.

We only hear the constant barrage of racist propaganda equating innocent Palestinians with non-human animals.

Are these also anti- Semites?
I think we need to be a bit careful when talking about things like "true" religious Jews. There are many schools of thought within Judaism, within both Orthodox and Reform Judaism, some Zionist, some not.

To say one group are the sole bearers of truth seems a bit iffy to me.

Even if I am of the opinion that Religious Zionism is absolute cancer.

Calling things "cancer" is probably a bit iffy, too, though, in all fairness.
 
The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf has heard that no people, or any items of aid, have been allowed out of the Al-Shifa hospital for the last 48 hours, according to one of his contacts.

That source - one of the few remaining journalists in the hospital - says four people had tried to leave Al-Shifa yesterday, but were shot in the legs and left on the ground bleeding for around two hours.

Medics had to risk their lives to get them into the hospital for treatment, the source tells Abualouf.

The BBC has been unable to access the hospital to verify this as fighting has been raging in the vicinity in recent days.
 
Find it very difficult to read this and retain calm:


Holy Family Church is the only Catholic Church in Gaza. Imagine shooting an old woman outside it, then letting her bleed to death.

edit: being reported by the Vatican as well - https://www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo...-uccisa-israeliani-palestinesi-cristiani.html
 
Find it very difficult to read this and retain calm:


Holy Family Church is the only Catholic Church in Gaza. Imagine shooting an old woman outside it, then letting her bleed to death.

edit: being reported by the Vatican as well - https://www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo...-uccisa-israeliani-palestinesi-cristiani.html
Surely at some point criminal war charges will be brought against Netanyahu and IDF?

Does anyone have the balls to do it?
 
I think we need to be a bit careful when talking about things like "true" religious Jews. There are many schools of thought within Judaism, within both Orthodox and Reform Judaism, some Zionist, some not.

To say one group are the sole bearers of truth seems a bit iffy to me.

Even if I am of the opinion that Religious Zionism is absolute cancer.

Calling things "cancer" is probably a bit iffy, too, though, in all fairness.

Fair point.

Some 45% of Israeli citizens regard themselves as secular and non-practising albeit they may be Jews by birth.

This Rabbi represents the religious Jews that object to the actions of the secular Israeli Government.

The Israeli Government then (quite successfully) attacks any criticism of its actions as anti-Semitic, thus attempting to shut down international objective analysis.

A case in point is the UK highlighting a handful of banners in Saturday's demonstration while ignoring the message delivered by the hundreds of thousands of peaceful marchers.
 
Another senior Irish government Minister has strongly criticised Israel - again I would not be a big fan of Harris, but credit where it is due. He has really called it.

You cannot build peace on the mass graves of children’ – Simon Harris says Israel has become ‘blinded by rage’​

‘That original right to defend itself has now become, in my view, a war on children – and you cannot build peace on the mass graves of children.’

Speaking in the Dáil, he said what Hamas did was despicable and Israel had a right to defend itself. But he said that that original right had now become a "war on children" and that Israel was a country blinded by rage.

"There is absolutely no doubt that what Hamas did was despicable, we've all condemned it. It deserves absolute condemnation. It was an act of terror on the people of Israel. It should be condemned, and Israel had a right to defend itself.

"But that right to defend itself has now become in my view a war on children, and you cannot build peace on the mass graves of children," he told the Dáil.

"It is unfortunate that a country has become blinded by rage," he added.

There have been calls on Government to give its TDs a free vote in Dáil votes this week on motions about the situation in the Middle East.

Tonight, a Sinn Féin motion will urge Government to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court, while tomorrow the Social Democrats will push for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

The Government is not supporting these two motions.

However, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith said she knows of some coalition TDs who wish to do so.

She has called on the Government parties to lift the whip, saying this was a matter of conscience.

Labour has confirmed it would back the two opposition party motions, while Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon said it is time that Israel was met with international consequences for its actions in Gaza.

As tens of thousands of emails were sent to TDs on this issue in recent days, the Government insists that diplomatic relations must be maintained.

It will also argue that Israel's actions are already being investigated by the International Criminal Court.

The debate on the Sinn Féin motions begins later, and it will be voted on tomorrow.
 

The quiet part just got said out loud. We now know the goal of the Israeli government: a second Nakba, only this time the Gazans are deported to the West.

That reduces the situation to a binary policy choice: Arab world, or Israel. It's not possible to have both, so it's decision time.
 

The quiet part just got said out loud. We now know the goal of the Israeli government: a second Nakba, only this time the Gazans are deported to the West.

That reduces the situation to a binary policy choice: Arab world, or Israel. It's not possible to have both, so it's decision time.

Silence from western nations is deafening
 
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