Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

[peteblue]

The Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan now thought to be the prime target for a direct Iranian retaliatory strike.

That would probably be a clever move ….

 

[tsubaki]

Shocking article this:

Negotiators say Netanyahu has ‘cold indifference’ to the fate of the hostages

Two people involved in talks tell Channel 12 that PM undermines negotiators, won't entertain new ideas; 'without Netanyahu, the chances of making a deal would be better'

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Martin Alvito]

Shocking article this:

Negotiators say Netanyahu has ‘cold indifference’ to the fate of the hostages

Two people involved in talks tell Channel 12 that PM undermines negotiators, won't entertain new ideas; 'without Netanyahu, the chances of making a deal would be better'

www.timesofisrael.com

I wouldn't call it shocking. It's been obvious the whole time. It's why people protest and refuse to engage cabinet members at hospitals.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Red Crescent: A thousand children in Gaza lost one or both of their legs!!

 

[tsubaki]

I wouldn't call it shocking. It's been obvious the whole time. It's why people protest and refuse to engage cabinet members at hospitals.

To have the negotiators themselves say it is unusual.

 

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[Wat Tyler]

 

[tsubaki]

Apparently an off-duty traffic cop shot an Arab dead during a dispute in Jaffa last night. The dead man had worked for the US Embassy for two decades (edit) and volunteered for the Israeli ambulance services.



There is also this riot in the West Bank, where settlers have been attacking Palestinian villagers following the murder of a 14 year old shepherd from the settlements. Homes burned, people attacked (including a Jewish photographer) and shot.

Israel urgently needs competent leadership at home and sensible friends abroad. Further tolerance of what the current Israeli government is doing is going to wreck the Israeli state, possibly permanently.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Right ok i don't agree with everything that the Israeli military is doing in Gaza.

I even think that Netanyahu needs to go, nonetheless the following words from another site have really struck a chord with me.

I just have to be honest with people and just admit this. These words represent my line of thinking on this matter.

If I were an Israeli, I'd feel somewhat justified to act in self-defence more so than any other country.

A great deal of the world hold the country in contempt, despite the fact that many Jewish people were exterminated during the Holocaust only 80-years ago; and most people, from my personal experience at least, hold at least one conspiracy theory about "the Jews". It's widespread, though most people daren't admit their racism in public. They instead express it through hatred of the existence of Israel itself. Even if Palestinians were given a state today, the hatred of Israel and the conspiracy theories would persist — as they have for 2,000+ years.

Israel is surrounded by countries that have continuously attacked it since 1948.

Yes, maybe they have every right to feel the need to defend themselves.

On the Iran attack, let's not forget that Iran has expressed the desire to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth; a country run by fanatical Islamist theocratic fascist scumbags. I would take their word seriously, and Israel was attacked on October 7 precisely because Iran funded and helped organize the attack through their tentacled proxy-organism that infects Gaza, namely Hamas.

So whilst many people are almost obsessed with Israel and the slogans and so on, when you take an objective step back, it isn't quite as simple some would like to portray it to be.

 

[Walken]

Right ok i don't agree with everything that the Israeli military is doing in Gaza.

I even think that Netanyahu needs to go, nonetheless the following words from another site have really struck a chord with me.

I just have to be honest with people and just admit this. These words represent my line of thinking on this matter.

A litany of excuses for murder

 

[Cork Evertonian]

A litany of excuses for murder

I'm not going to argue with you there. I just want a peaceful resolution for everyone and for no more innocent people to be killed.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

I'm not going to argue with you there.

Because you can't.

 

[stipe]

Well it looks like Iran made their move, very stupid, Israelis goaded them intentionally with that embassy strike, now big daddy from across the Atlantic gonna join the fray.

 

[peteblue]

Jordan has closed for air traffic.

Latest from BBC…

Iran has launched drones at Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday night.
It said the wave could take hours to reach Israel.
It comes after days of anticipation that Iran was preparing to attack Israel in retaliation for a strike which killed a top Iranian commander.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country's defence systems have been deployed and that Israel's armed forces were ready.
"I established a clear principle - whoever hurts us, we hurt him. We will protect ourselves from any threat and we will do so with coolness and determination," he said.