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That is a bit harsh, especially for Bowen who lets not forget the IDF have targeted with live fire in the past (and killed his fixer).
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That is a bit harsh, especially for Bowen who lets not forget the IDF have targeted with live fire in the past (and killed his fixer).
If you stand with a genocidal, brutal occupying nation that you have no affiliation with - I will question your reasons. Like i said, if they were white Europeans getting massacred, I guarantee you would not 'stand with Israel'
Any of you still gullible enough to believe the idf
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Israel claims Al Jazeera journalists are Gaza militants
The Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists says the IDF documents claiming to prove the journalists are terrorists "don't appear to be credible".
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
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Imagine being so stupid that you think referencing the Daily Mail makes you look clever 
Is it better or worse than linkedin?Imagine being so stupid that you think referencing the Daily Mail makes you look clever
PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE FROM THE ISRAELI NEWSPAPER, 'HAARETZ'.
Written by Noa Landau
The Israeli opposition (or whatever fumes still remain of it) frequently attacks the Netanyahu government for having no vision and no plan of action. But what many people tend to miss is that for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a lack of orderly plans doesn't mean a lack of policy. On the contrary, his policies are always determined by actions on the ground, not by speeches or formal ratifications.
Throughout all his years in office, Netanyahu has benefited from deliberate ambiguity, including contradictory messages in Hebrew and English. But reality doesn't lie. That is how, very slowly, large chunks of the West Bank have been annexed de facto, without grandiose legislation. And that's exactly what is happening now in the Gaza Strip.
While Netanyahu's opponents are criticizing him for his lack of any organized plan for Gaza on the day after the war, in practice, such a plan is being advanced through deeds. First, this is being done by occupying large swaths of Gaza, expelling the residents, destroying their homes, paving new roads and building army outposts and other infrastructure for the long term. And right now, it is also being done by pushing a plan to transfer civilian control of Gaza to private companies, which will be paid for it.
The government has gone quite some distance from the intent it announced in February under heavy American pressure – that it would transfer civilian control of Gaza to "local actors with administrative experience" that "aren't identified with countries or organizations that support terror." Next came the plan to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in Gaza to the Israel Defense Forces – a euphemism for a military government. Now, due to the army's opposition to being involved in distributing aid, a decision is taking shape to hire a private Israeli-American company to handle his issue.
The company that has recently been mentioned as a candidate, GDC, is a military contractor of the kind that flooded Iraq and Afghanistan during America's occupation of those countries. The masses of studies that have been done about this system over the years found that it carried enormous risks. These are mercenary corporations, and there are major questions about their compliance with international law and international standards.
Essentially, this would privatize military rule over Gaza by handing it over to private companies with private financial interests and nothing beyond that. The goal is to transfer moral and legal responsibility from Israel to these armed militias. And indeed, in a very troubling interview in Tuesday's Yedioth Ahronoth, the company's founder and CEO, Moti Kahana, said that "if something happens, we'll send a message to Gaza's residents – you don't want to mess with us." That's a genuine mafia-style line.
Beyond the fact that Israel has no right to decide who should control Gaza's civilian affairs after Hamas' rule ends, all this is being done solely to avoid allowing the Palestinian Authority any foothold there. This is a direct continuation of the policy of bolstering Hamas and weakening the PA that Netanyahu implemented throughout his years in power. That's another policy that was determined through actions and dollars, even as others attacked him for his supposed lack of any diplomatic vision.
What Israel should have been doing, together with an international coalition led by the United States, was building a Palestinian alternative to Hamas' government. The current plan gives private contractors the keys to civilian control of Gaza and thereby turning Gaza into another Iraq, which will be a tragedy for generations.
Alongside this process, Netanyahu is also benefiting from sowing ambiguity about his position on establishing settlements in Gaza. On one hand, he claims this won't happen (or more accurately, that it's "unrealistic"). But on the other, his party is running events promoting this messianic dream. On this issue too, in the end, the decisive factor won't be the words, but that first settlement outpost, which will be "difficult to evacuate."
In practice, Netanyahu's plan for postwar Gaza consists of military occupation, mercenaries and settlements. That's a surefire recipe for the next disaster.
Written by Noa Landau
The Israeli opposition (or whatever fumes still remain of it) frequently attacks the Netanyahu government for having no vision and no plan of action. But what many people tend to miss is that for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a lack of orderly plans doesn't mean a lack of policy. On the contrary, his policies are always determined by actions on the ground, not by speeches or formal ratifications.
Throughout all his years in office, Netanyahu has benefited from deliberate ambiguity, including contradictory messages in Hebrew and English. But reality doesn't lie. That is how, very slowly, large chunks of the West Bank have been annexed de facto, without grandiose legislation. And that's exactly what is happening now in the Gaza Strip.
While Netanyahu's opponents are criticizing him for his lack of any organized plan for Gaza on the day after the war, in practice, such a plan is being advanced through deeds. First, this is being done by occupying large swaths of Gaza, expelling the residents, destroying their homes, paving new roads and building army outposts and other infrastructure for the long term. And right now, it is also being done by pushing a plan to transfer civilian control of Gaza to private companies, which will be paid for it.
The government has gone quite some distance from the intent it announced in February under heavy American pressure – that it would transfer civilian control of Gaza to "local actors with administrative experience" that "aren't identified with countries or organizations that support terror." Next came the plan to transfer responsibility for humanitarian aid in Gaza to the Israel Defense Forces – a euphemism for a military government. Now, due to the army's opposition to being involved in distributing aid, a decision is taking shape to hire a private Israeli-American company to handle his issue.
The company that has recently been mentioned as a candidate, GDC, is a military contractor of the kind that flooded Iraq and Afghanistan during America's occupation of those countries. The masses of studies that have been done about this system over the years found that it carried enormous risks. These are mercenary corporations, and there are major questions about their compliance with international law and international standards.
Essentially, this would privatize military rule over Gaza by handing it over to private companies with private financial interests and nothing beyond that. The goal is to transfer moral and legal responsibility from Israel to these armed militias. And indeed, in a very troubling interview in Tuesday's Yedioth Ahronoth, the company's founder and CEO, Moti Kahana, said that "if something happens, we'll send a message to Gaza's residents – you don't want to mess with us." That's a genuine mafia-style line.
Beyond the fact that Israel has no right to decide who should control Gaza's civilian affairs after Hamas' rule ends, all this is being done solely to avoid allowing the Palestinian Authority any foothold there. This is a direct continuation of the policy of bolstering Hamas and weakening the PA that Netanyahu implemented throughout his years in power. That's another policy that was determined through actions and dollars, even as others attacked him for his supposed lack of any diplomatic vision.
What Israel should have been doing, together with an international coalition led by the United States, was building a Palestinian alternative to Hamas' government. The current plan gives private contractors the keys to civilian control of Gaza and thereby turning Gaza into another Iraq, which will be a tragedy for generations.
Alongside this process, Netanyahu is also benefiting from sowing ambiguity about his position on establishing settlements in Gaza. On one hand, he claims this won't happen (or more accurately, that it's "unrealistic"). But on the other, his party is running events promoting this messianic dream. On this issue too, in the end, the decisive factor won't be the words, but that first settlement outpost, which will be "difficult to evacuate."
In practice, Netanyahu's plan for postwar Gaza consists of military occupation, mercenaries and settlements. That's a surefire recipe for the next disaster.
Yarrgh
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I'm in a surly mood today.
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I think pointing this out to a clear racist would and should wobble their head.
However, the brainwashing amongst the 'great unwashed' (lonely, unemployed losers with lots of time on their hands) is giving them something to grasp, giving their life a 'purpose' and 'meaning'. Loser mentality.
When the reaction to the UN posts being used for cover by Hezbollah is simply to say "that is a lie", then when faced with the video proving this...silence.
Clear racism from the brainwashed losers of society.
Their indoctrination makes them truly believe they are on the side of 'good'...yet cant take a second to read their own posts and see how awful, rude and brainwashed they sound.
Lemmings, sheep, useful idiots.
Classic - as if Trump wrote it himself
They’ve blown up a guest house for the media, in Lebanon today. Cameramen and an engineer killed
The fact you reference a 'side of 'good'' and by inference, its counterpart 'evil', makes you sound like a 12 year old obsessed with Star Wars. Grow up ffs
Zatara
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Israeli hostage describes rape she suffered while held by Hamas
Lawyer Amit Soussana was on sick leave at her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the morning of October 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into her house and kidnapped her
Note my last post showing the hamas leaders wealth & their UN counterparts 'donations' to them and their 'fighters'.
If thats not EVIL i dont know what is.
I suggest you 'grow up' but having an empty head and supporting terrorists clearly prevents this.
Utterly pathetic comebackIsraeli hostage describes rape she suffered while held by Hamas
Lawyer Amit Soussana was on sick leave at her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the morning of October 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into her house and kidnapped herwww.dailymail.co.uk
Note my last post showing the hamas leaders wealth & their UN counterparts 'donations' to them and their 'fighters'.
If thats not EVIL i dont know what is.
I suggest you 'grow up' but having an empty head and supporting terrorists clearly prevents this.
Imagine thinking that having a nice handbag was the most evil thing ever.... tool:Israeli hostage describes rape she suffered while held by Hamas
Lawyer Amit Soussana was on sick leave at her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on the morning of October 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into her house and kidnapped her
Note my last post showing the hamas leaders wealth & their UN counterparts 'donations' to them and their 'fighters'.
If thats not EVIL i dont know what is.
I suggest you 'grow up' but having an empty head and supporting terrorists clearly prevents this.
Israel: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses
(Jerusalem) – Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
At least five categories of major violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law characterize the occupation: unlawful killings; forced displacement; abusive detention; the closure of the Gaza Strip and other unjustified restrictions on movement; and the development of settlements, along with the accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage Palestinians.
Many of Israel’s abusive practices were carried out in the name of security. Palestinian armed groups have carried out scores of lethal attacks on civilians and launched thousands of rocket attacks on Israeli civilian areas, also in violation of international humanitarian law.
“Whether it’s a child imprisoned by a military court or shot unjustifiably, or a house demolished for lack of an elusive permit, or checkpoints where only settlers are allowed to pass, few Palestinians have escaped serious rights abuses during this 50-year occupation,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Israel today maintains an entrenched system of institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians in the occupied territory – repression that extends far beyond any security rationale.”
As the occupation enters its second half-century, the focus should be on increasing the protection of the rights of the population of the occupied territory, Human Rights Watch said.
Unlawful Killings & War Crimes
Israeli troops killed well over 2,000 Palestinian civilians in the last three Gaza conflicts (2008-09, 2012, 2014) alone. Many of these attacks amount to violations of international humanitarian law due to a failure to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians. Some amount to war crimes, including the targeting of apparent civilian structures.
In the West Bank, Israeli security forces have routinely used excessive force in policing situations, killing or grievously wounding thousands of demonstrators, rock-throwers, suspected assailants, and others with live ammunition when lesser means could have averted a threat or maintained order.
Armed Palestinian groups also committed war crimes during these conflicts and at other times, including rocket attacks targeting Israeli population centers. Between the start of the first Intifada in December 1987 and the end of February 2017, attacks by Palestinians killed at least 1,079 Israeli civilians, according to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.
Israeli official investigations into alleged security force abuses during the Gaza conflicts and in policing situations failed to hold the abusers accountable, with rare exceptions. Palestinian authorities have also failed to investigate violations and hold those responsible to account.
Illegal Settlements
Israeli authorities have since 1967 facilitated the transfer of its civilians to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In 1967, Israel established two settlements in the West Bank: Kfar Etzion and East Talpiot; by 2017, Israel had established 237 settlements there, housing approximately 580,000 settlers. Israel applies Israeli civil law to settlers, affording them legal protections, rights, and benefits that are not extended to Palestinians living in the same territory who are subjected to Israeli military law. Israel provides settlers with infrastructure, services, and subsidies that it denies to Palestinians, creating and sustaining a separate and unequal
Forced Displacement
Israeli authorities have expropriated thousands of acres of Palestinian land for settlements and their supporting infrastructure. Discriminatory burdens, including making it nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain building permits in East Jerusalem and in the 60 percent of the West Bank under exclusive Israeli control (Area C), have effectively forced Palestinians to leave their homes or to build at the risk of seeing their “unauthorized” structures bulldozed. For decades, Israeli authorities have demolished homes on the grounds that they lacked permits, even though the law of occupation prohibits destruction of property except for military necessity, or punitively as collective punishment against families of Palestinians suspected of attacking Israelis.
Israel has also arbitrarily excluded hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from its population registry, restricting their ability to live in and travel from the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli authorities have justified these actions by citing general security concerns, but they have not conducted individual screenings or claimed that those excluded posed a threat themselves. Israel also revoked the residency of over 130,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and 14,565 in East Jerusalem since 1967, largely on the basis that they had been away too long.
Gaza Closure, Unjustified Movement Restrictions in West Bank
For the last 25 years, Israel has tightened restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip in ways that far exceed any conceivable requirement of Israeli security. These restrictions affect nearly every aspect of everyday life, separating families, restricting access to medical care and educational and economic opportunities, and perpetuating unemployment and poverty. As of last year, Gaza’s GDP was 23 percent lower than in 1994. Seventy percent of Gaza’s 1.9 million people rely on humanitarian assistance.
Israel also has imposed onerous restrictions on freedom of movement in the West Bank, enforced at checkpoints within the West Bank and at its borders with Israel. Israel’s separation barrier, ostensibly solely built for security, in fact slices through the West Bank significantly more than it runs along the Green Line separating the West Bank from Israel, contrary to international humanitarian law, as confirmed by the International Court of Justice in July 2004.
Abusive Detention
Israeli authorities have incarcerated hundreds of thousands of Palestinians since 1967, the majority after trials in military courts, which have a near-100 percent conviction rate. In addition, on average, hundreds every year have been placed in administrative detention based on secret evidence without charge or trial. Some were detained or imprisoned for engaging in nonviolent activism. Israel also jails West Bank and Gaza Palestinian detainees inside Israel, creating onerous restrictions on family visits and violating international law requiring that they be held within the occupied territory. Many detainees, including children, face harsh conditions and mistreatment.
The Palestinian Authority, since its creation in 1994, and Hamas, since becoming the de facto authority in Gaza in 2007, have arbitrarily detained dissidents, tortured and mistreated detainees, and, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, executed 41 people pursuant to death sentences after flawed trials.
The law of occupation, designed to regulate the exceptional and temporary situation in which a foreign military power displaces the lawful sovereign and rules by force, grants an occupier broad but limited powers to restrict individuals and their rights to meet security needs.
However, in a prolonged occupation in which occupiers have the opportunity to develop more narrowly tailored responses to security threats, exemptions to rights protections should be reduced and the balance shifted toward respecting, protecting, and fulfilling all fundamental rights of the population. In addition, the occupier’s obligation to restore normal civilian life for the local population increases with the passage of time, as do its obligations to progressively realize the social, economic, and cultural rights of residents of the occupied territory.
After decades of failure to rein in abuses associated with the occupation, the international community should take more active measures to hold Israeli and Palestinian authorities to their obligations under international human rights and humanitarian law. Other countries and businesses should cease activities carried out inside settlements and change policies that support settlement-related activities and infrastructure, in keeping with their respective human rights responsibilities.
Governments should use their leverage to press Israel to end the generalized travel ban for Palestinians from Gaza and permit the free movement of people and goods to and from Gaza, subject to individualized security screenings and physical inspection. The International Criminal Court should open a formal investigation into serious international crimes committed in Israel and Palestine both by Israelis and Palestinians.
“Fifty years of occupation and decades of a fruitless peace process should put firmly to rest the notion that downplaying human rights will ease the path to a negotiated solution to the conflict,” Whitson said. “Concerted action for rights and accountability is urgently needed, including through the International Criminal Court.”
Isnt it - best part 30,000 children murdered and he cries about laundered money. As racist as it gets, this kid.Utterly pathetic comeback
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