Israel: We Are At War

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biostud

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They aren't actively committing genocide on anyone in the region - though corruption runs rampant. To be honest the different araba countries have different flavor with some pretty decent monarch with regards to treatment of their people and others are worse than Trump which is difficult to believe given how bad he is as a person.
They just silently torture or kill anyone who speaks against the ruling class. But sure currently not involved in any level of brutality as seen in Gaza.
 
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They just silently torture or kill anyone who speaks against the ruling class. But sure currently not involved in any level of brutality as seen in Gaza.
just look at Egypt and Sisi's military dictatorship....or the Saudi's (340+ executed last year) , the shit the UAE is doing in Yemen and Sudan
 
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nickqt

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I'm sure Israeli soldiers were confused about what they were shooting at. They have a long and storied tradition of shooting journalists, children, and US Naval ships.
 
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Who would have dreamed that in the land of Arabs Israel would become the fascist nation to top them all? Certainly never did as a kid where we grew up thinking Israel was a shinning light in the land of the dark. How times change. Of course the same could be said of USA - who would have thought the land of the free would revoke people's visa over single statements utter in conversation and become the land without freedom of speech.
It’s bound to happen mechanically and unconsciously. We create what we fear. In other words we become what we hate.
 

KMFJD

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Marge is acting. She's trying to distance herself for the post Trump era. The tell is that no one (including Trump) is calling her out in public.
oh i know and the first line was 100% sarcasm .....but having others say it out loud will get the message across maybe a bit better?
 

KMFJD

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that shit always cracks me up, the excuses i've heard

- i'm praying the devil away for israel
- i might have to serve with women
- i will be forced to serve with non believers who will pervert our pure beliefs

Reading up on this exemption is interesting, apparently it started at the inception of the colony because of so many religious scholars being murdered during ww2 , there was a special dispensation created for 400 students to continue their studies...this was latter raised a couple of times. It was in 1977 that Begin granted blanket exemption to the entire haredim.

At the time it wasn't that big of a deal, that was only a couple of thousand students.....the thing is though that they have very large families and the haredim population doubles something like every 20 years....they now make up around 12% of the population


/Haredim women do serve/work to support the men
 
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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has instructed the armed forces to confront any further Israeli incursion in the country’s south after Israeli forces crossed their shared border and killed a municipal worker during an overnight raid.

The pivotal announcement was made on Thursday after days of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory in near-daily Israeli violations of a ceasefire that went into effect in November.


israel breaking ceasefires , a day ending in y
 
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A classified report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in Gaza that would take the State Department “multiple years” to review, according to two U.S. officials who relayed the details to The Washington Post.

The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General mark the first time a U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars U.S. security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses.

U.S. officials, who discussed details of the report on the condition of anonymity because the contents were classified, said the watchdog findings raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces.

“What worries me is that accountability will be forgotten now that the noise of the conflict is dying down,” said Charles Blaha, a former State Department official in charge of the office that implements the Leahy Laws, who was told about the report.


war criminals all around, the hague would be way to good for them
 

KMFJD

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well will you look at this, the israeli general that released footage of the iof raping Palestinian hostages was forced to resign today

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DF’s Chief Military Advocate, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi the very official responsible for prosecuting violations of international law within the Israeli army reportedly told the IDF Chief of Staff this morning in her resignation letter that she had personally approved the release of the video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee last year.

According to reports, she explained that the decision came after relentless (right-wing ) interference when investigators tried to enter Sde Teiman military prison, following the conditions there and the latest rape incident that came into their knowledge, interference led by Israeli ministers, journalists, and political figures who launched a vicious campaign against the military prosecution office and even stormed her base.

Let’s be clear: Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has never done her basic job to investigate the genocide unfolding under her watch. She approved it. She turned a blind eye again and again. But when confronted with evidence of mass rape against Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman, she seems to have realized just how deep the moral collapse of Israel had gone and tried, at the very last moment, to do something. Not out of empathy for the victims or concern over the violations themselves, she didn’t care about that, but because she was trying to shield IDF soldiers by symbolic discpline and limit Israel’s exposure to international accountability: potential arrest warrants, sanctions, war crime investigations, and legal isolation.

For the tiniest act of doing 0.00000001% of the job she was appointed to do, today IDF chief of staff kicked her out.

Because in today’s Israel, even the faintest move toward fake accountability from within the IDF is treated as treason.

There is no law in the IDF.. No moral code just propaganda carefully repackaged and sold by some Western mainstream outlets to sanitize what’s happening.
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that society is sick and needs an enema
 

amenx

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well will you look at this, the israeli general that released footage of the iof raping Palestinian hostages was forced to resign today

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DF’s Chief Military Advocate, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi the very official responsible for prosecuting violations of international law within the Israeli army reportedly told the IDF Chief of Staff this morning in her resignation letter that she had personally approved the release of the video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee last year.

According to reports, she explained that the decision came after relentless (right-wing ) interference when investigators tried to enter Sde Teiman military prison, following the conditions there and the latest rape incident that came into their knowledge, interference led by Israeli ministers, journalists, and political figures who launched a vicious campaign against the military prosecution office and even stormed her base.

Let’s be clear: Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has never done her basic job to investigate the genocide unfolding under her watch. She approved it. She turned a blind eye again and again. But when confronted with evidence of mass rape against Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman, she seems to have realized just how deep the moral collapse of Israel had gone and tried, at the very last moment, to do something. Not out of empathy for the victims or concern over the violations themselves, she didn’t care about that, but because she was trying to shield IDF soldiers by symbolic discpline and limit Israel’s exposure to international accountability: potential arrest warrants, sanctions, war crime investigations, and legal isolation.

For the tiniest act of doing 0.00000001% of the job she was appointed to do, today IDF chief of staff kicked her out.

Because in today’s Israel, even the faintest move toward fake accountability from within the IDF is treated as treason.

There is no law in the IDF.. No moral code just propaganda carefully repackaged and sold by some Western mainstream outlets to sanitize what’s happening.
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that society is sick and needs an enema
Sole purpose of her position is for the MSM to take note of to give the appearance that Israel is a law abiding state. Fooling the masses has always been an Israeli specialty.
 
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KMFJD

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Sole purpose of her position is for the MSM to take note of to give the appearance that Israel is a law abiding state. Fooling the masses has always been an Israeli specialty.
oh yeah, she didn't release that video to protect the Palestinians or anything like that...

meanwhile at the protests..

 

mikeymikec

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telegraph said:
The examples include a Panorama documentary that ... BBC Arabic “minimised Israeli suffering” in its coverage of the war with Hamas to “paint Israel as the aggressor”.

Kemi Badenoch, the Leader of the Opposition, said “heads should roll” over the “absolutely shocking” disclosures.

Israel’s deputy foreign minister called for Tim Davie, the BBC boss, to resign and for the Government to stop its taxpayer-funded subsidy of BBC Arabic, which she said had become “an anti-Israel propaganda tool”.

You've got to laugh if you don't cry. Palestinians being massacred by Israel at a rate of over 50 to 1, and right wingers start whining about the suffering of the aggressor.
 
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KMFJD

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just amazing, but i expect nothing less of these pieces of filth

jfc i looked at the comments, i'm not sure why, guess i was curious to see what people would say but it's like opening up the dumbest far right news piece in the US/Canada

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just amazing, but i expect nothing less of these pieces of filth

jfc i looked at the comments, i'm not sure why, guess i was curious to see what people would say but it's like opening up the dumbest far right news piece in the US/Canada

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There's worse than TDT in the UK, but not loads. I think of its readers as people who *think* they're too good for The Daily Mail.

One of my customers consumes GB News and seems to refer anyone politically left of him as "communists".
 
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