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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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I believe the terrorists were led by future PM Menachem Begin.
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Fiddlesticks ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Dec 2012 Status: Offline Points: 48039 |
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7000+ missiles and rockets fired into Israel since Oct 7, who knows how many before that. It's so constant they have an 'iron dome' to protect their citizens. Funny how you continue to brush all that aside.
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Panspermia.
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Plastic letters ![]() Champion ![]() Joined: 21 Jan 2023 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 2755 |
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Convenient, isn’t it, when they have one agenda to push
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Hello Sunshine ![]() Champion ![]() Joined: 21 Feb 2021 Status: Offline Points: 3721 |
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The iron dome would be handy for Ukraine.
Is it "exported"?
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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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They have the US HYMARS equivalent and are getting the superior ATACMS. It of course covers a much larger are that the Israeli version but has still had a 90+% success over Kyiv..
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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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They are very expensive to buy and use. A single HYMARS missile costs about $170k and a ATACMS missile $860k. The launcher systems $1Billion.
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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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Hamas uses home made Qassam rockets which cost around $500-800 each. It costs Israel around $100k to shoot one down.
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acacia alba ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Location: Hunter Valley Status: Offline Points: 40085 |
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We found that Israel’s cruel policies of segregation,
dispossession and exclusion across all territories under it Probably just practicing what was dished out to them by most countries and races for hundreds of years, as pay back.
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animals before people.
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Fiddlesticks ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Dec 2012 Status: Offline Points: 48039 |
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Why bother watching all that stuff fiddles. There’s so much crap on YouTube and social media. It’s soul destroying
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Top House Democrats evacuated from DNC headquarters as police clash with protesters calling for Gaza ceasefireLaw enforcement clashed with protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war outside of the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday night, the latest eruption of tensions across the country over t House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Rep. Pete Aguilar were inside as the clash between protesters and police sparked and turned violent, according to authorities. Six officers were injured during the melee Wednesday evening |
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Any updates re the IDF's evidence of the hospital being a hub?
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BBC and other journalists have been through and had a look and reported on it.
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Panspermia.
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IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQJulian Borgerin Washington Footage to date fails to prove Gaza complex was nerve centre for attacks on Israel, as military has claimed |
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/opinion/us-military-aid-war-israel.html By Josh Paul Mr. Paul is a former director in the State Department’s political-military affairs bureau, which oversees U.S. arms transfers. On the Israeli side, blind U.S. security guarantees have not provided a path to peace. Instead, they have provided Israel with the reassurance that it can engage in increasingly destructive efforts, such as the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank, without any real consequences. At the same time, Israel has become a global leader in weapons exports and boasts one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the world. All of these factors have created a sense among Israeli policymakers that they can indefinitely contain — physically and politically — the Palestinian question. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the recent efforts, driven by the United States, first under the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, to pursue normalization between Israel and the Arab world. While in many ways this normalization is long overdue, it has been premised on the notion that economic incentives — and a shared regional security interest in deterring malign Iranian influence — can integrate Israel, indefinite occupation and all, into the Arab world. This premise has been shattered — likely intentionally on Hamas’s part — by the Gaza conflict and its rapid recentering of the Palestinian cause on a global stage. As much as the United States, Israel and Arab leaders such as Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, would like to frame security in pragmatic, nation-to-nation terms, Arab populations still care deeply about the fate of the Palestinians. As civilian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank continue to mount, it is clear any sort of Saudi normalization agreement with Israel that does not also include substantive progress on a political solution for the Palestinian cause will be difficult to advance. |
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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Bahrain which was one of the original signatories to that Abraham Accords agreement recently withdrew it's Ambassador from Israel and said they were cutting economic ties. Other Arabic countries have suggested they are reconsidering their positions.
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What else would you expect from an Arabic nation? When a country from, say South America, a Pacific Island, one like Tuvalu, yes, the island nation we just handed over millions to, or Northern Europe does the same you might have a point, but until then breaking economic ties with Israel is nothing more than support for an " Islamic brotherhood". |
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Passing Through ![]() Champion ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jan 2013 Location: At home Status: Offline Points: 76911 |
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Barhain was the original signatory to the Abraham Accords Bob, they opened an Embassy in Tel Aviv 3 years ago as other Arab states joined. They were all keen to normalize relations with Israel and many followed.
It was all going well 3 years on with Biden negotiating to bring Saudi Arabia into the group. It came unstuck because Palestinians were ignored in the process. Apart from trade and tourism it was supposed to consolidate a block against Iran. Iran's proxies said no and here we are with the Accords on the verge of falling apart..
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Panspermia.
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There's so much bullshtting news coming in from this conflict, what happened to the hospital that Israel supposedly bombed on purpose ? There are lies coming from both sides but most of the outrageous ones are from media outlets who support Palestine, like the death toll numbers and Hamas saying Israel is lying they found weapons in tunnels and in hospitals. I mean are we really trusting anything that comes out of the mouths of terrorists ? These same people who use others as shields for their cause, and slay innocent people in kibutz's for no reason.
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The media complaining that IDF has allowed independent media to verify weapons inside hospitals and in tunnels etc..? So what they just let all the press wander around in tunnels ready to be killed by booby traps or explosives, of course the IDF has to clear any area for safety otherwise there would be hell to pay should just let anyone/press in there to verify.
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They need to do it ASAP.
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Report from Washington Post of some progress Israel, the United States and Hamas have agreed to a tentative deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting. The release, which could begin within the next several days — barring last-minute hitches — could lead to the first sustained pause in conflict in Gaza, according to people familiar with its provisions. Under the terms of a detailed, six-page agreement, all parties to the conflict would freeze combat operations for at least five days while an initial 50 or more hostages are released in smaller batches every 24 hours. It was not immediately clear how many of the 239 people believed to be in captivity in Gaza would be released under the deal. Overhead surveillance would monitor movement on the ground to police the pause. The stop in fighting is also intended to allow a significant increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance, including fuel, to enter the besieged enclave from Egypt. The outline of a deal was put together during weeks of talks in Doha, Qatar among Israel, the United States and Hamas, indirectly represented by Qatari mediators, according to Arab and other diplomats. But it remained unclear until now that Israel would agree to temporarily pause its offensive in Gaza, provided the conditions were right.
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What would Hamas gain from it though?
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Agreed there does not seem to be anything in that report stayer, however there was reports earlier that some release of prisoners held by Israel might be under consideration.
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That would be the sticking point, probably. I can't imagine Israel agreeing to that.
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Will be interesting to see. The White House have just said there is no agreement yet.
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Plastic letters ![]() Champion ![]() Joined: 21 Jan 2023 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 2755 |
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They would get a stop to their human shields being killed but I suspect they don’t really care about that
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Hamas would love a little break in fighting, would give them a chance to regroup, refuel and set up booby traps, move hostages, sort out better positions for fighting etc.
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