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Gaza
DIR By: .
Date: October 8, 2023, 5:45 pm
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HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-analysis.html
A Shaken Israel Is Forced Back to Its Eternal Dilemma
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> The attack by Hamas forces Israel once again to confront the
conflict that has haunted it since the creation of the modern
state.
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> The most sweeping invasion of Israeli territory in decades,
conducted by a Hamas force that had been widely seen as a ragtag
collection of militants, has delivered a psychological shock to
Israel so great that its very foundations are being questioned:
its army, its intelligence services, its government and its
capacity to control the millions of Palestinians in its midst.
>
> the sight of villages once again overrun, hostages seized and
desperate civilians being killed by Palestinian militants has
awakened a kind of primal dread.
>
> “Israelis are shaken to the core,” said Yuval Shany, a
professor of international law at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
>
> Its wealth, vibrant start-up culture and increasing acceptance
in the Middle East could not forever mask a fundamental Israeli
instability. Now the shock to its self-image is so great that,
after the initial rallying to the flag, Israel could be
projected into a period of profound social and political
turbulence.
>
> For many years the assumption had grown within Israel that the
Palestinian question had become a nonissue and that a policy of
tactical procrastination, as Israeli settlements in the West
Bank grew ever larger, would ensure that no Palestinian state
ever came into being.
>
> The Palestinian issue all but disappeared from the global
agenda. There was talk of a new Middle East.
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> All this, however, could not hide the elephant in the room:
the growing Palestinian fury at humiliation and marginalization
that had already led to a spike in West Bank violence this year.
>
> It was a failure on the part of the world to address the
conflict.[It's OK for failure to be white]
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> Mr. Netanyahu never wanted to listen to such warnings or
engage in serious talks for a two-state peace. The consequences
of that policy could not forever be waved away in talk of a
shiny new Middle East.
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#Post#: 22707--------------------------------------------------
Re: Re: War
DIR By: Rockets
Date: October 11, 2023, 2:44 pm
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A U.S. lawmaker, and a Republican himself surprisingly, has now
officially reiterated the fact that Israel was warned by Egypt
prior to the attack. I see no reason why Egypt would fabricate
such a claim?
Israel "Ready for Two Front War", UK Top Diplomat Runs For
Cover, Idf's Infiltration Alert "Error"
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> A former Israeli general, Giora Eiland, has said that Israel
“must create an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza”.
People in Gaza have been without water for days now, with a
growing risk of disease spreading and people living without
their basic needs. Meanwhile, Egypt and the US are discussing
plans to provide humanitarian aid through its border with the
Gaza Strip under a limited ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz have agreed to form an
“emergency government and war cabinet.” The US continues to
monitor the situation in Israel, President Joe Biden said,
adding he and Netanyahu held their fourth call in recent days.
Watch the video to find out more.
> #israelpalestinewar #hamasattack #Lebanon #worldnews
>
> 0:00 - INTRODUCTION
> 2:30 - NETANYAHU ANNOUNCES WARTIME 'EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT'
> 3:04 - “ISRAEL WAS WARNED”, SAYS US LAWMAKER
> 3:57 - HAMAS ROCKETS TARGET ISRAELI CITIES
> 5:12 - BIDEN HOLDS FOURTH CALL WITH NETANYAHU SINCE HAMAS
ATTACK
> 6:15 - “ISRAEL PREPARED FOR TWO-FRONT WAR”
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joY49891kLE
Related:
Israel can't defeat Hezbollah: Israeli expert
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> JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel cannot defeat Hezbollah in a
direct engagement and the Lebanese guerrilla group would inflict
heavy damage on the Israeli home front if war broke out, a
former Israeli national security adviser said Thursday.
>
> Though outnumbered and outgunned, Hezbollah held off Israel’s
advanced armed forces in a 2006 war and fired more than 4,000
rockets into Israeli territory. The group has a domestic
political base and has since bolstered an arsenal that Israel
describes as a strategic threat.
>
> Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah’s Iranian and Syrian
backers have stoked expectations of renewed violence in Lebanon.
>
> “Israel does not know how to beat Hezbollah,” said Giora
Eiland, an army ex-general who served as national security
adviser to former prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud
Olmert...
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HTML https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-lebanon/israel-cant-defeat-hezbollah-israeli-expert-idUSTRE6BF20L20101216
Hamas attack was 'almost inevitable'
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> “For many years there's been a complete absence of any kind of
political process.”
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> The “appalling living conditions in Gaza” and “two-sided
Palestinian leadership” have made a conflict like this
‘inevitable’, says, former Gaza correspondent, James Rogers.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PExBQO4mlI
Palestinian leadership should never have accepted false Israeli
gestures of peace like the Oslo accords and continued to
recognize Israel as the colonial and tyrannical project it was
always intended to be.
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Re: Re: War
DIR By: .
Date: October 11, 2023, 7:33 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war-1.6992321
Netanyahu vows to 'crush and destroy' Hamas ahead of expected
ground offensive into Gaza
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> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that
Israel would "crush and destroy" Hamas in response to its attack
last Saturday.
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> During a late-night televised address, Netanyahu said every
Hamas member was a "dead man."
>
> His comments came as Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza in
response to the unprecedented attack, ahead of a possible ground
offensive to root out Hamas, with an estimated 250,000 people
made homeless in the Palestinian-controlled territory, many
huddling on streets or in schools.
>
> Israel said dozens of its fighter jets struck more than 200
targets in a neighbourhood of Gaza City
>
> Former defence minister Benny Gantz, a centrist opposition
leader, spoke live on Israeli television alongside Netanyahu and
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant after forming a war cabinet
focused entirely on the conflict.
>
> "Our partnership is not political, it is a shared fate," said
Gantz. "At this time we are all the soldiers of Israel."
>
> Netanyahu said the people of Israel and its leadership were
united. "We have put aside all differences because the fate of
our state is on the line," he said.
>
> Gallant on Tuesday promised a ground attack in Gaza at an
unspecified time.
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> "What was in Gaza will no longer be," he said.
>
> The Israeli government is under intense public pressure to
topple Hamas after its militants stormed through a boundary
fence Saturday and massacred hundreds of Israelis in their
homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival.
>
> Canadian Asia Mathkour has lived in Gaza since 2014. She's
been forced to relocate five times already since Saturday with
her two children, aged four and two, to escape the bombing.
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> She told CBC News that there is just no place safe to go, that
virtually every neighbourhood, every building is demolished, and
that the threat of a ground invasion is scary.
>
> "People didn't expect this kind of bombs dropping on us. It's
not normal," she said. "People are losing their homes, their
mother, their children, their spouse. Everything. People are in
shock. Everybody is in shock."
>
> "No place is safe in Gaza, as you see they hit everywhere,"
said Ala Abu Tair, 35, who had sought shelter there with his
family after fleeing Abassan Al-Kabira near the border.
>
> Israel's security minister said he was stepping up the issuing
of firearms to licensed citizens
>
> Egypt's shared border closed
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> The U.S. said it was talking with Israel and Egypt about the
idea of creating a safe passage for civilians out of Gaza at the
Rafa border crossing. The crossing remained shut on Wednesday
>
> Egypt confirmed it has discussed plans with the U.S. and
others to provide humanitarian aid through its border with Gaza
Strip but said it rejects any move to set up safe corridors for
refugees fleeing the enclave, Egyptian security sources said on
Wednesday.
>
> One of the security sources, who asked not to be identified,
said the safe corridors were rejected to protect "the right of
Palestinians to hold onto their cause and their land."
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Israel has declared war on Hamas. But these are the other fronts
it may face
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> Wednesday sees multiple reminders of the risk in the north
from a Hezbollah attack. But analysts warn of other possible
battles.
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> Israel is marching to war with Hamas with one eye peering
existentially over its shoulder at the threat of Iranian-backed
militant groups in neighbouring Lebanon and Syria that could be
ordered to join the conflict at any moment.
>
> Mideast observers say the risk of an escalation, bringing a
range of fighters and Islamic militant groups to the side of
Hamas, the Palestinian organization that carried out the brazen
strikes and horrid massacres last weekend from its base in the
Gaza Strip, is dangerously real.
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Re: Lebanon
DIR By: SouthLebanon
Date: October 12, 2023, 11:41 am
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South Lebanon fighting: Cross-border attacks escalate
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> The Lebanese-Israeli border witnessed another cross-border
attack. Lebanese group Hezbollah claimed responsibility.
> Several houses in the border village of Dharya were hit.
>
> Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports from Dharya in southern
Lebanon.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWkjqjlAuA
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Re: Re: Lebanon
DIR By: SouthLebanon
Date: October 12, 2023, 12:21 pm
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‘Hamas is saying bring it on’: Engel on tensions as Israeli
military gathers near Gaza border
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> The Israeli military presence is building near the Gaza
border. "This will be a highly complex operation, very difficult
to carry out for Israel... and potentially extremely lethal for
all of the Palestinians…,” NBC News’ Richard Engel tells Joy
Reid live from Ashdod, Israel of a possible invasion, “and Hamas
is saying we welcome it. Bring it on." Ben Rhodes, former deputy
national security advisor in the Obama administration, also
joins The ReidOut with his analysis.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBQHSHHUCA
Hamas is an evil that needs to be defeated, says IDF
spokesperson
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> Israel Defense Forces spokesman Maj. Doron Spielman discusses
the effort to get Israeli hostages out of Gaza, and why he says
defeating Hamas will not be an overnight campaign.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2mzvJv8n00
Comment:
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> As a general rule of thumb hostage exchanges are a bad idea
because it promotes hostage-taking but in this case the IDF is
desperate for intelligence. A nice friendly prisoner exchange
instantly gives value to all the other hostages but exchanges
should not be the end game.
> As sure as the sun rises Israel is going to overplay their
hand and world opinion will shift. I have not forgotten the
slaughter on the right of return marches or the use of
helicopter gunships in urban areas. The Israelis have put their
thumb on Gaza so hard that life there has no meaning so you get
a lot of desperate people doing desperate things.
> It appears that their crushing blockade has accomplished
little other than make life difficult for the Palestinians they
have no shortage of those oversized bottle rockets they keep
firing. Sure Hamas can control all the goods and services when
you have conveniently narrowed access to a trickle at two
points. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star
systems will slip through your fingers."
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Re: Re: Lebanon
DIR By: WesternersAreRacists
Date: October 12, 2023, 8:39 pm
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Millions in Gaza have nowhere to go as Israeli bombs fall from
the sky
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> Gaza is home to two million Palestinians and 40 percent of
them are under the age of 15. As Israel’s airstrikes slam the
region where there are no air defenses, the United Nations is
sounding the alarm about a growing humanitarian crisis. NBC
News’ Richard Engel reports on human rights groups calling for
civilians to be allowed to leave.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCaXzL6opQ
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Re: Re: Lebanon
DIR By: .
Date: October 12, 2023, 9:18 pm
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HTML https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-bombardment-recurring-nightmare-for-gaza-residents/a-67081716
Israeli bombardment 'recurring nightmare' for Gaza residents
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> After a massive Hamas terror attack against Israel, the
civilian population in the Gaza Strip is paying a high price.
Hundreds of thousands have fled within a territory under
constant shelling as Israel retaliates.
>
> Violence has broken out between Israel, Hamas and other
militant Palestinian groups numerous times before, but this time
everything is different.
>
> Israel has been bombarding the isolated coastal strip
>
> There's no power, no internet, only little water. Is it not
enough that we've been living under a blockade for 15 or 16
years? What will be next?"
>
> On Monday, Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a
"total blockade" of Gaza and discontinued supplies of
electricity, food and fuel from Israel to the sealed-off
territory. Usually, food and fuel enter Gaza via Israel's Kerem
Shalom crossing, where all imports are subject to thorough
checks. Even drinking water — which the Palestinian National
Authority buys in Israel for residents in the Gaza Strip — is no
longer supplied.
>
> Israeli human rights organizations such as Gisha, which
champion freedom of movement for Palestinians, has criticized
Israel's retaliatory measures as collective punishment and a
"total disregard of the civilian population."
>
> The deep-seated fear and trauma of past wars haunts many
people in Gaza. "It's a constantly recurring nightmare," says El
Athamnah, who first lost his home in the three-week Gaza War
that took place in 2008-2009.
>
> "We don't feel safe even here — and who knows what's still
ahead," says El Athamna, adding that Israel's current airstrikes
are more intense and more severe than anything he has witnessed
before.
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Re: Re: Lebanon
DIR By: EgyptWasntSurprised
Date: October 12, 2023, 9:44 pm
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Wife of Scotland's First Minister speaks on family's dire
situation in Gaza
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> Nadia El-Nakla, wife of Scotland's First Minister, opens up
about her family's harrowing situation in Gaza. She shares that
her parents, trapped in Deir al-Balah, are "terrified" about the
unfolding events. "I'm living in a nightmare for them," she
says, highlighting their struggle with ongoing electricity and
water shortages.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRufake8l8
Comment:
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> The hypocrisy and short term memory of main stream media and
society to conveniently forget about the decades of oppression
faced by Palestinians at the hands of Israel, is disgusting
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Re: Re: Lebanon
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 13, 2023, 5:25 am
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It's OK for phosphorous to be white:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=All88nZIKvQ
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Re: Re: War
DIR By: China
Date: October 13, 2023, 12:04 pm
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Hamas Asks Gaza to Defy Evac Order, Israel Seeks "Clear" China
Condemnation, Nasrallah-Iran FM Meet
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> Israel’s military has admitted it would take time for
Palestinians to follow its orders to evacuate north Gaza. IDF
says Israel's military is aware that evacuating 1.1 million
people from northern Gaza - as Israel has called for - will take
some time.
> “I will not say [if] it’s an accurate time,” Hagari added when
asked to confirm the army had informed UN officials Palestinians
had 24 hours to flee
> Meanwhile, Hamas has called on Palestinian residents to defy
an Israeli order to evacuate the northern part of the Gaza
Strip.
> “We tell the people of northern Gaza and from Gaza City, stay
put in your homes, and your places”, Hamas Spokesperson Eyad
Al-Bozom said.
> Israel expressed “deep disappointment” in a call with the
Chinese envoy to the Middle East over China’s lack of
condemnation of Hamas’s attack. According to the ministry, the
Chinese statements "do not provide a clear and unambiguous
condemnation of the horrific terrorist acts.”
> #israel #gaza #hamasattack #china #netanyahu #xijinping
#hamasvsisrael #gazaunderattack #idf
> n18oc_world n18oc_crux
>
> 0:00 INTRODUCTION
> 1:13 NASRALLAH MEETS WITH IRAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON GAZA
> 2:41 IDF ADMITS GAZA EVACUATION WILL TAKE TIME
> 4:31 ISRAELI DIPLOMAT ATTACKED IN BEIJING
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvt8ng46Xu8
Putin Likens Israel's Gaza Actions To Nazi Leningrad Siege,
Slams Settlers, China Cries "Injustice"
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> Russia’s President has warned of "absolutely unacceptable"
levels of civilian casualties if Israel decides to go ahead with
its Gaza invasion. The Russian president also invoked the Nazi
siege of Leningrad during World War 2 in his strongest criticism
of Israel's blockade of Gaza yet. "There is talk of military and
non-military measures being taken against the Gaza Strip, as was
the case during the siege of Leningrad in the Second World War.
We know what that means, don't we? And I think it is
unacceptable," Putin said. Meanwhile, Moscow's ally China
highlighted the “persistent failure to do justice to the
Palestinian people” in calling for peace talks to resolve the
issue. Hamas asked residents to stay put as the Israeli army
dropped flyers on Gaza warning residents to flee “immediately”
to the south.
>
>
> #israelpalestine #israelhamasconflict #warnews
>
> 00:00 - INTRODUCTION
> 01:47 - PUTIN DEEMS GAZA GROUND OPERATION "UNACCEPTABLE"
> 05:35 - ISRAELI ARMY DROPS FLYERS ON GAZA
> 07:12 - “WE REJECT FORCED DISPLACEMENT' OF OUR PEOPLE”
> 08:05 - GAZA FAST BECOMING ‘HELL HOLE’
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME607cX5HIU
"Nazis" "Nazis" everywhere!!!
Related:
Fascists Everywhere! History of Kremlin's Murderous Lie From
1950 Until Today
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> Russian troops invaded Ukraine under the banner of fighting
"against Nazism and fascism". It may seem at first glance that
this kind of motivation concerns Ukraine only. However, Russians
have been using stories about "fascists" and "Nazis" for a while
now. Ever since the 1950s, as soon as there was a need to
declare someone an enemy or to justify its military
intervention, Moscow played the same old record.
>
> Find out how Russia has been using the concept of "fascism"
for aggressive purposes for decades in a new investigation by
Danylo Mokryk.
>
> Випуск
українською
мовою: •
Виправдання
фашизмом:
як Кремль
викор...
>
> 00:00 - how Russia is constantly fighting against "Nazism" and
"fascism"
> 03:40 - the origin of the legend of "Nazism"
> 04:07 - the beginning of the "fight against fascism""
propaganda: The Korean War
> 05:01 - the anti-Soviet revolution in Hungary in 1956:
"curated by the West"
> 07:49 - how the Russians crushed freedom in Prague
> 09:00 - K 231 Club
> 11:29 - Czechoslovakia in 1968: USSR "makes it impossible for
Germany to attack"
> 13:00 - Russia's repetition of Soviet propaganda
> 14:14 - how Russians fought "Nazism" in Lithuania and Latvia
> 15:00 - "Russian-speaking population" and Nevzorov
> 16:12 - when Russian propaganda invented the concept of
"protection of Russian speakers"
> 17:48 - arguments for the invasion of Georgia
> 18:40 - speculation on the term "genocide" before the invasion
of Georgia
> 20:34 - from "oppression of Russian speakers" in Donbas to
"neo-Nazis in Kyiv": narratives about Ukraine
> 21:24 - how Russia used propaganda to make Ukraine give up
nuclear weapons
> 26:23 - why the Kremlin calls those who speak about the
Holodomor of 1932-1933 "fascists".
> 30:15 - special features of propaganda in Ukraine
> 33:24 - how Russian propaganda led to genocide in Ukraine
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