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It's official, President Biden is now a Fascist.
(Since the Internet does not convey sarcasm, and I like not being banned, this is absolutely sarcasm.)

I question the efficacy of this as it doesn't target US citizens (probably because it would be unconstitutional to do so by executive order). These are, as the article mentions are a decent chunk of the settler movement (15%) which also exercise large influence within and are a central pillar in their ideology, mainly in the form of white well-off Karens who felt their boring suburban life might be spruced up with some apartheid and messianism. Also one must question whether Israeli courts will consistently punish and write a record for each settler who attacks Palestinians.

AP: Israeli bombing deadlier than the razing of Aleppo, Mariupol, or Allied bombing raids on Germany.

AP: little evidence shown for Israel's claims of Hamas HQ in bombed-out Al-Shifa hospital.

Guardian: Scarce evidence that Israel was bombing a Hamas HQ in Al-Shifa hospital.

You are being incredibly productive, good job.

The idea that UN international aid funding for struggling schools in blockaded Gaza is actually going towards TERRORISM sounds like such blatantly motivated boomer tabloid nonsense, that you really need some rock solid evidence for if you're going to repeat it.

I think your tunnel vision is clouding your critical judgment, Strongpoint. It's no good either when you try to discredit Ukraine to launder Israel in comparison.

Do you deny that Israel, the most technologically advanced force in the region by a mile with its own air force, which has always been basically shooting fish in a barrel in Gaza, has a responsibility to take at least some of that enormous capability and translate it into, you know, less civilian casualties?

US has been giving Israel piles of some of the most precise munitions known to mankind for decades, and yet half the bombs Israel drops on densely populated areas are dumb bombs. They didn't run out of smart munitions. Why aren't they using them? They have every capability and opportunity in the world to spare civilian lives with ease, sacrificing next to nothing, but they choose instead to blow up children.

After the hostages being mowed down like cattle by IDF soldiers while shirtless and carrying white flags it is entirely clear to me that this whole time the IDF has been just roving around like bandits doing endless massacres in the Gaza Strip. Whether this is direct targeting or absolutely mind-blowing, utter, and casual disregard for human life doesn't matter. It's malice either way.

The killing of hostages was a mistake, but only because they should've been Palestinians.

Quote from: lemon10 on December 03, 2023, 12:10:30 am

They knew Hamas's plan of attack, even if they didn't know the exact date increasing security at those locations would have been trivial, albeit expensive.

Perhaps they thought their security was already adequate to respond to any such attack? Hubris is a form of incompetence. And would increasing security at those locations for 365 days a year not just cause Hamas to select a different target location?

They would at least not leave their entire military running cover for extremist settlers in the West Bank. The IDF was completely unprepared for the attack. They took hours to respond. Not even the most basic preventative measures were put in place on the Gaza border. The level of action taken is completely unreasonable for the information they received from the report.

Strange then, if the IDF, one of the most capable militaries in the world, is somehow facing such a dire existential threat from some massive, well-equipped and resourceful opponent based out of a tiny impoverished strip that's been under blockade for 17 years and that this sort of bombing is necessary to dislodge them, that we see so few of these terrorists being killed, and so many disfigured children and annihilated families?

Why doesn't Israel release numbers of how many Hamas members it has killed? I literally saw an interview with an Israeli official casting doubt on the official Gazan death numbers because they don't say how many of those dead are combatants. Why the fuck don't YOU tell us then, official, how many are combatants? Why so silent? Do you even know? Shouldn't you have a pretty fucking crystal clear idea who you're targeting before you start carpet bombing?

Maybe because if they gave any sort of remotely accurate number, it'd become clear how the main thrust of this bombing has very little to do with "eliminating terror" and a lot more to do with ethnic cleansing? Do you seriously believe that HALF of all residential buildings in Gaza are terrorist bases? I'm sorry, but if you look at the satellite images of Gaza and conclude that somehow Israel is not bombing indiscriminately, you are not just mistaken but actively detached from reality.