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  #3214571 5-Apr-2024 13:53
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Likewise the serious consideration being given to escalation with Iran after the recent Israeli strike against Iranian officials in Syria. IDF GPS jamming reported in central Israel. Panic buying of some items:

Times Of Israel: Contributing to the sense that security forces were taking the threat of an Iranian strike very seriously was the military’s acknowledgment that it had begun disrupting GPS signals in central Israel as part of efforts to “neutralize some threats.” Residents of the center widely reported experiencing difficulties with location services throughout the day. Hagari said: “We are aware that these disruptions cause inconveniences, but it is a vital and necessary tool in our defensive capabilities.”

Needless to say the USA would be/is on the hook to support and supply and everything else that goes along with an escalation as well as the risk of direct involvement. This is not a good situation for anyone except perhaps Netanyahu and his aligned extremists in their own minds.



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  #3214709 5-Apr-2024 16:21
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gzt: A bigger concern for Israelis might be clear preparation for a front in Lebanon. Drills have been regular for some time and the volume seems to be increasing.


 

I seem to remember reading somewhere that large numbers of reservists had been withdrawn from Gaza. Maybe so they could be available for an assault on Lebanon.


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  #3214719 5-Apr-2024 16:48
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I believe you're referring to an air defense reserve call up and the cancellation of leave for Israeli reservists in Gaza. That is unrelated to Lebanon as far as I'm aware. Related to Iran:

BBC: Iran has vowed to respond after a strike on its consulate building in Syria on Monday - which Israel was widely believed to be behind - killed 13 people, including a senior general.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also announced it was halting all leave for soldiers serving with combat units. It comes a day after reservists were called up to bolster air defence units.



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  #3216002 9-Apr-2024 08:33
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  #3216040 9-Apr-2024 10:46
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SJB:

 

How is this not a war crime.

 

Gazans return to scenes of devastation in Khan Younis - BBC News

 

 

The problem is if you say anything negative about Netanyahu's actions, the Israeli government screams "antisemitism!" at the top of its lungs. As such, only Putin gets the "war criminal" designation. For the UN to have any credibility, the ICJ must issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and his cabinet.

 

Colombia is joining the genocide case brought by South Africa to the ICJ. And when you've got South Africa accusing you of apartheid and genocide you should probably be thinking "hmm, these guys are pretty much world experts in that".


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  #3216044 9-Apr-2024 11:01
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The UN is an absolute joke - it is full of people doing as little as possible in order to prolong their employment so they may continue clipping the ticket. It is not a credible organisation in the slightest.

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  #3216373 9-Apr-2024 20:59
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Ge0rge: The UN is an absolute joke - it is full of people doing as little as possible in order to prolong their employment so they may continue clipping the ticket. It is not a credible organisation in the slightest.

Nonsense.

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  #3216377 9-Apr-2024 21:15
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Ge0rge: The UN is an absolute joke - it is full of people doing as little as possible in order to prolong their employment so they may continue clipping the ticket. It is not a credible organisation in the slightest.

 

 

The UN does an awful lot of good, it's just hamstrung by being the sum of all government bureaucracies, many of which are pulling in different directions.

 

 

Even in the hypothetical case of people doing very little, of which I've encountered no more or less than in other organisations, would you rather have former Soviet union nuclear physicists in the 1990s moving into the UN or moving into Iran, Syria, Iraq, North Korea, ...

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  #3216379 9-Apr-2024 21:23
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Well off topic, so I shall be brief, but a quick example. In East Timor, as it was known then, the UN was paying the Pakistani military to make roads. Except they weren't - they were paying the Pakistani government for every bit of plant equipment that they had in East Timor. The Pakistanis dragged it off their ship, none of it serviceable. It sat in their compound for three years before being shipped home again, having not made a single metre of road, and the Pakistani engineers having never left their camp - and the UN paid them thousands of dollars per machine for it.

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  #3216400 9-Apr-2024 21:44
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Thanks for that. We will need a new topic to do it justice.

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  #3216403 9-Apr-2024 21:49
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The UN has several hundred thousand personnel in the field, typically in locations where the rule of law is minimal and corruption is endemic (not much call for UN aid missions in Switzerland or Norway). It's not surprising then that there will be cases where things fall apart.

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  #3216523 10-Apr-2024 12:47
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Senator Chris Van Hollen pushes back on many of Netanyahu's claims about UNRWA:

CBS Face the Nation: Chris Van Hollen: There's no doubt that the claim that Prime Minister Netanyahu and others are making, that somehow UNRWA is a proxy for Hamas, are just flat out lies. That's a flat out lie. If you look at the person who's in charge of operations on the ground in Gaza for UNRWA, it's about a 20 year U.S. Army veteran. You can be sure he is not in cahoots with Hamas. Netanyahu has wanted to get rid of UNRWA since at least 2017.

Several countries that previously suspended UNRWA funding have resumed funding for refugee support.

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  #3216549 10-Apr-2024 13:59
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The Israeli government is very anti UN in general.


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