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#3227811 8-May-2024 11:56

SJB: Despite Oct. 7, Netanyahu is determined to run for reelection, and certain he can win | The Times of Israel

This documentary was played during day two of the recent four day anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel:

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#3227821 8-May-2024 12:09

ABC short doc on Antony Loewenstein and his family

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#3228472 9-May-2024 21:13

Biden has done what he no doubt warned Netanyahu many times he was going to do and withheld some heavy offensive ordnance. The war is far from over regardless. Any idea Rafah is the end is clearly just fantasy like the earlier implied claims it would end with Al Shifa. Hamas rejecting proposals multiple times clearly intends to fight on after Rafah and has the capability to do so.

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#3228488 9-May-2024 22:20

The regional stability continues to slide:

Times of Israel: Iran will have to change its nuclear doctrine if its existence is threatened by Israel, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Sayyid Kamal Kharrazi said, raising fresh concerns about an Iranian nuclear weapon.

“We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb, but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,”

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#3228493 10-May-2024 01:10

gzt: Biden has done what he no doubt warned Netanyahu many times he was going to do and withheld some heavy offensive ordnance.

Translated, "if you decide to murder someone I may think about not handing you the knife". I'm sure Netanyahu is quaking in his boots.

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#3228511 10-May-2024 08:40

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gzt: Biden has done what he no doubt warned Netanyahu many times he was going to do and withheld some heavy offensive ordnance.

Translated, "if you decide to murder someone I may think about not handing you the knife". I'm sure Netanyahu is quaking in his boots.

It's more like "I'll hold on to the knife until nobody is looking and then I'll give it to you along with several larger ones".

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#3228529 10-May-2024 08:45

This has nothing to do with eradicating Hammas.

Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals - BBC News

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#3229423 12-May-2024 21:33

IDF playing wack-a-mole again and everyone is starting to blame Netanyahu.

IDF chief said to upbraid Netanyahu for failing to lay out postwar strategy for Gaza | The Times of Israel

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#3229445 13-May-2024 01:47

Israelis speak about conditions in detention camps:

CNN: All spoke out at risk of legal repercussions and reprisals from groups supportive of Israel’s hardline policies in Gaza.

They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.

So much for Netanyahu's claim to be defending civilized values against random brutality.

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#3229467 13-May-2024 08:40

I read somewhere a little while ago that the head of pediatrics from one of the largest Gaza hospitals, Al Shifa I think, had died in an Israeli prison after being taken from the hospital during the Israeli attack on Gaza City.

No reason given of course.

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#3230043 14-May-2024 00:27

Adnan Al-Bursh head of orthopedics:

CNN: The death of the 50-year-old was “heartbreaking news for everyone, for his family, the medical staff at Al-Shifa Hospital, and for Dr. Adnan’s patients,” the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr. Marwan Abu Saada, told CNN. “This is the last thing we expected, and it’s difficult for the human soul to bear this news,” he said. “Dr. Adnan loved life, was cheerful, and was loved by everyone.”

In the article linked above this one a medic discusses his own experience as a detainee.

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#3230518 14-May-2024 21:12

at this point, it is pretty clear that both states and (a proportion of) their citizens are terrorists

but as long as the US supports the big brother (note this war has been going on for 6000 years between blood brothers and non blood relations) it keeps going. also if Trump gets in power we would have WW3 ...

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#3231655 17-May-2024 10:15

Surely these sort of accidents aren't common with other modern armies are they? According to the article 15% of the IDF casualties weren't caused by Hamas.

Gaza war: Israeli tank fire kills five soldiers in north Gaza, military says - BBC News

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#3231666 17-May-2024 10:37

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at this point, it is pretty clear that both states and (a proportion of) their citizens are terrorists

but as long as the US supports the big brother (note this war has been going on for 6000 years between blood brothers and non blood relations) it keeps going. also if Trump gets in power we would have WW3 ...

Yes, the 2024 election is going to determine whether we have another War to End All Wars, that's for sure. The Israeli government are terrorists, Hamas are terrorists, the Russian government are terrorists, and Trump is a wannabe dictator who will back terrorists.

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#3231966 17-May-2024 20:14

SJB: Surely these sort of accidents aren't common with other modern armies are they? According to the article 15% of the IDF casualties weren't caused by Hamas.

Gaza war: Israeli tank fire kills five soldiers in north Gaza, military says - BBC News

During the Aleutian Islands campaign, US forces sustained 313 casualties capturing the island of Kiska.

Which was unoccupied, the Japanese having withdrawn two weeks earlier.

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