Calling people who support Palestinian Rights names such as "Israel Haters" or "Anti-semitic" misses the point.
Israel has been on a death spiral since its beginning, but it has been propped up by the United States. This to both their detriments.
Now, Israel is showing its weakness. It has been surviving on victimhood, despite its dislike for those who died in the holocaust.
Three points here about the Israel Lobby:
Just remember that most Zionists are Christians who want Jews to move to this part of the world to start a massive war.
Isn't that the best reason to stop supporting Israel without question?
Amusing, this is a lot of conservative thinkers who are shut out of the political debate. Most likely because big money, in this case AIPAC and the Zionist lobby, shut them out.
I pretty much agree with what he says, unless we get to the two state solution since Netanyahu has basically killed that option. And tough shit if some people want an ethnically pure state. Been there, done that.
And "Never Again" needs to mean never again for anyone--especially a group that suffered under another country's attempts to create an ethnically pure state.
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Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק [eˈhud baˈʁak]; born Ehud Brog; 12 February 1942) is an Israeli former general and politician who served as the tenth prime minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party from 1997 until 2001 and again from 2007 until 2011. He previously held the posts of defense minister and deputy prime minister under Ehud Olmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2007 to 2013. He attempted a political comeback, running in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election as the leader of a new party that he formed. His party merged with other parties to form an alliance called the Democratic Union, but the alliance did not win enough seats for him to become a member of the Knesset.
A lieutenant general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Barak shares with two others the honor of being the most highly decorated soldier in Israel's history, having taken part in many battles and combat missions. He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1991, serving until 1995. He is a graduate in physics, mathematics, and economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University.
Of course, the Israelis have evidence of an underground annex under Al-Shifa Hospital--they built the place. I've posted backup for that claim. Of course, Israel has a poor reputation for telling the truth. They may be Kosher, but they love their porkies!
Unless you really believe the USS Liberty incident was an accident...
In that case, I can offer you some NFTs in the Brooklyn Bridge.
The reason for doing this is that IDF is committing war crimes and they need to justify them. But that is very hard.
The good part if that when one gets away from Western Media, particularly the US media, one sees Hamas soundly thrashing the IDF. I trust Hamas more in regard to the stats--especially since they provide video backup for their claims.
This is the drawback to not being aware of history, which has led to IDF overconfidence. That despite having at least on unit wiped out on 7 October.
IDF and the Israeli security service had a great reputation prior to this, but they are coming off like clowns now that the internet can shed light on them. Iron Dome was put out of commission by "fireworks" and the Merkava tank is proving to be useless. Unfortunately, Hamas's material is in Arabic, but they paint a very different picture of the situation.And it doesn't look good for Israel. It's Stalingrad with Chu Chi tunnels and fighters who want to die for the liberation of their country.
According to International law, an occupied nation can fight its occupier. And as the saying goes: One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
I would also add that this is yet another example of how taking the Second Amendment out of the context of a "well regulated militia" is a bad idea.
As they say, you can give someone a gun, but there's no guarantee where they will point it.
UN Resolution/45/130:
"Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle; "
UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 (December 3, 1982) specifically mentions the Palestinians, "Considering that the denial of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, sovereignty, independence and return to Palestine and the repeated acts of aggression by Israel against the people of the region constitute a serious threat to international peace and security." That resolution goes on to say: "Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle. "
Despite the UN having allowed for the Zionist state to be created at the detriment of the Palestinian people, the change in makeup of the United Nations has led to a change in attitude toward this issue. Although, UN resolution 194 from 1948 did grant the Palestinians the right of return to the lands they were ethnically cleansed from.
So, while people might want me to condemn Hamas for its activities, which they may seem extreme: Hamas is engaging in a legitimate action to recover the land stolen from the Palestinian people. And 75 years of ethnic cleansing have only made the situation worse.
Yes, the solution is simple: Palestinians are allowed to return to their land. The truth about the ethnically pure state of Israel need to be made more widely available outside of Israel.
And people like Ben Shapiro get shown up for being the loudmouth dickheads they are for trying to justify crimes against international law. As Ben points out, there are 400 million arabs. There are also 2 billion Muslims.
Anyway, if you want to say that the Second Amendment is about fighting tyrannical governments, then you should be cheering the Palestinians.
Not the IDF.
One thing which is conspicuous in the stereotype of Palestinians is that they are all Muslim. Not at all. This is the Holy Land: sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Bethlehem is on the West Bank and is part of Palestine. Palestine is the home of early Christianity, as is Gaza.
As of 2015, Palestinian Christians comprise approximately 1–2.5% of the
population of the West Bank, and less than 1% in the Gaza Strip.
According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian
population in 1922 constituted 9.5% of the total Mandatory Palestine
population (10.8% of the Palestinian Arab population), and 7.9% in 1946.
A large number of Arab Christians fled or were expelled from the
Jewish-controlled areas of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948
Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during the period (1948–1967)
of Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons.[citation
needed] From 1967, during the Israeli military rule, the Palestinian
Christian population has increased while as a percentage of the
population continued to decrease.
There are also many Palestinian
Christians who are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the
post-1948 era who fled to Christian-majority countries and formed large
diaspora Christian communities. Worldwide, there are nearly one million
Palestinian Christians in these territories as well as in the
Palestinian diaspora, comprising around 6–7% of the world's total
Palestinian population. Palestinian Christians live primarily in Arab
states surrounding historic Palestine and in the diaspora, particularly
in Europe and the Americas.
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Of course, the Israelis know there is an underground tunnel, they built the hospital!
There was an article from an Israeli newspaper about this that showed up on my feed, but went grail. Fortunately, it's mentioned in the wikipedia article since I am feeling too lazy to hunt the original article down.
Anyway, the hospital underwent a major Israeli renovation and expansion in the 1980s. Israeli architects Gershon Tzapor and Benjamin Edelson in their Tel-Aviv office handled the project, both were well experienced in the construction of high standard hospitals. The architects also designed and built a large array of underground infrastructure, which was what the IDF later pointed to as part of the underground Hamas command in both the 2014 and the current Israel-Hamas war. In particular, in 1983, the Israelis built "a secure underground operating room and tunnel network" beneath Building 2 of the hospital.
I would also add that the "guardian list" shown by the IDF is a calendar, not a real rota of terrorists. Toss in that the IDF spokeman reads the Arabic from left to right, instead of right to left. You'd think someone who speaks Hebrew would do it right.
Unless Hamas uses weekdays as codenames for its fighters.
Remember the USS Liberty? Israel wants you to believe it was an "accident". And don't forget those "weapons of mass destruction".
Has anyone found them yet?
The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profound miscalculation. The bombing raids into Palestinian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender but will stiffen their resolve to resist. This is the lesson of all aerial bombardment. The Vietnamese who endured years of American heavy bombing did not respond by capitulation but by shooting down more enemy aircraft.
The British resisted Hitler’s bombing raids with unprecedented unity and determination. For this reason, the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world. The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 75 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression.
The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate. The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.F. Stone as “the moral millstone around the neck of world Jewry.” Many of the refugees are now well into the third decade of their precarious existence in temporary settlements.
The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled in masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.
We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number of refugees to misery, not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development.
All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in May 1948. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long–suffering people of the Middle East.
BTW: As of 2015, Palestinian Christians comprise approximately 1–2.5% of the population of the West Bank, and less than 1% in the Gaza Strip. According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian population in 1922 constituted 9.5% of the total Mandatory Palestine population (10.8% of the Palestinian Arab population), and 7.9% in 1946. A large number of Arab Christians fled or were expelled from the Jewish-controlled areas of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during the period (1948–1967) of Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons.[citation needed] From 1967, during the Israeli military rule, the Palestinian Christian population has increased while as a percentage of the population continued to decrease.
There are also many Palestinian Christians who are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the post-1948 era who fled to Christian-majority countries and formed large diaspora Christian communities. Worldwide, there are nearly one million Palestinian Christians in these territories as well as in the Palestinian diaspora, comprising around 6–7% of the world's total Palestinian population. Palestinian Christians live primarily in Arab states surrounding historic Palestine and in the diaspora, particularly in Europe and the Americas.
Palestine is home to some of the oldest Christian Churches in the world. At least on is in the Gaza Strip and was recently bombed by the IDF.
