Also 90 hostages were released by the Israelis

IDF Man

The last civil war didn’t quite totally destroy the country. Let us try again.

Sending out IEDs that will probably explode in a supermarket and kill civilians is generally considered a war crime. So far 2 kids killed in Beirut by the Israeli bombs in devices.

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

I used to use news sites (BBC, Guardian mainly), but the coverage is seriously limited and quite biased.

“On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head.”

How much of a shitty person do you have to be, to snipe little kids in the head?

Stirling Castle is the most castley castle anywhere.

Kilsyth town is a terrible place but the area around it is really nice. Loch Banton and Colzium estate, especially in the autumn rain. Auchinstarry Quarry. There are the remains of the Antonine wall around there (this is as far north as the Roman empire got).

From memory, Iran last invaded another country 300 years ago. Israel…

Genocide. You know they are attempting to commit genocide and you help out. That is being complicit.

There is an “Obligation to prevent genocide (Article I)” which, according to the ICJ, has an extraterritorial scope. See the Genocide Convention Fact Sheet here https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf

Well the stories did read like really bad fan-fic.

Sanctions for speaking up against apartheid

No it was not a small attack. It was light infantry against a full miltary but not small. It was planned and they stockpiled weapons and material to last months. What they were not expecting was to walk over the IDF military on the border (none of the videos released by the IDF show Hamas doing this). They were not expecting to get throught the defences so easily to get to the settlements. Remember most of the population of Gaza was ethnically cleansed from the land that these settlements are built on.

They are still fighting. The IDF is using tanks in urban warfare (this is a big tactical no no), so Hamas have the IDF where they want them. Even 2 months into the fighting we still see daily videos of IDF tanks (USD 3 million) being destroyed by rocket launchers (USD 200).

Strategically the Palestinians were being thrown under a bus by the rest of the Arabs so this attack put Hamas in control. It also destroyed the image of Israeli comptence which is a huge propaganda win.

If you look at the prisoner exchanges and the interviews afterwards you see the Israeli prisoners were treated well in captivity and the release was well managed and competent. This especially does not align with the story in the NY Times here. The release of the Palestinian prisoners was chaotic (tear gas was used in some places) and the prsioners were tortured and released with broken bones in some cases.

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ongoing ethnic cleansing, possible genocide

That was quick. All is forgiven and forgotten?

haha, that is really silly propaganda

Yes, that Kuwaiti story came to mind when I read the story about 40 children in a community of 160 people.

This is the company that failed to pay rent for its offices and hasn’t paid dues to former employees?