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Israel says it killed Hezbollah official expected to be group's next leader

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By SARAH EL DEEB, FARNOUSH AMIRI and TIA GOLDENBERG

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The most amazing thing about all of this, is that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want.

The silence is deafening.

And damning.

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They are reaping what they sowed,their economy is collapsing, lawlessness, chaos and distrust have broken out in Israel

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The most amazing thing about all of this, is that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want. The silence is deafening. And damning.

Not only attacking to the north, now it's confirmed that there's plan attacking to the east. The escalation is getting more and more.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241022-us-probing-leak-of-classified-docs-on-israeli-plans-to-strike-iran

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The most amazing thing about all of this, is that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want.

The silence is deafening. 

And damning.

They have every right to defend their nation and neutralize and terminate any threat that comes their way.

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Western-backed fascists are committing genocide and mass terrorism, all live streamed on X. As Gaza and Lebanon have become the new Auschwitz and Treblinka, Israel and the US have become the enemies of the world. It's the Fourth Reich.

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As Gaza and Lebanon have become the new Auschwitz and Treblinka, Israel and the US have become the enemies of the world. It's the Fourth Reich.

Hyperbole?

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Hezbollah leaders are a dime a dozen, so this will go on for a very long time.

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If Israel destroys and murders on the ‘expectation’ of an event occurring or that an individual might be considered to be a threat at some time in the future then where is the line to be drawn?

By adopting this warped paradigm, Israel is becoming more qnd more less in touch with reality…

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Hyperbole?

I usually keep out of the whole middle east mess because it's so multifaceted and morally grey, but I have to say that a lot of the anti-Israel messages are more than just a bit melodramatic. We're getting close to CHATGPT stuff here. "Write a message condemning Israel's actions. Use the word "genocide" as many times as possible, and hit every cliché in the book at least twice".

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Israel is finally doing it. Death to all it’s enemies. Whoever wants to step into the “vacated” leadership positions of these terrorist entities can count on dying violently very soon.

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I usually keep out of the whole middle east mess because it's so multifaceted and morally grey, but I have to say that a lot of the anti-Israel messages are more than just a bit melodramatic. We're getting close to CHATGPT stuff here. "Write a message condemning Israel's actions. Use the word "genocide" as many times as possible, and hit every cliché in the book at least twice".

Exactly.

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During his meeting with Netanyahu, Blinken underscored the need for a dramatic increase in the amount of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza,

From Secretary Blinken and Secretary Austin's statement last week.

"For Israel to continue qualifying for foreign military financing, the level of aid getting into Gaza must increase to at least 350 trucks a day... Israel has 30 days to respond."

UNRWA says an average of 13 food trucks a day have entered Gaza in the last week. Is this another "red line" for Israel to dance across and humiliate its biggest supporter? Israeli generals estimate that it'd have to halt its assault on Gaza within 6 days without US military support. And that was before Israel's assault on Lebanon began.

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Israeli strikes in recent months have killed much of Hezbollah’s top leadership

Which just shows that Israel’s attacks are targeted against specific individuals, as opposed to indiscriminate “genocide.” Safieddine was killed in a suburb, ie, a residential area, like nearly all the other terrorists who were hiding out while using civilians as human shields.

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The Israeli nation extended its hand three times to the Palestinian nation, in a bid to settle the conflict and to establish peace based on two states coexisting side by side, with the state of Israel being a partnership of Jews and Arabs. The Palestinians, inspired by their extremist leadership, responded three times with a refusal, and with an attempt to wipe out the Jews from the land.

The first such cycle: The Palestinian rejection of the UN General Assembly resolution from 1947 to establish two states, A Jewish-Arabic state and an Arabic state, and the launching of the disastrous 1948 war.

The second cycle: The two nations embarked on the Oslo path in the 1990s. But then, in the year 2000, Arafat changed his mind, made a U-turn and launched a campaign of terror, wherein buses exploded in the streets, cafes and restaurants were exploded, and a massacre was committed in a hotel where elderly people gathered for the holiday.

The third cycle: Israel applied for Saudi mediation in the 2020s. Hamas decided to thwart the mediation effort made by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Hamas launched a large-scale massacre and a war on October 7 2023. Lebanon joined the next day. All of this was done with the support and under the control of the Mullahs regime of Iran.

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Hyperbole?

Not really.

"US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip

A private intelligence corporation billed as "Uber for war zones" is preparing to create what Israel hopes will be the model for supplanting Hamas rule in Gaza.

The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.

Starting with Al-Atatra, a village in the northwestern Gaza Strip, the plan calls to build what the Israeli daily Ynet calls “humanitarian bubbles” – turning the remains of villages and neighborhoods into tiny concentration camps cut off from their environs and surrounded and controlled by mercenaries.

This comes as Israel carries out daily massacres and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, enacting the proposal known as The Generals’ Plan, originally crafted by former national security chief Giora Eiland to turn Gaza into “a place where no human being can exist.”

https://www.uncaptured.media/p/us-authorizes-cia-mercenaries-to

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One less terrorist to worry about! Now free the hostage and the region can move on.

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We're getting close to CHATGPT stuff here. "Write a message condemning Israel's actions. Use the word "genocide" as many times as possible, and hit every cliché in the book at least twice". - Some dude

CHATGPT "Write a message supporting Israel's actions. Use the words "right to self-defence" as many times as possible, and omit the words "illegal occupation".

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/icj-southafrica-israel-genocide-29dec2023/

Here's a link to the 84 page Genocide case filed at the International Court of Justice by South Africa. That's not ChatGPT. That's dozens upon dozens of meticulously cited United Nations, independent and international human rights organisation reports. Not to mention dozens of statements from Israel's own officials.

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The responsibility for all the suffering in the region rests totally on Hamas, on HizebAllah and on the Mullahs regime of Iran.

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*the model for *supplanting Hamas rule in Gaza.

Isn't it generally agreed that this would be a positive thing for everyone, including the people in Gaza?

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Here's a link to the 84 page Genocide case filed at the International Court of Justice by South Africa. That's not ChatGPT. That's dozens upon dozens of meticulously cited United Nations, independent and international human rights organisation reports. Not to mention dozens of statements from Israel's own officials.

In every dispute at the courts every side piles claims against the other side. But please note - which side here declares day and night that its objective is to wipe out the other side from the face of the Earth?

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that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want.

Because Lebanon sees Hezbollah as terrorists and Iran’s puppet.

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The Israeli nation extended its hand three times to the Palestinian nation. . .

“after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “ - David Ben-Gurion

“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” - David Ben-Gurion

“Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. …" David Ben-Gurion

"We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." Moshe Dayan

The pre-state Yishuv and early Israeli state leaders had a much more clear headed and honest view of what the Zionist project entailed. The self-righteous narratives that get propagated these days are quite frankly embarrasing.

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“after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “ - David Ben-Gurion

Where is the exact reference?

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The solution for the Middle East conflict is coexistence between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews. It should be an equitable coexistence wherein both nations can feel secure, fulfill their sentiments towards the land as much as possible, and enjoy enough space for agriculture, housing and economy.

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Soon Bibi and his war mongers will be living in BUNKERS too if not already.

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Hamas and Hezbollah have proven that they will carry on and fight with or without a leader, Hamas has NO CENTRAL COMMAND now based on reports by Middle East experts but it still can deliver major blows if and when the opportunity arrives.

Hamas is becoming an insurgency now and will probably carry on for a very long time, Bibi's worst nightmare. Should have saved it's leader so he can have someone to negotiate with.

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If you only have five minutes to understand what's going on, watch this report from the UK's Channel 4 news. It shows senior Israel government ministers, yes, the ones you've heard of, attending a conference about Gaza being repopulated with (by modern standards, clearly psychopathic) Israelis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riLA5r8D4ac

This is clearly nothing to do with self-defence. It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide. Our taxes are paying for it and our politicians are shouting down politicians from better countries protesting it at the United Nations etc.

As a reminder, gaining land through military conquest has been illegal since WWII. If you agree to Israel doing this and are in Japan, I hope some (insert random Asian nationality) turn up at your house and kick you out of it with guns, bulldozers and baseball bats. The same at your children's school when only the teachers are there.

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When you are treating an entire country as a free fire zone, killing journalists and children as readily as you kill officers and footsoldiers, yes you will kill high ranking officers now and then, though less frequently than you will kill babies and toddlers.

Which is why it is considered a Geneva Conventions violation to treat an entire country as a free fire zone for a DAY, a Crime Against Humanity to do it for a week, an offense so severe to do it for a month that everyone providing you more weapons and ammunition are considered to be also violating the Geneva Conventions.

But doing it for MORE THAN A YEAR, and doing the same thing to a SECOND country, well that's in the category of making yourself the ENEMY OF HUMANITY, your suppliers and financing partners active participants in the WORST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY the law recognizes, and a shame that will haunt your children and their children.

That, throughout 'the West', many of those children/grand children are shouting at the top of their lungs 'STOP' and 'NOT IN MY NAME' despite the best efforts to shut them up should help buy them a small measure of distance from the Crime Against Humanity known as the Nakba, but the shame is so great that it will weigh heavily on them anyway.

As for those saying 'keep going' and 'I'm proud to support that' Crime, you might refuse to acknowledge the shame, but everyone else sees it and sees your refusal to be ashamed a serious character flaw, one that rates shunning.

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The most amazing thing about all of this, is that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want.

The silence is deafening.

And damning.

What do you suggest they do? Let violent terrorist groups amass weaponry and troops on their border and continue to volley rockets into their civilian populations? Imagine if N Korea was launching missiles at Tokyo every day ? Are Israelis supposed to just put up with that?

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Israel, Hamas, Iran and so forth are all guilty of murdering innocent men women and children and some people have the gaul to call it God's work. Shame on all that condon this violence, no matter which side you support.

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The most amazing thing about all of this, is that Israel are seemingly allowed to do whatever they want.

The silence is deafening.

And damning.

What do you suggest they do?

Obey international law, move back to the 1967 borders, and leave the Palestinians alone.

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The solution for the Middle East conflict is coexistence between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews.

In other words, a return to historic Palestine, where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in peace. I like that idea...

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Some dudeToday  08:15 am JST

Hyperbole?

I usually keep out of the whole middle east mess because it's so multifaceted and morally grey, but I have to say that a lot of the anti-Israel messages are more than just a bit melodramatic. We're getting close to CHATGPT stuff here. "Write a message condemning Israel's actions. Use the word "genocide" as many times as possible, and hit every cliché in the book at least twice".

Bang on dude. Day in and day out, they are like moths to a flame. Jump at any chance to parade their moralistic narcissism and virtue signaling. Bet the idea of targetting Bidi's house got them salivating too. Just your run-of-the-mill leftist pulled into the victimhood flytrap. Nothing more, nothing new.

Cenk Uyger is one of their spokesmen. He got schooled the other day by someone who has actually lived the conflict his whole life, Mosab Hassan Yousef the Son of Hamas. Mosab absolutely obliterated him and called him out for what he was in no uncertain terms. It was almost cathartic to witness and watch. Check it out if you can.

Carry on good people. Call out the mob whenever and wherever they ply their trade.

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Some people are offended that people are calling the Western supported regime Israel out for engaging in the most extreme of the named Crimes Against Humanity because they consider the REACTION to its decades of Crimes Against Humanity as offsetting the present atrocities.

They are trying to hide from the truth by pretending the people rubbing their noses in it are themselves hiding from the truth.

It's a very human reaction, but also how civilized people come to commit the most barbaric acts.

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Next week: IDF kill small child who might grow up to lead Hezbollah someday.

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He got schooled the other day by someone who has actually lived the conflict his whole life, Mosab Hassan Yousef the Son of Hamas

He wasnt schooled, he was threatened on live television by a person I honestly feel very sorry for. Mossab was turned into a psychopath after enduring torture and rape at the hands of Israeli intelligence before flipping on his own family.

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> One less terrorist to worry about! Now free the hostage and the region can move on.

The building had been evacuated before the attack and there were no casualties.

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Obey international law, move back to the 1967 borders, and leave the Palestinians alone.

That !

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Hamas is becoming an insurgency now and will probably carry on for a very long time, Bibi's worst nightmare. Should have saved it's leader so he can have someone to negotiate with.

Hamas has spread to too many places outside of Gaza for Israel to ever completely destroy it. They operate now in Lebanon, Syria and probably Jordan.

Hezbollah is Israel's creation. Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to drive the PLO out. They succeeded in running the PLO out but Hezbollah filled the void they left. Hezbollah is a more dangerous and determined enemy than the PLO ever was or ever wanted to be. Hezbollah in fact drove the Israelis out of Lebanon years later. The Israelis killed Hezbollah's first leader in 1992 and that didn't destroy the organization. Israel tried again in 2006 to drive Hezbollah out of Lebanon and lost that war. Hezbollah is the only military force to have ever defeated the IDF and they have done so twice already.

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