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What does 'taking care of it' mean in this context? Are they contacting her employer to reprimand/dismiss her based on a post where she says 'freedom for Palestine'? Has that also been added to the list of inflammatory, anti-semitic statements?
Get them fired. They want to silence every singel journalist who is sympathetic with the Palestinian cause. It's not even a secrete.
 
Arabs, especially Palestinians, are currently at the absolute bottom of the human hierarchy and fair game when it comes to western international policies. Either terrorists or leeches that you safely can bomb back to the stone age should they get in your way, without any repercussion whatsoever. Then you have a spoiled brat born out of WWII's collective guilt that literally can get away with murder and do whatever the feck it wants with the US and the EU's blessings, and unconditional support. If there ever was a textbook example of double standards, Palestine is it.

I maintain that any other country in the world would've been pulverized by the freedom merchants if it tried a tenth of what "the beacon of light in the region" has been doing in Gaza and the West Bank for decades.

One thing this conflict has taught me is that Europe, and Germany especially, learned all of the wrong lessons from WW2.

Really trying not to “take sides” but feels like this.

If you look at the Ukraine/Russia headlines and substitute Palestine/Israel, feels like similar (worse) but with a completely different narrative/political view.

I know it's not their fault, but the double standards employed by the US and the EU has genuinely made me not give a feck about Ukraine in their war.
 
I know it's not their fault, but the double standards employed by the US and the EU has genuinely made me not give a feck about Ukraine in their war.

Oh Putin must absolutely be loving this. The US has seemingly diverted all its attention to its little brother Israel, perhaps at the expense of Ukraine, whereas they along with Europe are coming across as monumental hypocrites considering their desperate attempts to deflect any condemnation towards Israel, a nation which is also carrying out a devastating campaign against a civilian population.

I don't think anyone could or should take the crocodile tears from the US/Europe regarding Ukraine seriously anymore considering the moral disconnect regarding whats happening in Gaza, which is a massive shame for the Ukrainian people.
 
Oh Putin must absolutely be loving this. The US has seemingly diverted all its attention to its little brother Israel, perhaps at the expense of Ukraine, whereas they along with Europe are coming across as monumental hypocrites considering their desperate attempts to deflect any condemnation towards Israel, a nation which is also carrying out a devastating campaign against a civilian population.

I don't think anyone could or should take the crocodile tears from the US/Europe regarding Ukraine seriously anymore considering the moral disconnect regarding whats happening in Gaza, which is a massive shame for the Ukrainian people.
100% - I haven't kept up to date with Ukraine recently, but from my cursory reading it seems they're suffering from the lack of support from the US and wider Europe. I've also just read that the Senate decided to block an arms / aid package to Ukraine from the US: Ukraine aid from US in doubt after failed Senate vote - BBC News

The fact that this has happened in the same passage of time as a $14bn arms package to Israel should really question and shine a light on the US's geo-political stance, not just in those two geographies but wider. Their self-appointed role as world police should come under intense scrutiny.
 






There's a few additional tweets on this thread (not posted).
 
Oh Putin must absolutely be loving this. The US has seemingly diverted all its attention to its little brother Israel, perhaps at the expense of Ukraine, whereas they along with Europe are coming across as monumental hypocrites considering their desperate attempts to deflect any condemnation towards Israel, a nation which is also carrying out a devastating campaign against a civilian population.

I don't think anyone could or should take the crocodile tears from the US/Europe regarding Ukraine seriously anymore considering the moral disconnect regarding whats happening in Gaza, which is a massive shame for the Ukrainian people.

Actually, funding for both countries is momentarily on hold because the Republicans are attempting to extort southern US border concessions from the Dems. Sooner or later it will get resolved as most of Congress support continued funding.
 
Netanyahu said the ICC investigating war crimes done by Israel is antisemitic.

Yes

I am not joking. He said it and live on TV.
 
Let's be honest. These guys are committing the exact same crimes that Hitler and the Nazis did to millions of Jews.

The World in no way should be supporting this. There is no justification, no excuse.
 
Let's be honest. These guys are committing the exact same crimes that Hitler and the Nazis did to millions of Jews.

The World in no way should be supporting this. There is no justification, no excuse.

To be honest, I don't think this kind of comment is helpful (or accurate). The horrors are enough without trying to make a point about how its exactly the same as what happened to them.
 
Interesting quote on Netanyahu putting America's reputation on fire.

America is putting America's reputation on the line, not Netanyahu. They are the ones who from the beginning have provided political, military and financial cover for Israel to do whatever it does. And Netanyahu knows, as do we all, that the Americans will tolerate/ allow almost anything, uttering platitudes about civilian casualties while still providing weapons.
 
The horrors are enough without trying to make a point about how its exactly the same as what happened to them.

It's going way too far when they're eradicating generations of people. This is no longer about revenge or control, it's about extermination.

They've even managed to weaponise discrimination.
 
It's going way too far when they're eradicating generations of people. This is no longer about revenge or control, it's about extermination.

They've even managed to weaponise discrimination.

You'll find no argument from me at all that they're going way too far or that this mission is for many people blind revenge and destruction.

That isn't the same as what the Nazis did and I don't think there is a need to use this particularly emotive comparison.
 
You'll find no argument from me at all that they're going way too far or that this mission is for many people blind revenge and destruction.

That isn't the same as what the Nazis did and I don't think there is a need to use this particularly emotive comparison.

You aren't seeing parallels in large groups of people being rounded up, stripped naked and then 'going missing'. These aren't supposed terrorists they're rounding up, it's anyone they can get their hands on. It's gone well beyond a normal conventional war, as seen by the sheer scale of civilians casualties. This isn't a military war, it's a military wiping out an entire people and their culture.

Damn right it should be emotive, what they're doing right now is pure evil. fecks me off that we have to tip toe round the subject matter. You can see politicians are afraid to speak out as they don't want to be seen as Antisemitic. Enough is enough. Every time I look in this thread it just seems to be progressively getting worse and worse with Israel committing worse and worse crimes.
 
America is putting America's reputation on the line, not Netanyahu. They are the ones who from the beginning have provided political, military and financial cover for Israel to do whatever it does. And Netanyahu knows, as do we all, that the Americans will tolerate/ allow almost anything, uttering platitudes about civilian casualties while still providing weapons.
True but the point is that people within the State Department are seeing this too. Whether that translates into policy adjustments, the answer is probably no. But the frustration is there, for what it's worth.
 


This is a serious tweet :lol:
 
i fear that Israel will spread the shitfan in other areas like Lebanon and Syria to cover up the shitshow of Gaza with more news in the cycle. So instead 100% news on Gaza in the conflict, now deviate it to other areas. And if they are lucky lure Hezbollah and try it to make it seem more like a fair fight and pull the victim card that they are surrounded by evil
 



If this is true, what the actual feck will be the reasoning or defence form someone aiming down a scope and shooting an elderly lady?

'Oh, nobody could be that old, certainly no Palestinians as all we are killing is kids and young to middle aged men and women. It absolutely had to be a Hamas fighter in disguise'

What threat could an elderly woman present?
 
If this is true, what the actual feck will be the reasoning or defence form someone aiming down a scope and shooting an elderly lady?

'Oh, nobody could be that old, certainly no Palestinians as all we are killing is kids and young to middle aged men and women. It absolutely had to be a Hamas fighter in disguise'

What threat could an elderly woman present?

It doesn't matter if it is true or not anymore. We have seen enough videos of kids being killed by israeli snipers. this would be just one more. the 15k killed would ne nothing. In the end we will be counting on the 100k
 
It doesn't matter if it is true or not anymore. We have seen enough videos of kids being killed by israeli snipers. this would be just one more. the 15k killed would ne nothing. In the end we will be counting on the 100k

I know and that's the heartbreaking truth of it all. I wasn't making any one persons life more important than any other either. Just what the feck? Well done, you sniped an old lady. It's just abhorrent, ruthless and evil.
 
Latest UN Security Council vote.

13 in favour

1 against - USA

1 abstention - UK
Was always going to be the case. These resolutions are a waste of time.

Though at least they hammer home the point of what the US really stands for.