The Situation in Israel/Palestine

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https://jweekly.com/2024/10/21/why-was-an-s-f-jewish-film-festival-movie-just-banned-in-israel/

Ah, it seems the world is getting worse. We gave a worse world to these kids.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/speaking-in-hebrew-german-ambassador-calls-for-hostages-return-at-tel-aviv-rally/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/near-criminal-behavior-eisenkot-claims-disarray-indecision-politics-in-pms-war-conduct/

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I mean, the Saudis won’t DO anything about the war, but they’ll sure wring their hands…

Also, they use slave labor for infrastructure projects, so they can fuck off.

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They’ve essentially been Israel’s closest ally in the region for decades, and a valuable source/conduit for oligarch interference in the region.

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I think they mistranslated the word “implicate” which suggests the Japanese manufacturer was in on the scheme.

Most of the report is the manufacturer explaining (I.e., doing damage control) how adding explosives in their Japan facility would be impossible and the ones used must have been counterfeit products.

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Trump just announced Mike Huckabee will be ambassador to Israel so that he can help make the rapture happen, I guess.

Some past thoughts of his:

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Then give Philistia back to the Philistines, Canaan back to the Canaanites, and the US back to the indigenous people there, you absolute pile of rancid feces. :rage:

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Trouble is, Bibi keeps quoting the Amakelites as the biblican injunction for what to do with inconvenient other peoples in that region.

That is to say...

God ordered the Israelites to genocide Amalek, leaving no man, woman, child, or animal alive. The Israelites didn’t follow through completely enough, taking some women and children as slaves. So the theory is that the Babylonian Captivity was God’s punishment.

Every time Bibi or one of his even more horrific ministers and generals mentions Amalek in a speech, it’s a deliberate and explicit exhortation that genociding the Gazans is not just justifiable, not just praiseworthy, it’s actively a religious duty and God Himself will punish Israel and all Jews if they don’t.

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But wait, they eat falafel there! :scream: </s>

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-12/us-sidesteps-its-30-day-deadline-for-israel-to-improve-gaza-aid

The US Government gave a list of 16 specific demands regarding humanitarian aid that Israel’s government would need to meet within 30 days if they didn’t want our government to pause the delivery of more weapons. As this article details, they absolutely did not meet the majority of those demands:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/did-israel-meet-us-gaza-aid-requirements-israel-un-respond-2024-11-13/

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Given who Trump wishes to put in charge for our foreign policy apparatus (in both State dept and DoD, even down ambassador to the Israelis and the UN), this could easily spin out into a regional war in which we have boots on the ground in defense of Israel, but also likely an out and out war against Iran (think along the lines of the Iraq war post 9/11). And anyone with two brain cells to rub together and even a modest understanding of the region (that isn’t shaped by a dumb interpretation of the bible) could have seen this coming… So pretty much all the wanna-be foreign policy bros who claimed that Trump was the peace candidate can fuck right the fuck off… They think endless war of the Bush/Obama/first Trump years was bad, it’s gonna get a million times worse now.

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