Putin said: “If they (USA) consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of the countries that do it to Russia?” Using a comparison, considering America supplies heavy weapons which are used to relentlessly bomb Gaza including its citizens, just possibly America will get a dose of its own medicine. Make no bones about it, what America is allowing Israel to do is just plain wrong and evil! Gaza is not Russia. Karma is a bitch!
Hamas needs to stop using civilians as human shields inside schools. Of course the Hamas Health Ministry is making a big show today out of the civilians that were possibly killed, but somehow forgot to mention the 20 to 30 Hamas militants at the school. Dozens killed in Israeli airstrike at Gaza school that IDF says Hamas was using The terrorists were in three classrooms separate from where civilians were sheltering. https://justthenews.com/world/middl...irstrike-gaza-school-idf-says-hamas-was-using Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday on a school where the Israel Defense Forces said Hamas was operating from in the Gaza Strip. The IDF estimated that between 20 to 30 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were at the school, which is run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians, when it was hit, according to the Times of Israel. The terrorists were in three classrooms separate from where civilians were sheltering. Hamas claims at least 27 people were killed in the strike, and it is unclear how many of the casualties were members of a terrorist organization. The casualty count may be higher, as hospital records and an Associated Press reporter on the scene recorded 33 deaths from the strike.
themickey, Where's the Karma ??? I was under the impression it was a BLUFF by the United States to give Ukraine weapons for launching at sensitive facilities (military targets, communication targets) in Russia... Regardless, when "sensitive targets" like that are in play...it implies the chances of civilians being killed will increase dramatically because most "sensitive targets" have civilian contractors working side by side with military personnel and/or located in a populated area of civilian businesses, homes, apartments et cetera. wrbtrader
"Until Hamas is eliminated as a governing and militant entity in Gaza there is no possibility of moving on to the next step of a peace plan". Advice to the international community - repeat this until you fully understand it. Israel’s Netanyahu says there cannot be permanent Gaza ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2024/06/01/israel-hamas-latest/ Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Saturday there would be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’ military and governing capabilities were destroyed. His comments in a statement published online came after US president Joe Biden said that Israel had proposed a three-phase deal for a ceasefire in Gaza in exchange for Hamas releasing hostages. “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel,” Mr Netanyahu said. “Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place. The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non-starter,” he said. Taoiseach Simon Harris said the ceasefire proposal was “an opportunity that should not be missed”. “I have long called for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages and unimpeded access for aid into Gaza,” he said on Saturday. “Now after almost eight months of conflict and suffering, there is a plan on the table that can move us closer to securing those goals and that can help create space to build a just and lasting peace and two-state solution. “I call on all parties to give the plan presented by President Biden serious and positive consideration. It is long past time for the suffering to end.” US president Joe Biden laid out on Friday what he described as a three-phase Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in return for the release of Israeli hostages, saying “it’s time for this war to end” and winning a positive initial reaction from Hamas. The first phase involves a six-week ceasefire when Israeli forces would withdraw from “all populated areas” of Gaza, some hostages – including the elderly and women – would be freed in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian civilians could return to their homes in Gaza and 600 trucks a day would bring humanitarian aid into the devastated enclave. In this phase, Hamas and Israel would negotiate a permanent ceasefire that Mr Biden said would last “as long has Hamas lives up to its commitments.” If negotiations took more than six weeks, the temporary ceasefire would extend while they continued. In the second phase, Mr Biden said there would be an exchange for all remaining living hostages, including male soldiers, Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza and the permanent ceasefire would begin. The third phase would include a major reconstruction plan for Gaza and the return of the “final remains” of hostages to their families. “It’s time for this war to end and for the day after to begin,” said Mr Biden, who is under election-year pressure to stop the Gaza conflict, now in its eighth month. Hamas, which Mr Biden said received the proposal from Qatar, released a statement reacting positively. Hamas said it was ready to engage “positively and in a constructive manner” with any proposal based on a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli forces, the reconstruction of Gaza, a return of those displaced, and a “genuine” prisoner swap deal if Israel “clearly announces commitment to such deal”. [ Biden urges Hamas to accept Israeli ceasefire proposal and end war ] Mr Netanyahu’s office said he had authorised his negotiating team to present the deal, “while insisting that the war will not end until all of its goals are achieved, including the return of all our hostages and the destruction of Hamas’ military and governmental capabilities.” Separately, the Israeli military said its forces have ended operations in north Gaza's Jabilia area after days of intense fighting, while probing further into Rafah in south Gaza to target what they say is the last major Hamas redoubt. The conflict began on October 7th when gunmen led by the Islamist Palestinian group stormed into southern Israel on motorcycles, paragliders and four-wheel drive vehicles, killing 1200 people and abducting more than 250, according to Israeli tallies. Israel then invaded the Gaza Strip in what Netanyahu has called an effort to destroy Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that seized control of the area from the Fatah Palestinian faction in a violent struggle in 2007. Talks mediated by Egypt, Qatar and others to arrange a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have repeatedly stalled, with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress. In his speech, Mr Biden called on the Israeli leadership to resist pressure from those in Israel who were pushing for the war to go on “indefinitely,” a group he said included some in the Israeli governing coalition. “They want to occupy Gaza. They want to keep fighting for years and hostages are not a priority for them. Well, I’ve urged leadership in Israel to stand behind this deal, despite whatever pressure comes,” he said. He implored Israelis not to miss the chance for a ceasefire. “As the only American president who has ever gone to Israel at a time of war, as someone who just sent the US forces to directly defend Israel when it was attacked by Iran, I ask you to take a step back, think what will happen if this moment is lost,” he said. “We can’t lose this moment.” The Gaza war has put Biden in a political bind. On the one hand, he has long been a staunch supporter of Israel and would like to ensure funding and support from the pro-Israel community in the United States in his November 5th election rematch against Republican former president Donald Trump. On the other, progressive elements of Mr Biden’s Democratic Party have grown increasingly angry at the president for the suffering the conflict has caused civilians in Gaza. Palestinian health authorities estimate more than 36,280 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel attacked, and the United Nations says over a million people face “catastrophic” levels of hunger as famine takes hold in parts of the enclave. Signalling a US effort to build support for the proposal, the State Department said US secretary of state Antony Blinken spoke with his Jordanian, Saudi and Turkish counterparts. Speaking to the Turkish foreign minister, “he emphasised that Hamas should accept the deal and that every country with a relationship with Hamas should press it to do so without delay”, the State Department said. In a sign of support for Israel despite the partisan divide in the United States, leaders of the Democratic-led US Senate and of the Republican-led House of Representatives on Friday invited Mr Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress. The week has been dominated by the fallout from an Israeli air strike in Rafah on Sunday that killed 45 Palestinians. “The Palestinian people have endured sheer hell in this war,” Mr Biden said on Friday. “We all saw the terrible images from the deadly fire in Rafah earlier this week.” – Reuters
Karma is coming imo. Relating to Americas stance which is similars to Israel's, who are forever fucking shitstirring by attempting to wipe out Palestinians. The facts are: America is a religious country run by zionist sympathizers. All America is doing by brown nosing forever shit stirring Jews is creating forever enemies. Plain and simple! All tied up in believing false gods. But religious people who claim to be free are blind. The Islamists are just as bad. Poking wild dogs is not a clever idea.
As you know, I'm Catholic and my father is Indigenous American. I'm also a historian of religious WARs to know that religion has been the seed & reason for a lot of Wars from those that misuse religion and politics to justify their WARs. The Crusades, Saxon Wars, and French Wars of Religion are my favorite read. Yet, there's a lot of forgotten American history about how Catholicism and other religions were used by the government to destroy many Indigenous American cultures...at the minimum to weaken them to the point that they were no longer a threat to America's expansion. Very few stories about the destructive nature of religion within the United States. With that said, the U.S. should not be involved with the Israel/Hamas conflict because those two idiots have been killing each other for many decades and will continue to kill each other for many more decades for the sole purpose of annihilating the other. Religion is slowly dying in the United States. It's been a steady decline and what way to ignite its base, and grow its popularity is to be involved in a "Holy War". +195 to 210 million people over time have been killed in religious Wars or by those who believe they have God on their side to help them be victorious over their enemies. Religion plus Politics (government)...an evil combination. wrbtrader
From the cradle to the grave, nigh on all humans are indoctrinated in wonderful, miraculous, eternal life, all saving ficticious Jesus. Christmas & Easter every year they resurrect the jewish propoganda of the goodness of the Church. But reality of the actual hypocrisy doesn't match the story, capitilism, greed, huge land holdings of churches, lying, adultery, children buggery, wars, exclusivism, cults, slavery of humans to a creed, guilt of unworthiness doctrine, portraying their god as a god of wrath and revenge, control by fear, fear of eternal hellfire if you don't conform, the unbelief in evolution and the belief in a 6 day creation, unfounded myths about miracles, the doctrine the world is only several thousand years old........ etc.
Attacks on businesses linked to US brands rattle Baghdad as anger over the war in Gaza surges By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD and KAREEM CHEHAYEB June 7, 2024 https://apnews.com/article/iraq-us-gaza-israel-riots-protests-b4c8c64c4bfddb04b5e5ce43bd40e46b BAGHDAD (AP) — A dozen masked men jump out of two SUVs and a white pickup and storm a KFC in Baghdad, smashing everything in sight before fleeing the scene. A few days earlier, similar violence played out at Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken and Chili House — all American brands popular in the Iraqi capital. Though no one was seriously hurt, the recent attacks — apparently orchestrated by supporters of Iran-backed, anti-American militias in Iraq — reflect surging anger against the United States, Israel’s top ally, over the war in Gaza. Iraqi governments have for years walked a delicate line between Washington and Tehran, but the eight-month war in Gaza has critically upped the stakes. The conflict erupted after the militant Hamas group stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking 250 hostage. Israel’s subsequent offensives in Gaza have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians in the territory, according to the Health Ministry there. Days after the war broke out, a coalition of Iran-backed militias dubbed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched dozens of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and eastern Syria. Those attacks stopped in February — but only after a series of retaliatory U.S. strikes following a drone hit on a base in Jordan that killed three American soldiers. The attacks on U.S.-linked businesses and brands in Iraq in late May and earlier this week represent a change in tactics intended to maximize anti-U.S. sentiment over Washington’s support for Israel. The KFC attack unfolded like a robbery — except the attackers weren’t after the money. Security camera footage shows the masked men bursting into the fast food restaurant as horrified workers and customers escape through a back exit. The men then proceed to smash windows and LED screens, break chairs, tables, kitchen appliances — and whatever else they could find. Iraqis stage an anti-U.S. protest in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) Minutes later, security forces arrive at the scene and fire warning shots as perpetrators run back into their cars and speed away. In other incidents, a sound bomb was hurled outside the Caterpillar company store, rattling the neighborhood and leaving a small pothole in the street. Some of the displays of anti-U.S. sentiment have been less volatile. Protesters carrying Palestinian and Iraqi flags last week marched up to the PepsiCo offices in Baghdad, chanting “No to agents” and “No to Israel.” Another protest took place outside the offices of Procter & Gamble. Iraqi forces armed with assault rifles and backed by armored vehicles with mounted machine guns now guard the targeted premises and franchises. Two officials from Iran-backed militias in Iraq confirmed to The Associated Press that the attackers were their supporters, and that their goal is to promote a boycott of American brands and deter their presence in the country. It’s also an attempt to bolster the militias’ image, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with their groups’ regulations. Abu Ali al-Askari, spokesperson for the powerful Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group, on Monday urged supporters to get rid of Israel’s “espionage affiliates covered in civilian garb” — a reference to businesses and organizations perceived as linked to the U.S. and Israel. Essa Ahmad, who organized over 30 protests in support of Gaza, said during a recent Baghdad rally that he and other youth activists want Iraqis to boycott products “that support Israel,” though he says they don’t condone violence. Firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — a rival of the Iran-backed factions who, though retired from politics, is still widely popular among many Iraqi Shiites — has called for Iraq to expel the U.S. ambassador. Political analyst Ihsan al-Shammari sees the targeting of U.S. and Western brands as playing into the decades-old rivalry between Tehran and Washington. “These attacks have political goals,” he said. They send a message “that any investment or presence of Western companies in Iraq cannot survive.” Renad Mansour, a senior research fellow at the Chatham House in London, says Iraq has been a “playground” for both Washington and Tehran, leaving Baghdad’s governments with little sovereignty and agency. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who came to power with the backing of a pro-Iran coalition, has tried to appease his anti-U.S. allies without stoking tensions with Washington or jeopardizing foreign investments in Iraq. Iraq and the U.S. in recent months began formal talks to draw down some 2,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq under an agreement with Baghdad, mainly to counter the militant Islamic State group. “The prime minister of Iraq … has pushed this idea that Iraq is out of war and is focusing on reinitiating the relationship with the U.S. and looking at the relationship with Iran and pushing for Iraq’s sovereignty,” Mansour told the AP. “Of course, the war on Gaza has impacted this.” The Interior Ministry said it arrested some suspects in the rioting and was searching for others. But the two militia figures claimed the government doesn’t dare go after the rioters despite being aware of who they are, fearing an escalation. They warned of more attacks on U.S. interests, should the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq stall further. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski condemned the targeting of American and international franchises in a post on the social media platform X, saying they could impact foreign investment in Iraq’s economy. U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the attacks on “what are essentially franchises of U.S. companies harm Iraqi workers, Iraqi patrons, sometimes Iraqi capital that is being employed there.” “So they are attacks eventually against the Iraqi people,” Miller said. “We think the Iraqi government ought to take appropriate measures to respond to those attacks and hold people accountable.” Iraq’s security spokesperson Maj. Gen. Tahseen al-Khafaji told the AP that the rioters will be pursued — as will anyone who threatens the country’s security and economic well-being. “We are making significant efforts to safeguard investments and the progress achieved by the current government,” al-Khafaji said. “It is essential to protect these accomplishments and create a safe environment for investors.” Still, al-Askari warned security officials not to stand in the way of efforts to “take out” American interests in Iraq. ___ Chehayeb reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
Progress on the pier repair... US military’s Gaza pier has been repaired and reattached to beach https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/politics/us-pier-gaza-resume-operations/index.html
Excellent! Now hopefully more are rescued from the murderous terrorists. IDF rescues hostages Noa Argamani, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv, and Almog Meir in daring Gaza op. The hostages were rescued by Shin Bet and Yamam fighters from two different locations in an operation in the heart of Nuseirat. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-805424 Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack https://apnews.com/article/israel-p...ews-8-6-2024-a5d1ef04763a5ed17de2d050ebc5d490
Want to read some wildly inaccurate fiction then check out the Gaza Health Ministry claims about civilians being killed. Hamas Exaggerated Civilian Deaths in Gaza: Report https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/hamas-exaggerated-civilian-deaths-in-gaza-report/ The Hamas-run health agency has systematically overestimated the number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to an Associated Press analysis of the agency's fatality reports. The AP's Friday report shows the Gaza Health Ministry persistently overestimated the death toll, providing inaccurate daily counts. Most daily death tolls released by the Gaza Health Ministry, the report says, were "provided without supporting data." The reporting on the inaccuracy of the Hamas data comes as Israel has faced international scrutiny for the civilian death toll in its war against Hamas, which killed more than 1,200 Israelis and took 252 hostages in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. "As Gaza’s hospital system collapsed in December and January, the ministry began relying on hard-to-verify ‘media reports’ to register new deaths," the AP reported. "Its March report included 531 individuals who were counted twice, and many deaths were self-reported by families, instead of health officials." In February, the Hamas-run ministry said 75 percent of fatalities were women and children, "a level that was never confirmed in the detailed reports" it released, according to the AP. The Gaza Health Ministry's overcounting reportedly persisted in March, when it inaccurately claimed 72 percent of the dead were women and children. In reality, the AP found, roughly 54 percent of fatalities in Gaza by the end of March were women and children. The inaccurate death reports have been used to justify international pressure against Israel in its war against the terrorist group. The death tolls are typically released through Hamas’s official media office—which the AP called "a propaganda arm of the militant group." Israeli officials last month rebuked the United Nations for accepting death toll numbers released by Hamas’s media office, with Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, saying, "Anyone who relies on fake data from a terrorist organization in order to promote blood libels against Israel is anti-Semitic and supports terrorism." The U.N. on Friday added Israel to a "blacklist" of entities that harm children in conflicts, which includes terror organizations such as the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram. Katz called it a "shameful decision." Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday wrote on X, "The U.N. put itself today on history's blacklist when it adopted the absurd claims of Hamas. The IDF is the most moral military in the world and no 'flat earth' decision by the UN secretary general can change that."