Israel-Palestine Drama Thread

[kalm]

Yes Israel is right and Palestine is getting what they earned when they attacked another country.

I see part of your misunderstanding now. Palestine is not really a country.

[Caribbean Hen]

If the IDF opened fire on the Irish there likely would have been Irish casualties. IDF says they were opening fire at a Hezbollah threat that happened to be near the Irish. No Irish casualties or injuries reported.

Tell that to the Irish.

The entire region is full of threats. The IDF is also a terrorist organization. Where does this end? Better just kill them all including the kids, jornalists, aid workers, and doctors just to be sure?

Neither side should be trusted.

Give Ireland back to the Irish

SPM 1972
number 1 hit in Ireland banned in the UK

[UNI88]

Yes Israel is right and Palestine is getting what they earned when they attacked another country.

I see part of your misunderstanding now. Palestine is not really a country.

[UNI88]

[Bobcat]

Not true, those 4 terrorists are still there

[BDKJMU]

Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles against Israel.

Israel should just take the gloves off and nuke Iran.

And so it begins. Israel is FAFOing Iran as explosion rock Tehran.

[Bobcat]

There's a war going on and Biden is shitting diapers on a beach and Kacklejacks is at a rally with Beyonce. Open border that's attacking us.

Could the United States be any less safe?

We need a Hitler fascist like Netanyahu to protect our once great country

[BDKJMU]

Breaking news Israel has now launched a 2nd wave. Hitting targets all over Iran.

[kalm]

[kalm]

But he’s the president of peace or something.

[Bobcat]

Trump is the only valid option for a Nobel Peace Prize in the last 100 years

[BDKJMU]

There are no innocent Palestinians.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/20 ... r-n2185784

[kalm]

There are no innocent Palestinians.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/20 ... r-n2185784

Now apply the same outrage towards Israel.

There are no intelligent MAGA supporters.

[BDKJMU]

There are no innocent Palestinians.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/20 ... r-n2185784

Now apply the same outrage towards Israel.

There are no intelligent MAGA supporters.

There are no intelligent people complaining about Israel.

[kalm]

Now apply the same outrage towards Israel.

There are no intelligent MAGA supporters.

There are no intelligent people complaining about Israel.

There a long history of it. Here are just a few quick examples ….the list is long. And longer if you consider non-Jews.

“Ever heard of Einstein? Arendt? Chomsky?

Morons!”

FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN TO NOAM CHOMSKY: FAMOUS JEWS WHO HAVE OPPOSED ISRAEL
12 Aug 2014
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There is a long tradition among prominent Jewish figures opposing the Israeli state, who found themselves, like Isaac Asimov, “in the odd position of not being a Zionist”.
David Wilson


UK Jews marching on 9 August 2014 to say Israel’s assault Gaza is Not in My Name

ON 9 AUGUST 2014, 150 000 protesters marched in London in solidarity with the people of Gaza who were suffering a barbaric assault by Israel which had killed over 2000 people, most of them civilians, and over 400 of them children.

Numerous Jewish groups joined the march. They marched as Jews to show their opposition to the state of Israel, which for 66 years has endlessly stolen Palestinian land and imposed the most brutal occupation and siege on Palestinians. Jewish marchers saying “not in my name” included, the Jewish Bloc, The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Jews for Justice for Palestinians and Jews Against the war on Gaza.

These Jewish marchers were part of a long and honourable tradition. Many prominent Jewish figures over the past century — from Albert Einstein to holocaust survivor Primo Levi — have opposed the idea of an ethnically exclusive Israeli state.

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud:
“I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby offending the feelings of the natives.”

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein:
“The (Israeli) state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with many difficulties and a narrow-mindedness. I believe it is bad.”

Erich Fromm, social psychologist:
“The claim of the Jews to the Land of Israel cannot be a realistic political claim. If all nations would suddenly claim territories in which their forefathers lived two thousand years ago, this world would be a madhouse.”

Primo Levi
Primo Levi, writer and Auschwitz survivor:
“Everyone has their Jews. For the Israelis they are the Palestinians.”

Marek Edelman, last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw uprising:
Edelman wrote a letter in support of the Palestine resistance, comparing them to ZOB, the Jewish fighters in Warsaw. He opened with, “Commanders of the Palestine military, paramilitary and partisan operations – to all the soldiers of the Palestine fighting organisations.”

Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov, novelist:
“I find myself in the odd position of not being a Zionist … I think it is wrong for anyone to feel that there is anything special about any one heritage of whatever kind. It is delightful to have the human heritage exist in a thousand varieties, for it makes for greater interest, but as soon as one variety is thought to be more important than another, the groundwork is laid for destroying them all.”

Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt, political scientist:
“The trouble is that Zionism has often thought and said that the evil of antisemitism was necessary for the good of the Jewish people. In the words of a well-known Zionist in a letter to me discussing the original Zionist argumentation: ‘The antisemites want to get rid of the Jews, the Jewish State wants to receive them, a perfect match.’ “

I.F. Stone, US journalist:
“Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry. In the outside world the welfare of Jewry depends on the maintenance of secular, non-racial, pluralistic societies. In Israel, Jewry finds itself defending a society in which mixed marriages cannot be legalized, in which the ideal is racial and exclusionist.”

Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky:
“In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by “apartheid” you mean South African-style apartheid. What’s happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse.”

https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/from ... ed-israel/

[BDKJMU]

There are no intelligent people complaining about Israel.

There a long history of it. Here are just a few quick examples ….the list is long. And longer if you consider non-Jews.

“Ever heard of Einstein? Arendt? Chomsky?

Morons!”

Dead people are ‘complaining’ about Israel.

[kalm]

There a long history of it. Here are just a few quick examples ….the list is long. And longer if you consider non-Jews.

“Ever heard of Einstein? Arendt? Chomsky?

Morons!”

Dead people are ‘complaining’ about Israel.

Not all of those on the list are dead are dead. And do you think they’d look at the current genocide with all of the innocent lives taken and now talk of forced removal fro their anncestrsl home, and change their views?

That’s not exactly a winning argument.

[BDKJMU]

Dead people are ‘complaining’ about Israel.

Not all of those on the list are dead are dead. And do you think they’d look at the current genocide with all of the innocent lives taken and now talk of forced removal fro their anncestrsl home, and change their views?

That’s not exactly a winning argument.

There you go again..

[kalm]

Not all of those on the list are dead are dead. And do you think they’d look at the current genocide with all of the innocent lives taken and now talk of forced removal fro their anncestrsl home, and change their views?

That’s not exactly a winning argument.

There you go again..

Hey…I’m sorry that the shoe fits.

[BDKJMU]

There you go again..

Hey…I’m sorry that the shoe fits.

In your head..

[kalm]

Hey…I’m sorry that the shoe fits.

In your head..

And in every dictionary definition of the word. Be brave and admit you’re ok with genocide.

[BDKJMU]

In your head..

And in every dictionary definition of the word. Be brave and admit you’re ok with genocide.

Wrong.

[kalm]

And in every dictionary definition of the word. Be brave and admit you’re ok with genocide.

Wrong.

Sweet! I win!

[kalm]

Oof. This video.

Even MAGA is uncomfortable with it.

Trump faces Truth Social backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers
Users of president’s own social media site criticise video showing reimagined Gaza featuring Trump and Israeli PM sipping cocktails

Oliver Holmes and Paul Owen
Wed 26 Feb 2025 07.15 EST

Donald Trump is facing a backlash on his Truth Social platform after sharing an AI-created video of him sipping cocktails with a topless Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, in a future imagining of the Palestinian territory devastated by Israel’s war.

The video presented a computer-generated vision of Trump’s property development plan for Gaza, under which he said he wants to “clean out” the population of about 2 million people. Named the “Riviera of the Middle East” plan, the proposal has been criticised as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Footage shows the strip transformed into a Dubai-style resort with skyscrapers and luxury yachts. Children play on the beach as money rains down and bearded bellydancers gyrate on the sand.

Trump, who says he wants the US to “own” Gaza, is presented as a revered icon in the footage. A boy walks along holding a golden balloon of the president’s head and a towering, dictator-style statue of Trump overlooks a city street.

Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire backer, appears several times, eating flatbread and later dancing as dollar bills fall from the sky. Musk’s Tesla electric cars cruise through the glossy streets.

After the 78-year-old president shared the footage – which includes the caption “Gaza 2025 … what’s next?” – he faced a backlash on his social media platform.

One Truth Social user wrote: “I could not be a bigger supporter of President Trump but this particular video is in very poor taste. Very poor taste, indeed!” Another wrote: “I hate this. I love our president, but this is horrible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... SApp_Other

[kalm]

DOGE fail. Womp womp.

The deletions, first reported by the New York Times, were made on Tuesday without explanation. A White House spokesperson would only say that Musk’s slash-and-burn initiative had “identified billions of dollars in savings”.

Doge is currently claiming it has succeeded in lopping $65bn from federal spending, a sharp rise from its earlier figure of $55bn. Yet the itemized savings listed on the “wall of receipts” have plummeted since the deletions from $16.6bn to $9.6bn………….

That slip of the accounting pen has now disappeared from Doge’s site. Among the other four big-figure “savings” also deleted are three cuts of $655m each to the budget of the beleaguered US Agency for International Development, USAid.

That sounded impressive, until it was uncovered by CBS News to be a single cut, counted erroneously three times.

The largest of the five vanishing “savings” was a $1.9bn item listed as a cut at the treasury department. That was based on a contract that was cancelled last year, at a time when Joe Biden was in the White House.

Uhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26 ... SApp_Other