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djean111's avatar

If the Israelis got back all of their hostages, IMO, they would carpet bomb and raze Gaza to the ground.

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Marina Lent's avatar

That would certainly be consistent with the history of these many decades

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Scott Carson's avatar

Really??? Please site one case where that occurred.

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bill wolfe's avatar

From the horse's mouth: Wall Street Journal:

“In recent days, I have heard a question: After completing this stage of the return of our hostages, will Israel go back to the fighting? My answer is an unequivocal yes.” Netanyahu called the release of dozens of Israeli hostages a great achievement that didn't seem possible a week ago."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-hostages-2023-11-28/card/netanyahu-vows-to-resume-war-after-hostages-released-nRjN6PrEu2UYOxFHioFh#

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Anti-Hip's avatar

Yes, but Scott's ilk would point out, Netanyahu "didn't say the words, quote, carpet bomb and raze Gaza to the ground, unquote. So, *obviously*, djean111 is *totally wrong*, she should confess her horrifying antisemitism, and resign any and all positions she holds in society, immediately. If she doesn't do it, rest assured we'll do it for her. Anything less would be an absolute outrage to the entire civilized world [waving hand across the air], which, as we plainly see, only Israel and the U.S. have the *moral courage* to stand up for! And, with that, I simply will not demean myself to speak another word about this disgusting transgression."

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Athena Jones's avatar

Why do you think the US is building a floating dock off Gaza? It is not to deliver aid which could be done much more easily and with less cost. It is to remove Palestinians reduced to desperate submission through starvation. Take out as many as will leave to dump in other countries and then Israel will send poison gas through the tunnels and reduce all of Gaza to gravel. Any Palestinians who do not leave and who die, will have chosen their fate according to the evil that is Israel and its American and other backers.

Quite what Israel plans to do with the 6 million left in Occupied Palestine, including a third who are fake Israeli citizens is the question. Trains, trucks, load them up and send them off to never be seen again. Hang on, hasn't that been done before?

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

"Why do you think the US is building a floating dock off Gaza? It is not to deliver aid which could be done much more easily and with less cost."

Yep, there's already plenty of piers in Haifa and Ashdod. Aid can easily be unloaded there and taken by truck to Gaza. No need for the US to build any new ones.

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Frank O'Connell's avatar

The floating dock is to assist with the extraction of oil and gas, stolen (what's new) from the Palestinians

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Judith Dyer's avatar

Is this satire?

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Athena Jones's avatar

Can you make a coherent case please as to how there is ever moral courage in defending occupation, colonisation, apartheid and genocide?

If it is moral courage to defend such things then why did we fight the Germans and Japanese in WWII? We should have been on their side, helping them to occupy more and to keep what they had taken.

Since Zionist Israel is atheist it is impossible to be anti-semitic in criticising it since anti-semitism means a hatred of the religion of Judaism and its followers, Jews.

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Anti-Hip's avatar

I'm parodying Zionists in the above post, per quote marks. Some defenders of Zionism are talented in in making absurd yet histrionic claims. So you're asking the right kinds of questions ... just that I'm not the target.

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GordM's avatar

The word you are looking for is "cite" not "site".

"Sites" are locations populated by civilians whom the Israelis indiscriminately bomb.

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Susan T's avatar

djean111: They are already doing that, aren't they?

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Judith Dyer's avatar

ABSOLUTELY. I am so sick of hearing Hamas just has to turn themselves in and give up what hostages are still alive. Then the bombing will stop. Such crap.

When this is over, the Palestinians who are left, will not be angry at Hamas, they will hate, with vengeance, the Israelis.

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