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Gaza ceasefire begins after nearly 3-hour delay as Hamas names hostages to be released Sunday

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By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and TIA GOLDENBERG

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Arrest the war criminal Netanyahu now or there will never be an end to this slaughter!

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What a surprise, I bet nobody saw that coming.

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Everybody fighting for Hamas is a war criminal.

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Surprise, surprise, the Israeli bombing, the killing continues. I thought it was too early to celebrate.

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The most documented genocide in the history of world however the world leader just stay in silent.

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Neither the US big military industrial complex or the US lobbies in Wall Street are happy with the ceasefire, which equals to: no weapons being used, and no business sales, to be put simply. Loss of innocent lives for the US administration is irrelevant. Again we see double standards employed in Israel and Ukraine: welcome to America!

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Fos; Welcome to planet America 360mil persons who consider themselves superior to all other humans. I was up late last night, HKt, saw lists of photos etc on US news. But, please forgive me, should the further bang bang stuff remove some of those????

V.C, are all Palestinians war criminals?

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Hamas has proven to Fugitive Bibi and his war criminals that they are a Force not to be reckoned with and that the only path to Peace is to end the Zionists Occupation and Aggression.

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War criminal Bin Gvir and his government members resigned to protest the ceasefire which is yet another Joyful news for Israeli's, Palestinians, and all the peace loving citizens of the Middle East, now ARRST this THUG.

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Great, a ceasefire, now that half the Palestinians have been wiped off the face of this planet. Not only do the Israeli cabinet need to be sent to the Hague, but also Blinken and a lot of western leaders who have been complicit in this genocide.

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Like the good God fearing Christian slave owners of Virginia did after the Turner Rebellion, the Israelis have extracted a terrible cost on their 'inferiors' for revolting against decades of cruelty and injustice and oppression and constricted lives.

And, like with the Turner Rebellion, there are two narratives about what happened, the first to be embraced in the White House one of totally unjustified mindless savagery against the 'superiors' (as exemplified in the first movie titled Birth of a Nation) and the second that wasn't welcomed among those that counted in Washington (but we'll known amongst the people who built the White House and so many of the other landmarks) of abused people driven beyond every conceivable limits of acceptance who struck back as portrayed in the second movie titled Birth of a Nation.

PS, both the situations that the rebellions were against are recognized in international law as Crimes Against Humanity, though America hasn't fully acknowledged that reality

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The only crimes committed here are those done by Hamas and their supporters. Israel has every right to eviscerate anyone who stands in the way of the return of their people.

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All thanks to Trump.

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quoting Jonathan Greenblatt: "What we are seeing right now in Gaza -- masked gunmen surrounding hostages as they are released, civilians jeering and taunting innocent women who were kidnapped and tortured -- demonstrates the utter depravity and sheer evil of Hamas and their supporters for the world to see."

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What a deeply sick society that comes out to the streets to taunt three Jewish women hostages being handed over to the Red Cross. The Red Cross just rolls with it, and never ever did they even ask to see the hostages in over a year. The world just rolls with it.

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Kidnapping is now an internationally-approved tactic to commute life sentences for mass murderers.

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Like the good God fearing Christian slave owners of Virginia did after the Turner Rebellion, the Israelis have extracted a terrible cost on their 'inferiors' for revolting against decades of cruelty and injustice and oppression and constricted lives.

And, like with the Turner Rebellion, there are two narratives about what happened, the first to be embraced in the White House one of totally unjustified mindless savagery against the 'superiors' (as exemplified in the first movie titled Birth of a Nation) and the second that wasn't welcomed among those that counted in Washington (but we'll known amongst the people who built the White House and so many of the other landmarks) of abused people driven beyond every conceivable limits of acceptance who struck back as portrayed in the second movie titled Birth of a Nation.

PS, both the situations that the rebellions were against are recognized in international law as Crimes Against Humanity, though America hasn't fully acknowledged that reality

The analogy between the Turner rebellion and the massacre perpetrated by Hamas is utterly baseless. This is a blasphemy of the slave's struggle. Hamas is not "revolting against decades of cruelty and injustice and oppression and constricted lives". Hamas is a pro-Hitler entity that strives to commit genocide to another nation, and is willing to sacrifice their own nation on the way. The Palestinian Arabs could have opted to live a prosperous life side by side with the Israeli Jews, in their own state of Palestine. In fact, the other state, the state of Israel, is itself a mixed state and a home for both Jews and Arabs.

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