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has to live up to the agreement that was made.

So sorry I must have misread you kurisupisu! I'm sure you meant to say the agreement was just broken by Hamas.

Happy to correct though, no trouble at all.

May Hamas get what's coming their way very shortly.

May there be peace! Trump's plan is the best shot we've had in ages for peace in the region. Clearly Gaza, being the first trial period for a palestinian state, was a complete and utter failure.

The election and continued support of Hamas by the Gazan arabs indicates zero prospects for future peace. It's the continued support of Hamas by the Gazan arabs that is the true issue at the heart of all this.

Unfortunately, decades of raising children to hate will do this (look up Farfur the mouse - a palestinian children's show teaching children to martyr themselves).

strict links with the American interests

OBVIOUSLY

Israel is the ONLY democracy in the middle east. The ONLY place in the middle east where LGBT can proudly declare themselves. A place with equal rights for women (and Arabs: 20% of Israelis are arabs and they serve in the Knesset/government)

Of course America has interests in Israel: DUH!!

The alternative is what, my dear friend?

To have interests in Hamas? In Hezbollah?

Israel's protracted impunity

Lol again as usual (so many Lols!! wonderful!)

Do you mean the impunity to get REPEATEDLY ATTACKED by Iranian proxies?

The impunity to have Hezbollah launch thousands of rockets at the north of Israel, so that Israelis (including Druze and Arabs) cant return to their homes?

The impunity to get attacked by the Houthis launching rockets constantly?

The impunity to have Hamas (and Gaza civilians) invade Israel and slaughter 1200 Jews, many of whom were teenagers at a rave and got gang raped and then shot in the head?

If that's the impunity you shake your head at in dismay, then it's an impunity few would choose lol

delaying all needed food, medical supplies, humanitarian aid and destroying all medical care, to manage starvation,

Hmmm... maybe the fact that armed Hamas convoys are stealing all incoming shipments and redistributing it to the Gazan people has something to do with those delays you speak of.

If only there was a way to effectively distribute this aid to the people... OH WAIT!!! Maybe, the IDF should ELIMINATE Hamas, so that the Gazan people can get that food without having to pay Hamas a surcharge (nor risk their lives to steal it from Hamas)

This terrible conflict would end the first 24 hours the US administration stops shipping lethal weapons to Israel.

FORTUNATELY, Trump is returning to office in January. He will ensure that Israel is well supplied to fight not JUST Hamas, but the rest of Iran's PROXY ARMIES: the Houthis, Hezbollah, palestinian islamic jihad.

NB is content to support Iran and their proxy armies no doubt. Ironic, given that Iranians themselves loathe the Iranian leadership and can't wait to see the overthrow of the Ayatollah

You see, NB, this ISN'T ABOUT Gaza. This HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT IRAN. And it turns out you need weapons to fight Iran. You might want to educate yourself on the REGIONAL CONTEXT.

Palestinian Genocide survivors as young as 3 days old are being HUNTED down daily by the Zionists air force and IGF soldiers on the ground.

Lol if Israel's conduct in this war (by far the LOWEST ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in any urban warfare in history) is genocide, then LITERALLY ANY CONFLICT IN HISTORY would be defined as genocide (by you and the rest of the rabid anti Israel types).

Meanwhile, you and your ilk are always so QUICK to defend ACTUAL genocidal monsters: i.e., HAMAS and their Gazan supporters: 80% of Gazans support the mass rape and murder of Jews on October 7, and many can be seen handing out candy on that day. Moreover, many (if not an outright majority) of the mass rapists and mass murderers of Oct 7 were Gazan CIVILIANS who went along for the thrill of it.

Keep up the MASSIVE HYPOCRISY WoodyLee

Tamarama

that doesn't make them a terrorist, it makes them a freedom fighter.

Good heavens, if fighting for freedom means gangraping Israeli women before shooting them in the head, or burning families alive bound in wire, or murdering parents in front of children and vice versa, I shudder to think how you imagine a terrorist.

Chabbawanga

you cant kill an idea. You simply cant.

You sure as heck can deprive it of oxygen! And you can even do ONE BETTER: provide COUNTER IDEAS.

You see, history is actually full of the back and forth ebbing and flow of ideas.

The real key is to re-educate Gazans AWAY from hatred. You see, teaching children to martyr themselves ISN'T VERY POPULAR IN MOST PLACES IN THE WORLD.

So given that this is the case, there is a VERY HIGH PROBABILITY that Gazan arabs can be taught NOT to teach their children these things.

Tamarama

So he will be replaced by another leader, it's a nothing achievement.

Hardly, the more leaders they cross off the list, the more they get replaced by inexperienced acolytes with a poor understanding of how to engage in warfare with one of the best militaries in the world (IDF)

The real key though is to re-educate Gazans AWAY from hatred, as they have been taught for so long by Hamas and UNWRA (check out the rabidly antisemitic palestinian childrens tv shows, where children are encouraged to martyr themselves - oy vey!)

Only then will future peace be possible.

But as for future military successes, that on a FAST DECLINE vis a vis Hamas

Alfie Noakes

Israel's aim is a genocide and ethnic cleansing

Lol, hardly. If so you'd think Israel wouldn't have FULLY WITHDRAWN from Gaza in the early 2000s and forcibly REMOVED THEIR OWN CITIZENS, so that they could give the Gazan arabs a chance to create their own state.

OOPS! That didn't work out very well! Turns out that when given the chance, the Gazan arabs will elect terrorists who will then massacre Israelis.

But back to the main point: Removing their own citizens doesn't seem to be a very effective way to ethnically cleanse now does it, lol

You may want to examine history earlier than 2024 era TikTok in order to have a better logical foundation for such an argument.

As for genocide, this betrays a lack of understanding of conflict. Please name a single urban war zone with LESS than a 2 to 1 civilian to military casualty ratio. I'll wait. And Israel's ratio is LOWER than this.

Unless of course you are suggesting they just leave Hamas in power, so they can perpetrate the next Oct 7

John

And the cost? Not the financial one but the fact that whereas there probably used to be millions of anti-semitics around the globe there are now probably literally billions of people who despise Israel

LOL: those antisemites are simply showing their faces aboveground now (including some regulars here), that is all that has changed. Now we know who they are is all.

Fortunately for the Jews in Israel and around the world, and for proud Zionists everywhere, Israel has started (FINALLY!) to IGNORE what the global useful idiots for Hamas think, and DEFEND its people.

Given a choice between being DEAD and having sympathy, or being ALIVE and being despised, WE WILL CHOOSE TO BE ALIVE thank you very much!

sakurasuki

One evil goes down, however it doesn't mean accountability for 40 thousands deaths will go away.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. HAMAS needs to be taken to account for their full RESPONSIBILITY

You are right on the mark!

The 40k deaths (most of which are HAMAS fighters actually) is on Hamas' shoulders. Those who were civilians put directly and purposefully in harms way by Hamas have had some justice served today.

Bless the IDF for serving that justice!

Their tactics are so easy to see through. International law only matters if it’s there to punish Israel. If Israel benefits then international law doesn’t matter and they’ll try to pivot away to some other argument

100%.

Sometimes I feel it's like conversing with an AI trained only on AlJazeera

Please stop cherry picking International Law or UN resolution,

Lol that was purely an attempt to speak in a language that the rabidly anti-Israel might comprehend.

But it's hardly necessary to refer to international law, which is more often than not plagued by bias by those supporting terror at the UN.

INSTEAD I need only mention that Israel has had to evacuate 10% of its ENTIRE LANDMASS because of Hezbollah missiles to the North of Israel.

In such a scenario, for example if Japan had to EVACUATE HOKKAIDO because Russia was lobbing rockets for A YEAR, you better believe Japan would FIGHT BACK.

The Lebanese government has not invited the Israeli army to cross the border. The Israelis are invaders.

Lol SOME? Hardly, Lebanon is made up of Sunni muslims, Shia muslims, Druze, and Christians. Hezbollah is controlled by the Shia Islamist clerics from IRAN.

That leaves the MAJORITY in favor of UPROOTING the FOREIGN INFLUENCE OF IRAN.

The Lebanese army also WANTS Hezbollah gone, because they ARE POWERLESS relative to Hezbollah.

ADDITIONALLY: As per above, UN resolution 1701 for Hezbollah to be removed south of the Litani HAS NEVER BEEN ENFORCED.

Given that Israel has had to evacuate 10% of its ENTIRE LANDMASS because of Hezbollah missiles to the North of Israel, you better believe it's PAST DUE for Israel to FINALLY enforce resolution 1701, allow their citizens to return, and also shift the power balance within Lebanon AGAINST HEZBOLLAH

Looking forward to a sea of Lebanese flags everywhere on social media, in corporate offices and next to national flags at capital buildings.

DEFINITELY! So MANY Lebanese CAN'T WAIT to GET RID OF HEZBOLLAH!!

Just check out Reddit r/lebanon. So many are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah, they are dancing in the streets!

They are praying for the eventual demise of Hezbollah, and for Israel to make this DREAM a REALITY!

There are untold Syrian and Lebanese videos making fun of Hezbollah, it's WONDERFUL to see! No longer will Hezbollah abuse Lebanon. Go Israel!

Attacking Lebanon it just repeated pattern from the past.

Hardly: It's ACTUALLY to enforce UN resolution 1701 which dates back to 2006. This requires that Hezbollah move back to the Litani River, to be replaced by the Lebanese army.

Unfortunately, as I'm sure you fully understand, Hezbollah is EMBEDDED COMPLETELY south of the Litani.

As it TURNS OUT, they don't want to leave. Hence Israel's incursion to remove Hezbollah. The Lebanese army (separate from Hezbollah), is leaving, by contrast, to ALLOW Israel to uproot Hesbollah, which the Lebanes army is incapable of doing, since they are unfortunately too weak to do so.

They are also going to remove 150,000 missiles and rockets.

INCREDIBLY, when you take out the Hezbollah leadership, 150,000 missiles and rockets don't just go poof; they have to actually be REMOVED, and it seems Hezbollah want to keep em all.

kurisupisu

Someone explain please.

How does destroying a power station in Yemen prevent the launching of missiles?

HAPPY to oblige my FRIEND! It sends the direct message: HOUTHI REBELS, STOP SENDING BALLISTIC MISSILES AT TEL AVIV, OR YOU WILL FACE CONSEQUENCES

Is that too complicated, or must I explain it in SIMPLER terms?

Moderator: You have made your point. No need for further posts here.

MarkX

I just can't understand what Israel is thinking now. At first they had sympathy for the October 7 attacks, but that quickly disappeared with their massive attacks on Gaza. Now moving on the Lebanon and Yemin, this will never end well, and they are just empowering more hatred towards them!

"if the choice is between being dead and getting sympathy and being alive and being criticized by your enemies, then we would rather be alive"

Does this make sense to you MarkX? Or do you prefer Israel just lie down and die?

Israel is surrounded by enemies who have codified Israeli deaths into their charters. YOU BETTER BELIEVE ISRAEL DOESN'T CARE ABOUT WORLD OPINION WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE AT STAKE.

Tamarama

Israel is unhinged.

Your definition of unhinged is interesting. If by unhinged you mean preemptively strike an enemy who wants to SLAUGHTER every man woman and child in Israel, because they are Islamist terrorists backed by Iran.

If that's your definition of unhinged, then may we all be unhinged, lest we get murdered instead

kurisupisu

Do the Jews also claim Lebanese land too?

Claim? What claims? You do know that Israel returned almost the entirety of the Sinai to Egypt for peace (after Egypt tried to invade Israel) AND removed their OWN citizens from Gaza to allow Gazan arabs a chance to create a state (OOPS! they elected Hamas!).

The Israeli state claims to act in its defense but the actions speak to ‘offense’

It's called "preemptive strike". You know that concept that applies when your ENEMY WANTS TO KILL ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN ISRAEL, because they are Iranian backed Islamists, so you attack before they can do so.

I suppose your solution for Israel is to just wait and die. NOT GONNA HAPPEN lol

BobFosse

Through acts of terrorism Israel are ensuring Hezbollah exist for generations to come.

Lol, it's amazing how incorrect this statement is

Corrected: through preemptive strikes, Israel completely destroyed Hezbollah's chain of command, opening the door to a positive future in which Lebanon is FREE from the curse of an Iranian backed terrorist proxy for generations to come.

Tamarama

Israel a US backed and enabled monster killing with absolute impunity now.

Hezbollah, an Iranian backed and enabled Islamist death machine, intent on wiping every last man woman and child in Israel off the map. Hmmm... they should probably be stopped. GO IDF!!

kurisupisu

When does defense become offense?

Sadly, when Hezbollah has been firing thousands of missiles into Israel for A YEAR, it's time for the poked bear to respond. If Israel had an alternative, rest assured they would implement it (and know, your likely suggestion of "Israel should just sit and take it" ain't the best idea.

Again, the international community has called for a cease fire and after destroying Hezbollah members and Nasrallah’s death,

Funny how the International community calls for cease fire EVERY time Israel defends itself. ONe might even suspect that they don't have Israel's interest at heart, hmmm?

However, what the Israelis have yet to realise is that the violence being wrought on hundreds of thousands of innocent people will beget more of the same against them, in the future.

It's surely a strange coincidence that Islamist Iranian-backed proxies beget more of the same again and again, given that the death of all Jews in Israel is their GOAL. I suppose your advise is to... just die? Unfortunately (for those like yourself), Jews, and Zionists would prefer NOT to die. We will therefore defend ourselves from the relentless onslaught of terrorism.

WoodyLee

And what's more, Woody, not just Jews, but many of the beautiful Lebanese people themselves are CHEERING Israel onwards in their fight against Hezbollah (see Reddit Lebanon to get a sense, or watch the many youtube videos of Lebanese and also Iranian people cheering the dismemberment of Hezbollah). What's almost hysterical, is that it's people such as yourself who mourn the fading into history of organizations like Hezbollah. Try to put yourself into the shoes of the average Lebanese person, who has seen their BEAUTIFUL country ("the Paris of the Levant") torn apart by Islamists. What they want more than anything is to see Lebanon returned to its prior state, before the Islamists.

Woody

Jews around the world are disgusted by what these war mongers are doing, Jews are now leaving Israel as they do not want anything to do with these war mongers and their crimes against humanity.

Hardly, I'm a proud Jew and proud Zionist, and everyone I know supports the right of Israel to defend itself from Iranian-backed Islamist proxies who have the death of every man woman and child in Israel as a goal in their charter. One would have to be unbearably naive to feel otherwise.

Chabbawanga

Why would they stop whilst the occupation continues?

Lol Israel doesn't seem to very effective occupiers, considering they returned nearly the ENTIRE Sinai back to Egypt and REMOVED their own citizens from Gaza in 2005 to give the Gazan arabs a chance to build their own state (OOPS! They elected Hamas). Chabbawanga, it's a shame that your understanding of history extends as far as the average Tiktok video...

What's really INCREDIBLE is how many Lebanese people are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah. Lebanon is a very sectarian country (Sunni, Shia, Christian), but if you check out the reddit Lebanon page, you'll get a snapshot of how many Lebanese people are OVERJOYED at his death, because it gives them HOPE that they can rebuild Lebanon free from the influence of Iran (Nasrallah being good pals with Khamenei, and Hezbollah being a proxy of the IRGC). It's also UNSURPRISING to see that this comments section has the usual anti-Israel commenters. Although, I can only imagine that they are in MOURNING over the death of a beloved Islamist terrorist, so I'm surprised they had the ENERGY to post here.

What's really INCREDIBLE is how many Lebanese people are CHEERING for the death of Nasrallah. Lebanon is a very sectarian country (Sunni, Shia, Christian), but if you check out the reddit Lebanon page, you'll get a snapshot of how many Lebanese people are OVERJOYED at his death, because it gives them HOPE that they can rebuild Lebanon free from the influence of Iran (Nasrallah being good pals with Khamenei, and Hezbollah being a proxy of the IRGC). It's also HEARTENING to see that this comments section isn't dominated by the usual anti-Israel commenters (although there are of course a handful). I can only imagine that they are in MOURNING over the death of a beloved Islamist terrorist. When Israel wins, they don't know what to do with themselves.