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Posted in: Netanyahu snaps back against growing U.S. criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza See in context

Hamas does not distinguish terrorists from civilians so why should Israel? - Jik7Y

Because not distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants is against international law and considered a terrorist act. But if you're comfortable admitting that Israel is a terrorist state then I guess it isn't a problem.

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Posted in: Netanyahu snaps back against growing U.S. criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza See in context

Good, never retreat, never surrender! - bass4funk

Words appropriate for those engaged in resistance. Not for those engaged in illegal occupation and genocidal assaults.

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Posted in: First ship to use new sea route delivers aid to Gaza, Israeli military says See in context

If you're already fairly well versed in the history of the conflict and have the stomach for some impassioned debate I recommend giving this 5 hour debate between Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris a listen.

https://youtu.be/1X_KdkoGxSs?si=wbI79aIEPl1m1DT0

I only wish Morris had a better debating partner than 'Destiny'. A pro-gamer turned self-styled 'political analyst' who basically livestreams his google and wikipedia searches. He's truly out of his depth amongst actual scholars and analysts of Middle East history.

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Posted in: Norah Jones: 'People have sex and give birth to my music' See in context

Norah Jones: 'People have sex and give birth to my music'

Sort of ironic given her biggest hit is 'I Don't know why I didn't come'.

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Posted in: Kishida questioned over scantily clad dancers at LDP party See in context

"We invited the dancers after studying from various viewpoints, including whether it matches the theme of diversity," Kawabata, deputy head of the local LDP youth wing

Ohhh, so this is what they mean by trying to increase women's involvement and representation in the halls of power.

Even more embarrassing than the act itself is the pathetic excuse they carted out to try and cover for it. They can't even lie competently. When will Japan draw the the line and ditch this cabal of inept, self-serving political blue-bloods?

I think it's about time Japan's politics were "diversified".

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Posted in: ‘The Boy and the Heron' earns Miyazaki 2nd Oscar; 'Godzilla Minus One' wins for visual effects See in context

The BBC went with the headline.

"Oscars 2024: Japan's Hayao Miyazaki wins second Best Animated Film award"

Didn't know they had an award for second best animated film.

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Posted in: Kishida cabinet support rate hits fresh low at 20% See in context

The support rate for the LDP has fallen to 24.5 percent, its lowest level since December 2012, when the party scored a landslide victory in the general election to return to power,

Am I missing my morning coffee or is that a typo?

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Posted in: Ship with Gaza aid preparing to inaugurate sea route from Cyprus to war-ravaged strip See in context

“No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,”

Makes sense. The animals don't deserve anything, right? - zibala

So is your argument that Israel isn't blocking aid to Gaza? or that Israel is blocking aid to Gaza because Palestinians are animals and don't deserve it?

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Posted in: 'Dragon Ball': Japan's manga powerhouse See in context

An odd choice not to make the headline about Toriyama's passing.

There's no doubting Toriyma's huge influence in and outside of Japan. I imagine Dragon Ball was a gateway into Japanese culture for quite a few people.

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Posted in: Ship with Gaza aid preparing to inaugurate sea route from Cyprus to war-ravaged strip See in context

Can you provide a quote from that link that reads that Israel has a blockade on aid? - zibala

“No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” - Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

You can read the ICJ report for plenty of footnoted evidence of Israel's control of aid into Gaza both before and after Oct 7th.

Not to mention the Israeli protesters blocking aid at the border whilst IDF troops stand around and do nothing.

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Posted in: Gov't OKs bill to introduce joint custody after divorce See in context

I think a lot of people are also thinking about the related issue of Japanese abductions of children in international marriages. Cases like Vincent Fichot's who had his child abducted from their home in France by his Japanese ex-wife.

Japan is a signatory to the Hague Convention of International Child Abduction but a lack of joint custody provisions in Japan's domestic laws meant that the Convention was effectively useless and parents like Fichot had no legal recourse to access their children.

Hopefully, this changes that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_child_abduction_in_Japan

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Posted in: U.N. envoy says 'reasonable grounds' to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct 7 See in context

She said the team was not able to meet with any victims of sexual violence “despite concerted efforts to encourage them to come forward.”

So only heresy from sources that have been shown to be questionable! - Sanjinosebleed

This was the same issue the NYT article had. A lack testimonies from actual victims or from hospitals and support centres that would have dealt with the cases.

But I imagine the sad fact is anyone caught and raped would have been very unlikely to have lived to tell the talde or would have taken as a hostage into Gaza.

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Posted in: U.N. envoy says 'reasonable grounds' to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct 7 See in context

There's been little doubt that rape and sexual violence were amongst the atrocities committed on Oct 7th. However the claim made by Israeli spokespeople and the controversial NYT article is that it was widespread and systematic. The U.N. report suggests the opposite.

Many of the most grotesque stories have also been debunked. "40 beheaded babies" According to official Israeli investigations 36 children were killed on Oct 7th. Only one of which was an infant shot alongside his mother.

Strangely a lot of the claims mirror the actions of Israeli forces in massacres like Deir Yassin and Tantura. Cutting out of fetus' and cutting off breasts were atrocities boasted about by those that committed the masacres.

It's not mentioned in the article that the report also cited the use of sexual violence by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian detainees in the west bank.

Non of this is meant to diminish the atrocities and war crimes that have been taking place but fact and nuance are important.

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Posted in: City in Saitama Prefecture to require multilingual trash rules posted for foreigners See in context

Do you think by making this the top story of the day they're trying to tell us something? I'm not sure that a prefecture deciding to translate its rubbish disposal rules is quite national, headline news.

I lived in an apartment where as the foreigner I was routinely blamed for other resdent's carelessness or mistakes.

But I'm sure even the most diligent of rubbish-thrower-outers have fallen a cropper of Japan's overly complex and draconian disposal rules.

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Posted in: Biden approves military air drops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead See in context

There's a horrifying, twisted duplicity to America simultaneously funding the dropping of bombs and dropping of aid on the same people. Then calling for a cessation to violence and vetoing all international ceasefire proposals.

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Posted in: Japanese teacher beats up student for making fun of his body by calling him anime character name See in context

Anyone want to place bets on what the teacher was called? By guess is probably Doraemon.

On February 26, the Board of Education announced that the teacher will be docked 10 percent of his pay for three months.

Physically assaulting a student and he doesn't even get fired? He's probably thinking it was worth the docked pay just to have the opportunity to punch that little brat in the head.

Seems bullying and inappropriate behaviour, whether by teachers or students is most often swept under the rug and ignored. In almost all the cases like this that end up making headlines it seems teachers, students and higher ups were well aware of the issues but no attempts were made to resolve them.

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Posted in: U.S. airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington See in context

Not sure what's more sad. The senseless and horrific death of someone suffering from acute mental illness or the fact that so many rush to glorify it for their own selfish reasons. - stan

I think the saddest thing is to fabricate a mental illness in order to de-humanize, de-legitimize and discredit a man of oustanding principles who died to try and stop the deaths of tens of thousands of more civilians.

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Posted in: Israel signals progress in Gaza truce talks; Palestinians see little movement See in context

Is it ethnic cleansing when Arabs expel Arabs?

Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians

Zibala

Where do you think those Palestinian refugees came from in the first place? Your ability to completely invert facts never ceases to depress me.

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Posted in: Israel signals progress in Gaza truce talks; Palestinians see little movement See in context

Which is it: a genocide or an expulsion? JboneInTheZone

It's ethnic cleansing. Not sure Netanyahu is too fussed about how it gets done.

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Posted in: Biden administration restores Trump-rescinded policy on illegitimacy of Israeli settlements See in context

Alleged "settlements" have nothing to do with the daily attacks against Israel, or the recent "Palestinian State" issue, because Hamas' charter preaches the genocide of the Jewish people, and does not mention a Palestinian State living in peace alongside Israel. - Zibala

The creeping illegal annexation of Palestinian land has everything to do with the ongoing conflict.

Hamas updated their charter to accept a resolution based on the 1967 borders but without recognition of Israel's legitimacy. Netanyahu neither supports a 2 state solution or recognizes the legitimacy of a Palestinian state.

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Posted in: Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 48 as fears mount over humanitarian crisis and West Bank violence See in context

If Hamas would release the hostages, and if they along with the other Islamic terrorists groups would stop shooting rockets at civilians in Israel, then this could all stop. - Jik7y

The Israeli occupation began long before the formation of Hamas and there are no hostages or rockets being fried from the West Bank but more than 300 Palestinians have been killed and Israel's decades long illegal occupation and annexing of Palestinian land show no signs of stopping. Infact, quite the opposite. Illegal settlements (i.e. Jewish colonies) are expanding at their fastest rate in years.

There is no incentive for the Palestinians to give up any form of resistance because as history demonstrates it means a return to the status quo. Oppresion, apartheird, starvation and illegal landgrabs.

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Posted in: Countries reaching beyond borders to silence dissidents: Human Rights Watch See in context

Countries reaching beyond borders to silence dissidents

You mean like Julian Assange?

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Posted in: U.N. agency says it can't deliver aid to northern Gaza because of chaos, and famine fears are rising See in context

Day 2 of the ICJ hearings on Israel's occupation. Again not mentioned in any of the articles published by JT related to Israel.

“We as South Africans sense, see, hear and feel to our core the inhumane discriminatory policies and practices of the Israeli regime as an even more extreme form of the apartheid that was institutionalised against Black people in my country,” said Vusimuzi Madonsela, South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands, where the ICJ is based.

Illegal settlement construction in the West Bank is also at an all time high.

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Posted in: Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war See in context

Additionally, 90% of the homes searched in Gaza turn out to be storing munitions and arms for Hamas. Zibala

I don't think Israel itself has even made such a ridiculous claim. Do you have a source for this statistic? As it seems to form the basis of your belief that all civilians within Gaza are legitimate military targets.

Shamefully, not mentioned in the article is that Israel is being hauled in front of the ICJ again over its illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

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Posted in: Israel strikes across Gaza as U.S. says it will block another cease-fire resolution at U.N. See in context

Translation; How dare Israel keep on defending herself and asking for her hostages back! - stan

"Herself". See what you did there. I've seen this linguistic chicanery used a few times recently. Is this the new Hamas = "ghkamas!". Article 54, clause 15 of the Hasbara user manual?

Poor little old Israel must defend "herself" from the consequences of a brutal, decades long, illegal occupation and colonization campaign.

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Posted in: U.S. envoy says Israel has not presented evidence that Hamas diverted U.N. aid deliveries in Gaza See in context

Israel has not presented specific evidence for its claim that Hamas is diverting U.N. aid. . . a top U.S. envoy said in rare public criticism of Israel.

The intelligence dossier that Israel provided the U.S. and various international governments that led to the de-funding of UNRWA also contained no actual evidence of employees participation in the Oct 7th attack.

Israel refused to provide UNRWA itself with the dossier but numerous news outlets including Channel 4 News, CBS and The Daily Beast who have obtained copies of dossier say it contains no evidence.

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Posted in: Israel frees two hostages; Palestinian TV says 74 killed in assault See in context

unfortunately, YOU wouldn't sit next to them because they are Jews.

Don't drag the rest of us into your hatred, - stan

Let's take Bezalel Smotrich the minister of finance as an example.

In 2005 he was arrested by Shin Bet for suspected terrorism with 700 liters of gasoline in his possesion. Shin Bet's former deputy head of Shin Bet described him as a "Jewish terrorist".

In 2006 he organised an anti-pride demonstration with goats and donkeys calling the gay pride parade "worst than bestiality".

He has on numerous occasions called himself "a proud facist, racist and homophobe. . ."

Most recently he was one of the Knesset members cited in South Africa's ICJ case against Israel as using genocidal rhetoric.

Personally I wouldn't sit next to this man on a bus. And it has nothing to do with him being Jewish. Though I'm not sure he'd be willing to share a bus with a lowly gentile like myself anyway.

Don't even get me started on how disgusting a person minister of national security Itamar Ben-Gvir is.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-bezalel-smotrich-rode-unfiltered-radicalism-and-unforgiving-politics-to-power/

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Posted in: Israel frees two hostages; Palestinian TV says 74 killed in assault See in context

The Israelis would probably tell you they would rather be shot than be detained in Hamas warrens for years. - TaiwanIsNotChina

Indeed. Israel's controvesial implementation of the Hannibal directive also likely caused the deaths of dozens of Israeli civilians on Oct 7th. But maybe they would have appreciated the choice before having their homes fired upon by IDF tanks and helicopters.

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Posted in: Israel frees two hostages; Palestinian TV says 74 killed in assault See in context

A Dutch appeals court said it had blocked the export of F-35 fighter jets parts to Israel over a "clear risk of violations of international humanitarian law" in Gaza.

This is what the world should be doing.

Israel is running adds at the Superbowl whilst it starves millions of Gazans and massacres dozens of families.

2 hostages rescued? That brings the total by direct military action to 3. Almost makes up for the 3 Israel personally shot several weeks ago.

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Posted in: Biden says Israel shouldn't press into Rafah without 'credible' plan to protect civilians See in context

Netanyahu told “Fox News Sunday” that. . . Israel would direct evacuees with “flyers, with cellphones and with safe corridors and other things.”

Let's hope 'Gaza's Newton' also manages to fashion together a fully functioning cellular phone network before Netanyahu pushes into Rafah or it's likely he and his family will join the tens of thousands of innocents Israel has already killed.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/rockets-falling-on-us-gazas-newton-lights-up-tents-and-hearts-in-rafah/

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