Capuchin comments

Israel backs down from no one.

All that smack talk about how Hamas will do this, Hezbollah will do that, wait until Iran. . . - The Ripper

Doesn't gloating about how little of an actual threat Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran are to Israel massively undermine the very reasoning Israel likes to trot out to justify its endless belligerence and war crimes?

we can not allow terrorist to win, never - wasabi

Going to assume predictive text slipped you up there.

Terrorist entities like Hamas and Hezbollah were created by Israeli actions. The illegal occupation of Palestine, the invasion of Lebanon. They're a symptom of the conflict, not the cause.

If Israel wants to defeat terrorism It might help to stop creating the conditions that create it.

Not a soul in the Gaza strip has been left untouched by Israel. That'll have consequences down the line.

. . .and all of this brings Israel closer to its stated primary objective of getting its hostages back? Or maybe it was never about the hostages.

Anyone interested in buying a shiny new house in southern Lebanon? Jews only of course.

https://uritsafon.com/

"Inappropriate"? A week after Iwao Hakamada was finally freed after spending 46 years on death row in a huge miscarriage of justice. The Japanese government is truly death and blind to the reality that surrounds them.

Israel believes it killed Nasrallah in the strike but is still seeking confirmation.

If Israel has killed Nasrallah then they have just escalated the conflict to dangerous new heights.

no civilized people take hostages - Dango bong

1000's of Palestinians including 100's of children held by Israel in "administrative detention", locked up indefinitely, without charge, trial or legal defense.

Then when Israel is done with them they dump the corpses by the truckload back to the Palestinians.

Not a civilized country for that and so many more reasons.

https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-sends-truck-full-unidentified-decomposed-bodies-gaza

Why did he resign?

According to the last line of the article, he was “terminated” — even though the second line says he “stepped down.”

The exec resigned, the Chinese staffer was fired.

Gaza’s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far.

The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age.

More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215.

The health ministry report has been covered by many news outlets. You have to scroll through 14 pages before you get past the names of the 710 babies Israel has killed. Infants who never lived to see their first birthday.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes-identities-of-34344-palestinians-killed-in-war-with-israel

Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday, the Israeli army said. It was the deadliest such attack on Lebanon’s capital in years

Rare? Israel bombed Lebanon's capital in July and January of this year.

You don’t pull on Superman’s cap, you don’t spit in the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger and you don’t miss around with Israel! - Buck Rogers

I'd say Israel more closely resemble a modern day supervillain than superhero.

Genocide investigations, war crimes warrants, illegal occupations, over 2,000 infants killed (under 2 years old) out of over 18,000 children.

Maybe someone does need to tear the purple pants off the Joker before all notion of international rules based order is blown up with 2,000lb bombs.

One theory that security analysts have is that explosives weren't planted in the devices but instead software is being used to cause the lithium batteries to explode. In a similar way to how the stuxnet virus was used by Israel to significantly damage Iran's nuclear program. If so, the possibility of being able to detonate any device with a battery, anywhere in the world, at any time has serious global repercussions.

The timing is also very suspicious. Just as the United Nations General Assembly voted to end the Israeli occupation within 12 months. The story has largely been buried. In much the same Israel sensationally tried to designate UNRWA a terrorist organisation just as the ICJ announced its decision on Israel's ongoing genocide case.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154391

I guess not worthy of mention but Israel killed 64 Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend and a further 38 on Monday. Many of them women and children.

Another crony of Nippon Kaigi. The ultranationalist, ultraconservative, neo-facist, far-right lobby group that Shinzo Abe once presided over.

As already commented she threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of media outlets that criticised the LDP government. She opposes same sex marriages and thinks people having different surnames will destroy Japanese society.

Japan, please don't elect this right wing nut job who wants to turn Japan back a century to the good o'l days of pre-constitution imperialism.

That's because it's not. It's a made up terms, to justify a biased political narrative, and in this case severely misguided as well.

Is it not accurate to call Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank occupation forces.

If the Muslim militants/war lords the US backed in Syria are known as ISIS, it seems obvious that the non-Muslim militants/war lords the US is backing in Palestine should be called JSIP. - RichardPearce

So "Jewish state in Palestine"? Not particularly obvious. Never seen the acronym used before anywhere else.

Could just use IOF. (Israel occupation forces) That seems quite widely used and understood.

Thanks for finally solving that mystery though.

The LDP should be banned from constantly calling snap elections to keep opposition parties off balance.

Time to end the political monopoly and endless corruption.

What's a "JSIP Base"? - Desert Tortoise

I've asked about the meaning of JSIP on multiple occasions but have never gotten an answer. Usually my comment just ends up getting deleted.

Richard, care to enlighten us?

Netanyahu's endless escalations are eroding Israel's sense of military impunity and deterrence bit by bit.

A hypersonic missile fired from thousands of km away able to penetrate Israeli defenses and land deep within Israel is a dangerous precedent.

Israel aren't fighting Palestinian rocks and homemade rockets anymore. For the sake of civilians on all sides of the conflict someone needs to pull Netanyahu back from the brink.

Netanyahu is clearly worried about the ongoing ICC war crimes investigation against him. He's trying the age old Israeli tactic of having Israel "investigate" itself in order to claim that the ICJ and ICC have no jurisdiction in cases that are already under investugation. (That and making personal threats against ICC and ICJ judiciary.)

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/29/israel-s-shadow-war-against-the-icc-between-threats-and-surveillance_6673015_4.html

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asked Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to open a criminal probe into the premier and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding the Gaza war in an effort to circumvent a pending request for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against the pair. . .

. . .Netanyahu wanted a probe into the ongoing war and how the military campaign against Hamas has been handled to be opened and then closed, with an update filed to the ICC that the charges had been investigated by Israel and therefore do not require the court’s intervention.

Baharav-Miara rejected the request on the grounds that it was a blatant ploy. . .

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-ask-ag-to-probe-him-gallant-in-bid-to-fend-off-icc-arrest-warrant/

Palestine still going through “find out” stage, I see. - owzer

You don't think Oct 7th was Israel's "find out" moment? Or is context and history too inconvenient for your narrative?

2+2= 6 in Bibi's math, LOL - WoodyLee

I thought it was Hamas = Isis. Bibinomics is hard to keep up with.

The shooter was a 50 year old truck driver. - Capuchin

Sorry, correction. The driver was 39.

Netanyahu condemned the attack and linked it to Israel's larger conflict with Iran and allied militant groups, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

2+2=5?

How do the actions of a single Jordanian connect to Iran? Perhaps selective vision means he's already forgotten the assistance Jordan gave Israel in shooting down Iranian missiles and drones a few months ago. An action that was at great cost to its political standing within Jordan and the middle east.

The shooter was a 50 year old truck driver. Likely decades of being humiliated by Israeli border guards and witnessing the daily humiliation the Palestinians ongoing for generations finally flipped a switch.

Israelis protest in the streets again as death toll in Gaza grows

The articles title seems to imply that Israelis are protesting because of the staggering death toll in Gaza. That is absolutely not the case.

They are not protesting for illegal settlement? So after these things are over they'll start those settlement again? - sakurasuki

The construction of illegal Jewish colonies built on stolen Palestinian land has never paused or slowed. In fact the opposite has occured. Construction is at its fastest pace since the last round of serious Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations at Camp David in 2000.

Israeli colony construction in the Palestinian West Bank is actually at a record high. Something not often reported by western media.

https://peacenow.org.il/en/while-we-were-at-war-the-governments-annexation-revolution-in-the-west-bank-since-october-7th

I'm fairly indifferent when it comes to the morality of gambling but I do oppose the building of the casino and resort on the basis that the whole thing has been rife with corruption from top to bottom.

LDP member Tsukasa Akimoto getting sentenced for bribery charges surrounding the bidding process and then being caught bribing witnesses whilst on trial.

The pork barrel circus that is the Osaka expo being used to lay the infrastructure and groundwork for the casino on the island on the dime of Osaka residents. The cost of which ballooned by over 90% from original estimates to a figure of over 230 billion yen (Not including the cost of Japan's own pavillion) Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura helpfully agreed that Osaka tax payers would pony up for the additional costs for an expo 7 out of 10 Osaka residents don't support.

Osaka tax payers are also required to pay 79 billion yen to aid in construction of the casino resort. Over 60% of Osaka residents oppose the construction of the casino.

Nothing was learned from the Olympic scandals and a seemingly passive Japanese population seem to be happy to keep re-lecting the same corrupt political figures who line their own pockets and the coffers of big business at the expense of the ever impoverished Japanese people.

Israel has built settlements there that most countries deem illegal

ALL countries, international bodies, law, judiciary and rights groups deem them illegal. Not "most."

Even the Israeli supreme court rules that the "settlements" are illegal.

Can we please stop using the white washed language pushed by Israeli propaganda? Call a spade a spade. They're illegal colonies.

Colonies built on stolen land with the express purpose of excluding the indigenous population for the benefit of Jewish people.

Israel's military said its troops had fired toward a male "main instigator" who posed a threat by hurling rocks at soldiers.

In other words you didn't mean to shoot an American woman in the head, you intended to shoot a Palestinian in the head for throwing rocks. Thank you for the clarification.

There's been no confirmation on whether live ammunition was used or rubber bullets but other news outlets are reporting the use of tear gas and live rounds which is standard practice for dealing with Palestinian protesters.

Look closely at that map. Notice something missing? Palestine. Here's what a map of the region actually looks like according international law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories#/media/File%3AIsrael_and_occupied_territories_map.png

He looks like the weather man on local news. - John

Indeed, tune in for your daily war crimes forecast.

You also seem to be completely missing the entire point of that biblical. Try finishing the sentence.

ahem "You also seem to be completely missing the entire point of that biblical phrase. Try finishing the sentence."

Irony and typo removed.

If the two sides can't leave each other alone, why not just let them settle their differences between themselves? Heaven knows there have been efforts made before, and clearly they haven't worked. - Some Dude

You seem to be missing the linchpin to this whole situation. Why can't they leave each other alone? Because illegally occupies the other. It's really not that intractable or complicated.