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UNIFIL, said in a statement that its headquarters and positions “have been repeatedly hit" by Israeli forces.

Are we surprised, no.

Is this the first time, no.

Is Israel going keep committing crimes against humanity until the last day of its existence, yes.

So the the Israeli leadership will keep increasing the violence while having the US and the west backing them. Demonyahu is sacrificing the entire Jews just to extend his rule another couple years. I say the democracy is working really well for the Israel and Jews. At this point Hamas and Hezbollah don't even need to fight anymore.

Israel will keep this instigation until the day they are crushed by a big power again. According to ChatGPT, if we count significant, well-documented expulsions of Jews from entire countries or major regions, the number is estimated to be around 80 to 100.

This includes major historical events such as the expulsions from England (1290), France (multiple times), Spain (1492), Portugal (1497), and various parts of Central and Eastern Europe over centuries.

So the current turmoil is not even about Palestinians anymore, but about the Jews. They are repeating what they have perfected over 2 millennium.

GBDB, you are wrong. Jews have been there for millenia. 

You may want to ask yourself why there are no Jews in the surrounding Arab countries, though. There had been large Jewish communities there too, for centuries. But they all....disappeared. What happened? 

As for the Palestinians, they have had many chances to help themselves. And failed. Their Arab brothers have rejected them. Nobody wants them- the Egyptians, the Saudis, all do not accept Palestinians as refugees or citizens. Ever wonder why?

Refugee status has never been hereditary, except for the Palestinians. Ever wonder why?

So many lies in one post:

According to the ChatGPT, before jewish migration to the region started to the region after 2000 years, there were 300,000–400,000 muslims and 7,000–10,000 Jews. Until Europeans massacred the Jews countless times that made Jews to try the region having not much other options left.

Why would Arab nations make it easier for Zionist colonialists to take over Palestine. Palestinians work freely in those countries. But all those countries want to make sure the Palestinian lands will be reclaimed one day. A bit motivation is not a bad thing.

Now, if only the Palestinians had somewhere else to go. If only there were an Arab nation willing to take them in...

Wishful thinking but no. Palestinians will not abandon their land. Feel free to take in Jews though, that would solve the problem over the night.

israel is surrounded by countries and people who have for generations wanted it and all israelis destroyed “all the way to the sea.”

it was attacked in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 2006 and 2023.

Except you forgot that there was no substantial jewish population in that region for 2000 years. Suddenly Zionist colonialist came and started to take away land and expected to not have any push back.

I mean it is not their fault either. They were massacred by the europeans so many times (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsions_and_exoduses_of_Jews) they had to look for somewhere else and they thought why not go back Palestine after 2000 thousand years.

So I don't believe any comment from westerners on this page. If jews were there to take away their land, they would simply add another entry to the wiki page I have shared.

Israel has every right to defend its territory and its people from existential threats

What a total BS. Those lands were forcefully taken from Palestinians in last 75 years. Everyday some more added to it. Everyday has been October 7 for Palestinians since the day Israel established.

"Palestinians have the right reclaim all lost territories" would be a more proper and moral statement. But western politicians are too deep in pockets of Jewish big money, They would prefer a foreign jew over their own hardworking citizens.

Letting the likes of the Saudis "invest" in your company is tantamount to laundering crime money. What vile regime the Saudi's have. They and their money should be shunned.

we all know that money comes from Petroleum. Probably one of the most traceable money in entire world.

so help me understand your reasoning:

jealousy? Furious for not being a gatekeeper? Insecure for Japan showing interest for someone else? Islamophobia?

Some people fascinated by western colonialism while completely ignoring their own plus sized and savage states.

and.

We agree.

I agreed with any solid argument brought up like Armenian genocide.

But the westerners are still in delusion thinking they are best in every possible way and has nothing to say when provided the facts like that their achievement is actually built on top of killing almost 10% of the world population at that time and using those now-become-free-resources to develop their system.

Now having no free-to-use resources, they change their tactics to introduce chaos different part of the world so they can maintain their lead.

They would finger point countries like China for things that happen in Xinjian, not that they care about the muslims living in Xinjian at all, but simply to put-down China completely ignoring their own savagery that still happens today: like Israel, New Caledonia etc.

Ok for the first time I think you said one right thing out of countless other incorrect statements. What happened to the Armenians were a holocaust, not as much as what Germans did to the Jews, but I guess we should not compare it simply by just numbers or methods. Btw Armenians also did kill quite many people during that time but since they were a minority, I guess the outcome was limited.

People living in Gaza are facing famine right now, thanks to the Zionist colonialist. Now I see you think people of Gaza are to blame. I can't even put sarcasm to this twisted logic.

Another lie about the state of Arab Israelis. They are not doing better than Arabs in Saudi or Gulf. As much as I am not a fan of Saudi, I am pretty sure the women in Saudi Arabia are still doing way better than the tens of thousands of women murdered by the Zionist Colonialists in Gaza.

Yes we do not understand the western democracy. World does not want it anymore after seeing how amazing it was once Americans brought it to people in Iraq, Syria, Libya. Please keep it to yourself like you did during the first and second world wars and for 2 millenniums before that. We prefer you exercise that great system among yourself. That is best for the planet.

I just asked ChatGPT to see how many people Europeans killed as part of colonialism. It says between 50-100 million people. That is how you guys built your wealth on by killing up to 90% of population in Americas, Australia and Oceania.

Skavery was abolished in Haiti 220 years ago. For how long are some going to blame the West for all the ills there?

Although there is a bit truth in this, there is also a bigger truth.

Every single country that western powers colonialized had dramatic changes. The former colonies that doing well today are because the western countries massacred vast majority of local populations and replaced the local populations with their own. example: Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand. If you look at the comment history, you can see people who die-hard support Israeli colonialism are also the ones who deny the tragedy that the west unleashed on entire planet. it usually comes as a package.

The other ones that are doing relative well are the ones that saw what the west down the core and categorically rejected it and did not allow western powers have a foothold on their homeland. Example: China, Japan, Turkey, Malaysia, Russia etc.

And there are remaining ones who are still under the shadows of western colonialism as they lost their previous working system and unable to put down somehting new. Caribbean countries, west Africa, lots of latin American countries etc.

Yes, the western colonialism is by far the worst thing happened to the entire planet. And there is a parallelism between what Western colonialism and what Israel does today.

correcting myself:

That is like 900 years.

I wanted to say 1900 years, not 900 years.

It seems pro-israeli readers in this comment section just out of touch. Here are few fact-checks.

He obviously mispoke. I don't know what proxies people think Israel has.

Entire west becomes Israel's proxy. Europeans are hardwired to think of Israel before their basic needs. In order for Israel to see another daylight, it needs Middle East and neighbouring regions stay in turmoil. Eventually Europeans pay the price with surge of immigration from destabilized regions and having less developed regions in their proximity which is bad for their economy and trade. Look at the decrease in the European economy, wealth and security. Average Arnaud in Europe is paying the price for Zionist colonialism.

I guess the terrorists bit off more than they could chew in attacking Israeli civilians.

Here I assume you imply all parties that have a stance against Israel. For the sake of equality, let's normalize the term zionist terrorists. Second, Iran is intentionally not engaging for a bigger confrontation. Israel and its allies are still in their peak wrt to power. Iran would be at disadvantage. But there are signs of western decline, possible larger confrontation with Russia and China, larger unrest in USA, and other Middle Eastern power are gradually closing the gap regarding the power. Israel is not going to run away any time soon. It will be taken care of when the right opportunity comes up. Fo now minor players like Hamas and Hezbollah keeping it busy.

Jewish people have lived in this region from the very beginning. They alone have developed it, turned their nation into the only democracy in the region.

Yeah right. you forgot to mention the timeframe when Roman crushed the Jewish instigation and drive them out of region until mid 20th century. That is like 900 years. Ask Germans, Spanish, Polish etc how their cohabitation with Jews went. You can find details about the friendship between Jews and Europeans here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsions_and_exoduses_of_Jews.

Only democracy in the region: haha. I am pretty sure in a not so distant future, some major powers in Middle East will bring democracy back to Israel.

One day Israel will be on the receiving end of a well deserved evacuation order.

Here are facts:

Israel has been the occupier and land invader since its foundation. That is part of its identity. It will never stop until a strong power crushes it.

Almost a year and Israel still fights against Hamas which is in a very small region even though they have destroyed almost every single house, hospital, school. For comparison, if Gaza was in Tokyo, it would fit between Haneda airport and Saitama. Or a bit longer than the path of Yamanote line. A distance an ambitious tourist walk in one day.

Israel by any means is overrated. It look strong because of the firepower and money it receives from west. Imagine tomorrow there is a civil war in US and unable to support Israel. In that case, Hamas and Hezbollah will run over Israel in 24 hours. I am not even mentioning bigger players in Middle East.

There has been a small exodus from Israel already in last one year. It will probably keep going on.

Lets take a step back and see what happened since last year:

Israel and US did their usual. Fighting small players, killing some and declaring how great they are. Nothing new.

On the other hand, Iran had two major direct attacks on Israel. Something we would have considered insane to even think about one year ago. With those attacks, Iran not only normalized attacking Israel directly, it also learned and helped other major players to learn what weaknesses Israel has. Next attack would be even more effective.

On top of that, one year ago Iran was considered by many (including by myself) evil for saying Israel is the root of evil in Middle East. One year later, it seems Iran has also won on the ideology side. Quite many people convinced that Israel indeed is really the root of evil. As long as it is there, there will not be a lasting peace in Middle East.

Regardless what you think about Israel, their military organization is perfectly functioning. It's flawless.

Never ever try to start a military confrontation with this country, you will not win.

I literally laughed when reading this. A starving Hamas with pre-history tools was able to launch such an attack that shaken Israel. US had to send warships to the eastern Mediterranean sea to calm their anxiety and security concerns. You know, I know, everyone knows it will take only one battle for Israel to cease to exist. What Israeli leadership does is just speeding up that process.

The US and her allies are traversing international, and friendly, waters.

Looking at international law, China is far and away the worst actor in the region.

Sending warships to navigate between the Chinese populated mainland and a Chinese populated island is ill intended and a clear act of hostility if not worse. Most of western countries participated in that already.

The Philippines kicked out the US and its bases a long time ago, the Filipino people.

But corrupt president/s brought it back

What west did do Ukraine, is about to happen to Philippines, Taiwan and maybe Japan. They didn't care about Ukraine or Ukrainian lives. All they wanted was just to weaken Russians. Now they will do the same to some asian countries. Seems Philippines is falling for the trick first.

It could be related to the defeat of Japanese in the Pacific War, but the Japanese seem to have an inferior complex towards Americans whereas the Chinese are the opposite and have an arrogance, believing they are intelligently superior to the average American. 

I have never met a Japanese who think they’re inferior to the Chinese or any other Asian nationalities

Could not said better. But I won't say Chinese arrogance. China has one of the longest civilization and has immense amount of influence on the world. Just look its influence on Japan. So ordinary Chinese have all the rights to be proud of their civilization. Contrary to western media, China still going strong and people are having positive attitudes of their Country as far as I see from interacting Chinese living in the west.

Japan is still a defacto occupied country. Can't even demand the exact number of child rapes by American soldiers on its own supposed territory. Japanese leadership is to blame in the first place. I believe this won't continue forever. I just hope Japan does not fall for deadly western tricks and become part of their meat-grind against China until a new, strong and wise leadership rise to the occasion. Once that leadership comes to power, whatever west does won't matter anymore, as China has already demonstrated that.

So it's okay for China to have missile launchers in the South China Seas!!

Looking at the map and distances and solely based on the missile placement, US beats china in being the worst.

So it's okay for China to allow their ships to enter the territories of other countries.

Same as above.

If someone went to his country and did the same thing at a temple, do you think the local people wouldn't get angry at a tourist ringing a bell violently more than a dozen times.

You are providing fake news. "Countless" is an over-exaggeration!! There are bad eggs in every country including China (but it is never reported privately). Any crime committed against children is hideous!!

Looking at the Chatgpt. There were at least 12 rape cases by US soldiers. But exact numbers are unknown because they are not reported as they don't want to rub it on Japanese people's faces. And the number is countless as literally the exact count is unknown.

China is not necessarily a good guy. I am not going to defend it by any means. But by any metrics, US is worse than China. US is there with other western countries to cause another war, make asians kill each other so the western world dominance continues.

The Euros invented the third-world. Before they showed up, most of those places were very nice. Their racism, violence and greed is what destroyed most. Karma?

A wise person entered to the comment section. Glad to see there are still people who can see things beyond the newspaper headlines.

China is not necessarily the good guy. But US and its other western partners are hundred times worse and agitators given the missile placements, nonstop sending their warships to the region. Their reaction to China is the outcome of seeing a country has the guts and power to say no to their dominance. Japan also try to be part of the club but I guess it has no option as it is still an occupied country living under the terms dictated to it after WWII.

Let me give you an comparison if you don't believe that statement:

One South East Asian boy goes to a shrine and rings the bell with a bit extra force, entire country goes nuts.

Countless Japanese children are raped by US soldiers, yet ordinary Japanese still hold the US with highest regards, try to be more American and Anglicize their language every day a little more.

What happens if tomorrow US for whatever reason is unable to give that much money/weapon/fire power to Israel. What happens if Israel's neighbours catch up in terms of weapons. It will take only one battle to reverse this injustice that is happening since 75 years. And anyone can see this coming sooner or later.

While the rich and powerful routinely flout the rule of law and the status quo is something that keeps billions in misery.

Exactly. They scream about rule of law only when they sense they are loosing upper hand.

I must say it is interesting to see a terrorist group complaining about them being terrorized.

You missed the main culprit. They exploded these devices without 0 regard for civilians. This is a proof that the Jewish state of Israel is even more of a terrorist.

If animals like Russia and China can be goaded into unprovoked attack then yes, pocket money will be spent.

Of course you do what you do the best. I am trying to raise Asian awareness so they don't fall for western deadly tricks.

I am pretty sure we saw this before under a different name.

Nato fluffed up Ukraine saying they will back it up if attacked by Russians. Now all they do is simply spending a bit pocket money while Ukranians and Russians are dying in hundreds thousands. A little price to pay for the west as long some Russians die. Even that pocket money is about to run out but Ukranians and Russians have already passed the point of return and they will keep killing each other in the near future.

Next they will try the same thing against China under the name Aukus/Quad/or whatever another trick works. It is clear Chinese will die. My question is who is the other party to die. Taiwanese? Japanese? South Koreans? Philippinos? Whose life is worth of the western pocket money?

In most countries I have seen, in-laws will still care a lot for the widow and see her as their daughter assuming they have a positive relationship. If there are grandchildren, then that relationship somehow continues no matter how toxic it might become.

Since human relationships can become extremely complicated and damaging, posthumous divorce is not a bad idea. Especially if there are no kids involved.

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Good for Brazil, good for Turkey...

I wonder if this has anything to do with dislike-for-Chinese or trying to differentiate-them-from-Chinese. Either way, I feel like there is a twisted reason behind it as for all other die hard trump supporters.

At the end of the day, this is just a proof that Japanese are just like any other folks. Another recent proof is foreigners eating up all rice stocks. I am even considering to shorten my next Japan trip to not deflate the rice stocks (Sarcasm).

This is Japan and it is not the USA, Canada, UK, France, Australia, etc.... but it seems many here want Japan to become these places.

If I wanted Couche-Tard so badly I would move back to Quebec.

Well said Antiquesaving.

All those fretting over Canadians coming in and radically changing 7-11s beloved and "traditional" Japanese sandwiches - and "forcing customers to use French" - can now rest easy!

Please don't mix Canada and Quebec. Even though Quebec is in Canada, they are quite different. Things and politics in Quebec are generally inferior to Canada in many ways. So yes, this deal not happening is a really good thing for Japan. Glad that for once Quebec won't ruin a good thing.

They are also some of the most badly governed countries in the world or are part of the religion that hates Israel.

Africa has more christians than muslims.

Let's see how you react if jews were there to take over your land and resources. But wait we know what you did to jews for doing significantly less harm.