said no hostage negotiator ever. Plenty of trigger happy cops have said it when gunning down innocents in crossfire tho.
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said no hostage negotiator ever. Plenty of trigger happy cops have said it when gunning down innocents in crossfire tho.
It appears no one gives a fuck about hostages, well certainly not Israel, except the hostages themselves and family.
Hamas partially gives a fuck as they are bargaining chips.
IDF doesn't care, they see them as colateral damage.
IDF are brain dead because Netanyahu is their hero getting rid of Palestinians.
Netanyahu thinks imo, this war is serving his purpose to stay in power.
Biden thinks involvement in this war is serving God.
Everyone has a different motive for fighting but hostages, if you look at Gaza bombardment, they get killed because they're in the way.
Hostages are meat in the grinder of politics, corruption, religion, power, arms sales, land grabbing theft and a bunch of other ulterior motives.
Opinion
Biden’s desperate battle to halt global conflict
Political division and turmoil at home are undermining US leadership overseas.
Gideon Rachman Columnist Dec 5, 2023
https://www.afr.com/world/north-ame...attle-to-halt-global-conflict-20231205-p5ep15
How many international conflicts can one superpower handle at the same time? The Biden administration is currently trying to deal with wars in the Middle East and Europe, while preparing for a surge in tensions between China and Taiwan.
All this is taking place under the lengthening shadow of Donald Trump. His possible return to the White House poses profound questions about the future of US democracy and the country’s role in the world.
An armed woman walks through Jerusalem during increased tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. Getty
The combination of all these events is creating a palpable sense of tension and foreboding in government offices in Washington. It is not just the sheer number of crises coming at the Biden administration, but the fact that many are heading in the wrong direction — the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, for example. And the polls look bad for Biden.
The foreign crises could come to a head quite fast. “The next three months could determine the next few years,” is how one senior US official puts it. A prominent Democrat worries that “by January, we could be talking about how Joe Biden lost Ukraine”.
New funding for the Ukrainian military and its civilian institutions is stuck in Congress. The Biden administration seems confident that money for Kyiv will ultimately be agreed. But if financial assistance is not passed before the end of the year, Ukraine could feel the effects on the battlefield within weeks.
Attempts to agree a fresh package of EU money for Ukraine are also stalled by wrangling in Brussels. Senior US military officials are warning Congress that, if funding for the country is cut and Putin makes substantial progress in the war as a result, Russia could threaten the Baltic states by the end of 2024.
In the coming weeks, Russia is expected to launch an intense bout of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the hope of crippling the country’s power supply and winter heating.
Moscow tried the same thing last winter and failed. But the Russians now have many more drones and missiles, thanks to Iran, North Korea and ramped-up domestic production. Ukrainian air defences are looking threadbare in places and could be overwhelmed.
The precariousness of Ukraine’s situation is getting less attention than it should because of the Middle East. The Biden administration is paying a heavy political price, at home and abroad, for its support for Israel. The US is now putting public pressure on Israel to change its military tactics in Gaza and to kill fewer Palestinian civilians.
But American concerns extend well beyond Gaza. The Biden administration still feels that it is dangerously close to a wider regional war that would drag in the US. Attacks on shipping by the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia in Yemen, might create the incident that leads to escalation.
There are also powerful voices in Israel who argue that, after the October 7 terror attacks, Israel can no longer tolerate the presence of Hizbollah, another heavily armed Iran-backed militia, on its northern border. But a war between Israel and Hizbollah could be much more intense than a conflict with Hamas.
There is some resentment in Washington that Israel is insisting it will make its own decisions about military operations, while relying on US muscle in the background. “The Israelis are playing with house money,” as one US official puts it. But, after October 7, there remains a deep reluctance to put serious pressure on Israel to change course.
Dispatching American aircraft carriers and missile defence systems to the Middle East means that they are not available for other trouble spots. That has implications not just for Ukraine but also for East Asia.
Palestinians injured in Israeli airstrikes arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital in southern Gaza. Getty
The current expectation in Washington is that the Taiwanese presidential election on January 13 will be won by Lai Ching-te, who is regarded in Beijing as a dangerous separatist. If China responds to a Lai victory with threatening displays of military strength, that could easily provoke a new crisis.
There is cautious optimism that Beijing’s initial response to a victory by Lai will concentrate on economic and political pressure. But, over the course of the year, China could take its military intimidation of Taiwan to new levels, particularly if the US looks distracted and weakened by events in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The fact that China will be closely watching Ukraine and Gaza illustrates the linked nature of all these crises.
Western officials believe Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are working together much more closely than before. The Russians are now dependent on Chinese economic support and are almost unrestrained in military collaboration with North Korea and Iran.
With the US presidential election less than a year away, all these international crises feed into American politics. Trump will take every opportunity to accuse Biden of presiding over an era of weakness and retreat, citing Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza and the Taiwan Strait.
A chaotic and divisive US election – with Trump as the central figure – will contribute powerfully to that impression of US weakness and decline. China, Russia and Iran will relish asking how America can promise to defend democracies overseas, when its own democracy is in so much trouble at home. Unfortunately, it is a good question.
Biden’s desperate battle to halt global conflict
Political division and turmoil at home are undermining US leadership overseas.
Gideon Rachman Columnist Dec 5, 2023
https://www.afr.com/world/north-ame...attle-to-halt-global-conflict-20231205-p5ep15
How many international conflicts can one superpower handle at the same time? The Biden administration is currently trying to deal with wars in the Middle East and Europe, while preparing for a surge in tensions between China and Taiwan.
All this is taking place under the lengthening shadow of Donald Trump. His possible return to the White House poses profound questions about the future of US democracy and the country’s role in the world.
An armed woman walks through Jerusalem during increased tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. Getty
The combination of all these events is creating a palpable sense of tension and foreboding in government offices in Washington. It is not just the sheer number of crises coming at the Biden administration, but the fact that many are heading in the wrong direction — the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, for example. And the polls look bad for Biden.
The foreign crises could come to a head quite fast. “The next three months could determine the next few years,” is how one senior US official puts it. A prominent Democrat worries that “by January, we could be talking about how Joe Biden lost Ukraine”.
New funding for the Ukrainian military and its civilian institutions is stuck in Congress. The Biden administration seems confident that money for Kyiv will ultimately be agreed. But if financial assistance is not passed before the end of the year, Ukraine could feel the effects on the battlefield within weeks.
Attempts to agree a fresh package of EU money for Ukraine are also stalled by wrangling in Brussels. Senior US military officials are warning Congress that, if funding for the country is cut and Putin makes substantial progress in the war as a result, Russia could threaten the Baltic states by the end of 2024.
In the coming weeks, Russia is expected to launch an intense bout of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the hope of crippling the country’s power supply and winter heating.
Moscow tried the same thing last winter and failed. But the Russians now have many more drones and missiles, thanks to Iran, North Korea and ramped-up domestic production. Ukrainian air defences are looking threadbare in places and could be overwhelmed.
The precariousness of Ukraine’s situation is getting less attention than it should because of the Middle East. The Biden administration is paying a heavy political price, at home and abroad, for its support for Israel. The US is now putting public pressure on Israel to change its military tactics in Gaza and to kill fewer Palestinian civilians.
But American concerns extend well beyond Gaza. The Biden administration still feels that it is dangerously close to a wider regional war that would drag in the US. Attacks on shipping by the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia in Yemen, might create the incident that leads to escalation.
There are also powerful voices in Israel who argue that, after the October 7 terror attacks, Israel can no longer tolerate the presence of Hizbollah, another heavily armed Iran-backed militia, on its northern border. But a war between Israel and Hizbollah could be much more intense than a conflict with Hamas.
There is some resentment in Washington that Israel is insisting it will make its own decisions about military operations, while relying on US muscle in the background. “The Israelis are playing with house money,” as one US official puts it. But, after October 7, there remains a deep reluctance to put serious pressure on Israel to change course.
Dispatching American aircraft carriers and missile defence systems to the Middle East means that they are not available for other trouble spots. That has implications not just for Ukraine but also for East Asia.
Palestinians injured in Israeli airstrikes arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital in southern Gaza. Getty
The current expectation in Washington is that the Taiwanese presidential election on January 13 will be won by Lai Ching-te, who is regarded in Beijing as a dangerous separatist. If China responds to a Lai victory with threatening displays of military strength, that could easily provoke a new crisis.
There is cautious optimism that Beijing’s initial response to a victory by Lai will concentrate on economic and political pressure. But, over the course of the year, China could take its military intimidation of Taiwan to new levels, particularly if the US looks distracted and weakened by events in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The fact that China will be closely watching Ukraine and Gaza illustrates the linked nature of all these crises.
Western officials believe Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are working together much more closely than before. The Russians are now dependent on Chinese economic support and are almost unrestrained in military collaboration with North Korea and Iran.
With the US presidential election less than a year away, all these international crises feed into American politics. Trump will take every opportunity to accuse Biden of presiding over an era of weakness and retreat, citing Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza and the Taiwan Strait.
A chaotic and divisive US election – with Trump as the central figure – will contribute powerfully to that impression of US weakness and decline. China, Russia and Iran will relish asking how America can promise to defend democracies overseas, when its own democracy is in so much trouble at home. Unfortunately, it is a good question.
Do you think Israel gives a fuck about America?
As for Biden a war leader - incompetent because he's led by his emotional deluded religous beliefs.
Trump would be worse, while holding bible upsidedown and can't quote 1 verse.
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I would think you would like him for that.
Terror threat on US at all-time high since Israel-Hamas war: ‘Blinking red lights everywhere’
Jessica Kwong Published Dec 5, 2023
https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/05/terror-threat-us-high-israel-hamas-war-fbi-19931068/?ito=newsnow-feed
US Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray testifies at an oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday (Picture: Getty Images)
The threat of a terrorist attack facing the US since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has reached a level ‘never seen’ before, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Wray said ‘the threat level has gone to a whole nother level since October 7’, the day that Hamas launched surprise air, land and sea attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
‘I see blinking red lights everywhere,’ said Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Senator Lindsey Graham had asked the FBI director to discuss the ‘threat matrix’ to the US.
‘What I would say that is unique about the environment that we’re in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now,’ Wray said, ‘I’ve never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.’
Graham brought up the blinking red lights analogy around 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
‘All the lights were blinking red before 9/11, apparently. Obviously, all of us missed it. Would you say there’s multiple blinking red lights out there?’ Graham asked.
That’s when Wray said he was seeing the blinking lights ‘everywhere’. He added that a ‘veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorists’ has called for attacks against the US since the October 7 massacre.
Jessica Kwong Published Dec 5, 2023
https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/05/terror-threat-us-high-israel-hamas-war-fbi-19931068/?ito=newsnow-feed
US Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray testifies at an oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday (Picture: Getty Images)
The threat of a terrorist attack facing the US since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has reached a level ‘never seen’ before, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Wray said ‘the threat level has gone to a whole nother level since October 7’, the day that Hamas launched surprise air, land and sea attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
‘I see blinking red lights everywhere,’ said Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Senator Lindsey Graham had asked the FBI director to discuss the ‘threat matrix’ to the US.
‘What I would say that is unique about the environment that we’re in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now,’ Wray said, ‘I’ve never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.’
Graham brought up the blinking red lights analogy around 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
‘All the lights were blinking red before 9/11, apparently. Obviously, all of us missed it. Would you say there’s multiple blinking red lights out there?’ Graham asked.
That’s when Wray said he was seeing the blinking lights ‘everywhere’. He added that a ‘veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorists’ has called for attacks against the US since the October 7 massacre.
Despite Gaza death toll soaring, U.S. unlikely to rethink weapons supplies to Israel
Facing a soaring death toll from Israel's renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid.
Facing a soaring death toll from Israel's renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid.
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Despite Gaza death toll soaring, U.S. unlikely to rethink weapons supplies to Israel
Facing a soaring death toll from Israel's renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid.
Good! We should be sending Israel more weapons to defend themselves from rockets and eliminate the Hamas terrorists.
Terror threat on US at all-time high since Israel-Hamas war: ‘Blinking red lights everywhere’
Jessica Kwong Published Dec 5, 2023
https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/05/terror-threat-us-high-israel-hamas-war-fbi-19931068/?ito=newsnow-feed
US Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray testifies at an oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday (Picture: Getty Images)
The threat of a terrorist attack facing the US since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has reached a level ‘never seen’ before, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Wray said ‘the threat level has gone to a whole nother level since October 7’, the day that Hamas launched surprise air, land and sea attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip.
‘I see blinking red lights everywhere,’ said Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Senator Lindsey Graham had asked the FBI director to discuss the ‘threat matrix’ to the US.
‘What I would say that is unique about the environment that we’re in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now,’ Wray said, ‘I’ve never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.’
Graham brought up the blinking red lights analogy around 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history.
‘All the lights were blinking red before 9/11, apparently. Obviously, all of us missed it. Would you say there’s multiple blinking red lights out there?’ Graham asked.
That’s when Wray said he was seeing the blinking lights ‘everywhere’. He added that a ‘veritable rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorists’ has called for attacks against the US since the October 7 massacre.
Remember that Hamas and its allies don't only want to eliminate Israel and kill all the Jews. Their charter states very clearly they will kill every Christian and eliminate western civilizations. Even down to listing the Christian organizations they would eliminate first.
This is how piss weak and idiotic American politicians attempt to cover up their incompetence, by attempting to delude the public via the media that they are trying very hard to fix someone else's problem.
U.S. to Deny Visas to Violent Israeli Settlers and Some West Bank Palestinians
As acts of violence spike in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, American officials say they will take action against people “believed to have been involved in undermining peace.”
U.S. to Deny Visas to Violent Israeli Settlers and Some West Bank Palestinians
As acts of violence spike in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, American officials say they will take action against people “believed to have been involved in undermining peace.”