Yawn....... Israel attacked by Hamas

[themickey]

LOL. "Netanyahu largely funded Hamas".
Netanyahu supported the existence and external funding of the Hamas organization to counter-balance Fatah (Palestinian Authority). This was all part of Netanyahu attempting to avoid any progress on a two-state solution. On October 7th the entire thing backfired on him and he is likely to be ejected from office when the war is over -- which would be a good thing IMO.

Netanyahu is smarter than Biden, Netanyahu knows judgement day is coming for him when the war ends, which is all the more reason not to end the war.

But clueless and simplistic Biden can't figure out two steps ahead of himself.
All Biden knows is stuff he was indoctrinated in at church, which is Jesus was a Jew therefore all Jews are sacred and need to be taken care of, no matter the sin of blitzing Gaza off the face of the earth.

 

[gwb-trading]

If Trump can get a Nobel Peace Prize award nomination this year... then why not a terrorist supporting organization. In other news, the Nobel Peace Prize award nomination process is a joke.

UNRWA Gets Nobel Prize Nomination After Role in Oct. 7 Massacre Exposed
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/...ination-after-role-in-oct-7-massacre-exposed/

 

[gwb-trading]

In summary, there is an Egyptian border crossing list which allows 150 people to leave Gaza each day. In order to get on the list you must bribe both Hamas and Egyptian authorities huge sums of money per person. Most of the population of Gaza is poor and does not have thousands of dollars -- therefore some have turned to GoFundMe.

If Egypt really cared about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza then they would allow many more than 150 to cross per day -- and put the old, sick and injured at the top of the list. However Egypt has more of a focus on keeping terrorists and Palestinians out of their country because they are afraid they will be stuck with them permanently. Egypt already has an over-population problem, but have space for more people in the Sinai area certainly.

Egypt is more afraid that many of the Palestinians are terrorists and will join the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist movement which Egypt still has significant problems with. Note that the Muslim Brotherhood is a group with existing associations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

Desperate Palestinians Set Up GoFundMes to Pay Huge Bribes to Escape Gaza
For many families, the only way to get out of Gaza is to pay a huge bribe to Egyptian officials with absolutely no guarantee that you will be allowed out of the warzone anyway.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/despe...p-gofundmes-to-pay-huge-bribes-to-escape-gaza

 

[Cuddles]

In summary, there is an Egyptian border crossing list which allows 150 people to leave Gaza each day. In order to get on the list you must bribe both Hamas and Egyptian authorities huge sums of money per person. Most of the population of Gaza is poor and does not have thousands of dollars -- therefore some have turned to GoFundMe.

If Egypt really cared about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza then they would allow many more than 150 to cross per day -- and put the old, sick and injured at the top of the list. However Egypt has more of a focus on keeping terrorists and Palestinians out of their country because they are afraid they will be stuck with them permanently. Egypt already has an over-population problem, but have space for more people in the Sinai area certainly.

Egypt is more afraid that many of the Palestinians are terrorists and will join the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist movement which Egypt still has significant problems with. Note that the Muslim Brotherhood is a group with existing associations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

Desperate Palestinians Set Up GoFundMes to Pay Huge Bribes to Escape Gaza
For many families, the only way to get out of Gaza is to pay a huge bribe to Egyptian officials with absolutely no guarantee that you will be allowed out of the warzone anyway.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/despe...p-gofundmes-to-pay-huge-bribes-to-escape-gaza

I was wondering how long it would take for you to push Israel's line of ethnically cleansing the region.

Egypt knows full well what Israel's objectives are and is under no obligation to aid an ethnic cleansing. Israel has never allowed a Palestinian to return to their land and this would be no different. It's why they're starving the region and calling aid workers terrorists. It's why they are pushing the idea of controlling the Philadelphi corridor by force.

Whatever happened to "move to safe zones" and "let them go back north" anyway?

Point blank lol at calling Egypt the "bad guys" here.

Israel does not want a 2-state solution and an ethnostate will never work with a sizeable Arab population in it. Not in the modern world where one can witness the apartheid in the west bank.

 

[themickey]

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Australia supports new strikes against Yemen’s Houthis
By Lolita Baldor and Tara Copp February 4, 2024
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle...-against-yemen-s-houthis-20240204-p5f27j.html

Washington: The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen overnight with support from Australia, in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests after the Israel-Hamas war.

The latest strikes against the Houthis were launched by warships and fighter jets. They follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria yesterday (AEDT) that targeted other Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan last weekend.

A Yemeni in Sanaa protester lifts a mock missile while participating in a protest staged against the US-led sustained airstrikes on Yemen.Credit: Getty

The Houthi targets were in 13 different locations and were struck by American F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and by the USS Gravely and the USS Carney Navy destroyers firing Tomahawk missiles from the Red Sea, US officials said. They were not authorised to publicly discuss the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The US warned that its response after the soldiers’ deaths at the Tower 22 base in Jordan last Sunday would not be limited to one night, one target or one group. But the Houthis have been conducting almost daily missile or drone attacks against commercial and military ships transiting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and they have made clear that they have no intention of scaling back their campaign. It was not immediately clear whether the allied assaults will deter them.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the military action, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, “sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels.”

He added: “We will not hesitate to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world’s most critical waterways.”

The Defence Department said the strikes targeted sites associated with the Houthis’ deeply buried weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defence systems and radars.
The strikes marked the third time the US and Britain had conducted a large joint operation to strike Houthi weapon launchers, radar sites and drones. The strikes in Yemen are meant to underscore the broader message to Iran that Washington holds Tehran responsible for arming, funding and training the array of militias behind attacks across the Middle East against US and international interests over the past several months, including in Iraq and Syria by the rebels in Yemen.

Video shared online by people in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, included the sound of explosions and at least one blast was seen lighting up the night sky. Residents described the blasts as happening around buildings associated with the Yemeni presidential compound. The Houthi-controlled state-run news agency, SABA, reported strikes in al-Bayda, Dhamar, Hajjah, Hodeida, Taiz and Sanaa provinces.

On Friday the US destroyer Laboon and F/A-18s from the Eisenhower shot down seven drones fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen into the Red Sea, the destroyer Carney shot down a drone fired in the Gulf of Aden and US forces took out four more drones that were prepared to launch.

Hours before the latest joint operation, the US took another self-defence strike on a site in Yemen, destroying six anti-ship cruise missiles, as it has repeatedly when it has detected a missile or drone ready to launch.

The Houthis’ attacks have led shipping companies to reroute their vessels from the Red Sea, sending them around Africa through the Cape of Good Hope – a much longer, costlier and less efficient passage. The threats also have led the US and its allies to set up a joint mission where warships from participating nations provide a protective umbrella of air defence for ships as they travel the critical waterway that runs from the Suez Canal down to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

During normal operations about 400 commercial vessels transit the southern Red Sea at any given time.

The US has blamed the Jordan attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias. Iran has tried to distance itself from the drone strike, saying the militias act independently of its direction.

Hussein al-Mosawi, spokesperson for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, condemned the earlier US strike in Iraq and said Washington “must understand that every action elicits a reaction”. He also struck a more conciliatory tone. “We do not wish to escalate or widen regional tensions.”

Mosawi said the targeted sites in Iraq were mainly “devoid of fighters and military personnel at the time of the attack.”

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that 23 people, all rank-and-file fighters, were killed. Iraqi government spokesperson Bassim al-Awadi said in a statement 16 people, including civilians, were killed and there was “significant damage” to homes and private properties.

AP

 

[themickey]

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the military action, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, “

Years ago, New Zealand was ostracized by USA's military due to its ban on nuclear vessels.
I notice they have quietly been brought back into the fold.
Change of NZ Gummint prolly?

 

[El OchoCinco]

In summary, there is an Egyptian border crossing list which allows 150 people to leave Gaza each day. In order to get on the list you must bribe both Hamas and Egyptian authorities huge sums of money per person. Most of the population of Gaza is poor and does not have thousands of dollars -- therefore some have turned to GoFundMe.

If Egypt really cared about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza then they would allow many more than 150 to cross per day -- and put the old, sick and injured at the top of the list. However Egypt has more of a focus on keeping terrorists and Palestinians out of their country because they are afraid they will be stuck with them permanently. Egypt already has an over-population problem, but have space for more people in the Sinai area certainly.

Egypt is more afraid that many of the Palestinians are terrorists and will join the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist movement which Egypt still has significant problems with. Note that the Muslim Brotherhood is a group with existing associations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

Desperate Palestinians Set Up GoFundMes to Pay Huge Bribes to Escape Gaza
For many families, the only way to get out of Gaza is to pay a huge bribe to Egyptian officials with absolutely no guarantee that you will be allowed out of the warzone anyway.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/despe...p-gofundmes-to-pay-huge-bribes-to-escape-gaza

Ask yourself a question...if Israel sends military into Gaza and is bombing and killing civilians..why is the burden on Egypt to step up and help remove Palestinians from Gaza? Egypt has no responsibility to support the war or take a position in favor or Israel or Gaza or support Israel right to expel Palestinians and they should open the gate.

If Egypt really cared about the plight? They are not responsible for what is happening in Gaza...

 

[wildchild]

I was wondering how long it would take for you to push Israel's line of ethnically cleansing the region.

Egypt knows full well what Israel's objectives are and is under no obligation to aid an ethnic cleansing. Israel has never allowed a Palestinian to return to their land and this would be no different. It's why they're starving the region and calling aid workers terrorists. It's why they are pushing the idea of controlling the Philadelphi corridor by force.

Whatever happened to "move to safe zones" and "let them go back north" anyway?

Point blank lol at calling Egypt the "bad guys" here.

Israel does not want a 2-state solution and an ethnostate will never work with a sizeable Arab population in it. Not in the modern world where one can witness the apartheid in the west bank.

It would almost be like the President of the United States lying about the circumstances of his son's death.

Do you support anyone like that?

 

[Cuddles]

Violent pro-Hamas criminals are killing Jews across the face of the earth.

Elderly Jewish man dies after confrontation with pro-Palestinian protester at California rally
Paul Kessler's death sparks outrage; Ventura County Sheriff's Department has not ruled out possibility of hate crime
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jewish-man-dies-apparent-assault-pro-palestinian-california-rally

Alnaji’s lawyer, Ron Bamieh, said his client did not cause Kessler to fall and was several feet away from him when that happened. He said that before the fall, Kessler was yelling profanities at Alnaji and shoving his phone in his face. Alnaji may have struck at the phone with a megaphone and unintentionally hit Kessler in the face, Bamieh said.

Alnaji then walked away from Kessler, who fell moments later, Bamieh said, adding that video footage shows that.

“Why he fell, I don’t know,” Bamieh said. “I just know my client didn’t push him down. When I saw the video, I felt that my client is going to be fine. He’s not even close to him.”

 

[themickey]

News

World

Israel
EU concerned by "domino effect" of Israel-Hamas War

By Euronews with AP Published on 03/02/2024

EU Foreign Affairs chief Josef Borrell calls for parties to help halt escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, and the EU is worried that Israel might extend the war in Gaza to a 'pressure cooker' town near Egypt.

The European Union on Saturday expressed deep concern over reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt where more than a million people have escaped the fighting.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that the conflict is likely to spread throughout the region unless a ceasefire is agreed between Israel and Hamas, after US airstrikes hit dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Borrell said that around 1 million Palestinians “have been displaced progressively against the Egyptian border. They claimed they were safe zones, but in fact what we see is that the bombing affecting the civilian population continues and it is creating a very dire situation.”

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Thursday that after Israeli troops seize the southern city of Khan Younis, from where tens of thousands of people have fled, they will move on to Rafah. He did not give a time frame.

Such an offensive could push the refugees into Egypt, undermining Israel's peace agreement with the country and risking angering the US. It might also torpedo slow-moving peace talks with Hamas and complicate efforts to release scores of Israelis abducted when the militant group rampaged through southern Israel on 7 October.

The prospect of a ground war in Rafah has raised fears about where the population would go to find safety. The United Nations said the town is becoming a “pressure cooker of despair”.

Speaking in Brussels, where he was chairing informal talks among EU foreign ministers, Borrell said that the Israel-Hamas war has created “a domino effect,” with conflict also erupting in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and in the Red Sea area.

“We are living a critical situation in the Middle East, in the whole region,” he said. “As long as the war in Gaza continues, it is very difficult to believe that the situation in the Red Sea will improve, because one thing is related with the other.”

Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, warned of “a real risk of spillover of the conflict.”

“It’s a huge concern. We ask for restraint, and we ask for dialogue and diplomacy. It’s the only way we can calm down the situation in the Middle East,” she said.

Radek Sikorski, the foreign minister of Poland, a staunch US ally, said those targeted in the US airstrikes had it coming. “Iran’s proxies have played with fire for months and years and it’s now burning them,” he said.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said he believes “that those who are attacking US bases have to know that they are actually pouring oil into the fire.” He warned that ”this is a powder keg, the whole Middle East, and there are too many people running around with matches.”

After the meeting, Borrell also expressed concern about the fate of the UN relief agency working with the Palestinians, after 12 UNRWA staff were accused of involvement in the 7 October attacks, leading the US and other countries to pull funding from Gaza's biggest humanitarian aid provider.

Borrell said the majority of ministers present from the 27 EU nations believe that UNRWA’s work is vital. While some countries have frozen their support, Borrell said that other ministers informed him that their governments would step up funding. He did not name them.

“UNRWA has been playing a critical role to support the Palestinian refugees, and not only in Gaza” but also in Lebanon and Jordan, Borrell said. “Who can substitute that overnight?” He said the EU welcomes the investigation launched by the agency.

Borrell also noted that Israel had been critical of UNRWA’s work for many years.