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8 hours ago, Twin Tiers Living said:

im sorry, but when the hell is someone going to yank on Israel's leach??? 

they committed acts of violence on to separate foreign lands, from what i can find, relatively without provocation, and now we are sending military assets and selling more weapons for them to steal MORE land....i feel its gone WAAY beyond any rational claims of self defense.

enough is past enough

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On 5/24/2024 at 1:27 PM, Chris said:

I'll openly admit, I don't know the full details of politics in the Middle East. Keeping up with our own country's is enough. So to read this:

But their fight has finally crossed the ocean and is being fought here now , or at least the beginnings of it ! So we will all be very familiar with Middle East politics all too soon .

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike to avert a large Hezbollah attack. The militant group responded that it had fired hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month.

Both sides then appeared to pull back, signaling there would be no immediate further escalation, but the situation remained tense. The exchange came as Egypt hosted high-level talks aimed at a cease-fire in the 10-month-old Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which diplomats hope will tamp down regional tensions.

The Israeli military said it struck because Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles. Soon after, Hezbollah said it had launched an attack on Israeli military positions as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.

 

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14 minutes ago, Pvt Snowball said:

Stop bombing brown people not everyone there is Hamas 

Well, it's "brown people" bombing each other, soo....

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6 hours ago, Pvt Snowball said:

Stop bombing brown people not everyone there is Hamas 

There is a Book that may open your eyes on that statement. But your a Christian , you figure it out ! 

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1 hour ago, Hal said:

There is a Book that may open your eyes on that statement. But your a Christian , you figure it out ! 

Which is? Don't say the Bible cause that original."

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9 hours ago, Pvt Snowball said:

Which is? Don't say the Bible cause that original."

Bible … but from a historical view , Old Testament . 

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CNN — An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.

At least 19 bodies arrived at hospitals from the humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi. Earlier, Gaza’s Civil Defense said 40 people had been killed

More than 60 people were also wounded in the strike, according to the Gaza Civil Defense, as rescuers raced to recover victims buried under sand and debris.

 

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President Joe Biden says he doesn’t expect Israel to retaliate immediately against Iran and rejects the suggestion the U.S. would grant permission for such an attack.

Biden was speaking to reporters Thursday, two days after Tehran bombarded Israel with almost 200 ballistic missiles. Israel says it intercepted many of them, while Iran says most of its missiles hit their targets. 

Iran said the barrage was in response to Israel’s recent assassination of Iran-backed Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.

 

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The Middle East is bracing for Israel’s response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack earlier this week. Meantime, Israel is continuing its heavy aerial bombardment and ground incursion in Lebanon.

At least 37 people were killed and 151 were injured by Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has pledged to continue to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut, the Bekaa valley and southern Lebanon.

Since this afternoon, local time, about 100 projectiles have been launched from Lebanon into Israel, the Israeli military said.

 

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BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight, hitting suburbs of Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment.

The blasts in Beirut’s southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometers (miles) away in the Lebanese capital. The Israeli military did not comment on what the intended target was, and there was no information yet available on casualties. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported there were more than 10 consecutive airstrikes in the area.

Meanwhile, Israel’s military said that Hezbollah had launched about 100 rockets into Israel on Friday, as fighting continued between Israel and the militant group.

 

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The Israeli military has continued to bombard Lebanon’s capital, in what it said was a “series of targeted strikes” on weapons storage facilities and other parts of Hezbollah’s infrastructure. Israeli strikes across the country on Saturday killed 23 people and injured 93, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Elsewhere, Israel has said that it has “encircled” the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, after detecting the presence of Hamas members in the area. Strikes on a mosque in central Gaza have killed at least 25, hospital officials said.

Meanwhile, as the anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel nears, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country “is defending itself on seven fronts.”

 

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RE’IM, Israel (AP) — Israelis held somber ceremonies on Monday to mark a year since the deadliest attack in the country’s history, a Hamas-led raid that shattered its sense of security and ignited wars on two fronts with no end in sight.

Hamas marked the anniversary of its Oct. 7, 2023, attack by firing a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv, underscoring its resilience after a year of war and devastation in Gaza. Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which began firing rockets at Israel on Oct. 8 in support if its ally Hamas, vowed to keep up the barrages despite its recent losses.

The surprise cross-border attack one year ago — which caught Israelis unprepared on a major Jewish holiday — shook their faith in their leaders and their military, and its aftershocks are still rippling across the region. Around 100 hostages captured that day have not been returned, a third of whom are believed to be dead, and cease-fire efforts have ground to a halt.

The war in Gaza rages on and Israel is fighting a new war against Hezbollah. There is also an escalating conflict with Iran — which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah — that threatens to drag the region into an even more dangerous conflagration.

No formal commemorative event is planned in Gaza, where fighting is still underway, huge areas have been completely destroyed and most of the population have been driven from their homes.

In Lebanon, meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed at least 10 firefighters, the latest in a series of strikes that have killed dozens of first responders, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. It said they were in a municipality building in the southern town of Baraachit that was hit as they prepared for a mission.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

 

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Israel says they have killed the leader of Hamas in their latest air strike.

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1 hour ago, Chris said:

Israel says they have killed the leader of Hamas in their latest air strike.

I saw that. The guy has been basically underground for over a year.  No one has seen him at all.

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Well, since he was hiding in Rafah.... maybe he was hoping the months of "condemnation" and pressure from the UN/world leaders would keep Israel off his tail.

On 5/25/2024 at 9:59 AM, Twin Tiers Living said:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A ruling by the top United Nations court ordering Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has deepened its disconnect with the United States over an operation that faces mounting international condemnation but that American officials describe, at least for now, as limited and targeted.

The decision Friday by the International Court of Justice in The Hague adds to the pressure facing an increasingly isolated Israel, coming just days after Norway, Ireland and Spain said they would recognize a Palestinian state, and the chief prosecutor of a separate international court sought arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as leaders of Hamas.

The Biden administration stands apart from the global community — though it is opposed to a major offensive in Rafah, the administration also insists that the steps its close ally Israel has taken so far have not crossed red lines.

 

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8 hours ago, Chris said:

Israel says they have killed the leader of Hamas in their latest air strike.

same day i believe, different location, but they also killed a number of children in a bombing of a school being used as a shelter

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Time to pack it in, Bibi, you made your point.

Also saw on the news that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the US could play a role in stabilizing Palestine.

After contributing to the destruction of it for the past year. 🙄

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1 hour ago, Chris said:

Time to pack it in, Bibi, you made your point.

Also saw on the news that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the US could play a role in stabilizing Palestine.

After contributing to the destruction of it for the past year. 🙄

Keeps the money flowing to the powers that be.  

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as fighting with Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Gaza -based Hamas showed no pause after the killing of the mastermindof last year’s deadly Oct. 7 attack.

Israel’s military said dozens of projectiles were launched from Lebanon, as sirens wailed. Netanyahu’s office said the drone targeted his house in the Mediterranean coastal town of Caesarea, though neither he nor his wife were there.

 

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BEIRUT — Israel's military announced Sunday it is now taking aim at the Lebanon-based Hezbollah's financial arm and will attack a “large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere. Explosions began in Beirut's southern suburbs about an hour later.

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Israeli Soldiers Returning Home From War In Gaza Struggling With Mental Toll

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Mizrahi deployed to Gaza on October 8 last year and was tasked with driving a D-9 bulldozer, a 62-ton armored vehicle that can withstand bullets and explosives.

He was a civilian for most of his life, working as a manager at an Israeli construction company. After witnessing the massacres committed by Hamas, he felt the need to fight, Jenny told CNN.

The reservist spent 186 days in the enclave until he sustained injuries to his knee, followed by hearing damage in February when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck his vehicle, his family said. He was pulled out of Gaza for treatment, and in April was diagnosed with PTSD, receiving weekly talk therapy.

His treatment did not help.

“They didn’t know how to treat them (soldiers),” Jenny, who lives in the Israeli Ma’ale Adumim settlement, in the occupied West Bank, said. “They (soldiers) said the war was so different. They saw things that were never seen in Israel.”

When Mizrahi was on leave, he suffered from bouts of anger, sweating, insomnia and social withdrawal, his family said. He told his family that only those who were in Gaza with him could understand what he was going through.

“He always said, no one will understand what I saw,” his sister, Shir, told CNN.

Jenny wondered if her son killed someone and couldn’t handle it.

 

 

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On 10/21/2024 at 9:34 AM, Twin Tiers Living said:

not enough they bomb hospitals, shelters and other civilian areas, banks are now on the hitlist too

 

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