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Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

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  • Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Hummingbird Project


    Russia cutting off water,food and gas is completely different and indeed the opposite to Israel doing it at this point.

    In Ukraine fighters are on the front lines and not mixed in with civilians. No need to incentivise getting civilians out of Ukraine in that case.

    Gaza is densely populated and fighters are mixed in with civilians therefore the need to incentivise getting the civilians out by cutting off essentials.

    Moreover, cutting off food and electricity for two weeks max is nothing akin to cutting off gas for a whole winter and you know quite well. In Gaza, The timeframe is not designed for humanitarian casualties but to incentivise getting them out, in Ukraine it is.

    Cutting off gas for a whole winter in the freezing Ukrainian winter would kill vast amounts of old people. Not the same with electricity in Gaza.



  • Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭lizzyjane




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,427 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    You will believe anything. You said you believed Biden when he saw beheaded babies even though it has been clarified he didn’t.

    You are still claiming Raz Cohen, the eye witness was a female off duty Israeli soldier for goodness sake.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    With respect, please don’t talk down to me. I understand perfectly why someone could decide that joining a paramilitary group is their only choice. We’ve seen it happen for decades in this country.

    I cannot and will not however accept that what Hamas having been and are continuing to do in Gaza and elsewhere is legitimate or right. Such atrocities should never be condoned no matter what the group involved thinks it’s fighting for.

    Hamas and groups like them are terrorists pure and simple and they should be destroyed.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Your giving Biden too much credit, he regularly gets confused when speaking.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Go read their charter it's spelled out load and clear what their number one priority is.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible




  • Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭TedBundysDriver


    Biden knew what he was saying. Let's be honest it was a discipable thing to do in such a sensitive time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    You can't understand the difference in deliberately murdering babies in their beds, children been abducted to be stored in tunnels and be disposed of later to babies and children been killed in bombings targetting terrorists?

    They are no different to you?

    I think most right thinging people can see a big difference.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Oh all the horrible things that have happened that's what you are disgusted by, very weird.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    We’ve had pages and pages of “will someone not think of the children”.

    OK it’s absolutely a valid concern- and innocent people also- on both sides I might add.

    So do we as a nation outlaw war? Outlaw Retaliation? Outlaw Defence? Because some innocent people might die when doing so? Hardly practical is it?

    It’s naive to think that a nation defending itself and using the playbook of war, won’t impact innocent lives- of course it will.

    All we can do shorterm is monitor the situation - Israel are going in- we can’t change that fact but we can shout stop if we feel they’re not achieving their objectives of Hamas destruction and/or that it’s impacting too much on innocent lives .

    How much is too much? Well there’s guidance for war laid down and then there’s personal morality - no one is going to be “happy” with innocent deaths- limiting those deaths tends to be the main objective in these circumstances so yes, I believe Israel should be heavily monitored in its actions - that’s the best that can be achieved right now- a bit of realism has to come into play here.



  • Registered Users Posts: 30,196 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I don't believe 'anything', I gave the grounds for believing what Biden said, but that has been clarified.

    The horror of what has been done is horror enough.

    You asked for evidence as to the claims of rape, it was given from eye witness testimony, which of course, you predictably try to discredit with disinformation.

    Unlike you, who gives no such clarity about what evidence you would accept or how it could be established to your satisfaction realistically given the nature of the attacks, the hostage taking etc. At any time, you could look for these videos in the dregs of the internet, they were in circulation on Saturday - if you want to find out for yourself.

    And there are posts on this thread from people who viewed it who state it contained scenes of mutilation of children.

    I believe Hamas are more than capable of the acts described.

    What exactly is so unbelievable to you about claims that rapes occurred, that any claim to it must be automatically discredited by you without any apparent serious consideration given that they are true?

    They executed civilians en masse, they executed families en masse. They paraded brutalised victims.

    Deliberate acts of terror and brutality.

    You said you condemned Hamas attacks - which you described as 'horrific' or 'barbaric' - did you not?

    So what exactly were you condemning? And on what grounds of evidence do you do so?

    Or was that a sham too?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 698 ✭✭✭TedBundysDriver


    Where did I say I wasn't disgusted by other things? Interesting the deflection from yourself yet again though.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    What am I deflecting?

    Is it some moral victory for Hamas that we don't have proof they beheaded children?

    Is that a victory for you?



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Cordell


    More than 100 years of continuous murder and every peace process failed until we reached today's stage which is arguably the worst it ever was. There will never be peace there, the arabs will never accept Jews on that land, no matter what they will be given they will still find reasons to kill them. And no the Jews are not innocent either but between them and the Palestinians they are the better people.



  • Registered Users Posts: 19,298 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Nonsense, the post in question...

    The fact that Israel has been illegally stealing and occupying land they don't belong on and treating their neighbours to decades of appalling and atrocious behaviour doesn't count of course.


    HAMAS' activities last weekend, no matter how egregious, didn't occur in a vacuum.

    has nothing in it to apologise for. It's simply a statement of fact and nowhere in it is there an "extremely crass" or "insensitive" description of what HAMAS did.

    Perhaps it would help for you to look up the word "egregious".



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,639 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Obviously, there's a difference, but not one that abdicates entirely the perpetrators of the other method of killing which is what you and others are doing.

    I think both acts are barbaric.

    I think it is a cop out to say 'targeting terrorists' knowing the collateral damage that always happens.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,187 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    You should have a lie down after that post, I'm sure it took a lot out of you.



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,639 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Israel is already breaching the Geneva convention and noted world leaders including the head of the EU and the US have offered them support in their actions.

    So, I'm not holding out much hope in the 'monitoring of their actions' that you are suggesting.

    Former Israeli Prime Ministers and military officials have come out both blaming Nethanyahu and his government for escalating hostilities that led to last weeks attack and for the actions they are now taking.

    It's very annoying to see the outrage of Hamas' attacks and the complete acceptance of Israel's response currently, and provocations previously. Not saying you specifically are doing this, I've just seen a lot of it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Long Sean Silver


    still no evidence of babies being beheaded. Benjy appears to have rowed-back on the allegations in his latest statement.

    so we are to believe unconfirmed sources in the IDF, the same people who are now besieging and bombing women & children in what can only be described as medievel war crimes.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,427 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    The Arabs accepted Jews on that land for centuries. Which completely disproves your assertion.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,638 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Or believe Hamas who claim the music festival was full of Israeli soldiers?

    Outside of the fanatical Israel = evil posters its clear which is more trust worthy.



  • Registered Users Posts: 30,196 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hamas executed entire families. They executed civilians just for attending a festival. They mutilated and raped. They paraded victims. They are terrorists.

    Was that a lie?

    Or are you trying to discredit that too?

    To root out the death cults in Germany and Japan, women and children died too in bombings. It is Hamas who have triggered this sequence of events, and those who die in rooting out their death cult are victims of Hamas too.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,639 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I haven't spent much time on the thread over the last few days, but it feels like every time I've dropped in, you've been using this event to justify Israels response that will kill thousands, and impact millions.

    That it might have been misreported/exaggerated/made up should prompt you to have a think about how eager you were to advocate for pain and suffering to be inflicted on people.

    Whatever the extreme of the attack last week, there's no question that it was barbaric and horrific. But it is not solely Hamas who are capable of such acts and Hamas are not the entirety of the Palestinian people.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    If you’re happy for Hamas to bomb Israel and other nations indeed, knowing they won’t retaliate because they have their hands tied after adopting your “innocent people might die” stance, then great- get ready to embrace your own death soon.

    Me, I’m kindof comforted that there are nations out there equipped and prepared to fight these predatory terrorist organisations who believe in fck all other than lining their own pockets and watching events from their safe haven countries, for the ideals that I believe in, namely freedom of speech, democracy and human rights.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭deirdremf


    practised as a barrister specialising in human rights law from 1985 to 2005

    That's some answer for someone who is well-versed in human rights law, assuming Wikipedia can be trusted!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    Telling people to leave before the bombing starts is just as barbaric as what Hamas did?

    I already know the answer to this because I've read your posts for years but you see no moral difference between Hamas and the Israelis?



  • Registered Users Posts: 569 ✭✭✭Long Sean Silver


    i never said i did not believe the people in the music festivel were not murdered. they were, and in the most brutal manner. please don't try to put words into my mouth. i condemned those killings the moment evidence of those atrocities became available.

    i do NOT believe the beheaded babies story, as it is just heresay. no evidence. i do NOT believe the IDF. the British army murdered innocent people (including children) in NI, and immediately told lies/made up stories to justify their actions. we know this now. this happens in war. grow up!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    No I appreciate you sharing your wisdom to all of us pointing out all the mistakes we're making about the conflict.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,088 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    That sounds a lot like what colonists used to claim to justify their colonisation and land grabs. The English settlers were better, more civilised than the native Irish, the native Americans were savages. Certainly I would prefer to live in an Israeli society than a Muslim Palestinian one but when you start discriminating in a land disputes based on your perceived superiority of one culture you are mimicking some of the worst events in history.



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