Hezbollah pager explosions

Definitely not but I wouldn't automatically say Jewish people love bloodletting likes its in their dna. Or use the term khazar which appears to be connected to some obscure theory on the origins of the Jewish people. I wouldn't say Jewish people should be driven to the hills.

I thought it was ingenious as a terrorist organisation always hides among the general population so then it makes them difficult to get at.

It also made me laugh that Hezbollah claimed that Israel crossed "red lines" as if they are not fighting fair. The irony. Fair play to Israel on this one they have shown the world a new way to root out terrorists/paramilitaries/subversives.

This should also be a method the Irish government investigate for far right extremists in Ireland. To "take them out" if needs be. Better to do it now as the numbers are small.

Certain people

Nuclear bomb on Ukraine straw men now, couldn't make this up. Absolutely laughable.

A few reason actually, firstly because this is the first genocide recorded and broadcast in realtime and 4k. Secondly I watch the news and browse social media so it's impossible to miss. Thirdly because people such as yourself would prefer if I and others didn't see what Israel is doing in Gaza and finally because I want those poor childrens lives to mean something and they do, because everytime I force myself to watch it they make my determination to help the people of Gaza stronger and to do eveything possible to support BDS.

And I see that now the discussion veers into "the jews in Israel are not actual jews" - mad bizarre stuff, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I like many people take issue with some of Israels conduct, but with that said, the majority of anti Israeli sentiment in this country and on this platform is driven by people on the left and or far left which has a difficult history with antisemitism to say the least.

I've always taken issue with the assertions of groups like the ADL that any criticism of Israel or any Jewish people is inherently antisemitic but over the last eleven months since the October 7 terror attacks people have become comfortable discussing their dislike of Jews in a manner I've never seen before.

As a kid there was a Jewish family on my street and the abuse they received from all sorts of people for simply being Jewish was astonishing, Ireland has never had a huge population of Jews but we still engage in antisemitism regardless.

It's probably time we dissociated the Israeli government from Jewish people as a whole and started approaching the situation is a rational and grown up manner. Currently people are treating the conflict as some sort of sporting event, donning Palestinian flags and wearing headscarves as if they were wearing their teams kit in support of them. The whole thing is unseemly and I'd hope that boards is taking serious action against posters making disgusting comments about Jews, the post you quoted to my mind should be grounds for very serious punishment indeed because we shouldn't normalise hatred of any kind.

How many videos of children being blown to pieces have you watched?

It's strange these videos are impossible to miss because I've never watched a video of a child being blown to pieces.

You'd be a big supporter of Milltown then and Micheal Stone I'd say, a hero of yours.

Lebanon’s national news agency NNA has said five children are among the victims of a strike on a building in the area of Jamous Street, in southern Beirut.

The agency added that an F35 airplane targeted the residential area with two strikes.

I’m far from a conspiracy theorist but I can’t believe Israeli intelligence weren’t aware Oct 7 wasn’t being planned and the decision was made to let it go ahead

only half. But for some types you need to go in hard or go home. Big Western powers invent and only follow “international law” when it suits them historically. That is the truth of it

And anyone who stayed at the previous protests one second after the Hamas or IS flag went up is also a terrorist supporter.

And would it be conspiracy theory to think the same about 9/11? There was plenty of information about that, in hindsight.

Yes of course, because I'm against Israel massacring children I'm Hamas. So Hamas murdering 1 nine month old child is a tragedy but Israel murdering 14000 children is collateral damage. Your a disturbed indivdual to be honest.

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This is the best example yet of how your average Israeli views a Palestinian. When they shot the 3 surrendering hostages who were bare chested and waving a white flag, an IDF official said "they thought they were Palestinians". Nothing, not a word or single question about why you shot 3 unarmed men waving a white flag from 50 yards, just a shrug of the shoulders. The most moral army in the world though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/3-israeli-hostages-tried-only-killed-military-rcna130912

I would imagine it's made up two main groupings.

The useful idiots who would go on whatever protest was the cause du jour. Most of these would struggle to point out Gaza if you gave them a map of the World.

The other group are the Jew-haters of the Left - delighted that a conflict happening thousands of miles away which we've nothing to do with has given them a nice bit of cover to engage in a good old fashioned bit of anti-Semitism.

Israel is a "foreign virus" in the region. Is it really? I would argue that it isn't based on the number of countries in the region that were looking to normalize relations with Israel. Some would argue that October 7th happened because countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia; two major players in the region, had normalized or were normalizing relations with Israel, and Hamas realised that they were going to be left behind.

Edit: Have you ever visited Israel?

Yes I think that was clearly a major reason behind Hamas' attacks. Israel was in the process of developing normal relations with Saudi Arabia and the other wealthy, powerful states of the region, and Hamas were terrified that peace would break out.

In that respect, I don't know whether Hamas have won or not yet, because peace is certainly farther away than ever, but I presume they never imagined that Iran and the rest of the Arab world would be so determined not to get directly involved.

I think what happens now in Lebanon will be a major deciding factor in whether Hamas finally get what they wanted or not.