Hezbollah pager explosions

A sense of history would show that the Geneva Convention of 1949 were brought in after WW2 to stop things like that from ever happening again.

Here are just some of those conventions Israel has breached.

Members of the armed forces and other persons mentioned in the following Article, who are wounded or sick, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances.

They shall be treated humanely and cared for by the Party to the conflict in whose power they may be, without any adverse distinction founded on sex, race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or any other similar criteria. Any attempts upon their lives, or violence to their persons, shall be strictly prohibited; in particular, they shall not be murdered or exterminated, subjected to torture or to biological experiments; they shall not wilfully be left without medical assistance and care, nor shall conditions exposing them to contagion or infection be created.

Prisoners of war are entitled in all circumstances to respect for their persons and their honour

.Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.

There are plenty more, but that’s just a few

Just the 500 instances. There ya go.

https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/database-exposes-500-instances-of-israeli-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza-16537146

Hind Rajab. Or was she some 6 year old terrorist prodigy??

Israel claimed that there weren't any troops present in the neighborhood and denied carrying out the attack. However, this was refuted by investigations relying on satellite imagery and visual evidence, which concluded that a number of Israeli tanks were indeed present and one had likely fired 335 rounds on the car that Rajab and her family had been in, with tank operators being able to see that the car had civilians including children in it.

Unless you happened to be in the conflict zone at the time, you don't know why that tragic incident occurred or the circumstances surrounding it.

Again, I'll ask you - do you believe the IDF are deliberately targeting civilians?

Eh no.

I look at the instances, and many of them reference Quads News Network as the sole reference.

https://x.com/QudsNen

This is an organisation that was banned from Twitter before the Musk take over for spearking lies, fake news and disinformation. It is widely regarded as athe soical media arms of Hamas and Hezbollah.

It is still banned on outlets like Facebook and TikTok.

So no, I wont take that seriously, considering TRT World is a

The network has received criticism for failing to meet accepted journalism ethics and standards for independence and objectivity, with some commentators especially in the West calling it state media

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 or a propaganda arm of the Erdoğan administration.

Lad, why oh why do you swallow 'News' from such obvious propaganda outlets? Do better, please.

Also, even the instances themselves are rubbish. Many of them are like, "An IDF soldier hit a Palestinian".

That is not proof of a plan to exterminate (i.e kill) 8 million Palestinians.

Rumours that Hamas chief Sinwar may have been killed.

He loves attention.

He thinks he is the main character of a real-life 'West Wing'

Ironic.

Care to share your own proof that he has none?

Lads, you blindly parrot Israeli spokesperson lies on here. The ones who would put "comical ali" to shame with they blatancy of said lies.

Thinking about it a little more. What is he trying to achieve? Is it just an attention seeking exercise? I get that he supports Palestine, Hamas etc but why would you bother reaching out to, and validating by proxy, a pariah state like Iran? Can someone on the thread explain what he is hoping to achieve? Just to be crystal clear, I am referring to to the fact that he has reached out to Iran explicitly. What is Iran going to do to improve the situation?

Yes indeed. I was going to make that point about the English and French colonies in America.

On your last paragraph, for all the talk of BDS and boycotts of Starbucks and other companies allegedly owned , you never hear of people boycotting the polio vaccine invented by a Jew - who moreover refused to patent it because he felt that all of humanity needed to benefit from it.

Actually I think both polio vaccines were invented separately by two different Jews.

It was indeed controlled by the British colonisers - which is why it’s hilarious to see posters here denying that Ireland was founded in terrorism for fighting a guerilla war against the British but convincing themselves that Irgun and Stern were terrorists for doing the same.

Maybe being fully-covered up all the time does help when living in hot places? Who knew? Somebody should tell the Australians.

Or better yet, pack them all back to their home countries, by your logic?

which is why it’s hilarious to see posters here denying that Ireland was founded in terrorism for fighting a guerilla war against the British but convincing themselves that Irgun and Stern were terrorists for doing the same.

Eh, in the case of the zionists, it was the recently arrived colonizers who were killing the natives…………

You are not answering the question. I didn't say that that he should forgo diplomatic norms with Iran, full stop. I am talking about this issue and the fact that he reached out to Iran and Iran alone. On the content, I think it is really poor. I think it reflects very badly on him first and foremost. He had no evidence to back up it up.

You should read up on the details before jumping in and shouting. The letter was sent - as is perfectly diplomatic norm - as a result of the election of the new Iranian President.

Should there be a new Israeli President elected, he will no doubt also receive a letter

How do you determine in urban warfare whether or not there are civilians at a site? And in particular one from which, for example, an RPG is being fired at you?

Can you really have missed the many posts over the last 11 months making (unironic) claims about the Jews owning everything in America, or about being such bad neighbours that everyone in the region hates them and so on?

And that's before we get on to the "moderate" anti-semitic remarks such as one I called out only a day or so ago, which scrupulously avoided using the word, but that's what it came down to all the same. Making an obviously false claim about "Israel" being the only country in the world to do "X" when multiple countries have done the same "X" only worse, shows either complete ignorance of history or a dislike of "Israel" for reasons which are hard to explain other than by anti semitism.

And I got picked up by another "moderate" poster for daring to point out this awkward fact. Because if one hasn't said the bad word itself, they'll tell you that there can't possibly be any antisemitism there. Bit like saying someone can't have made a racist comment because they didn't use the word N….

All I was doing was putting into plain English what was really being said there.

You are being mischievous here Donald. That is not the type of letter that is issued to a newly elected President and you know it.

Higgins is definitely no worse than the israeli President or Netanyahu. The things they defend are just disgusting,. Amazing how upset Israeli supporters get here about what our politicians say about Israel , but are so silent about the killing of innocent people in Gaza by Israel. And that is happening every day.

I'm "tying myself in knots" says the poster who acknowledges having misread my post and thus responded wrongly to what was in it! LOL

You should try again with the second bit. I didn't say WB Palestinians were asylum seekers - I'm talking about when a country treats non nationals differently from nationals. "Apartheid" requires that one treats one set of citizens differently to the others. Arab Israelis have all the same civil rights as Jews. Palestinians do not. That does not make Israel an apartheid state. South Africa today treats Nigerains, Congolese and other immigrants differently to black South Africans, but that doesn't make it an apartheid state.

That facts may hurt or make one uncomfortable does not make them untrue

Similar to the American revolutionary war. That they attacked their "overlords" does not negate that they also attacked natives.

Brilliant.

Point out that Iran is a tyrannical theocratic dictatorship that brutally quelled an uprising of students and women over the past 2 years, killing 551 people according to various human rights groups, means you are an Islamaphobe.

The Iranian regime is the core issue in the Middle East today. If they didnt fund groups like Hamas, and Hezbollah, the region would be much more peaceful.

This is not Man United vs Liverpool. I get you dont like Israel, but you dont have to sell your dignity and soul to the likes of Hamas and Iran in the process.

No idea what sort of false parallel you're trying to make here. Native American tribes fought on both sides of the American Revolution. I really don't think you're going to be able to stretch that into something that works for you wrt Israel.

Particularly since the UN did not exist back then whereas Israel has a legally-recognised existence, regardless of its origins. Which gives it more legitimacy than most countries which actually were founded through war with "the natives".

Sinwar has blocked every ceasefire deal? Really?

People can try to pull a veil over their true intentions. Faux concerns for X when it is nothing but a useful tool to try to create distraction. Nobody is fooled except for those already fooled. So it really is a pointless exercise