Israel/Palestine thread
Think this merits its own thread...
Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..
AM YISRAEL CHAI.
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So far I've mentioned I'm a French citizen. I've given you that much.
You guys weirdly obsessing over me is both flattering and creepy. Maybe significantly creepier than Vic, which is something. Vic keeps to himself, which I have to respect.
If you were actually being kept track of, people would have known that you live in Canada but have connections to France and Israel. You talk about it a lot. It's a bizarre take that it's creepy to remember the stuff that you read. People who don't know the personal details posted in this thread by various posters are either not reading or incapable of understanding and retaining what they read.
since the beginning of the war Israeli mainstream press has accused Hamas of killing its own civilians, esp during the displacement periods.
no doubt when people get sent on a Trail of Tears to the tents North of Rafah, these accusations will start flying again.
I saw a few videos that looked real-ish, but of no real consequence. We all agree that most of the Gazans were killed by the IDF. Some by Hamas rocket misfires, which is an accident, and we'll never quantify (so I'm not going to even bother considering it).
So far I've mentioned I'm a French citizen. I've given you that much.
You guys weirdly obsessing over me is both flattering and creepy. Maybe significantly creepier than Vic, which is something. Vic keeps to himself, which I have to respect. I hope I even have a beer with Micro one day. I'd leave with all my organs intact and probably enjoy the experience.
If you're in SoCal feel free to hit me up. I will not steal your organs. It would be fine, but dunno how much you'd enjoy it. I'm more boring irl than I am online.
If you were actually being kept track of, people would have known that you live in Canada but have connections to France and Israel. You talk about it a lot. It's a bizarre take that it's creepy to remember the stuff that you read. People who don't know the personal details posted in this thread by various posters are either not reading or incapable of understanding and reta
I simply don't understand their need to try to pull one of these off:
I have shared everything I'm comfortable with sharing. I also have an American parent and I've passed on that citizenship (which wasn't hard to get). Some of us have roots all over this planet: we're from one place, we move to another, we live in another, our parents are from various countries too. It gives us very global roots.
I saw a few videos that looked real-ish, but of no real consequence. We all agree that most of the Gazans were killed by the IDF. Some by Hamas rocket misfires, which is an accident, and we'll never quantify (so I'm not going to even bother considering it).
The thing about the Hamas rockets is they have very small payloads and that's part of why they do so little damage in Israel. No bomb shelters in Gaza so it'd be worse, but it's basically impossible that a significant percentage of killed Gazans were killed by Hamas rocket failures.
I simply don't understand their need to try to pull one of these off: I have shared everything I'm comfortable with sharing. I also have an American parent and I've passed on that citizenship (which wasn't hard to get). Some of us have roots all over this planet: we're from one place, we move to another, we live in another, our parents are from various countries too. It gives
I didn't read Jalfrezi's post as doing that and thought he was just asking, but shrug.
Jalfrezi is also a bit of a globetrotter fwiw.
I'm All American! Boo-yeah!
If you're in SoCal feel free to hit me up. I will not steal your organs. It would be fine, but dunno how much you'd enjoy it. I'm more boring irl than I am online.
I have family there too, so you may just get that message one day. Don't get on any watch lists before then ♥
So far I've mentioned I'm a French citizen. I've given you that much.
You guys weirdly obsessing over me is both flattering and creepy. Maybe significantly creepier than Vic, which is something. Vic keeps to himself, which I have to respect. I hope I even have a beer with Micro one day. I'd leave with all my organs intact and probably enjoy the experience.
We had a conversation a couple of days ago when you gave the impression you were in France, and said you come to the UK often. Sorry for you if you find me remembering this creepy.
You could have just simply said "I don't want to tell you guys where I live" instead of dodging the question.
We had a conversation a couple of days ago when you gave the impression you were in France, and said you come to the UK often. Sorry for you if you find me remembering this creepy.
The creepy part is trying to gotcha someone on the internet on where they live. Like AH-HA, I THOUGHT YOU LIVED HERE
Creepy. That is creepy. We have better things to do than try to use these details as part of some basis for discrediting each other.
You are talking to a French citizen who lives in Canada presently.
Want to know where I think you live Jalfrezi?
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I don't care. I've never once asked myself. If you mention it in here, I won't ever try to gotcha you on it. That's weird, unnecessary, and creepy.
Like the great KC LMNOP once said, vis ta vie pis reste en vie. That's your life.
You're a very weird and possibly paranoid dude if you think my comment was out of line in any way.
The post you re-posted now even gave the clear impression you're in France!
Quite natural for someone to read your blathering on about demos in Canada and be confused.
naw thats fake news. the new story is that all the patients and drs found murdered happened months ago.
Didn't hear about the mice. That is awful as is the banana thing. Dunno how the mice appear to be injected with something though.
The average pro-palestine protestor is a total zero. Hours of footage available to sift through for a non-dork
HOSTAGES/CEASE-FIRE: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas received a truce proposal that is "extraordinarily generous," and that it needs to decide quickly. He added that he is hopeful that Hamas will "make the right decision."
The New York Times reported Israel has reduced the number of hostages it will accept to be released by Hamas in the first phase from 40 to 33, prompted partly by the fact that Israel now believes that some of the initial 40 have died while in Hamas captivity.
U.K. Foreign Minister David Cameron said there is a 40-day cease-fire in Gaza on the table in exchange for the release of hostages that includes the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
A senior Hamas official told AFP there are no "major" issues with the current proposal. Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq denied the report, and said "the proposal is still in the stages of being studied."
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Cairo was hopeful about the proposal, but that it was waiting for a response from Israel and Hamas.
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said that negotiations on a deal "are moving forward, but you always have to be careful in these discussions," adding that "the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, and we need a cease-fire."
Blinken said the best way to ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza would be to reach a cease-fire deal releasing the hostages held by Hamas. But, in the meantime, he said it was critical to improve aid conditions now.
Blinken also told Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan that Hamas' refusal to accept a deal is responsible for the continuation of the conflict in Gaza, and urged that all efforts be made to convince Hamas to accept the current proposal.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia to meet with counterparts from Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan in order to discuss the governance of postwar Gaza. Blinken will continue onto Jordan and Israel after his Saudi Arabia visit.
Good news. Letting these countries help the transition and not Israel is what I've been hoping for all along
The Israeli government believes that the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague is about to file war crimes charges against Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. We can’t know for sure – the ICC has kept its plans close to the vest – but the Israeli prime minister has good reason to worry, and the defenses he has offered so far are unlikely to help him.
Didn't hear about the mice. That is awful as is the banana thing. Dunno how the mice appear to be injected with something though.
follow up tweet says that people said they can see the injection site. who knows, could be bs.
From that report
For much of the war Israel has allowed just enough food into Gaza to avoid widespread death, but not enough to prevent pervasive hunger and, in some parts of Gaza according to the USAid administrator, Samantha Power, “famine”. Oxfam calculated that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza were receiving on average only 245 calories a day, about one-tenth of normal requirements. At least 28 children younger than 12 were reported to have died of malnutrition as of 17 April.
I suppose this didn't happen either.
