All Eyes on Rafah

Yeah I just popped back in to try to catch up and engage a bit, but the last page or so has been skeletonised.

You do know that nobody supports mass bloodshed, don't you, OP?

If you dropped the rhetoric about "genocide" and so on, you might find people engage better.

People who want to commit genocide get on and do it. They don't wait for a huge terrorist scale atrocity against them and then fish the "genocide" plan out of the back of the filing cabinet the next day.

The current Israeli leadership is hawkish. That's what's influencing the details of the military response to Oct 7th. Not a quickly conceived plan for genocide.

Even if you believe the IDF is actually, seriously genocidal, I'm sure you can see the issue with describing the whole of Israel as "genocidal". Why do you think Israel was formed?

Lots of people have issues with Netenyahu. There's a lot of common ground to find there.

Stomping all over the sensitivities will achieve nothing.

Well someone's been busy reporting posts

re Deif
They’ve claimed this before

This is Arutz Sheva news (Israeli news) 2014
His 3 year old daughter, wife and seven month old son were killed ( amongst others) but as it turns out, not Deif.

Following the targeted assassination attempt Tuesday night against Mohammed Deif, head of the Hamas "military wing" Al-Qassam Brigades, the body of another family member of the arch-terrorist has reportedly been found.

Hamas emergency services spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP that on Thursday, the body of Deif's three-year-old daughter Sara was pulled from the wreckage of the six-story building Deif was thought to be in.

In the <a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140822005213/www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184229" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tuesday night airstrike, Deif's second wife Widad (27) and seven-month-old son Ali were killed. The two were buried on Wednesday in the Jabaliya "refugee camp" as thousands shouted for revenge.

There has been confusion as to whether the strike actually managed to take out the arch-terrorist or not, in the sixth Israeli assassination attempt against Deif. In two previous airstrikes he suffered serious injuries, likely harming his agility and ability to escape.

Israeli intelligence officials on Wednesday told Fox News that the most recent attempt finally found its mark and ended Deif's reign of terror on Israeli citizens.

However, Hamas has been adamantly denying that Deif was killed, with spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri claiming he is still <a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140822005213/www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184241" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"alive and well."

Hamas has also <a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140822005213/www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184266" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">denied a supposed "death certificate" for Deif which has been widely circulating as a "forgery," even while refusing to give specifics about his condition after the attack, leading to speculation he may in fact have been killed or severely injured.

Reuters reported this news in 2014 and also mentioned that Deif had
already been targeted by air strikes four times since the 1990s.

You NEVER asked me a direct question. Stop goading for a reply when you never tagged me on any question hence my reply what question and my reply ?

I have had several posts reported that were not hate, or slurs etc just different opinions.

I still could not see where upthread you supposedly asked me a direct question. I'm not tagged anywhere.

I cannot be bothered with this silly game of repeatedly saying answer my question when you haven't tag me in a question to answer. Is this primary school games 🙄

I've no idea why my comments were deleted. These threads are all the same.

Op asked you before your comments were deleted.

they also didn’t reply to the question that OP was asking at 1921.

I answered. No hate, no slur but my reply was reported. No idea why. Yet you keep asking for me to reply 🙄 so I can get reported again. What's the point, someone doesn't want me to reply.

In Hebrew but this link suggests American weapons were used to attack today civilians. Few days after Biden sold several million to Israel. Thanks Biden.

https://m.maariv.co.il/news/military/Article-1114758

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckkg6x62z6wo.amp

Sometimes I get the feeling that no matter how carefully things are worded, there are posters that will misconstrue everything...

Was that the question you wanted answering?

It's sad and scary, especially the way they threw away all the supposed values that our society was built on. Also it usually isn't the people who make these decisions who are harmed, it's civilians and soldiers usually following orders from higher ups.

Who are you talking about?

Correct, that's exactly what the crazy Ben Gvir and his cronies in the Israeli Govt would like.
Big it up!!
Idiots Ben Gvir suggests Israel should invade Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah in its entirety | The Times of Israel

Can you be less cryptic ? Nobody has mentioned hezbollah in the last 5 pages (I’ve searched).the first comment that appears is yours.

I will repeat myself. I believe many posters , myself included want a ceasefire. We want this to end so nobody else is killed.

? what ?

Many posters want a ceasefire. Sadly, not everyone does