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Conflict in the Middle East
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Hellostrawberries · 06/11/2023 17:40

I personally don't regard them as criminals but if you mean the IDF I believe the answer is when the hostages are released.

ideaspls · 06/11/2023 17:41

Slaughtering of 10,000 innocent lives.

Most of whom are children.

How do you sleep at night?

OP posts:
Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 17:48

Hellostrawberries · 06/11/2023 17:40

I personally don't regard them as criminals but if you mean the IDF I believe the answer is when the hostages are released.

So 1 hostage = how many dead civilians? Two wrongs don't make a right and they are supposed to be a government so can we stop comparing them to terrorists.

scrantonelectriccity · 06/11/2023 17:52

Hellostrawberries · 06/11/2023 17:40

I personally don't regard them as criminals but if you mean the IDF I believe the answer is when the hostages are released.

They're not interested in negotiating for the hostages back though

AllWeWantToDo · 06/11/2023 17:57

I don't believe thet care what happens to the hostages anymore, if they ever did in the first place

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:05

Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 17:48

So 1 hostage = how many dead civilians? Two wrongs don't make a right and they are supposed to be a government so can we stop comparing them to terrorists.

Ok so tell me how many civilians they're allowed to kill to rid themselves of a terrorist group hiding amongst the civilians and hiding the hostages under civilian populations?

SisterMichaelsHabit · 06/11/2023 18:22

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:05

Ok so tell me how many civilians they're allowed to kill to rid themselves of a terrorist group hiding amongst the civilians and hiding the hostages under civilian populations?

None. No civilians. That's literally what people are saying.

You can't wipe out terrorists with blood, it literally hasn't worked anywhere in the entirety of history. You kill Dave and his cousin in France turns up ready to fight. You kill Fred and his three nephews from Sweden arrive to avenge him ten years later with all their friends. It doesn't end the cycle of hate and death.

Both sides need to sit down and talk.

Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 18:24

@Bells3032 none. Enough innocent lives have been lost on both sides and still it goes on.

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:25

SisterMichaelsHabit · 06/11/2023 18:22

None. No civilians. That's literally what people are saying.

You can't wipe out terrorists with blood, it literally hasn't worked anywhere in the entirety of history. You kill Dave and his cousin in France turns up ready to fight. You kill Fred and his three nephews from Sweden arrive to avenge him ten years later with all their friends. It doesn't end the cycle of hate and death.

Both sides need to sit down and talk.

Considering that Hamas' only requirement is the total anilahtion of Israel (and all Jews) I'm not sure what there is to negotiate.

And if your family had been killed and kidnapped you would sit down at the table and negotiate would you? Or would you do whatever you needed to get them back?

bellac11 · 06/11/2023 18:27

Have the IDF soldiers forgotten that when war crimes are considered after the fact, that the defence of 'following orders' doesnt cut it

Are soldiers aware of that?

Are we hearing for soldiers on the ground at the moment (I am purposely avoiding the news and really only hear about things from this forum to be honest)

Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 18:30

bellac11 · 06/11/2023 18:27

Have the IDF soldiers forgotten that when war crimes are considered after the fact, that the defence of 'following orders' doesnt cut it

Are soldiers aware of that?

Are we hearing for soldiers on the ground at the moment (I am purposely avoiding the news and really only hear about things from this forum to be honest)

Exactly. Powerful, rich men start wars and then send off others to do their bidding or die for their cause.

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:33

bellac11 · 06/11/2023 18:27

Have the IDF soldiers forgotten that when war crimes are considered after the fact, that the defence of 'following orders' doesnt cut it

Are soldiers aware of that?

Are we hearing for soldiers on the ground at the moment (I am purposely avoiding the news and really only hear about things from this forum to be honest)

What soldiers are saying they're following orders? Most believe in what they're trying to achieve - getting rid of a terrorist organisation that raped, murdered and kidnapped their citizens. That raped a woman whilst she listened to the cries of her baby being burnt to death in the oven (which are war crimes). That's what they're trying to achieve. They're sick of Hamas and them spending all the aid for Gazans on rockets and then crying that Israel prevents it from being a decent standard. They're just done with it all. And they won't stop til Hamas is gone and/or every hostage is released.

And I think it's very easy to sit in your arm chair and say you wouldn't do this or that but you're not living there and you don't know how you'd feel.

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:33

Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 18:30

Exactly. Powerful, rich men start wars and then send off others to do their bidding or die for their cause.

You mean like the billionaire Hamas leaders sitting in Qatar

tobee · 06/11/2023 18:34

What would you do if Israel was your country and you were Jewish? And your family members had been kidnapped and worse? Just roll over I suppose. It's so easy to do 😢 on social media when it doesn't directly affect you.

Ponderingwindow · 06/11/2023 18:38

SisterMichaelsHabit · 06/11/2023 18:22

None. No civilians. That's literally what people are saying.

You can't wipe out terrorists with blood, it literally hasn't worked anywhere in the entirety of history. You kill Dave and his cousin in France turns up ready to fight. You kill Fred and his three nephews from Sweden arrive to avenge him ten years later with all their friends. It doesn't end the cycle of hate and death.

Both sides need to sit down and talk.

people seem to keep forgetting that up until October 6th, Israel and Saudi Arabia were engaged in serious discussions. Consideration for the Palestinians were reported to be part of those talks.

derailing talks was the goal.

MissyB1 · 06/11/2023 18:38

tobee · 06/11/2023 18:34

What would you do if Israel was your country and you were Jewish? And your family members had been kidnapped and worse? Just roll over I suppose. It's so easy to do 😢 on social media when it doesn't directly affect you.

Plenty of Jewish people are calling for a ceasefire. And actually if one of my relatives was a hostage taken by Hamas, I would firmly believe the IDF was putting my relative in even more danger. And some of the families affected have been saying exactly that.

EasternStandard · 06/11/2023 18:41

tobee · 06/11/2023 18:34

What would you do if Israel was your country and you were Jewish? And your family members had been kidnapped and worse? Just roll over I suppose. It's so easy to do 😢 on social media when it doesn't directly affect you.

In Israel I’d would want the atrocities not to happen again, and given Hamas’ stated intention and knowing the extreme barbarism of their actions I’d hope they could be stopped.

Hecate01 · 06/11/2023 18:52

tobee · 06/11/2023 18:34

What would you do if Israel was your country and you were Jewish? And your family members had been kidnapped and worse? Just roll over I suppose. It's so easy to do 😢 on social media when it doesn't directly affect you.

Bombing everything in sight isn't going to resolve things and obviously they have no idea where the hostages are or they'd be trying to get them out so how does anyone know that they are not caught up in the bombing?

Creatingusernamesismygame · 06/11/2023 19:00

ideaspls · 06/11/2023 17:37

When will these criminals stop? 😥

https://apple.news/Ai_U4iWowRzqxHcGNjqnV0g

I dont call them criminals. I call the Israeli government and IDF terrorists. They won’t stop until they’ve massacred all the civilians of Palestine. The terrorists are a bunch of cowards who will go down in history as the army that waged a war against children and babies. What a legacy.

Creatingusernamesismygame · 06/11/2023 19:04

Hellostrawberries · 06/11/2023 17:40

I personally don't regard them as criminals but if you mean the IDF I believe the answer is when the hostages are released.

Hypocrites. They need to also
release the Palestinian hostages.

Creatingusernamesismygame · 06/11/2023 19:28

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 18:25

Considering that Hamas' only requirement is the total anilahtion of Israel (and all Jews) I'm not sure what there is to negotiate.

And if your family had been killed and kidnapped you would sit down at the table and negotiate would you? Or would you do whatever you needed to get them back?

Depends what kind of a human you are? We all have different morals.
You may choose to act like terrorists and simply massacre the civilians, majority which are children or you may choose to acknowledge that the civilians are not responsible for the attacks that happened and respond in a way that allows most civilians to get to safety with reasonable protection and aid and then root out the culprits responsible. Its possible if the intention is there.
But, I guess it all depends on what your actual agenda is.
Individuals get selected to lead a country, but rarely do they do a good job. History has many examples of leaders with plenty of blood on their hands. We may not be allowed to say what we believe they are doing now, but the next few generations will state openly what they did without being afraid of using terms that best suit their actions.
Think about the leaders from our past that committed acts of genocide. No one dared to label those leaders back then, but now years later we openly use the terms that best describe their leadership

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 19:36

Creatingusernamesismygame · 06/11/2023 19:28

Depends what kind of a human you are? We all have different morals.
You may choose to act like terrorists and simply massacre the civilians, majority which are children or you may choose to acknowledge that the civilians are not responsible for the attacks that happened and respond in a way that allows most civilians to get to safety with reasonable protection and aid and then root out the culprits responsible. Its possible if the intention is there.
But, I guess it all depends on what your actual agenda is.
Individuals get selected to lead a country, but rarely do they do a good job. History has many examples of leaders with plenty of blood on their hands. We may not be allowed to say what we believe they are doing now, but the next few generations will state openly what they did without being afraid of using terms that best suit their actions.
Think about the leaders from our past that committed acts of genocide. No one dared to label those leaders back then, but now years later we openly use the terms that best describe their leadership

If Israel is commiting genocide they've done a shit job considering the palastinian population has more than doubled in the 17 years since they started. It took the UK population 150 years to double by the way.

And no one whose condemning Israel has yet to give me any sort of other method for dealing with terrorists like Hamas other than "sit down and talk" with people who just want you dead. Maybe they can compromise and just half of the Israelis need to die

petuniasandpetals · 06/11/2023 21:09

Have you heard of human shields?

Bells3032 · 06/11/2023 21:20
  1. No there aren't. There are still less Jews in the world than there were in 1939
  1. At the time the worlds Jewish population was nearly halved.

That is a genocide.

So you're just spouting rubbish