Killings of Palestinian children are soaring in the West Bank.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: DBCowboy

We've already established you have no problem killing children simply because they were born in Gaza. We don't need to retread that ground again.

You support and defend Biden who allows women and children to be raped and sold into sex trafficking rings. You don’t have a problem with that so why would you pretend to gaf about these children?

An article on the Gaza devastation that I just read:

"An elderly Palestinian woman fled her home in northern Gaza. Now she is fighting to keep her grandchildren alive

The courtyard of Um Ihab’s family home in Jabalya, northern Gaza, once bloomed with citrus trees.
On most weekends, dozens of relatives would gather for a birthday party or a university graduation. The Palestinian grandmother would decorate the house with gold streamers and multi-colored balloons, as white confetti poured from the ceiling.
But when an Israeli airstrike demolished the house last winter, at least 30 members of the Ihab family were forced to flee the neighborhood where three generations had lived. Now, they are staying in a cramped tent in the yard of a displacement shelter in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, Um Ihab said.
“The land was swept away,” Um Ihab told CNN in February. “Not even one tree stayed up.”
Over six months of war in Gaza, Israel’s military offensive has decimated neighborhoods, drained essential supplies and caused severe hunger and thirst. Many Palestinians have been forced to seek refuge in outdoor tent camps, where they struggle to find enough food or water."
www.allsides.com...

a reply to: Welrus

... and if Hamas and the 'palestinians' hadn't attacked Israel, killing 1200 people, mass raping men and women, burning families alive, and taking 240 hostages ... then none of that would be happening.

posted by: FlyersFan
... and if Hamas

and . .
If israel hadn't discriminated against its original
Ancestors (the slaves of Abraham)
THEN none of that would be happening.
Two tiered laws / Aparthieds NEVER work.

Netanahu and his supporters are the biggest holocaust deniers.
. . . finely getting around to admitting,
slowly but surely the truth will be.
IDF Admits To Killing Elderly Hostage on October 7
news.antiwar.com...

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a reply to: ToneD

From your link to the unbiased Anti War dot com.

An elderly Israeli woman abducted by Hamas during the group’s surprise attack last year was likely gunned down by an IDF helicopter…

Gee, sound like Hamas was using human shields again.

I wonder if than old lady would have come in the IDF sights if Hamas hadn’t done something something something?

Do they normally gun down elderly citizens on the Sabbath or was there something different about this day?

originally posted by: YouSir

Ummm...He's talking about the West Bank...children killed in the West Bank by the occupiers...not the Gaza Strip...the West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority...not Hamas...

Ok, so why?

We do know they use kids as spotters and do carry guns. So why in the West Bank? The main reason is that it is all fun and games with them there and they like to play stupid games.

originally posted by: FlyersFan
a reply to: Welrus

... and if Hamas and the 'palestinians' hadn't attacked Israel, killing 1200 people, mass raping men and women, burning families alive, and taking 240 hostages ... then none of that would be happening.

Which also explains how Israel could have been surprised by Hamas in the first place, they needed the moral outrage to launch a literally genocidal campaign.

Israel would've been sanctioned and alone if it wasn't for this attack on Oct. 7th. The LIHOP hypothesis for your Greater Israel project, and it's showing.

a reply to: TheWoker

literally genocidal campaign

Oh brother, not this tripe again.

There are 146,000 births in ‘Palestine’ each year.
45% of those are in Gaza, so about 66,000, which is 5,500 per month.
In 6 months of war, the palestinans have lost approx. 20,000 -30,000.
That is 3,300 -5,000 per month for 6 months.
Even if you assume that every death is a baby, which is totally ridiculous, then they still have a net population increase.

Now ask yourself, how can a population experience an increase in population if they are being ‘literally genocided’ ?
Do you really think the Israelis are incapable of killing at least 10 times more than they have so far?
Why are Hamas terrorists not ‘Somali skinny’ yet if there’s ’no food’ in Gaza?
How many Israeli hostages are currently pregnant with terrorist babies?

data.unicef.org...
en.m.wikipedia.org...#:~:text=The%20West%20Bank%20has%20a,220%2C000%20live%20in%20East%20Jerusalem.
www.cia.gov...#:~:text=2%2C098%2C389%20(2023%20est.)

originally posted by: Vermilion
Oh brother, not this tripe again.

Hamas Defector Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Tells Pro Palestinian Activists They Belong in a Mental Asylum

"It's very disappointing to see Americans supporting Hamas and thinking that Hamas is a cool thing, while Hamas does not respect any of those followers, while those followers don't know that Hamas would torture them and massacre them with no mercy. They call them useful idiots. They don't know that Hamas is a dark black hole," Yousef said on an April 2 episode of "Dr. Phil Primetime."

"[Pro-Palestinians are] absolutely idiots because they don't know what they are supporting. They are supporting a monster that has been hijacking an entire society and endangering the entire Middle East, pushing the world towards a global war. … What's happening is insanity. Those pro-Palestine people need to go to a mental asylum."

"In fact, since Oct. 7, I personally don't differentiate between Hamas and the so-called Palestinians because, actually, there is no Palestinians, there are tribes. There is a tribe of Hamas, and there is the tribe of the Islamic Jihad … and each one has different interests, and all of them are conflicted," he said. "If they did not have Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other. This is the reality."

a reply to: Vermilion

Oh brother, not this tripe again.

Spoken like the old 9/11 truthers with the really wak spacer laser theories. Amazing to see how the tables turned.

Is it tripe when you have Nicaragua calling out Germany at the ICJ as well?

originally posted by: TheWoker
Is it tripe when you have Nicaragua calling out Germany at the ICJ as well?

Yes. Nicaragua is a pissant country with massive internal problems.
They need to stay in their own lane and clean up their own mess.

Human Rights Watch - Putting a Spotlight on Nicaraguas Brutal Repression

Today, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented a damning report on the brutal repression by the Daniel Ortega government in Nicaragua. It provides a basis for the UN Human Rights Council to take a more robust approach to the human rights crisis in Nicaragua and establish an international investigative mechanism to gather and preserve evidence of human rights violations during its current 49th session.

The High Commissioner identified a “pattern of serious violations of civil and political rights” that arbitrarily suppressed dissenting opinions from the November 2021 electoral process and “created an environment unconducive to the holding of genuine, fair and credible elections.” Violations included the abusive detention of 39 government critics ahead of the elections, including seven presidential candidates who remain imprisoned.

CNN - Nicaraguas Democracy is Crumbling

Nicaragua’s already fragile democracy is quickly backsliding into a dictatorship. President Daniel Ortega has spent the last week using the undisputed power of the country’s police and courts to crack down on his political opposition with brutal efficiency.

World Justice Project - Rule of Law in Nicaragua

Amnesty International - Nicaragua A Continuum of Repression and Systemic Human Rights Violations

“Through the documentation of emblematic cases, we’ve shown the continuum of repression to which Nicaraguan society has been subjected and the different patterns of human rights violations inflicted on people who dare to raise their voices to denounce the crisis that the country is experiencing and demand respect and full enjoyment of rights in Nicaragua,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.

The report explains the main tactics – excessive use of force, use of criminal laws to unjustly criminalize activists and dissidents, attacks on civil society and forced exile – that the government of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo has used to gradually shut down civic space; to silence human rights defenders, activists, journalists and any dissident voices or voices critical of the government; and to operate without any control or accountability. The implementation of these methods has resulted in a wide range of human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial executions and arbitrary deprivation of nationality.

According to information gathered by Amnesty International, police forces have resorted to excessive use of force – often in coordination with pro-government armed groups – and have been responsible for thousands of arbitrary detentions at various times over the past five years. These repressive forces have also been characterized by the use of lethal weapons in contexts not permitted under international law, which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, some of which have already been classified by human rights monitoring bodies as extrajudicial executions, a crime under international law.

originally posted by: FlyersFan
Yes. Nicaragua is a pissant country with massive internal problems.
They need to stay in their own lane and clean up their own mess.

Wow. Just wow. You're a US citizen right? Lol.

How ever did Nicaragua end up that way? I wonder?

CIA activities in Nicaragua were frequent in the late 20th century. The increasing influence gained by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a left-wing and anti-imperialist political party in Nicaragua, led to a sharp decrease in Nicaragua–United States relations, particularly after the Nicaraguan Revolution. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to support the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan political group to combat the influence held by the Sandinistas in the Nicaraguan government. Various anti-government rebels in Nicaragua were organized into the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the first Contra group, at the behest of the CIA. The CIA also supplied the Contras with training and equipment, including materials related to torture and assassination. There have also been allegations that the CIA engaged in drug trafficking in Nicaragua.

en.wikipedia.org...

a reply to: BrucellaOrchitis

Dang!

Way to turn an adhominem snipe on Nicaragua into a Ronald Reagan for Germany.

originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
How ever did Nicaragua end up that way?

For this discussion it's irrelevant. The poster was trying to drag Nicaragua in as if it were a trophy because Nicaragua complained about Israel. When in fact Nicaragua is just a stink'n mess and needs to take care of it's own problems instead of stuffing it's nose into problems on the other side of the planet.

originally posted by: TheWoker
Way to turn an adhominem snipe on Nicaragua ..

No. What was adhominem was YOU bringing up Nicaragua to begin with.
I simply showed your post for what it was ... ridiculous.
Using Nicaragua as an anti-Israel trophy ... when they are such a stink'n mess themselves.
Comical.

originally posted by: FlyersFan
For this discussion it's irrelevant. The poster was trying to drag Nicaragua in as if it were a trophy because Nicaragua complained about Israel. When in fact Nicaragua is just a stink'n mess and needs to take care of it's own problems instead of stuffing it's nose into problems on the other side of the planet.

And, again, why is it a stinking mess? Why is the Middle East a stinking mess? And why do you insist on thinking you can shut the door after the horse has bolted?

Like it or not, a lot of the world considers itself a community. We talk to each other - countries or nations, share our histories. Nicaragua's opinion is perfectly valid, why do you, as an American citizen, former member of the armed services, feel the need to silence them?

Me thinks the lady protests too much.

a reply to: FlyersFan

No. What was adhominem was YOU bringing up Nicaragua to begin with.

And who feels attacked by having a case at the ICJ mentioned for context, two well known politiclowns and a few highly motivated interns from their PR-team?

a reply to: BrucellaOrchitis

And, again, why is it a stinking mess? Why is the Middle East a stinking mess?

Imagine a land where Bacha Bazi, honor killings and martyrdom are all daily celebrated cultural happenings.
Now imagine that whole region blaming all their problems on a teeny country the size of New Jersey.
Hope that helps

originally posted by: Vermilion
Hope that helps

Who? The blissfully ignorant?

ETA. Though to be fair, I'm not sure about the blissfully bit, seems more of a corrosive bitterness these days.

originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
And, again, why is it a stinking mess? Why is the Middle East a stinking mess?

Here ya' go ... read up and learn

originally posted by: FlyersFan

originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
And, again, why is it a stinking mess? Why is the Middle East a stinking mess?

Here ya' go ... read up and learn

That is the stinking mess, that is not the how it became that stinking mess.

Dig deeper.

You can do it, I have faith in ya.