[bots]

We used to have a UN peacekeeping force over there and all that happened was they got shot and blown up without taking any defensive action

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

We used to have a UN peacekeeping force over there and all that happened was they got shot and blown up without taking any defensive action

Killing peace keepers should be a war crime

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

Killing peace keepers should be a war crime

Israel never commits war crimes though



more antisemitism in here

[Liam-]

[Ninastar]

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say that but ok cool I guess??

[Nicky91]

Youtube video

many hamas terrorists captured

[Nicky91]

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/12183...sefire-veto-un

The United States vetoed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations Security Council on Friday.

The Security Council vote on the resolution, backed by Arab states, had 13 in favor and one — the U.S. — against, while the United Kingdom abstained.

After the vote, the U.S. deputy representative to the U.N., Robert Wood, said the resolution was rushed and ignored U.S. diplomatic efforts to get more aid into Gaza and free hostages taken by Hamas militants in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

"We propose language ... that would have reinforced the life-saving diplomacy we have undertaken since Oct. 7, increased opportunities for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, encourage the release of hostages and the resumption of humanitarian pauses and laid a foundation for a durable peace," Wood said.

"Unfortunately, nearly all of our recommendations were ignored."

Arab countries urge the U.S. to push for a truce
Several foreign ministers of Arab countries that have been pushing for a cease-fire met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington shortly after the U.S. veto.

While Blinken's aides say he wanted to talk about the future of Gaza, once Israel defeats Hamas, Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, rejected that approach.

"Today's failure to support the call for a humanitarian cease-fire is an endorsement of further killing of Palestinians, further violations of international law, further commitment of war crimes," Safadi said.

"Israel is basically doing whatever it wants, in defiance even of its allies, creating a horrific situation in Gaza, and then wants us to come in and clean the mess. We will not do that."

He was joined by the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

The draft didn't condemn Hamas
Wood said the resolution's authors declined to condemn Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,200 people, including women, children and elderly.

In response to the Hamas attack, Israel's two-month military campaign has killed more than 17,400 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, according to the territory's Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilian and combatant casualties in its figures.

Wood added that the draft also "failed to acknowledge that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism."

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Gilad Erdan thanked the U.S. "for standing firmly by our side."

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he said: "A ceasefire will be possible only with the return of all the hostages and the destruction of Hamas."

The U.S. has previously vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on similar grounds. Russia and China vetoed a U.S. resolution to condemn the Hamas attack, call for the release of hostages and allow aid into Gaza.

Earlier this week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres invoked a rarely used article of the U.N. Charter to urge the Security Council to "press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe" and pass a resolution for a "humanitarian cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants."

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[arista]

Look Nicky

Once HAMAS has gone

The IDF are out of there.

Some have put up a white flag,
and are now locked up.
Others are dead.

[Z]

It's getting to be like that Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire, how are they even defining what Hamas is and how will anyone know when they've been 'eradicated'? It seems frighteningly inevitable that a mass outbreak of any number of diseases is going to begin any day now in these cramped conditions they've created for civilians being displaced multiple times, no food, bad weather, lots of dead bodies, no functioning hospitals...

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Z

It's getting to be like that Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire, how are they even defining what Hamas is and how will anyone know when they've been 'eradicated'? It seems frighteningly inevitable that a mass outbreak of any number of diseases is going to begin any day now in these cramped conditions they've created for civilians being displaced multiple times, no food, bad weather, lots of dead bodies, no functioning hospitals...

One very strong thought provoking post is this.

[arista]

Great to have you Back

Z .

[Ninastar]

Z

[Liam-]

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

Youtube video

many hamas terrorists captured

Originally Posted by Liam-

Are these different viewpoints of the same thing?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

shocking and unacceptable but as for the silence are the people who denied 7 October even happened asking this question...irony

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

shocking and unacceptable but

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

not surprising from someone who said the hostages looked fine, a few clean clothes all is forgiven

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

not surprising from someone who said the hostages looked fine, a few clean clothes all is forgiven

Quote me, liar.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie

not surprising from someone who said the hostages looked fine, a few clean clothes all is forgiven

To be fair he also called out the use of "It's a shame about what happened on 7 Oct, buut -"

[user104658]

The silence is indeed deafening: there'd be outrage if this was images of Hamas with prisoners.

[Liam-]

I can’t decide which is worse, the propaganda itself or the fact that the propaganda is so bad because they expect people to either a) be stupid enough to fall for it or b) not care that it’s obviously propaganda and spread it anyway because they want more children to be slaughtered

[arista]

Originally Posted by Liam-

I can’t decide which is worse, the propaganda itself or the fact that the propaganda is so bad because they expect people to either a) be stupid enough to fall for it or b) not care that it’s obviously propaganda and spread it anyway because they want more children to be slaughtered

If only Hamas
would give themselves up?

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by arista

If only Hamas
would give themselves up?

They obviously think Israel('s leadership) should do similar none of them are going to just roll over.

[arista]

I am Glad the young lad crying
is Alive

[joeysteele]

I fear the UK and USA are going to be in a spot here if they keep unconditionally supporting Netanyahu.
He seems set on a path of danger too for the area, as well as Hamas are too.

Meanwhile way too much slaughtering of innocents seems to be just being allowed to go on.

No Nation should be given support for that.