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The whining gets so old.Billy was the original Withlacoochee River pirate.
Great last post.
Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:46 amWorld Central Kitchen charity halts Gaza operations after Israeli strike kills 7 workers
Bastards. If this doesn't cause the US to pause delivery of lethal aid nothing ever will.
Nuttyahoo and Biden killed billy.pilgrim. Bastards.
Good action.Video: Protesters Surround White House With 'Red Line' Banner
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on Saturday surrounded the perimeter of the White House with a "red line" banner.
Protesters told media outlets the connected pieces of red fabric that made up the banner, which they believed would stretch for two miles, was meant to symbolize a red line they were drawing for President Joe Biden over his support for Israel in the war on Gaza.
Biden said in May that he would pause U.S. weapons being sent to Israel if the country's forces went into areas of Rafah. The White House later said Israel had not crossed the president's "red line" with its operations.
As billy.pilgrim said.
Names of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were reportedly written on the red banner that encircled the White House....
OppsDozens of Palestinian Children Killed Amid Israeli Rescue: Gaza Ministry
On Saturday morning as Israel rescued four hostages kidnapped by Hamas from its October 7 attack, at least 94 Palestinians, including children, were killed by the Israeli operation, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
In the daytime rescue operation of Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, from two locations near Nuseirat, a dense central Gaza refugee camp, nearly 100 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded, according to the Associated Press. Their bodies were reportedly taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital. Reports from local sources are much higher, with some exceeding 210 fatalities....
Ziad, a paramedic and resident of Nuseirat, who only gave his first name to Reuters, told the outlet, "It was like a horror movie but this was a real massacre. Israeli drones and warplanes fired all night randomly at people's houses and at people who tried to flee the area."
... According to Reuters, Abu Ubaida, a spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, said in a statement on his Telegram channel that some Israeli hostages were killed during Israel's rescue operation. The statement said Israel "by committing horrific massacres, was able to free some of its hostages, yet it killed others during the operation."
The operation comes after Israeli forces struck a United Nations' (U.N.) school compound in the same area earlier this week. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), around 6,000 displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the school and dozens have been killed by the airstrikes.
The agency noted that "since the war began, more than 180 buildings belonging to the UN agency have been hit, killing more than 450 displaced people in those facilities." Commissioner General of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday that the agency "shares the coordinates of all its facilities (including this school) with the Israeli Army and other parties to the conflict. Targeting @UN premises or using them for military purposes cannot become the new norm."
In a Friday X post the IDF allegedly confirmed the identities of "17 terrorists that were operating from the school." The IDF also said its attack was "a precise strike." According to the AP, only nine of the names Israel listed matched the hospital morgue records, with one alleged militant listed as an 8-year-old boy.
... The past few months have witnessed record levels of violence and destruction, with nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced and over 36,700 killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, a department within the Hamas-controlled government....
Children and women have been disproportionately impacted by the war over the past several months. However, recent AP analysis shows that since April, women and children have made up around "40 percent of those killed in the Gaza Strip."
The eight-month conflict has also seen the spread of disease, starvation, and mass death and displacement....
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 9:02 amLOL, she's not wrong.
True.
Can you imagine the protests trump will generate and the National Guard response?
Yes
It would be a really bad time to be a Jewish student in this country.
A lot of the campus protests have Jews in the leadership. With online threats there's no telling the origin - Neonazis anywhere in the US? Russians? Where are the reports of beatings and deaths?
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1803194855746887920
Ironic that this is one time when I wish Nuttyahoo was being honest and accurate.Biden envoy told Netanyahu his comments about US-supplied weapons were ‘unproductive’ and ‘completely untrue’
US envoy Amos Hochstein told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting on Tuesday in Israel that his public comments this week that the US is “withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel” were “unproductive” and “more importantly, completely untrue,” a senior US official told CNN.
In that same meeting, US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew also reiterated to Netanyahu that his comments were not correct, walking through all of the arms the US has transferred to Israel in recent months, according to two senior US officials. A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Israel confirmed that Lew spoke with Netanyahu on Tuesday. The spokesperson reiterated that “with the exception of ongoing discussion regarding large diameter munitions, other items are either delivered or in the process of being delivered, or in the normal review process.”...
Massive Protests in Tel Aviv Demand New Elections
... The anti-government group Hofshi Israel estimated over 150,000 attendees, marking the largest protest since the Gaza war began. Some protesters lay on the ground covered in red paint in Tel Aviv's Democracy Square, symbolizing what they call the "death of democracy" under Netanyahu's leadership.
Calls for Immediate Elections
Former Shin Bet security agency chief Yuval Diskin addressed the crowd, condemning Netanyahu as "the worst prime minister in Israel's history."...
x 150,000+
... A former chair of the college’s Jewish studies program who specializes in U.S. political history and women’s history, Orleck had been teaching about the civil rights movement that afternoon....
How does this happen in a secure building?GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:30 pmThis may be a little too close to home.
My family lived about two blocks from there when I was growing up. It's considered a very nice, desirable neighborhood. Within listening distance of the Ravinia Festival. Of course, it's mostly Jewish, as is Brad Schneider.
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 7:28 pmHow does this happen in a secure building?
https://x.com/RepSchneider/status/1809238122846134303
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-democr ... 58742.html
Tons of staff and visitors?
. . . or it's a clever ruse 
sataspa approved.Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2024 11:46 pmVrede too wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:46 amWorld Central Kitchen charity halts Gaza operations after Israeli strike kills 7 workers
Nuttyahoo and Biden killed billy.pilgrim. Bastards.
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 12:02 amNot cool, not helpful.
https://x.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1816319360127926549
Childish and counterproductive. Criminal, hateful and counterproductive.
ChildrenMourners heckle Israeli ministers at funerals of 12 children killed by Hezbollah rockets
Youngsters died in strike on football pitch, for which Israel blames Lebanon-based group
Israeli ministers were met with jeers and heckles at the funerals of 12 children killed in a suspected Hezbollah rocket attack on Saturday.
The attack on Saturday evening on a football field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights was the deadliest on Israeli civilians since fighting broke out between Israel and Iranian-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah in October. It also left dozens of children injured....
Wow.On Sunday, thousands of mourners who were at the funeral in northern Israel’s Majdal Shams condemned the arrival of government ministers, whom they had told to stay away.
They accuse them of having long abandoned their community and were only going to the funeral to exploit it for political gain.
Nir Barkat, housing minister, Idit Silman, environmental protection minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the controversial Right-wing finance minister, were subjected to abuse and jeers as they arrived.
Some shouted at Mr Smotrich, an advocate for war with Lebanon, “leave here”, while also hurling profanities at him....
As politicians ignored calls for them to stay away, sorrow gave way to anger.
One man wearing a military uniform shouted at Mr Barkat and Mr Silman.
“Now you come here? Ten months you didn’t come!” he said to applause.
The source of their rage was the fear that the tragedy would be exploited for personal and political gain.
Yasser Gadban, chairman of the Forum of Druze and Circassian Authorities, had written to the government saying: “We ask all government representatives, ministers and senior officers, do not come. Due to the sensitivity of the situation, we ask that you not turn a massacre event into a political event. We are requesting a quiet, religious funeral in accordance with Druze custom.”
Top Israeli government officials have drawn flak from families of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct 7, as being indifferent to their suffering and the plight of the victims. Protests have been happening almost daily for their return and for Netanyahu to step down....
O Really wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:56 amEffective negotiation occurs when the goal is to leave with each side reasonably happy. To get to that point requires recognition of what the other side really wants and being willing to give some of that in exchange for something you really want. Exchanging only threats isn't negotiating. And that's all they've done for centuries: "If you do (whatever), I'll throw (rocks, bombs) at you and feed your children to the (dogs, pigs)"
Israel may have some valid grounds for having a perpetual chip on its shoulder, but mainly it's just a mean bully, insisting on dominance as the only acceptable condition.
