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Is the goal now to overwhelm everyone with atrocities and war crimes?

But you don't demonize Americans the way you do Israelis, which is hypocritical to say the least.
No, what’s hypocritical is the AMerican right pretends a) That Israel is allowed any trespass; b) that their interest in Israel isn’t entirely tied to their Christian beliefs.
 
You mean the terrorist incident Israel’s government is using to deflect from genocide in Gaza as their very last solution to the “Palestinian problem”? That October 7? And as we watch the IDF bomb civilian aid operations and fire on people trying to get food, how much sympathy d you suppose is left for Oct 7th as the be all end all justification for such brutality?


Deflect?

What is happening in Gaza now is because Hamas' military wing INVADED Israel on October 7th and the resulting destruction, killing and kidnapping and holding the hostages...

Hamas started a war.

Why won't they give the hostages back?
 
By performing the exact same actions that guaranteed Oct 7 in the first place. How many terrorists have been created in Gaza after watching their families slaughtered? How many American and Israel citizens’ lives will be claimed in their payback for all this payback? And then really brave Americans can bang on their laptops from their couches about how important it is that this time we crush ‘em good?
What guaranteed October 7 was allowing Hamas to manage Gaza as a sovereign party, while it got ready to do exactly what it did, diverting its funds towards the purpose of murdering Jews.
Ensuring Hamas and its ilk are nowhere near the positions of power is key in ensuring that it doesn't happen again.

For Israelis October 7 is still fresh in the memory and the videos of the horrors and brutality of that day by the Nazi-like fiends are still available on the internet. There's no going back to October 6th 2023 mentality.
 
Deflect?

What is happening in Gaza now is because Hamas' military wing INVADED Israel on October 7th and the resulting destruction, killing and kidnapping and holding the hostages...

Hamas started a war.

Why won't they give the hostages back?
Hamas doesn’t have a military wing, they’re a terrorist org. That’s why they have hostages. Israel is an apartheid government committing genocide, that’s why they raze whole neighborhoods to kill one terrorist.
 
What guaranteed October 7 was allowing Hamas to manage Gaza as a sovereign party, while it got ready to do exactly what it did, diverting its funds towards the purpose of murdering Jews.
Ensuring Hamas and its ilk are nowhere near the positions of power is key in ensuring that it doesn't happen again.

For Israelis October 7 is still fresh in the memory and the videos of the horrors and brutality of that day by the Nazi-like fiends are still available on the internet. There's no going back to October 6th 2023 mentality.
So you think watching your family and neighbors be brutally murdered, your neighborhood destroyed brings about bad vibes?
 
Hamas doesn’t have a military wing, they’re a terrorist org. That’s why they have hostages. Israel is an apartheid government committing genocide, that’s why they raze whole neighborhoods to kill one terrorist.

Your opinion is noted.

They have a political wing and a military wing.

Why won't they release the hostages?
 
So you think watching your family and neighbors be brutally murdered, your neighborhood destroyed brings about bad vibes?
Israel wasn't in Gaza when their leadership decided to invade Israel and murder, rape and kidnap its citizens.
And the idea that the response to such an invasion is rolling over and dying isn't helpful.
Like I said the October 6th mentality is not one anyone is going back to.
 
The hostages have been dead the whole time. If Hamas did not kill them, the bombs probably did.
There are at least 20 hostages still alive. A ceasefire agreement soon to be finalized will return half of them (10).
 
Israeli war criminal confronted at the US Capitol and losses his shit.

 
Your opinion is noted.

They have a political wing and a military wing.

Why won't they release the hostages?
Your misunderstanding of what Hamas is probably is why you’re having so much trouble with this question.
 
Your misunderstanding of what Hamas is probably is why you’re having so much trouble with this question.

What a stuid thing to say....


Al-Qassam Brigades, also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Arabic: كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام, romanized: Katāʾib al-shahīd ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Qassām, lit. 'Battalions of martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam'), are the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist organization Hamas. Led by Mohammed Deif until his death on 13 July 2024, Al-Qassam Brigades are the largest and best-equipped militant organization operating within the Gaza Strip in recent years.
Why won't they release the hostages?
 
What a stuid thing to say....


Al-Qassam Brigades, also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Arabic: كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام, romanized: Katāʾib al-shahīd ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Qassām, lit. 'Battalions of martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam'), are the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist organization Hamas. Led by Mohammed Deif until his death on 13 July 2024, Al-Qassam Brigades are the largest and best-equipped militant organization operating within the Gaza Strip in recent years.
Why won't they release the hostages?
Awww you did all that work of quoting Wikipedia and still got it wrong.
 
Why are heavily armed mercenaries handing out aid?
Because the area where they are handing out aid in, and the people they are handing out aid to, are governed by a terrorist organization that is currently at war with them.
 
I think he expectation is that people seeking help won’t be murdererd.
Is there evidence of this in the video provided? I watched it twice and I saw no one being murdered. I heard a burst of automatic gunfire off in the distance, but it's literally a warzone that is currently controlled by Hamas. It could have been a warning shot. Or it could have been gunfire directed at the peacekeepers. Or it could have been Hamas executing a someone for some perceived disloyalty. Or it could have been a peacekeeper firing at an armed terrorist. Or it could have been a peacekeeper murdering an innocent Palestinian civilian. Lots of options there. I don't know about you, but I hope it was the first one.
 
Because the area where they are handing out aid in, and the people they are handing out aid to, are governed by a terrorist organization that is currently at war with them.

That does not hold water. Aid organizations were able to hand out aid to the people of Gaza before this without mercenaries at hand.
 
That does not hold water. Aid organizations were able to hand out aid to the people of Gaza before this without mercenaries at hand.
Fairly easy when you're not even trying to protect the aid from being taken over by Hamas.
 
How is what I posted wrong?

Explain....
Hamas is just a terrorirst org. It's important to Israel that they're seen as a government because then they get to call their genocide a "war".
 
About 100k left and Hamas claims 55k dead. Even if you double the dead it's still above 2 million. Sorry to disappoint you if you were counting on more casualties.
This illustrates part of the Dead Center of this war. (The center point where the two sides become the same) Normally, everyone in the U.S. despises Hamas. Despises everybody who cooperates with Hamas. Would outright criminalize spreading Hamas propaganda, if they could, like many countries do. And yet ... we're supposed to believe the Hamas casualty count! Or at least, believe the terrorists couldn't have lied by more than a factor of 2.

Israel has bombed almost every hospital in Gaza because the doctors are working with Hamas. But the good folks at their casualty information service, crafting the numbers that tell the Palestinians that they can hold out another year without many people really dying ... well, surely those folks are a neutral international authority!

If Hamas represents the Palestinian people, stands up for the Palestinian people, then how come they did something that had little real effect on Israel, and which they knew would lead to the utter destruction of Gaza? Seems to me that Hamas is just as happy about dead Gazans as the IDF. All they seem to want is the flow of funds and power to their top people to keep going. I wonder if that money even comes from Arab countries, or if somebody from Netanyahu's coalition delivers the shekels to some idyllic unbombed walled compound in Gaza that the press never looks at... they do serve his purposes well, don't they?
 
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