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In reply to the discussion: Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all]FadedMullet
(163 posts)74. You're right. I should not have said Jews. I'm usually more careful in distinguishing between Israel's rabid right....
.......wing governments and the portion of it's rabid right wing electorate that keeps electing those populations.
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Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Saturday
OP
I have full confidence in you to find the fallacy imbedded in this question.
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#126
You mean the UN agency UNRWA - the lifeline for Palestinians - that Israel destroyed?
AloeVera
Saturday
#103
Yes, an independently confirmed fantasy widely covered in the media as if it were fact-based. Their mistale.
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#123
Thank you. Very helpful indeed. Something that you previously called a fantasy being confirmed as fact
Beastly Boy
16 hrs ago
#146
Ain't that the truth? The influence of AIPAC and the other pro-Israeli lobbyists, as well as our historically....
FadedMullet
Saturday
#4
I don't get the part where Israel is defending itself by killing women and children.
Permanut
Saturday
#79
Do you get the part where Israel is defending itself against Hamas, the Houhtis, Islamic Jihad, Iran, and Syria?
Beastly Boy
Saturday
#83
I Missed The Part About Blocking Food and Supplies to Women and Children in Mass Starvation
DrFunkenstein
Saturday
#115
I've had distain for Netanyahoo for decades...but don't forget Israel's been...
electric_blue68
Saturday
#60
You're right. I should not have said Jews. I'm usually more careful in distinguishing between Israel's rabid right....
FadedMullet
Saturday
#74
Well a good place to send them might be where they hit with the missiles perhaps??
cstanleytech
18 hrs ago
#132
The same targets they are hitting now except doing so not with a single strike but
Beastly Boy
18 hrs ago
#136
Your last question is not really a good one since most of us don't know and that's why I'm asking my question.
cstanleytech
18 hrs ago
#137
I'm not proposing it. I'm simply wondering why they choose air strikes rather than ground troops.
cstanleytech
17 hrs ago
#141
Do we need a solution to the whole issue before we can agree that this slaughter of civilians is wrong?
AloeVera
Saturday
#35
Willfully missing the point and putting words in my mouth to demonize me. Again.
AloeVera
16 hrs ago
#145
No need. The absurdity of the same old tired talking points is self-evident.
Beastly Boy
Saturday
#11
If I had all the time in the world, I am sure I could have come up with a weaker response.
Beastly Boy
Saturday
#69
Maybe you can explain how murdering tens of thousands of civilians will free the hostages
Orrex
Saturday
#21
Maybe you can explain how taking and holding the hostages will end civilian deaths.
Beastly Boy
Saturday
#52
Obviously, any link to an apologist would get alerted on for calling them out
muriel_volestrangler
Saturday
#34
I myself would never alert on such a post, although I do understand that it could be considered a call out,
MarineCombatEngineer
Saturday
#36
Not really, you don't have to call out any DU poster, just point to the thread you think it happened in..
EX500rider
Saturday
#63
No need to point to threads, beyond those with "Gaza" in the title
muriel_volestrangler
Saturday
#85
Yep. They will have to live with the stink of genocide they supported.
Hassin Bin Sober
Saturday
#110
Hold on. You just said there aren't any DUers who have ever done that?
Violet_Crumble
8 hrs ago
#157
Israel already had 10s of thousands of prisoners it held in prison w/o charges
questionseverything
Saturday
#108
And don't you pretend that HAMAs invaded Israel, torturing, maiming, raping, murdering, kidnapping
MarineCombatEngineer
Saturday
#111
You will be hard pressed to find any DUers arguing in favor of the way the Netanyahu's government conducts the war
Beastly Boy
Saturday
#61
In other words, it will never stop. Or until Palestinians are caged up in a dark hell-hole in Libya.
AloeVera
13 hrs ago
#150
She's being quite transparent in defending HAMAs and vilifying Israel.
MarineCombatEngineer
18 hrs ago
#134
Congrartulations! You found a BBC reporter who editorialized the hell out of what Netanyahu said.
Beastly Boy
10 hrs ago
#155
Yes, indeed. Netanyahu doesn't have to "trust in God's power" because he has 1000 pound bombs and fighter jets.
FadedMullet
Saturday
#75
The odd thing is that in the early Bible, the only people with chariots are the baddies
muriel_volestrangler
Saturday
#87
I don't follow Israel/Palestinians/Arabs issues That closely but I have been off & on for decades. This comment from...
electric_blue68
Saturday
#65
Yes, well the Israelis have only been trying it that way for over half a century.
LudwigPastorius
13 hrs ago
#151
Trying what? The Israelis have been trying many thubgs for over half a century.
Beastly Boy
12 hrs ago
#154