Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds II

Why? Has the Netherlands asked for their extradition?

They broke the law in the Netherlands, not Israel. The Israeli courts have no jurisdiction.

You are aware of that, aren't you?

So the IDF's tactics are the right ones?

Good to know

 

You know better, you can read between the lines.
You know what I mean/ment.

 

Assad was only kept in power by IRGC command and control with Hezbollah providing the boots the ground and even that wasn't enough: the Russian air force was the decisive factor. Without it he'd have been swinging from a lamppost in Damascus, but Obama chickened out.

Now, with Russia tied up in Ukraine, Hezbollah decimated and the mullahs humiliated, he has no allies with spare forces to mobilize even if they wanted to, and that isn't clear in Iran's case: he was uncharacteristically quiet over the last 3-4 months and has been putting distance between himself and Tehran over the last few years. They aren't happy with him at all.

He's between a rock and several hard places but so are the mullahs. Hezbollah will be damned hard to resupply if Assad doesn't allow trans-shipment of weapons and he won't last long if the Iranians pull the plug on him so he needs to get the weapons through. If he does, the Israelis will act and they won't draw very fine distinctions between his army's depots and Hezbollah's.

He's supposed to be in Moscow at the moment, begging for weapons. He should think about staying there.

 

Doing the rounds on (non-Shia) Lebanese social media

 

And another

 

Israel is engaged in an "ethnic cleansing" in the Gaza Strip, says Moshe Ya'alon.
From 2013 to 2016, former soldier Ya'alon was defense minister in a government led by Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with the Israeli channel Kan, he talked about the plans that Israel would have to expel the Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip and settle Israeli settlers there. The former minister said he spoke on behalf of Israeli commanders who have been deployed in northern Gaza and are concerned about what is happening there. "They are put in mortal danger and faced with moral dilemmas," said Ya'alon. Moreover, they have to fear prosecution by the International Criminal Court. Israel is committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, he said. The statements of the former minister amount to "malicious lies," according to Netanyahu's Likud party.
Within Netanyahu's government, far-right ministers have repeatedly spoken out in favor of a return of Israeli settlers to the Gaza Strip, but officially that is not a government position.


Moshe Ya'alon and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014, when they were defense ministers and prime ministers in the same cabinet. © EPA

Mmmm, that guy with glasses must be a hardcore anti-semite, talking bigsoccershit.

 

Former director of the Jewish Museum Judith Belinfante (81): 'Peace starts with understanding each other's pain'

Eline Verburg 25 Nov. 2024

After the Hamas attack on October 7 last year, Judith Belinfante unexpectedly thought: 'Where should I go now if something happens?' "I was never so aware of that, I never wanted to live in Israel. But subconsciously it was apparently always the possibility of a safe haven." Peace now seems further away than ever. "The Jewish trauma of centuries of persecution makes us afraid, also for the people with whom we share the same territory, the Palestinians. And to them we hand over this trauma in this war."

© Rene Bouwman Judith Belinfante in front of the Holocaust Names Monument.

 

well, they send a ton of aid money that almost always gets diverted. So the answer is probably, yes, to an extent, and inadvertently.

 

As a side note, Hezbollah fighters exiting Syria are getting pounded by the IDF

 

So Assad is gone.

 

Dead and gone, probably

 

Was watching a discussion on Al Jazeera last night. An analyst from a Brookings Institute spin-off in Qatar believes that Hamas faces an instrumental problem: after 14 months, keeping the hostages alive and safe is becoming really difficult so they either exchange what they have for something now or less for far less later on.

In his view, Sinwar's death ushering in a more collective leadership is not that significant and the role of a changed international situation is being over-emphasized. The driving force behind their flexibility is the potential loss of their bargaining chips and exhaustion on the ground

Notably, the Israeli panelist, from the right-leaning Bar Ilan University was nodding to every word.

 

Highly unlikely.

But, after 20 years, he's also a) old and b) out of the loop so it's unlikely to be not part of the deal, so to speak.

He'd have been released within 5 years anyway so why not let him out as a goodwill gesture

 

Wow,
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq62mge27r0o


That must have been an incredible number of Israeli children and women killed by Ireland, while chanting anti-semitic slogans about it in football matches.

 

Persécutée
Abandonnée
Laminée
Ecartelée
Saignée
Terrorisée
Ignorée
Niée
Eternelle

 

From Aaron David Miller

It may well be in Netanyahu's interest not to do a deal now. Hamas hasn't produced list of hostages - living and dead.
With Trump in office, Netanyahu can do deal giving Trump credit and claiming Trump's "pressure" gave him no choice.
Either way, Netanyahu loves procrastinating.​