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Israel Goes To War with Hamas 2023

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Oct 6, 2023.

  1. astros123

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    I'm glad you folks agree with my thesis. Thanks for the contribution.

    @Clutch can any mod close this thread ? The discussion is useless
     
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    Discussion being useless has never been a sufficient reason to close a thread on here. Do you think the discussion is harmful somehow?

    I do notice there is a duplicate thread that @basso created. Maybe they should be merged somehow.
     
  3. astros123

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    It's become too toxic without anything being achieved. Western activists like @Sweet Lou 4 2 know what's better than anyone else
     
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    I believe my thread was created earlier; the thread title is more accurate
     
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    Pulling a trump
     
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    We can merge this was yours. I don't really give a ****
     
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    [​IMG]

    You just know Putin and Xi are laughing at the exploitable weakness of the USA because of multi culturalism.

    Piss off the right special interest groups -
     
  8. Nook

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    They breach the doors and go at the NYPD - then open fire on them...... same with the Insurrectionists at the Capitol a few years ago.... when you start mob attacking Police Officers and government officials - shooting is fair play.
     
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    Look how nice GAZA was before HAMAS.

    DD
     
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    1) Doesn't look like an "open air prison" in an "apartheid state" to me, at all.

    2)

     
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    Much worse in Europe, even.
     
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  12. Nook

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    Gaza had nearly a 60% poverty rate before the Hamas attack last month.

    If you believe the UN, the poverty rate in Gaza is 80% with an unemployment rate of nearly 50% before the Hamas attack.

    Hamas has lots of money though - most of it from Qatar, an arrangement that was approved and backed by-------- Israel (yes I am serious).

    Hamas also has received lots of funding from Iran and other likeminded sources. Turkey and Malaysia are also big contributors.
     
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    Hamas has to fall - there is too much internal pressure from governments like the USA, UK and a number of EU nations.

    Israel was happy to have Qatar fund Hamas because it undermined Abbas.... the USA and EU both had declared Hamas a terrorist organization, but looked the other way because Israel was fine with it and because aid had to get into Palestine, and we are talking about literally billions of dollars. Hamas has now invested that money into crypto currency, properties internationally, grain futures etc... the West is going to shut all of these avenues down if Hamas isn't destroyed.
     
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    Maybe a post card Pic from X isn't the best resource for information. Are you aware of Sun City from Apartheid South Africa?
     
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    The scary thing is, even when Hamas falls, the hate and the supremacist agenda of political Islam and the infiltration of Western societies through it are not going away.

    You saw the hateful and violent anti-semitic people on the street in cities and universities worldwide, the unholy alliance of Islamists and Wokeists. They are evil, plain and simple.
     
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    The only way this ends is for the general Palestinian people to start working with Israel to remove HAMAS.

    DD
     
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    Apartheid South Africa was beautiful, in fact I know some people that lived there during apartheid and it was the best place on the planet - if you were white. Crime was almost zero, opportunities to make money were abundant. Very nice housing was affordable, as was labor dirt cheap. All you had to do was avoid the black parts of town- but as it was told to me, no one wanted to go there.
     
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    That has not changed much. Crime is way, way up.
     
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    The situation with Israel and the Middle East in the forceable future is really troubling. There will be normalization of relations. I know that some Israeli businessmen I know are very concerned about a potential free state for Palestine being too powerful and attacking Israel - and while I do not agree with many of the Israel policies on settlements, I can understand where they are coming from.

    As for Islam - more of it is radical than people want to admit. The Koran is not made up of parables or not followed, it is very strictly followed in many places. There are certainly many Muslims that are not extremist, but there are a fair number of them.

    As for "wokeists", such a group has always existed on the left, as fascists exist on the right of the republican party. I think that the issue is that there are no consequences for many actions.
     
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    that’s what they should’ve done on Jan 6, but we know which groups of people actually get bullets and which don’t
     
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