I had to read the rest of the thread up until now. But ATW doesn’t know wtf to say to this. I personally agree with every single word you wrote.
good luck with that psa I don’t use the ‘ignore poster’ feature, but I’d love an ‘ignore tweet’ feature. 90% of the tweets on this d&d are making everyone dumber and angrier.
It's almost as if hamas are terrorists who need to be destroyed. What scumbags. Someone is going shot doing this and they'll have zero sympathy from me. Play stupid games win stupid prizes
The disconnect between you and I seems to be while we both agree on Hamas being evil and the terror on October 7 was a crime against humanity, I don’t think the attack or Hamas’s evil nature justifies the subtotal destruction of the Gaza Strip. No amount of reminding me of how evil the terror was on October 7 will make me change my mind. I’m convinced that even if Israel claims its objectives as a success, the sheer destruction we are witnessing will result in a whole new generation of terror and will set the clock back for peace by another decade.
Hamas has declared (and has it in its charter) that they would do everything they can to repeat October 7 again and again. What do you suggest Israel should have done? Just wait for the next attack?
Ideally, they would’ve stopped the attack in the first place. The IDF controls nearly everything that goes into and out of Gaza and West Bank, and they certainly could have done more to dampen Hamas’s ambitions with soft power rather than hard power.
That did not answer my question. Hamas' entire focus is killing Jews. They stockpiled weapons and built terror tunnels for years, only to do that. Are you suggesting that Israel should just wait for the next attack? What exactly should Israel have done, in your opinion, when their goal is to protect their civilians?
Did you read the report? The report states that Israeli warplanes were about to take off and minutes away from bombing Lebanon. Biden called bibi and told him to back down or usa wouldn't support them with weapons. Insane story The pentagon and Republicans are blaming biden cuz he's refusing to bomb yemen. We bombed yemen for 7 years and didn't accomplish anything. @Space Ghost these trolls who trash biden can't grasp the concept biden is easily the most anti war POTUS we've had. Supporting ukraine is something anyone would've done
How about Israel shouldn't fund hamas and give them boatloads of cash. @AroundTheWorld keeps claiming hamas are a ruthless terrorist organization that wants to kill jews but somehow he always skips past the part where israel was giving hamas 30 million a month in cash. It's mind-blowing
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ Is there any media that you trust? Israeli media has confirmed NYT reporting that Mosaad was paying hamas tens of millions in free cash every month. They were funding hamas even after they have been firing rockets into Israel for decades. Just think how lowly they think of people like @AroundTheWorld . They know they can piss in your face and you'll happily stand up for them. It's a sad look
The hope was surely that one would be able to stabilize Gaza's government and normalize relationships eventually. That does not make anyone but Hamas responsible for what happened. The West cuddled Putin (and Erdogan) for a long time, same failed strategy. Don't fund evil. Eradicate it.
What do you get out of lying? The hope was not for "stability" but rather division and anger. If you actually quit being a partisan hack and actually read the reports Bibi was funding Hamas so the palestinians would keep fighting between one another instead of uniting behind one government. bibi predicted this would weaken the PLO and thus eliminating a 2 state solution. I just dont understand why you have to lie to yourself. Funding Hamas was about division not peace.
Don’t strengthen them because you (Bibi) are so opposed to a Palestinian state. When you give them a $$$$ to strengthen them and undermine their more moderate counterparts, expand settlements into the West Bank and ignore lynchings of innocent civilians…you make any ongoing peace process impossible. to actually want peace is letting go of the myth this is a “just one side bad” issue. The current Israeli govt has no problem doing what Hamas does. They kill women and children in a more systematic way with better PR. again you condemn Hamas but ignore the fact it on record of him openly bragging about it. If Hamas are murderers , then people that facilitate them are by this nature of association accomplices. These are Israeli sources, not Palestinian or dipshit tweets by Eli David etc https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-y...d-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/ For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from By TAL SCHNEIDER 8 October 2023, 3:58 pm Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Masou) For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group. The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. ADVERTISEMENT Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a government conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) Since Netanyahu returned to power in January 2023, the number of work permits has soared to nearly 20,000. Additionally, since 2014, Netanyahu-led governments have practically turned a blind eye to the incendiary balloons and rocket fire from Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip. A Palestinian man receives financial aid at a supermarket in Gaza City, on September 15, 2021, as part of the UN’s Humanitarian Cash Assistance program, supported by the state of Qatar. (Mahmud Hams/AFP) Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015. According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. While Netanyahu does not make these kind of statements publicly or officially, his words are in line with the policy that he implemented. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looking on as he receives Palestinian athletes in Ramallah in the West Bank on August 4, 2023. (Wissam KHALIFA/PPO/AFP) The same messaging was repeated by right-wing commentators, who may have received briefings on the matter or talked to Likud higher-ups and understood the message.
