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7 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

Nothing says "We only attack military targets" like blowing up a hospital

A hamas members granda's pal's sister walked past that hospital only 18 months ago.  Legitimate target,  and they even sent an msn message to the janny to warn the decent   less scummy Palestinians to get out .

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42 minutes ago, Ewanandmoreagain said:

I know we , Brits , were / are part of the problem but when did we move Palestinians out of their homes ?

The Balfour Declaration set it all up. 

 

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Israel say it was a Hamas rocket that went wrong and they would never target a hospital.

Conveniently forgetting that Archbishop Justin Welby tweeted to the world that Israel hit the same hospital on Saturday (its run by the church).

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5 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:

Do the hostages have any prospect of survival? I really don't think an Entebbe-style raid is feasible here, or certainly not a successful one. And surely freeing the hostages in, say, a prisoner exchange loses them any leverage with Israel. Dreadful for everyone involved except for Hamas and Israeli hawks.

A prisoner/hostage exchange deal along with a ceasefire would be a huge victory for Hamas, so it's not going to happen without a miraculous outbreak of rationality. 

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2 hours ago, Leith Green said:

Poorly worded by me but when Britain left and partition happened, many Palestinians lost their homes.

It's not as if they accidently mislaid them.

They were forced to leave.

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16 minutes ago, Jaggy McJagface said:

Middle Eastern leaders starting to pull out of meetings with Biden now. Looks like the situation might be spiralling unless the Americans decide to put Israel on a leash.

I'm not sure Israel can be put on a leash tbh.

Netanyahu and his cronies only have one move available to them. Which is to plough on regardless. After the colossal intelligence failure anything else will be seen as weakness for the strongman. It's compunded by the fact that Israel doesn't recognise the ICC either, much the same as Russia in that regard.

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France24 reporters have looked into a clip the Israeli Defence Force posted earlier and have concluded that the Israeli soldiers shoot 4 people who are unarmed and have surrendered in the clip. 

Bidens meeting tomorrow will have some agenda if they are going to try and get things back from the brink.

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Israel blatantly committing the most appalling crime and then pretending it was the other side is straight out of the Putin playbook.

If Hamas had access to missiles capable of that kind of damage, then they would have been launching them at Israel long before now.

Hopefully Netanyahu finds himself up in The Hague one day, but that will never happen.

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31 minutes ago, Trogdor said:

I'm not sure Israel can be put on a leash tbh.

Netanyahu and his cronies only have one move available to them. Which is to plough on regardless. After the colossal intelligence failure anything else will be seen as weakness for the strongman. It's compunded by the fact that Israel doesn't recognise the ICC either, much the same as Russia in that regard.

Would you like to buy a bridge? 

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For the Israeli explanation to be credible you'd have to believe that an Islamic Jihad rocket was fired from southern Gaza with the intention of hitting Haifa, an awful long way, and accidentally dropped early and hit a Hamas arms cache on the roof of a major hospital in Gaza City. 

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