beautifulthailand99

Talk about sanctions on LBC now for Israel if they don't obey the UN ceasefire. Haaretz still has good guys - they do still exist in Israel. But they get it, unlike some of the frothers on here. If they truly love Israel, then they are its own worst enemies. Keep shouting anti-Semitism if you want, but nobody is listening anymore.

Make no mistake, the horrific consequences of Israel's action in Gaza to date will be a hard legacy for the nation to bear and one that will likely take decades and perhaps generations from which to fully recover. But what we have seen to date may pale in comparison to what is yet to come if the gravity of the current situation is not recognized and responded to with the utmost urgency.

But even that chilling warning understates the gravity of the situation. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has been actively and repeatedly warning of the need to prevent this outcome since before Israel's ground operations in Gaza began, referred to the IPC report when he stated, "According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity." He went on to note "that's the first time an entire population has been so classified."

https://archive.is/B3rkb

5 minutes ago, transam said:

What tunnels..........?  

Welcome oh wise one - blessings be upon you. Anyway I'm off to stock up with discounted wine at Sainburies. It's 25% off 6 bottles and there's some good stuff there. If WW3 breaks out I will be well prepared.

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Could you provide a link to back that claim up ?

 

Common sense says that would be the case and why wouldn't they having spent countless years building hundred of kms. I now have a prepping cupboard with potentially up to 6 months of food in various forms . Dried , tins, batteries, solar power charger, water filtration after covid. If you planned this attack then having food, weapons and water would be a given. They didn't do this on a whim.

Just now, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What other Country has ever been required to feed its enemy ?

Feed the people whom they are fighting against ?

Apart from Israel, which other Country has ever been required to feed and supply its enemy ?

I thought Hamas not the Palestinians were the enenmy - no one is asking them to feed Hamas. They no doubt have years of supplies in the tunnels as they planned this for 2 years.

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Great contribution to the topic...

 

The recommendations again, same as the order from the security council:

 

Immediately agree to a mutual ceasefire and release all hostages.

You did ask ..... that will be their line I'm sure.

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   It was the Untied Kingdom who were on the land at the time , not England and the United Kingdom didn't even want the land , it was the U.N that gave Israel and Palestine Countries , it wasn't England/U.K

And now the UN are the baddies ? Err as to 'wanting' after the predecessors of the IDF had killed and executed in cold blood numerous British officials including plotting to kill Churchill  - they decided terrorism paid and got out. Hamas have able teachers for their terrorism - the key lesson is that in the end it works.

4 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   There is a war going on . 

Are the Ukrainians being asked to feed Russian citizens ?

Why is Israel expected to help the enemy 

Ah, Ukraine! turns out the Russians don't know the first thing about attacking civilian populations and yet Putin is wanted by the ICC and Netanyahu walks amongst us. The vast majority of the world has had enough of western duplicity. They no longer listen or care about whatever lines you're trying to push.

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Even if some of that was true and I'm not going to go into their source links to look, their first recommendation for rectifying the situation dated when the report came out on 7th March stated:

 

"1. Immediately agree to a mutual ceasefire and release all hostages."

 

Israel is more than happy to do that in exchange for the release of all hostages. Get on the phone to Hamas immediately.

I've called them and  they say all Palestinian deaths of whatever type are martyrs in the cause of highlighting to the world the continuation of illegal occupation and the onslaught of Israeli aggression against legitimate acts of self-defence by a sovereign people. They will all die fighting for that cause without hesitation. God is Great !

Just now, beautifulthailand99 said:

Like New York, New York - so good they named it twice. Start spreading the news ...

And what is "posted a yesterday", is that when your troubles seemed so far away ....

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I see your keeping up, posted a yesterday

 

Like New York, New York - so good they named it twice. Start spreading the news ...Plus your for 'you're'. Where I come from, Grammar Nazis matter.

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I was going to make a joke about them all being so skinny that they could all fit into one tent , but as it would have been in bad taste, I decided against it 

I laughed but not in a good way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce48wpd08pgo

Foreign Minister Martin

"Ireland will be intervening.

“It is for the court to determine whether genocide is being committed.

"But I want to be clear in reiterating what I have said many times in the last few months; what we saw on 7 October in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale.

"It has to stop. The view of the international community is clear. Enough is enough."

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

France is responsible for the immigration, considering everything they had their hands in everywhere around world. Also in middle east making Israel as a state together with England. 

Please Great Britain we are for the time being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is the sovereign legal country not England. UK for short.

17 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   You think that Jews have paid money to affect your X feed .

Israel gave money to Elon Musk , so Elon makes sure you get pro Israel posts on your Twitter account ?.

Maybe George here could ask Israel  for a few shekels for a few pro Israeli threads ?

You assume the Israeli government would care about the few posters here to pay money for it. Whatever else they are, they are not stupid ! One of the processes is called shadowbanning - so the user can still post, but their posts do not appear in feeds and the only way to see them is to go directly to the feed concerned. Other power users can pay for the blue tick and then boost their posts. Israel is undoubtedly doing that. What I will say is that pro Russia accounts are being boosted and pro Ukraine ones less so - Musk is pro Russia of that I have no doubt, and pro Trump as well and wants him to win. Indeed, a lot of Ukrainian power users complain bitterly about the imbalance on the platform. 

Ukrainian users on X (Twitter) and Meta-owned Instagram have also complained of “shadow bans,” where a platform limits engagement with a user’s content by tweaking the platform’s algorithm.

According to Joris, shadow bans are far from a conspiracy theory but rather a common tool used by social media platforms to influence what users see.

Shadow bans are particularly problematic because users are not notified, says Joris. They are punished without knowing that they did anything wrong and have no opportunity to appeal.

In its report on social media in wartime Ukraine, CEDEM recommends a whitelist system that gives media organizations additional protections in conflict settings, which would go a long way to fighting back against disinformation.

https://kyivindependent.com/social-media-giants-unbalanced-fight-with-disinformation-in-ukraine/

8 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Who do you hold responsible for France  being multi racial and the recent immigration ?

 

 

One is the Algerian War of Independence, where France killed a million Algerians. Way to go, Israel !

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   You think that Jews have paid money to affect your X feed .

Israel gave money to Elon Musk , so Elon makes sure you get pro Israel posts on your Twitter account ?.

Maybe George here could ask Israel  for a few shekels for a few pro Israeli threads ?

Err yes.I mean, I actually have to seek out Jackson Hinckle now or I don't see his posts (that's a joke btw save your synthetic outrage for somebody else).

https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-social-media-opinion-hamas-war/

4 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Conspiracy theory garbage.

Intentional misinformation. 

Or my take on the truth based on observation. That's how the Buddha figured out the truth, by staring at the jungle for 6 years and figuring how it all worked. We can't see the wind, but we can see how it waves the leaves of the tree.

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

More deflection of AP winning a major prize with a photo of a murdered victim having their body being taken hostage to Gaza.

 

As my late grandma used to say, you can't uncurdle milk. I'll keep my outrage powder dry for fresh horrors, if you don't mind.

1 minute ago, rattlesnake said:

 

The Israeli victims have names and faces which makes it easy to relate to them. Palestinian victims, however, have no such honor and are merely numbers (usually systematically downplayed as "inflated by Hamas").

or it's all on Hamas anyway, with a Pontius Pilotian washing of hands.

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Deflection to an award to AFP for this:

 

“Disgraceful,” “Disgusting,” “Obscene” — that’s how users on social media platform X reacted this week after HonestReporting criticized the awarding of a Pictures of the Year to Associated Press photojournalists who captured Hamas atrocities on October 7 during the deadly terrorist rampage that sparked the Israel-Hamas war.

Moreover, the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), which bestows the award, chose to highlight a photo by Gaza photojournalist Ali Mahmud showing the mutilated body of Israeli-German citizen Shani Louk in a Hamas pickup as terrorists drove it back to Gaza on October 7. This and some 20 other AP photos were part of a package that won the “Team Picture Story of the Year” category.

Hasbara talking points for today. As a frequent user of X I noticed at the beginning of the war the feeds were much more balanced. After Musk visited Auschwitz and got a tour of the kibbutzes my feeds have been full of pro-Israeli propaganda. Probably the algo has been tweaked and Israel are paying royally for the privilege.

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

I hope A.P. are proud of the prize, although I doubt the family of this poor girl murdered and butchered on 7th Oct, then paraded in the back of a pick up truck in Gaza as a prize would agree.

 

https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1771078404781060133

 

This is how the family prefer to remember her but the biggest photojournalism competition in the world decided to trample on the family's wishes.

 

 

https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1773318588775948699

 

 

BTW you have just shared the unedited photo as well. Maybe follow your own advice and respect the family by not sharing the image ? Just a thought.

Honest Reporting - a pro-Israeli pressure group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HonestReporting

Following a 2004 article published in the British Medical Journal which criticised Israel for a high level of Palestinian civilian casualties and claimed that the pattern of injuries suggested routine targeting of children in situations of minimal or no threat, the journal received over 500 responses to its website and nearly 1,000 sent directly to its editor. In an analysis of the responses published in the journal, Karl Sabbagh concluded that the correspondence was orchestrated by Honest Reporting and aimed at silencing legitimate criticism of Israel. In his analysis Sabbagh pointed to evidence that the correspondents had not read the article. Sabbagh also documented a significant proportion of offensive, abusive and racist insults among the correspondence. An editorial by the BMJ referred to the campaign as bullying and said that the best way to counter such behaviour was to expose it to public scrutiny

Israel deliberately bombed AP's office in Gaza btw. They did give a warning, but that's who Israel are they don't want journalist covering their crimes.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I don't have to answer a question that had nothing to do with my post which referenced the family and I didn't bother looking at the other photos I have no need to.

Every time you see an image or video of the Twin Towers coming down you are watching the violent immolation of 3000 souls with many 10s of thousands of people who lost their loved ones who must find those images too cruel to bear. When 'history' happens to you, your image belongs to history. Sad to say, but true nevertheless. Strange that you pearl clutch over this, but have nothing to say about the thousands of twisted corpses of Palestinians. There is an iconic image of half a child hanging from a fence that has been widely shared on social media. I won't share it here, but it is truly shocking and stands as a bloody testament as to what happens when you drop a megatonnage of high explosive bombs on some of the most crowded places on earth. There are no good guys any more in this war. Just millions that are suffering seemingly without end.

The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience.

Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable.

When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them.

Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions: Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness.

Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence.

Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.