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  1. On 4/18/2024 at 10:41 AM, connda said:

    Just like nuclear weapons which are 100% a deterrent until the first time they are used, after which the genie is out of the bottle.

    The same regarding the international laws regarding embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions - they are inviolate in the sense that signatories to conventions protecting these institutions understand that the law is only as good as the first time that it is allowed to be transgressed.  Israel has stated by its actions that it will not abide by international law.  It's a terrible precedence to set, especially when all of its transgressions of international law are being formally "excused" and ignored by Western countries especially the US, UK, and France.  It's amazing to listen to the pretzel-twisted rhetoric coming out of Western countries foreign offices and state departments which won't even acknowledge the strike on Iran's consulate in Damascus.  Personally I think the genie is now out of the bottle regarding the sacrosanct nature of embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions.
    Everybody plays the game of diplomacy or nobody plays the game of diplomacy.

    Now back to Article 51 of the UN charter which allows a country attacked by another state to a reprisal.
    Ok - Israel attacked Iran's embassy, then Iran launched a "failed" reprisal the "did minor damage."  Tit for Tat - this should be over. 

    Instead - Israel plans to attack Iran. So they are going to escalate. And Iran has stated that if it's attacked it will launch a counter-attack that will make the April 14th "show" reprisal look like a walk in the park. Then it's "game on" in the Middle East/North Africa and beyond.  It will become "The Suck."  And it will suck the entire world in.

    Israel can never deescalate. They will always require to get in the last blow. Therefore, personally, I see tactical nukes being used by Israel.  Once the first tactical nuke explodes? 

    The world as we have known it - ends. 

    Your post has good points, but it now appears that the Israel war cabinet has taken the advice of many countries not to escalate. You are right that Israel always wants to make the final response, and it seems that Iran understands this.

     

    When Iran attacked I think that the participation of Jordan and others to mitigate damage to Israel was prudent so as to keep the hardliners in the Netanyahu government from getting traction in their campaign to have a major counterattack on Iran. I don't know whether Jordan and the GCC did so, but they should have told the Israel war cabinet that in the case of a major response by Israel they would not repeat the aid given when Iran attacked the first time.

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  2. On 4/18/2024 at 1:05 PM, Will B Good said:

    I had the same problem.....I'm pretty sure I was not uploading the documents correctly...... can't recall what I did wrong or how I corrected it, but it was definitely related to uploading stuff.

    You have to pay attention to how big the image files are. Jpg (photo) flles can be downsized with free software. 

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  3. 18 hours ago, BE88 said:

    The leader of the opposition of the current government in Israel said that the government is made up of religious fanatics who want to go to great lengths to bring in the Lord, so yes the danger is very real.

    Don't forget the Christian Zionists at their back egging them on, so these selfish "christians" can have their rapture moment at the end of the world.

  4. 23 hours ago, connda said:

    It is widely accepted that Israel has nuclear weapons and the delivery systems to send them to their targets.  According to The Center For Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, "Israel is widely believed to possess 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads and to have produced enough plutonium for 100-200 weapons."

    Given the current Geo-political state of affairs in the Middle East, the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damacus, Syria, and Iran's military response to the bombing, and Israel's signal that it plans to attack Iran in retaliation - do you believe that Israel will use its nuclear stockpiles to "defend" themselves against their Arab neighbors?


    Please include your rationale to support your position and your vote. 
    As well, if Israel does use nuclear weapons on non-nuclear Arab countries in the region, what do you believe will be the outcome and the future for the Middle East as well as the entire world and humanity - and - how will it affect your decision to remain in Thailand?

    You should have given us the choice "probably not". Never say never.

  5. 5 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       The accusation was that the IDF killed Israelis in Israel to stop them being taken hostage .

    Your story is about hostages in Gaza being shot in a firefight with Hamas trying to free the hostages .

    Two different situations 

    Hummin said "They shot 3 hostages with white flag at Gaza?"

     

    The three Israeli hostages had escaped their confinement and displayed a white flag. Also they had stuck an SOS message on the wall outside the window of their detention room, but the IDF level of paranoia is so great that "shoot first" prevailed. You try to blame everything on Hamas, it seems. There was no firefight reported in this incident.

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  6. 7 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

    The IDF did NOT kill Israelis to stop them being taken to Gaza as hostages by Hamas .

    That is the truth .

    You can prove me wrong by providing some evidence that I am wrong .

    Why do you even think that the IDF deliberately killed Israelis to stop them being taken hostage?

    How did that thought get into your head ?

    There was no forensic investigation in the kibbutzi or anywhere else to give absolute proof of how people died. Bodies were removed and examined later, so critical evidence from the scene is lost. Testimony of whistleblowers is all that we have. Nonetheless damage from heavy weapons suggests that Hamas et al did not do various destruction to buildings and vehicles ascribed to them.

  7. 6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

    COGAT is a unit of IDF.

     

    They are the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories: Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip | Coordinating and facilitating humanitarian aid for Gaza.

     

    They are the ones that know seeing as they are the ones that check and let every single aid truck go through and count them.

     

    https://govextra.gov.il/cogat/humanitarian-efforts/home/

    Propaganda. There have been thousands of trucks waiting on the Egyptian side. For one so-called "contraband" item, such as a pair od medical scissors, the truck is refused entry.

     

    Also, only approved drivers can enter (at least before Biden got angry over WCK). When the BBC checked, there were only 80 such drivers, but they are not all available in place when the Kerem Shalom gate is opened. 

  8. 5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       That link doesn't back up your claim .

    The link says Israeli soldiers may have done it

    You stated that the Israeli soldiers did do it .

    You made the claim that there is evidence of the IDF killing Israelis to stop them being taken to Gaza as hostages .

        Can you provide that evidence ?

    Someone saying that they might have done it isn't evidence 

    There are many other links on this most recent implementation of the Hannibal Directive. Try Google.

  9. On 4/14/2024 at 8:37 AM, Bkk Brian said:

    They say and provide no evidence or source to where they get that information:

     

    image.png.97cc8aba0aebef91aa901d8d8072b2d4.png

    https://twitter.com/cogatonline/status/1776884629623988398

     

    WFP suspended their aid to northern Gaza. Is this COGAT claim more disinformation? COGAT is a unit of IDF.

     

    https://www.independent.co.uk/world/wfp-gaza-food-famine-suspended-b2499455.html

    "The UN said that 80 per cent of aid deliveries destined for northern Gaza were blocked by the Israeli army in January.

     

    The WFP had already suspended its aid deliveries for three weeks prior to Tuesday’s decision due to an Israeli strike on a UNWRA truck. "

    More chaos followed because desperate people mobbed their trucks in northern Gaza.

  10. On 4/14/2024 at 8:25 AM, Bkk Brian said:

     

    Gaza’s Health Ministry reported as of April 1, that 32 people, including 28 children, had died of malnutrition and dehydration at hospitals in northern Gaza. Save the Children confirmed on April 2 the deaths from starvation and disease of 27 children.

     

    Forget Gaza Health Ministry, that is Hamas and they already admit they don't have the details of more than 13,000 of the deaths they've reported. I could also find no article on the confirmation from Save the Children.

     

     

    Reliable source????

  11. On 4/14/2024 at 6:42 AM, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       The link was behind a paywall .

    Has anyone actually starved to death ?

    All the photos coming out of Gaza show numerous over weight people .

    There is no starvation in Gaza , recent photos show the markets are full of food 

     

    "No starvation" That's what Netanyahu's spokeswoman says. You must get your info from Israeli media.

  12. On 4/13/2024 at 5:11 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       Evidence of that please .

    You are claiming that the IDF killed Israelis being taken to Gaza for the sole reason to stop them becoming hostages .

       Do you have a non Al-Jazeera link to back that claim up ?

    That's the Hannibal Directive. 

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/unlawful-unethical-horrifying-idf-ethics-expert-on-controversial-hannibal-directive/

  13. On 4/13/2024 at 5:07 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

     

    In the last prisoner exchange , 280 Palestinian prisoners who were serving life sentences for mass murder   were released in exchange for one Israeli

     

    On 4/13/2024 at 5:07 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

     

    In the last prisoner exchange , 280 Palestinian prisoners who were serving life sentences for mass murder   were released in exchange for one Israeli

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli–Palestinian_prisoner_exchange

    "On 22 November it was announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement about a cease fire and the release of 50 hostages, in response the Israeli government would release 150 Palestinian prisoners. Hamas has acknowledged children would be the main component of the hostages released."

     

    Some were rearrested, maybe due to there being too much celebration.

     

    Are you referring to Gilad Shalit case then? There were 1000 prisoners released back then.

  14. 1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       Exchanging innocent people taken hostage  , including children and Babies for convicted mass murderers and terrorists .

       Keeping a1 year old baby hostage until a convicted mass murderer is released 

    Very few Palestinian prisoners committed multiple murders because those people are usually shot on the spot even before they can actually kill someone. 

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  15. 1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

    reason being they are spoon fed by Al Jazeera

     

    For most Palestinians, October 7’s savagery is literally unbelievable. Blame the TV news?

    Al Jazeera and others largely ignored Hamas atrocities, bolstering distrust of Israeli accounts; one poll found 97% in West Bank deny the monstrous acts committed against civilians.

    No Israeli civilians were killed in the October 7 onslaught on communities near Gaza, Palestinian diplomat Abdullah Abu Shawesh claimed matter of factly to Al Jazeera last week. Accounts of rape and other atrocities “were lies,” he said, dismissing the overwhelming evidence that Hamas’s slaughter of 1,200 people in southern Israel included indiscriminate massacres and sexual violence.

    On the Palestinian street, Shawesh’s claims are not the views of a fringe conspiracy theorist, but rather reflective of mainstream beliefs, with polling and other evidence showing high levels of denialism regarding the savagery visited upon southern Israel that day.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-most-palestinians-october-7s-savagery-is-literally-unbelievable-blame-the-tv-news/

    The claims of systematic rape are not believed, but beyond that there is evidence for IDF killing their own, in some cases to prevent live hostages from reaching Gaza. Then there is destruction in kubbutzi, some of which is too gross to have been caused by small arms.

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  16. 9 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

    Why should the emphasis be on Israel to look after who they are war with, Israel has done enough good will gestures, do you think Hamas might have a part to play in the safety of Gazan citizens!

    Israeli is required by international law to feed and care for the occupied people of Gaza, deemed to be under their control. Instead for years there was the diabolical practice to calculate the minimum calorie consumption to prevent starvation (1750?) and to limit food deliveries to that. Of course back then Gazans could to some extent grow food, but farms were also attacked in the present onslaught.

  17. 56 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

     

       I called it accommodation, you asked me to provide links to detention camps .

    I can provide links to accommodation provided , but I cannot provide any links to detention camps .

    Palestians can go to the accommodation if they want  and they aren't being forced to go there or stay there , so they are not detention camps because they are not being detained .

    They are in an open-air prison called Gaza. There used to be some roofs, but bombs took care of that.

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