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The shock being- no bodies were discovered. Briefly, nearly $8 million was spent at the epicentre of the scandal in Kamloops BC. And exactly zero human remains were found. Now I am curious how the government's investigation into the 80 churches that were burned/vandalized in the wake of this hoax is going.... https://www.westernstandard.news/news/no-bodies-found-after-spending-8-million-searching-for-bodies-at-kamloops-residential-school/54429

If Hamas had not attacked peaceful people in southern Israel, those 'murdered kids' would still be alive today. So I guess you could say they were murdered by Hamas. I am frankly amazed at how restrained Israel has been in prosecuting this war. Imagine if a group of terrorists from Mexico entered the US and killed 35,000 Americans in a day. Mexico would be a parking lot within 48 hours.

Yeah, that will work. Just like all the other Jews living in Arab countries. Oh, wait. Nevermind...

No, it is an observation. One that you apparently cannot respond to. So, do you have an explanation?

And it WILL stop. As soon as Hamas surrenders and releases their hostages, it will stop. Then, a freer and more prosperous Gaza can be built, free of terrorists and their medieval philosophy.

Don't presume to tell me what I do and do not support. That is gaslighting of a rather juvenile kind. It is a general fact that refugees and displaced people do not return to their original homes. After WW2, there were millions of displaced people- Germans leaving East Prussia, huge population shifts in India/Pakistan when they separated, even in recent history in North\South Sudan. The idea that you can somehow return to the actual land/house where your great grandfather once lived is utter madness. My point is that it is easy for the UN to flap its collective gums, harder to actually pay for their bloviating.

Well then, those 143 countries can get together and pony up a bit of land for the Palestinians to live on. Or they can pull the coins from under their sofa cushions and pay for Gaza to be rebuilt once Hamas is gone. It is easy to preen and pose until you actually have to pay the bill.

That's possible, and I wouldn't blame him for trying if he did. But digging into the why of the payment is quite tricky. TBH I am not following it terribly closely, but I can see a rich businessman paying to shut a woman up for a variety of reasons.

Why dont you ask her? Is it even relevant?

What makes you think he didnt? You are quite into mind reading it seems.

The threat of her blabbing? When you are being more or less blackmailed (legally) it is best to get it taken care of. Plus, do you think she would have agreed to an NDA and also agreed to not get paid immediately? That defies logic.

She was paid before the election because that is when she demanded to be paid. As for 2006, she was hoping to get some career favors from Trump for sleeping with him. Plus he was probably just another rich guy she had banged, no big deal. But when he became a presidential candidate she realized that she could make money from telling her story.

People hell bent on committing genocide usually do not allow food aid to be delivered to the people they want to kill. Nor do they encourage them to leave areas where fighting and violence will occur.

It is also plausible that Trump wanted to keep the strumpet away from his family, his business, and his reputation. The payment could have been for any of these very realistic situations as well, and just happened to occur during the election cycle. Stormy chose to come forward and put her hand out because she thought she could get max dollars due to the election.

Hamas terrorists. They filmed themselves ' at work '. The Israelis released a video called "Hamas Massacre" last year that should serve to feed your purient curiosity.

True. I guess the photos of the shot, burned, and mutilated ones aren't enough for you. Or the photos of the gang raped teenaged girls being taken back to Gaza. Jezus. You remind me of the Holocaust deniers... "but the concentration camp survivors said the walls in the showers were white, not beige... so I guess it didn't happen...."

Another problem is that the October 7 attack was a long time ago. Modern media has an incredibly short memory. So now the only current images are the ones of the war on Hamas. The photos of raped and kidnapped teenage girls don't make the news any more. Plus the war very neatly mimics the neo-Marxist view of settler/colonial violence, racial animus, etc.

There was also the small matter of the genocidal war waged by the Arab League against Israel. That caused a lot of population disruption. Israel won, a lot of Palestinians left, either voluntarily or forcibly. The Arabs got a measure of revenge in the ensuing decades by making sure that Arab countries were increasingly hostile to their Jewish citizens, even though they were completely innocent of any wrongdoing. Eventually, virtually every Jew was driven out of every Arab country, to seek safety in Israel.

Step one of eliminating Hamas is to kill them. Step two is to rebuild Gaza as a place with a vibrant economy, and where human rights and dignity are respected. Step three is to eliminate the hideous anti-semitic propaganda that is used in Gazan schools, which poisons the minds of young Gazans. A bit like in Nazi Germany after WW2- a de-nazification program there was very successful. No reason to think a de-hamasification program in Gaza would fail.

A bit off topic, but the bill you reference was the problem. It was a classic omnibus bill, with many disparate parts shoehorned into one big mess. Why not simply vote separately on Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel for aid? No reason to put them together except craven political manoeuvering.

When I was looking for a condo I ran into this a lot- real estate agents who use 'company ownership' as a way to entice buyers who are rightly concerned with whether a unit is available to foreigners. Steered well clear when they couldn't exactly verify if it was above board or not. And now with the crackdowns on nominees, I'm glad I did.

TBH I don't see much of a parallel with Ukraine, it is irrelevant to the situation in Gaza. As for the IDF, I would say that they are more than competent. They have beaten off several large scale attacks from numerous opponents since 1948. Most people with any military experience or knowledge would agree. Their special forces are feared by terrorists worldwide, and rightly so.

No, I am speculating why the President might be getting less than stellar advice from those around him. And of course the US is not cutting off Israel completely, that would be madness. But it is also arrogant and belittling for the US to presume to tell Israel what weapons it does or doesn't need. The IDF know what they are doing, they have been in the business of killing terrorists for a while now. If they say they need something, I tend to believe them.

No kidding. The rape capital of Europe, courtesy of 'newcomers' and their enlightened ideas about consent and gender equality.

The current 'leadership' in the Pentagon is more concerned about meeting DEI targets than in war fighting. They have huge recruitment and morale issues because they simply aren't behaving like soldiers anymore. And there better be a damn good reason for not giving them everything they want, other than "hmmmm election year..." If there is one, I haven't heard it yet.