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Carroll, 79, alleged that Trump raped her at the Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan some time in 1996 https://www.foxnews.com/media/jonathan-turley-president-trump-biggest-problem-e-jean-carroll-case-did-not-testify

Really? As a a business person, Trump had a terrible negotiation record. You must be thinking of TV Trump.

So, you offer no justification for why Israel won't even release the names of POW's to the Red Cross. Instead you pull your usual moral indignation stunt.

Your question is irrelevant to the fact that, with a few exceptions, Israel won't even confirm the names of the POWs. How would the Red Cross distort or misuse that data?

Trump thinks his most formidable opponent is Nancy Pelosi who in his mind is running against him for the Republican nomination.

The Red Cross did not launch the claim about the hospital attack. It was simply too credulous and believed it. That's quite different from the Red Cross reporting on its own experience with the Israeli authorities. As for what some Red Cross employee told an Israeli family, what's that got to do with this report coming from the Red Cross?

You think that the Red Cross is lying about being denied access to POW's? Really?

Stop making things up: From the landing page of this forum "Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source." https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/hamas-crackdown-on-protests-snuffs-out-a-push-for-change-in-gaza-1.839824 Palestinians are getting brutalised in Gaza and you ignore that and focus of fals accusations made about Israel . Could it be that Hamas are pointing fingers at Israel, just so they can carry on attacking civilians without any criticism ? The reports about Israeli brutality do not stems from accusations by Hamas. And how does evidence of Hamas' brutality negate the evidence of Israeli brutality?

What makes your comments so ridiculous is that you assume the default position should be that Israeli forces are not abusing prisoners or falsely imprisoning people who aren't members of Hamas. Given that Israel is denying the Red Cross access to prisoners and is not allowing outside reporters to enter Gaza, what is the factual basis for your belief? You asked me for evidence. Well, what proof do you have that Israel is treating prisoners humanely? Here is some specific evidence: Photographs taken by Gaza journalists have shown newly released detainees being treated in hospitals, the skin around their wrists worn down with deep cuts from the tight restraints Israeli forces kept on them, sometimes for weeks at a time.... “The presumption that military-aged males are combatants is troubling,” Mr. Finucane said. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, said in October that designating civilians who did not evacuate as accomplices to terrorism was not only a threat of collective punishment, but could constitute ethnic cleansing. https://archive.ph/S6a4Y “Getting to the bottom of numbers has been extremely difficult, but we have heard that it runs into the thousands,” said Sunghay. “They described being beaten, humiliated, subjected to ill treatment and to what may amount to torture,” he added. “There are reports of men who were subsequently released — but only in diapers, without any adequate clothing in this cold weather.” Sunghay also said the released detainees “reported being blindfolded for long periods — some of them for several consecutive days,” and that most said “they were taken at some time into Israel,” although they could not determine specifically where. https://www.voanews.com/a/un-accuses-israel-of-detaining-mistreating-thousands-of-palestinians-/7447577.html And you know for a fact that all the people being detained are Hamas members? This is the testimony of Mosab Abu Tosa, a Palestinian poet. Fortunately for him, he had enough friends in America that he ultimately got released. "And the Israelis, by the way, accused me of being a Hamas member. You know, I mean, what a ridiculous accusation. I have been living in America for the past four years. And I’ve been hurt, you know, without — I asked them. I asked the Israeli captain if they have any photograph, if they have any satellite photo of me holding a weapon or being in any place that could cause any harm to you. And he slapped me in the face. He said, “You give me the proof!”" https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/7/mosab_leaving_gaza

Had you bothered to read the articles I linked to you would have seen that there is evidence. And Israel's refusal even to provide proof of life of these prisoners, much less allow the Red Cross to see them, is quite damning.

Apparently Israel doesn't trust the Red Cross either.

This is your idea of evidence? It is to laugh.

They're treating them humanely? You know this how? Stripped, Beaten or Vanished: Israel’s Treatment of Gaza Detainees Raises Alarm A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Hisham Mhanna, said his organization received daily reports from families in Gaza about detained family members. The organization is working on some 4,000 cases of Palestinians from Gaza who had vanished, nearly half believed to be detained by the Israeli military, he said. The group has been seeking information about the conditions and whereabouts of detainees and pushing for visits. But only in a handful of cases has it even received proof of life, Mr. Mhanna said. https://archive.ph/S6a4Y https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-palestinian-detainees.html

This hasn't got much attention at all in the media: UN Accuses Israel of Detaining, Mistreating Thousands of Palestinians Addressing journalists in Geneva by video link from Gaza, Ajith Sunghay, OHCHR representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said he met “a number” of released detainees who said they’d been held by Israel Defense Forces for between 30 and 55 days. “Getting to the bottom of numbers has been extremely difficult, but we have heard that it runs into the thousands,” said Sunghay. “They described being beaten, humiliated, subjected to ill treatment and to what may amount to torture,” he added. https://www.voanews.com/a/un-accuses-israel-of-detaining-mistreating-thousands-of-palestinians-/7447577.html

Stop trying to come between me and my arch-enemy. This is no place for civilians.

You sound just like Jor-El.

Those Houthis seem quite formidable. How a Ragtag Militia in Yemen Became a Nimble U.S. Foe For years, the scrappy Iran-backed Yemeni rebels known as the Houthis did such a good job of bedeviling American partners in the Middle East that Pentagon war planners started copying some of their tactics. Noting that the Houthis had managed to weaponize commercial radar systems that are commonly available in boating stores and make them more portable, a senior U.S. commander challenged his Marines to figure out something similar. By September 2022, Marines in the Baltic Sea were adapting Houthi-inspired mobile radar systems. source

I'm being patient with you, Lex.

Says the self-appointed referee.

Yes you did.

Also of truth and the American way.

Get a grip. I just pointed out that because his statement was so blatantly false, it must mean that he didn't know about the blockade. . To your way of thinking, apparently, if someone makes a true statement, that also means they must be ignorant. Had I mentioned the reasons for the blockade, would that have made his assertion less false? More false? And if I had some hidden agenda to bash Israel, why did I mention Egypt as well? You are losing it.

You claimed Gaza was free from Israel. That's just nonsense.

Well given that Hamas espouses a genocidal ideology, it doesn't only want "to regain control of the land that used to be theirs."