Jeff the Chef

Iran attack shows Israeli deterrence policy ‘shattered’, Netanyahu critics say Opposition leader among those accusing PM and his government of severely damaging defence strategy Iran’s weekend attack is a sign that Israel’s key defensive policy of deterrence has been severely damaged by the actions of the Netanyahu government, according to the leader of Israel’s opposition, analysts and former Israeli officials. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/15/iran-attack-shows-israeli-deterrence-policy-shattered-netanyahu-critics

April 13 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Sunday after Israel requested the council condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT), according to a schedule released late on Saturday. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, requested the council hold an emergency meeting in a letter on Saturday to the council's president. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-aims-meet-sunday-iran-attack-after-israel-request-diplomat-2024-04-14/

Does Israel twist humanitarian law to justify Gaza carnage? UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese explains how Israel justifies its killing and mass destruction in Gaza. To the United Nations official tasked with reporting on Palestinian human rights, international law is clear: Israel should withdraw from the territories it occupied in 1967. Instead, Israel aims for the “impossibility to continue civil life in Gaza,” as UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese tells host Steve Clemons. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/4/11/does-israel-twist-humanitarian-law-to-justify-gaza-carnage

Your problem is you are a one trick pony, with you it's all OK as long as Israel keeps the upper hand in any of this it's all good, giving any concessions to the Palestinians no matter what the outcome of this conflict, is no good, no matter what the Palestinians say after this is over.

I hope you're right, then there is no excuse for not having a 2 state solution.

And prior to 7/10 is all forgotten about?

Well if things don't change this time I expect many years of the same, eventually one side or the other will have to compromise, hopefully Palestinians have learned a lesson and Israel will have the grace to live alongside there neighbours in peace.

I hope you're right but somehow I doubt it, it has never worked in the past "lawn mowing" season's. The only way it might work is if there is a 2 state solution, and Israel butts out of trying to control Palestine as a state.

I think that ship has sailed, the only thing that the world can hope for is that the 2 numpties both peg out before the election.

Well the last 6 months will have ensured they won't.

Truth hurts for some, I guess.

I'm pretty fair in regard to blame for this conflict, there both to blame Hamas and Israel. As for the US Gov they couldn't lie straight in bed.

That hole was excavated, months ago, when it was plain to see how bad this was going to get, and before I forget their allies in UK are just as bad in both parties.

Everything, is he not part of the problem/US Government.

Some truth for you here: 100 US Senators, only 7 don't get money from the Israel Lobby https://trackaipac.com/us-senate

Netanyahu making a ‘mistake’ on Gaza, says Biden, as he urges Israel to push for ceasefire US president gives some of his strongest criticism of Israeli PM yet, saying he needs to ‘empower’ Israel’s negotiators to call for a truce https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/10/benjamin-netanyahu-joe-biden-gaza-mistake-ceasefire-israel-war-palestine

My comment and your answer, get to the doctors, your medication is not working

Here lies the problem, both of you can only see the carnage caused as the fault of Hamas and the Palestinians, Israel are the innocents, who have no parts to play in any of this conflict, so we can all sit behind our keyboards from now until eternity and watch this go on indefinitely.

There is no justification from either side, they are both as bad as one another, both intractable in their beliefs that they are both right and until there is a complete change nothing will change.

The last thing that's needed is rounds of applause about any of these topics. What's needed is changes of attitudes from both sides to sort out this disaster for the whole of mankind, have you anything to bring to the negotiating table apart from death and destruction?

From the same link: Margalit's latest account of her experience in Gaza came after Israel's army said on Saturday its troops recovered the body of another hostage from Nir Oz. The recovery of Elad Katzir's body brings to 12 the number of bodies of hostages which the army says it has brought home from Gaza during the war. But it gave no comfort to his sister, who blamed Israeli authorities for his death. The IDF said in a statement that 'the body of the abductee Elad Katzir, who according to intelligence was murdered in captivity by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organisation, was rescued overnight from Khan Yunis and returned to Israeli territory'. Katzir, 47 at the time of attack, was abducted from Nir Oz kibbutz community along with his mother Hanna. She was released on November 24 during a one-week truce in the war in Gaza. Katzir's father was killed during the attack at the kibbutz, the army said. The army said its intelligence suggested that Katzir was murdered in mid-January, shortly after Islamic Jihad released a video footage showing him in captivity. 'He was buried in the ground,' a military official told journalists at a briefing. Following intelligence, troops reached the site and 'began excavation' work to recover his body, the official said. 'Their efforts resulted in the discovery of the body, which was then transported to Israel for further examination,' he said. Katzir's sister expressed fury at the authorities. 'Elad was kidnapped from his home in Nir Oz in one piece,' Carmit Palty Katzir wrote on her Facebook page. She blamed the Israeli authorities for her brother's death, saying he would have returned alive had the authorities agreed to a new truce deal. 'Our leadership is cowardly and driven by political consideration, which is why this deal has not happened yet,' she wrote. 'Prime Minister, war cabinet, and coalition members: Look at yourself in the mirror and say if your hands didn't spill blood.' Her comments reflect intensifying pressure on the coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over its handling of the war.

Another load of diatribe against me, thanks, water off a ducks back. Now try putting your mind on to the point I made in the original post and I quote: "I find it unbelievable that people on here don't think that the barbarism that occurred on the 7th Oct was done on a whim and that Israel had given the Palestinian people no reasons for them to hate and despise them.

Get over yourself, my comment has everything to do with this situation, from the hostages, to the terrorism of Hamas and the response from Israel up to press, you don't want to address anything apart from revenge and destruction in Gaza. The victim here is not only Israeli's, it is also the whole of Humanity that is witnessing this tragedy.

As far as I'm concerned, EVERYTHING