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Jeff the Chef

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  1. Not at all, I'm more than happy to see Israel be the greatest nation on earth but not at the expense of the rest of Humanity.
  2. Yep, I'm a anti-Zionist and your problem is?
  3. the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File) Israel has been holding an unknown number of Gazan laborers in West Bank military facilities since October 7, after Hamas stormed 22 southern border towns and communities and massacred over 1,400 Israelis. The Gazans, whose work permits have meanwhile been revoked, are mostly being detained at the Anatot base northeast of Jerusalem, according to an army spokesperson, who added that they cannot be returned to Gaza for the time being. Their numbers are estimated to be in the hundreds, with Channel 12 claiming there may be as many as 4,000. Before Hamas’s attack, Israel issued 17,500 daily permits for Gazans to work in Israel, mostly in agriculture and construction. Jerusalem had been considering increasing the number to 20,000, on condition that Hamas would halt border riots. Erez, the only land border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, was destroyed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and has been hermetically sealed ever since. The IDF says that all stranded Gazan laborers were rounded up and transferred to Anatot shortly after the war’s outbreak. Palestinian media and Israeli NGOs have reported, however, that many of them managed to cross into the territories of the Palestinian Authority and sought refuge with local residents. Over the subsequent days, the IDF reportedly sought to locate all Gazans in the West Bank and transfer them to the detention facilities. Anatot is the only base that the IDF stated it has been using, but the Israeli NGO Gisha also mentioned use of the Ofer detention facility north of Jerusalem, as well as other military bases in the West Bank. The Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported that 50 Gazan laborers were arrested in Hebron on October 17, and an additional 40 on October 23, while 50 were reportedly detained as they were sheltering in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem on October 19. Several Gazans were also detained during a raid in the town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, on October 22, Wafa said. The Gazans’ detention does not legally amount to an arrest, and will persist until the situation in Gaza allows for their return. The detainees have not been allowed to seek legal representation, and it is unclear whether their internment under the present conditions is lawful. Security forces have been investigating whether any of the laborers provided information to Hamas regarding Israeli towns and communities surrounding Gaza, thereby helping them in their deadly mission to locate targets and maximize the impact of their onslaught. Several Israeli human rights groups sent a letter to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara on October 12, lamenting the fact that no charges had been presented for holding the laborers in custody, and asserting that their “most fundamental rights, particularly protection for their rights to due process, legal counsel, and judicial review,” were being violated. The letter, signed by the Center for the Defense of the Individual, the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Physicians for Human Rights and the Adalah Legal Center, alleged that the measure was an act of vengeance, forbidden during hostilities according to international law, and that all Gazan laborers had been admitted into Israel and received work permits following “diligent screening” by Israel’s security.
  4. I have not got any side in this, and have on every occasion condemned Hamas as terrorists, what your not getting is death and injury on either side is wrong, except it seems if it comes from the Israeli's in an act of revenge on the whole of the Palestinian people, that is what I object too.
  5. Which question is that, please?
  6. Yes, but you have to read all of the link.
  7. Please read the whole article.
  8. As you have dodged my questions, try reading my post again, please. No I have no extended family in either Gaza or Israel, but I still have every sympathy for any of the people killed or tortured by either side.
  9. Please read this from The Times of Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/unable-to-return-to-gaza-hundreds-of-laborers-detained-by-idf-in-the-west-bank/
  10. You got the link you asked for. Now you are accusing me of supporting a diabolical terrorist organisation "Hamas" and I P you off, bumps needing feeling imho, are you on medication? A quote from you "What would you be saying if it were your extended family were butchered in Gaza by your chums.......? I take it from this quote you have friends in Gaza being killed by Israeli bombs and artillery shells? I would class all people in Gaza as a friend as long as they have no connection with Hamas, the same would apply to any Israeli's who are not advocating the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli military.
  11. I'm sorry I can't agree with that, but given time....
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza–Israel_barrier#Barrier_structure
  13. How very dare you, all those lovely Israeli remote control automatic machine gun posts, and let's not forget no-one gets in or out without going through an Israeli checkpoint, and if your unarmed and looking a bit lost you can expect a nice Israeli bullet in your head.
  14. Now that's funny
  15. Oh well, won't hurt anybody reading it again then will it?
  16. Latest UN Press release from the 24th Nov 2023 https://press.un.org/en/2023/gashc4390.doc.htm#:~:text=In response%2C Israeli occupation forces,and killing around 5%2C000 people.
  17. Very good post, to which I gave a thumbs-up, not wanting to be associated with the sad one.
  18. So you do not agree with the above statement or because I wrote that it makes me an antisemite?
  19. Not a problem, I will be the first to admit I am an anti-Zionist, nothing to do with antisemitism, except perhaps in your world, not in mine.
  20. Hopefully a few more sensible heads will realise if that comes about WW3 could be round the corner, not a thing anyone is looking forward to, I think. That and the fact I have trouble bending over far enough to kiss my r's goodbye, nowadays.
  21. Whilst I can agree with the majority of your post, I do feel saying Palestinian forces needs to be corrected to Hamas forces, to be fair to Palestinians who do not support Hamas the perpetuators of this conflict.
  22. The last place that they'll send tanks into imho, the odd APC to flush out the opposition, then it will be call up the Airforce to clear them out, less casualties on the Israeli side but it will be expensive, maybe that's Hamas's strategy, bleed them dry financially.
  23. Nail hit extremely accurately on the head, couldn't agree more. Follow the money, every time.
  24. Don't mention the war, said Basil 🙂
  25. You blame the Jews if you want, I'll just blame the whole of Humanity, as an individual I don't want to kill anyone, period, now if everybody thought like that would we have a peaceful world, now that could be a discussion to have.
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