Jeff the Chef

So Newsweek's opinion piece trumps the highest Court in the civilised World, who'd of thought it. IMHO, until we go back to treating both sides the same this will go on forever. Whatever way this is looked at, for the life of me all I see is propaganda and money being the route of all evil, on both sides.

Did you not take out the insurance Bob? I've always found the Lazada/Shopee "damaged goods" guarantee excellent, normally get a label to send them back if it's not right.

Unbelievable, 3 nights in a row, should have been out the door on night 2. Bob, you have the patience of a Saint.

Israel eyes war in Lebanon, but Hezbollah poses unique threat Netanyahu has neither the US backing nor the bombs for a conflict with the Lebanese political party, and the consequences for Israelis could be catastrophic Ever since it became clear that Israel’s ground attack on Gaza would be unprecedented and carry on for months without end, the region has been acutely aware of the risk of the conflict spreading like wildfire to the Lebanese border. In the last few days, this metaphor became a reality. Firefighters on Tuesday battled flames around Kiryat Shmona, brushfires set off by a volley of drones and missiles fired by Hezbollah. The undeclared war in the north between Hezbollah and the Israeli army has been intensifying, with each side trading heavier blows across an ever-widening area. Israel targeted senior Hezbollah commanders deep in the Beqaa valley. In response, Hezbollah demonstrated that its rocket force is qualitatively different from Hamas’s arsenal. Israeli soldiers take shelter in an underpass in Hurfeish in northern Israel, 5 June 2024 (Reuters/Avi Ohayon) https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-hungers-war-lebanon-hezbollah-poses-vastly-different-challenge

War on Gaza: Why Hamas cannot accept Israel's ceasefire proposal Contrary to Biden's portrayal of the deal, it does not guarantee an end to the war, nor a full withdrawal of Israeli forces If anyone owns the daily carnage in Gaza being carried out by an angry and humiliated Israeli army, whose ranks are filled with religious settlers, it is US President Joe Biden. From the first days after the Hamas attack on 7 October, Biden framed this savage act of collective punishment on 2.3 million Palestinians as a just war. It was he who led the charge that Israel had the right to defend itself. It was he who sabotaged calls for an immediate ceasefire at the UN Security Council. It was he who replenished Israel’s stocks of smart bombs and missiles. And it is under his watch that the US turned its back on the two highest courts of international justice. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-why-hamas-cannot-accept-israels-ceasefire-proposal

Middle East Eye has exclusively obtained a copy of the ceasefire proposal that was made by Israel and passed by mediators to Hamas last week. The Israeli proposal, which is a counteroffer to one mediated by the US, Qatar and Egypt on 6 May, says Israel has agreed to a "temporary cessation of military operations" for 42 days that will be followed by open-ended talks to reach a permanent ceasefire. It says the "temporary ceasefire" can be extended after the initial 42-day phase "as long as negotiations on the conditions of stage two of [the] agreement are ongoing," the document says. The Israeli response also offers limited withdrawal of troops in the first phase of the three-stage agreement and says the complete pull-out would take place in the second phase, which is subject to further discussions. It also stipulates that Israel can veto the release of at least 100 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in the first phase. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-text-ceasefire-proposal-approved-israel

A bone of contention you are opening there, one man's Hamas Terrorist is another man's No man, how drones, UAV's work, operate, and include military. As for the proof, have a look at the source/poster.

Sorry mate, I give up, try Goggle.

Does that apply to anyone who is a non tax resident in Thailand, being able to gift up to THB20M a year, tax exempt, with no declaration?

Apologies for being obtuse, tunnels found by Israel in 1983, why would anyone think that they would be used for nefarious reasons for 41years, especially as Israel has always treated the Palestinians as equals and neighbours, or have I got that wrong?

Make daft comments get daft answers. Just to help you out lets think about it, the video was taken by the drone and then transmitted to whoever had access to it, the drone then as shown in the clip hit the missile launcher. Think about skydiving, taking a video of your the descent, you are so happy with what you are doing that you forget to pull the ripcord for your parachute consequently ending up as strawberry jam. Got it now?

Who's downplaying a video of an empty passage with a few dots on a map, lol you are having a laugh.

Hope the IDF keep looking there must be 100's of tunnels, nothing like dragging up old news. The Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels are tunnels across the Gaza–Egypt border, used to bypass the Rafah Border Crossing, which is used for exceptional cases only, when opened at all. The first recorded discovery of a tunnel by Israel was in 1983, after Israel had withdrawn from the Sinai. The border, redrawn in 1982 after the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, divided Rafah into an Egyptian and a Gazan part. The tunnels used to start from the basements of houses in Rafah on the one side of the border and end in houses in Rafah on the other side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_smuggling_tunnels

Of course you have a creditable link the above statement?

Yep, it's a Pixar Movie, especially for Buss Lightyear.

Hang em high, not in this day and age, surely we have moved on a little bit, oh wait, this extract from Wiki sounds not so historic under the present circumstances: While the concept of genocide was formulated by Lemkin in the mid-20th century, the expansion of various European colonial powers, such as the British and the Spanish Empires, and the subsequent establishment of colonies on indigenous territory frequently involved acts of genocidal violence against indigenous groups in the Americas (including Brazil, Paraguay, and the United States), Australia, Africa, and Asia. According to Lemkin, colonization was in itself "intrinsically genocidal", and he saw this genocide as a two-stage process, the first being the destruction of the indigenous population's way of life. In the second stage, the newcomers impose their way of life on the indigenous group. According to David Maybury-Lewis, imperial and colonial forms of genocide are enacted in two main ways, either through the deliberate clearing of territories of their original inhabitants to make them exploitable for purposes of resource extraction or colonial settlements, or through enlisting indigenous peoples as forced laborers in colonialist or imperialist projects of resource extraction. The designation of specific events as genocidal is often controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history

Looks like Bi-Bi might need to uprate the Irondome System before he unleashes the Dogs of War on Hezbollah:

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has threatened an “extremely powerful” response to attacks by Hezbollah from Lebanon, which have escalated in recent days. A few hours after Netanyahu spoke, drones fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Hurfeish, in the Upper Galilee region, which has a largely Druze population, injuring 11 Israelis, one critically. There were several explosions and reports that air raid alarms had not been activated. Earlier this week Hezbollah launched a wave of attacks that set off substantial fires, which were fanned by dry and powerful winds. Television footage from the area of Kiryat Shmona showed firestorms engulfing nearby forests. Emergency services struggled for two days to bring the fires under control. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/netanyahu-israel-hezbollah-attacks

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed a "Hamas compound". Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Hamas media office said at least 27 people were killed and accused Israel of committing a "horrific massacre". Ambulances and rescue teams have been rushing the wounded and dead to a nearby hospital. Footage on social media showed destroyed classrooms and dead bodies wrapped in shrouds at a morgue. "Enough war! We have been displaced dozens of times. They killed our children while they were sleeping," a woman injured in the attack screamed in one video. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas media office, rejected Israel's claims that the UN school had hidden a Hamas command post. "The occupation uses ... false fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people," he told Reuters. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said jets had conducted a "precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggq0jygq6o

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Americans trapped in war-torn Sudan last year needed a way out of the country, but the U.S. Marine Corps, the go-to service for such rescues, couldn’t help. Typically, this kind of mission would be standard for the Navy and Marine Corps’ amphibious ready group and Marine expeditionary unit, made up of 2,300 Marines aboard three ships who are trained to fight their way into and evacuate citizens from dangerous locations. Instead, as violence surged, the Pentagon relied on drones to monitor a 500-mile escape route from the capital of Khartoum to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. For the Americans who fled to the coast, the Pentagon sent an auxiliary transport ship to shuttle them to safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was a complicated and risky self-evacuation. At the same time, off the coast of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the Bataan ARG and 26th MEU were conducting a noncombatant evacuation simulation — training for the very operation Americans in Sudan needed. But the group stayed put because it wasn’t yet certified for global missions. The Navy didn’t have another set of ready amphibious ships to deploy from the East Coast on short notice. All of this followed a similar situation a few months earlier, when service leaders were unable to send a team to Turkey and Syria to provide aid after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the region. Maj. Gen. Roger Turner, the Marine Corps’ operations division director, told Defense News the naval forces “have this razor-thin capacity” with amphibious ships, and when emergencies arise, “there’s no capacity to react.” https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/05/02/marines-want-31-amphibious-ships-the-pentagon-disagrees-now-what/

Yes, I hope you're right, but what happens next, rinse and repeat in 2/5/10 years?

All the bad people on both sides are excuses for human beings, but the fact still remains 7/10 happened, answer me this Brian how many years has Israel managed to fool the world that they are totally innocent of any provocation? As for the so called conspiracy theories, the propaganda machine of Israel is slowly but surely being exposed and the rest of the human race are seeing them for what they are.

And lets not all forget the Gaza strip was all sweetness and light before Hamas attacked Israel before 7/10. Can anybody tell me what you call a shoe mender?

Crying out loud, is there a case before the ICJ? Are there pending charges for the leaders of both sides of this war at the ICC? Yes, the hostages may/have been horrible abused and killed. How many innocent Palestinians are dead, mutilated, buried under the wanton destruction of Gaza, will we ever know the full figure? You may be proud, I'm sick to the teeth of the lot of it.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort. Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation. The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. The ministry allocated about $2 million to the operation and hired Stoic, a political marketing firm in Tel Aviv, to carry it out, according to the officials and the documents. The campaign began in October and remains active on the platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments. The accounts focused on U.S. lawmakers, particularly ones who are Black and Democrats, such as Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, with posts urging them to continue funding Israel’s military. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/technology/israel-campaign-gaza-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU0.K-9d.nc6wnV7jy8jG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=i&sgrp=c-cb