Hamas official: 50 of those killed on border Monday were our people

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32 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

stay woke fellow 

Always

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1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Are there any true MDL still active here ?

Some might be on vacation.

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4 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Some might be on vacation.

VJ Holiday?

 

 

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That's typically the euphemism.

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This just in from the UN Terrorists Rights Council:

 

The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to set up a commission of inquiry to look into a deadly crackdown on protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces.
 

Meeting in a special session in Geneva, the council voted 29-2 with 14 abstentions to back a resolution that also condemned "the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the Israeli occupying forces against Palestinian civilians."
 

Israel condemned the resolution, which was put forward by a group of countries including Pakistan, and the United States decried it as an example of a biased focus on Israel by the council. Both lamented that it didn’t mention Gaza’s Hamas rulers, whom Israel blames for the violence.

 

Continue here:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5264345,00.html

 

And to that I say: Woof woof.

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2 hours ago, Boiler said:

VJ Holiday?

 

I can tell you. I have had some really wonderful times on my VJ vacations 

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1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

 

I can tell you. I have had some really wonderful times on my VJ vacations 

You finally realize there's life to be had don't you lol

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UN Human Rights Convention

 

 

I love how the resolution says “civilian protests”, apparently this body did not get the new that the overwhelming majority were Hamas.

 

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Bill & Katya

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Israel's Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg Simona Frenkel chastised representatives of the two countries’ foreign ministries Wednesday after being summoned to be reprimanded herself following Monday's deadly clashes between the IDF and some 40,000 Gazan protestors.
 

“It seems that the Belgian Foreign Ministry belongs to a school of thought according to which when an ambassador is summoned for a conversation or a reprimand, he is supposed to behave like a child who has misbehaved, to listen with a bowed head and not to respond,” Frenkel wrote in a report sent to the Foreign Ministry.
 

“I responded and fired back against Belgium: Your one-sided positions do not contribute to peace.”
 

Frenkel was first invited to a meeting with Deputy Director-General of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anick Van Calster, who recently visited Israel.
 

Van Calster opened by saying that she had been instructed by Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders to invite Frenkel in order to clarify the Belgian position, to voice objections to events that occurred on Monday on the Gaza border and to protest against what was described as a “disproportionate” use of force.
 

Calster also expressed anger over statements made by Frenkel during an interview with the country’s RTBF radio station, in which she described those killed in Gaza during the wave of unrest as terrorists.
 

According to Calster, Frenkel’s words were “unacceptable to us”. The Belgian diplomat also bemoaned the humanitarian crisis gripping the strip while decrying the humanitarian deterioration in the West Bank, condemning Israeli settlements and Jerusalem’s policy of demolishing terrorists' homes.
 

“We are urging you to act in accordance with international law on the use of proportional force and the protection of human life. We will support the setting up of an independent investigation and we call on all sides to take efforts to bring about peace in the region,” Frenkel was told.
 

After listening to the list of complaints about Israel’s actions, the Israeli ambassador attempted to rebut each accusation leveled against the country, rejecting the notion out of hand that any investigative committee could be genuinely independent.
 

“Regarding the independent investigation committee: There has never been an investigation committee that was independent when it comes to our affairs. All of them were political, where there is an automatic majority of people against Israel,” she replied.
 

“Moreover, Belgium is the last to claim an independent investigation committee since its Prime Minister Charles Michel has determined even before the committee has been established that Israel had to be punished, You have already predetermined the outcome,” Frenkel argued.
 

She also defended her comments on the radio, drawing Van Calster’s attention to the fact that doubts had already been cast on whether a Gazan baby had in fact been killed by Israeli forces during the protests.
 

“You raised an outcry because I described them all as terrorists, but this morning we now know that regarding the 8 month old baby who was killed and allegedly hit by the IDF, even the journalists in Gaza are moderating their positions and are saying that she may have already been dying beforehand and was deliberately brought to the fence,” Frenkel noted, before offering what she described as “proof” that the Hamas terror group was responsible for the violent protests.
 

“The fact that with the press of a button by Hamas the protesters disappeared serves as much proof as one thousand witnesses of who brought them there,” she added.
 

Addressing the allegation that Israel had employed a disproportionate use of force, Frenkel asked the senior Belgian diplomat: “I would like to hear from you how you define proportionality?”
 

Finally, the ambassador concluded her meeting with her own reprimand of the Belgian government’s conduct, accusing it of adopting positions that are not conducive to peace in the region.

 

“There is no one who wants peace more than we do, but the Belgian response and its one-sided positions usually do not contribute to peace.”

 

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5263127,00.html

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To  be fair it is difficult for Belgium due to their own self inflicted issues.

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Here is something for them to concentrate on: The Yarmouk Nakba. That's where the real Nakba is happening.

 

 

A quarter million Palestinians. Capital of "Palestinian Diaspora". Largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. This camp was shelled and bombed in the middle of Ramadan,  but it wasn't by Israel so that's not interesting. People living there have been sieged, expelled and massacred after living there for sbout 6 decades. They even bombed mosques. 

 

 

No food was allowed to enter the camp and people began eating cat and dog meat as well as cooking grass. They had to go as far as to issue a Fatwa permitting food that is not halal to be saved from death. The flow of electricity and water was also stopped.

 

 

40% of the buildings in the camp have been destroyed, not to mention thousands of disabled and wounded, and severe cases of rape and torture. est 1957. Existed till 2011. But this Nakba is one that nobody talks about. Why? Simple. It's not done by the hands of a small Jewish state, rather by a brutal Arab Muslim dictator in Syria. There is a far greater Nakba, which is the nakba of the Syrian people(5 million refugees) which the world has ignored for 7 years. I'm sorry,  I mean most of the world has ignored for 7 years - "They had no trust in their government and could not rely on it – instead turning to a country that for 50 years they were told was the enemy." (https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Operation-Good-Neighbor-540359)

 

Hamas doesn't hesitate to receive support and money from Iran which is behind the murder of over half a million Syrians. Lets not forget to mention the Nakba of hundreds of thousands of Christians that has been going on for decades, leading to the abandonment of the Christian Arabs in the Middle East(apart from Israel) following the rise of radical Islam, persecution, hatred, murders and church bombings. And we haven't even mentioned the expulsion of 1 million jews from arab countries. But why bother talking about all that, it's alot easier to pretend a tiny Jewish state is the real problem. Woof Woof.

 

 

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Sami Abu Zuhri is the spokesman for the extremist group Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization funded by Iran. Hamas controls Gaza and has killed innocent Israeli, American, Brazilian, Kenyan, British, French and Chinese civilians. As chief intelligence officer of the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza division from 2012-14, I came to know Mr. Abu Zuhri and other Hamas spokesmen from a distance. Their modus operandi is simple: Lie. Their lies support the stated goal of Hamas: the delegitimization and destruction of Israel.

For weeks the international media has reported on violence on the border between Gaza and Israel. Hamas has continued to lie to the world, which is why their rare acknowledgments of truth are especially revealing. Hamas spokesmen raced to the press last week to lament the death of innocent civilians. But a senior Hamas leader, Salah Bardawil, said in a May 16 interview with a Palestinian TV station: “In the last round of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas.”

 

Hamas itself has confirmed that 80% of those killed in their violent riots last Monday were members of a terrorist group, not innocent civilians. Several more of the fatalities were claimed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On May 13, Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas, said in an interview with Al Jazeera: “When we talk about ‘peaceful resistance,’ we are deceiving the public.” You can trust Hamas only when they admit to their lies.

 

The Hamas spokesmen orchestrated a well-funded terrorist propaganda operation. Behind the theatrics was a plan that threatened Israel’s border and civilians. Hamas provided free transportation from throughout the Gaza Strip to the border for innocent civilians, including women and children. Hamas hired them as extras, paying $14 a person or $100 a family for attendance—and $500 if they managed to get injured. Hamas forced all of their commanders and operatives to go to the border dressed as civilians, each serving as a director of an area—as if to direct their own stage of the operation.

 

The audience was the international media. Hamas gave anyone with a video camera front-row access to the show and free Wi-Fi. The IDF had precise intelligence that the violent riots were masking a plan of mass infiltration into Israel in order to carry out a massacre against Israeli civilians. Hamas called it a “peaceful protest,” and much of the world simply fell for it.

 

Continue reading here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-hamas-and-israel-1526841445?ns=prod/accounts-wsj

 

No WSJ account?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-wsj-op-ed-idf-spokesman-says-world-fell-for-hamas-lies-in-gaza/

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There is the Agenda here, the usual suspects are not interested in the truth.

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Meanwhile back in Yarmouk...

 

Amid scenes labeled “apocalyptic” and a “crime against humanity,” the Syrian regime continued its offensive on Sunday to retake the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, a neighborhood in south Damascus.

Most of the area is held by Islamic State and tens of thousands of Palestinian residents fled years ago, but thousands remain under a brutal siege.

The scenes from Yarmouk on Sunday looked like Stalingrad in 1942 or Berlin in 1945, during the Second World War: bombed-out buildings as far as the eye can see; roads turned to rubble; alleyways turned into canyons of destruction, gutted, gray and slumping from air strikes. There doesn’t appear to be anything left of many city blocks that were once a thriving community, the home of more than 200,000 people in 2011 when the Syrian civil war broke out. Now only a few thousand remain. Those who do are reported to be starving under the regime’s siege.

Since the middle of May, the regime has focused its firepower on the stronghold. It signed agreements with the local rebels so it could focus on destroying ISIS in southern Damascus, in an area held for years by the extremists. With support from Russia, according to numerous online accounts, the regime has sent tanks and planes to root out what remains.

There have been intermittent attempts to get the ISIS fighters to leave, but it’s not entirely clear where they would go. In the other cease-fire deals the regime has signed, the rebel fighters have been bused north to an area of Syria controlled by rebels and the Turkish Army. But no one wants ISIS members.

 

Nevertheless, busloads have been shown leaving Yarmouk, destination unknown. Rumors say they will be sent to the “Syrian desert,” which would mean the Euphrates Valley.

The last time the regime signed a deal to ship ISIS fighters from the Qalamoun Mountains near Lebanon to the Euphrates in August 2017, the US targeted the convoy in order to stop the fighters from reaching an area near eastern Syria. The US is still carrying out offensive operations against ISIS alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces in the country’s east, so it’s unclear how the coalition will react if the regime seeks to dump the fighters in the “Syrian desert.”

There is a lot of outrage online over what has happened in Yarmouk. There are also accusations that world silence is part of a hypocrisy regarding the Assad regime’s brutalities.

Idrees Ahmad, an academic and frequent commentator on the Syrian conflict, wrote on Thursday that what is happening in Yarmouk requires people to be outraged. He accused people of hypocrisy for saying Israel’s actions in Gaza were crimes while ignoring Yarmouk.

 

Continue Reading:

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Catastrophic-destruction-as-Syrian-regime-pounds-Palestinian-refugee-camp-557901

 

*cricket* *cricket*
 

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Good grief.