Israel at war

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Dropped out of this thread about 700 pages ago. But watched Douglas Murray on Real Time the other night. As he points out. All Hamas needed to do was return the hostages, which they refuse to do.
 

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They offered to release hostages as early as October 9th or 10th, in return for the IDF not entering the Gaza strip. But of course Bibi wanted his 35000+ lbs of flesh.

Sure they did. LOL. How did their offer read? "you know those hostages we got? well, we will return them on October 9th or 10th. We had our playtime. You can have them back. Some of them are slightly damaged..... "used" you might say. The 1200 we slaughtered on October 7th? Hoping you will give us a free pass on that one. Let's let bygones be bygones. Just don't enter the Gaza strip. Those are our terms.
Sometimes you can't squeeze the toothpaste back in the tube. Or to quote Pottery Barn. "You break it. You own it"
What the fuck did they think would happen?
 

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Sure they did. LOL. How did their offer read? "you know those hostages we got? well, we will return them on October 9th or 10th. We had our playtime. You can have them back. Some of them are slightly damaged..... "used" you might say. The 1200 we slaughtered on October 7th? Hoping you will give us a free pass on that one. Let's let bygones be bygones. Just don't enter the Gaza strip. Those are our terms.
Sometimes you can't squeeze the toothpaste back in the tube. Or to quote Pottery Barn. "You break it. You own it"
What the fuck did they think would happen?
They held a truce in Nov and Hamas returned hostages.
Netanyahu could have continued the exchanges but he chose more genocide instead.

 

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So Israel had to make a choice. Get back hostages or go in and start killing everyone. They chose the latter. So what is the use crying about hostages now? Its clear they are an afterthought and have already been written off. So basically Doug Murray's - "All they had to do was return hostages" is a false narrative.
You are giving Hamas cart blanche to kill 1200 people. Take hundreds of hostages and then lay down terms for their return.
So some guy rapes your wife and kids. Takes them hostage, and then a day or so later offers to return them. " Slightly soiled" For which you should express no ire or seek to extract justifiable revenge. Funny how that wouldn't work in normal every day society. Seems reasonable enough the way you explain it.
 

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They held a truce in Nov and Hamas returned hostages.
Netanyahu could have continued the exchanges but he chose more genocide instead.

So Israel should have just accepted the "truce" and said "no harm no foul" carry on chaps.
 

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They offered to release hostages as early as October 9th or 10th, in return for the IDF not entering the Gaza strip. But of course Bibi wanted his 35000+ lbs of flesh.


Plus Doug Murray is an asshole anyway.

Murray has been accused of putting a socially acceptable face on fringe ideologies. In 2012, Arun Kundnani wrote in an article for Security and Human Rights that the "counterjihadist" ideology expressed by Murray and other conservative intellectuals was "through reworking far-right ideology and appropriating official discourse... able to evade categorisation as a source of far-right violence".[63] British writer Nafeez Ahmed argued in Middle East Eye that Murray's support for free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks was "really just a ploy for far-right entryism".[64] In 2019, an article in Social Policy Review described Murray's views as a kind of "mainstreamist" ideology that defies easy categorization as extremist while remaining "entangled with the far right".[65]

Murray has been described as promoting far-right conspiracy theories, including the Great Replacement theory,[66] the Eurabia conspiracy theory[67][10] and the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
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Why is Douglas Murray an asshole?
 

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Well, if I were to stomp on the guys head over and over again for decades, may be he will one day snap and kill my family. I'd have only myself to blame for it. What else can I expect?

But at the end of the day, whatever happened, Israel was put in a place to make that choice. They made the choice to deprioritize the hostages. So once you have deprioritized hostages, there is no use in talking about them.

I posted the criticism. He is a far right wing nut.
Did he say something you disagree with?

Anyway. They gave the Palestinians what they wanted. Oslo Peace Accord. As somebody pointed out. In no time at all, under his leadership Gaza walked in lockstep with all it's neighbors. Corruption. Extortion. Torture. You know. The usual Islamic paradise.


In 1994, Arafat moved to Gaza City, which was controlled by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)—the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords.[103] Arafat became the President and Prime Minister of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of the PLC. In July, after the PNA was declared the official government of the Palestinians, the Basic Laws of the Palestinian National Authority was published,[106] in three different versions by the PLO. Arafat proceeded with creating a structure for the PNA. He established an executive committee or cabinet composed of twenty members. Arafat also replaced and assigned mayors and city councils for major cities such as Gaza and Nablus. He began subordinating non-governmental organizations that worked in education, health, and social affairs under his authority by replacing their elected leaders and directors with PNA officials loyal to him. He then appointed himself chairman of the Palestinian financial organization that was created by the World Bank to control most aid money towards helping the new Palestinian entity.[104]

Arafat established a Palestinian police force, named the Preventive Security Service (PSS), that became active on 13 May 1994. It was mainly composed of PLA soldiers and foreign Palestinian volunteers. Arafat assigned Mohammed Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub to head the PSS.[104] Amnesty International accused Arafat and the PNA leadership of failing to adequately investigate abuses by the PSS (including torture and unlawful killings) against political opponents and dissidents as well as the arrests of human rights activists.[107]
 
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What do right wing nuts say? He rants about Muslims, immigrants, great white replacement theory, ultranationalist chauvinistic BS etc., Just google him and you will find tons.
He's actually boots on the ground versus your boots in the closet....
 

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You are giving Hamas cart blanche to kill 1200 people. Take hundreds of hostages and then lay down terms for their return.
So some guy rapes your wife and kids. Takes them hostage, and then a day or so later offers to return them. " Slightly soiled" For which you should express no ire or seek to extract justifiable revenge. Funny how that wouldn't work in normal every day society. Seems reasonable enough the way you explain it.
Sounds like Israel should just end the occupation then so that Palestinians don't need to use violence to resist it.
That 75 year occupation and wiping Palestine off the maps isn't really working that well, is it?

So Israel should have just accepted the "truce" and said "no harm no foul" carry on chaps.
How about ending apartheid and the occupation before any of this happened?

Instead you get this.

 
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Did he say something you disagree with?

Anyway. They gave the Palestinians what they wanted. Oslo Peace Accord. As somebody pointed out. In no time at all, under his leadership Gaza walked in lockstep with all it's neighbors. Corruption. Extortion. Torture. You know. The usual Islamic paradise.
Did they?
Did they end the occupation and establish the two state solution?

Or did Netanyahu just use it to stall and put more 'facts on the ground'?
 
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