Middle East Conflict

[Ducado]

As individuals they can say what they want but is it government policy?

Nope, it's been expressly forbidden by the Americans, most of the stuff from both sides that is posted on Twitter is just propaganda designed to enrage and inflame

 

[Tim of the Oak]

As individuals they can say what they want but is it government policy?

Nope, it's been expressly forbidden by the Americans, most of the stuff from both sides that is posted on Twitter is just propaganda designed to enrage and inflame

Does it chime with American public opinion though? You keep saying that the Americans will insist on restraint but nothing has changed.

 

[Keeper!]

Does it chime with American public opinion though? You keep saying that the Americans will insist on restraint but nothing has changed.

The opinions of the American public is the last issue in this crisis.

Finding a solution to this utter cluster fuck of a situation is the only thing that's important and we have not hear a single mention of that from the Israel's.

1/2 of Gazza is now dust, 10000's killed or dying, now what are you going to do in the coming months and years?

Iraq MKII

 

[urban genie]

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It is, they were out protecting the statue against BLM a few yeara ago so equally as ridiculous as the weekends numpties.

The guy who tweeted said it was a reused photo for parody and satire.

Just goes to show most people read the tweet and not the replies to gatger an understanding

 

[m7mcfc]

There are no winners in this. It's absolutely horrible. Kids being killed or left with no parents. I don't vouch for either side.

 

[Ducado]

Does it chime with American public opinion though? You keep saying that the Americans will insist on restraint but nothing has changed.

It's against their strategic interests in the region and that trumps everything, there are lines in the sand

Most Middle east Governments want rid of Hamas as well, as they are part of a much larger threat towards them but not at the cost of 10's of thousands of innocent lives even though many are not democracies as we know them they are susceptible to public anger

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The opinions of the American public is the last issue in this crisis.

Finding a solution to this utter cluster fuck of a situation is the only thing that's important and we have not hear a single mention of that from the Israel's.

1/2 of Gazza is now dust, 10000's killed or dying, now what are you going to do in the coming months and years?

Iraq MKII

Yes it’s now too late in many ways. North Gaza has been destroyed.

If American public an opinion had been outraged then the yanks may have put pressure on the Israeli Govt to show some restraint. There was always going to be a severe retaliation though and the innocents get the worst end of the deal (both Israelis and Palestinians),

 

[Vic]

As individuals they can say what they want but is it government policy?

Nope, it's been expressly forbidden by the Americans, most of the stuff from both sides that is posted on Twitter is just propaganda designed to enrage and inflame

Why do IDF soldiers think it is policy?

 

[Vic]

Plenty of very prominent Jewish people thought it was a fascist undertaking from the beginning.

The New York Times/1948/12/4/New Palestine Party; Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

1948 wasn't the very beginning of Zionism. And Begin's party only got 11% of the vote for the Knesset so as I said a minority view. He's part of how terrorism helped create the modern state of Israel.

But 29 years later he was Israeli PM. They'd quietly dropped the claim that Israel extended from the Nile to the Euphrates, but his policy then was, "between the [Mediterranean] Sea and the Jordan River there shall only be Israeli sovereignty".

 

[Ducado]

Why do IDF soldiers think it is policy?

I would suggest over excitement constant stress