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Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment (apnews.com)

Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance....

Billy ,

didn’t the eu ban rt and sputnik? even from social media, which doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Billy ,

do you consider eu countries democratic?
they banned rt and sputnik.

Billy ,

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-bans-rt-sputnik-banned-over-ukraine-disinformation-2022-03-02/
russian state-backed media outlets.

Message From a Gazan to Campus Protesters: You're Hurting the Palestinian Cause (www.newsweek.com)

It’s unconscionable. But it’s not just the antisemitism that has me despairing. It’s the hypocrisy. Where were these caring young people when Hamas took over Gaza and slaughtered hundreds of Gazans, or when Hamas held 2 million Gazans captive for more than 17 years? Why didn’t they speak out about the fact that Hamas led...

Billy ,

where’d you get that from? another “truthout” article?
only the south of israel is mainly desert.

Billy ,

how do you explain rabin and the oslo accords then?
and all the israelis who voted for parties that support the 2 state solution?

Billy ,

other than the 834 executions last year of protesters / dissidents and general killings of protesters, here’s 1 known killing of an iranian journalist.
there’s also the other attempts to kill iranian journalists abroad, but fortunately they’re incompetent.

Billy ,

the conspiracy theory is about shabak, not the mossad and it was spread by radical israeli right-wingers as a conpiracy by, what they consider, a leftist shabak that was trying to delegitimize the right and increase the support for the left.
yigal amir supported kahanists like ben gvir and his ilk, not the likud.

after rabin, there was ehud barak who was voted in, who also tried to reach a 2 state solution with arafat in 2000.

Billy ,

you wrote “You can admire Israel’s natural beauty (which is just deserts really?)”.
if you’ve been there, you’re supposed to know that while the south of israel is mostly deserts, you won’t find any deserts in the rest of it.

Billy ,

i wrote most of the south, not most of israel…
and you wrote “just deserts”…
the center and north don’t have deserts.
there are meadows and forests. in some places there’s snow in the winter.
so again, not “just deserts really”. which is what you wrote.

Billy ,

“You can admire Israel’s natural beauty (which is just deserts really?) and still support a two state solution though”

is the first comment i replied to.
i quoted this part “(which is just deserts really?)”

maybe you meant something else, but this is what you wrote.
calling me a liar after pointing out and even quoting exactly what you wrote is so ridiculous, that i have a hard time believing you aren’t purposedly misunderstanding.

Israeli Weapon Damaged Iranian Air Defenses Without Being Detected, Officials Say (www.nytimes.com)

“The two Iranian officials said the weapon had struck an S-300 antiaircraft system at a military base in the nearby province of Isfahan. The officials’ account is supported by satellite imagery analyzed by The New York Times, which showed damage to the radar of an S-300 system at the Eighth Shekari Air Base in Isfahan.”...

Billy ,

“To a lesser extent, China and Iran also peddle disinfo in hopes of influencing voters.”

“As an example, social media posts by sock puppet agents of the Chinese Communist Party promoted former President Donald Trump and criticized Biden.”

Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House (www.theguardian.com)

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....

Billy ,

they also sent cruise missiles

Billy ,

iran is funding and arming hamas, hizballah and the houthis, all of which were attacking israel.
in addition to their attacks on usa bases.

Billy ,

Iran launches dozens of drones, cruise missiles at Israel

also statements from iran about missiles being fired.

Billy ,

al-nusra in syria is funded by qatar, which syrians are suing for that.

the mek was allegedly supported also by israel, along with the saudis and the usa.
which had to start after their funding and cooperation with saddam hussein. so after 2003. much after iran’s support for hamas since the 1990’s and the founding of hizballah in the 1980’s.

and since then they’ve barely done anything other than the 2 assassinations related to iran’s nuclear program. not even close to hamas, houthis’ or hizballah’s actions. and they barely have any weapons or funding compared, let alone thousands of rockets and drones.

Billy ,

around 27% of israel’s citizens are not jewish. they have the same rights jews have, so yes they can buy land wherever a jew can.
there are 4 arab parties in the knesset.
one of them was part of the 2022 government.

Billy ,

some jews managed to stay and survive in israel for thousands of years.
in addition to jews who came back to israel throughout the years like in the 1600’s, 1800’s and later on also in the 1900’s before israel’s rebirth.

Top IDF commander in aid strike wanted to block humanitarian supplies into Gaza (www.telegraph.co.uk)

The most senior IDF commander dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers in Gaza is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid, The Telegraph can reveal....

Billy ,

most of the aid is rerouted to militants and the leftovers are mostly sold to civilians at exorbitant prices, while the hostages get crumbs.
not giving aid and attacking militant hotspots quicker could’ve ended the situation sooner and would’ve enabled direct giving of aid to civilians. in addition to securing the hostages sooner.

that’s the way of thinking from what i’ve read.

Billy OP ,

you’re welcome to read hrw’s article about it on their site.
Iran: Persecution of Baha’is

Billy ,

he’s called that way because he can create a coalition with anyone, even with a non-zionist ultra-orthodox party like the utj.
and even when it seems like he has no chance of getting enough mandates / forming a coalition.

Billy ,

in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

and people have been objecting to his policies for years, but didn’t believe protesting would help. especially after the 2011 protests changed nothing.

Billy OP ,

sounds like it.
i forgot i have a paywall bypass. looks like there are more articles about it now:
https://apnews.com/article/britain-pouria-zeraati-iran-international-tv-1eefb01cbd5e8f1e25de97c53c333524

Billy OP ,

this addon for firefox: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
works great also for mobile. but i use the fennec version from fdroid.

Billy ,

they have trade agreements with both egypt and jordan.
and both jordan and mainly egypt import a lot of gas from israel, while jordan also imports a lot of water.

Billy ,

hizballah and co. have been shooting rockets at israel from lebanon and syria since the 8th of october.

Billy ,

a reuters article from the 8th of october:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-lebanon-after-hezbollah-hits-shebaa-farms-2023-10-08/

“Hezbollah on Sunday said it had launched guided rockets and artillery onto three posts in the Shebaa Farms “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people.”

Billy , (edited )

you edited your comment. it was initially “Sure, if you say so.”

i replied to a comment of a person who thought the attack was unprovoked, and that israel attacked first.
the article shows hizballah was the one who started this round and joined hamas’s attack on israel.

i thought anyone following these events would be aware of the continous barrages from hizballah, as there are news about it all the time…

Hezbollah Fires More Than 100 Rockets Into Israel, Drawing Retaliation
“Since Oct. 7, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into northern Israel on a near-daily basis.”

Israeli Killed in Heavy Rocket Barrage Fired at Northern Israel, After IDF Strikes in Lebanon Kill Seven
"Zaher Bishara, from a Druze village in Israel’s north, was killed in an industrial building after Hezbollah fired a barrage of about 30 rockets at Kiryat Shmona.”
from yesterday.

Missiles fired from Lebanon, mortars launched from Syria as northern front heats up

US intel suggests Syria’s Assad agreed to send Russian missile system to Hezbollah with Wagner group help
“Wagner and Hezbollah fighters have both operated in Syria for years, where they have been working alongside Russian and Syrian armed forces to bolster the Assad regime against the Syrian opposition.”
in case you’re wondering about their presence in syria.

Billy ,

the current coalition got 49.5% of the votes.
the coalition is also made up of non-zionist ultra-orthodox.

Billy ,

not necessarily.
there are quite a bit of druze who vote likud, and a surprising amount of muslim israeli arabs and bedouins who vote for shas.
i haven’t seen an article that mentions how much of a percentage they are out of all likud or shas voters though. but in some towns and villages they are as much as 30%+

Billy ,

from what i understood, the laws they pass to help their voters tend to also resonate with muslim arabs and bedouins.

and yes. it’s one of the ultra-orthodox parties in the coalition. just that this one is zionist and aims to mainly represent sephardic/mizrahi jews.

Israel Attacking West Bank Farms (www.npr.org)

The U.N. humanitarian affairs office has recorded 650 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, harming residents and property. It says settlers have killed at least nine Palestinians in the territory and Israeli security forces have killed more than 400 Palestinians in that time.

Billy ,

That’s false.
Hamas does have a presence, and it has grown over the years of people being dissatisfied with Fatah. And the support of Hamas there is even greater than in Gaza.

Israel's wartime Cabinet is shaken by a dispute between Netanyahu and his top political rival (apnews.com)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli official, in a sign of widening cracks in Israel’s wartime government nearly five months into its war with Hamas.

Billy ,

missed out an important part:

…the overall vote in many of these cities was not for right-wing parties – it was simply split between multiple candidates on the Center or Left.

Billy ,

which happened once by likud activists.
and yet more arab israelis voted than ever before in the election after that.

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