Ok, I'm assuming Israel's effort to win the propaganda war is more or less over, and they are getting down to the brass for this last big push. I'm sick to my stomach of our common enemies kicking our ass in the propaganda war and in every other way filled with hatred and evil and lies of every kind. I'm still feeling like Israel could use some more parking lots, and maybe a brand new military base, designed specifically for kicking ass. They could name it KYA-KHA-KEA (Kick your ass, kick his ass, kick everyone's ass) International. I'm pretty sick of the abuse of one of our best allies in the world, not withstanding the horrible amount of hate and venom right here in the US. After decades of the lefties running our Education systems and letting in all sorts of haters into the US, this is the natural and predictable result. And you know what ? The lefties are loving every minute of it. It's sickening.

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Israel announced on Friday that close to 700 tunnel shafts have been found in the final Hamas stronghold of Rafah along with 50 Hamas terrorist tunnels between Gaza and Egypt.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...a-and-egypt-n2639221

“These tunnels are used by Hamas to supply itself with weapons and ammunition, and could potentially be used to smuggle out of Gaza hostages or Hamas senior operatives,” Gilad explained.

That seems like a very large number to have just "found".

Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court states he will seek arrest warrants for crimes against humanity for the following:

- Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, head of the Qassam Brigades

- Yoav Gallant, Israeli defense minister

- Ismail Haniyyeh, political head of Hamas

- Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister

- Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza.

I'm breaking out the welding mask to watch the fireworks.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Israel announced on Friday that close to 700 tunnel shafts have been found in the final Hamas stronghold of Rafah along with 50 Hamas terrorist tunnels between Gaza and Egypt.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...a-and-egypt-n2639221

“These tunnels are used by Hamas to supply itself with weapons and ammunition, and could potentially be used to smuggle out of Gaza hostages or Hamas senior operatives,” Gilad explained.

It really is a shame that the Hamas folks have hostages. Absent hostages, a scaled up version of the Rodex 5000 would seem like the way to deal with these tunnels.

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Originally posted by BansheeOne:
Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court states he will seek arrest warrants for crimes against humanity for the following:
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More evidence of the total irrelevance of the International Criminal Court.

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Originally posted by slosig:It really is a shame that the Hamas folks have hostages.

I doubt they still do.

Gee, who could have predicted this...

https://www.armytimes.com/news...-to-a-chaotic-start/

Gaza aid pier mission involving U.S. troops is off to a chaotic start

By Geoff Ziezulewicz and The Associated Press
May 21, 2024, 05:06PM

An effort involving the U.S. military to surge much-needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is off to a chaotic start, with aid trucks being overrun and at least one person feared dead over the weekend, prompting a pause in aid distribution.

U.S. soldiers and sailors built a floating pier off Gaza and stabbed it into a Gaza beach on Friday with the help of Israeli forces.

The plan, announced by President Biden in his State of the Union address and using a capability known as Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, has been touted as another way to get food to Gazans caught between the Israeli military and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

It involves no U.S. troops on the ground in Gaza, as the U.S. military’s efforts have involved building the massive floating platform and pier that was installed last week.

But aid trucks stopped trundling off the military’s floating pier on Saturday, and only resumed moving out into Gaza on Tuesday, according to Pentagon officials.

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday that the issues have arisen once the aid was loaded onto nongovernmental organization trucks, departed the marshalling area and headed toward distribution warehouses in Gaza.

Over the weekend, some of those trucks were overtaken by Palestinians, according to U.N. officials.

None of the 11 aid trucks that left the JLOTS pier made it to a warehouse as intended on Saturday, U.N. World Food Program spokesperson Steve Taravella told The Associated Press. He said they were commandeered by what became a crowd of people gathered nearby.

Authorities have offered few firm details of what transpired Saturday. Hamas has said the group will resist any foreign presence associated with the project, but it remains unclear whether the group was involved in the weekend’s aid disruption.

However, Associated Press video shows Israeli armored vehicles on a beach road, then aid trucks moving down the road.

Civilians watching from the roadside gradually start to clamber on top of the aid trucks, throwing aid down to people below. Numbers of people then appear to overrun the aid trucks and their goods.

At one point, members of the crowd are shown carting a motionless man with a chest wound through the crowd. A local morgue later confirmed to the AP the man had been killed by a rifle shot. At another point, shots crackled, and some of the people in the crowd are shown apparently ducking behind aid boxes for cover.

It was not clear who fired the shots.

Asked about the shooting, the Israeli army told the AP, using the acronym for the Israel Defense Forces: “The IDF is currently focused on eliminating the threat from the terrorist organization Hamas.”

After the chaotic launch, WFP officials said Tuesday that the pier project may fail unless Israel starts providing the conditions that humanitarian groups need to operate safely.

Ryder acknowledged the challenges involved in the effort and said that alternate routes were being examined.

He also noted that Israeli forces ashore and at sea, as well as Navy destroyers, are patrolling to ensure the safety of the U.S. troops involved in the JLOTS effort.

“This is a combat zone, and this is a complex operation,” he said Tuesday. “And so we’ve been very clear from the beginning that we’re going to take a crawl-walk-run approach.”

I think it's time to charge Biden for war crimes for not being able to deliver aud to the poor, poor Gazians.

Egypt apparently f*cked up the last cease fire proposal!

CNN: Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal presented to Hamas, surprising negotiators, sources say

Does anyone here have any idea why they would do that?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-and-norway-n2639373

Israel is recalling its ambassadors to three countries after they announced Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state on May 28.

Norway, Spain, and Ireland said they hoped the move would pave the way for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas.

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Chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court states he will seek arrest warrants for crimes against humanity for the following:.

Amal Clooney (wife of George Clooney) is one of the activists attornies that lobbied for the ICC to issue the Arrest Warrants.

Link

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-and-norway-n2639373

Israel is recalling its ambassadors to three countries after they announced Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state on May 28.

Norway, Spain, and Ireland said they hoped the move would pave the way for a ceasefire in Israel’s war against Hamas.

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This is an investment in the only solution that can bring lasting peace in the Middle East," he added, referring to the so-called "two state solution" which would see an Israeli and a Palestinian state existing peacefully next to each other.

I would like some clarification on this. Has Hamas promised to end it's quest for genocide in exchange? What guarantees of lasting peace do they have? Hell, what hopes do they even have for peace?

Hamas' stated goal is the destruction of Isreal and the just committed the largest extermination of Jews since the Holocaust. What exactly have they done to earn an independent state.

I no longer care for a single inhabitant of Gaza, if they are going to accuse Isreal of genocide for fighting back, fuck it bulldoze the entire thing into the ocean and use it for excess parking.

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Originally posted by tleddy:
Egypt apparently f*cked up the last cease fire proposal!

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Does anyone here have any idea why they would do that?

Maybe Egypt doesn't want a cease fire, but want to look like they do. Then, when Israel does what it has to do, the Egyptians can claim they did everything they could to prevent it, secretly glad Israel solved a long standing problem for most in the Middle East.

^^^
Given that Palestinians to a man, woman, and brainwashed child unilaterally support Hamas and have nothing but unfettered hatred for Israel, there isn’t much of an alternative. I sincerely hope they are beginning the process of creating the 2 kilometer dead zone no-man’s-land they were talking about.

My biggest worry at the moment is the democrats making good on their promise to import who knows how many terrorists as “refugees”. All by design.

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"As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child’s life has less value than another’s. I do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law, nor that any perpetrator should be above the law," she wrote.

"So I support the historic step that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken to bring justice to victims of atrocities in Israel and Palestine," Clooney added.

Clooney can't see the forest for the trees. An attempt to find equivalence
While its unfortunate that children die in war, in this case one group willfully and premeditated their violence in the most heinous and graphic manor against a civilian population, all the while celebrating and broadcasting their achievements; meanwhile the other group is working to stop this group from continuing their acts. Who again are the criminals?

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God bless Israel.

Thank you. DF

We Jews, are not afraid.

Tehillim (Psalms) - Chapter 121

1 A song for ascents. I shall raise my eyes to the mountains, from where will my help come?
2 My help is from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to falter; Your Guardian will not slumber.
4 Behold the Guardian of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your Guardian; the Lord is your shadow; [He is] by your right hand.
6 By day, the sun will not smite you, nor will the moon at night.
7 The Lord will guard you from all evil; He will guard your soul.
8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from now and to eternity.

We Jews, are not worried.

UN's Top Court Orders Israel To 'Immediately Halt' Rafah Offensive

https://www.zerohedge.com/geop...halt-rafah-offensive

The top United Nations court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has on Friday issued an emergency order for Israel to halt its military operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

"Israel must immediately halt its military offensive," judges at the ICJ, or world court (which deals with disputes between countries, while the ICC prosecutes individuals) said, saying conditions had been met to issue a new emergency order.

Israel must further halt "any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part," according to the ruling issued by the body's president Nawaf Salam. He also called the situation 'disastrous' for the Palestinians.

As for the ICJ's "order" - it is of course largely symbolic and the UN top court has no enforcement capability. But it serves to pile the pressure on Tel Aviv at a moment its international standing and reputation has taken a serious hit. The court invoked the 'Genocide Convention' in issuing its ruling.

An Israeli government spokesperson has responded to the ICJ's action by stating that "no power on Earth will stop Israel from protecting its citizens and going after Hamas in Gaza."

And finance minister Bezalel Smotrich quickly said on X that "the State of Israel is at war for its existence." He stated, "Those who demand that the State of Israel stop the war, demand that it decree itself to cease to exist. We will not agree to that."

More at link

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UN's Top Court Orders Israel To 'Immediately Halt' Rafah Offensive

What a great way for this "court" to put their impotence on public display.