• Israel Launches Unprovoked Attack On Gaza

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 00:53:33 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    This is it: the Gaza war is on again.

    All that mealy-mouthed talk of a “ceasefire” and (later reneged) “Phase 2”
    and all the rest of it was just a way for Israel to buy time and regain
    its breath for launching another wave of atrocities.

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Mar 18 02:35:41 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    This is it: the Gaza war is on again.

    All that mealy-mouthed talk of a “ceasefire” and (later reneged) “Phase >2”
    and all the rest of it was just a way for Israel to buy time and regain
    its breath for launching another wave of atrocities.
    So soon you deliberately forget that Gaza started this particular episode with guess what? An unprovoked attacke. Ring any bells?

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  • From Loose Cannon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 07:03:08 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    In article <vrag6d$1a32f$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    [LOL]

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 1944: "The USSR Launches Unprovoked Attack
    On Germany".

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  • From hello there@21:1/5 to lizandtony@orcon.net.nz on Tue Mar 18 07:05:00 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    In article <part1of1.1.Sg0D3AXRzWnYvQ@ue.ph>,
    Tony <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    This is it: the Gaza war is on again.

    So soon you deliberately forget that Gaza started this particular episode with
    guess what? An unprovoked attacke. Ring any bells?

    The jury is still out re Lawrence being a troll, or the
    dumbest organism known to science.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 07:15:00 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:05:00 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    ...

    Still trying to defend Israel’s actions by drawing some kind of parallel
    with Nazi Germany?

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Tony on Tue Mar 18 10:43:34 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Tony wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    This is it: the Gaza war is on again.

    All that mealy-mouthed talk of a ???ceasefire??? and (later reneged) ???Phase
    2???
    and all the rest of it was just a way for Israel to buy time and regain
    its breath for launching another wave of atrocities.
    So soon you deliberately forget that Gaza started this particular episode with
    guess what? An unprovoked attacke. Ring any bells?


    This is the truth! Science has proven that the arabians are, or are
    hiding, terrorists, and that they started the war.

    Israel cannot be blame for wanting to finish it once and for all. The
    arabians should have thought about that before they started it.

    I'm on team yahve on this one!

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to Loose Cannon on Tue Mar 18 05:06:25 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    Loose Cannon wrote:
    In article <vrag6d$1a32f$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    [LOL]

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 1944: "The USSR Launches Unprovoked Attack
    On Germany".


    These nithings fully embrace evil and Judenhass!


    Michael

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 21:27:00 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    Remember that the right of self-defence applies only to attacks between sovereign states.

    If Israel wants to claim right of self-defence against alleged aggression
    by Palestine, then it has to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.

    There is no right of self-defence against resistance to occupation.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 18 21:33:54 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    If you really want to draw parallels with World War II, here’s another
    one: the French Resistance against German occupation. Their attacks on the German occupiers -- and on anybody seen to be allied with them -- could be pretty merciless and brutal.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 21:41:36 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:40:06 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Gaza was not occupied. Israel withdrew about 20 years ago.

    Israel never left Gaza alone.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Michael Ejercito on Tue Mar 18 21:39:26 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:06:25 -0700, Michael Ejercito wrote:

    These nithings fully embrace evil and Judenhass!

    What are these “nithings” of which you speak?

    By the way, anti-Zionist Jews worldwide declare “Not In Our Name”.

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  • From hello there@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Tue Mar 18 21:40:06 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    In article <vrcos2$3btrn$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    If you really want to draw parallels with World War II, here's another
    one: the French Resistance against German occupation.

    Gaza was not occupied. Israel withdrew about 20 years ago.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Loose Cannon on Tue Mar 18 21:47:51 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:42:18 +0000 (UTC), Loose Cannon wrote:

    Further, I'm not aware of the French Resistance butchering civilians, as
    the Hamas did.

    Did you know some of those Israeli victims were deliberately killed by
    their own side?

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 21:46:52 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:44:32 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Israel just happens to be stuck amidst people who like to kill other
    people.

    They themselves chose to go there.

    And funnily enough, they seem to like killing other people even more than anybody else around them.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 21:50:57 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:47:11 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Gaza was not occupied. Israel withdrew about 20 years ago.

    And Gaza never left Israel alone.

    Where were they to go? Israel had them completely boxed in.

    From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the_Gaza_Strip>::

    The year following the disengagement saw a tightening of external
    Israeli control over Gaza, specifically, the closure of crossings
    into Gaza for people and goods, increased restrictions on the
    coastline for fishing, and increased aerial, maritime and on the
    ground military activity. The Israeli human rights organization
    Gisha lists various examples of actions requiring Israeli
    permission or approval in the year following the disengagement.
    These restrictions include the need for Israeli permission to
    import basic necessities such as milk, to host foreign lecturers
    at universities, and register children in the Palestinian
    population registry. Additionally, fishermen must obtain
    permission to fish off Gaza's coast, and nonprofits need approval
    to receive tax-exempt donations. Financial transactions such as
    the transfer of salaries to teachers are also controlled by
    Israel, which affects the payment of salaries by the Palestinian
    Ministry of Education. Moreover, farmers require authorization to
    export agricultural products, and students wishing to study abroad
    depend on Israel's approval for the opening of the Gaza-Egypt
    crossing.[91]

    Political economist Sara Roy describes the disengagement from Gaza
    as completing the separation and isolation of the Gaza Strip from
    the West Bank. She describes the period before the disengagement
    as a period of increasing dependence on the Israeli economy and
    that of the West Bank, while the period after the disengagement is
    characterized by economic, social and political isolation of Gaza.
    She describes the disengagement as normalizing the occupation in
    the eyes of the international community, despite the expansion of
    the occupation and the lack of any "safe passage" between Gaza and
    the West Bank.

    The occupation of Gaza never ended. It just took a different form.

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  • From hello there@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Tue Mar 18 22:02:19 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    In article <vrcpm7$3ci2h$2@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Further, I'm not aware of the French Resistance butchering civilians, as
    the Hamas did.

    Did you know some of those Israeli victims were deliberately killed by
    their own side?

    "some"?

    "deliberately"?

    Every death of civilians in a war zone is 100% the responsibility
    of the party which started the war.

    Every death of civilians hostages or abductees is 100% the responsibility
    of the party which abducted them and held them hostage.

    Why are you defending the Hamas? Are you a Nazi? Islamist? Both?

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 21:59:17 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:50:33 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Israel just happens to be stuck amidst people who like to kill other
    people.

    They themselves chose to go there.

    Irrelevant.

    You don’t just up and say “never mind the people who already live in that land, that land is ours because our holy book tells us so”.

    And funnily enough, they seem to like killing other people even more
    than anybody else around them.

    But that's just a horribly stupid lie. Or maybe your brain goes
    blank when encountering large numbers.

    Those numbers don’t lie.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 22:08:28 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:02:19 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    In article <vrcpm7$3ci2h$2@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Did you know some of those Israeli victims were deliberately killed by
    their own side?

    "some"?

    "deliberately"?

    As in deliberate policy, a.k.a. the “Hannibal Directive”.

    Every death of civilians in a war zone is 100% the responsibility of the party which started the war.

    So every death in Gaza from now on is 100% the responsibility of Israel,
    which started shooting first.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Tue Mar 18 22:12:24 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:07:07 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    In article <vrcps1$3ci2h$3@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    And Gaza never left Israel alone.

    Where were they to go?

    Who gives a fuck? And why fucking go anywhere?

    Why indeed? It was their land. So why didn’t Israel leave them alone?

    Israel had them completely boxed in.

    Why didn't Egypt let them in?

    Funny, in Europe and America, you have this thing about being reluctant to
    let foreigners in, even foreigners who look just like the people in the countries that don’t want them. To the rest of the world, this seems mystifying and bemusing. Yet you seem to think other countries should have
    to do exactly what you don’t want to do.

    Same people, same origin, same religion. Why don't the Egyptians want
    them?

    Want to take a wild guess?

    The parallels are uncanny, are they not.

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  • From hello there@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Tue Mar 18 22:07:07 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    In article <vrcps1$3ci2h$3@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    And Gaza never left Israel alone.

    Where were they to go?

    Who gives a fuck? And why fucking go anywhere?

    Israel had them completely boxed in.

    Why didn't Egypt let them in? They are their brothers, no?
    Same people, same origin, same religion. Why don't the
    Egyptians want them?

    Want to take a wild guess?

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  • From hello there@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Tue Mar 18 22:24:39 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    In article <vrcr48$3d8qj$4@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Why didn't Egypt let them in?

    Funny, in Europe and America, you have this thing about being reluctant to let foreigners in, even foreigners who look just like the people in the countries that don't want them. To the rest of the world, this seems mystifying and bemusing. Yet you seem to think other countries should have
    to do exactly what you don't want to do.

    No, it's because even Egypt despaired of them.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Wed Mar 19 00:05:25 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:22:37 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    "some"?

    "deliberately"?

    As in deliberate policy, a.k.a. the "Hannibal Directive".

    Yeah, yeah. That's the "Directive" no one ever saw, right?

    It’s a matter of public record, e.g. <https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/yoav-gallant-admits-to-authorising-hannibal-directive-during-october-7-attack-7663931>

    So every death in Gaza from now on is 100% the responsibility of
    Israel, which started shooting first.

    Israel "started shooting first"?

    Hamas agreed to the ceasefire, but Israel never stopped shooting and
    killing.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Wed Mar 19 00:03:18 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:24:39 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    In article <vrcr48$3d8qj$4@dont-email.me>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    Why didn't Egypt let them in?

    Funny, in Europe and America, you have this thing about being reluctant
    to let foreigners in, even foreigners who look just like the people in
    the countries that don't want them. To the rest of the world, this
    seems mystifying and bemusing. Yet you seem to think other countries
    should have to do exactly what you don't want to do.

    No ...

    Yes.

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  • From NefeshBarYochai@21:1/5 to lizandtony@orcon.net.nz on Tue Mar 18 21:04:04 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:35:41 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    This is it: the Gaza war is on again.

    All that mealy-mouthed talk of a “ceasefire? and (later reneged) “Phase >>2?
    and all the rest of it was just a way for Israel to buy time and regain
    its breath for launching another wave of atrocities.
    So soon you deliberately forget that Gaza started this particular episode with >guess what? An unprovoked attacke. Ring any bells?

    Wrong! The Zionists began this war in 1948. The Palestinians haved
    lived on this land for many generations. The Zionists came from Europe
    and America, laying claim to the land because a book told them that
    G_d promised them the land 5,000+ years ago.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Wed Mar 19 01:21:41 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:18:44 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Report on Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza

    How come no evidence of such has ever been presented to any
    independent authority? Here’s a report to the UN <https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976>:

    A. Human Shields and the logic of genocide

    ...

    59. Israel has accused Palestinian armed groups of deliberately
    using civilians as human shields in previous aggressions on Gaza
    (including in 2008-09, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2022). It also used it
    to justify high civilian casualties and attacks against
    paramedics, journalists and others during the 2018–2019 ‘Great
    March of Return’. UN independent fact-finding missions and
    reputable human rights organizations have consistently challenged
    these allegations, sometimes concluding that evidence of human
    shields had been fabricated. Nevertheless, Israel has used these
    accusations – sometimes then retracted – to justify widespread and
    systematic killing of Palestinian civilians in its ongoing
    assault.

    There are references given to every single one of those claims, so you
    can check them for yourself.

    Hamas agreed to the ceasefire, but Israel never stopped shooting
    and killing.

    After starting the war ...

    So you want to go back to events before Israel started shooting, to
    try to justify it? Can we not also go back to events before October 7,
    to try to justify what Hamas did then, or not? Is what is good for the
    goose also not good for the gander?

    ... and while still holding civilian hostages?

    Remember, there was supposed to be a deal to free them all in phase 2,
    as part of the ceasefire negotiations. Which Israel has now completely
    reneged on.

    “Nazi Germany suggested a ceasefire ...”

    Did they really??

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  • From NefeshBarYochai@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 19 09:54:08 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    Facts are facts! The Arabs started it! As if not killing each
    other by the millions was not bas enough!

    <quote>

    One day after the State of Israel declared itself as an independent nation
    (May 14, 1948), Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Transjordanian troops, supported by Saudi and Yemenite troops, attacked the nascent Jewish state, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. On that day, Azzam Pasha [secretary-general
    of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952] announced:

    "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".

    </quote>

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  • From Michael Ejercito@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Mar 19 04:53:25 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:18:44 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Report on Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza

    How come no evidence of such has ever been presented to any
    independent authority? Here’s a report to the UN <https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976>:

    A. Human Shields and the logic of genocide

    ...

    59. Israel has accused Palestinian armed groups of deliberately
    using civilians as human shields in previous aggressions on Gaza
    (including in 2008-09, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2022). It also used it
    to justify high civilian casualties and attacks against
    paramedics, journalists and others during the 2018–2019 ‘Great
    March of Return’. UN independent fact-finding missions and
    reputable human rights organizations have consistently challenged
    these allegations, sometimes concluding that evidence of human
    shields had been fabricated. Nevertheless, Israel has used these
    accusations – sometimes then retracted – to justify widespread and
    systematic killing of Palestinian civilians in its ongoing
    assault.

    There are references given to every single one of those claims, so you
    can check them for yourself.

    Hamas agreed to the ceasefire, but Israel never stopped shooting
    and killing.

    After starting the war ...

    So you want to go back to events before Israel started shooting, to
    try to justify it? Can we not also go back to events before October 7,
    to try to justify what Hamas did then, or not? Is what is good for the
    goose also not good for the gander?
    Hamas started the war.

    Israel is perfectly justified in using cesium-137 shells.


    Michael

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  • From Loose Cannon@21:1/5 to MEjercit@HotMail.com on Wed Mar 19 16:28:52 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:53:25 -0700, Michael Ejercito
    <MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:18:44 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Report on Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza

    How come no evidence of such has ever been presented to any
    independent authority? Heres a report to the UN
    <https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976>:

    A. Human Shields and the logic of genocide

    ...

    59. Israel has accused Palestinian armed groups of deliberately
    using civilians as human shields in previous aggressions on Gaza
    (including in 2008-09, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2022). It also used it
    to justify high civilian casualties and attacks against
    paramedics, journalists and others during the 20182019 Great
    March of Return. UN independent fact-finding missions and
    reputable human rights organizations have consistently challenged
    these allegations, sometimes concluding that evidence of human
    shields had been fabricated. Nevertheless, Israel has used these
    accusations sometimes then retracted to justify widespread and
    systematic killing of Palestinian civilians in its ongoing
    assault.

    There are references given to every single one of those claims, so you
    can check them for yourself.

    Hamas agreed to the ceasefire, but Israel never stopped shooting
    and killing.

    After starting the war ...

    So you want to go back to events before Israel started shooting, to
    try to justify it? Can we not also go back to events before October 7,
    to try to justify what Hamas did then, or not? Is what is good for the
    goose also not good for the gander?
    Hamas started the war.

    Israel is perfectly justified in using cesium-137 shells.


    Michael


    Since it was the Zionists who first declared war on Germany in 1933,
    thereby starting a war, the Germans were perfectly justified using
    Zyklon-B. Thanks for clearing that up

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to NefeshBarYochai on Wed Mar 19 23:30:51 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:54:08 +0000 (UTC), NefeshBarYochai wrote:

    Facts are facts! The Arabs started it!

    Who murdered Count Folke Bernadotte?

    Was it Arabs?

    No, it was Lehi, aka the Stern gang, one of a number of Zionist terrorist groups operating in Palestine long before there was a state of Israel.

    This assumption that Israel started out as some kind of state that was, at least initially, prepared to live in peace with its neighbours, without
    wanting to evict or exterminate them and steal their land ... just seems
    like a fond fantasy.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Michael Ejercito on Wed Mar 19 23:43:51 2025
    XPost: nz.politics, alt.politics.international

    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 04:53:25 -0700, Michael Ejercito wrote:

    Hamas started the war.

    If you want to call it a “war”, then it must be conducted in accordance with the laws of war. This means there is the concept of “war crimes”. And Israel has committed so many instances of these that it is hard to keep
    count.

    If you want to say that the original conflict was started entirely by
    Hamas on 7 October 2023, and ignore the situation that led up to it, then
    you have to admit that the attacks from 18 March 2025 up to now were
    started entirely by Israel, and similarly ignore the situation that led up
    to them.

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right?

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Wed Mar 19 23:58:19 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.international, nz.politics

    On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:35:58 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Do you know why the 1948 Arab-Israeli war took place?

    Because, after the UN vote which gave the Jews a small state, the
    Arabs rejected it, and launched a war against that state, with the
    declared intent of killing all the Jews living in it:

    Who murdered Count Folke Bernadotte?

    Was it Arabs?

    No, it was Lehi, aka the Stern gang, one of a number of Zionist
    terrorist groups operating in Palestine long before there was a state
    of Israel.

    This assumption that Israel started out as some kind of state that
    was, at least initially, prepared to live in peace with its
    neighbours, without wanting to evict or exterminate them and steal
    their land ... just seems like a fond fantasy.

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