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On Defense and Offense, Israel Given Another Reminder of Its Reliance on the United States
When the U.S. threatens to suspend arms sales to the IDF and, at the same time, it has deployed batteries of air defense systems across Israel because of a lack of local interceptors, the boundaries of Israeli independence are being tested
At the beginning of the week, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris issued an exceptional statement of condemnation. The Democratic presidential candidate quoted a United Nations report stating that not a single food shipment has entered the Gaza Strip for almost two weeks. Harris said that Israel needs to act urgently to ensure civilian aid for those in need in the region and to respect international law. Following the American reprimand, representatives of the defense establishment met with U.S. and UN personnel to inform them that the Israel Defense Forces would enable aid trucks to enter the area, where a new offensive by the 162nd Division got underway last week.
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Ragla
19:33 16.10.2024
Great analysis thank you.
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Rest assured
18:00 16.10.2024
The pendulum in America is swinging toward cutting you off. Your extermination of civilians, wholesale destruction of Gaza, Lebanon and murderous occupation of the west bank will cost you dearly
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DGM
17:24Rest assured
From your keyboard to God's ears, or better still, to the US administration decision process.
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CGX
17:56 16.10.2024
Where to begin with this compilation of IDF propaganda points and quotations from foreign news outlets? Let's be simple: "With Hamas and Hezbollah fighting for their lives as organizations". Have you not understood a single thing about non-state actors or insurgency warfare? You cannot kill an idea and the capacity of Hamas and Hizbollah, although diminished, remains far greater than you imagine. They play long-term, not your myopic short-term.
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Dennis J Solomon
17:16 16.10.2024
Amos forgets that since the time of the chemist Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the US DOD and EU NATO technological success and superiority, continues to be highly dependent on pro-Israel Jewish and Gentile scientists and engineers. Much more so today.
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Michael Fejdman
15:01 16.10.2024
On the issue of humanitarian aid to civilians in Northern Gaza and the absurd military plan to shoot anybody who refuses to evacuate themselves from this area. I think Israel has gone MAD!!!! As the so to a holocaust survive and a retired IDF office who servred in both Soth Lebanon and the Gaza Strip I think that Israel has losted its moral compass. We are slowly turning into replicas of our enemies and this action reminds me of another European regime that carried out simalar activities against Jews. No we cannot allow the stavation of civilians and in particular childern. Instead of staving the local population there are alternative method to resolve the issue . The nain issue is that this goverment doesn't want to end this war if it involves a political solution. Unfortunately Israel society is paying the ultimate price.
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Only half a Jew
17:35 18.10.2024Michael Fejdman
Yep, Israel is turning into Nazi Israel. It always had that tendency anyway but now it is showing its true colors without shame. After starving and indiscriminately shooting to death the civilian population what's next? Auschwitz type concentration camps with ovens ready to receive Palestinians and perceived internal enemies of the state? Wouldn't put it past the likes of Gvir, Smotrich and Netanyahu and their ilk and of course the present mindset of the Israeli public.
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Liam
15:00 16.10.2024
Let's just take a step back from the 'frog being slowly boiled in water' mindset we all sometimes adopt, reacting to the latest talking point.
Since 1948 Israel has been responsible for the displacement and permanent homelessness of several million Palestinian people, and currently at least 1 million Lebanese people.
It has repeatedly invaded Lebanon, and set up colonies in at least 4 neighbouring countries ( it removed its colonies from Egypt in 1979)
Within the past 12 months alone it has killed a minimum of 70,000 people and injured at least 200,000.
It is presently deliberately attacking UN troops.
Its agents have committed homosexual rape, shooting untold amounts of children in the head, have confiscated many thousands of dunams ( a dunam= 1/4 acres) of land in the West Bank.
It has systematically destroyed hospitals, schools and Universities.
This is Israel. This is Israel
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Dennis J Solomon
17:26 16.10.2024Liam
And Liam owes his name to the Torah, to the people of the Book who were murdered and tortured and enslaved by societies, most of whom have disappeared from the face earth - and today by followers of crazed Caliph Umar who was assassinated by the sword of Allah in the hand of his Persian slave for perverting the teaching of Mohammad and Allah.
Liam @ Dennis the Menace
18:01 16.10.2024Liam
Anything constructive to add to the conversation? Ad Hominem rants aren't a good look for you Dennis.
Deal with the message, not the messenger.
Your reply perfectly sums up why Israeli society has reached where it has today, a point-blank refusal to address facts, unassailable verifiable facts
Keep brushing it under the carpet, my friend. I see this evert day of the week here in Israel, for many years.
A hug from the Galil.
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John Cronin
11:34 16.10.2024
' Analysis: On Defense and Offense, Israel Given Another Reminder of Its Reliance on the United States '
Scenario 1
What if all those engaged in this apparently endless conflict were to find themselves in a situation where their weapon stocks had run out and could no longer be replenished, their conflict might then become far more subdued, certainly more so than at any time in these last 12 months.
Scenario 2
Better still, what if the use of all such weaponry could be totally repurposed, offering the region and the world a major incentive towards peace rather than fulfilling whatever military or political objectives might have been their previous function?
Laxiankey - " We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. " ( Albert Einstein )
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steve157
12:45 16.10.2024John Cronin
What if Putin could have been persuaded that Russia was big enough and didn't need all of Ukraine, or to suffer around 600,000 casualties in the process of capturing it?
Human stupidity causes our problems, we have to solve them with a deep awareness of the all too human thinking that created them.
John Cronin
13:06 16.10.2024John Cronin
But if such a ' what if ' process were to be more or less autonomous, not able to be seriously influenced by external factors, groups or individuals, then its outcome could be more than sufficient to overcome and resolve the problems to which it has been directed.
steve157
14:02 16.10.2024John Cronin
John. I have read your idea. Agreeing to making a process autonomous only works if first everyone agrees, and second everyone keeps to the agreement.
When has that ever been the case on anything to do with this conflict.
John Cronin
14:18 16.10.2024John Cronin
The usual way to get agreement all across the board here is to make everyone an offer, an offer they can't refuse.
And, if the KEY is adopted as being the one and only solution for providing an effective and logical finale to generations of deadly conflict and futile warfare, then such may very well be the case, not just for the region but the entire world thereafter.
John Cronin
14:26 16.10.2024John Cronin
Turning swords into ploughshares here could actually become a well-ordered and inevitable process rather than just a biblically inspired aspiration.
Months of idiocy
18:12 16.10.2024John Cronin
Crank Cronin never desists from his inane FAKE key and demented postings
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Ann
09:56 16.10.2024
Don't fret Israel. This was not a real threat. And it was purposefully leaked for the election. No one is stopping aid. The genocide can continue. Proceed.
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DGM
14:04 16.10.2024Ann
Yes, Ann- sadly you have hit the nail squarely on the head.
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Oddne
09:47 16.10.2024
Much better than:
"On July 5, 1914, in Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country's unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia, a long-running rivalry thrown into crisis by the assassination, the previous June 28, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist during an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia."
