I am going fully into the flames with this one and it might upset some people but ya know it has to be said. Yesterday a UN Inquiry into the Israel-Hamas war issued a statement before they release their full report in which they accuse
"Israel of carrying out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza's healthcare system, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination."
They were not done though as they continued going after them stating
"Israeli forces of deliberately killing and torturing medical personnel, targeting medical vehicles and restricting permits for patients to leave the besieged Gaza Strip."
Now that all is pretty damning sounding but I am going to go "crazy" here and look at everything as a whole. First let's just get the elephant out of the room and say Israel did not start this. Hamas launched an unprovoked attack and murdered over 1,200 Israelis almost all of them civilians. Then they took over 200 hostages back.
Then it comes out how the UN's own agency UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) employed multiple people who were videoed engaging in the attack on Israel, then we find out Israel wasn't lying there are tunnels located either at or near many UNRWA facilities and given that these are electrified and concrete fortified tunnels it wasn't like this process was quiet. UNRWA was compliment. Everything seemed to die down until a few weeks ago when there was an airstrike in Lebanon that took out the Hamas leader in Lebanon only to find out AGAIN he was employed by UNRWA until earlier this year.
While it is easy for some outside agency looking in to see videos of damage to vehicles and hospitals but in their statement they only target Israel not Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who has known to cause some of the biggest civilian death strikes in Gaza (Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion that killed an estimated 500 people caused by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile malfunction). There are so many videos in Gaza showing Hamas and their allies using refugee camps to launch missiles from that show them carrying guns around hospitals and ambulances not to mention the videos we have recently received where they tried to hyjack a humanitarian aide truck.
Are they perfect? No. But did the rules of this area launch an attack and start a war? Yes. Civilians sadly die in war that is a sad fact and while much can be done to limit it its inevitable. Over the course of the war as well Israel has continued to lower the number of civilian casualties which is one of the reasons why with the Rafah operation countries called it a red line until it was crossed and they realized well that didn't lead to mass civilian deaths like we thought. The rules of war would typically protect these sites however once you militarize it as has been done then all bets are off.
It is wild to me that so many people even my age somehow do not understand this or how they expect Israel to just "accept" these attacks from Gaza and Hezbollah. With Gaza considerably winding down operations Israel finally took care of the issue that was Hezbollah. I am sure we will get another report about this again and how Israel did this all wrong but Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organization for one and that doesn't even factor in the so-called "peacekeepers" from the UN and the Lebanaon Gov't and Hezbollah never followed the rules as UN Resolution UNSCR 1701 which both Lebanon and Israel agreed to end the 2006 war required Hezbollah to be disarmed and withdraw noth of the Litani River. To Israel this is an enormous point of contention and is something they have made clear will have to happen for it to even think about agreeing to a ceasefire.
Of course, the would. You can’t hide the truth forever. In fact it is hard to hide it for as long as they did. The fly in the ointment is the possibility that this was a false flag, created by the Israeli’s Mossad. They do not hesitate with killing their own. If so, then the whole thing may be a charade to take over Gaza.
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It is just mind-blowing to me. I really try to understand where some of these people are coming from but yet when it comes down to it none of the countries around Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem want to take in the Palestinian population. These countries seem to just really want to make the population suffer instead of working with Israel to bring a stop to this because with Arab oil funding they really could rebuild and thus reduce terrorism in the region.
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Could it be that they want the Palestinians to fight for their own property? My thought goes to the origin of the whole problem, the Balfour agreement. Who gave the British the right to give the Palestinians’ property away. It is the same as ME giving YOUR car to Joe Blow and forcing it down your throat. Where is the justice in that? Wouldn’t it cause you to try to get your car back?
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So…. I mean first off let’s start with this being a land that has been consistently conquered. However given the big three religions it is the Jewish homeland. Romans drove them from their lands and slaughtered them centuries before Islam was around.
In 1882 under Ottoman rule there was the first Aliyah occurred and was permitted. The Ottomans were well aware of what was going on but allowed it wayyyyy before WWI. Then the Ottomans got wiped in the war and Britain took over.
The two state solution was extended and guess what Israel accepted Palestine did not. They along with surrounding countries then launched three wars again getting wiped each time. Now they scream 2 state but can you trust them? They haven’t kept their word historically or even now with Hezbollah.
Israel has previously offered to return Gaza to Egypt anddddd they said naw. With the West Bank Israel has made numerous offers to return land since 2000 all of them…. Nada.
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I guess we have to read the his-story of the victors and censors and take it as the truth, no matter our lived experience with untruths.
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Or…. Hear me out… you just look at who publically said what?!? Orrrr you look at who attacked who?!?!? This isn’t rocket science I’m not reinventing the wheel these documents and comments are available on the web… hell of a think the internet… if you actually use it!
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Are you minion of the ruling class. A water carrier for those who cannot be criticized? Askin’ for frenz.
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If you are asking am I someone who has the capacity to read both news presented by both sides and look at historical documentation from various empires and regimes then yeah doesn’t take a scholar to do that. I know research and reading can be hard to some people I am sorry that for you that seems to be the case.