Silverseren @ Silverseren @kbin.social

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They never did properly renew them after 2009 though, since the reasons for moving to minimal levels never went away, current events kinda just exemplifying why Bolivia never felt the desire to renew them.

You're referring to the PIJ, not Hamas. And even the PIJ being responsible is very much in question at the moment as more information is obtained on those events. See the New York Times analysis from the other day.

So, they have no actual evidence they killed the guy.

And the move south rhetoric is clearly irrelevant, since if there are any Hamas people in the south, they'll bomb the civilians there anyways. So why does the location matter?

Though my point in bringing it up is that it's not even an actual excuse when Israel defenders use it. We Americans actively protested such things as well, as war crimes and violations of international law.

Trying to blatantly use illegal US actions as an excuse for one's own illegal actions, such as Netanyahu in his speech trying to use the US response to 9/11 as a reason for Israel to do the same, is appalling at best.

Here you go: https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1719412278351507487

I feel like we're already at the bottom of the barrel when serial teleprompter reader Wolf Blitzer gets it.

And? If there's a hostage situation, the answer is not to blow up the entire building, hostages and all.

Fair. It does have the news reporter tweet with the video embedded though.

Oh, I've seen them saying a bunch of things. Combinations of "Well, it's not actually a refugee camp" and "the US also bombs civilians to take out military targets" and the long-used canard "they were warned to go south".

Considering around half the population in Gaza is children and the death toll from Israel is approaching 10,000 (might even be past it at this point, since it's hard to determine deaths in Gaza City from all the tanks), the amount of children murdered statistically has to be way higher than 3,000.

They blew up the telecommunications company building that was the main circuit board for all phone and internet signals. They also focused on destroying as much of the physical infrastructure, such as cell towers, as they could.

This had minimal impact on anything Hamas was doing, since they have physical landline cables down in their tunnel systems.

So the targeted destruction was aimed to harm the civilian population and their ability to communicate, not Hamas.

Also, why was he even there with a gun in the first place?

Why were the settlers there? Why were they carrying guns there?

They try to defend themselves with "they were throwing rocks at us", but that clearly indicates they were up to something untoward there in the first place.

That is the settlers' unsubstantiated claims, alongside the uncle's unsubstantiated one. Considering that no one else saw these "dozens" of people when the shooting happened in an olive field in a Palestinian town that the settlers had no reason to be at in the first place.

So, multiple questions are raised. Why did the settlers even go here? Why were they armed? The people living there clearly weren't armed.

Hopefully so. Most of what we've been able to see in the past 24 hours has been from people with satellite phones, which is a slow process.

That would make a lot of sense. Since Israel has blocked numerous other attacks in the past, Hamas likely expected a similar response, not a complete lack of one from their very apparent and out in the open preparations for the attack.

I mean, he wanted Paypal originally (and to name it X), so this just seems like the end goal he was trying to get to the whole time.

And it will still crash and burn. Gloriously so.

I mean, if you've ever been to Texas, you would absolutely know that Texas is a religion.

At least it's finally done. It took years to even get it started and tons of Confederate defenders protesting it.

Based on what Netanyahu posted this morning, they are likely planning on destroying the biggest hospital in Gaza and killing everyone there and in the surrounding area.

So, hundreds of deaths. And they want to prevent it from being recorded and shown to the rest of the world.