Oreo
Keep your comments objective as I will report any personal attacks.
You must be prepared to hear the other side of the story.
Would you suggest that I report your racist trope - as you have provided me with no concrete example's
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BBC report
“Israel has faced mounting criticism over the 22-month-long war with Hamas, with UN-backed experts warning of widespread famine unfolding in the besieged territory.
On Tuesday members of an international group of former leaders known as "The Elders" for the first time called the war in Gaza an "unfolding genocide" and blamed Israel for causing famine among its population.
Following a visit to the Gaza border, Helen Clark and Mary Robinson, a former prime minister of New Zealand and a former president of Ireland, said in a joint statement: "What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide."
Oreo
Keep your comments objective as I will report any personal attacks.
You must be prepared to hear the other side of the story.
Would you suggest that I report your racist trope - as you have provided me with no concrete example's
Patronising put downs do not convince.
'You obviously have a lot of free time to be on this thread'. It's no-one's business how long folk spend on an issue that is important to them.
It could be, but it’s the comments that were childish. I didn’t call any poster hysterical btw.RTT.
Hold the fort Anniebach I have to go to work.👍🏻
Comments are childish, if you don't agree with them. Possibly only in your mind Oreo. 
And what Israel continues to do in Gaza guarantees that Israel will never be seen in the same light again oreo. Israel has become a pariah state. It has the blood on innocents on its hands.
Oreo
Babs03 as you obvs have a lot of free time to be on this thread and I don’t, I will just leave you to consider this… Israel have to protect themselves and be in no doubt that they will.
What hamas did and continue to do by snipers and no release for the starving hostages guarantees that nothing can be the same again for Gazans.
I do have some free time Oreo in between caring full time for my DH. When he was critically ill I wasn’t on any thread for 4/5 months.
Perhaps I am just making up for lost time.
It's great to see you back Babs; you've been missed and it's great that Mr. B.'s gradual recovery means you have some time for GN
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Thanks 👋🏽
Babs
Please don’t feel you have to explain. It’s no-one’s business how much time any of us spend on GN.
Methinks Oreo owes Babs an apology…
Completely agree.
Oops, ignore that! Wrong thread.
Good to hear from you again Babs, and pleased to hear that things are improving for you.
I think that all nations have a right to life and self government. If that makes me childish and hysterical, so be it
bab3 ignore the comment. oreo has said the same to me😄.
It is one of her unpleasant stock phrases she rolls out.
How about the racist trope oreo have you had any thoughts yet about actual examples?
Interestingly I have been reading a paper by a Jewish academic, that says that using the accusation of anti-semitism when there clearly is none, much like we see frequently on these threads is itself anti-Semitic. Actually obvious if you think about it.
Let us hope those silly accusation now desist .
Video footage shows that Israel struck Nasser hospital four times. So the 'mishap' explanation by Netanyahu was a blatant lie.
Thanks all. Not looking for apologies am a tough old bird so none necessary but obviously cheap digs show that a person is losing the argument.
Anyway, on with thread.
@AGAA4 I think hitting hospitals has been the IDFs MO since the start of their campaign, so many patients, medics, and people sheltering from the bombing have been slaughtered. Netanyahu would have us believe that Hamas were in the hospitals or beneath them in tunnels which really doesn’t explain why they didn’t use different tactics to reach the enemy rather than risking so many civilian lives in a building that should be protected according to international law.
We are talking about a high tech armed force here able to track and kill their enemies from some distance.
Failing that negotiations would have ruled out more of such bombings.
Am pretty sure that if terrorists were holed up in a hospital in Tel Aviv they wouldn’t just bomb it but find a way to remove the terrorists.
Armchair military operations? Babs03
AGAA4
Video footage shows that Israel struck Nasser hospital four times. So the 'mishap' explanation by Netanyahu was a blatant lie.
Yes. I think that it is now without question that the Israelis knew that the journalists and medics were congregated on the steps filming.
Denial would be ridiculous and fooling no one.
Hamas hiding in hospitals is just an excuse for the killings. The plan is to rid Gaza of all Palestinians.
You are right Babs03 there are other ways to locate and destroy one or two Hamas fighters rather than killing so many innocents.
Israel struck Nasser Hospital at least four times during its deadly attack in southern Gaza on Monday, an analysis of new video footage by BBC Verify has found.
The attack, which has attracted international condemnation and widespread anger, reportedly killed at least 20 people, including five journalists.
Initial reports from Gaza said that Israel had struck the hospital twice, with the first blast followed nine minutes later by another which hit first responders and journalists who arrived at the scene.
But new analysis suggests the hospital was struck four times in total. BBC Verify and expert analysis found that two staircases were hit almost simultaneously in the first wave, and while what was thought to be a single later attack was in fact two separate strikes hitting the same place within a fraction of a second.
ronib
Armchair military operations? Babs03
Just trying to keep up with all the other armchair military experts on here ronib.
Oh well if it makes you feel better…. Babs03
No apologies from me to anyone, it’s simply the truth, I have to work ( shift worker ) and also do small childcare duties as well as everything else so don’t have much time as those retired who spend a lot of time on this site.It’s up to them how they spend their time but they do have more of it if retired.
So no cheap dig just the truth.
I don’t do ‘racist tropes’ either and my comparison of a woman alone in Isreal and walking around in Gaza stands.Since hamas took over there it’s much much worse than it used to be.Women have to be heavily covered up and if outside safer to be accompanied by a man.A European woman on her own wearing Western clothing wandering around wouldn’t be safe.
AGAA4
Hamas hiding in hospitals is just an excuse for the killings. The plan is to rid Gaza of all Palestinians.
You are right Babs03 there are other ways to locate and destroy one or two Hamas fighters rather than killing so many innocents.
That’s just silly.
Lots and lots of bombs dropped in a day could wipe out all
Palestinians, or several dropped over the course of a week
This has been going on for almost two years.
It’s obvious that the aim isn’t to rid Gaza of ‘ all Palestinians’ but to rid it of hamas members.
And yes, as in all wars mistakes are made, and journalists are putting themselves in harms way by setting up cameras on hospital sites.
Exactly Oreo good thinking after your night shift.
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