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Breaking Peace in the Middle East? Continued thread.

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Wyllow3 Sat 18-Oct-25 12:34:41

In a new violation of the ceasefire, Occupation Forces carried out a horrific massacre yesterday against the Abu Shaaban family on the outskirts of Zaytun.

Victims include:
•⁠ ⁠Ihab Nasser Abu Shaaban (38) – husband
-Randa Majid Muhammad Abu Shaaban (36) – wife
-Nasser Ihab Abu Shaaban (13) – son
-Jumana Ihab Abu Shaaban (10) – daughter
-Ibrahim Ihab Abu Shaaban (6) – son
-Muhammad Ihab Abu Shaaban (5) – son
Also killed were his sister Samer Muhammad Nasser Shaaban (Abu Shaaban before marriage), her husband Sufyan Othman Shaaban, and their three children:
-Nesma Sufyan Shaaban (12)
-Karam Sufyan Shaaban (10)
-Anas Sufyan Shaaban (8)

Maremia Fri 24-Oct-25 19:22:30

Report on the BBC verifying what Doctors in Gaza have been saying, that 60 per cent of children who have died from gunshot wounds were struck in the head and heart, with precision.
The assassin's double tap.

AGAA4 Fri 24-Oct-25 19:28:50

It goes beyond my understanding how anyone can deliberately kill a child.

CariadAgain Fri 24-Oct-25 20:33:50

Indeed - and I'm not a child person by any stretch of the imagination. 60% of them very deliberately assassinated......!!

I guess what they're doing is deliberately eliminating the next generation as far as they can....basically cold hard - and very cruel - logic of a sort.

Allira Fri 24-Oct-25 20:55:07

AGAA4

It goes beyond my understanding how anyone can deliberately kill a child.

Most of us feel like that, I think AGAA4

How can they? Just wicked.

Anniebach Fri 24-Oct-25 21:11:22

Palestinian Hamas killed children, that was deliberate . Bombing does not include and exclude, did UK deliberately kill German children when bombing Dresden

Maremia Fri 24-Oct-25 21:17:05

Perhaps now more data coming out of Gaza will be believed.

CariadAgain Fri 24-Oct-25 21:21:40

There's rather a large difference between dropping a large bomb on an area and it gets whoever is in the area on the one hand (eg Dresden) or deliberately individually picking out people on the other hand (which they've done a lot of - not just children....eg how about journalists?).

Veering a bit and just seen a video recently made saying they bargained on their latest war (ie Gaza) only being 6 weeks in duration and they're broke broke broke now. OOOh.....fingers crossed they are indeed broke and, if we're all lucky, may have to haul back on their constant warmongering accordingly.

Maybe their own take on life that they think they're Special is about to blow straight up in their faces.....as Special people after all don't have to stick to a budget like the rest of us in their opinion.

Babs03 Fri 24-Oct-25 21:22:55

If just a few children had been killed this way it could be put down to trigger happy soldiers but if so many were killed this way it was a concerted effort by the IDF to kill everyone in sight, no matter how young or vulnerable. Soldiers act upon orders, so these were the orders.

CariadAgain Fri 24-Oct-25 21:29:34

If anyone is interested in checking it out re them now being broke by the look of it:

YouTube video - "Israel BANKRUPT After Hamas War" by the news channel OneIndia News

Couldnt happen to a nicer lot if so......

It does sound logical to me - given that narcissistic people have a tendency to spend all sorts of money they haven't got (preferably other peoples money) then it follows to me that a grouping like this would do much the same....

Allira Fri 24-Oct-25 21:49:34

deliberately individually picking out people on the other hand (which they've done a lot of - not just children....eg how about journalists?).

As did Hamas, including babies and young children.

AGAA4 Sat 25-Oct-25 08:39:17

Hamas is a proscribed terrorist group and atrocities will be expected. Israel is supposedly a civilised country but they have committed similar atrocities to Hamas.

CariadAgain Sat 25-Oct-25 09:20:42

I think it's all the lying that gets me - individual level, their government level, etc. First one has to find your way through all that to figure out what the Truth actually is.

The two positive things I see right now are it looks like a noticeable number of their own people have seen through all this and are not on their side and the way it looks like they're going broke (ie because of all their war spending). I would certainly be interested to know more about their finances - where all that money has come from to date for all the fighting they've done so far (decades worth of it) and their building programme, etc. Until this latest info. about their finances - it's just felt like they've had an endless "money tap" turned on from somewhere....

Maremia Sat 25-Oct-25 20:57:32

It could be that some of the funding comes from monied supporters in the USA. Just a theory, at the moment as I have not delved deeply into that aspect.

Maremia Sat 25-Oct-25 21:08:17

They need to speed up the evacuation of the sick kids to outside hospitals, before mor of them die.

CariadAgain Sun 26-Oct-25 05:58:42

Maremia

It could be that some of the funding comes from monied supporters in the USA. Just a theory, at the moment as I have not delved deeply into that aspect.

Very quick google and certainly some is coming from America - hence why America is able to tell Netanyahu what to do to some extent.

Guess America wants that proposed canal right through Gaza. To suit American trade.

Very glad I wasn't born Palestinian this time round - it's probably about the worst deal on the planet one could get - with the way they're being treated and have been for decades now.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 26-Oct-25 08:31:53

The question being asked in the Sundays is - how are the people in Israel going to deal with the atrocities in Gaza as the details emerge.

It is beginning to be understood that the death toll of 60-70k is only a fraction of the losses. It is estimated (Lancet) that 500000 dead lie under the rubble.

In a church in Melbourne, volunteers read out the name of each dead Gazan child.

The litany continued for 30 hours.

Israel as a nation has to face what it has done - what is has become.

Taken from an article by Steve Biddulph.

Maremia Sun 26-Oct-25 08:32:29

A homeland for the Jewish people.
A homeland for the Palestinian people.

Does one concept have more value than the other?

Anniebach Sun 26-Oct-25 08:48:10

Quote Whitewavemark2 Sun 26-Oct-25 08:31:53
The question being asked in the Sundays is - how are the people in Israel going to deal with the atrocities in Gaza as the details emerge.

How have Jews had to deal with atrocities they suffered and still experience

CariadAgain Sun 26-Oct-25 09:08:35

Maremia

A homeland for the Jewish people.
A homeland for the Palestinian people.

Does one concept have more value than the other?

A homeland for the Palestinian people = Palestine
A homeland for the Jewish people = whichever country they personally really come from.

Job done.

Anniebach Sun 26-Oct-25 09:43:23

“Which ever country they personally really come from “

Would this be asked in every census or annually?

Babs03 Sun 26-Oct-25 10:12:06

Whitewavemark2

The question being asked in the Sundays is - how are the people in Israel going to deal with the atrocities in Gaza as the details emerge.

It is beginning to be understood that the death toll of 60-70k is only a fraction of the losses. It is estimated (Lancet) that 500000 dead lie under the rubble.

In a church in Melbourne, volunteers read out the name of each dead Gazan child.

The litany continued for 30 hours.

Israel as a nation has to face what it has done - what is has become.

Taken from an article by Steve Biddulph.

As more information becomes available and the picture becomes clearer am afraid it will be much much worse than we imagine.
Under every building are bodies and there are very many buildings reduced to rubble in Gaza. Families have missing loved ones they know are dead but can never reclaim or bury.

CariadAgain Sun 26-Oct-25 10:12:33

The figures are out there somewhere.

I've been giving Chat GPT its headache for the day asking questions.

Back came there's 7.2-7.5 million Jews in Palestine - of whom 20.3% were born abroad. Then I asked what nationality their parents are - as people are the nationality their parents are (though a lot identify as something else - but we'll go by the traditional "You are what your parents are"). But yep...eg given my parents are both English = means I'm British (whichever country I was born in in the world).

On that basis - I asked about the third generation (ie bearing in mind where their parents were born) and the reply was 47% of Jews living in Palestine are third-generation (ie they were born there and their parents before them were born there). So maybe, in total, round about 3.6 million Jews born in Palestine and with parents who were born in Palestine (ie and the rest emigrated there or their parents did).

I've not asked Chat GPT for a breakdown of what nationalities the Jews in Palestine are - I didn't want to blow it up asking it to get its head round that....

Allira Sun 26-Oct-25 10:17:41

Anniebach

“Which ever country they personally really come from “

Would this be asked in every census or annually?

A homeland for the Jewish people

That would be Palestine.
And for Palestinians too.

So, CariadAgain, do you have any ideas how to sort it out?

Allira Sun 26-Oct-25 10:21:56

Allira

Anniebach

“Which ever country they personally really come from “

Would this be asked in every census or annually?

A homeland for the Jewish people

That would be Palestine.
And for Palestinians too.

So, CariadAgain, do you have any ideas how to sort it out?

Would this be asked in every census or annually?
Good question Anniebach!

I'm sure that there are millions of people around the world who do not live in their country of origin but many, unlike Jewish people, do not have historic roots in their chosen country.

Should we all shuffle back whence we came?

CariadAgain Sun 26-Oct-25 10:36:54

The answer, as we know, is that another way to establish what nationality someone is (or at least what nationality predominates) is to do a DNA test.

I'd gathered that Jews are not actually allowed to have such a test if they're living in Palestine (stopped by the Government from doing so). Though nothing to try and stop them from doing so if they visit another country (ie combine having a holiday in another country and do that verboten DNA test whilst they're there) and get the result telling them what nationality they are before they go back there (ie if, for some reason, they don't know what nationality their parents are). That's possible, I guess, as I don't actually know what nationality my mothers father is (as I was told her grandfather was her father - and so I assume my own maternal grandfather was English).

I struggle to get my head round their way of looking at nationality - as it's so different to everyone elses. The only Jewish person I know (and we're friends) describes herself as South African - because that is what she is and where she was born. So she says she's Jewish - but she is South African and lived there till she was 16 - prior to moving to Britain. She'd have no problem knowing which country to go back to if it came to it = South Africa.

Well yes....I guess it would create problems for a DNA test to come up with a result of, for instance, "You're 70% Polish" and that would make Poland the obvious country for that particular person....