"A classified report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would take the State Department “multiple years” to review, according to two U.S. officials who relayed the details to The Washington Post.
The findings by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General mark the first time a U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars U.S. security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses.
U.S. officials, who discussed details of the report on the condition of anonymity because the contents were classified, said the watchdog findings raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces."
Washington Post 31.10.25
The above was taken from today's Washington Post. tbh I don't think Netanyahu or anyone else will be properly investigated, what do you think?
I can categorically state that I've never dug tunnels for terrorists under duress.
Have you?
Read reply on that from Babs03 on the previous page.
I was answering you.
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Illegal settler violence has been the worst ever this year.
There is fear that it is going to lead to confrontation, which I guess is what the settlers want so that they can then use it as an excuse to turn the West Bank to rubble.
“I started out my worklife determined to never facilitate wars in the smallest of ways (which, in my case, meant typing anything to do with fighting wars/civil defence/etc) and there was a couple of occasions when I had to make my refusal plain - as it was being asked of me. I hadnt seriously thought an office worker like me would ever come across any occasion I'd be asked to - but yep.....civil defence typing requests (duly refused), typing someone's personal war memoirs as an extra (duly refused).”
So you would stand by and see your parents, friends, even children killed by aggressors.
Or perhaps you think that life under the Nazi jackboot would be a picnic, I’m just thankful that our fire eaters thought differently.
Our forebearers
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All the peaceniks really want is a halo, and for somebody else to do their fighting for them.
With regard to me earlier post re-tunnels. Was addressing the piece about children killed in tunnels and pointing out that primarily these tunnels were for commerce not terror.
I did not say that Hamas did not get involved. Or that children again might not have worked for them to dig tunnels.
Poverty brutalises people, and I will argue that Gaza has never been a great place to live or raise children, those who say that obviously see it as their homeland and so love the place despite everything. Understandable. But it has been compared with an open air prison and has none of the essentials let alone luxuries of the first world country on their doorstep - their country also.
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All the peaceniks really want is a halo, and for somebody else to do their fighting for them.
I wouldn’t dream of attempting to wrestle the halo from your hands Oreo, you are more than welcome to keep it.
A long article this morning about the Settlers, which I will come back to and share, but my main 'take' was that they are now challenging the IDF.
I hope that will herald their undoing.
'lamenting how good life was before the war'
It's all some of them knew. They had constructed homes, not tents, medical supplies and food.
Of course they prefer how it was before the genocidal destruction. Doesn't prove it was a paradise, just that it was 'better' than the hell they live in now.
That would be useful Maremia. At this rate - I think you must be on track to be the best informed of all of us re just what is going on there. That could indeed be a positive - that maybe the agressors will turn in against themselves....
That and the fact that some of the IDF are thinking about things and disapproving of their own war by the look of it.
Maybe there's a chink of hope on the horizon and goodness knows we could do with it whilst so many in Gaza are having to sleep with sodden wet bedding in sodden wet tents and still having problems being able to afford food - quite apart from the living under constant threat.
It's a real struggle to figure out the mindset of those supporting that army and the settlers....I know I can't get my head round why anyone would support them.
Not can I CariadAgain. The fans of Netanyahu and some of the Knesset who are convicted criminals are very hard to understand.
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The settlers have attacked a mosque on the west bank and burned it out. They left a message for the Israeli military saying 'we are not afraid of you'.
A Reuters journalist was violently attacked by a settler who clubbed her round the head.
The settlers have turned into terrorists in my view.
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The settlers have attacked a mosque on the west bank and burned it out. They left a message for the Israeli military saying 'we are not afraid of you'.
A Reuters journalist was violently attacked by a settler who clubbed her round the head.
The settlers have turned into terrorists in my view.
They seem to have always been terrorists - but, as far as I can see, they're upping the ante currently. One can even see little kids joining in for goodness sake on some of the videos made of them.
I saw a clip too re that mosque.
In their minds they already regard the West Bank as theirs and want it "made official" (as they would regard it). Even trying to rename it "Judea and Samaria" - as if it's already theirs! I recently watched one of their news programmes and there was this American guy (judging by his accent and the way he looked - apart from his headgear) getting himself into a right twist wondering how to phrase things as if they were the way he wants them to be - and duly calling the West Bank "Judea and Samaria" every time he mentioned it. It was almost worth watching him to see just how much more getting himself into a "right twist" he was going to do.
One of the positives of the Internet is that - despite them trying so hard to prevent it - videos are coming out (from both Gaza and the West Bank) showing what they are doing. It would have been so much easier for them to hide their conduct back before the Internet. News does get through often these days - despite all the censorship.
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