US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[Drew S.]

Soo northern Gaza and the 1M inhabitants will be blitzed in 24 hours

Israel doing their bit to try to get other countries involved.

 

[Drew S.]

This take knocks it out of the park https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/have-we-learned-nothing/

I obviously feel horrible for Israel but based on our experiences seriously question if they are taking the right approach.

 

[Kepler]

This is going to be such a sh-t show.

Jonathan Daghar, the head of the Middle East desk at Reporters Without Borders, says early information indicates the journalists hit in Lebanon were identifiable and not surrounded by combatants.

“We still have a little bit of missing information, but everything that we have and we know so far is pointing at a deliberate attack,” he told Al Jazeera.

 

[Kepler]

Soo northern Gaza and the 1M inhabitants will be blitzed in 24 hours

Nice.

Mansour Shouman, a resident of Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera from the north of the enclave.

He said many Palestinians there do not feel it is safe to travel south and have chosen to hunker down. He expected the internet to soon be cut in the besieged enclave.

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in Gaza have nothing to do with Hamas, particularly the military wing. We are just people who want to live a free life. People who want to enjoy life, and we cannot be held responsible for the actions of one group or another,” he said.

 

[Slap Shot]

Hamas officials say...

I mean...

 

[Kepler]

I mean...

Fair enough.

Although there is a distinction between Hamas politicals and Hamas militants.

But. Fair enough.

 

[Kepler]

It's not just costing lives. Now it's serious.

It should be noted the Kennedy School of Government is not Harvard. It is "Harvard."

 

[Handyman]

Fair enough.

Although there is a distinction between Hamas politicals and Hamas militants.

But. Fair enough.

There isnt...it's the same people. Unless you believe the same about The Taliban.

 

[Chuck Murray]

Hamas Disappointed Liberals Don't Believe They Massacred Jews After They Went To All The Trouble To Livestream It | Babylon Bee

GAZA — Members of the terrorist organization Hamas were left frustrated after hearing many leftists in the United States and throughout the world were skeptical that Hamas had brutally massacred over 1,300 Jewish civilians after Hamas had put serious effort into livestreaming the atrocities.

"What's a guy have to do around here to get credit for mass murder?" asked Hamas terrorist Durka Mohammed. "We provide video after video clearly identifying our victims as helpless women and children, we film the execution, we leave the bodies out for evidence...what more do you people want from us??"

Despite the live video evidence from Hamas itself, documents from Hamas showing elementary schools as intended targets, thousands of photographs, and eyewitness testimony from both sides of the massacre, many liberals in the United States remain unconvinced that Hamas committed mass murder. "Sounds like a Jewish trick to me," said proud Democrat Dean Stinson. "Sure, it looks like Hamas is shooting women live on the internet, but I've seen movies where it looks like people get shot, and of course the Jews run Hollywood - so yeah. Plus, I heard someone say Hamas decapitated a baby, and while I've seen pictures of several babies shot to death by Hamas, I have yet to see a decapitated baby. So it's all Jewish propaganda."

At publishing time, in the wake of the remaining skepticism, Hamas members were reportedly running out of ways to definitively show how their entire goal in life was to kill Jews. "I guess we'll just have to start going door to door in America to show them in person. Actually, to be honest, that was going to be our plan all along. Surprise!"

 

[Chuck Murray]

Quick show of hands everyone ... how many of you "useful idiots" out there? This could be half the Faculty Lounge ...

 

[Kepler]

There isnt...it's the same people. Unless you believe the same about The Taliban.

I thought Hamas was like Hezbollah (and, ironically, the Taliban) where there's a grassroots "moderate" political organization that sweeps the streets and gives food to children, and then a militant wing that murders people.

But, from edumacating myself over the last week, I am wrong. Hamas is strictly a militant terrorist group.

I apologize; you are absolutely right.

I was watching a Channel 4 (UK) interview with a Hamas leader -- the guy who is the "responsible" voice of the group -- and he was flat out denying that during the incursion they deliberately targeted Israeli civilians for shooting or hostage taking. That's completely insane, we have it on the Hamas' soliders' own video cams that they did. They were celebrating the fact that they did.

 

[aparch]

I'll see Chucky's cartoon, and raise him:

https://www.theonion.com/university-installs-red-light-phones-for-conservative-s-1850907474

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Sounds like Israel turned water back on to southern Gaza after pressure from US

 

[Drew S.]

Israel likes this one: https://apnews.com/article/muslim-b...-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

 

[Handyman]

I thought Hamas was like Hezbollah (and, ironically, the Taliban) where there's a grassroots "moderate" political organization that sweeps the streets and gives food to children, and then a militant wing that murders people.

But, from edumacating myself over the last week, I am wrong. Hamas is strictly a militant terrorist group.

I apologize; you are absolutely right.

I was watching a Channel 4 (UK) interview with a Hamas leader -- the guy who is the "responsible" voice of the group -- and he was flat out denying that during the incursion they deliberately targeted Israeli civilians for shooting or hostage taking. That's completely insane, we have it on the Hamas' soliders' own video cams that they did. They were celebrating the fact that they did.

The original intent was to be that way...but when your created in the image of Arafat you will go terrorist and stay there.

 

[Handyman]

Sounds like Israel turned water back on to southern Gaza after pressure from US

Good. Bibi is doing everything he can to destroy the goodwill they have by being the monster he always had been. Why can't someone put him near an open window in Moscow?

 

[Slap Shot]

How Trump contributed to the current climate of uncertainty, disinformation and lack of trust globally:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...6SPRT44275.htm

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/05...y-report-card/

 

[psych]

Sounds like Poland's elections went swimmingly for democracy.

 

[aparch]

Sounds like Poland's elections went swimmingly for democracy.

I thought you were being facetious. Was pleasently surprised.

 

[Kepler]

I thought you were being facetious. Was pleasently surprised.

Same. I am amazed. I assumed Poland was circling the drain, like Slovakia. I hope the opposition can form their coalition. They need to undo virtually everything the rightwing party has done there for a decade, particularly the attack on the judiciary.