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Because they wouldn't have been able to whitewash the resulting carnage, ie in the same way that they're selling 7/10 as the start of this conflict. Survivors of the Holocaust are calling it out

ICC have applied for arrest warrants for the Hamas leadership, Netanyahu and Gallant

About as likely to be an accident as Prigozhin's plane crash

Well Israel have qualified for the Eurovision final. They qualify alongside a screaming witch from Ireland and a bloke from Finland performing without trousers or pants on.

"Extremists on both sides" as one of the daughters of the Israeli hostages put it in a recent BBC article. There's currently an urgent question on Gaza in the commons. You can visibily see Andrew Mitchell squirming at times, they know full well what's going on.

http://Evidence, eyewitnesses challenge Falter’s claims he was stopped for just crossing road – SKWAWKBOX

Indeed, although massacres like 7/10 have been organised/carried out by both sides in years gone by. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre (The gory details in the foreign reporters testimonies's section is sadly all too familiar) Thatcher pulled our arms exports to Israel around that time because she prioritised regional stability over Israel's self-defence. Then again unlike our current generation of politicians she had a backbone.

Most of Hamas' senior leadership/capability/support aren't in Palestine. One potential issue is Iran/Hezbollah/etc/etc. waiting to send the cavalry in. They don't exactly need to start a recruitment campaign for a sizable insurgency. The US found that one out 20 years ago

google "Arab Spring"

So why are Israel reacting in the way they are? National security? Fine. They've got every justification to go after Hamas themselves. The problem is they are doing far more than that, and a lot of it counter-productive. The US and all of Israel's allies are openly condemning how they are going about the war, millions of Israelis want Netanyahu out and openly protesting against him, IDF soldiers are being videoed cheering whilst they blow up Palestinian schools weeks after the last militant has left the building, the WCK boss is now openly saying that Israel are deliberately targeting aid vehicles. Do you not see that the problem might just go beyond Hamas here? You don't need to get defensive with 'simplistic hippy' comments, you can do better than that

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68722308 A good summary

A lot of these people have also had Israelis kick them and their families/neighbours out of their homes and bulldoze them to the ground, will full support from the Israeli government/military. What would you have done? Israel have spent years employing the tactic of gradual incursion, and Hamas' countered with an attack of which the whole aim is escalation and destabilising the entire region. Of course Israel needed to respond to the October attacks, but doing the same thing that has failed time and time again isn't likely to solve it. What Netanyahu's currently doing is what created Hamas in the first place. It's one reason why thousands of Israelis are currently protesting in Israel calling for Netanyahu's head. They'll get rid of Hamas and create something worse in the process.

He didn't really do too much wrong today but he's simply continually playing at a level that is above him. Friends of mine on the dark side were genuinely baffled when we signed him, they didn't think him good enough for league one

Bazunu may be a league 2 standard keeper but a draw wasn't enough today. We had to win to have any chance of automatic promotion.

The last 5 mins of injury time summed that game up. From the start we needed to win to have any chance of automatic promotion. It's 2-2, 93rd minute and we have an attacking throw in. Literally no urgency whatsoever, we took at least half a minute to take the throw in. Ipswich go up the other end, drive forward, put a few passes together and find a way (assisted by our ball watching defence) That's the difference. Ipswich wanted it more.

Hamas' leadership currently live in complete safety in Qatar Israel have been putting the needle in for decades (extremist settler violence, illegal settlement expansion) which actually led to Hamas's creation in the first place in the 80s. The 7/10 attacks were a calculated and carefully planned escalation in the existing conflict, and were carried out with significant external logistical and military support. It was sophisticated, deliberately brutal and was helped by levels of military intelligence which dwarfed anything that Israel anticipated. The whole idea was to provoke this response from Israel. The US are trying (and failing) to reign in the Israelis because support for Hamas has surged since Israel responded to the 7/10 attacks, a group that not long ago was making rockets out of drain pipes and fertilizer. The problem is going way beyond Gaza and Hamas.

Putting the rivalry aside my Pompey supporting friends thought he was a bizarre signing for us. He's doing his best but he's constantly playing at a level that is above him. For every decent save he makes there's 2 of 3 howlers/shots that he really should be doing better with.

The double standards after the condemnation of Russia-Ukraine a year or two back aren't hard to find The attempted cancelling of Russia/#standwithUkraine was never about humanity, it was about money and power ie. the usual. We currently have over 800 serving officials openly stating their own governments positions on Israel-Gaza war could amount to complicity in "grave violations of international law". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68177357

Yes But are you referring to Hamas, who carried out the attack? Or the vast majority of the 20-25000 Palestinian civilians that Israel have indiscriminately bombed and killed since, that had nothing to do with the attack or Hamas? As for Arab nations potentially 'boycotting', the idea would be so the event(s) descend into farce.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68006126 More coming out. . . I've not read the ins and outs of the Gary Lineker story regarding the tweet calling for Israel to be banned from international football/events etc. but think we're heading for incidents in events like the Olympics with Arab nations in particular refusing to compete against them etc.

To address the story in the above link itself, it was widely reported including in the I newspaper. https://www.state.gov/rejection-of-irresponsible-statements-on-resettlement-of-palestinians-outside-of-gaza/ "Irresponsible statements" is one way of putting it, seem to remember there an ICC arrest warrant issued for Putin earlier this year for doing similar in Ukraine

I don't think a lot of people realise that the Israelis were aware of how dangerous Netanyahu's regime is long before October last year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67859177 Hopefully this Egyptian plan to resolve the conflict gains some traction, but it'd need a complete change of leadership on both sides for a start to achieve any lasting peace.

500 Palestinians have died this year alone in attacks like the below, which is approaching half of the number of Israelis that died on 7/10. The Palestinians were never going to do nothing whilst the west turns a blind eye. Hamas's attack wasn't the start of anything. https://news.sky.com/story/settlers-armed-with-long-rifles-guns-knives-and-machetes-came-west-bank-palestinian-family-driven-from-their-home-13038093 I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians had a hand in organising Hamas's attack, given it's sophistication/scale and the timing. The western governments try to cancel Russia over the Ukraine invasion, (just under 10000 civilians have died in 18 months), then a conflict escalates where a western ally invades/indiscriminately bombs Gaza (just over 21500 civilians have died in less than 3 months, the vast majority women and children). Very good article by Frank Gardner summing things up https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67845056

Think the IOC have acknowledged that banning the Russian/Belarussian athletes based on their nationality would violate the Olympic charter. If they banned every country who'd invaded a different country where the indiscriminate killing of civilians followed the 'individual neutral athletes' would have the largest contingent of athletes by a distance When the invasion started tens of thousands of Russians openly protested against the war knowing full well they'd likely be thrown into jail by the end of that day. It was the biggest rebellion against the Russian authorities for a long time. Sadly Zelensky never used it to his advantage. It was only 20 years ago when a lot of our population supported invading Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein could deploy WMDs in 45 minutes. Less "nutcase population" and more "Different governments, but the lies stay the same."