Israel Has Declared War after Unprecedented Hamas Attack

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If you're traveling around Gaza these days, I suggest you wear your brown pants.

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The IDF is continuing to strike in the Gaza Strip. Over the last few hours, dozens of military command centers and mortar shell posts were destroyed. In addition, the operational command center of Ali Qadi, one of the commanders of the Hamas “Nukhba” commando forces who was killed several days ago, was struck. Furthermore, IDF fighter jets killed several Hamas terrorists inside of a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization.
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Thanks for that info and the link.
 
Two Swedish football fans have been shot dead in central Brussels by a gunman who allegedly claimed to be an ISIS member.

Media reports aired amateur videos showing a man shooting several times near a station using a large weapon.

The Swedish national football team was scheduled to play Belgium three miles away at the Heysel Stadium later in the evening.

Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports the gunman used an automatic rifle and fled the scene on his scooter.

He is reported to have said he was avenging the stabbing of six-year-old US-Palestinian boy.

The gunman was travelling on a moped, and was heard to shout 'Allahu Akabar' - Arab for God is the Greatest - by witnesses.

An investigating source said: 'He was also screaming about carrying out a revenge attack. He was shooting at various people, and hit a number of them. This had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.'

The source said there was also a video circulating on social media in which the attacker explains having to 'take revenge' by killing three people from Sweden.

'Two Swedish football fans died in a taxi, after being attacked by the man, who then got away on his moped,' said the source.

The suspect, who was wearing a crash helmet and fluorescent jacket, was brandishing a 'Kalashnikov-style' weapon, and had also fired at man in the lobby of a nearby building.

The emergency services arrived in large numbers within minutes, but no suspect was arrested.

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Two people shot dead in Brussels ahead of Euro qualifier match
 
Would you be happy to have Palestinian refugees settled in America?

I'll try to answer.
Can't say I'd be happy at this time, but not totally against it. As all immigrants, refugees, etc, they are people like anyone else; part of our Family.

My first instinct is to welcome, soothe and assist these people whose lives and dreams blew up in their faces.

Yet, the US is already being inundated with migrants, both legal and illegal from Mexico and South America.

My other concern is Islamic jihad and terrorism, which is driven by the fanatical religious. We have freedom of religion here and can't monitor or prevent religious gatherings.

Of course all Palestinians are not terrorists! I believe the majority of them wanting to immigrate to America are not. But I believe some of them are, and may see coming here as an opportunity to annihilate more "Infidels".

So, at this point, I lean toward Not Happy... if "happy" is the right word. I hope this feeling will change to the more positive direction.
 
US Military Officials Select Troops for Potential Israel Deployment

The U.S. military has selected roughly 2,000 troops to prepare for a potential deployment to support Israel, U.S. defense officials said. The troops are tasked with missions like advising and medical support, the officials said, and they are from across the U.S. armed services. They aren't intended to serve in a combat role, the officials said. No infantry have been put on prepare-to-deploy order.

The troops are currently stationed both inside the Middle East and outside, including Europe, the officials said. It isn't clear under what circumstances the U.S. could deploy the troops or to where, but the Pentagon decision signaled it is preparing to support Israeli troops should Israel launch a ground incursion into Gaza.
 
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The troops are currently stationed both inside the Middle East and outside, including Europe, the officials said. It isn't clear under what circumstances the U.S. could deploy the troops or to where, but the Pentagon decision signaled it is preparing to support Israeli troops should Israel launch a ground incursion into Gaza.
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I just saw this, too... was not expecting it, but maybe I should have been. While I said earlier today that I didn't feel a discussion re: Palestinian refugees coming to America was a political topic, *this* one definitely is. I hope things here stay under control. I'm going to bow out of voicing my feelings about the move or the implications.

Oh, and thank for the link to the real time reports... @Naturally
 
RadishRose said:
Would you be happy to have Palestinian refugees settled in America?

I'll try to answer.
Can't say I'd be happy at this time, but not totally against it. As all immigrants, refugees, etc, they are people like anyone else; part of our Family.

My first instinct is to welcome, soothe and assist these people whose lives and dreams blew up in their faces.

Yet, the US is already being inundated with migrants, both legal and illegal from Mexico and South America.

My other concern is Islamic jihad and terrorism, which is driven by the fanatical religious. We have freedom of religion here and can't monitor or prevent religious gatherings.

Of course all Palestinians are not terrorists! I believe the majority of them wanting to immigrate to America are not. But I believe some of them are, and may see coming here as an opportunity to annihilate more "Infidels".

So, at this point, I lean toward Not Happy... if "happy" is the right word. I hope this feeling will change to the more positive direction.
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Thanks for answering. I agree that "happy" was not the best word, maybe "willing" would have been better.
 
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US Military Officials Select Troops for Potential Israel Deployment

The U.S. military has selected roughly 2,000 troops to prepare for a potential deployment to support Israel, U.S. defense officials said. The troops are tasked with missions like advising and medical support, the officials said, and they are from across the U.S. armed services. They aren't intended to serve in a combat role, the officials said. No infantry have been put on prepare-to-deploy order.

The troops are currently stationed both inside the Middle East and outside, including Europe, the officials said. It isn't clear under what circumstances the U.S. could deploy the troops or to where, but the Pentagon decision signaled it is preparing to support Israeli troops should Israel launch a ground incursion into Gaza.
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Thanks again, Naturally. I did hear the news on this and there were hints a few days ago, as well. There are lots of tunnels.

God Bless our Troops.
 
Most Muslims in the world are not terrorists and do not support terrorists.
This announcement is made after each new Muslim terrorist attack. I’m always curious to know how the announcer knows what percentage of Muslims in Muslim countries support terrorists??.Or how many Muslims in America support them?? In 2004 a Federal Grand Jury in Dallas, Texas charged an American Muslim group called the Holyland Foundation with providing support to Hamas. At trial they were found guilty of sending $12 million to Hamas.
 
There are said to be dozens of miles of tunnels
Someone somewhere asked where they were going to possibly get water enough to fill all those tunnels, given that may be a choice
And I wondered ... had they even looked at a map

There are American citizen hostages so I'm not shocked American military resources might be considered
However when I read, "They aren't intended to serve in a combat role" ... I thought hmmm, where have I heard that before
 
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There are American citizen hostages so I'm not shocked American military resources might be considered
However when I read, "They aren't intended to serve in a combat role" ... I thought hmmm, where have I heard that before
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I know what you mean. On the other hand, I don't expect any military to announce its plans publicly.

ADDED: unless such announcements serve a purpose.
 
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Well Devi, I wouldn't be shocked to find there are already and have been U.S. boots on the ground in Israel and perhaps Gaza.
But will never hear about them or what they are up to or have been up to ... IF they ARE there ;)

A friend says that he has Tier 1 family in SF (special forces) and knows there are boots on the Gerald Ford Carrier but does not know his current exact location (for obvious reasons). And that's all I can say about that. U.S. military is weighing all options with keen interest is the only thing I'm sure of.

Besides the Gerald Ford, there are other assets and friendly foreign countries, besides Israel, in the region that could be a staging ground for any U.S. intervention should that occur.
 
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In addition to Murmurr's video post, I'll add this for possibly a good read. Well maybe to some.
I honestly didn't watch all the video, so perhaps some points are repeated ... or missed.
But anyway, just a read ...

There would be peace in the Middle East if Israel just ended its occupation, right? That's what some would have you think anyway.

If Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land? Uninformed people likely assume that there was a previous Palestinian state that the Israelis occupied and destroyed, but in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind, ever, at any point in history. Not now and not then. There has been a region known as “Palestine” since 134AD, when the Romans applied that name to the land that had previously been known as Judea, that is, land of the Jews. But “Palestine” was akin to something like “Staten Island” - it was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire (historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire) had sovereignty over the territory that is now Israel and they supposedly occupied land as well. The Ottoman Empire was, however, known by this time as “The Sick Man of Europe". In the early 1920s, just before the empire fell altogether, it conceded control of Palestine (the region Rome had previously given a name to) and the land that came to be known as Transjordan and now as Jordan to the League of Nations. On July 24, 1922, the League of Nations granted administrative control over these territories to Britain with specific instructions to create a “national home for the Jewish people".

Britain immediately turned over 77% of the Mandate to the Arabs to create Jordan but remained generally committed to establishing a Jewish national home in the remainder. This was known as the Mandate for Palestine. Sometimes uninformed people point to it as the Palestinian state that supposedly predated Israel, but this claim relies on the ignorance of the fact that this British territory had been explicitly set aside for Jewish settlement; nine years before the founding of the modern state of Israel, a 1939 flag of “Palestine” sports a star of David.

When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, it immediately had to fight a war for its survival against the surrounding Arab nations that had vowed to destroy it. Then there was finally an occupation - in fact, two: Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (which it renamed the West Bank). Israel won back those territories in the Six-Day War of 1967, but that was actually ending an occupation, not starting one: the only international law governing sovereignty over those territories stipulated that they were to be part of a national home for the Jewish people.

So from whom was the land "stolen"? Not from the Ottomans, who had ceded it to the League of Nations. Not from the league, which had granted administrative powers over it to the British. Not from the British, who only had it in order to help create a Jewish state there. And not from the Palestinians, who didn’t even exist until the 1960s, when the KGB and Yasir Arafat bestowed Palestinian nationality (PLO) upon a group of Levantine Arabs as a rhetorical weapon to use against Israel.

And it has worked "beautifully". The idea that Israel is occupying "Palestinian" land was furthered in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords, to which Israel unwisely acceded, and in which it agreed to work toward the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which would only become a new base for more jihad attacks against a diminished Jewish state. But a Palestinian state, if it is ever created, would be the first ever such entity in the history of the world. There is actually no Israeli occupation at all. Israel is Jewish land. Was millenniums ago and is again today. A land grant from the League of Nations via an Ottoman Empire "default".
 
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Don M. said:
Between this mess in Israel, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, I fear that more nations will be sucked into these conflicts. The US support for Israel may increase the odds of terrorists sneaking across our borders and committing their acts in some of our cities. If Putin begins to lose even more in Ukraine, I just hope Russia has policies to keep that lunatic from pushing the nuclear "button" as his final act before being deposed.
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It was in the news two days ago, they stopped 2 know Hamas terrorists at the US southern border. Its happening.
 
It is almost 50 years to the day the last time Israel was officially at war in what is known as the Yom Kippur War back in 1973 when she was attacked by Egypt. Syria, and others. But this is a different kind of war.

Thousands of rockets rained on Israel from multiple directions, and Hamas gunmen invaded by land, sea and sky. Now, hundreds of people have been murdered and kidnapped, and they were using what we might describe as Isis-like methods: targeting young women and young children, launching massive indiscriminate rocket fire towards civilian population centers, as well as terrorist infiltration of cities and settlements close to the Gaza border.

They went literally home to home, door to door, looking for the young and for the elderly. They’ve taken hostages. Old women, little children, young women—they specifically targeted civilians in this attack. Some of the women they took as hostages were survivors of the Holocaust. To date, and this number tragically will only get larger, there are 1,300 dead and 2,000 wounded. This attack is simply without precedent, causing Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, to say, “We are at war.”

Israel’s Enemies​

Who is Hamas? They’re a terrorist organization funded by Iran. That’s not a secret.

A spokesman for Iran, Gahzi Hamad, told the BBC that terrorist group had received funding for the attack, according to the Wall Street Journal.

And Iran has for a long time stated that their objective is to destroy Israel. They have also signaled that they are developing a nuclear weapon. In the past they have threatened to, in their own words, wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.

One leader of Iran said, “They ask, ‘Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?’ But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are altogether attainable, and surely can be achieved. The regime that is occupying Jerusalem must be wiped off the map.”1

Interesting how it always comes back to Jerusalem. The Bible predicted, thousands of years ago, that the end time events would revolve around Jerusalem. Not San Francisco. Not Los Angeles. Not Moscow. Not Paris.

But Jerusalem, this tiny little city, in this tiny sliver of land, will play a key role in the events of the last days. It’s the focal point of end times events. It’s amazing when you think about it, because in Zechariah 12:3–4 God says, “I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves” (NLT).

Pay Careful Attention​

Now, the irony of all this is that the United States of America through the Biden administration just gave six billion dollars to Iran. What a bad move it is to give any money to a nation that sponsors terrorism around the world.

But here’s where students of Bible prophecy should pay attention. The Bible tells us in the end times that Israel would be scattered and regathered. This has happened, and this really was the sign that set the prophetic clock ticking.

On the heels of the Holocaust, who would have ever thought that these Jewish people who lost six million lives to the Nazis would somehow regather in their homeland, but it happened, against all odds. And on May 14, 1948, Israel became a nation. The United States was the first nation to acknowledge that.

But after Israel was regathered, the Lord said she would come under attack. Specifically in Ezekiel 37 and 38, the Bible speaks of the regathering of Israel, and then it speaks of a large force from her north attacking her. That force is identified as Magog. Who is Magog? Listen, no one can say with absolute certainty.

But many Bible students and prophecy teachers believe it’s modern-day Russia. I think you can make a very good case for that. If you get out a map of the Middle East and look to the north of Israel, you will find Russia. Why would Russia ever want to invade Israel? Well, there’s another thing the Bible says about Magog, if she is indeed Russia, and that one of her allies that will march with her is Persia.

Persia is the ancient name for modern Iran. So the Bible predicted hundreds of years ago that this large force from the north of Israel would attack her after she was regathered, and one of the allies that would attack Israel with Russia or Magog, whoever it is, would be Iran or Persia.

Not once in the past 2,500 years has Russia formed a military alliance with Persia, Iran, but they have recently developed a special connection. Russia has signed billion dollar deals to sell missiles to Iran, and the Iranians have helped the Russians, providing them with drones, weaponized drones to use in the Ukraine war.

Bible Prophecy Before Our Very Eyes​

How do you even stop something like this? Let’s just say, for the sake of a point, that Israel decided to strike out at Iran, specifically, because they’re funding all of this.

What would that produce? Well, it could produce a conflict we read about in Ezekiel 38. The Bible says that Magog will come against her will; the Bible describes hooks in her jaws, pulling her forward almost as though Magog is coming in reluctantly along with her ally, Persia (or Iran).

Am I saying with absolutely certainty this is the scenario that will play out? No. But if you get up in the morning and read this headline, “Russia Attacks Israel,” fasten your seatbelt because you’re seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled in your lifetime before your very eyes.

What should we be doing right now?
Jesus said, “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28 NKJV). That’s what we need to be doing, looking for the soon return of Jesus Christ.

But we also need to pray. The Bible tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6). We want to pray that they arrive at some kind of peace. We want to pray that this horrific terrorism stops, and that they’re able to get their hostages back. And we want to pray that God places His hand of protection on the nation of Israel during this unprecedented war.

Source: I can't find it now but it was a video 4 days ago from Greg Laurie and this is the transcript from it
 
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Lara said:
It is almost 50 years to the day the last time Israel was officially at war in what is known as the Yom Kippur War back in 1973 when she was attacked by Egypt. Syria, and others. But this is a different kind of war.

Thousands of rockets rained on Israel from multiple directions, and Hamas gunmen invaded by land, sea and sky. Now, hundreds of people have been murdered and kidnapped, and they were using what we might describe as Isis-like methods: targeting young women and young children, launching massive indiscriminate rocket fire towards civilian population centers, as well as terrorist infiltration of cities and settlements close to the Gaza border.

They went literally home to home, door to door, looking for the young and for the elderly. They’ve taken hostages. Old women, little children, young women—they specifically targeted civilians in this attack. Some of the women they took as hostages were survivors of the Holocaust. To date, and this number tragically will only get larger, there are 1,300 dead and 2,000 wounded. This attack is simply without precedent, causing Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, to say, “We are at war.”

Israel’s Enemies​

Who is Hamas? They’re a terrorist organization funded by Iran. That’s not a secret.

A spokesman for Iran, Gahzi Hamad, told the BBC that terrorist group had received funding for the attack, according to the Wall Street Journal.

And Iran has for a long time stated that their objective is to destroy Israel. They have also signaled that they are developing a nuclear weapon. In the past they have threatened to, in their own words, wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.

One leader of Iran said, “They ask, ‘Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism?’ But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are altogether attainable, and surely can be achieved. The regime that is occupying Jerusalem must be wiped off the map.”1

Interesting how it always comes back to Jerusalem. The Bible predicted, thousands of years ago, that the end time events would revolve around Jerusalem. Not San Francisco. Not Los Angeles. Not Moscow. Not Paris.

But Jerusalem, this tiny little city, in this tiny sliver of land, will play a key role in the events of the last days. It’s the focal point of end times events. It’s amazing when you think about it, because in Zechariah 12:3–4 God says, “I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves” (NLT).

Pay Careful Attention​

Now, the irony of all this is that the United States of America through the Biden administration just gave six billion dollars to Iran. What a bad move it is to give any money to a nation that sponsors terrorism around the world.

But here’s where students of Bible prophecy should pay attention. The Bible tells us in the end times that Israel would be scattered and regathered. This has happened, and this really was the sign that set the prophetic clock ticking.

On the heels of the Holocaust, who would have ever thought that these Jewish people who lost six million lives to the Nazis would somehow regather in their homeland, but it happened, against all odds. And on May 14, 1948, Israel became a nation. The United States was the first nation to acknowledge that.

But after Israel was regathered, the Lord said she would come under attack. Specifically in Ezekiel 37 and 38, the Bible speaks of the regathering of Israel, and then it speaks of a large force from her north attacking her. That force is identified as Magog. Who is Magog? Listen, no one can say with absolute certainty.

But many Bible students and prophecy teachers believe it’s modern-day Russia. I think you can make a very good case for that. If you get out a map of the Middle East and look to the north of Israel, you will find Russia. Why would Russia ever want to invade Israel? Well, there’s another thing the Bible says about Magog, if she is indeed Russia, and that one of her allies that will march with her is Persia.

Persia is the ancient name for modern Iran. So the Bible predicted hundreds of years ago that this large force from the north of Israel would attack her after she was regathered, and one of the allies that would attack Israel with Russia or Magog, whoever it is, would be Iran or Persia.

Not once in the past 2,500 years has Russia formed a military alliance with Persia, Iran, but they have recently developed a special connection. Russia has signed billion dollar deals to sell missiles to Iran, and the Iranians have helped the Russians, providing them with drones, weaponized drones to use in the Ukraine war.

Bible Prophecy Before Our Very Eyes​

How do you even stop something like this? Let’s just say, for the sake of a point, that Israel decided to strike out at Iran, specifically, because they’re funding all of this.

What would that produce? Well, it could produce a conflict we read about in Ezekiel 38. The Bible says that Magog will come against her will; the Bible describes hooks in her jaws, pulling her forward almost as though Magog is coming in reluctantly along with her ally, Persia (or Iran).

Am I saying with absolutely certainty this is the scenario that will play out? No. But if you get up in the morning and read this headline, “Russia Attacks Israel,” fasten your seatbelt because you’re seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled in your lifetime before your very eyes.

What should we be doing right now?
Jesus said, “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28 NKJV). That’s what we need to be doing, looking for the soon return of Jesus Christ.

But we also need to pray. The Bible tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6). We want to pray that they arrive at some kind of peace. We want to pray that this horrific terrorism stops, and that they’re able to get their hostages back. And we want to pray that God places His hand of protection on the nation of Israel during this unprecedented war.

Source: I can't find it now but it was a video 4 days ago from Greg Laurie and this is the transcript from it
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@Lara, thanks for this interpretation of these events.
 
Myrtle said:
I know people are worried about what will happen to Palestinians on a humanitarian level. Would you like to see them brought to the United States as refugees? Why or why not?
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It depends on whether they support Hamas or have been oppressed by them. Hamas supporters were greatly in the minority in Gaza before Oct 7, due to exploitation of international aid resources etc but I don't know how much collateral damage in Israel's effort to eliminate Hamas will flip that.

One thing I do feel strongly about is that people illegally in countries who take to the streets in support of the terror attacks should be taken straight to the nearest airport with a one way ticket back to their country of origin.
 
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Myrtle said:
An issue has arisen about the United States and Palestinian refugees.

It centers around a disagreement between those who think the United States should accept Palestinian refugees and those who don’t. Obviously it is a political disagreement as well as a concern for the American people so I will not be posting any links to either side.

I know people are worried about what will happen to Palestinians on a humanitarian level. Would you like to see them brought to the United States as refugees? Why or why not?

If talking about this is not ok with @Matrix I have no objection to my post being removed.
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We can send humanitarian aide over to the middle east to help those who need it when the other neighboring nations doing their part to help & set up areas for the displaced to live until they can go back to their homes. From what I have gathered from other posts, the other nations don't want them in their countries because of the political unrest they have caused in the past in Egypt, Jordan & etc.

I haven't ever had problems helping people who need help. I want to be clear about that. But not everyone has to come here to get that help.

I'm not willing to put this country in any more danger by allowing more people in who are unable to be properly vetted just to be turned loose. How many from terrorist countries, known as Special Interest Aliens, have come across the border & weren't caught who intend to do us harm? No one knows that number. And that worries me. We have no idea who & where they are.

I don't want to wake up one morning & see on the news there were terrorist attacks in various cities & states like what happened in Israel. What happened on 9-11 should have been a wake up call never to be forgotten by us.

We are a melting pot, but that is because people have assimilated & obeyed the laws of this nation who came here. I find it sad that we have a group of people coming here to live refusing to assimilate into our culture & be Americans like many others have before them. They are basically setting up a "sub-nation" of their home country with their own values, rules & laws with U.S. laws be damned.

Assimilation isn't just for the U.S. It's for any other country they choose to go & live in.
 
RadishRose said:
Just in case there is any confusion, may I say many Palestinians are not members of, nor support Hamas.

I have seen the title "Palestinian" lumped together in the same sentence as known terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, etc. This is so incorrect and causes hate in the minds of anti-terrorists where none belongs.
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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, formed in 1981, has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, and many other countries. A 2015 poll by the Washington Institute for Near East policy found 84% of Palestinians in Gaza favored the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and 57% liked Hezbollah. The Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas to be their government. I don’t see how agencies could report on this information without linking Palestinian and terrorists in the same sentence.

Hate is an overworked word these days often used incorrectly. Hate is an internal emotion known only to an individual and it can’t be assigned by others. Organizations and individuals who report on research don’t necessarily hate their research subjects and may not feel any emotion about them at all.
 
Been announced the U.S. President will visit Israel on Wednesday, as well as perhaps subsequently visiting a couple of other countries.
Don't think a ground campaign will begin in Gaza before then, but who knows.
 
seadoug said:
I was hoping to hear your thoughts on this situation @OneEyedDiva. Thank you for sharing them.
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And thank you for letting me know that❣️
@Don M. You said "The US support for Israel may increase the odds of terrorists sneaking across our borders and committing their acts in some of our cities." I fear that will start happening. It seems inevitable and cities are on alert for it, especially places like NYC and the capitol.
They are sending extra security to synagogues but they also need to do the same for mosques. People will be retaliating against Muslims too.

I read that a woman and her 6 year old son were stabbed to death by her landlord. The police are labeling it a hate crime because the little boy was Muslim. The report didn't say if they had hard evidence of that or were speculating. After 9/11, someone tried to stab my husband when he was delivering an order to one of his customers in an apartment building. He had on the scarf often worn by Muslim men (but he didn't wear it on his head). My husband was often mistaken for races & nationalities other than African American. The man thought he was an Arab, cursed him and lunged at him with the knife. My husband, who was a very calm, reasonable man in tough situations, was able to defuse the situation.
 
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CENTCOM chief arrives in Israel to meet with Halevi, Gallant and other officials

The head of the United States Central Command has landed in Israel to meet with Israeli defense officials amid the ongoing war against Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip and as tensions heat up on the Lebanon border.

In a statement, CENTCOM says Gen. Michael Kurilla will meet with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and others, to “gain a clear understanding of Israel’s defense requirements, outline US support efforts to avoid expansion of the conflict, and reiterate the Department of Defense’s ironclad support for Israel.”

“I’m here to ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself, and am particularly focused on avoiding other parties expanding the conflict,” Kurilla says in remarks provided by CENTCOM.
 
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