You won't hear it in the MSM, but back in November, it was reported by Israeli spokesman Lt.Col. Jonathan Conricus that 11 of 12 Hamas 'battalions' had been put out of action.

And, a final word to the sadsack on Downing Street and The Whitehouse reading "this E-Journal"; even if they do, does he really think that anyone of significance would be interested in the wild opinions of of anonymous, amateur windbags like him. And, how about Canberra? Are they hanging on to every word he says as well?

Perhaps they think what he comes up with is "vomit", as he, quite unprovoked, accused me of posting.

Thanks ttbn, you have very adroitly made my case for me.
Alan B.

Dear Ttbn,

«11 of 12 Hamas 'battalions' had been put out of action.»

These are only of the northern-Gaza and Gaza-city brigades.
Altogether, Hamas had 24 battalions (plus air-force, navy and other special units).

By now all 12 are out of action and no organised Hamas forces are left in northern Gaza and Gaza city, but still sporadic militants emerge from time to time out of tunnels to ambush IDF soldiers.

For best up to date information, go directly to http://www.idf.il/en

maniac?

These kinds of words are reserved for people that assassinate innocent women and kids for no reason at all, people that would deliberately withhold medicine while kids have to endure amputations without anesthetic, and people that would steal organs for resale from the Palestinians it murders.

(Israel also needs things like food, water and medicine to have any leverage over the Palestinians to use them as informants for intelligence gathering)

You can support that and call others names when they disagree
I can't control what you do, but I can stand against things that are wrong, and not let people like yourselves get a free pass to condone things that should never be condoned.

I'm the maniac because I support diplomacy, negotiations, and compromise over conflict.
And you are a great moral and upstanding citizen ttbn, because you support murdering women and kids.

Israel has found itself in a big pile of crap of it's own making.
And somehow this is my fault?

I see all these murderous arrogant Israelis,
I'd like to see the smiles slapped off their faces.
Israel will forever be stained with 'genocidal intent'
- Reap what you sow, stupid terrorist nation.

>>11 of 12 Hamas 'battalions'<<
That last battalion must be doing a good job. Lol
I'm calling bs, the Israeli military are useless without US planes and munitions.

Palestinian non-combatants might be fish in a barrel for Israeli bombs and missiles
But the IDF ground troops in Gaza are fish in a barrel for Hamas
http://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1746220315208806456
http://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1746243299801715153
http://twitter.com/Ahmaedson/status/1746244743225291105

I said on October 7 that Hamas were trying to lure IDF in there to fight them face to face, instead of with bombs and remote controlled machine guns.
The Israeli military is getting smashed and many Israelis are leaving for more safer countries.

Good Job Israel.
You sent your own people to die and your government to the ICJ.
October 7 was a response to your own oppression, and the incompetence of military leaders who send more poorly trained reservists to die.
How bloody stupid can you be?

Yuyutsu,

Thanks for that. I was advised that the site wasn't “safe”. But I have noticed that little message quite a few times on sites that certain people or entities don't approve of because it doesn't suit their politics. It just makes me more determined to look.

AC

It's one easily understood word, not “these kinds of words”; and, it is my belief that maniacal is a good description of your worsening behaviour and comments about Israeli and Israelis, while you are completely uncaring about the horrible things done by Hamas - plus some ordinary Gazans - to Israel citizens; the vile actions that caused the Israeli response to your terrorist friends.

It is not up to Israel to succour its enemy in any way; just as in WW2, Germany and the British weren't responsible for the collateral damage they both caused to each other's civilians during mutual bombing raids. You clearly have no idea what war is.

You are not standing “against things that are wrong, (nor letting) “people like yourselves get a free pass …”. You are doing nothing but mouthing off and showing yourself up as a bigoted ignoramus. You have no more control over me or anyone else than we have over your ravings. You are not going to crush others with your hate.

You “support” diplomacy and other things that your terrorists DO NOT. They just want to kill Jews. Your “support” is worth nothing.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion - even when they are not personally involved, as none of us here are. But your maniacal behaviour and hatred on this subject takes the prize as the most horrible ever seen on OLO since its inception.

Dear Ttbn,

«I was advised that the site wasn't “safe”. But I have noticed that little message quite a few times on sites that certain people or entities don't approve of because it doesn't suit their politics.»

I suppose the IDF website is one that many hackers would prize, especially Iranians.

If they succeed in hacking DNS servers, that could cause innocent users to reach their own website instead. However, HTTPS certificates can usually prevent it, which is probably what you experienced when your browser protected you.

The IDF website itself is heavily protected and cannot be reached directly via an IP address (to bypass all DNS servers), but you can still protect yourself from DNS hacking by adding the following line to your "etc/hosts" file:

45.60.110.27 www.idf.il

On Linux the file is "/etc/hosts".
On Windows it is "c:\\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts" (it can be opened with Notepad).