So terribly true, Paul.

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Dear Critic,

«I hope the Houthi's keep blowing up Israels shipping, as long as Israel keeps slaughtering women and kids.»

Why do you need excuses?

Own up to your pleasures and enjoy the double fun now, because there will be a very sad and bored you once the war in Gaza ends.
(Oh I forgot, there's still Ukraine...)

«Hasn't everyone packed up and left yet?»

Yes - and that is exactly how Netanyahu won the last Israeli elections!
Not a dull moment since, huh?

«I heard and U.S. citizen was bashed to death by settlers recently.»

Americans, bloody Americans, sigh - why do you care about their internal affairs?
They kill each other also in the streets of New York and Chicago
- wouldn't that be fun to watch as well?...

Dear Paul,

Confirming your last post, freshly on Israeli news just out a few minutes ago:

The Israeli Nazi party headed by Ben Gvir as "security minister" and Amihai Eliyahu as "heritage minister", is trying to place Israel's former prime-minister, Ehud Olmert, behind bars for speaking out and saying that the planned "Humanitarian Zone" in Gaza will be in effect a concentration camp.

At the time as prime-minister, Ehud Olmert was offering the occupied people a free Palestinian state on 97% of the West Bank, the whole of Gaza, a long tunnel connecting the two and an equivalent alternate area in place of the missing 3%. They sadly refused.

Israel is going to have the Syrian Sunni Jihadis attack Lebanese Shia and turn Lebanon into Syria (swallow it up and become a greater Syria), you know ISIS with the headloppers and women in cages and as sex slaves etc... but it's all for Israel, so we should be happy.

And the killing the Palestinians every day, is now normalised.
Move along nothing to see here.

Hi Yuyutsu,

Anyone looking objectively at what Israel is doing in Gaze, could not come to any other conclusion that its an organized policy of extermination and genocide of the Palestinian people. The convicted criminal Trump gave ongoing approval for that policy during the war criminal Netanyahu recent visit to Washington. With the hard right in power, and seeking to destroy what is left of democracy in Israel, a civil war there is not out of the question, although the military is firmly backing the far right government at the moment.

Dear Paul,

Israel was already on the verge of a civil war before October 7th, 2023:
Hamas prevented, or at least postponed it, believing that it was the best time to attack while Israel is divided within.
- for some decades, they remain the only glue which keeps Israel together!

But this morning we have good news:

The hard right may not remain in power for long.
About an hour and a half ago, they failed to expel an Arab member of Knesset (parliament) who spoke against the war and the military - they did not receive the necessary 90/120 privileged majority, only 73 against 15 (32 abstaining). So long, no member of the Knesset was ever successfully expelled in Israel's parliamentary history.

If nothing dramatically changes, the Haredi parties are leaving the coalition and government today, leaving it with no majority so fresh elections will be called for soon. They are leaving over Netanyahu's failure to renew the expired law which saved their children from being called up to the army so long as they were studying Torah, saying "We rather die and not be enlisted".

Netanyahu asked and reluctantly received from Trump a one-week extension to delay the Gaza cease-fire talks further until the Knesset goes into recess.

The IDF does not support this or that government, but only obeys orders, often reluctantly. The IDF consists of Israeli conscripts, equally from all walks of life (except the Haredim of which only a handful are enlisted and Muslim-Israelis who are not called for security reasons).
The IDF chief of staff actually made some careful understatements against the government policies: he is not allowed to say more, but he surely does not think like them.

Israel's well-loved president (who like Australia's monarchy holds only symbolic and moral powers, but also the power to pardon criminals) also spoke boldly against the government's policies.
He is still desperately trying his best to unify the people.
I doubt he will succeed.

"Hamas prevented, or at least postponed it, believing that it was the best time to attack while Israel is divided within.
- for some decades, they remain the only glue which keeps Israel together!"

Thanks to, Netanyahu funding Hamas.

Trump calls for end to Netanyahu corruption trial
http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyxg272nlyo

>>US President Donald Trump has called for Israel to "pardon" Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for alleged corruption, or drop the case altogether.
He also claimed in a social media post that the US had saved Israel - alluding to its intervention in Israel's war with Iran - and would now also "save" Netanyahu.<<

Seems like 100 million in Jewish political donations for the US presidency buys a lot.
I think the US taxpaxers spent 100 million just on the Iranian airstrikes.
Should've left it another few weeks and let Iran level the place just like Gaza.