"Lasting peace will require Israel to abandon the logic of permanent regional war".

That piece of anti-Israel bigotry saves serious people from wading through another load of rubbish.

"That piece of anti-Israel bigotry saves serious people from wading through another load of rubbish."
- That comment shows your neither serious or intelligent, just biased.

Fairly bland article, not much to see here.
A few minor errors in it.

The issue is plain and simple, don't over complicate matters.
Have the nations surrounding Israel declared their intent to eliminate it, or not? If the answer is "yes" than obviously Israel is justified in any effort to counter such a threat. If not, then criticism of Israel may be valid. But first provide the evidence. My view is that the evidence is clear. Phenomenal shifts are needed, but not by Israel.

Maybe Israel (and ttbn too) need to learn the old rule
'If you always do as you've always done, then you'll always get what you always got'.

I saw this tweet yesterday about a father who had his pregnant wife and 8 family members killed in and airstrike. He picked up his 8 year old daughters head.
http://x.com/MaucourantNada/status/2042017513727259123

These Israeli's are lunatics, they support killing kids arguing they become terrorists and justify killing babies as well as ones still in the womb.
http://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/2041113038279831729
They throw puppies and kittens into bonfires.
http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/volunteers-patrol-lag-baomer-bonfires-to-rescue-animals-from-flames-490742

Isn't it funny how Jews have been historically kicked out of 109 countries 1030 times?
If they keep acting this way another Hitler might rise to 'mow their grass' again, as they've been doing to others for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass

In my opinion, if they wish to live by the sword in hatred and vengeance, then they're signing their own demise.
They are a deeply troubled nation and people and a danger to the lives of others.

I shall no doubt be pilloried and accused of being a bigoted racist but the world would be a much safer place without trump and his terrorist state mates in israel.
The problem of course is that someone else would rapidly replace them.

Good article, the Zionist lobby realises Trump is a weak leader, who can be easily manipulated and led by the nose. Nothing new as America has a history of weak leadership, look at the lineup post war.

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
George H.W. Bush (1989–1993)
Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
George W. Bush (2001–2009)
Barack Obama (2009–2017)
Donald Trump (2017–2021)
Joe Biden (2021–2025)
Donald Trump (2025-present)

A sorry collection of nincompoops!

Is it anti-semitic to post the truth or have an opinion?

http://x.com/Alee93ale/status/2042283132326494330
Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission.
He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank.

The message from the anti-Israel, antisemitic morons, is that Israel is the only country in the world not allowed to defend itself.

When Palestinians enjoy a right to defend themselves ttbn, then I'll consider your arguments merits, but not before.

You can't argue a 'right to defend oneself' without acknowledging the other sides equal right to defend their selves.

Your argument fails before you typed it because it's not a principle you live by, just one that's convenient for the present argument.

Israel aren't defending themselves anyway.

They refuse negotiations with anyone (usually kill them instead) in a zero sum game because their real aims are to expel the Palestinians entirely.
Their policies of ethnic cleansing are supported by the government and military, and use lobbying to stifle dissent in other countries by making foreig governments attack their own citizens.
They do a lot of other horrible things too, like rape, torture, killing journalists and medical professionals, and then they label anyone who criticises them terrorists or anti-semites and they try to attack and destroy them, like Grace Tame.

Grace Tame says career destroyed after rally chant
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/insight/grace-tame-says-career-destroyed-after-rally-chant/gm-GM2D8A6266?gemSnapshotKey=GM2D8A6266-snapshot-27&uxmode=ruby

Why?
- Little more than daring to say that what Israel does to the Palestinians is wrong, and that it should stop.

What else was she going to do, seriously?
Pull out a semi-automatic rifle and start popping off Jews like the idiots in Bondi?
As if. The girls harmless.

How dare an Aussie girl have her own opinion.
Not like our great pollies, who stand there and pee their pants if asked what a woman is? Or if someone mentions Israel.

You know where America's endless wars came from?
Same place Israel and Jews endless battle against the world came from, i.e. Same place that went after Grace Tame like they need a constant flow of people to vilify, shame and scare everyone else with.

I'm sure you'd had Grace locked up right.
If it were up to you ttbn there'd be a Star of David on the national flag.

Out of curiosity where do you stand on this issue?
Which ones are the anti-semites?

Israeli attack on Tehran synagogue proves 'complete hatred' for Iran's Jews: Jewish MP
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/07/766469/israeli-strike-tehran-synagogue-proves-hatred-iran-jews-mpcomplete-

If Israel engage in cross border attacks they're 'defending themselves'
If the other side do it (to defend crimes against Palestinians or respond to attacks made against them) 'then they're terrorists'

Israel never ever ever do anything wrong.
they are the chosen people.

So basically you claim every right to punch someone in the face
But if they punch back you're like 'Just wait, stop, how dare you hit me?'

This is ttbn's argument.
'They should just shuttup! while being exterminated'

http://x.com/WarFrontIntel/status/2038186189308690626
“Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we’re being killed?” — Yahya Sinwar

ttbn certainly does, and many others too.

"The problem of course is that someone else would rapidly replace them."

Oh God no.

Well have Prime Minister Ben G'vir wearing his hangmans noose lapel pin and pledging death on everyone, before giving us all a good finger wagging about our nations rabid anti-semitism.

Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mks-sport-noose-shaped-pins-to-hearing-on-controversial-death-penalty-bill/

Look they're all wearing them.

Israeli Far Right Minister Ben-Gvir celebrates new Palestinian 'DEATH PENALTY LAW' with Champagne
http://youtu.be/DAdutPiNOZo

Streuth... Might as well get them to put on Nazi SS officers hats with the skull and crossbones insignia (totenkopf) as well.

(Not saying that to be mean or anything)

Armchair Critic should seek help before he is taken away. He is driving himself even madder, constantly referring to loony left videos, one of which has someone saying something in Hebrew. It's doubtful that he understands Hebrew, but he takes the word of an anonymous person who claims to understand what the Jewish person said.

.He makes the absurd claim that Gazans don't have the right to defend ‘their selves’ (sic). They do. They have. And they have forced Israel into defending itself from them by committing an act of terror against Israeli citizens.

. He waffles on about my ‘argument’. Who was I arguing with? I just expressed an opinion I believe and he doesn't. I don't give a toss what he thinks about my opinions.

. He says ‘Israel aren't defending themselves anyway’, when they have been defending themselves against his terrorist friends since 1947.

. He says, “In my opinion, if they (Jews) wish to live by the sword in hatred and vengeance, then they're signing their own demise.They are a deeply troubled nation and people and a danger to the lives of others”. That's a strange way to describe a country and people protecting themselves from Islamic atrocities for decades.

. He asks “Is it anti-semitic to post the truth or have an opinion”? Well, yes it is if you are antisemitic, as he is, and doesn't tell the truth, as he doesn't. And if you refer to the same video of a man speaking in a language you don't understand.

. He brings up the abominable antisemitic hate speaker Grace Tame who called for the wiping out of Israel. Tame is a disgrace, who has lost her paid speaking gigs, and has now had sponsorship for her charity withdrawn. It’s $108, 000 in debt. Only an Armchair Critic would support such a person.

On and on the raving goes. Armchair Critic is either a vile human being, or he is emotionally very damaged.

Bravo AC!

And bravo to gutsy young women like Grace Tame and Greta Thunberg who speak up against injustice no matter the personal cost!

Around 2000 brave activists from all around the world are preparing to embark on yet another aid flotilla to Gaza. Just watch the depraved depths Israel will stoop to in order to prevent these plucky volunteers and their cargo of aid from reaching starving Palestinians.

You're correct, AC, Israel is the aggressor and always has been. From the moment this ethno-apartheid state was arbitrarily imposed on land belonging to others, it has employed violence against its neighbours to satisfy its insatiable greed for more and more land and control. It's waged genocide on Gaza for eight decades and is now using the same playbook in Lebanon.

Israel subjects around 10000 Palestinian prisoners to starvation, torture and degrading sexual assault involving dogs, bottles and other horrors. And now they've finally passed the law they've long wanted. They can hang them at will ... Israeli justice at its finest!

Under its Hannibal Directive, Israel kills its own, rather than have them taken prisoner. No-one will ever know the exact numbers, but it's estimated that as many as half of the 1200 lives lost on October 7 were mown down by Israeli helicopters.

Then there's the 'double-tap' ... where the Israelis drop a bomb and when the brave Palestinians come to the rescue, as they always do, Israel drops another bomb and kills them too.

The Lebanese are reporting that Israeli drones are broadcasting the message 'Help, I’m injured' in an attempt to lure them out of hiding. There were numerous earlier accounts from Gazans of drones broadcasting the cries of babies and children in a similar attempt to lure people into the open.

No tactic is too evil for Israel to employ in its decades-long goal to erase Palestinians from their lands and usurp them for themselves. The whole world is becoming increasingly aware of Israel's depravity. And no amount of Zionist censorship will ever be enough to silence the growing number of voices speaking up.

Armchair Critic is not the only Jew-hating nutter. To have obnoxious opinions and hatreds is one thing: to completely reverse the facts is something else.

Even in war sensible human principles apply.
The wanton destruction by Israel of civilians in adjoining countries is totally outrageous.
As I understand it, the pain and suffering is extreme.
These people are not 'collateral damage'.
They are a target,
Apparently there are many in Israel who decry the action of their government.
This gives me hope that there could be brighter times ahead.
Mr Netanyahu seems to have the idea that if you smash a country to bits, that will lead to lasting peace.
I think wiser heads than mine should explain to him how wrong he is.

Perhaps the resident Jew haters here might like to comment on Iran's education system?

https://youtu.be/wwnM_SAoB7o?si=wg1KiWwnNfdcPJ-N

Another one of them comes up with the myth of “wanton destruction of civilians”, when Israel continually warned civilians before all military actions took place, ensuring that fewer civilians were killed in warfare by an enemy than ever have been in similar situations. One day, the number of Gazan civilians killed by their own people might be revealed; but killed by their own they were, if not as human shields, then via straightforward murder.

No mention of the Israeli innocent civilians slaughtered on October 7, 2023 - of course! Or the treatment of Israeli citizens captured and kept underground - of course!

“Apparently there are many in Israel who decry the action of their government”, he chirps.

Obviously to those of us who lift our gaze above our own navels, there are leftist traitors who hate their own country and people in Israel, just as there are in all Western democratic countries these days, including Australia, and on this very site; spreading idiocies they would be disposed of for in the countries they are siding with; twisting the truth and facts to suit their extreme, antisemitic ideology.

Oh, and a bit more about the children of the regime's elite living it up in western countries, including Australia. I wonder if Burka will be revoking any visas?

https://youtu.be/64buwVJ4hkE?si=j2k-7CiaXBP2CXQZ

Hi Fester,
I'm pretty sure that 'Soleimani relatives story' was debunked.
http://x.com/CultureNot4Sale/status/2041212595617796177

ttbn thinks it started on October 7.
His knowledge is comparable to a goldfish.

http://x.com/_fil_rouge/status/2043013354218803313

let's just for a moment think that there are no more Israelis in the Middle East, who would the Palestinians turn their inbred anger & hatred to ?

Hmm...

You can't lock these people in a cage, kidnap, rape and torture them to death in Isreali prisons without charge or due process and not expect a little pushback.
You can't kill peoples kids or send them back maimed, and then say 'They're such uncivilised animals', when they (as a people) seek vengeance for crimes against them.
Or just shooting and bombing them every now and again.

Imagine living that for generations, like it's all you ever know.
A foot on your throat and on all those you ever loved too.

And then there's cause and effect.
If you deny them justice, then you're effectively manufacturing terrorists.

Why do you think I say that?
That Israel manufactures terrorists
That Israel manufactures anti-semites
- but I digress...

What would Palestinians do if Israelis were gone?
Well never know unless they their own state, their own dignity and a future of their own to decide.
Without that, conflict is guaranteed, and I'm not entirely sure its valid to always use it against the palestinians whenever they express it.
As a people under occupation they have an inherent right to fight their oppressors if they choose.

Israeli's aren't interested in a 2 state solution,
they're more keen on, well, more of a final solution.