Dear Foxy,

A survey from 3 days ago shows that if elections were held today in Israel,
Netanyahu's Likud party would drop from 32 to 17 seats (of 120).

Of his coalition partners, the Ultra-Orthodox parties will drop from 18 to 17 seats, and the Nazi party will split and in total drop from 14 to 11 seats.

A new center-left coalition is clearly expected to take over, headed by Benny Gantz of the centrist "National Unity" party.

58% of responders wanted a new election to occur straight after the war.

Regarding what to do with Gaza after the war:
32% said that Israel should stay and settle there permanently.
30% said that Gaza should be placed under an international trust.
14% said that Israel should retain military control, but not interfere in civil affairs.
10% said that Gaza should be placed under the West-Bank's Palestinian Authority.
14% had no opinion.

With quotes like this" Every time anyone says that Israel is our only
friend in the Middle East - I can't help but think
that before Israel we had no enemies in the Middle
East." (John Sheehan. S.J. - Jesuit Priest)."

She is unaware of Iran, Afghanistan whom she thinks are our friends. God help us from this ignorance.

Yuyutsu,

Thank you for the information.
I appreciate your being constructive
in your commentary.

Post-truth mhaze,

Which video? The one I already gave to you.

"Also it now turns out that many of those bodies which were supposedly 'set alight' according to you and others, were actually Hamas militants who had been killed by Israeli Hellfire Missiles which consumed both Israeli and Palestinian alike.
http://youtu.be/r2Kn-r0UsSE?si=0RmN3BzNFtxt7BDr&t=397"

And please don't keep repeating links to accounts which have been confirmed to have been exaggerated.

The Israeli 'first responder' who keeps popping up on Fox News feeds has been changing his story repeatedly. Mainstream media have been backing down from earlier claims over the period as well.

"CNN anchor Sara Sidner apologized on X for repeating the claim after hearing it from Israeli officials who then retracted the story of the beheadings. She wrote: "Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister's office said that it had confirmed Hamas beheaded babies & children while we were live on the air. The Israeli government now says today it CANNOT confirm babies were beheaded. I needed to be more careful with my words and I am sorry.""
http://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/12/40-israeli-babies-beheaded-by-hamas/

While I have no doubt the number may climb there has only been a single infant whose name has been released among the 1077 identified.

This is hardly 40 babies in a single Kibbutz.

I know they no longer matter to you but facts do matter for the rest of us. Do try and stick to them.

Arab forces were not protested against ISIS.

http://www.instagram.com/reel/Czoq57eoiSv/?fbclid=IwAR3aK7TVPhQVcRVSN9BO_zOYsav97M2-OBMqeD_6f7JGAyD0xEe-1HiWD-k

There is so much drivel coming from the extreme Left posters, and plenty of pointless argument from the non-Left, that I've stopped reading most of the rubbish, and might have missed this bit of information if it has appeared before. But, it seems that Article 19 of the Geneva Convention explicitly states that hospitals lose their protection if they are used for military purposes - as Hamas is doing.