Clip-On Fedora posted:

Trying to revive her dead career with this I see

Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

I've always wondered why soft-handed soft-brained Americans really like Israel without even being Jewish or religious.

Brogeoisie posted:

I hate posting these guys but haven't seen anywhere else:

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1716120096760832253?t=bm9Fj6vrcrGZ7S0sGtEFyA&s=19

mila kunis posted:

alternate option: continue doing what they're doing now, starvation and bombardment.

Death By The Blues posted:

One of those Zionist soldiers breaching Gaza was killed

https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1716143495600038048

smarxist posted:

Death By The Blues posted:

Now the US is telling their citizens not to go to Iraq

Mister Speaker posted:

https://twitter.com/XjusticeXpeace/status/1715863837331632134

https://twitter.com/XjusticeXpeace/status/1715823929091096863

Asproigerosis posted:

The radical left can't keep getting away with these lockdowns! Freedom from medical tyranny!

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

they would if they saw your posts

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1715619942769336475

🇲🇻 ❤️

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Talk about a timely headline, Israel is adding even more settlements to their evacuation plans because of the pressure from Hezbollah. We'll have to see what the Israeli internal displacement numbers look like.

https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1715973856941232559?s=20

Mister Speaker posted:

https://twitter.com/XjusticeXpeace/status/1715863837331632134

https://twitter.com/XjusticeXpeace/status/1715823929091096863

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1715974422409134426?s=20

smarxist posted:

huge good vibes demonstration in Philly last night
https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1715874770762256797

Pomeroy posted:

https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1715835917402013700

Having been there, I think the estimate on crowd size is over-optimistic, my party is guessing it was fifteen thousand, but this was still incredible, and again no counter-demonstrators dared show up.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Omer Balva, a 22-year-old Rockville native, was back from his home in Israel. Then, during his U.S. vacation earlier this month, Hamas stormed southern Israel, kidnapping hundreds and killing more than 1,000. Balva’s reserve infantry unit in the Israel Defense Forces quickly recalled him.

But before his return, he wanted to gather supplies he knew that soldiers in his unit might need. So he and his friend Ethan Missner, who has known Balva since they were 7-year-old students at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, went shopping. They bought knee pads, elbow pads, earmuffs and other supplies for the 9203rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade, Missner recalled. The two spent Balva’s last night stateside at Missner’s parents’ home in Potomac stuffing a duffel bag full of gear.

A week later, Balva was dead. The Israeli American was killed Friday by an antitank missile fired from Lebanon by the militant group Hezbollah while his unit served on that country’s border with Israel, the IDF confirmed.

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“He was such a loving person,” said Missner, 23. “He brought a lot of light to the world.”

Balva, who grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington with three siblings, was among the 360,000 reservists that the Israeli military called up to battle Hamas. After finishing high school, in 2019, Balva had moved to Israel with his parents, enlisted and enrolled in Reichman University, Missner said.

The pair remained in contact after Balva was deployed to the Israeli border.

“He said that he could hear bombs dropping at night and it was tough for him to sleep,” Missner said. “But on par with who Omer is, if anything he was more concerned with how his family was feeling, his girlfriend, me. He didn’t want people to feel sad for him.”

On Israel’s northern border, Hezbollah missiles fly and civilians flee

The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School community — including alumni, students, faculty and staff — is “completely devastated and heartbroken” to learn of Balva’s death, said Rabbi Mitchel Malkus, head of the school, in an emailed statement.

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“Omer was a beloved student,” Malkus said. “He was an unabashed advocate for the state of Israel. He is a hero to the state of Israel, the Jewish people and the school. We mourn his loss.”

Classmate Emma Hoch, 23, remembers Balva as “vibrant,” the kind of person who lit up any room he entered. After learning of his death through a family friend, Hoch said she re-watched a series of videos Balva posted on YouTube cataloguing their senior trip to Israel. In one, Balva interviews his classmates as they take in the sights of Jerusalem and drop a few hip-hop rhymes along the way.

“Omer had a very contagious laugh and just was filled with love,” said Hoch, a resident of Gaithersburg. “This is just absolutely gut-wrenching.”

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Hoch said Balva was proud of his Israeli roots, which he detailed in a class presentation on his family that still lives online. In it, Balva shared that his father’s family had resided in the Israeli city of Tiberias since the 1400s and his grandmother had survived the many wars that ensued in Israel. Balva said his father, Eyal Balva, migrated to the United States in 1996 to join his brothers and start his own business. Balva said he planned to raise his children in Israel and had a “passion” to protect the land.

When Balva enlisted at 18, he wrote Missner a letter to remind him of all they had shared as children and all they had to look forward to as men — marriage, kids, a lifetime of memories.

“He wrote that when he’s having a tough time, he imagines us at 24, 25 with our families on vacation, just being together. ... That’s the one thought that always put a smile on his face, because he wanted to start a family young,” Missner said.

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Balva’s family could not be immediately reached for comment. His father is the chief executive of Floranation, a company based in Landover, Md., that imports flowers, and Eyal Balva splits his time between the United States and Israel, Missner said.

The Israeli army has been positioning military forces along the border with Lebanon, some 115 miles from Gaza, amid an exchange of fire from both sides. That is where Balva’s unit was stationed.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Someone earlier brought up the unsustainable divide in Israel between the religious right who lusts for war and secular, liberal center who has to fight those wars. I really cannot describe how severe this gulf is, it is everywhere.

If you haven't been paying attention to Israeli politics, before this invasion the entire country has been gripped by riots and demonstrations against netenyahu. Liberals have been taking to the streets marching against the ultra conservative likud party and its death grip on the government. State riot police were dispatched to quell those marches with tear gas and batons. King Bibi (as netenyahu is called by the liberals there) is under a dozen different corruption charges that his office grants immunity from. If he is removed, there is a real chance of consequences for him. But the structure and political makeup of the Isreali government is such that removal is near impossible, and Bibi was pushing through judicial revforms to further solidify his grip on power. And thus you have the marches.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/22/1189627225/israel-protests-netanyahu-judiciary

The "netenyahu is responsible for this catastrophe" is a liberal political line being towed by the white-collar, professional, secular Jewish population.

The center cannot hold. You cannot have a bunch of religious psychopaths demanding war but also never having to serve in that war. If there is a single core ideological pillar upon which liberalism rests it is "I don't want to suffer" and invading gaza is truly the Samson to that pillar.

Although I do not know the internal workings of how a military functions, my guess is that the hesitation to launch the invasion has a lot to do with the hesitation of the liberal soldiers to fight for a regime they do not support.

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Yeah, they aren’t going in. Starvibg the population is easier and requires less infantry in urban combat.

webcams for christ posted:

note their photo, vs this coverage

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1716110189818937565

lumpentroll posted:

does she still do standup

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://twitter.com/postlocal/status/1716048403921035314?s=46&t=544D7BCL514JRAITAeWmvw

should have stayed home idiot

Centrist Committee posted:

it’s not clear to me what’s happening here, is hezbollah sending fighters into israel like hamas, or is this just rocket attacks, or?

smarxist posted:

huge good vibes demonstration in Philly last night
https://twitter.com/prismxp/status/1715874770762256797

Pobrecito posted:

lol my reddit account of like 4+ years got suspended for "suspicious activity" and the only thing it's done recently was make pro-palestinian comments in a few subs and their process for recovering it wont work for me. huh weird

DrPossum posted:

reddit is bad

Al-Saqr posted:

From what I read online the Israeli patrol only made it like five meters into Gaza before getting blown up lol.

Pobrecito posted:

lol my reddit account of like 4+ years got suspended for "suspicious activity" and the only thing it's done recently was make pro-palestinian comments in a few subs and their process for recovering it wont work for me. huh weird

The Voice of Labor posted:

can't bulldoze rubble or lay foundations or erect buildings using air strikes. can't even lay down barbed wire and set up sniper towers to turn north gaza into a dmz using air strikes.

capital demands that its zionist lackeys put their boots on the ground and bleed for it

Gripweed posted:

Lol who bought an ad for this thread?

Al-Saqr posted:

From what I read online the Israeli patrol only made it like five meters into Gaza before getting blown up lol.

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/CaptCoronado/status/1715927056779751571

take this with a giant grain of salt.

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