Al-Saqr posted:

from what im seeing the game plan is clear they want to force gazans into sumbission, by (a) dangling aid that comes exclusively from america. and (b) inserting the dog loving goat fuckers of the UAE into the local scene through their 'aid' in order to start brining people and inserting their local puppets like mahmoud dahlan, to undermine hamas and start making a local palestinian collaborationist government that are the sole distributers of aid.

quote:

One senior European official said the aid would be delivered from Cyprus to a platform off Gaza, which the US would establish. The plan was drawn up by the US in co-ordination with the EU, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates and the UN, which would ultimately take over the administration of the aid supplies into Gaza.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

scary ghost dog posted:

ah clever. let israel starve gaza for months and then america becomes the good guy by feeding them. makes sense. hamas and yemen will look like losers when all the remaining palestinian kids are only alive because of an american NGO. this must be a move specifically designed to give discourse ammo to liberal social media people because ti everyone else its gonna look like a kidnapper throwing dog food to his chained up victim

Al! posted:

goe's gamble appears to be that us troops still have a cloak of invincibility around them because americans will not hesitate to just come in and bomb weddings and mosques and hospitals but wait a second

scary ghost dog posted:

ah clever. let israel starve gaza for months and then america becomes the good guy by feeding them. makes sense. hamas and yemen will look like losers when all the remaining palestinian kids are only alive because of an american NGO. this must be a move specifically designed to give discourse ammo to liberal social media people because ti everyone else its gonna look like a kidnapper throwing dog food to his chained up victim

AFancyQuestionMark posted:

does no one here know geography, cyprus isn't in the red sea, there is no way for aid to be blocked there

quote:

A leading United States official in the Aukus programme had to abandon her speech in Wellington today after it was disrupted by pro-Palestinian and anti-Aukus protestors planted among the audience.

Bonnie Jenkins, the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, has been appointed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the senior official to lead the State Department’s work on Aukus implementation. She was met by vocal protestors as she arrived at a lecture theatre behind the Old Government Buildings in Victoria University’s downtown campus.

She was about to begin her speech titled “meeting 21st Century Security Challenges Together” to about 100 people when a member of the audience jumped up and asked members of the audience to bow their heads in a moment’s silence to “think about all the Palestinians who have died from US-funded weapons in the last few months”.

Most people obliged.

He then would not leave the front of the lecture theatre and began talking about genocide and international rights and said Jenkins was not welcome in New Zealand. Despite pleadings from the audience, he would not budge.

Jenkins was taken into an adjoining room by plain-clothes police officers until the protestEr was escorted out by security guards.

Jenkins re-emerged and had just begun her speech when another member of the audience stood up, said a few words in Māori, and said Jenkins was an embarrassment and “had no place in this country”. The protestor unfolded a Palestinian flag.

Jenkins was escorted out again and police officers entered the theatre and took away the protestor.

With Jenkins still absent, Mike Smith, veteran anti-nuclear activist and the former Labour Party general secretary, addressed the audience about a presentation Jenkins had given recently to the Atlantic Council about Aukus.

He said the person who had introduced her at the presentation had advocated that the United States be the first to use a nuclear weapon in any war with China over Taiwan. Smith then left but had to return when security would not let him out of the building.

While the audience continued to wait for Jenkins to return, a member of the International Socialist Organisation of Aotearoa commandeered the university equipment and put on an anti-Aukus video.

Eventually, it was announced the speech would not go ahead, at which point about a dozen protesters in the audience started changing in celebration: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Hatebag posted:

gaza doesn't have ports. they have one small jetty and a fishing harbor made out of rubble. or had anyway, don't know what they have now.
seems like the proposal is for an offshore way station to transfer goods to hovercrafts that can drive up on the beach and unload cargo. which is fundamentally stupid because if that was ok why wouldn't trucks be ok? it's horseshit

Regarde Aduck posted:

they are really scary, especially if you're in one when it sinks

exmarx posted:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/polit...5KBNTDHDO32QX4/

owned

exmarx posted:

owned

ded redd posted:

it's easy to forget aukus is a real thing, "oooh we're the big bad anglos we have submarines and poo poo ooOOOoooOo"

crepeface posted:

funny (sad) aukus poo poo from the WW3 thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3884265&perpage=40&pagenumber=266#post535024496

i didn't quote whole post because the quotes are all broken up so you should click the link and read some of the follow up posts but the funniest thing is that we might be just paying for subs for the americans to use.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/aukus-alliance-weaken-china-deterrence-research-paper-submarine-deal

quote:

But the new paper suggested it might be “more cost-effective to pursue a US-Australian division of labor” under which US submarines would perform both American and Australian missions “while Australia invests in other types of military forces”. It pointed to such arrangements between the US and its Nato allies.

lol if the perfidious yankee is really setting Australia up to not deliver anything after we paid 835 million dollars to france to not get submarines so we could buy submarines from our overlords.

It will be even funnier if we really go through with simply begging the US navy to help us every time we need something submarine related. Love protecting our national sovereignty.

They are also worried the boats might gently caress up and embarrass the USA.

Some good stuff from the report:

why are the defence contractors trying to gouge us please stop

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL32418

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1765922715243073989

Insane country run by a lunatic

crepeface posted:

https://x.com/shen_shiwei/status/1765648699395563714?s=20

https://x.com/greenmoggy/status/1762902391978885591?s=20

i feel like there's groundwork being laid for palestine to finally be accepted as a state in the UN

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1765922715243073989

Insane country run by a lunatic

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1765922715243073989

Insane country run by a lunatic

Vladimir Poutine posted:

Israel being weird with corpses again

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-790816

Israel returns dozens of bodies thought to be hostages to Gaza

Israel transferred on Thursday several dozens of bodies to the Gaza Strip, which were taken from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during an operation conducted by the 98th Division last month.

As the IDF Spokesperson told international media, suspicions arose that within the Nasser hospital were held the bodies of Israel hostages.

The bodies were taken for identification into Israeli territory, and after ascertaining that they were Palestinian and not Israeli – they were returned to the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian reports, the exact number of bodies returned is 47.

argus tuft posted:

Just popping in to say dti

crepeface posted:

https://x.com/shen_shiwei/status/1765648699395563714?s=20

https://x.com/greenmoggy/status/1762902391978885591?s=20

i feel like there's groundwork being laid for palestine to finally be accepted as a state in the UN

Cerebral Bore posted:

first the us will build some ramshackle non-functional port at great expense

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Absolute loving clownshoes operation.

They hosed up an airdrop, the parachutes didnt fully deploy, and they killed 2 and injured several. Not sure which idiot countrys plane it was yet.

This world is too stupid.

euphronius posted:

could the USA just like ask Israel to let aid in

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Absolute loving clownshoes operation.

They hosed up an airdrop, the parachutes didnt fully deploy, and they killed 2 and injured several. Not sure which idiot countrys plane it was yet.

This world is too stupid.

euphronius posted:

could the USA just like ask Israel to let aid in