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Dokapon Findom posted:It is kind of mindblowing how bad of an army the IDF appears to be as far as like, tactics, not getting yourselves blown up, strategies to avoid ambushes and other things that seem important to not getting bogged down in a Vietnam-type stalemate against an asymmetrical force with a superior lay of the land The IDF ground forces have spent the past 20 years basically doing nothing but terrorizing unarmed civilians, if it looks like they've forgotten how to fight an actual war it's because they have.
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FuzzySlippers posted:It's cool that Hamas can manufacture the rifles used to kill the shithead themselves. I wonder if it's just Palestinians acquiring the requisite metalworking / gunsmithing knowledge or if there's any tech stuff that makes it easier for them to make something like this now (3D printed lathes or some such?). From the limited peek they showed its just regular machine ship tools.
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From the limited peek they weren't machining their own barrels, but also who knows what capabilities they actually have and what backroom machine shop they let the media team film some propaganda in.
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Point is they're working with limited capabilities (ie as much as they can smuggle in) and having to rely on one or a few highly equipped shops would mean theyre one strike or raid away from losing that capability. Its the kind of situation that encourages simple designs that are fast to make and can be made accurately with standard tooling.
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VoicesCanBe posted:The IDF ground forces have spent the past 20 years basically doing nothing but terrorizing unarmed civilians, if it looks like they've forgotten how to fight an actual war it's because they have. They built a whole culture of shooting kids and old folks in the head so they dunno what to do when they get ambushed in an alleyway
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Spergin Morlock posted:I wonder if that Lebanese migrant was put up to it by a Mossad officer Oh the guy who said he was an 11 year old Hezbollah super soldier?
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Jose Andres has publicly broken with Biden over the port plan https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1769521519779029185
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FuzzySlippers posted:It's cool that Hamas can manufacture the rifles used to kill the shithead themselves. I wonder if it's just Palestinians acquiring the requisite metalworking / gunsmithing knowledge or if there's any tech stuff that makes it easier for them to make something like this now (3D printed lathes or some such?). Hamas and just normal Palestinians have also acquired a lot of weapons from dead IDF and left behind equipment.
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VoicesCanBe posted:Hamas is cool as poo poo
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Karma Comedian posted:RQC said otherwise after we spoke via pm, but this isn't the place for that tbh lmao the mod voice. why the hell wouldn't this be the place for "that?"
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Atrocious Joe posted:Jose Andres has publicly broken with Biden over the port plan 
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it was never explained why a new port needed to be constructed given that other entirely capable ports are very close oh, nevermind, I am still thinking of this problem in terms of actually providing humanitarian aid instead of helping the israelis exterminate the palestinians
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"We Irish", lol where is Gerry Adams to provide commentary
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ireland wants nothing to do with some wannabe-irish genocidal loser in the us
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St. Patrick's Day is a Warrenesque holiday, since any American with 1/1024th of a connection to Ireland somewhere can claim to be "Irish".
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Weka posted:Oh the guy who said he was an 11 year old Hezbollah super soldier? seriously. so he's been in military training since he was 10 but blabbed the second he got caught. totally legit
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you know nevermind this could be really misconstrued
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Spergin Morlock posted:seriously. so he's been in military training since he was 10 but blabbed the second he got caught. totally legit i left lebanon because i didn't want to kill people. but now that i'm in america i'm here to make a bomb. i'd say it makes sense but if he got caught at the border he didn't really get the chance to meet many americans
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-troops-operating-at-shifa-hospital-in-gaza-city-following-intel-on-hamas-terror-activity/quote:The Israel Defense Forces says troops are operating overnight at the Al-Shifa hospital complex in Gaza City amid intelligence that senior Hamas officials were in the area and using the hospital to plan and carry out terror activity.
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bedpan posted:it was never explained why a new port needed to be constructed given that other entirely capable ports are very close it's about the natural gas fields nearby and has nothing to do with supporting the people of Palestine with aid. Hope this helps
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Spergin Morlock posted:it's about the natural gas fields nearby and has nothing to do with supporting the people of Palestine with aid. Hope this helps that does thanks!
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In all seriousness I think Israel’s hope is that they can push Palestinians into the port area for aid and making it too dangerous for them to come back and create a situation where the US is compelled to then boat them over to some other country in the Mediterranean that the US can force better than Israel to make “temporary” refugee camps.
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I wouldn't be surprised if multiple factions in the US and Israel have different ideas for what the port should actually accomplish. The imperialists and zionists want to crush the Palestinian resistance, but they don't actually know how to do that. Like, Jose Andres seemed to be under the impression until like yesterday that his effort was what Biden was talking about at the State of the Union. He is just a celebrity chef, but he's a celebrity chef who is a big presence in DC and has done PR events over the past months with the Gulf monarchies, Zelensky, and Doug Emhoff. If he's not getting the memo on what the messaging should be, then the White House is either now positioning him to be controlled opposition or they literally don't have a clear message. Either option is pretty desperate. Atrocious Joe has issued a correction as of 03:37 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Atrocious Joe posted:I wouldn't be surprised if multiple factions in the US and Israel have different ideas for what the port should actually accomplish. The imperialists and zionists want to crush the Palestinian resistance, but they don't actually know how to do that. true. it seems like it may also be used to "voluntarily deport" Palestinians without Egypt or Jordan getting a say on the details
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Spergin Morlock posted:true. it seems like it may also be used to "voluntarily deport" Palestinians without Egypt or Jordan getting a say on the details Given how insane Israel has been over even the slightest pushback from the west and the lack of rage over the US doing something that if you take the US at their word at the very least implies a degree of rupture I can only conclude that this is why even the less disciplined part of the Netanyahu cabinet hasn’t made any noise about it.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Given how insane Israel has been over even the slightest pushback from the west and the lack of rage over the US doing something that if you take the US at their word at the very least implies a degree of rupture I can only conclude that this is why even the less disciplined part of the Netanyahu cabinet hasn’t made any noise about it. yeah it's pretty clear. people calling this a conspiracy theory are pretty epic in the brain imo
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I think somebody had posted a bit earlier today that the port construction could be part of an Israeli plan to cut the North and South of Gaza off from each other, but yeah I'd agree part of their agreement is almost certainly a bunch of fascist dipshits hoping they can throw Palestinians onto boats to Europe that can mysteriously capsize on the way. Edit: I remember somebody in the Israeli government specifically proposing that they split up the Palestinians into small groups and send them all over the world in order to reduce the potential backlash like they'd see if they just did another Nakba. It's also just clearly nonsensical. Like, it would be a stupid conspiracy theory if Israel weren't a genocidal ethno-state, but they are, so we have these stupid rear end ideas that are entirely too reminiscent of German plans to deport Jewish people prior to the Holocaust. bobtheconqueror has issued a correction as of 04:12 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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speng31b posted:yeah it's pretty clear. people calling this a conspiracy theory are pretty epic in the brain imo I don’t entertain this conspiracy nonsense. Get some media literacy. Anyway Biden is definitely conspiring behind closed doors to bring an end to this trust me bro he’s really putting the screws to Israel and remember to vote blue also like Trump would be better these pesky Muslims in Michigan don’t know what’s best for them unlike me
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Israel and USA would conspire together to genocide tens or hundreds of thousands of people but ethnic cleansing oh no that's a conspiracy theory 
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Atrocious Joe posted:I wouldn't be surprised if multiple factions in the US and Israel have different ideas for what the port should actually accomplish. The imperialists and zionists want to crush the Palestinian resistance, but they don't actually know how to do that. Look, we are forging a casus belli. And we need admitted American boots on the ground to do it
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ikanreed posted:Look, we are forging a casus belli. It is so evil I didn’t even think of it but if “ISIS” suicide bombs the port and gives the US cover to directly intervene it would make the whole “HAMAS-ISIS” angle in propaganda make more sense especially given “ISIS-K” and that cheeky little attack on the joint Taliban and USMC checkpoint in Kabul By sheer chance I bet the bomber turns out to be closely tied to Saudi intelligence. Weird! Butter Activities has issued a correction as of 04:20 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...s-for-hostages/quote:Former science and technology minister Izhar Shay, whose son, IDF Sgt. Yaron Oree Shay, was killed on October 7 defending an Israeli community during Hamas’s attack on Israel, says he would support the release of “abominable murderers” in exchange for the release of hostages taken during the massacre.
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Jel Shaker posted:it’s certainly doing something to israeli society, such as the example of this guy who wants a full on apocalyptic war in the north decimating tel aviv because Don't Fly the Yellow Flag of Hezbollah Until I've Had My Coffee
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exmarx posted:Don't Fly the Yellow Flag of Hezbollah Until I've Had My Coffee
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quote:Since his son’s death, Shay, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has called on fellow tech investors and founders to join his initiative to commit to founding a new startup for each of the victims of the attacks, and the heroes who gave their lives to protect the country. founding start ups for the victims of october 7th
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Strep Vote posted:founding start ups for the victims of october 7th "I need to make a bunch of money, to honour the dead" -a human being
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watched norm and mouin tear benny morris a new one, savages going at an invalid with baseball bats. that was good, but the other part got me all depressed. we're probably a couple generations deep now where history has absolutely no context and no connection to anything preceding it or how it'll inform the future. just a series of discrete wikipedia articles that (man)children roll their faces across then machine gun out like a torrent of diarrhea with absolutely no goal aside from an ability to claim they ephemerally posses a fact, until the next shiny object comes along. loving sad.
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:"I need to make a bunch of money, to honour the dead" -a human being kind of weird how all the poo poo conspicuously done to honor the dead is poo poo they were going to do anyway: bury evidence (cars), rave, make tech start ups, kill palestinian children.
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ikanreed posted:Look, we are forging a casus belli. you guys are over thinking this. it is a US military base where navy ships can dock, allowing direct US power projection over the Gaza gas fields that oil companies have been buying leases on for the past few months. the BP lease runs out this year, and since Palestine hasn’t seen a dime of that was not going to be renewed. US ships there as Israel seizes the fields, that’s 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas to replace Europe cutting off Russia add to that, by distributing the aid though militia groups the US picks rather than handing it over to the Gazan government, it lets the US have a much firmer grasp of indirect control over Gaza. yeah, obviously, the US will make hay out of anything that happens to the location or personnel there. never let a crisis go to waste. but they aren’t 4th dimensional chess-ing here, what they have outright stated to the press is a huge gain in and of itself, they don’t need a secret master plan
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Good point, that makes the most sense why the US is doing this because it looks weak as gently caress that Israel won’t let the US just use its ports, though I think the possibility of deportation without Eygpt’s say so is specifically why the Israelis are letting it go ahead.
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