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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1711839404723953963 Israel was moved into CENTCOM's AOR 2 years ago. https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2021/09/07/us-central-command-absorbs-israel-into-its-area-of-responsibility/
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McNally posted:Ok, I'm convinced. I'm glad I bought you that beer in Edinburgh. Anyways, thanks for making this subfourm a bearable place to keep up with this stuff. It honestly means a lot. bulletsponge13 posted:The problem is, Fivemarks has a valid points. I don't think anyone here is giving the IDF or Israel a pass or pretending they are the "good" guys here. I don't disagree that the public narrative leans heavily in favor of giving Israel a pass or pretending that they're the reasonable party in all of this, but I don't see anyone here cheering them on.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I can understand, empathize and agree with taking up arms against an occupier. Resistance is a natural right. Where you lose me is the wholesale slaughter of non-combatants and deliberate targeting of civilians. That's not resistance, it's terrorism and a war crime. That isn't meant to handwave away what Israel is doing with its airstrikes and cutting off food, water and fuel to Gaza. Both sides have plenty of blood on their hands and I feel for the innocent Palestinians and Israeli citizens who will bear the punishment for their leaders' crimes. This is 100% where I am with it.
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Kesper North posted:Israel has ordered 1.1 million people to evacuate northern Gaza within 24 hours, a totally realistic and not at all insane proposal JFC.
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NBC took their time with I'm presuming verifying this as this has been floating around Israeli news and social media since at least Wednesday. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1712943385424642281?t=kH85CSo0ZSdcwkD3fj4rHA&s=19
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Discussion Quorum posted:Not to be outdone by Hamas's child abduction and murder brigade, Israeli officials are turning a big knob labeled "genocide" and not even bothering to look back at the audience  This loving sucks poo poo and it's never gonna end.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:The thing that really gets me about the theory of it being a Palestinian weapon is that if Hamas or IJ had anything vaguely that powerful, they would have used it in the initial attack when they knew they were going to saturate Iron Dome. It would have been the perfect time to put it into an actually valuable target. Not now, when rocket fire has become relatively desultory and the Israeli defences are functioning again. The theory I saw floated was rocket misfire into an ammo dump. Which, yeah sure, that'd be enough to do it. I still think it's 95% likely that it was the IDF.
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Kchama posted:The theory of someone making poo poo up. Yeah, hence my "I'm still 95% convinced the IDF is behind it". I was just repeating the "explanation" I had seen explaining how one rocket caused an entire hospital to go up. Probably should have been more clear when I posted that. My bad.
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Don't worry everyone, help is on the way https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1715056811936739778  Yes, I know worlds fifth largest economy, likely the front runner for 2028, etc etc. Still seems pretty dumb though.
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Suicide Watch posted:NYPD used their riot control weapons to headshot protestors leaving some with permanent damage, and Boston PD used a pepper ball gun to kill a bystander back in '04. Plenty harmful despite not being .22s. General rule should be that authorities will always defy doctrine to inflict maximum harm if given the resources. Oh hey, I remember that night (Boston). It was fuckin' wild because it was basically a bunch of college/high school kids celebrating the Red Sox beating the Yankees in game 7 of the ALCS, and then that happened. I just remember the vibe in the crowd got pretty dark once word spread and my friend and I just went back to her dorm because no one really knew what the gently caress happened beyond "They shot some girl!" Anyways, they later tried to blame the crowds for her death, not the fact they were firing less than lethal projectiles at people's heads.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Al Jeezera is reporting that they were approached by US and Israeli Officials to suppress reporting. Do you have a source for that? Because while I'm seeing AJ reporting his family was killed (which is loving awful in itself), none of their articles seem to be insinuating that his family was targeted specifically because of his reporting or that they were directly approached to tone down the reporting. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Discussion Quorum posted:A good thread. Sorry to be that guy but because Elon sucks and I don't have a Twitter account anymore, I can't read this. The unroller app only works if you have a premium account now. Could someone do the needful? Thanks!
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mrmcd posted:https://nitter.net/Ruwa4Georgia/status/1719432988113428685 Awesome, thanks so much!
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"Five men is a juicy opportunity, one man is a waste of ammo." I only went as far as Y3 ROTC but even that was hammered into us early on, and we had cadre who had gone to Iraq that told us about units that relearned that lesson the hard way. So yeah, complacency/under estimating Hamas which, you'd think they would stop doing that due to last month's events and yet.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Some drivel about the White House expecting Netanyahu's political career to end over the attack on Israel In fairness, from what friends with family in Israel have said, this isn't too far fetched. The way it was explained to me is people have a "When the immediate crisis is over, he's gotta go" Also his son being in the US right now is pissing a lot of people off over there apparently.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:just wanna say the boatposts were rad
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BUUNNI posted:Why did the October attacks catch them completely by surprise then? It did and it didn't. Numerous analysts were telling the higher ups that something was brewing, and Hamas was up to something involving the border area that they ended up crossing. The higher ups neglected to act on that info for whatever reason. You can have all the intelligence in the world telling you that something is coming, but it doesn't mean poo poo unless someone in the chain of command decides to act upon it. History is filled with examples of various intelligence agencies seeing warning signs or troop movements and sounding the alarm, only to be ignored till poo poo starts getting real.
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BUUNNI posted:This sounds exactly like the genesis of the 9/11 conspiracy theories, which is to say complete BS. Why would any Israeli intel officer worth his salt disregard veritable reports that Hamas was going to mount a devastating attack? These guys receive the very best SIGINT and HUMINT training from the west's military apparatus. We ARE living in a post-9/11 world, after all. You're not getting it. Intelligence analysis and reporting doesn't work that way. Analysts pass up intelligence and analysis to those that decide what to act on. They aren't decision makers. History is filled with examples of intelligence agencies and analysts telling decision makers something fucky is coming their way, only for the decision makers to do little or nothing for a variety of reasons. And I highly doubt the Israelis or anyone in the western intelligence community had a full picture of what was going to occur on 10/7 to begin with. You had a handful of analysts pointing out that Hamas seemed to be prepping for something and they seemed awfully interested in that part of the border. It's very rare that they get a full picture of whatever is coming, and even when something like that happens, the first question usually raised is "Are we only seeing this because our adversary wants us to, because they're trying to get us to make the wrong move?" It's not a failure of those analysts, it's a failure of the IDF higher ups and Netenyau et al for not acting on any of the information they were provided with.
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BUUNNI posted:Alright, I can definitely see your POV better and largely agree with it. It's just frustrating that after all the equipment, intel and training we provide for Israel's Defense Forces they still hosed everything up and now Palestinians are the ones paying most of the price. Thank you for the good discussion. I'm with you, believe me. It's indefensible that they ignored so many red flags, including the border monitoring stations going dark as cugel pointed out. And you nailed it, the wrong people are paying the price for it. It loving sucks.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Haaretz has confirmed only 1 baby was killed on 7 Oct attacks. Can you post the article saying so? Not directing this at you in particular but I think the "game of telephone" stuff can be easily avoided if people just posted the article where they see particular claims or whatever.
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Vahakyla posted:Here’s a non-paywall. Appreciate it, thanks!
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FWIW, if you as a mod ask for an alt-check, you're just given a yes or no answer by the Admins with little to no elaboration beyond that. There were a few times when I was a mod that we had asked for alt checks that came back negative, only to to find out some time later that they were indeed an alt because they slipped up somehow. Also being an alt in itself isn't an issue, only when you're doing it to evade a ban or probe.
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Midjack posted:I read it every time.
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She's already stepped aside over a year ago to let Hakeem Jefferies take over the leadership of the Congressional Dems, who the Dems have voted for as speaker in subsequent speaker elections.
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Discussion Quorum posted:God poo poo dammit Joe
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