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Hamas, as far as I can see, is the epitome of the ideology of Islam.
Brutal, merciless, sadistic, feral, animalistic, primitive, idiotic.
Actually, I thought it was simpler than that, the clue being in the phrase ‘an insufficient supply of aid’
Always follow the money when Hamas is involved
Apart from the Islam bit, your definition applies at least equally to the IDF.
Nonsense.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo813rYm8g – the sickening war crimes of Israeli soldiers.
I couldn’t be bothered to watch the whole video, after the first few minutes it was obvious they were clutching at straws to try and prove the IDF was guilty of widespread atrocities. If there was any really damming evidence the Hamas apologists wouldn’t of left it to the end.
In any army they’ll be a few bad apples. In WWII a tiny minority of British and American soldiers committed war crimes. Does this mean the Allies were as bad as the Nazis? You’d have to be barking mad to think so.
The IDF have slaughtered over 1,000 people in a single, often mutilating the bodies. Just over 100 sick barbaric individuals carried out the 7 October massacre, if Hamas had been able to deploy as many sadists as the number of soldiers the IDF has deployed what would the body count of been?
Wouldn’t HAVE left it to the end.
You clearly meant “Hamas have slaughtered” not IDF.
If a group of people anywhere in the world went on a rampage and slaughtered hundreds of individuals, there would be a corresponding outcry but who would react by indiscriminately bombing a whole country, especially considering hostages had been taken and were being held at unknown places in that country?
Obviously, somebody not very bright and with a specific agenda.
To start off with some context, here is a quote from a South African lawyer presenting their case to the ICJ (https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240111-ora-01-00-bi.pdf) in January last year:
Gaza is one of the two constituent territories of the occupied Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967. It is a narrow strip, of approximately 365 sq km, as depicted in the map now displayed. Israel continues to exercise control over the airspace, territorial waters, land crossings, water, electricity, electromagnetic sphere and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, as well as over key governmental functions. As the honourable minister has said, entry and exit by air and sea to Gaza is prohibited with Israel operating the only two crossing points. Gaza, which is one of the most densely populated places in the world is home to approximately 2.3 million Palestinians, almost half of them children.
For the past 96 days, Israel has subjected Gaza to what has been described as one of the heaviest conventional bombing campaigns in the history of modern warfare. Palestinians in Gaza are being killed by Israeli weaponry and bombs from air, land and sea.
They are also at immediate risk of death by starvation, dehydration and disease as a result of the ongoing siege by Israel, the destruction of Palestinian towns, the insufficient aid being allowed through to the Palestinian population and the impossibility of distributing this limited aid while bombs fall. This conduct renders essentials to life unobtainable.
By now you hopefully appreciate that something is not ‘normal’ about Gaza. Should you manage any basic research, you will learn that Israel is illegally occupying territory in what Israel has declared to be the State of Israel.
To quote Caitlin Johnstone:
Everything we’ve been seeing in Gaza and the West Bank has been the result of an agenda to remove all Palestinians from Palestine via death or displacement. Everything. It was never about fighting terrorism. It’s not about rescuing the Palestinians from a ruined enclave. It’s never been about self-defence. It’s never been about hostages. It has always been about ending the existence of Palestinians in Palestine so that their territories can be fully owned by Jewish Israelis.
This has been true of all of Israel’s abusive actions since October 2023, and it was true of all of Israel’s abusive actions before October 2023. This is what the Palestinians are resisting, and it’s why October 7 happened in the first place. We’re watching an indigenous population struggle against an agenda – an agenda which is backed by an entire globe-spanning empire – to end their existence as a people in their native homeland.
Perhaps you can understand that a Palestinian may not be happy at Israel’s determination (why?) to end their life and complete existence.
Hell breaking out on the Sabbath? Maybe it will in Trump land, but in Israel it wouldn’t look wise, you’d have thought.
The three men who were recently released by Hamas were all emaciated and have told of their terrible treatment while held hostage;
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1888204355188244642
This poor man must have clung onto the hope that his family were still alive, and perhaps it was this hope which kept him going, but they were murdered on Oct 7th and the sick b’stards knew it. I don’t know if it’s Hamas playing their psychological mind games but where are the two little boys? The only two kids still being held, I believe, but they released the dad and not the mother and two sons. Nobody even knows if they’re alive or not;
”Hamas forced Eli Sharabi to read out a script on mic in front of thousands of Gazans saying how “he is overjoyed to returned to his family, wife and two daughters”
Hamas knowing that they had brutally murdered his brother, wife and two young girls on Oct 7th 2023
Eli had no idea they had been slaughtered until he got back into Israel.”
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1888343720690430049
These ‘people’ are sadistic, evil, shit on legs;
”In a grotesque editorial in its official paper, the Palestinian Authority wrote last week that Hamas is releasing the Israeli hostages after almost a year and a half “in good health” and “without dust on their clothes, as if they had been in vacation resorts!” The PA even stated that Hamas “did not protect only their lives but also their welfare,” releasing them “with gifts”:
The photos above of the three male hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami, who were released yesterday, prove how odious the PA’s distorted claim is.
The Israeli hostages were starved, tortured, and kept in the dark for almost the entire period of their captivity. The appearances of Levy, Sharabi, and Ben Ami resemble those of Holocaust survivors emerging from the Nazi death camps in 1945.
Indeed, Israeli medical sources who treated the three told the press that “their condition is no different than people who spent a year in a concentration camp” [Ynet, Feb. 8, 2025]. Other released hostages have revealed the severe physical, psychological, and sexual abuse they suffered from the Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians who held them captive.”
https://palwatch.org/page/36933
Funny how the people on the Israeli side always have names, faces, histories, but those thousands and thousands on the Palestinian side are nameless, faceless and without histories.
The Israelis have tried to starve out not one or two hostages but millions of people: men, women and children. How many of their stories will you tell?
Most of us have seen the pictures of the mob baying at the released hostages, and how all the mob were well dressed well groomed well fed.No sign there of being short of food water fuel electriciry etc. Contrast with the 3 male hostages who have been starved
As well as Hamas psychos riding on top of the aid trucks as they come through and shooting anyone they suspect of stealing. I’ve shared loads of footage now showing the markets stocked with food, shwarma and other food stalls doing a roaring trade. They’re all down the beach enjoying themselves in the ‘Open Prison Riviera’..I’ve seen no Gazans in the terrible, neglected state that those released men were in. So if anyone wants to still maintain at this point in time that there was any kind of “famine” going on ever, then they broadcast to all and sundry the fact they’re propagandized, delusional useful idiots who need to deny reality because it contradicts their BBC-like inner narrative.
If anyone was being deprived of food it sure as hell wasn’t at the hands of Israel. We all know damn well who the culprits are.
And this? Palestine Riviera? You are joking.
The Palestinians brought it upon themselves, and they got it, good and hard.
Some sympathy for poor wee bairns, but they need to blame their parents and they need to blame hamas.
It’s been claimed for over a year that Israel was stopping humanitarian aid reaching Gaza and there was a severe food shortage. If this was true then by now they’d be countless pictures of emaciated children splashed across the sick, Hamas supporting left wing media.
Only the truly deranged hardcore apologists for barbaric terrorists think that evidence free claims are worth repeating long after reasonable sensible people worked they’re bullshit.
Are you unaware that Israel has killed well over 200 Palestinian journalists this past year, not to mention bombing all medical facilities? How many dead bodies do you wish to see? There are many reports you can read about the true situation, including heart-rending individual stories, but none of course in US or British media. You should be asking why.
Ever so off topic but not. I don’t think Lord Sumption will have endeared himself to TY. and many on here overmuch.
He’s maybe got a point on genocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb/10/ex-supreme-court-judge-says-arguable-case-israel-conduct-in-gaza-is-genocidal-lord-sumption
Many of the journalists on Al Jazeera would agree with him!
Conclusion: ”No genocide”. The End.
”Posting again, please 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 because it seems the phrase “Genocide” is still being redefined by people who don’t have a clue.
The ICJ did NOT find that there was a Genocide in Gaza, not even a “PLAUSIBLE” one
Don’t believe me? Hear it from the President of the ICJ”
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1888918030710681676
Google defines genocide to mean ‘the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group’. Just what part of that definition does not apply to Israel’s behaviour towards the citizens of Gaza and, since the so-called cease-fire (and before), the citizens of the West Bank?
The recording of your judge could easily have been dubbed (mouth movement did not always correspond to what was said) but that does not really matter. You can call it mass murder or whatever alternative phrase you like, the fact remains that Israel has done a very good job of destroying 80% of Gaza with absolutely no care whatsoever about how many people it killed or injured (Palestinian or Israeli) in the process.
The ICJ, as far as I know, still has not released a final verdict on the matter but it has repeatedly demanded the following measures of Israel:
1) The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above;
The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;
The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip;
The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;
And so on and so forth. All of which Israel has pointedly ignored.
Even on Hamas debateable figures since October 23 the birthrate is such the population of Gaza has increased. Also since 1948 population increased tenfold from 200,000 to over 2 million
But that’s not the case here.
Hamas based soldiers arms and ammunition stores in schools and hospitals and used them to launch rocket attacks on Israeli civilians.
The answer should be staring you in the face.
Israel has no desire to destroy a group of people (other than a group of barbaric terrorists). If they wanted to kill the majority of the population of Gaza they would of done so by now.
Hamas supporters regularly chant “death to Jews” (no doubt you approve of this). They’re the ones who want to commit genocide, thank god they haven’t got the means to do so.
And Israelis chant “We are destroying their villages” in discos – it is on a DDN video I cannot find at the moment. Here is another music video which is hardly to my taste but which clearly demonstrates a lot of things you deny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlFvGy7NO3w.
It is on the first video I posted above from 1m46s – the one where you wrote “after the first few minutes it was obvious they were clutching at straws to try and prove the IDF was guilty of widespread atrocities”.
In addition, there are 15 ICJ judges working on the case. What right does the chief justice of that group have to publicly discuss anything relative to the matter on a TV programme? I imagine she has stepped way out of line on the matter. Why, one can only conjecture.
Problem is that “Hell Let Loose” is the business model of HAMAS.
No, Israel towards Palestinians – for the past 80 years.
Nonsense on stilts.
I think I recognize one of these men from posting on here, lol. You can always tell the brainwashed, hostile loonies a mile off. They can’t talk without getting aggressive because they are so unhinged and easily triggered. They also always seem to be avid Haaretz readers. And there’s no such people as ‘Palestinians’, but all sane, reasonable people know that already;
”At the @FarmersToAction
protest yesterday some vile pro-Palestinians swore at a lady protestor.
“F**k off back to the racist farmers”
“F**k off back to the EDL”
She asks how can you justify 7 October.
He wants her drown in the Dead Sea.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1889230569390957037
Well the fake soldier in the fake army fatigues is a proper Next Tuesday and the the old chap next to him – getting ready for God’s waiting room – is no better. What a pair.
The sweary fake soldier reminded me of that nasty, obsessive nutbar who got banned and booted off here over Christmas. The one who was on his fifth name change and whose hobby was to troll and harass anyone he disagreed with on this site. I could just well imagine it being that demented prat verbally abusing the woman. Good on her, though. Glad she challenged the muzzled muppet. Not hard to maintain the moral high ground with aggressive lunatics like that, and you can’t have civilized debate with the irrational of mind.
Ooh, nasty obsessive nutbar’s mates got offended. Perhaps they recognise themselves in that description…
This incident perfectly sums up the infantile mentality and intelligence of the pro Hamas goons.
I reminds me of the time I heckled a pro Hamas rally and the only response I got was to called a paedophile. If only a passer by had of captured it on camera.
Crikey. What a lot of money and aid;
”$2.1 billion was paid to Gaza as “humanitarian aid” since October 7, 2023; Guess by who… Yes, USAID, while Biden was halting arms from Israel, he was funding Hamas.”
https://x.com/deafprophet/status/1889048786908909675/photo/1
Hamas was originally funded and promoted by Netanyahu.
Who funds the British jew haters?
I suspect there are no remaining Hostages alive and so Hamas is causing a stink to deflect from the evil they have committed, if they can get the Israelis’s and Trump to attack it will once again bring the terrorist sympathisers and the BBC out on the streets, and they will not then have to answer as to why the remaining hostages are not released.
These are cravenly evil people who are excellent at manipulation of the media , and the anti semites.
Personally I think both sides need their heads banging together.