Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit

srael has nuclear weapons, so that won’t happen.

Who says?

I would be surprised if they didn’t, or could make them quickly.

The Israeli government is now openly admitting they plan to concentrate Gazans into a camp, with the only way out to leave Gaza.

Anyone still supporting the Israeli government and IDF in this conflict is now supporting a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

So, you know, fuck you to those people. I don’t know how you can live with yourselves.

And don’t dare commit the Blood Libel of comparing this to the Warsaw Ghetto.

A sad inversion on the “Florida man” trope today:

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/g-s1-77345/israeli-settlers-u-s-citizen-death-west-bank

The tagline on npr.org was:

A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

The very best long term allies of Hamas and Hezbollah are the current Israeli government and their extremist settler allies. Violence and death forever!

It’s not a concentration camp, it’s a “humanitarian city”! They’ll just be staying there for a little while before the IDF takes them to live on a nice farm upstate where they can run and play all day.

Yes, only notorious antisemites like Ehud Olmert would draw such comparisons.

I wonder where he got this idea?

Netanyahu moves to fire attorney general prosecuting him for corruption.

Israel drops charges against the soldiers who sexually assaulted a Palestinian detainee with a knife.

Absolutely disgusting, but par for the course for this government, which at this point are basically enemies of humanity.

Settlers ran over a 6 year old girl in the West Bank (according to reports). No prosecution, obviously. You don’t prosecute criminals who victimize the lesser class in an apartheid society:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/6-year-old-girl-hospitalized-after-palestinians-say-she-was-run-over-by-israeli-settler/

I’m at work walking on a busy sidewalk so cannot cite at the moment. A radio station I listened to for a few seconds insinuated that many European leaders today are turning down Trump’s calls to help opening the strait of Hormuz widely again. I wondered if any part of this second sentence is at all accurate.

What Hamas officially said is that it urges Iran to stop attacking Gulf states:

It is, of course, a lie that Iran is only attacking “American installations”.

This interview takes it as given that Trump is pressuring NATO to help open the strait of hormuz and other nations are saying, “not my circus”.

Thank you Puzzlegal for your cite - it was a good one to get!

Now wait, it’s a gross exaggeration and horribly anti-Semitic to call Israel an “apartheid society”.

Oh, wait… ‘Discriminatory’ Israeli death penalty law would be war crime, says UN rights chief | Israel | The Guardian

They just passed a law that would impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of terrorism, but NOT on Jews. The exact same action will be punished differently by the courts depending on the ethnicity of the perpetrator. But that’s not anything like apartheid because mumble mumble, hey look over there, BUT MUH HOLOCAUST!!1!!

I shop for produce and other groceries at this one store that has had to hire security for the first time. The Persian manager is always very perceptive of customers. He told me with a grin and a dismissive open palm that some war-related weirdos had been giving him crap since the U S started bombing Iran this year. Luckily it’s a chain store so they have some budget for security. Still it bums me out for sure!