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Israel/Palestine

dutch777

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1. Amazing the Arab countries don't form an interim police and governance force. All claim the Palestinian cause and...

Reply to aranthus (Original post)

Mon May 19, 2025, 09:32 AM

May 19

...then do very little meaningful to help Palestinians with an on the ground effort. Sending food and medicine that never gets delivered and prayers and well wishes is just BS to a starving child. African nations can even manage this. Trump was just in the Middle East and did zippo...par usual...well, line his own and family's pockets doesn't count.

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International 'do-gooders' aren't helping Gazans [View all] aranthus May 19 OP

Amazing the Arab countries don't form an interim police and governance force. All claim the Palestinian cause and... dutch777 May 19 #1

Are you thinking it's time for a Middle East War? AloeVera May 19 #5

I do not recall any Arab countries declaring war on Israel recently. And a police force and civil admin is not an army. dutch777 May 19 #9

Might want to read up on the author, Richard Kemp. Ocelot II May 19 #2

No one is unbiased. aranthus May 19 #4

Yeah, choie May 19 #3

Not one aid agency has said looting by Hamas is a problem. AloeVera May 19 #6

None of them said that the Pope is Catholic either. Beastly Boy May 19 #8

Nearly 100 food aid trucks violently looted in Gaza, UN agencies say Mosby May 20 #10

When people have nothing to eat, they resort to looting! AloeVera May 20 #11

UN uses Hamas government numbers and words as absolute truth. Most of this has been debunked, including AZLD4Candidate May 31 #12

It was from the IPC report. Not Hamas. AloeVera May 31 #13

UN and IPC quota Hamas government officials. It's always women and children, but there seem to be AZLD4Candidate May 31 #14

It is Israel. Rather, it's Netanyahu and the extreme right-wing lunatics blackmailing Israel into its self-destruction. AloeVera May 31 #15

It is Israel. That's where this ends. As I have stated for years, Israel can nothing nothing correctly AZLD4Candidate Jun 1 #16

Those who invoke Article 23 of the fourth Geneva convention never bothered to read it. Beastly Boy May 19 #7

Is Hamas a "high contracting party" to the Geneva Conventions? lapucelle Jun 1 #17

Yep, none of the vocal critics of Israel ever acknowledge that Hamas has no intention Beastly Boy Jun 1 #18