IDF shoots 14 y/o ‘planning to throw stones.’ Kills 6 in Gaza Hospital….more
IDF fires teargas on Palestinian family reuniting with 15-year-old son after month in Israeli jail
‘Earlier this week, the military said it had shot a 14-year-old in a group of boys it claimed was “planning” to throw stones at a passing car in the north of the West Bank’
That the IDF shot another child, this one ‘planning to throw stones’ sounds more like criminal assault by the IDF; murder if the child died though his status after being shot is oddly not identified. If kids ‘were planning to throw stones,’ the IDF patrol should have well been able to break it up without opening fire
This is wrong; it is excessive and inhumane while continuing to drag Israel even more deeply through the global mud. And Netanyahu’s reference a bit ago that Israel would be ok in isolation though use of crypto currency is more irresponsible nonsense. Maybe he’s counting on World Liberty Financial co-founded by Trump, his sons with Witkoff and his son. It all seems odd, doesn’t it?
At the same time, the IDF is becoming increasingly brutal and thuggish as compared to the the professional, highly disciplined military it has more typically been. And it all sits in the lap of Netanyahu and the Jewish Supremacist members of his violent, extremist coalition who are deconstructing Israel from within. They must be pried out of Israel’s government.
IDF targets top Hamas commander in strike on south Gaza hospital; 6 said killed
Even if there was a single Hamas commander in the hospital, this is massively disproportionate and grotesque. Netanyahu is responsible and must be held accountable.
Israel can’t bomb a working hospital, kill physicians and patients, on the premise of chasing one person. If Israel supposedly knew this person was in the hospital, they should have freaking waited until he left. And if he was in an underground tunnel, bombing the OR and patient wards doesn’t get close to those tunnels
These are likely war crimes and it absolutely must stop. How much more isolated and alone does the Israeli Right want to take Israel? Israel’s destruction is coming from within. How the Netanyahu Right thinks this is a viable strategy is beyond me…or most of the globe. Netanyahu’s Israel is now on the breach of even losing Congressional Democrats in the US while Trump continues performance politics.
Though I’ve written this many times and in many places to include in TOI blogs and comments; Trump is NOT a ‘Friend of Israel’ but of fundamentalist Christians and Christian Zionists whose outlook and objectives for Israel is neither Israel nor Jewish-friendly
To operate in increasing isolation and choking global boycotts from the West has taken the Netanyahu government a persistent and concerted effort. Only Netanyahu could have lost the world’s empathy and support so soon after the October 7 Massacre. Why?
I’m Jewish. I’ve lived and worked in Israel and support the nation strongly. But I am as strongly opposed to Netanyahu and his violent extremist government and Israel’s indiscriminate and still increasing reign of terror that continues in the Territories.
It is Netanyahu and his coalition who are the most immediate risk to Israel’s security and stability. They must not return to Israel’s government in any form and be held accountable for their brutality. And for those members of Likud who have been voted back into government, they must stay in the minority and not have primary control over – anything
No nation, let alone Israel, can go it alone. Even the UK, who voted themselves from a global power to a small island by way of the Brexit ‘Leave (the EU)’ vote which was sponsored, in part, by Putin, have found that going it mostly alone failed to meet even about one of the Brexiteers campaign promises. Does anybody really believe Israel can survive near total isolation?
El-Sayed’s changes the conversation on Israel — and Israel’s relationship with US Jews
I don’t think the author of this article truly understands what’s happening or what happened.
Tho El Sayed’s views on Israel are more extreme than most, he isn’t the ‘shift in Israel’s relationship with US Jews’ but a beneficiary of the pattern that’s sadly well in place. And he didn’t specifically win because of his views on Israel.
It was the broader revulsion of Trump and his MAGA movement combined with El Sayed’s press for common sense issues from affordability to healthcare. Mike Rogers isn’t just ‘pro Trump’ GOP but a Trump loyalist and rubber stamp.
The cause of the rupture with American Jews; even a surge in violent anti-Semitism is laid at the feet of Netanyahu and his violent Jewish supremacist coalition. Democrats have increasingly been repelled, and I am one of them, by Netanyahu’s actions and the conduct of his coalition.
The war with Hamas was justified but not to the extreme degree it was and continues to be administered. West Bank settler terrorism is not only continuing with impunity, but is directly supported by Netanyahu’s coalition members. It must stop
Again, Netanyahu must not be allowed to form a government or even be in it if at all possible
