Israel approves plan to seize all of Gaza

[Tecate]

“Hamas may very well surrender but this will be far from over”

”Wash…rinse…repeat”

Agreed. And any plan to convert Gaza into a beautiful resort on the Mediterranean with the locals serving drinks in their livery is hilarious and out of touch.

This fight has been going on for millennia over that patch of land. 

I can just see it now, “Come visit the Bekaa Valley for the history of the Holy Land and you’ll never leave!”

My 2 pesos…

Tecate

[quintessentone]

“Hamas may very well surrender but this will be far from over”

”Wash…rinse…repeat”

Agreed. And any plan to convert Gaza into a beautiful resort on the Mediterranean with the locals serving drinks in their livery is hilarious and out of touch.

This fight has been going on for millennia over that patch of land. 

I can just see it now, “Come visit the Bekaa Valley for the history of the Holy Land and you’ll never leave!”

My 2 pesos…

Tecate

Over 4,000 years, I think I read somewhere.

And worth much more than 2 pecos, just saying.

[UltraBudgie]

Everyone will care if one of the IDF drones fire on one of those warships.

See? As predicted, they chickened out:

Israel Intercepts Boats Headed to Gaza With Humanitarian Aid

The boats were part of a flotilla, carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists, that was organized to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and protest the war.

Israel on Wednesday night intercepted several boats from a flotilla organized by activists who were trying to bring humanitarian goods to Gaza and protest the war there, according to statements from flotilla organizers and the Israeli foreign ministry.

The foreign ministry posted a video that showed the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, one of the passengers on the flotilla, engaging with a person wearing military gear who handed her a bottle of water. The post said that “several vessels” from the flotilla had been “safely stopped” and that the passengers were being transferred to an Israeli port...

Global Sumud Flotilla has accused Israel of involvement in a series of drone attacks on the ships as they made their way across the Mediterranean, including in waters near Greece last week and at a port in Tunisia earlier in September.

After those episodes, Italy and Spain sent naval ships to accompany the flotilla for parts of its journey, and Turkey had drones monitor the boats and document potential attacks.

But as the flotilla drew closer to Israel, those countries urged its members to turn back...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world...srael.html

They probably got one look at the mighty ZioDrones™ and wet their pants.


Edit: Oh sweet, a live cope-stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V93tGCzw

[Vermilion]

See? As predicted, they chickened out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world...srael.html

They probably got one look at the mighty ZioDrones™ and wet their pants.


Edit: Oh sweet, a live cope-stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-V93tGCzw

Didn’t it seem strange they acted like people were starving in Gaza?

Didn’t it seem even stranger that it took them over a month to get there, knowing the longer it took, the more people would die of starvation?

Even stranger still, is the fact that they got there on a Jewish holiday?

Has there been a more transparent virtue signal than this recently?

[UltraBudgie]

Yawn. I wonder if she'll go back to her climate-change gig after this.

She really seems to be looking for her Rachel Corrie moment.

[DBCowboy]

Destroy the flag of hamas that the palestinians fight under.

If that means destroying palestinians, then so be it.

Oct 7th.

I have never forgotten

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Didn’t it seem strange they acted like people were starving in Gaza?

Didn’t it seem even stranger that it took them over a month to get there, knowing the longer it took, the more people would die of starvation?

Even stranger still, is the fact that they got there on a Jewish holiday?

Has there been a more transparent virtue signal than this recently?

Oh find me a virtue to signal...

Why is the further right in America suddenly so vocal and supportive of Israeli sovereignty?

Appreciate it, but where was Jewish/Israel support when white-supremacist hate groups were painting swastikas on synagogues? The outcry was usually always from the left pushing diversity and tolerance when it happened. 

Now, its Palestine supporters painting swastikas, but it used to be the ultra-patriotic anti-immigrant crowd that hated Jews for being the architects of woke. 

Like the scene in American History X where Elliott Gould is defending the liberal side of the LA riots and Edward Norton flips out calling it opportunism at its worst, and berates his bleeding heart. 

It's especially perplexing, because only on Israel sovereignty is the stereotypical Elliott Gould sided with, but everything else still sounds like Edward Norton.

Like everything else Gould would say (not related to Jewish persecution) would still be called DEI snowflake nonsense.

It's cognitively dissonant. 

The entire liberal/conservative switcheroo on Israel is.

Like I just always want to ask, "You do know the society you're supporting, right?"

Israel's Supreme Court has supported transgender rights, including rulings on gender identity, parental rights, and the recognition of transgender military service members. 

So to be clear, you can overlook and wholeheatedly support other woke countries, but treat that policy when used in America as the scourge of society and call it radical?

It seems disconnected and convenient all around. LGBTQ+ supporting a culture that kills them, and anti-woke supporting the society whose highest court rules in ways they'd detest. 

Seems wonky on all sides.

[UltraBudgie]

Destroy the flag of hamas that the palestinians fight under.

If that means destroying palestinians, then so be it.

Oct 7th.

I have never forgotten

I wonder if there's anything "special" planned for the anniversary?

On Wednesday, Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said Israeli troops were “currently completing the takeover” of the central Netzarim Corridor, the key roadway. He added that doing so would “cut Gaza in two between north and south.”

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have fled the Israeli assault on Gaza City and crowded into swelling tent camps farther south. But hundreds of thousands more are believed to remain in the northern city, with many saying that they have nowhere left to run to or cannot pay for transport out. Others had fled south only to return to Gaza City after failing to find anywhere suitable to take shelter.

People who chose to remain in the city are now facing their “final opportunity” to flee the Israeli advance, said Mr. Katz, the defense minister. He also suggested that he might consider those who stayed behind to be legitimate targets.

“Those who remain in the city will be terrorists and terrorism supporters,” Mr. Katz said in a statement on social media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world...hamas.html

[DBCowboy]

I wonder if there's anything "special" planned for the anniversary?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world...hamas.html

I've just backed Israel and as a Zionist (someone who thinks there should be a Jewish state) think that any entity that attacks them should be destroyed.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[UltraBudgie]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

It is indeed—if there were a way for them to try and invade Russia in the winter, they would have found it.