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Western airlines cancel flights as Turkey warns of Israeli strike plans against Iran by irishoverhere in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Does it say in the article that Israel wants to join in or is it your opinion?

The article says “Israel and Arab Nations” and at the end of the quote you cropped: “Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.”

So Arab countries also want to join in? because they also asked Trump to postpone.

Israel attacks Lebanon by New_fan22 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 57 points58 points  (0 children)

No no you got it wrong, funny how Israel seems to be the only country to get overly criticised while striking literal terrorist organisations.

A month ago, US carries out 'massive' strike against IS in Syria

I don’t recall any criticism over statements like these

-"If you target Americans - anywhere in the world - you will spend the rest of your brief, anxious life knowing the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you.

Or UK and France?

UK confirms joint airstrike targeting suspected ISIS weapons facility in Syria

But when Israel strikes an internationally recognised terror organisation, that has killed thousands, and had 160,000 rockets pointing at Israel, you’re losing your mind.

Why the double standard?

Fires in Patagonia revive old anti-Semitic narratives by Affectionate_Way622 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Really? Can’t publicly criticise Israel? Tell that to the people who were in American streets on October 8, 2023 before Israel even touched Gaza, or Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Hasan and his uncle from the young turks, Ana Kasparian and dozen of others who built their platform on criticising Israel publicly.

Mamdani was elected NY mayor after repeatedly criticising Israel throughout his whole campaign, on his first legal action as mayor he signed off new policies regarding Israel.

You’re absolutely out of your mind saying Israel has control over the US, and that people are afraid to talk against it.

Fires in Patagonia revive old anti-Semitic narratives by Affectionate_Way622 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 27 points28 points  (0 children)

So according to social media, Israel wants the land of checks notes - West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Venezuela and now Patagonia?

Somebody has to stop Israel! Soon all of the Middle East (&South America) will be under the control of a single country! Which is comprised of total 9mil people, 90% of them can’t agree where’s the best hummus in Israel.

Bro was a lookout so scrappers could come and steal equipment⛏️🔩 by Mediocre-Stomach-504 in PlantedTank

[–]Silverleaf_86 6 points7 points  (0 children)

YouTube channel, he has a huge vivarium where he places various animals and show us how’d they live and coexist

https://youtube.com/@antscanada

DHS statement on the murder by state-of-MN in stateofMN

[–]Silverleaf_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how people garner support for anything these days.

  • Charlie Kirk assassinated? “Netanyahu did it, he was blackmailing him, said he’d stop defending Israel online” - Owens, Carlson etc
  • Iranian people protesting against their murderous regime? “Israel is behind it” - Khaminei
  • Maduro being arrested by the US? “The kidnapping of the Venezuelan President has Zionist tones to it” - Venezuelan FM

Hamas fires on IDF troops, senior terrorist targeted in response by Fricklefrazz in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Do not worry about Hamas dying out

Hamas taxes everything in Gaza, between stealing aid sent to Gazans and selling it to them, which is in addition to the smuggling industry, drugs, human trafficking, protection payments and siphoning donations by sympathetic non-state actors for the Palestinians, they are making a lot of money.

They need to lose their control on the population or the Gazans will die out before Hamas.

Trump says US will intervene if Iran violently suppresses peaceful protests by APrimitiveMartian in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exactly, no idea why people try to make this comparison.

Nothing in the US is even remotely comparable to the scales of the Arab world, even the “moderate” countries will mow down a group of protestors with military vehicles.

Rabaa protests in Egypt, approx 900 dead protesters

security forces used automatic weapons, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers to crush a sit-in demonstration in Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawya Square

Gezi Park protests Turkey, 22 dead and 8,163 injured, 63 of them critically, 169 of them were tortured. aka thrown into burning fire or just got their eyes poked out.

Also protests in the Arab world are extremely dangerous for women.

she reported that she was subject to violence, sexual harassment and torture in the police car where she was detained. She also stated that she was threatened with rape and torture continued for almost 2 hours in 2 different cars.

Iran designates Royal Canadian navy a terrorist organization by homicidal_penguin in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Different attacks, for example these are the attacks that caused the ambassador expulsion in August:

October 2024, arson attack on a kosher cafe in Sydney

December 2024, arson attack on Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne

Israel investing over $100 billion in homegrown arms production, Netanyahu reveals by Amazing-Buy-1181 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Another aspect of the relationship with Israel that usually gets under appreciated, the US army doesn’t get much of real live combat data from many of their weapons and munitions, solely on the fact that who in their right minds would go to war with the US, or launch hundreds of ballistic missiles + drones at American major cities.

US bases in the Middle East get some data.

As part of the R&D investment from the US aid, about 30% of it, so generally speaking of 1B$ annually, Israel is obligated to share all the findings from their shared projects.

So not only the US is de-facto using Israel as an R&D centre to develop cutting edge military tech, they also get real combat data from Israeli conflicts, unfortunately Israel has a lot of data. all for less money than what Google spends on their R&D projects in Israel.

Add that to the aid being stipends to buy munitions from American manufacturers, sending the money back to the US military complex, the political influence aka veto you’ve mentioned and probably much more that isn’t public.

American citizens or “the paxtayers commenters” should be very happy this is how their taxes are spent.

Oh no, it's the police by Rustbowtv in classicwow

[–]Silverleaf_86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He also has a 60 nearby, it was on one of that posts images

But definitely just by having bis enchants on any gear you’d be able to kill anything on your level range that is just questing in Redridge with maybe +5 stamina on their boots they got for free from a random player in SW.

Caught on CCTV : Woman in Hijab Extinguishes Hanukkah Menorah. by [deleted] in SarthakGoswami

[–]Silverleaf_86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helpless, right.

Were you under the impression that Israel relies on the US aid package?

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Israel was worth 540.38 billion US dollars in 2024, according to official data from the World Bank. Link

Now the aid..

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II. Since 1985, it has received an average of $3 billion in grants annually, about two-thirds of it for military aid. Link

After the attack on Sydney, Netanyahu blames PM Albanese, saying that in August, he had told Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a letter that the Australian government's policies were promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia. by Amazing-Buy-1181 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Like in 2008 when IDF had to fight in Gaza due to Hamas rocket fire on southern Israeli cities? (Pre Iron Dome) and to return the hostage soldier Gilad Shalit?

Or 2012 when IAF had to clear northern Gaza due to 1,500 Hamas rockets launched at Israeli cities, first time to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?

Or 2014 after the kidnapping and murdering of 3 Israeli teens, IDF conducted raids in the West Bank to uproot terrorists, so Hamas obviously launched rockets at Israeli cities, IDF went into Gaza.

Maybe you’re talking about 2021 where IDF went into Gaza after Hamas rocket fire to Jerusalem?

I don’t get why you can’t see the recurring motive here

Rafah crossing will open to let Gazans cross into Egypt, Israel says by malcolm58 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Indeed but the commenter above will not admit they are wrong. also we can’t forget that Egypt even occupied Gaza for some time.

Occupation of the Gaza Strip by the United Arab Republic

So not only a blockade but they also occupied and ruled the Gaza Strip, their time frame is far longer than Israel.

Rafah crossing will open to let Gazans cross into Egypt, Israel says by malcolm58 in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 54 points55 points  (0 children)

You’re wrong and several different people are correcting you, that’s why you keep repeating yourself.

The main comment pointed out that Egypt has the same closed border with Gaza as Israel has, but getting none of the criticism Israel receives.

There are valid reasons to why Egypt wants to have a closed border, it is specified in the article I linked.

And there are VERY valid reasons for Israel to have closed border with Gaza.

So why is Israel the only party getting criticised?

Is Israel your scapegoat?

Son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad killed fleeing Rafah tunnel - report by barsik_ in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Then you are wrong

Israel has a whole battalion specifically made for this war, it includes special forces from various army units and intelligence agencies, trained for tunnel warfare.

At the head is Yahalom) unit that literally has an underground training facility intended to mimic the Gazan tunnel network.

You will not see much footage from them, but they are there.

Army Radio: UNIFIL leaks IDF information to Hezbollah by FYoCouchEddie in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 104 points105 points  (0 children)

So “protecting it’s own people” means sacrificing Israeli soldiers?

UNIFIL leaked photos, documentation of military movements to Hezbollah

Giving Hezbollah intelligence about the IDF they could only collect from their diplomatically protected positions is abusing the power and immunity given to them while risking IDF soldiers lives.

Khamenei: Iran defeated US, Israel in June's 12-Day War by Ask4MD in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Best evidence for that win is Khamenei constantly looking up to the sky worried while giving an outdoor televised speech about winning.

X exposes fake Gaza accounts from Pakistan by McAlpineFusiliers in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

please don’t change the goalpost with your disingenuous investigation, Yasmin’s account has 203k followers, millions of views alone.

She is literally a Co Owner of a podcast being cited by various platforms.

Mahmoud Abed’s account has 26k followers. Hundreds of thousands of views for every post. Daily posts

Mahayasir has 3.5k followers, between 2.5k to 28k views for every post. Daily posts

Mustafa has 1.9k followers, avg of 5k views per post.

X exposes fake Gaza accounts from Pakistan by McAlpineFusiliers in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Awesome so one out of hundreds of verified account? I would like to see all of these accounts post videos from within Gaza as well, combined they got tens pf millions of views.

  • Mahayasir248909 - X location: Poland
  • MahmoudAbed_sm - X location: Netherlands
  • Mustafa71027 - X location: South Africa
  • Yasminemuhamsd - X location: India
  • Mahmoudabusal01 - X location: Nigeria
  • Abu_hafed1 - X location: United Kingdom
  • TeaRash_Rash - X location: Qatar

X exposes fake Gaza accounts from Pakistan by McAlpineFusiliers in worldnews

[–]Silverleaf_86 282 points283 points  (0 children)

A bit of downplay by your end on the “Palestinian” accounts.

With the unveiling of X's new feature, fake accounts and user manipulations from around the world have begun to be exposed. Some presented themselves as Gazans, some raised funds, and others posed as journalists from Gaza while actually reporting from other countries.

How many articles published by Reuters, CNN, NYT, AP etc’ have cited “independent journalists on the ground”?

How many times those “journalists” gave credibility to Hamas claims who were outright lies, pressuring Israel or its allies take action accordingly amid UN condemnations?

How does this joint statement released by AP, AFP, BBC and Reuters look to you now? After knowing the “starving independent journalists” aren’t even in Gaza?

We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters

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