greggerypeccary wrote on May 6^th, 2024 at 7:04pm:



is that comment addressed to hamas ?

Israel is running out of soldiers:


https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-to-vote-this-week-on-bill-extending-retire...

extend a temporary measure raising the exemption age for reserve military service
from 40 to 41 for soldiers and from 45 to 46 for officers for
several additional months due to a manpower shortage amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
Specialists such as doctors and air crewmen will be required to continue serving until 50, instead of 49.

aquascoot wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 2:32pm:


And to the IDF who are responsible for creating Hamas in the first place, when the Camp David negotiations failed because of Israeli intransigence re East Jerusalem. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 24^th, 2024 at 1:19pm:




"Created" only in the sense that the Soviet Union created the Taliban or German  liberals, Jews and communists "created" the nazi party.

The strongest army in the Middle East can't defeat the unarmed, innocent children and women of Gaza.

The next phase of occupation will see more deaths of Israeli military as the children and women arm themselves.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 24^th, 2024 at 4:09pm:



they are defeating them

didnt you see the figures posted by al jazera

Is it any wonder that so many civilians have died in Gaza?


https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-808212



While the officials didn't give a timeline for the shipments, the totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in US military support for its ally.

By REUTERS

Updated: JUNE 29, 2024 00:02


A senior Biden administration official on Wednesday told reporters that Washington has since October 7




The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two US officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments.


and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

While the officials didn't give a timeline for the shipments, the totals suggest there has been no significant drop-off in US military support for its ally, despite international calls to limit weapons supplies and a recent administration decision to pause a shipment of powerful bombs.

The Biden administration has paused one shipment of the 2,000-pound bomb, citing concern over the impact it could have in densely populated areas in Gaza, but US officials insist that all other arms deliveries continue as normal. One 2,000-pound bomb can rip through thick concrete and metal, creating a wide blast radius.

Reuters reported on Thursday that the United States is discussing with Israel the release of a shipment of large bombs that was suspended in May over worries about the military operation in Rafah.

International scrutiny of Israel's military operation in Gaza has intensified as

according to the Gaza health ministry, and has left the coastal enclave in ruins.

Frank wrote on Jun 29^th, 2024 at 10:56am:


https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/who-responsible-taliban

Who Is Responsible for the Taliban?

As the United States prepared for war against Afghanistan  (in 2002) , some academics or journalists argued that Usama bin Ladin's al-Qa'ida group and Afghanistan's Taliban government were really creations of American policy run amok. A pervasive myth exists that the United States was complicit for allegedly training Usama bin Ladin and the Taliban. For example, Jeffrey Sommers, a professor in Georgia, has repeatedly claimed that the Taliban had turned on "their previous benefactor." David Gibbs, a political science professor at the University of Arizona, made similar claims. Robert Fisk, widely-read Middle East correspondent for The Independent, wrote of "CIA camps in which the Americans once trained Mr. bin Ladin's fellow guerrillas."(1) Associated Press writer Mort Rosenblum declared that "Usama bin Ladin was the type of Soviet-hating freedom fighter that U.S. officials applauded when the world looked a little different."(2)

In fact, neither bin Ladin nor Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Umar were direct products of the CIA. The roots of the Afghan civil war and the country's subsequent transformation into a safe-haven for the world's most destructive terror network is a far more complex story, one that begins in the decades prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Note the author wriggling-out with "...not direct products of the CIA" .....  but maybe indirect....

Hmm...a complex picture, certainly exposing the ideocy of YOUR contention the USSR was solely responsible for the Taliban.

Whereas Israeli refusal to accept UN res 242, citing "security" concerns,  IS directly responible for Hamas, not complex at all.