EmmetK

You can continue with your verbal diarrhea and lies. It won't help you crawl out of the deep hole you've crawled into. Israel has ZERO control over what does or doesn't go thru the Rafah Border Crossing anymore than it controls who crosses the US-Mexican border crossing. You have shown yourself to be an anti-Israel zealot that buys into the HAMAS Nazi propaganda because you simply don't know the facts. Your lie has been exposed. And your lies will continue to be exposed from here on.....

It certainly is not trivial. You claim that Israel controls ALL access to Gaza. Your lie has been exposed. Your credibility has been shot. It is thru the Rafah Broder Crossing where all supplies, food, medicine, etc. has historically been delivered to the Gazans. Israel doesn't tell Egypt what and who they should allow in thru their sovereign territory. Please keep responding. It is indeed entertaining to see you squirm when you try to justify your claim that Israel controls ALL access to Gaza (your words - own up to them!).

"Israel controls ALL access to Gaza, including its borders, airspace, and territorial waters." I commend you for your ability to continue to spew out lies. Though even a broken clock is right twice a day, I am still waiting for you to be right just once. Israel does NOT control all access to Gaza. And putting in it bold and all caps doesn't turn a lie into the truth. You may want to know what you are talking about before you hit the "SUBMIT" button. Have you ever heard of the Rafah Border Crossing? I'll even offer you some assistance. Consider it a one-time favour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing

When Israel walked away from Gaza in 2005, they turned it over to the Palestinian National Authority (Fatah). Fatah ran the elections with international observers present. There has never been a dispute about the "fairness" of the elections. Unless you are alleging that Fatah intentionally undermined their own authority. And that would be delusional. As far as the Gazans being terrorized. The only ones terrorizing them are Hamas. The phony narrative of the Gazans being "terrorized" by Israel ranks right up there in the phony propaganda war with Gaza being "occupied". Hamas has had full administrative, political, and military control of Gaza since 2007. All of the Gaza ministries are controlled by them. They could have turned Gaza into the Hong Kong of the Middle East. Instead, they chose to subjugate their population into abject misery, and used the billions of international funds they receive to build tunnels and a war machine while their leaders live in a lap of luxury. https://nypost.com/2023/11/07/news/hamas-leaders-worth-11bn-live-luxury-lives-in-qatar/

Hamas intentionally targets civilians. The IDF targets Hamas murderers. Hamas tortures (cuts open pregnant woman's stomachs, throws babies into ovens, gouges out victim's eyes, murders children in front of parents, murders parents in front of children, murders teenage concert-goers, etc.), rapes, and kidnaps the elderly, children, and babies. The IDF does not. End of story. It's really that simple.

You do not see the irony of lambasting Israel for siding with Hamas against Israel in its war against a a group that has vowed to eradicate it ? When you choose to side with the butchers of Hamas: You agree that every Jew, Christian and non-Muslim in the world must be slaughtered. You endorse making homosexuality punishable by jail or death. You believe Iran should use Palestinians as puppets to spread radical Jihad and destroy the West. You support strict Sharia law, which bans women from showing their knees, hair, playing sports in public, [and] not being able to travel without a man’s permission. You want a terrorist group that beheads babies and rapes girls to replace the only democracy in the Middle East.

The only one committing genocide in the middle east is HAMAS.

Unlike the Hamas Nazis, the IDF doesn't target civilians. If they did, it would be 90,000 killed. Not 9000. Israel is targeting the Hamas Nazis that crossed into Israel, butchered, raped, tortured unarmed innocents, took 240 hostages and fled back into Gaza. Hamas soldiers hide in hospitals, schools, camps, UN buildings, etc. Those civilians have been warned to flee those areas. No country would stand back, or pause, or allow a cease fire so to allow their enemies to re-group and re-arm. Every Gazan civilian death is 100% attributable to the Hamas leaders they elected. Until Hamas surrenders, there will be many more Gazan civilians that will die. And you can thank Hamas for each dead body. As for you injecting race into the equation, Israel is the most heterogenous nation in the area. It is more than 60% non-white, including millions from their racist Arab neighbors whose anti-Semitic laws caused them to flee to Israel for their freedom.

Yes. It is called survival. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and killed 3,000 sailors and their families, Truman said that the US would accept nothing less than an unconditional surrender. Japan refused. The US nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered immediately. They have been basically demilitarized for 80 years. End of story. Israel is in a more precarious situation. The surprise attack that took place against Israel was not from a land 5 thousand miles away. Gaza is 5 feet away. Netanyahu will accept nothing less than Truman did. Either the unconditional surrender of the enemy and permanent demilitarization or Gaza will be wiped away. It's up to Hamas to decide.

An article by the far-left, Israel-hating Huffington Post? lol/ Interesting? I would call it biased.

Gaza is an autonomous self-governing territory. The only prison guards and wardens are the Hamas butcher masters they elected in 2007.

There is ZERO moral equivalence, ZERO!, between what Hamas did and what Israel is doing. Hamas terrorists entered Israel for the sole purpose of slaughtering, butchering, beheading, raping, and massacring as many innocent civilians as possible. If you have any evidence of the IDF ripping open the bellies of pregnant Palestinian women and throwing the babies into ovens, please share it. If you have any evidence of the IDF throwing grenades into shelters where families are hiding, please share it. If you have any evidence of the IDF soldiers gouging out the eyes of innocent Palestinian civilians, please share it. If you have any evidence of the IDF raping girls, please share it. If you have any evidence of the IDF torturing children while their parents are forced to look on, please share it. If you have any evidence of the IDF taking civilians hostages, please share it. I could go on and on. Israel goes out of its way to mitigate civilian casualties. But it is not always possible when Hamas uses civilians as human shields. Needless to say there is NO equivalence between Hamas and Israel. Israel is targeting the terrorist butchers. They have given all civilians notices by test, phone calls, and dropping leaflets to warn them in advance to evacuate the area. If civilians ignore the warnings, that is their choice. Hamas uses civilians as human shields. They built tunnels, underground bunkers, and terrorist command centers underneath schools and hospitals. Israel has done what it can to avoid killing innocents, but ultimately if they decide to remain, they are doing so at their own risk. No nation would tolerate the slaughter of their innocents, Israel is no different. Nor is the US. Following the Pearl Harbor attack, when over 2,000 Americans were killed, Truman ordered the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That killed 140,000. Was that a mistake? Was that genocide? Israel must do whatever it needs to do to ensure its survival, and prevent these terrorist attacks from ever occurring again. And it will.

Suffering of Israeli innocents? According to the brother of the former leader of the British Labor party Jeremy Corbyn, there was no butchering, no beheadings, no raping, and no massacres. It is all a big lie. A set-up. I suspect that Corbyn speaks for a large percentage of those misguided pro-Hamas fools protesting today.

Portugal President to Palestinian Ambassador: "You shouldn't have started it". It's really that simple!

Snatched? lol. Like the US snatched Texas, Arizona, and California from Mexico? Like the US snatched Florida and Puerto Rico from Spain? I could go on. Gaza was won in a war that Israel did not start. In fact, prior to 1967, Gaza wasn't independent. It was ruled by Egypt. There NEVER was an independent Palestine. Looking back, Israel should have never relinquished Gaza. It was a big mistake. Little did they realize at the time that within months it would be totally controlled by terrorist thugs. Though if Israel continued to control it, you can bet they would treat their Arab citizens far better than the two dozen Arab countries treated their Jewish citizens (Morocco excluded). Eighteen years since Israel walked away from Gaza. It was not snatched, occupied, ruled, etc.

They are not prisoners. They control their own destiny. Look at Israel, surrounded by hostile neighbors on all sides, and in 75 years they made the desert bloom. They are one of the world leaders in industry, modern technology, agriculture advancement. Why couldn't the Gazans make their land flourish like Israel did. If Gaza is a prison, the jailers and wardens are Hamas.

Blah, blah, blah. More mindless blather. Ok, then explain to me why you described Gaza as occupied. EXACTLY WHO was occupying Gaza for the past 18 years prior to October 7th?

The UN can issue 1000 resolutions about Israel's behavior. It only strengthens Israel's resolve. And I can guarantee you that regardless of whether Israel has a right-wing or left-wing government, the Golan Heights will NEVER be allowed to return to the old days when terrorists from Lebanon scaled the Heights and reigned terror down on Israeli citizens. The Golan Heights is fully integrated into Israel. Now and forever.

Nope. You are simply uninformed. Gaza was the one fruits of victory after the 6 day 1967 war, after Israel was invaded by its neighbours. ANother war that Israel didn't ask for. Gaza was as much of Israel as Puerto Rico or Texas is of the United States. Territory won in war. Nevertheless, Israel returned Gaza, and the last Israeli left in 2005. So how is Gaza occupied? Occupied by whom? The Hamas terrorists the Gazans voted for? In 18 years they could have built water desalinization plants, electrical grids, internet towers etc. They chose not to better the lives of their citizens. Instead they chose to build a terrorist state. And btw, claiming that you are not anti-Israel or anti-Jewish doesn't make it so.

Racism, racism, racism... YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN. You and your fellow Jew-haters, who shroud your anti-Semitism with the pathetic excuse of our battle is with Zionists not Jews, clearly need to be schooled. Israel has the most heterogenous population in the area. Its Arab citizens flourish. They own businesses, are members of the civil service, serve in the army, and on the Supreme Court. And where are all of the Tunisian Jews? The Algerian Jews? The Iraqi Jews? etc.. They were driven out by the Jew hating citizens of their countries which they resided for centuries. So these countries have basically become Judenfrei. So like 99% of what u say, your racism claims make no sense. The only racism is the Arab racism that drove out the Jews with pogroms. And while I am on a roll, Israel is a country made up of over 60% non-whites. This is not from me, but by Ritchie Torres, Bronx Congressman who is Black, Latino, and gay. Don't get me wrong. Racism exists. And if you want to see one of the prime examples of this, just look into the nearest mirror.

The only genocide in the Middle East is that being committed by the Hamas terrorists. Israel has sent millions of texts and phone calls, dropped millions of pamphlets and flyers from the air in advance warning civilians to evacuate prior to the IDF entering. Hamas has underground bunkers, tunnels, and command centers beneath hospitals and schools. Hamas doesn't care about the lives of their own civilians. They are willing to use their own civilians as human shields. They butcher innocent Israelis. They rape and torture women and children. Good vs. evil was never more evident. This is the battle not only between Israel and the Hamas Nazis, but between the civilized world and barbarians. Israel will not leave Gaza before every inch of those tunnels and and terrorist command centers has been flooded and destroyed. Israel will not leave Gaza until Hamas has been eradicated. That is not genocide. It is called survival.

And your point is? Israel's goal to to totally eradicate Hamas so they can no longer commit massacres atrocities. Of course there are Gazan civilian casualties. But unlike Hamas which commits wholesale slaughter and unspeakable horrors, the IDF drops leaflets in the civilian areas warning the citizens to leave. Good vs. evil was never so clear. Every Gazan death can be attributed to Hamas. They started this war. The IDF will end it on its own terms. And if you think posting links to quotes from UN bureaucrats or some former biased NY Times journalist will sway anyone's opinion, you are wrong.

And why would any sane rational person care what Amnesty International has to say about Israel any more than what a disgraced UN bureaucrat has to say? The UN (with Iran as the head of its Human Rights Commission and China set to lead the Security Council next month) and Amnesty International have as much credibility about Israel as do any other Jew-hating, Israel organization. The only ones who listen to them and quote them are other Israel haters and anti-Semites. I'll take my cue from people that ACTUALLY matter. Like the those White House, US Senate, and House of Reps. I give a lot more credibility to what an elected US Rep has to say than what a spiteful, unelected bureaucrat from the UN has to say on the subject: GOP lawmaker contends ‘there are very few innocent Palestinian citizens’ (msn.com)