Israel is Coming Apart at the Seams, It Seems

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  1. Ancalagon

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    Channel14 reports that tensions have risen because of alleged stalled nuclear negotiations between Iran and the US. They also claim Israel is preparing attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Britain has allegedly already warned ships in the Persian gulf.

    https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lre4t2rvxk2p

    Israeli media reporting a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could be imminent.
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    The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is preparing for an emergency evacuation due to security risks. The US has authorized the departure of non-essential personnel and their families from Bahrain and Kuwait. Defense Secretary Hegsett has approved voluntary departure for military families in the Middle East.

    https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lre32vy6a22w
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    Israeli aggression against a neighbour? Must be a day ending in "y".

    https://x.com/humeyra_pamuk/status/1932831148729663749

    There is increasing daylight between the European and American positions on this. It would be foolish to think that this was a principled position by Starmer, Macron and company, but it does seem to be a tactical effort to oppose American policy at least optically as a reaction to the other things that the Trump Administration is doing on the world stage. Rubio was pissing blood about the ineffectual sanctions several countries applied against Smotrich and Ben-Gvir too.
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    It's so weird, for years now we have been repeatedly told that the words of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir don't represent the Israeli government policy, yet when a bunch of countries say "fair enough, we'll sanction them for being extremist genocidal cunts" suddenly it's anti-Semitic and an attack on Israel.
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    While Israel is engaged in attacking Iran, they've cut communications to Gaza. Fuck knows what they're doing under cover of darkness but it is apparent that their fake "aid" program was increasingly being used to lure starving people and them massacre them. There were daily mass killings at the GHF sites.
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    Well, they were going to offer shower facilities too, but...
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    The UK is proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group after they threw some paint on RAF planes that were being used to assist Israel. You know they're losing the argument when they resort to shit like this. What happens when hundreds of thousands of people continue to support Palestine Action?

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    The EU has concluded that Israel is in breach the human rights clauses of its free trade agreement, which underpins $68 billion worth of trade, in its blockade of aid, targeting of civilians and forced displacement. The necessary step of suspending the agreement requires unanimity which is unlikely to happen. However only a weighted majority is needed to implement other sanctions and that is more likely, with Spain, Ireland, Belgium and others pressing for action.

    https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/20/eu-israel-human-rights-obligations-gaza-document

    Ireland is also introducing legislation making trade with Israeli settlements in occupied territory illegal. The government has been pushed into this by popular opinion and needs to be pushed further, including to ban the sale of Israeli bonds.
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    I’m so sick of this. The bottom line is that even should Iran or Gaza cough up valid grievances, we know that both these entities are more dangerous than Israel. Just because a mafioso gets acquitted, it doesn’t make him a safe date. All we know for certain is that if you grant either Iran or Gaza a free pass, the knife goes in my back.
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    Good point, lets back off and let Israel kill a few more thousand kids.
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    Yeah, you’re right and just as they’re screaming about the dead children, they finally released the body of a dead baby taken hostage before this all started.
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    Good point, lets back off and let Israel kill a few more thousand kids in revenge, their blood will make things better.
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    Here's the thing @NeonMosfet, the question isn't are Hamas shit and deserve whatever they get. That's a given.

    The issue is if Israel are carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

    The answer to that question isn't changed by how bad Hamas might be.
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    There are also stories emerging of the flour that's being supplied by the GHF being laced with Oxycodone.
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    Not a good week for the BBC. Their coverage of the region is edited by Raffi Berg, a Netanyahu plant with ties to Mossad. He's been responsible for repeated shenanigans with documentary output seeking to censor negative coverage of Israel and for the appallingly biased news content that the BBC has put out.

    This week, as they planned to air the Glastonbury festival, it emerged that BBC would cut the feed during the performance of Irish rap group Kneecap, who have been highlighting the genocide in Palestine repeatedly. (This after the UK government failed to stop Kneecap from playing the festival at all.)
    However - not only did others broadcast Kneecap to millions of viewers on social media, capturing their chants of "Fuck Keir Starmer" amidst their usual output, several other artists decided to include anti-genocide messaging on the live broadcast, most notably the group Bob Vylan, who led the crowd in the chant "Death to the IDF". :lol:

    Zionists are predicably in absolute uproar, screeching about how this targets "the Jews". Police investigations have been announced.

    Along with their absurd decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group, the British establishment apparently does not understand that such censorship is counterproductive. It speaks of a desperate attempt to control the narrative when the argument has been lost.

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    Weird how there's nothing wrong with saying Hamas must be destroyed (a sentiment I would generally agree with) yet even while condemning Israel's actions in Gaza it is apparently wrong to condemn the army carrying those actions out
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    I've said the IDF, the Lakud Party, and Hamas need to be beamed onto an island where they can just kill each other, and leave everyone else alone.
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    So which is the Terran, the Protoss, and the Zerg? :chris:
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    Kneecap's statement came after U.K. police said that they were investigating video related to a Kneecap concert from 2024 in which one of the band's members appears to shout, "up Hamas, up Hezbollah."



    U.K. police also said they were reviewing video from a concert in 2023 in which one Kneecap member appears to call for killing Conservative party lawmakers, who are often known as Tories, by saying on stage: "The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP."​


    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kneecap-coachella-hamas-hezbollah-israel-gaza-war/
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    First:

    [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.timesofisrael.com/settl...ts-amid-riot-in-west-bank-village-9-arrested/[/url]



    A group of several dozen Israelis attacked IDF reserve soldiers while rampaging in the West Bank between late Friday and early Saturday morning, in the latest act of settler violence.

    The reservists and police were dispatched to Kafr Malik near Ramallah on Friday evening due to fresh rioting there. The area was declared a closed military zone due to a deadly settler attack there on Wednesday.

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    [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...on-a-danger-to-the-security-of-the-residents/[/url]



    Israeli settlers torched a multi-million-shekel security installation used to “thwart terror attacks and maintain security” in the Ramallah area of the West Bank overnight, according to the IDF.
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    As the attacks from the settlers escalated, the IDF ended up killing several Palestinians, and detaining a few settlers.

    Another successful day for the cleansing campaign.
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    Reminder: The official death toll includes only identified bodies whose deaths were directly due to violence. It excludes those missing, those who have starved, have died of disease or secondary complications due to the destruction of healthcare.
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