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Israel-Hamas Thread II

o_mlly

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Your implications are clear.

Imply: to express, suggest or show something without stating it directly.

Maybe you think that lets you off the hook. It doesn't.
I see you do not know the distinction. "Hook", What hook? What may I infer from that comment? Or, conversely, whatever are you implying in that comment? Get it? If not, ask @freddy. Perhaps he could help you out.

Now, back to the thread.
 
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? Because they aren't legitimate targets.

The rest of your post evidence the truth of my claim about posters who are ruled only by their emotions. I hope you get a grip on yourself.

In the NT there is a line seldom if ever mentioned,
from John; "Let the dead bury their dead."

How can a corpse bury a corpse?
I take it to mean, a corpse has no emotions, cold and stiff.

So too with Amalek,
Amalek represents the cold rationality which makes us question everything we do or experience.

Therefore the commandment to destroy Amalek.
 
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Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, hepatitis: Thousands fall ill in war-ravaged Gaza amid spike in infectious diseases

The WHO chief said there were worrying signals of epidemic diseases “including bloody diarrhea and jaundice,” adding that there have also been reports of high levels of diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections.

Other diseases reported in Gaza include measles, meningitis, chickenpox and acute viral hepatitis, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on Tuesday said there are between 160,000 to 165,000 cases of diarrhea among children under the age of five, which is “much more” than in normal times.

Most of the Strip has run out of food, potable water, electricity and medical supplies as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians crowd into small spaces to shelter from Israel’s bombs.

After Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza on October 9, the enclave quickly began running out of food and drinking water. Fuel supplies have dwindled, leaving the population with little to no electricity to power medical facilities, refrigerate food or even store bodies killed in the fighting.
 
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In the NT there is a line seldom if ever mentioned,
from John; "Let the dead bury their dead."
Let the spiritually dead (those who do not follow Jesus) bury their physically dead. The demand of Jesus overrides what both the Jewish and the Hellenistic world regarded as a filial obligation of the highest importance.
 
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That's still silly. Was Britain on someone's hook to answer "Why were the Germans striking your shipping?" Was the US ever on the hook to answer "Why did the Japanese invade the Philippines?"
Gaza exists only by leave of Israel, which still controls its (Gaza’s) borders. It’s a veritable open air prison camp, this present “war” is akin to a prison riot.
 
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There's a theme in this thread along the lines of "it's a pity all these civilians have been killed in Gaza and life made miserable for those still alive (not as strong as terrible) but the IDF have to be ruthless because Hamas have said they will only do it (Oct 7) again. But the IDF (and West Bank settlers) have been "doing it again" for many years:

A Synopsis of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

 
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Israel is using AI to target strikes more rapidly than humanly possible. Whistleblowers shed light on the process.

However a short statement on the IDF website claimed it was using an AI-based system called Habsora (the Gospel, in English) in the war against Hamas to “produce targets at a fast pace”.

The IDF said that “through the rapid and automatic extraction of intelligence”, the Gospel produced targeting recommendations for its researchers “with the goal of a complete match between the recommendation of the machine and the identification carried out by a person”.

According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”

The target division was created to address a chronic problem for the IDF: in earlier operations in Gaza, the air force repeatedly ran out of targets to strike.

One official, who worked on targeting decisions in previous Gaza operations, said the IDF had not previously targeted the homes of junior Hamas members for bombings. They said they believed that had changed for the present conflict, with the houses of suspected Hamas operatives now targeted regardless of rank.

“That is a lot of houses,” the official told +972/Local Call. “Hamas members who don’t really mean anything live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and bomb the house and kill everyone there.”

A separate source told the publication the Gospel had allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.
 
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United Nations General Assembly votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza

A majority of 153 nations voted for the ceasefire resolution in the General Assembly’s emergency special session Tuesday, while 10 voted against and 23 abstained. Israel along with the United States, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Austria, Czechia, Guatemala, Liberia, Micronesia and Nauru voted against the resolution.

Tuesday’s brief resolution calls for a ceasefire, for all parties to comply with international law, and for humanitarian access to hostages as well as their “immediate and unconditional” release.

While a general assembly vote is politically significant and is seen as wielding moral weight, it is not binding, unlike a Security Council resolution [which the US scuttled as the lone no vote earlier].
 
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I'd be surprised if US military intelligence hasn't been doing that for a while. I can easily see how it can be applied to rapidly sift through collected data and make correlations faster and more accurately than human beings. That would especially true with non-spacial data.

If the "higher ups" have been effectively targeted and eliminated, then those who had previously been lower on the chain rise into the leadership slots...so they logically become the next set of targets.

That sort of progression happened even when I was in the business. It's the natural result of AI-aided targeting and striking. In Vietnam, the US had to keep pounding at the same top tier of targets because they were never struck effectively the first time, and then the top-tier targets struck earlier had been rebuilt before the entire top tier had been struck. By the Persian Gulf war, technology had progressed that the top tier was effective eliminated within days.

That happened during the Bosinian War as well, which led, somewhat indirectly, to the US accidently bombing the Chinese embassy. The site of the embassy had formerly been a Czech government facility so low in priority that it rated analysis and reporting only every five years. It was in the CIA's ballpark to monitor, and unfortunately they dropped the ball. The requirement was for the CIA analyst to have actually sent a military attaché to the location, eyeball it, and make a report. That never happened, so it wasn't reported that the government had actually sold the site to the Chinese, the buildings had been razed, and the Chinese embassy built at that location. The CIA analyst had reported it "NAC"--No Apparent Change. We actually found out later who did that.

What was worse, a few years earlier Congress had--in a terrible error of judgement--declared that the "competitive analysis" traditionally practiced by the foreign intelligence community was wasteful. "Competitive analysis" is when more than one agency monitors the same intelligence problem from different points of view and then collegiately hash out their differences. No more of that, Congress ordered; every agency must stay in one "lane of the road."

So, whereas in the past that low-priority Czech facility would have been at least a training item for an Air Force analyst ("Umm, sergeant...this place looks different from the description...."), this time there was nobody to take an separate look.
 
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My previous reply to your above post have I deleted.

It was off topic,
 
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Huh, too bad you can't seem to 'empathize' with Israel for all the suffering hamas, gazans, west bankers, and Arabs in general have inflicted on the Israeli people. You only seem to be able to 'empathize' with the terrorists and company.
 
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Huh, too bad you can't seem to 'empathize' with Israel for all the suffering hamas, gazans, west bankers, and Arabs in general have inflicted on the Israeli people. You only seem to be able to 'empathize' with the terrorists and company.
The web designer has installed a polar ice cap on the top of everyone's avatar. Hopefully, that will help extinguish the "hair on fire" emotions of some posters in this thread.

The rational moral question after the emotion subsides is, "Should I respond with vengeance?" And the answer is, "No".
 
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Hmmmm, I didn't see the one single most important question in there that should have been asked (maybe I missed it?):
Do you want to see the Jews dead and/or driven out of 'palestine'? That seems to be the common thread uniting all anti-Israeli terrorist groups. Without answering that question it seems the rest of it is just simply excuses for hatred and violence. 'They did such and such to me and mine therefore I am justified in killing ALL Jews.'
And when the Israeli's strike back it is the 'innocent' civilians (you know....the ones who have never lifted a finger or voice to remove or help remove terrorists from their territories) who take the brunt by specific design of the terrorists (human shield philosophy). Instead the 'innocent civilians' just whine, cry and complain about how they just want peace but instead Israel attacks THEM even though they are not terrorists......wash, rinse, repeat.
 
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They should ask hamas.....after all they probably have most of the meds since they try to steal everything not nailed down (maybe even that which is?).
 
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They should ask hamas.....after all they probably have most of the meds since they try to steal everything not nailed down (maybe even that which is?).

Pediatric doctor describes Israeli raid at hospital

After five harrowing days under siege by Israeli tanks and snipers, Hussam Abu Safiya watched from inside as Israeli forces raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday.

The hospital has been caring for 65 patients, including 12 children in the intensive care unit and six newborns in incubators, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency, OCHA. An additional 3,000 internally displaced people were estimated to be living in the hospital facility.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces detained without charge about 70 medical staffers and took them to an unknown location

After a few hours, just five of the medical staffers were released, he said. The others have not yet returned.

“As we speak, bulldozers are demolishing the hospital wall,” he said

Overcrowded hospitals, few supplies causing 'complete collapse' of Gaza health system

The health care system in Gaza is "completely collapsing" with overcrowded hospitals and few medical supplies amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), was forced to stop providing support to Martyrs and Beni Suhaila clinics in southern Gaza more than a week ago due to evacuation orders from Israeli forces

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

"The hospital [al-Ahli] itself has been substantially damaged, and in acute need of oxygen and essential medical supplies, water, food and fuel,"

Out of the 3,500 beds the hospitals [throughout Gaza] used to provide, only 1,400 are now available, and they are all full, Tedros said.

"Two major hospitals in southern Gaza are operating at three times their bed capacity, running out of supplies and sheltering thousands of displaced people."

Tedros added that it has become difficult to resupply health facilities due to heavy fighting and "inadequate resupply" from outside Gaza.
 
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Huh, too bad you can't seem to 'empathize' with Israel for all the suffering hamas, gazans, west bankers, and Arabs in general have inflicted on the Israeli people. You only seem to be able to 'empathize' with the terrorists and company.

Ducking the question:
 
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.....what comes next:
[who will pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?]

David Friedman writes (after a trip to the UAE and Saudi Arabia):

In pursuing its aims of dismantling Hamas’s military machine and wiping out its top leaders, Israel has killed and wounded thousands of innocent Gazan civilians. Hamas knew this would happen and did not care a whit. Israel must. It will inherit responsibility for a gigantic humanitarian disaster that will require a global coalition years to fix and manage. As The Times reported on Tuesday, “Satellite imagery shows that the fighting has resulted in heavy damage to almost every corner of Gaza City” — at least 6,000 buildings hammered, with about a third of them in ruins.

A recent essay on this subject in Haaretz by David Rosenberg noted that “even if the fighting ends in a decisive victory over Hamas, Israel will be saddled with a problem that almost defies solution. Most of the public discussion about what happens the day after the war has focused on who will govern Gaza. That alone is a knotty question, but the problem goes much deeper than who will be responsible for law and order and providing basic services: Whoever is in charge will have to rebuild the wreckage that is Gaza and create a functioning economy.”
That will be a multibillion-dollar, multiyear endeavor. And I can tell you based on my conversations here, no Gulf Arab states (not to mention European Union states or the U.S. Congress) are going to come into Gaza with bags of money to rebuild it unless — and even this is not a sure thing — Israel has a legitimate, effective Palestinian partner and commits to one day negotiating a two-state solution. Any Israeli official who says otherwise is delusional. “We need to see a viable two-state solution plan, a road map that is serious before we talk about the next day and rebuilding the infrastructure of Gaza,” Lana Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United Nations, said in an interview Tuesday with The Wall Street Journal.

 
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and why is there a shortage of tall buildings in Gaza. Israeli bombs/missiles or misdirected Hamas rockets. How much of the c50% damage in N Gaza is due to misfired Hamas rockets (answer: close to a round number)
 
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