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Asinine bull####.

Ask Hamas. They have been stealing financial and food aid for years.

Ya. There is no getting through to me by any lunatic who would ever state that I support genocide, which you have done. I have a fair amount of experience and knowledge of the Iranian issue, which is what Hamas is from the cellular level. They are the force behind this tragedy. Full stop.

Is this a quiz? I know who created the July 2025 Hamas, just as I know who created the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas. The answer is Iran.

Dumb question. One is too many. How many hostages have died so far, and they were in Hamas' "custody."

It's incredibly easy to broaden the issue of Hamas' attack and the Israeli response beyond the basic reality. Hamas is a terrorist group of torturing murderers who have no goal of improving the life of Palestinians, and never has. Netanyahu's political or legal issues are of no concern to me. Israel is very much like the US regarding support or disdain for their Prime Minister. Scores of their political commentators, ex office holders and influential media folks talk about this all the time, but they don't disagree on what needs to be done to Hamas or Hezbollah. Regarding the strikes on Iran, the Israeli dismantling of Iran's air defense system, and the US strike on the three weapons facilities are the best thing that has happened in the Middle East in my adult lifetime, and maybe in 2025 years. A near miraculous outcome when what was possible, and thought likely, is considered.

They've had 18 years.

This is an insane claim. Totally wacky. Reaches the point of disgusting.

Of course they need to adjust in order to reduce a humanitarian disaster, and I absolutely hope they do. It doesn't change the fact that they didn't start this, no are they in any sane way responsible for what Hamas has morphed into as a client of Iran who trains, funds and supplies them for the sole purpose of killing Israelis. Same thing happened in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur. Gross aggression against Israel. In a few days they kick ass, them the aggressors go to the world court of public opinion to get them to stop. They do so, and it's repeated a few years later. That aside, I sincerely hope there is a change that allows the humanitarian aid to get to the innocents and not be stolen by Hamas. .

No. Just someone who has been watching this and paying attention for a very long time, and at times, very closely in the physical sense.

A few thoughts on this. Israel getting "briefed" by the US very likely isn't meaningful. Warnings of this sort happen all the time across the world, kind of like the US was warned about an attack prior to 9-11. There's probably twenty warnings for any event that occurs, and they must be considered and judged. The Israelis thought they had a pretty good grasp of Hamas' intentions prior to Oct 7, and they were dreadfully wrong. In fact, I was listening to the ex Israeli Ambassador to the US a few months ago and he stated that the general Israeli population lost a great deal of confidence in their domestic intel agency. By "primitive attack," are you referring to Oct 7? That was a ground invasion. Iron Dome is a very sophisticated air defense system which can still be overcome by numbers saturation, as all systems can. Israel has absolutely nothing to do with what Hamas has become under the command of Iran. I have no view on an energy component to this situation. We certainly don't need it. Again, the Palestinians have been offered a home state option three times, and refused each. Now they have no leader that the Israelis or the rest of the world can negotiate with. Because Israel is a sovereign nation under no obligation to reveal this info, and they are not signatories to any non proliferation treaties.

I believe that also. But I also know that a Palestinian homeland has been offered three times, and each time was rejected by whomever the "Palestinian leadership" was at the time. I also know that Gaza has deliberately chosen Hamas wince 2007, and all they have done is create an invasion territory underground, launched thousands and thousands of Iranian supplied largely unguided missiles into Israel, stolen hundredds of billions in humanitarian aid and killed scores of Israeli citizens. Hamas' only purpose is to attack Israel. There is no single entity on the Palestinian side that does not advocate and take specific action to eliminate Israel. Ergo, there is nobody to have any reasonable, peace seeking negotiations with. What is going on is horrific, but as the Israeli gov has stated countless times, get rid of Hamas and this ends now.

They built them themselves, quite a while ago. While they have never publicly admitted it, estimates range from 90 to a few hundred, but the higher numbers probably are simply based on plutonium ready for use, not actual weapons. They can launch them any of the three usual ways; airplane strikes, submarine launched or using land launched missiles. Late addition: By the way, the methodology suggesting how Israel got the nuclear material years ago is a really interesting story.

Insanity.

And obviously, I don't disagree. The problem is what it always is, and has been played out time and time again. Israel gets attacked. they defend themselves successfully. The aggressor creates a humanitarian crisis that they are now supposed to fix, all the while supporting that humanitarian crises. Same tune, over and over.

That's the problem when you cause something. At some point you need to admit responsibility, and as horrible as the consequences are, you caused it. Hamas took billions in humanitarian aid over the years and diverted it into an underground labyrinth designed for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. They then launched this madness on Oct 7 going into bedrooms and slaughtering women and babies, filming these atrocities. Then, as they always do, hid behind innocent civilians, intentionally sacrificing them to the response they must have known was coming. Want to solve this? The Israelis have provided that answer for over a year. Get rid of Hamas and it ends.

Please leave your habit of posting some stupid sentence at the end of your stuff, which has nothing to do with anything claimed behind. It is useless stupidity. Hamas is a terrorist organization of Iran, part of their three part collar terrorist group designed to eliminate Israel. The other two are Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Houthis. A few weeks ago, a poster claimed they were a "political organization." That is complete nonsense. They are not nor have ever been a political org. They are a weapon of Iran, caring nothing about the death toll on the people in Gaza. Hamas has subjected the people of Gaza to guaranteed destruction by the attacks they orchestrated on Oct 7. While there once was a chance for coexistence, after that, that outcome no longer exists. They brought this on and they are totally responsible.

Hamas is, and has been, committing genocide in Gaza for years.

Seems like the market agrees with me, eh?

Would be nice, wouldn't it. But, alas, no such weapon exists. The single, best orchestrated strike in history, but complainers, brought on by a bit too hasty and silly presidential assessment. Still, they will go at it again, like the ant colony after you scrape up their nest. The precedent is set though, and direct military action will result if they do. My view is that tis has now become much more of an on the ground intel issue, and the Israelis are way ahead of the game, thus far.

A thoughtful and informational response to a serious issue.

I have been pointing this nonsense out for years. If the details of how DOT wasted money in his tenure doesn't end any political future for this goof, we have no hope.

We are so stupid. We dropped massive ordnance penetrator bombs. We should have used the massive ordnance penetrator and can't ever be possible to attempt a further effort bomb. We'll cross that bridge.......

Like Sacagawea? On the other point, I'm quite confident that the legacy and universal respect for Robert E. Lee will surpass that of Roundybout. Just a guess.

"I demand all statues be removed if they offend my bizarre, unjustified sensitivities ." Three in my town, all demanded by a Dem city council and at senseless expense.