This has been quite the saga unfolding for the past couple weeks.

Six Palestinians escape from high-security prison in Israel | Fatah ...
6 days ago ... Israeli police launch a search after six Palestinians managed to break out from Gilboa prison overnight through a tunnel. Police officers ...


Israel attacks solidarity protests for escaped Palestinians | Israel ...
3 days ago ... Earlier on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said Israeli forces had arrested at least six relatives of the escaped Palestinians.


Israeli forces launch manhunt as 6 Palestinians escape prison ...
4 days ago ... Israeli forces have launched a massive manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from a high-security prison.


Israeli guard slept through Palestinian prisoners' escape: Probe ...
5 days ago ... Israeli police launch search after six Palestinians managed to break out from Gilboa prison overnight through a tunnel. 6 Sep 2021.


Israeli police say two more Palestinian prison escapees caught ...
2 days ago ... “The Israelis have put Palestinians in prison with the occupation of ... in prison since 1996 and was seen as the ringleader of the escape.


Palestinian families of escaped prisoners targeted by Israelis | Israel ...
4 days ago ... Israeli police launch search after six Palestinians managed to break out from Gilboa prison overnight through a tunnel. 6 Sep 2021. More ...


Palestinians vow to fight Israeli forces if they raid Jenin camp | Israel ...
4 days ago ... Palestinian gunmen say they will repel Israeli troops if they enter the refugee camp in search of six men who escaped from an Israeli jail.


Palestinians hold 'day of rage' solidarity protests for escapees ...
2 days ago ... Palestinians hold protest in solidarity with the six escaped prisoners as well those still in Israeli jails.

But of course it ends just like it always does.


Israel hits Hamas sites in Gaza over a rocket firing: Military
There were no reports of casualties in the attack, testing a fragile truce that ended fierce and deadly fighting in May.


The recent rise in cross-border violence tests a fragile truce that ended fierce and deadly fighting in May [File: Anas Baba/AFP]
11 Sep 2021


Israeli fighter jets have hit Hamas sites in Gaza in response to rocket firing towards Israel on Friday evening, an Israeli army spokesman said in a social media post.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack.


Sirens warning of incoming rocket fire sounded near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip late on Friday, the Israeli military said on Saturday.

The sirens were sounded just hours after police captured two individuals from Gaza’s Islamic Jihad group who had escaped from a maximum-security Israeli prison earlier this week.

Early on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post reported that two more escaped prisoners have been captured. They were identified as Zakaria Zubeidi and Mahmoud al-Arida.

The recent rise in cross-border violence tests a fragile truce that ended fierce fighting in May.

More than 260 Palestinians, many of them civilians and children, and 13 Israelis were killed in the May assault on Gaza, during which Israel carried out relentless air raids across the coastal enclave, prompting Gaza fighters to fire rockets towards Israeli cities.

Israel keeps Gaza under blockade, tightly restricting movement out of the territory that is home to two million Palestinians.

Egypt also maintains restrictions on the enclave. Both cite threats from Hamas for the restrictions.

The blockade restricts the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza and has ravaged the territory’s economy and harming the population of two million.

Source: News Agencies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...s-sites-in-gaza-over-a-rocket-firing-military

 

He's hoping to divert from the topic of biden/harris.
That way lies monsters.

 

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza as hostilities escalate
Tensions between Israel and Hamas have been escalating after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from an Israeli maximum security prison.


Smoke rises following an air raid on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 13, 2021 [Said Khatib/AFP]
13 Sep 2021

Israeli aircraft have hit several targets in the besieged Gaza Strip after rocket launches towards Israel, marking the third consecutive night of hostilities.

The Israeli military said it launched attacks on Hamas targets early on Monday following incoming rocket fire late on Sunday. There were no immediate reports of casualties on either side.

According to an Israeli military statement on Twitter, the targets included four Hamas compounds used for military training, a weapons workshop and the entrance to an underground tunnel.

Hazem Qasem, a spokesman for Hamas, the Palestinian group which governs Gaza, told Al Jazeera the attacks were a response to the escape last week of six Palestinian inmates from a maximum-security Israeli prison. Two of them remain on the run while the others have been rearrested.

“The Israeli occupation is trying to weaken the Palestinian morale and instil fear of a possible escalation by bombing Gaza,” he said.

Qasem said that any escalation – including the potential killing of the two prisoners still on the run or any further raids in the Jenin camp – would not be tolerated.


The latest round of hostilities escalated on Friday, when sirens warning of rocket fire sounded in southern Israel, hours after Israeli police rearrested two of the prisoners affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

The Israeli air raids on Monday came after three separate rocket launches from the Gaza Strip, at least two of which were intercepted by Israel’s defence systems.

One rocket was intercepted on Sunday night over the southern city of Sderot, where five residents were lightly wounded, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Israel’s foreign minister proposed on Sunday a development plan to improve living conditions within the enclave, where some two million people live, in exchange for a cessation of the hostilities.

Yair Lapid offered to repair the electricity system, build a water desalination plant and bring significant improvements to the healthcare system. “In exchange, Hamas will commit to long-term quiet,” he said.

The foreign minister said his plan does not yet amount to official policy in Israel’s eight-party coalition government but had support from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...rgets-in-gaza-as-hostilities-enter-fourth-day

 

No one is diverting anything, how many threads are there that just spew on Biden/Harris for no particular reason, just because you can.

Besides, this thread is not about Biden or Harris. This is just you whining.

Maybe if you don't want people reading this thread, taking away from your precious Biden/Harris hate fest, how about staying away from these threads you hate so much?

Just a thought.

 

Palestine the so-called birthplace of fairytale Jesus, religious people are so fucking dumb...Islam is the major religion and christians fucking hate them even know they believe in the same fairy-tale. The world would be such a better place without religious propaganda

 

Myth #2: The conflict is all about religion
It is true that Israelis are mostly Jewish and Palestinians are mostly Muslim, but religion is pretty low on the list of direct drivers of the conflict. This is not, despite what your grade school teacher may have suggested, a clash between Judaism and Islam over religious differences. It's a clash between nationalities — Israeli and Palestinian — over secular issues of land and nationhood.

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/18093732/israel-palestine-misconceptions

 

Christian conservatives are just as evil as radical Muslims, change my mind

 

Oh, Shooter doesn't debate religion.
Not with believers or non believers.
Like he said, you either believe or you don't believe.
He studied religions of the world as part of his philosophy classes, and discovered evil is pretty subjective.
Like faith.
So, no, CFH, Shooter won't be trying to change your belief set.

 

Dear lord, please nail CFH with a lightning bolt. The lobotomy clearly did not work.

 

Okey doke

 

The Palestinians need to stop offending Israel. They need to become a docile source of cheap labor for their Jewish masters. They should get jobs as construction laborers for Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

 

‘Israeli intelligence torturing Palestinian prisoners’: Lawyers
Detainees are being deprived of food, sleep and medical help as part of a ‘journey of torture’, their lawyers allege.


Mahmoud al-Ardah was re-arrested following his escape from Gilboa prison in the village of Umm Al Ghanam [Israeli police handout via Reuters]
By Zena Al Tahhan
15 Sep 2021
Occupied West Bank – Two of the four re-arrested Palestinian political prisoners have told their lawyers they are being subjected to physical and mental abuse and torture by Israeli interrogators, in the first meeting they had with them since being taken into custody last week.

Lawyers Khaled and Ruslan Mahajneh from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Commission of Detainees Affairs defence team met separately with Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Ardah on Wednesday, after Israeli intelligence services lifted the ban on the prisoners’ access to their lawyers five days after their re-arrest.

Khaled Mahajneh gave an emotional interview to Palestine TV as he left Jalama Detention Center after seeing his client Mohammed al-Ardah, who he said is being deprived of food, sleep and medical care while enduring intensive rounds of interrogation.

“Mohammed has undergone, and is still undergoing, a very difficult journey of torture,” said Khaled. “Upon his rearrest, Mohammed was taken to the Nazareth interrogation centre, where he was interrogated in a very ugly way.

“There were about 20 intelligence interrogators in a very small room who stripped him of all his clothes, including his undergarments, and forced him to remain naked for several hours. They gave him a shawl later to cover his genitals, and then transferred him to Jalama interrogation centre.”



‘Cuts and scratches’
The lawyer said Israeli forces beat Mohammed during his arrest. “His head was beaten to the ground and he is now injured above his right eye. He has not received the medical treatment he needs until this moment. He suffers from cuts and scratches all over his body, due to the escape attempt and the Israeli forces’ manhunt for him and Zakaria Zubaidi.”

Israeli authorities announced the rearrest of Mahmoud Abdullah al-Ardah, 46, and Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri, 49, on the southern outskirts of Nazareth late on Friday. Zakaria Zubeidi, 46 and Mohammed al-Ardah, 39, were arrested nearby early on Saturday, in the Palestinian village of Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam. The four are being held and interrogated in Jalama.

They were among six men – along with Ayham Nayef Kamanji, 35, and Munadel Infaat, 26, whose whereabouts remain unknown – who broke out of Israel’s Gilboa prison at dawn on September 6.

‘Round-the-clock interrogations’
Khaled Mahajneh said six Israeli interrogators stood behind Mohammed al-Ardah, whose arms and legs were shackled, during their meeting. The lawyer said he repeatedly asked for the shackles to be removed from Mohammed’s arms at least, but the officers refused.

According to Khaled, Mohammed was not given food until four days after being rearrested, and has not slept for more than 10 hours because of consecutive rounds of interrogation.

“He has been undergoing round-the-clock interrogation since Saturday… He is being interrogated in the late night and early morning hours,” said Khaled. “He does not see the sun, or light, or the wind. When I met with him, he asked me whether it was afternoon – he didn’t know it was midnight.”

The lawyer said Mohammed is being held in a cell “that does not exceed 2 by 1square metres”, lives “under 24-hour surveillance”, and is being “interrogated by 10 officers every day”.



In a separate interview, lawyer Ruslan Mahajneh, who met with Mahmoud al-Ardah the same night, said the detainee told him he was undergoing round-the-clock interrogation.

And, according to a statement by the PA Commission, lawyer Avigdor Feldman met with Zakaria Zubaidi at noon on Wednesday.

“It was found that the prisoner Zubaidi was beaten and abused during his arrest with the prisoner Mohammed al-Ardah, causing him a broken jaw and two broken ribs,” the Commission said.

Zubaidi, the statement continued, “was transferred to an Israeli hospital and was given painkillers after the arrest” and he “suffers from bruises and scratches all over his body as a result of the beatings and abuse”.

While the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed the use of torture in 1999, interrogators – particularly the intelligence services – have continued to use violence against Palestinian detainees, which courts have retroactively sanctioned. The four prisoners are undergoing interrogation by the Israeli intelligence services in cooperation with Lahav 443 unit of the police, which lawyers say could last for up to 45 days.

The prisoners appeared separately on Saturday before the Israeli Magistrate Court in Nazareth, which decided to extend their detention until September 19 to “complete the investigation”.

Trial proceedings
At the court hearing on Saturday, according to the PA Commission, several initial charges were presented against the four: “Escape, aiding and abetting in an escape, conspiracy to commit an attack, and membership in a hostile organisation and providing services to it.”

Khaled Mahajneh told Al Jazeera after the hearing that authorities refused to provide information about the “conspiring to commit an attack” allegation, claiming the file is secret.

In his interview with Palestine TV, Khaled said Mohammed al-Ardah is “fully rejecting the security allegations that the intelligence are trying to place on him”. Mohammed reportedly told Khaled he “could have done anything in the five days” he was free, but he “sought for freedom, and sought to walk on the streets of occupied 1948 Palestine.”

Under international law, a prisoner of war who escapes from prison “shall be liable only to a disciplinary punishment”, meaning no additional years should be added to their initial sentence, even if it is a repeated attempt.

In previous incidents where Palestinian prisoners escaped from Israeli prisons and were re-arrested, several faced punitive measures such as long periods in solitary confinement but did not receive longer sentences, according to lawyers.

Most Palestinians view detainees in Israeli prisons, which number 4,650 Palestinians including 200 children and 520 administrative detainees held without trial or charges, as political prisoners who are in detention because of the Israeli military occupation or their resistance to it.

Before breaking out of the prison, four of the six prisoners had been serving life sentences, while two were being held in detention awaiting military trial.

Those sentenced were arrested between 1996 and 2006 and had been convicted of carrying out attacks against Israeli military and civilian targets. Five of them are affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, while one is a senior member of the armed wing of Fatah, a Palestinian group that dominates the PA.

After the prisoners escaped through a tunnel that opened up a few metres beyond the prison wall, Israeli forces launched an enormous manhunt to search for them and arrested some of their family members.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021...gence-torturing-palestinian-prisoners-lawyers

 

I wholeheartedly agree... It's all about the monsters!

And you're hardly one to judge people for their lies, you never once held Trump's feet to the fire over his...

 

Just a coincidence?

Greece probes crash that killed witness in Netanyahu trial
A former official in Israel’s communications ministry was expected to testify on allegations ex-PM offered benefits to a company for positive media coverage.


The former Israeli prime minister is on trial for allegedly accepting expensive gifts from wealthy associates, allegations he denies. [File: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
14 Sep 2021


Greek authorities are investigating the crash of a private plane from Israel that killed a prosecution witness in Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial.

Haim Geron, a former senior official at Israel’s ministry of communications, and his wife Esther were killed when the single-engine Cessna 182 plane crashed late on Monday off the island of Samos.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs identified the victims, both aged 69, adding that consular officials and the ministry were working with the family to return the bodies.

Geron was one of more than 300 witnesses prosecutors listed for Netanyahu’s trial on corruption charges.

The former Israeli prime minister is on trial for allegedly accepting expensive gifts from wealthy associates, allegations he denies.

Geron had been expected to testify on allegations that Netanyahu negotiated with a telecommunications firm to secure positive coverage in exchange for policies benefitting the company.

Greece’s Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Board is investigating the causes of the crash, officials said Tuesday.

The single-engine took off from Haifa and crashed near Samos Airport.

“Shortly before landing, communication with the control tower on Samos was lost and the Civil Aviation Authority informed the search and rescue center about the loss of communication,” the authority said in a statement.

The bodies of the two Israeli occupants were recovered by the Coast Guard several hours later with the help of divers.

Netanyahu, now the opposition leader in Israel’s parliament, has denied all accusations and mocked the size of the witness list.

Kondylis, head of the Greek air accident investigation and aviation safety board, on Tuesday said a team of specialists would fly to Samos on Wednesday to inspect the wreckage.

“A fisherman said … there was a large explosion, followed by a smaller one,” Kondylis told AFP.

“The wreckage will show if that’s the case,” Kondylis said, adding that the wreckage was approximately 33 metres (108 feet) underwater and two kilometres (1.2 miles) south of the airport.

He added that he was “hopeful” there would be more clarity on the causes of the crash over the next two weeks.

Source: News Agencies

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/14/greece-probes-crash-that-killed-witness-in-netanyahu-trial

 

SAUDIS TURN TO ISRAEL now that Joe Biden has removed all the missile defense systems we had placed in Saudi Arabia
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 BY BARENAKEDISLAM

In an obvious move to appease Iran, Joe Biden has ordered removal of America’s most advanced missile defense system and Patriot batteries from Saudi Arabia, even as the Kingdom faces continued missile and drone attacks from Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.



In a move that would have major implications for the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is reportedly considering buying Israel missile defense systems. According to the online magazine Breaking Defense, the Saudis are interested in Israel’s Iron Dome system which focuses on intercepting short-range rockets as well as the Barak ER system, which intercepts Cruise missiles.
The Trump Administration deployed Patriot antimissile batteries and troops to Saudi Arabia after Iranian drone attacks hit Saudi oil facilities and to Iraq in 2020 after a spate of missile and rocket attacks on US forces by Iran and Iranian-backed militias. The redeployment of the defenses from Prince Sultan Air Base outside of Riyadh came as America’s Gulf Arab allies nervously watched the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Don’t be surprised if Saudi Arabia is the next country to join the Abraham Accords.

 

Meet the Team of Israel-Haters Joe Biden Has Assembled

BY ROBERT SPENCER


Oh yeah, this is sure to work: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, according to the Jewish Press, that he was “sending an envoy to the Middle East to ‘seek to calm tensions’ even as he urged Israel to avoid killing civilians.” Israel does more than any other military force has ever done to avoid killing civilians, so that was not a good sign. Even worse was that the soothing envoy is Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hady Amr, an indefatigable supporter of the genocidal Palestinian Arab jihad against Israel.

Back in 2002, Amr declared: “I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada.” He said that Palestinians would “never, never forget what the Israeli people, the Israeli military, and Israeli democracy have done to Palestinian children. And there will be thousands who will seek to avenge these brutal murders of innocents.” He did not, of course, say a word about Hamas’ long-established practice of launching jihad attacks from civilian areas, so that retaliatory fire could be used for propaganda purposes. Of course, that was a long time ago, but Amr went on to a long career in the Obama administration and elsewhere, and never showed any sign that he had moderated his positions.

Anyone who is surprised that Biden’s handlers would send a jihad supporter to talk with the Israelis and Palestinians hasn’t been paying attention. Just days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, pro-Erdogan Turkish journalist Hakkı Öcal, according to Ahval News, “highlighted a report on the strong presence of Jews in the cabinet of U.S. President Joe Biden.” The report claimed that there was an “over 50 percent Jewish presence in the new U.S. cabinet,” and pointed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA Deputy Director David Cohen, among others. But Öcal was off base: among Biden’s handlers, Jewish and non-Jewish, there are few, if any, staunch friends of Israel. After just a few months in office, it was clear that Joe Biden’s handlers’ administration was shaping up to be the most anti-Israel presidency since the founding of the modern State of Israel. That is clear from the appointments Biden’s handlers have made. A sampling:

Robert Malley, special envoy to Iran, has become notorious over the years for his support for Iran’s Islamic regime and pronounced distaste for Israel. The Washington Times revealed in February 2021 that back in July 2019, “Iran’s smooth, English-speaking foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East adviser, in an apparent bid to undermine the Trump team and lay the groundwork for post-Trump relations.”

Malley was a good choice for such an assignment. An Israeli security official noted in February 2008 that Malley “has expressed sympathy to Hamas and Hizbullah and offered accounts of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that don’t jibe with the facts.” Obama dropped Malley in May 2008 after it came to light that he had met with representatives of Hamas, but six months later sent him as an envoy to Egypt and Syria.

 

Far-Left Democrats Force Funds for Israel’s Iron Dome Out of Funding Bill


JACOB BLISS21 Sep 2021


The far-left Democrats forced out provisions to fund Israel’s Iron Dome from the continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government funded and raise the debt ceiling, according to reports.

According to Army Technology, “Iron Dome provides defence[sic] against short-range missiles and rockets which pose a threat to the civilian population,” such as those fired from Gaza earlier this year.


Iron Dome defense system battery, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the Hula Valley in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. (JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images).

Due to there not being enough votes to pass the CR as a result of pushback from far-left Democrats, a Politico reporter claimed that House Democrats were forced to remove the Iron Dome provisions to pass the measure.

Before the provisions were taken out, reports confirmed that far-left Democrats told the Democrat leadership they would not vote for the bill if it included the $1 billion funding for the Iron Dome, which caused the Rules Committee to go into recess.

https://twitter.com/ryanobles/statu...ds-for-israels-iron-dome-out-of-funding-bill/

The CR has been revised with the Iron Dome provision taken out.

The far-left members leading this effort have been Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) cannot have any opposition in her party if she hopes to pass anything due to her thin majority in the House.


Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attends a news conference. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images).

Pelosi has already been facing opposition from the Republicans, who have said they will not vote from the CR due to the provision to raise the debt ceiling in the bill.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the head of the far-left Congressional Progressive Caucus, will reportedly meet with Pelosi on Tuesday.


Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MI) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images).

There was funding in the bill to replace the missiles used from the Iron Done in May from the Hamas attack on the Jewish state. Bloomberg reported the Defense Department asked in a classified supplemental request of $1 billion.

 

Actually I agree with cutting off all funding for Israel not just for Iron Dome, But we are in the minority, For now.

Hoyer tells Israel removal of Iron Dome funding is 'technical postponement'

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...iron-dome-funding-is-a-technical-postponement

 

That is certainly a relief. I am glad that President Obama helped the Israelis create their Iron Dome defense, and raised yearly U.S. foreign aid to Israel from three billion dollars a year to four billion dollars a year. Foreign aid to first world countries has always been a good investment. It has the results we intend. Foreign aid to third world countries has usually been a waste of money. Often it goes into the bank accounts of the local strong men.

I would like for Israel to be invited to join NATO, as long as Israel was not required to make any promises to make any concessions to the Palestinians, or to any Muslim country.