war

[Balanbam00]

Putin tells a joke about the IDF

[sinkov]

More news you won't see on the BBC or Grauniad, or even from my good friend BT, who much prefers to post infantile, photo-shopped pictures.

"Israel on Friday began transferring some 1 million Pfizer vaccine doses to the Palestinians to help them with their floundering coronavirus vaccination campaign, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said Friday."

Why on earth they would help a people who want to wipe them off the face of the earth is beyond me, but clearly their magnanimity and generosity knows no bounds.

[Balanbam00]

Israel to give Palestinians 1.2 million COVID vaccines in coming days, Israel has faced widespread criticism for failing to help Palestinians amid its world-beating vaccine drive.
BUT:
Israel has maintained that under the Oslo Accords, the Palestinians are responsible for immunizations in the West Bank.
Gaza, meanwhile, is controlled by the Hamas terror group.
BUT:
Palestinians are calling for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into the Pfizer vaccine agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Despite the PA government’s decision late Friday to cancel the agreement, many Palestinians denounced the deal as a “big scandal” and called for holding those responsible to account.
Israel would give more than one million soon-to-expire Pfizer doses to the PA. In return, Israel would receive later this year the same number of vaccines that were purchased by the PA.
Some Palestinians initially criticized the PA for striking the deal with Israel on the pretext that it was a form of “normalization with the Israeli occupation.”
But upon learning that the Israeli-supplied vaccines were about to expire, many Palestinians condemned the PA and accused it of “tampering” with the health of the Palestinian people.

The Israeli Health Ministry said on Saturday night that "the COVID-19 vaccines we gave the Palestinian Authority were perfectly valid. The expiration dates were known to the PA and everything was agreed upon in advance. The Palestinians received the same vaccines that are currently given to Israelis."
Already on Thursday, before any formal announcement was made, the PA reportedly held issue with two conditions surrounding the transfer of the vaccines, one of which was that the agreement would not be signed under the “State of Palestine” and the second was that the vaccines would not be transferred to the Gaza Strip.
COGAT commander Maj.-Gen. Rassan Alian said that “over the last few weeks, we have been working very hard to bring about the signing of the vaccination agreement between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which entails a significant joint effort to eradicate COVID-19 in our region.
Earlier this year, activists, NGOs and media outlets accused Israel of withholding vaccines from Palestinians and violating international law by not vaccinating them.
However, the Palestinian Authority had not asked Israel for help with the vaccines, while Israel had actually offered assistance and vaccinated 100,000 Palestinians with Israeli work permits as Israel’s vaccine rollout reached its peak. Israel also vaccinated Palestinians in east Jerusalem, who are registered under Israeli HMOs.
In addition, the Oslo Accords stipulate that the PA is responsible for healthcare, including vaccinations, for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.

[Balanbam00]

Israel warns ‘no choice’ but to ready attack plans after Raisi wins Iran elections

Officials show great concern over election of supreme leader's confidant and staunch proponent of Tehran's nuclear program, say require budgets and reallocation of resources for prepping military option

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1hkjUhi00

Ebrahim Raisi — an ultra-conservative and former prosecutor who has sentenced thousands of people to be executed — is likely to adopt Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s hard line views on foreign and nuclear policy.
Raisi backs a return to the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, a scenario which Israeli decision-makers assess won’t occur before August when Raisi takes office, Channel 12 reported.

Between now and then, Iran will likely continue building up its stockpile of enriched uranium.
“There will be no choice but to go back and prepare attack plans for Iran’s nuclear program. This will require budgets and the reallocation of resources,” an unnamed senior Israeli source was quoted as saying.

On Thursday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel and the United States are cooperating to increase the monitoring of Tehran’s nuclear program, adding that “all options are on the table” regarding Israel’s willingness to conduct military operations to achieve its objectives,

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Bloody photoshopping...

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east...n-gaza/2279645

[Balanbam00]

BT lease check everything before you send . The website is a Turkish website, emmmm Turkey, the country of moralists and humanitarian people. Look what Turkey is doing ''Turkey is radicalizing extremists to attack Kurdish women.
Women have become key targets of Turkey’s extremist government in recent years, videos increasingly showing violence against women in the streets of cities, including women being beaten by men. Turkey, once a candidate for European Union membership, now stands accused of sending assassins to target women activists from Syria to France.
For the state and the ruling AKP party, women who struggle for LGBT rights, or student or environmental activists are “terrorists”; men who pose with weapons and support actual terrorists in Syria, are celebrated as heroes in Ankara.

So BT ,why is this photo shown after 1 month? Well, it gives them time to think about their propaganda. Then we do not know being in Khan Younis, what destroyed the building was a rocket that misfired ,or did not reach Israel?

During the 11 days of the operation more than 4,360 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel, of which 3,573 penetrated Israeli airspace, about 680 fell inside the Gaza Strip and about 280 fell into the sea.

The IDF took substantial precautions to minimize harm to civilians in Gaza and made extensive efforts to get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
The IDF made extensive efforts to verify and confirm that their targets were indeed military objectives. Yet, the Hamas' extensive use of civilians and civilian facilities as human shields made it impossible to completely avoid unintentional harm.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Sometimes I read your posts Balan and weep.

"The IDF took substantial precautions to minimize harm to civilians in Gaza and made extensive efforts to get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
The IDF made extensive efforts to verify and confirm that their targets were indeed military objectives. Yet, the Hamas' extensive use of civilians and civilian facilities as human shields made it impossible to completely avoid unintentional harm."

[Supersub6]

Sometimes I read your posts Balan and weep.

"The IDF took substantial precautions to minimize harm to civilians in Gaza and made extensive efforts to get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
The IDF made extensive efforts to verify and confirm that their targets were indeed military objectives. Yet, the Hamas' extensive use of civilians and civilian facilities as human shields made it impossible to completely avoid unintentional harm."

Come on BT, the Israelis are just telling it the way it is.
We invaded Iraq in 2003 and lots of civilians were killed and that was because they had 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' ----here we are 18 years down the line and we still haven't found them. Iraq were not attacking us, unlike Hamas and the Israelis, however, we still found an excuse to invade Iraq. It's a strange old world and politicians still keep getting it wrong.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Come on BT, the Israelis are just telling it the way it is.
We invaded Iraq in 2003 and lots of civilians were killed and that was because they had 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' ----here we are 18 years down the line and we still haven't found them. Iraq were not attacking us, unlike Hamas and the Israelis, however, we still found an excuse to invade Iraq. It's a strange old world and politicians still keep getting it wrong.

Aye Supersub6, and the IDF keep on slaughtering the Pally's.

[sinkov]

""The IDF took substantial precautions to minimize harm to civilians in Gaza and made extensive efforts to get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.
The IDF made extensive efforts to verify and confirm that their targets were indeed military objectives. Yet, the Hamas' extensive use of civilians and civilian facilities as human shields made it impossible to completely avoid unintentional harm."

Yes, from my quite extensive reading on this subject from numerous different sources, I would say the above is 100% accurate.