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  1. Yes, according to Israeli military and intelligence officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html#:~:text=One Western military official said,10 Israeli soldiers in December.
  2. Yep, they already have enough signatures to put it (referendum) on the November ballot and will keep going. Should really help Gallegos and Biden x
  3. If true…..awesome job by our “allies”. Really getting our money’s worth.
  4. That’s a trial balloon that didn’t work.
  5. Israel Announces Largest West Bank Land Seizure Since 1993 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/22/israel-largest-west-bank-settlement-blinken-visit/ I’m sure they need it for security.
  6. They’re not? President Biden in his SOTU seemed to imply they are.
  7. “Israel claims it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip, maintaining that it is neither a State nor a territory occupied or controlled by Israel, but rather it has 'sui generis' status. Pursuant to the Disengagement Plan, Israel dismantled all military institutions and settlements in Gaza and there is no longer a permanent Israeli military or civilian presence in the territory. However, the Plan also provided that Israel will guard and monitor the external land perimeter of the Gaza Strip, will continue to maintain exclusive authority in Gaza air space, and will continue to exercise security activity in the sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip as well as maintaining an Israeli military presence on the Egyptian-Gaza border, and reserving the right to reenter Gaza at will. Israel continues to control six of Gaza's seven land crossings, its maritime borders and airspace and the movement of goods and persons in and out of the territory. Egypt controls one of Gaza's land crossings. Gaza is also dependent on Israel for water, electricity, telecommunications and other utilities, currency, issuing IDs, and permits to enter and leave the territory. Israel also has sole control of the Palestinian Population Registry through which the Israeli Army regulates who is classified as a Palestinian and who is a Gazan or West Banker. Since 2000 aside from a limited number of exceptions Israel has refused to add people to the Palestinian Population Registry. It is this direct external control over Gaza and indirect control over life within Gaza that has led the United Nations, the UN General Assembly, the UN Fact Finding Mission to Gaza, International human rights organisations, US Government websites, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a significant number of legal commentators, to reject the argument that Gaza is no longer occupied”. - Sanger, Andrew (2011). "The Contemporary Law of Blockade and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla". In M.N. Schmitt; Louise Arimatsu; Tim McCormack (eds.). Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law - 2010. Vol. 13. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 429
  8. Water allocation in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza was negotiated in the Oslo 2 accords. However: 1.) According to the World Bank, despite being allocated 4 times as much water from the Mountain Aquifer (the primary water source for the West Bank), the Israeli’s have extracted over 80% more than their negotiated allotment. Palestinian use has fallen year over year as they’ve been only able to sink less than half of their allowed well capacity. Israel forbids Palestinians to sink wells in the West Bank (but allows settlers to do so). West Bank Palestinians are denied any water from the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee and other local rivers as Israeli diverts it before it reaches the West Bank. In total, 80-85% of the usable water in the West Bank is reserved for settlers and Israeli farming or diverted into Israel. (Cites available upon request) 2.) Gaza’s only groundwater source is the Coastal Aquifer. However, Israeli has install a series of wells along the border and captures much of this water before it flows into Gaza. They then turn around and sell this water to Gaza. The water that makes it to Gaza is highly contaminated and polluted and is barely drinkable. Israeli forbids Palestinians from transporting water from the West Bank to Gaza. 3.) There are a number of desalination plants but the Israeli blockade makes procurement of chemicals and spare parts difficult. Of course who knows how many of those are still standing? They’re might have been Hamas somewhere nearby. 4.) The Palestinian’s do attempt to control water policy within its borders. The have water policy boards at both the National and municipal levels, however, it’s hard to implement water policy when your main sources of water are outside of your control and limited by another country. (See 1 and 2).
  9. Thanks, I’m an idiot.
  10. It’s ingenuous to say that Israel literally tried a two state solution with Gaza. Nothing about Gaza over the last twenty years even remotely approximates a functioning state - not when Israel controls its borders, food, water, electricity, etc, doesn’t allow it to engage in commerce with the rest of the world, controls the movement of its people into and out of it, etc.
  11. I don’t think that you can connect the fact that the pres of NBC is Jewish with the running of these segments. But I think that imagining what the outcry would be if they were highlighting innocent Palestinians victims (say any of the thousands of children that have been killed) tells you all that you need to know.
  12. Moving up in the world from Epstein.
  13. Is Israel’s endgame in this coming into focus? (Israeli Finance Minister) Smotrich then suggested that the removal of around 90 percent of Gaza's residents would help achieve his goal. "If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million, the whole discourse about the day after will be different," he said….. Smotrich's comments are the latest in a growing list of troubling remarks by Israeli lawmakers to seemingly support expelling Gazans en masse out of the Strip in order to ensure Israel's security after the war.
  14. During high school in my neck of the woods, a purity ring was basically a flashing neon sign that said, “this girls fucks!”
  15. Well, according to Ehud Barak at least some of the tunnels were built by Israel so you might start by asking your questions there.
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