Sure agreed if they didn’t know, but it seems like there was at least a Hamas cell inside the UNRWA that did:
Inside one of the UNRWA buildings, journalists saw a room full of computers with wires stretching down into the ground. Soldiers then showed them a room in the underground tunnel where they claimed the wires connected.
This article seems to allege electrical and communication cables were run through the ground between the UNRWA headquarters and the tunnel network?
If true they buried the lede here. Idgaf where the tunnels are - when you dig a miles long tunnel, it’ll go under a lot of unrelated buildings. If however the headquarters was serving as a communication relay and power supply, then that’s pretty damning.
Agreed but that isn’t weird. When’s the last time an American president had popular support while in power? 2009? They legally won an election, which means the Palestinian people put them in charge. There was no waltzing, at gunpoint or otherwise.
That they didn’t as you say “waltz in at gun point”. Just as the German people of the time had some responsibility for the rise of Hitler, so must the Palestinian people of today bear some responsibility for putting Hamas in power.
Hence my comments about Hamas’s popular support in polling.
Of course they were, but they also won an election
They elected them and in recent polling generally support them, especially for doing the October 7th attack
Yes, but those are from AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq). We’re talking about Afghanistan, which is like 2000km away from where ISIS operates.
And again, whether you think the American response to 9/11 was good or not is irrelevant to my original comment.
Ignoring for the moment that ISIS is from Iraq and Syria, I was purely commenting on what would have popular support in Israel. I did not advocate for anything.
Agreed completely, I was oversimplifying and largely not drawing a clean distinction between the various groups.
… The CIA funded Al-Qaeda, which rose out of a population bombed, abused, relocated, and killed for decades before.
It’s like, exactly comparable.
Would America have accepted a full withdrawal from Afghanistan and truce with Al-Qaeda 4 months after 9/11 in exchange for ~3000 American hostages?
Some certainly would, but I think the majority would take a “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” stance.
Her dissenting opinion is here. It’s quite thorough, and while reasonable people could disagree on each point (myself included), I didn’t find anything overtly biased in her analysis. Paragraphs 22 - 30 are the bulk of her analysis. Chiefly she cited 3 concerns:
Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; LGBT people experience persecution and violence.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel are considered the most developed in the Middle East.
I know where I’d prefer to be.
So what’s it like to actually piss like a racehorse? I bet it gets old around day 4
The article doesn’t allege starving, dehydration, or forced labor. Even assuming appalling conditions, with ~500 kcal per day, and accounting for 5-10 lbs of water weight loss due to dehydration, we’d still be talking about a daily calorie deficit of around -3000 kcal. That’s “run a marathon every day” territory. I don’t see how that is physically possible.
Is it medically possible to lose 25kg in 45 days? That’s like 1.2 lbs per day. You’d have to eat literally nothing and also run a marathon every single day. This part seems wildly implausible.
That you felt the need to show a bias check for Reuters, and are getting downvoted for it, is fucking wild.
This was apparently an apartment building a Belgian group was using until they evacuated. Hamas could have started using it since the war started, or Israel thought they were, or it even could have been an accident. All way more plausible than singling out a Belgium aid group for a revenge bombing.
Here’s an actual source that isn’t a Turkish propaganda network: Reuters
Note how a real news agency states facts instead of injecting an elaborate “revenge for funding the UNRWA” narrative, mentions that the date and reason for the bombing is unknown, and notes zero expected casualties.
Well to use your analogy here, let’s say a weed grow operation steals your electricity by plugging extension cords into several outlets and running them through open windows. Further let’s say this goes on for years with you living in the house. At a certain point it strains credulity to believe that you aren’t in on it.
Something similar seems to have happened here. It doesn’t implicate the UNRWA as a whole, but it certainly raises questions about the employees at this location.