I wish they'd just return fire for once.
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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For real these UNFIL patrols are supposed to fight back against agression.
It is getting painfully obvious they only exist to surpress armed resistance against the occupiers.
Its absurd that they dont. And that the security council countries doesnt reinforce the positions fired upon and return fire with 100 times the force. Having a veto in the Un should come with a lot of responsibilities.
Of all people I’d think it would be the French, they don’t fuck around.
Send in the fucking Swedes.
Absolutely no shit taken by Swedish peacekeepers when either side of a conflict shoots at them.
IDF would shit their pants if they had to face actual modern warfighters. Basically all of their victories are against malfunctional ME militaries and irregular fighters, to say nothing about the base atrocities they are committing against defenseless people.
Exactly, this is something lost in propagandizing this as a war and not a genocide, the IDF does not know how to fight a combined arms conflict at infantry level nor are they motivated in a professional military sense, they have just been practicing genocide with very expensive machines of war and dropping an incomprehensible amount of bombs in a shockingly tiny area which I would imagine among other things makes you poorly mentally equipped with no mental plasticity to handle the speed and lethality of a motivated, near-peer opposing military that isn't already conveniently contained within an open air prison.
This is going to end very badly for jews and people in general living in Israel, which among other reasons (obviously) is why the Palestinian Genocide is catastrophic.
Like without the infinite arms supply and backing of US air power dominance, an IDF brigade in Ukraine would get steamrolled by the Ukranians or the Russians for that matter.
Hey, they did take on that US Navy ship that one time.
The Liberty was an unarmed naval ship
The people who were really vocal about that are awfully quiet under Trump.
I like how liberal pseudo-Zionists will do their best to pretend pro-Palestinians aren't criticizing the Gaza genocide now because it'd contradict their assumption that all criticism of the Zionist political establishment must come from Russians, trolls or MAGAts.
I don't think that's what is meant by that comment.
Back about a decade ago now, the USS Liberty 'incident' was a bugaboo of Alex Jones and many other right wing conspiracy theorist types...
...who were correct in that yes, that is a thing that happened, it was basically covered up for decades, and almost no one knew about back in the 00's and 10's, and that the Israeli government and AIPAC have a huge amount of influence over US politicians and political discourse generally...
... but were very incorrect in then just slap dashing it into their growing conspiracy centric view of the entire world, which very, very often actually was just anti-semitic generally, utterly oversimplifying and overnarrativizing their understanding of 'how things actually work' into insane nonsense.
Fast forward 10 years, and basically all the people that were really concerned about the USS Liberty attack, you know, anti-Israeli government/military... well now they are basically all ardent Trump supporters, they all love violent Israeli genocidal expansionist Zionism, but also somehow simultaneously think Trump is ... anti-war or something?
I am of course guessing and cannot read Birch's mind... but yeah, if you come from a right wing upbringing and then later realized how bs that worldview is, like myself, and possibly like Birch...
It is indeed quite notable how much of a total 180 shift that is, amongst the right wing conspiracy theory types, and I think that is what they are referring to.
I don't think they are saying that those (mostly liberals, progressives and leftists) who've been vocally opposed to the Israeli genocide of Gaza (and everything else its now grown into) in the past few years suddenly changed their opinions about that in the last few months.
I guess that's also a possible interpretation.
I don't think they are saying that those (mostly liberals, progressives and leftists) who've been vocally opposed to the Israeli genocide of Gaza (and everything else its now grown into) in the past few years suddenly changed their opinions about that in the last few months.
There are people who legitimately think (or hsve convinced themselves to think) so, but I guess Birch isn't necessary one of them.
They are still pretty vocal. Maybe you do not possess object permanence skills.
We found out recently that a brother of a colleague was murdered in Palestine. They were part of a convoy with Red Crescent, whose location was shared with the Israelis. At least 11 people were executed and burried, including him. All ambulances and trucks were destroyed.
Fucking war criminals