Hamas invaded Israel 2023 Megathread

[Kirkhill]

Unlike our Supreme Court judges their judgements could be contested in the House of Lords by their peers.

 

[Kirkhill]

Stacey Saadi (@staceysaadi)

Matti Friedman on Hamas’s censorship and propaganda tactics

substack.com

 

[OldSolduer]

Stacey Saadi (@staceysaadi)

Matti Friedman on Hamas’s censorship and propaganda tactics

substack.com

Goebbels would be proud would he not?

And we have people in Canada who openly support Hamas that has an Nazi like ideology.

Traitors.

 

[brihard]

Sounds like there have been reciprocal attacks in Gaza… Major challenges to the ceasefire already.

Israel strikes Gaza as IDF and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire - live updates

Hamas accuses Israel of "violating" the ceasefire, while Israel says it conducted air strikes on Rafah after Hamas fired towards its troops.

www.bbc.com

 

[Quirky]

All the living hostages have been returned.

Back to your regularly scheduled programing.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Goebbels would be proud would he not?

And we have people in Canada who openly support Hamas that has an Nazi like ideology.

Traitors.

You mean 'voters', right?

 

[RangerRay]

Terry Glavin was an optimist about this but is now much more negative. The only winner in this is Qatar.

The sun rises on a holy land of show business

The art of the surreal: summiteering as a presidential vanity project

therealstory.substack.com

So far there is only one clear winner in the war, whether it’s over or not. That winner is the House of Thani, the duplicitous and fabulously wealthy royal family that rules the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. Patron of the notorious Muslim Brotherhood, longtime luxury-villa host of the senior Hamas leadership and friend of the Trump family, the Qatari regime has donated billions of dollars to American universities and to Islamic charities in Canada in recent years.

The Saudis, the Emiratis and Israel were all absent from the Sharm El-Sheikh summit. So was Hamas, and so was Iran, but nevermind that bit. Here’s the Saudis now:

“It’s a mistake to rely on Qatar, which backs the Muslim Brotherhood. Excessive Qatari involvement in the next stages of the plan and Gaza’s reconstruction will cause Trump’s plan to collapse. Qatar’s interests are different, it will undermine deradicalization efforts and try to ensure that Hamas remains in the picture and returns to power in the not-so-distant future.”

And that is unambiguously what Hamas intends and expects.

 

[KevinB]

Terry Glavin was an optimist about this but is now much more negative. The only winner in this is Qatar.

The sun rises on a holy land of show business

The art of the surreal: summiteering as a presidential vanity project

therealstory.substack.com

I don’t think the only winner is Qatar. They are a short term winner, but Israel has already shown the willingness to attack Qatari soil if they feel it is in their interest.

I suspect that the Qatari leadership is living on borrowed time, and there won’t be a lot of tears shed when they go…

It’s a long way from the Qatar of 1990.

 

[RangerRay]

I don’t think the only winner is Qatar. They are a short term winner, but Israel has already shown the willingness to attack Qatari soil if they feel it is in their interest.

I suspect that the Qatari leadership is living on borrowed time, and there won’t be a lot of tears shed when they go…

It’s a long way from the Qatar of 1990.

Except what I’m hearing, Trump forced Bibi to apologize like a schoolboy. His call from the Oval Office reminded me of times my parents forced me to apologize to the neighbour for entering their property without their knowing. And now, Qatar has security guarantees from Washington that the Baltics only wish they had.

Qatar appears to be driving the bus here and they know it.