| A simple uppie/downie thread... 16:31 - Jan 5 with 9762 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Gaza, immediate ceasefire now? |  |
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| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 13:34 - Jan 10 with 717 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 11:18 - Jan 10 by J2BLUE |
It's such a stupid question. You're basically asking us if we support war or peace in your idealistic world. Obviously peace would be great.
Back in the real world there is plenty of context to consider which you refuse to do so you can score points on the internet.
I will say it again. The international community should be brokering a deal which includes the release of every Israeli hostage rather than demanding a ceasefire which is never going to happen. You might be happy to have Israel withdraw and let Hamas keep the hostages while they re-arm but Israel is not going to agree.
I would support a humanitarian pause. I would support a conditional ceasefire. I will not support your sixth form idealism. Not many people want war. The international community should be looking for a way to end it. Your pointless 'war is bad right?' question solves absolutely nothing. |
You can pretend it is really complicated if you wish but an immediate ceasefire would mean the hostages are more likely to live and brings an immediate end to this...
2h ago
11.42 GMT
Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza have intensified. Reuters reports that in Rafah, on the southern edge of the territory, relatives wept by the bodies of 15 members of the Nofal family laid out at a hospital morgue after their home was obliterated by an Israeli airstrike overnight.
Most of the white shrouds were tiny, with children inside, the agency reports. It said a man partly opened one and caressed the face of a small boy. Relatives gently restrained another man who was wailing at the feet of the bodies.
At the site of the strike, where a huge crater had been blasted in the floor of a building, neighbours clambered through the ruins, strewn with bloodsoaked mattresses and broken toys.
Um Ayman al-Najjar, whose daughter and niece were killed, was bundled against the cold in the wreckage, told Reuters: “We woke up surrounded by all this rubble on top of our heads, hit after hit. I don’t know how we got out, stepping above things, blood shedding from us.”
In Nusseirat, a new wave of displacement was under way, a day after Israel dropped new warning leaflets for residents of several districts to evacuate their homes and head west to Deir al-Balah.
Israeli bombing was also taking place there, with the Palestinian Red Crescent releasing video showing ambulances arriving at a hospital with the dead and wounded, including children. | |
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| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 18:40 - Jan 10 with 622 views | DJR |
I can't imagine this will get much media exposure but it demonstrates the gulf between the main political parties, desperate not to be out of step with the US, and the public.
A YouGov poll commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) has found that 71 percent of the British public believes there should be an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Palestine.
The poll also found only 17 percent approval for the UK government’s handling of the conflict.
Only 9 percent of people approved of the Labour Party’s handling of the conflict, versus 30 percent disapproving. Neither party currently supports an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |  | | |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:03 - Jan 10 with 576 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 18:40 - Jan 10 by DJR |
I can't imagine this will get much media exposure but it demonstrates the gulf between the main political parties, desperate not to be out of step with the US, and the public.
A YouGov poll commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) has found that 71 percent of the British public believes there should be an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Palestine.
The poll also found only 17 percent approval for the UK government’s handling of the conflict.
Only 9 percent of people approved of the Labour Party’s handling of the conflict, versus 30 percent disapproving. Neither party currently supports an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. |
71%....that's a big 6th form!  | |
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| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:34 - Jan 10 with 534 views | J2BLUE |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:03 - Jan 10 by BanksterDebtSlave |
71%....that's a big 6th form! |
The result is not surprising.
If I was asked randomly in the street I would say yes as well. As I have said, it's basically asking if you are anti war which anyone with any sense is.
We have gone into this in more detail. Peace needs a plan. |  |
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| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:53 - Jan 10 with 499 views | StokieBlue |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:34 - Jan 10 by J2BLUE |
The result is not surprising.
If I was asked randomly in the street I would say yes as well. As I have said, it's basically asking if you are anti war which anyone with any sense is.
We have gone into this in more detail. Peace needs a plan. |
Certainly agree that peace needs a plan.
Not making the entirety of Gaza uninhabitable doesn't need a plan, it just needs an observed ceasefire in which the plan can be made.
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| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:59 - Jan 10 with 487 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| A simple uppie/downie thread... on 19:34 - Jan 10 by J2BLUE |
The result is not surprising.
If I was asked randomly in the street I would say yes as well. As I have said, it's basically asking if you are anti war which anyone with any sense is.
We have gone into this in more detail. Peace needs a plan. |
, "...it's basically asking if you are anti war which anyone with any sense is."
Basically, it isn't!
Edit...well done for engaging though unlike redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted and redacted. [Post edited 10 Jan 2024 20:01]
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