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Gaza has become a moonscape in war. When the battles stop, many fear it will remain uninhabitable
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | November 23, 2023 | AP Staff

Posted on 11/23/2023 7:20:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

Israel's military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells.

Nearly 1 million Palestinians have fled the north, including its urban center, Gaza City, as ground combat intensified. When the war ends, any relief will quickly be overshadowed by dread as displaced families come to terms with the scale of the calamity and what it means for their future.

Where would they live? Who would eventually run Gaza and pick up the pieces?

“I want to go home even if I have to sleep on the rubble of my house,” said Yousef Hammash, an aid worker with the Norwegian Refugee Council who fled the ruins of the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya for southern Gaza. “But I don't see a future for my children here.”

The Israeli army’s use of powerful explosives in tightly packed residential areas — which Israel describes as the unavoidable outcome of Hamas using civilian sites as cover for its operations — has killed over 13,000 Palestinians and led to staggering destruction. Hamas denies the claim and accuses Israel of recklessly bombing civilians.

“When I left, I couldn’t tell which street or intersection I was passing,” said Mahmoud Jamal, a 31-year-old taxi driver who fled his northern hometown of Beit Hanoun this month. He described apartment buildings resembling open-air parking garages.

*SNIP*

In the seven weeks since Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, Israel unleashed more munitions than the United States did in any given year of its bombing campaign against the Islamic State group — a barrage the U.N describes as the deadliest urban campaign since World War II.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; War
KEYWORDS: bombsaway; gaza; gazaisrael; hamas; suckstobethem; war
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To: Blennos

And Gazans are supposedly low IQ savages. A known terrorist group that lives on the border to Israel.
The most guarded country border, behind North Korea.
It’s also 2023, not 1941. Tech advances are all on Israel’s side.

Maybe you just don’t like the ugliness of what the truth would mean?(I’m questioning, not mind reading)
It took me a long time to accept that “our betters” hate us, or are just apathetic to us.


61 posted on 11/23/2023 8:02:43 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What’s the down side?


62 posted on 11/23/2023 8:04:36 AM PST by bgill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

*sob*

The Ape Pee cries.


63 posted on 11/23/2023 8:05:08 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: bgill
What’s the down side?

Having Gazans as your new neighbors.

64 posted on 11/23/2023 8:05:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hopefully, it will remain inhabitable. That will provide Israel with buffer zone against future attacks.


65 posted on 11/23/2023 8:08:07 AM PST by Kazan
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To: EEGator

“The most guarded country border”

There were fairly few guards.

Once over/through a fence an Israeli village five miles away is 10 minutes away by motorbike.

Every Israeli reservist living within 10 miles of Gaza should have had a radio alarm and a gun safe in their home with a pistol or rifle.

Gazans tried to swarm Israeli villages near Gaza in 2018.


66 posted on 11/23/2023 8:13:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Blennos

Maybe he did. Maybe not. But the army, naval and air forces on the ground in Hawaii had no advance warning.


Actually they did. George Marshall sent cables to Short and Kimmel several days prior advising that negotiations with the Japs were at an impasse. He declared in one dispatch to consider this a “war warning” and that events were about to occur, exactly where is TBD, but pay attention.
The Ward fired on a sub attempting to enter the channel 2+ hours prior to the attack.
Radar on Opana Point detected the inbound attack wave at 0700 and were told, “not to worry about it”.
The real travesty was the day after the attack on Pearl. MacArthur had a full 24 hr notification to prepare, but sat on his fat ass and allowed the Japs to decimate Clark without lifting a finger...should have been court martialed for negligence.


67 posted on 11/23/2023 8:14:24 AM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: jimwatx

Conspiracy theories are the most popular theories about everything now, the wilder the better.


68 posted on 11/23/2023 8:14:31 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Berlin, 1945. They have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind


69 posted on 11/23/2023 8:16:08 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Yeah, but at least we built up Germany after the war with The Marshall Plan.


70 posted on 11/23/2023 8:17:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Brian Griffin

There are things apart from humans for guarding.
Mossad is supposedly the greatest intelligence agency.

“Gazans tried to swarm Israeli villages near Gaza in 2018.”

And Israel “adapted” by changing nothing. What does that tell you?

More importantly, if Israel isn’t capable of defending itself, can it continue to exist as an autonomous entity?
They are surrounded by a demographically increasing enemy, and the West, their defender, is destroying itself.


71 posted on 11/23/2023 8:22:06 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Blennos
How did the US in 1941 miss the Pearl Harbor attack: with a huge Japanese fleet with hundreds of aircraft, thousands of men, planned for almost a year. How did we miss it?

Interviews with Douglas Horne about FDR and Pearl Harbor, The McCollum Memorandum, has been the subject of two PODCASTS since it was published in July 2021, as follows:

A recent PODCAST interview on the show "Parallax Views," hosted by J.G. Michael, has been posted in two parts:

Part One: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/dhorne1/

Part Two: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/dhorne2/

72 posted on 11/23/2023 8:22:25 AM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Nothing wild abut this theory. I’ve heard from 6 different former IDF soldiers who were involved in security at the Gaza border and every one of them said no way could this have happened unless there was some kind of stand down order. It’s not just them breaching the fence its that it took SEVEN hours for the IDF to respond. Israel is a tiny country. A helicopter can fly from its north to its south in 45 minutes. Netanyahu intentionally allowed this to happen. Just think about this the next time you go around praising him as some kind of hero.


73 posted on 11/23/2023 8:23:37 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hamas’ Advanced Weaponry: Rockets, Artillery, Drones, Cyber

Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date (2001 - Present)

74 posted on 11/23/2023 8:23:41 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

<< The purpose of war is to kill people and break things. I guess Hamas forgot about that part when they attacked Israel. >>

And the 75% of the Gaza populace (around 1.6 million residents) that applauds the Oct. 7 massacre and continues to support Hamas forgot about that part as well. https://jcpa.org/a-new-poll-of-palestinians-supporting-terror-and-rejecting-peace/


75 posted on 11/23/2023 8:28:00 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: jimwatx

Never underestimate bureaucratic inertia & incompetence!


76 posted on 11/23/2023 8:30:48 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: jimwatx

“Netanyahu intentionally allowed this to happen. “

Not true.


77 posted on 11/23/2023 8:32:22 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: AFret.

Interesting. Thanks.


78 posted on 11/23/2023 8:33:00 AM PST by Blennos ( Bya)
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To: jimwatx
...I’m America first, not Israel first unlike some on this forum.

As the world's largest economy America is automatically a target for evil in the world. Islam is one of the main sources of that evil. Because Israel is taking the brunt of Islam's perpetual hate support for Israel is America first. They fight and die against a common enemy. It saves us from having to do the job ourselves.

79 posted on 11/23/2023 8:36:13 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: EEGator

“You seem to think people believe FDR didn’t allow it to happen…”

FDR wanted a Lusitania event to give him an entry into the war. He gave us Pearl Harbor instead. The US economy was still mired in the depression and FDR knew that a war would give people something else to think about while allowing the government to control the economy.
Bastard got everything he wanted.


80 posted on 11/23/2023 8:36:21 AM PST by oldvirginian (My pronouns are Your Royal Majesty and Mr Fancy Pants.)
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