Posted on 01/25/2024 7:40:45 AM PST by fruser1
A small group of protesters, including relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, demonstrated at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday to picket humanitarian trucks going into the Palestinian enclave while demanding that aid be cut off until the captives held by terrorists in the territory are freed.
Part of the group was initially stopped by a roadblock but they made their way through, walking several kilometers toward the crossing for a second day in a row.
It was not immediately clear what impact the protest had on truck movements. On Wednesday the demonstrators held up over 100 trucks, some of which were eventually diverted to an alternative entry point in Egypt.
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In fact, I'd say this could've been long over if the US had hit Iranian targets until release.
But unlike Reagan, who was accused of "arms for hostages", Biden started off his administration with "arms with hostages" in Afghanistan.
Can’t say I remember swearing to defend Israel when I joined the military.
Fight your own wars.
“Can’t say I remember swearing to defend Israel when I joined the military.”
I remember swearing to obey all lawful orders from my chain of command.
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No orders exist. Feel free to go fight in Israel.
We are being invaded. Israel isn’t an ally.
They have done nothing for us. One way street.
“No orders exist.”
Never said they did.
“Feel free to go fight in Israel.”
They’re doing fine on their own.
“We are being invaded.”
No kidding. So why aren’t you in Texas joining the State Militia?
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I don’t recall the Allies providing “aid” to Nazi German “civilians” while we were bombing them into the stone age. Utterly absurd.
You are obviously IGNORANT. Israel has pioneered many technological innovations, including your cell phone, desalination procedures, software innovations, hydroponic innovations, many medical and surgical innovations, etc. Their Technion is easily the intellectual equivalent of MIT. They are the only stable democracy in the Middle East. And they don't send terrorists to blow up sites in the U.S.
I will defend Israel to the end. And there is no such thing as Palestine. There is such as thing as Jordan and the people living in Gaza should go there.
I don’t care about any country, or people, in the region.
They will eternally be at war.
Some of the hostages are American, or don’t you care about them, or are you a fan of the Jimmy Carter approach to the hostage situation when the Shah was deposed?
Israel is the tip of the spear. If the Islamists get rid of the Saturday people they will concentrate on the Sunday people. I’d rather they keep fighting amongst the five times a day people.
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Dual citizenship “Americans”.
No American tourists head to the southwestern desert of Israel.
Dual citizenship should be eliminated.
Just like those “Ukrainians” that left before the war began.
I’ll be here on Sunday.
Not to worry the Bible says Israel will be on their own at the end.
A book written by men.
Israel just wants to live in peace. It’s the heathens around it that want war.
They picked a great neighborhood. They knew exactly what would happen.
I have no issue with Israel protecting itself, without us.
Again, WRONG. We don't "provide military aid" to Israel--they BUY weapons from us. They are an important testing ground for U.S. military technology. They also take care of nasty little problems like sabotaging Iran's nuclear refining centrifuges for us. And provide excellent intelligence.
Obviously you get your information from Aljazeera, CNN, Axios, and other Israel hating sources. You have finally outed yourself as a deeply cloaked antisemite. Unfortunately, there are quite a few of those, even on FR.
Yeah, we had a carrier group in the Mediterranean and one in the Red Sea for US defense.
You’re a subversive Israel first poster.
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