https://freerepublic.com/tag/frwarsickness/ en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:21:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4389449/posts Everything You Need to Know About Gaza’s Fatality Numbers In recent weeks, two talking points have spread rapidly across media and social platforms. The first is the claim that the IDF now accepts Hamas’ assertion that 70,000 people were killed in Gaza. This was widely framed as a decisive moment, a supposed confession by Israel that Hamas’ figures were correct all along. That narrative is false. The IDF did not affirm Hamas’ fatality count and explicitly rejected the idea that a vague remark by an unnamed official constituted confirmation of anything. More importantly, even if one were to accept a... X https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4389449/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:21:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389441/posts Sen. Lindsey Graham planned to travel to Florida in early March to persuade President Trump to join Israel in the bombing of Hezbollah in Lebanon—until a friend talked him out of it. The friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told him on a call before the trip that bringing the U.S. into the operation, in the midst of the Iran war, was going too far, too fast, according to unreleased footage from a documentary about the South Carolina Republican lawmaker that was being filmed before he died earlier this month.“We’re concentrating right now on Iran,” Netanyahu said on the... The Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389441/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:00:12 GMT