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Hamas attacks Israel: Yom Kippur War, 50 years on

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  1. AroundTheWorld

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    You are defending Hamas "logic".
     
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    Look at these happy people. Clearly they are being starved and genocided. Some how they still have designer jackets and nice haircuts
     
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    2 seconds of basic curiosity man.
     
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    Good call. Ill leave it up
     
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    What a pathetic loser you are. Israeli defense minister has said that hamas hasn't been crushed cuz bibi has refused to implement a day after plan or build a coalition to provide security in the region after IDF clears it.

    American right wingers who ass lick bibi @AroundTheWorld @K9Texan pretend to know more than the literal defense minister of Israel are sincerely the most pathetic human beings on planet earth

    It's just sad how utterly pathetic you people are. I've never seen anything more pathetic
     
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    No he isn't.

    People in this thread have a really hard time discerning statements of fact from endorsements.
     
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    The people who hate jews on Clutchfans wanted her dead regardless of Oct 7.
    People who hate Jews hate Jews.

    It's pretty simple. Palestine has nothing to do with this hatred. It's simply just that.
    It's just something they say, you know when you miss a jump shot at basketball, you say it could be you are rusty or the wind etc, but it's just you missed.

    don't over complicate these things, accept them as they are, Jew haters.
     
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    Gotta be pretty heartless to support the people who did this....
     
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    @Nook honest question have you ever seen a Israeli pm openly going to war with his defense minister and the POTUS? I've been researching Israeli history and I can't see another time when the PM declared his defense minister was working with hamas.

    It's just crazy. Were living through some insane times in terms of history. He's turned into a trump 2.0. Lie lie lie and your low iq followers will have your back.
     
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    Crazy when the son of the founder of Hamas gets it and makes more sense
     
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  13. AroundTheWorld

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    This seems like a case of freedom of speech for both sides in this article, not a crime. If everything is anti-Semitic then nothing is anti-Semitic. And Jewish billionaires are free to conspire to push pro Israeli and anti Palestine PR campaigns.

    https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-801609


    NYC deputy mayor charges Washington Post after story on pro-Israel Jewish entrepreneurs
    Thursday’s article describes a “group of billionaires and business titans working to shape US public opinion of the war in Gaza.”

    A deputy of Mayor Eric Adams has charged the Washington Post with antisemitism for publishing a story about wealthy Jews organizing an advocacy campaign for Israel and pressing the mayor to take action against anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.

    The Washington Post article published on Thursday centers on a group chat on the WhatsApp messaging platform. In the chat, Jewish billionaires and prominent business figures discussed advocacy for Israel, including by facilitating showings of an Israeli government compilation of footage of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

    Last month, after pro-Palestinian students set up an encampment on Columbia’s campus, the article says members of the chat strategized about how to persuade Adams to call in the NYPD and shut it down. They discussed donating to Adams’ reelection campaign, urging Columbia’s trustees to take action and hiring private investigators.

    On April 26, according to the piece, some members of the chat group held a Zoom call with Adams. The following week, Columbia asked the NYPD to clear protesters from a campus building they had occupied.

    “Overall, the messages offer a window into how some prominent individuals have wielded their money and power in an effort to shape American views of the Gaza war, as well as the actions of academic, business and political leaders — including New York’s mayor,” the article says.

    Fabien Levy, Adams’ deputy mayor for communications, wrote on Thursday that he was “shocked” when the Washington Post contacted the mayor’s office for the story.

    “The insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope,” Levy said in a post on X.

    Levy, who is Jewish, wrote that police had only gone onto the campus following “specific written requests” from Columbia’s administration. Suggesting that there were other factors in the decision-making process was “completely false,” he added.

    The NYPD had cleared a Columbia University protest encampment on April 18 and the occupied building on April 30, arresting dozens during both incidents. The university’s administration requested police action against the protesters both times. Ahead of the arrests, the NYPD and mayor’s office said repeatedly that the university was private property, so police could only go onto campus if called in by the administration.

    The Washington Post and other outlets “can make editorial decisions to disagree with the decisions by universities to ask the NYPD to clear unlawful encampments on campuses,” wrote Levy. “But saying Jews ‘wielded their money & power in an effort to shape American views’ is offensive on so many levels.”

    No public comment from the publication
    The Post has not commented publicly on the accusations, but a source at the newspaper said the Post routinely covers how those with power and wealth try to influence public affairs. Last year, for example, the newspaper published a story about a conservative Catholic group that spent millions of dollars buying data that identified priests who used gay dating apps.

    Thursday’s article describes a “group of billionaires and business titans working to shape US public opinion of the war in Gaza.” Their WhatsApp chat, called “Israel Current Events,” was set up shortly after October 7, had around 100 members and shut down earlier this month.

    The group was set up by a staffer for the Jewish real estate investor Barry Sternlicht, who participated through the staffer but did not join the group directly. Sternlicht’s staffer said the goal of the group was to “win the war” of US public opinion, the report said.

    Members of the group who were on the call with Adams included the hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb; billionaire Len Blavatnik; and real estate tycoon Joseph Sitt. All are Jewish, although their Jewish heritage is not specified in the article. Some members of the WhatsApp group discussed making donations to Adams, and Blavatnik donated the maximum $2,100 to the mayor, the report said.

    The group also included the hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who has been an outspoken critic of universities’ Israel stances since October 7. Other members were American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch; Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks; the founder and CEO of Dell, Michael Dell; and Joshua Kushner, an investor and brother of Jared Kushner.

    The group also held briefings with Israeli leaders, including former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett; war cabinet member Benny Gantz, the former defense minister; and Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog, the report said.
     
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    They are free to do so but we should make it a law that every private correspondence between wealthy businesses owners and legislators, governors and mayors have to be public record.

    They are discussing policy and effecting how we live our lives and therefore those private messages need to be public record.
     
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    What a piece of ****
     
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    @Ubiquitin @Nook they did this in front of IDF soliders and got no punishment. When these professional @AroundTheWorld Israeli ass lickers tell you that the extremist are a fringe minority in israel just know they're full of **** like usual.

    The extremists in Israel are just as bad as Hamas. Both sides have huge issues
     
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