Israeli conflict

Trump announcing breakthrough success, and it failing to take. No surprise.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he had ordered "powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip immediately" in retaliation for what Israeli officials say was a Hamas attack on Israeli forces in the city of Rafah.

The big picture: The deal to end the war in Gaza was easily President Trump's biggest diplomatic achievement this term. It's now looking incredibly fragile.

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Trump announcing breakthrough success, and it failing to take. No surprise.

Fragile? It’s a SUCCESS. The hostages are free. If Hamas misbehaves (no surprise) Israel will punish them (no surprise). TRUMP DID HIS JOB.

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Fragile? It’s a SUCCESS. The hostages are free. If Hamas misbehaves (no surprise) Israel will punish them (no surprise). TRUMP DID HIS JOB.

He wants a peace prize, not a hostage prize.

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He wants a peace prize, not a hostage prize.

Israel just launched a missile into Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah leader. It also killed a few more people, and wounded a bunch. Israel claimed the guy was still doing terrorist stuff, but I’m surprised that Israel CAN do this, and suffers no repercussions. If the worst man in the world is in the USA, I don’t think we’d be happy if a foreign government took him out with a big missile.

That being said, I’m glad terrorists targeting Israel know there is nowhere for them to hide.

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Israel just launched a missile into Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah leader. It also killed a few more people, and wounded a bunch. Israel claimed the guy was still doing terrorist stuff, but I’m surprised that Israel CAN do this, and suffers no repercussions. If the worst man in the world is in the USA, I don’t think we’d be happy if a foreign government took him out with a big missile.

That being said, I’m glad terrorists targeting Israel know there is nowhere for them to hide.

This is not a great move, that attack an external country during an ongoing ceasefire for over a year (not related to the current deal with Hamas.) And, they attacked an apartment building killing and sounding many innocent Lebanese (who have nothing to do with whatever is going on in Gaza,) to maybe kill some Hezbollah commander.

This kind of stuff is what degrades good will and support. It's already easy enough to demonize Israel. They don't really need to be bombing apartment buildings in Lebanon to kill supposed washed out Hezbollah commanders.

:"Goodwill?"

No Arab has ANY "goodwill" for the Jews.

Israel gets away with this shit for one reason: they're a powerful foe.

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:"Goodwill?"

No Arab has ANY "goodwill" for the Jews.

Israel gets away with this shit for one reason: they're a powerful foe.

I'm not talking about locally/regionally, I mean internationally. Even in the U.S., even on the right, more people are turning against Israel.

Israel is very powerful, but they rely on lots of foreign government, if U.S./EU/UK start to turn on them, in the modern world, would not be great for them.

https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/04/15/JLFWIAKWU5H2XCY77YP4EETBHQ/

I recommend reading this article, people are losing their mind about a photo that Israel is claiming AI despite proof that it is real. And, the video is even more disturbing.

A very unique looking settlement soldier is needing Palestinians to prevent them from picking olives, while making cattle noises at them.

The fact that they are trying to quash this image and video, shows that it is the norm there. Very sick society. I used to support Israel, but after watching more and more reports by Tucker Carlson, they really are not the good people here. It is insane. It is also kind of crazy that only conservatives are aggressively speaking the truth about Israel. Not a good country at all.

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I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You show a map of what you consider Israeli lands. Then I’ll discuss the lands you consider ‘Palestinian’.

And I’ll add this. Show me you are willing to send an army into my country (10/7) to murder large swaths of civilians, and I’ll decide how much ‘Palestinian land’ I need to take to keep my people safe from the animals again.

I'm not a zionist
I consider Israel the biggest mistake of the modern world
The whole country should be Palestine
My best friend is Jewish.
He exists perfectly fine without Israel

Actually letting immigrants like your parents into this country was the bigger mistake.