Buck Edwards

You better thank this liberal influence. You don't wanna imagine what atrocities might have been committed in the absence of this influence.

That would have been an actual war. Face the enemy head on. This is cowardice. Killing and bombing to save soldiers?

That should be a non issue. All deaths should be condemned. Let's not politicize it when children are without resources.

What should be the reason for bias?

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you're being ruled by criminals.

Where? Show me? Yes. A 100%. Nobody supports this. It was wrong. It will always be wrong. Majority Americans were against Iraq War. It's in the news. You don't seem to follow. I can't say that I know a lot about the Palestinian history. Umm. Children in Gaza = Hamas? And nobody does anymore. The internet is ablaze with its support for Palestinians. I love them. They're welcome. War is not their solution. Just like you can't blame Americans for the stupidity of Bush, I can't blame Israelis for the stupidity of Netanyahu.

I suggest that Israel stop the killings of children. If Israel really wanted a future for these children, they would have already had one. They could have kidnapped the children instead of bombing them. They could have easily transported these children to other safer places in the world for their future. Everything is possible if there's intent for it. Hamas is nothing but a terrorist organization. It won't be as big as Russia. Israel can take care of Hamas. The war is never for Hamas. No terrorist organization has the funding of a country. They can hardly kill anyone, at least not 10,000 children. They can carry out terror strikes but it won't destroy a whole nation the way a war does. Are you going to tell me that a powerful country can't deal with terrorists given the technology that we have today? That would be a joke. They should already know Hamas members. They can also militarilistically occupy Gaza without bombing. Send military into Gaza directly the way American soldiers existed in Afghanistan. Then build military bases in Gaza. Then take care of Hamas and hold people hostage during the time. Is this difficult? A shit ton of military bases throughout Gaza will be enough to fully occupy it and then gradually destroy Hamas. Release hostages and rebuild them or set up temporary Israeli governments until they elect their own.. We could get rid of Saddam Hussein. We could get rid of Osama Bin Laden who was manning Al Kayda. Hamas is nothing in comparison to ISis or major terrorist groups in the middle east. Israel said Friday it had revised the death toll of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli communities and military bases in southern Israel down from around 1,400 to roughly 1,200 people. Israel's population stands at approximately 9.73 million. That's a lot. Okay now let's see what else can be done. Weakening the financial resources of Hamas? So they can't fund a military wing. Or ammunition. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-cash-to-crypto-global-finance-maze-israels-sights-2023-10-16/ Excerpts taken from this - Palestinian militant group Hamas uses a global financing network to funnel support from charities and friendly nations, passing cash through Gaza tunnels or using cryptocurrencies to bypass international sanctions, according to experts and officials. However, Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, will face even more obstacles accessing funds after the rampage by the group's gunmen that killed hundreds of Israelis, mainly civilians. Israel has responded with the heaviest bombardment of Gaza in 75 years of conflict. Earlier this week, Israeli police said they froze a Barclays bank account the authorities said was linked to Hamas fundraising and blocked cryptocurrency accounts used to gather donations, without specifying how many accounts or the value of the assets. The move provided a glimpse of a complex financial web, some legitimate, much hidden, that underpins Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, and its government in the Gaza Strip, which it has run since 2007. Matthew Levitt, a former U.S. official specialised in counterterrorism, estimated the bulk of Hamas' budget of more than $300 million came from taxes on business, as well as from countries including Iran and Qatar or charities. Last February, the State Department said that Hamas raises funds in other Gulf countries and gets donations from Palestinians, other expatriates and its own charities. Reuters was unable to reach Hamas officials for comment for this story. In the past, Hamas has said financial restrictions placed on its donors were an attempt to neutralise legitimate resistance against Israel. Hamas, sanctioned as a terrorist organization by the United States and countries such as Britain, had increasingly used cryptocurrencies, credit cards or contrived trade deals to avoid mounting international restrictions, Levitt said. "Hamas has been one of the more successful users of crypto for the financing of terrorism," said Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain research firm Elliptic. However, this year Hamas said it would back away from crypto, after a spate of losses. Cryptocurrency's ledger system can make such transactions traceable. Blockchain researchers TRM Labs said this week in a research note that crypto fundraising has previously increased following rounds of violence involving Hamas. After fighting in May 2021, Hamas-controlled crypto addresses received more than $400,000, TRM Labs said. However, since last weekend's violence, prominent Hamas-linked support groups had moved just a few thousands dollars through crypto, TRM noted. "One likely reason for the low donation volume is that Israeli authorities are targeting them immediately," TRM said, adding that Israel had seized cryptocurrency worth "tens of millions of dollars" from Hamas-linked addresses in recent years. Between Dec. 2021 and April this year, Israel seized almost 190 crypto accounts it said were linked to Hamas. SHIPS AND SHELLS Whether through crypto or other means, Hamas' allies have found ways to get money to Gaza. The U.S. State Department has said that Iran provides up to $100 million annually in support to Palestinian groups including Hamas, and has cited methods of moving the money through shell companies, shipping transactions and precious metals. Iranian authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment. By last year, Hamas had established a secret network of companies managing $500 million of investments in companies from Turkey to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Treasury has said, announcing sanctions on the firms in May, 2022. Israel has long accused Iran's clerical rulers of stoking violence by supplying arms to Hamas. Tehran, which does not recognise Israel, says it gives moral and financial support to the group. Backing the Palestinian cause has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution and a way for the country to fashion itself as a leader of the Muslim world. Gas-rich Qatar too has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza since 2014, at one point spending $30 million per month to help operate the enclave's sole power plant and to support needy families and public servants in the Hamas-run government. "Qatari aid provides 100 dollars to the poorest Palestinian families and extends the period of electricity during a day in Gaza," a Qatari official said in response to a request for government comment, adding that it had helped "maintain stability and quality of life for ... Palestinian families". Qatar walks a foreign policy tightrope, hosting the region's largest U.S. military base, the Taliban and other groups, often allowing it to mediate. CASH RULES Qatar's funding for Gaza actually passes through Israel, a source familiar with the process said. The funds are transferred electronically from Qatar to Israel. Israeli and U.N. officials hand-carry cash over the border to Gaza. The cash is distributed directly to needy families and public servants in Gaza and each family or individual must sign next to their name that they've received the cash. One copy of that sheet goes to Israel, one goes to the UN and one goes to Qatar. "Qatari aid to the Gaza Strip is fully coordinated with Israel, the UN and the U.S.," the Qatari government official said. In recent years, Qatar bought fuel from Israel for Gaza's sole power station. It also sent Egyptian fuel that Hamas can resell, using the proceeds for salaries. Stephen Reimer of the think tank, Royal United Services Institute, predicted fresh attempts to fully restrict the group's access to formal financial channels would have limited success. "Their financing tactics have grown to circumvent these." @Nivsch that's a pretty good effort in controlling the finances of Hamas. Once you get around that, they simply can't do much since there won't be any money. Also another tactic is to create international coalition to stop Qatar and Iran and the Middle East to control their flow of money to terrorist outfits. There's where it all starts. The oil countries. That's the only way these countries have money to fund terrorism. Also building very large militaries to access these regions. War is not a solution.. Even if it's Israel solution to Hamas, make their agenda clear as to how they gonna go about it systematically to destroy Hamas. The whole plan. What about forceful evacuation of civilians and settlement of refugees? I don't see Israel laying out a plan. Where's the plan? There's some bullshittery going on in all the this and the world is not being clued on.

Israel is getting ballsy and attacking other countries because they think their allies will support them. And the sad thing is that they are probably right about that.

So some ignorant child celebrates Hamas in the street, in your opinion the child deserves to die? I don't know whose thought process is more dangerous, Hamas or yours! I never said anything about Hamas. The US supports Israel. We shouldn't be supporting a country that uses the support to bomb innocent people in Gaza. Sorry this is 2023, and we send Israel billions of dollars every year, they have one of the best and the most advanced military in the world, and the best they could do is blindly drop bombs in Gaza? Don't they have the technology to locate and precisely strike members of Hamas? That's like using a bird to send someone a message when you have the new iPhone in your pocket. So you have gangs and cartels in your town causing disruption. You mean to say the whole town should be destroyed including innocent children to destroy those gangs? What sort of logic is that? Hamas is a terrorist organization since a long time. They had too much time on their hands to destroy Hamas completely and they do have all the intelligence and funding they need. If the objective was to kill Hamas, a war wouldn't be necessary. They could have done that anyway. You don't need to bomb an entire country for Osama bin Laden. The logic you're presenting is simply ridiculous. And I'm no longer going to believe that this war is for Hamas. It's something else entirely with Hamas as a favorable excuse. This is clear as day given the humanitarian crisis in the region and the large scale displacement.

@Lila9 your comment supports war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity.

It's so obvious this cannot be against terrorism. This is straight up evil. This is the sole bare truth about the whole Israel Gaza conflict right before our eyes. Every word that came from his mouth is nothing but the truth. It's piecing together. The violence in Gaza at this point is unacceptable.

@Razard86 everyone is complicit in war and evil, black, white, arab, indian, chinese, hispanic. Evil cannot happen by one faction. For evil to succeed, everyone scapegoated others and never did the good they could do since there was no good in anyone to begin with. And the world entered a cold zone, thick like ice and cold as the breeze at night and the souls died in sleep, poor and hungry. And came the end to evil and suffering, when everything perished.

This is true. I don't know for how long we have been watching the global leaders engaging in wars around the world in the name of democracy and yet they haven't been punished for these crimes against humanity. Russia against Ukraine. Israel against Palestinians. It's a shame on humanity that World War 2 wasn't enough. Then we had Iraq War. So much civilian loss. It's crazy. All around the world, wars are breaking out and it doesn't seem to have an end to it. I can't fathom how the global population is holding up to this torture and bombarding. The world population won't grow given the deep economic crisis post covid, birth rates are falling rapidly, global economy is weakening, and the remaining people are dying out in wars, it's like a catastrophe that might send us back to the bleak times of World War 2. It seems bad stuff all over again. I can already see a situation similar to World War 1 cropping up. The depression, the economic crises, general hopelessness and unemployment and slow rise of dictators like Putin, Netanyahu and someone like Hitler waiting to grab the opportunity of the Far Right Madness to start the Third Reich based on the fears and paranoia of the public and the world sinking into another tragedy of gigantic proportions, only this time there won't be children to save humanity due to low birth rate. So we're fucked. Whatever is left of humanity is gradually dying out, chunk by chunk and most places on earth are going to look war torn from the top view. I mean there's not a single place on planet earth that doesn't appear war ravaged. We are really paying the price. These crisis will be hard to recover from.

I can't believe she was banned. She wasn't being a threat.

Are these two videos a metaphorical or figurative representation of what's happened to Gaza by the Israeli? The videos are below.

This interviewer is brave.

Insanity. I don't know what they are saying but I can relate to their pain.

This guy lost it.

That's crazy.

Protests in London.

Can't imagine this.