First Hostages Freed as Long-Awaited Gaza Ceasefire

Sunday, January 19, 2025

A long-awaited ceasefire started in Gaza on Sunday, bringing respite to the besieged enclave after a bloody 15 months.

Posted by madbomber at 04:30 PM | 8 COMMENTS | permalink

Israel's strikes on Gaza continued Sunday morning before a cease-fire was scheduled to go into effect.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) January 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Comments

Till next time ...

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-19 10:42 AM

That's kinda my thought. The Islamic resistance trades hostages for the time and space required to reconstitute.

What seems a bit encouraging is the comments by the Palestinians who are returning to their destroyed houses and wondering why it all happened. Sure, the Islamic leaders now have more street cred while they're snorting coke off the asses of European hookers in Dubai, but I'm not sure that the narrative is going to hold that this whole Hamas campaign was being conducted for the benefit of Palestinians.

#2 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-01-19 01:43 PM

No,it was to give the Israeli's An Excuse to Slaughter tens of thousands without having to spend their own money doing it.

Hamas was engaging in legal resistance to a vicious and illegal occupation and the destruction of Palestinian culture and identity.

It's all depends on your Point of View.

From where I'm standing the Israeli's are the real Bastards here.

Not Hamas.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-19 02:25 PM

That's kinda my thought. The Islamic resistance trades hostages for the time and space required to reconstitute.
#2 | Posted by madbomber

Really quite idiotic to confront a nuclear-armed opponent with an existential conflict.

If the Palestinians actually want to resolve this once and for all they should bury the hatchet and forgive the Israelis. And then the Israeli Arabs should breed like rabbits until they increase their share of the Israeli population from today's 20% to about 60%. They should be able to manage that in as short as 25 years if they really put their minds to it.

The Arabs can then take over the Israeli government/military through democratic means and then genocide the Jews to their heart's content. Voila! So then the Muslims can focus on what's really important. Allowing the Shiites and Sunnis to murder one another.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-19 05:49 PM

"If the Palestinians actually want to resolve this once and for all they should bury the hatchet and forgive the Israelis."

Forgive them???

For what?

Palestine is not a real thing. It never has been.

Maybe I'm wrong, but has there ever been a Republic of Palestine? A Kingdom of Palestine? Even an Emirate of Palestine?

No. The land was owned by Ottomans who lived in Turkey.

The closest that Palestine ever came to being a real thing was in 1948, and the so-called Palestinians rejected it.

Palestinians need to understand this, but they've been fed a narrative where they are entitled to something they had no part in creating. Progressivism at its finest.

#5 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-01-19 06:02 PM

Forgive them??? For what? [...]
#5 | Posted by madbomber

For all offenses, imaginary and real. The real purpose being to lull the Jews into complacency to set the stage for their extermination.

Meanwhile, a dramatic reenactment of the current state of affairs:
True Middle East

#6 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-19 06:10 PM

You call Oct 7th... "Hamas was engaging in legal resistance"?

#7 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-01-19 06:20 PM

Yup.

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-19 06:36 PM

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