Israeli military shot and killed three hostages

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    Wow - I knew Nat Turners killed women and children, but I didn't know he also raped them.
    Thank you for this interesting information, even I have to disagree with you - killing and raping women and children is not considered courageous today.
     
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    You mean more relevant wars in the last 23 years? No sure, but we should learn from every conflict. I hope Israel will learn from Oct 7 disaster and if Palestinians will not learn from Hamas Oct 7 'victory' - I don't see for them bright future.
     
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    Again every time you come on this forum you misrepresent and it becomes out and out absurd.

    You were well aware of what the Hamas concept of a nation is and for you to pretend to ignore its Charter and what it stands for, specifically the Islamic Waqf (world Muslim caliphate nation) is patently dishonest.

    "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?

    This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

    It happened like this: When the leaders of the Islamic armies conquered Syria and Iraq, they sent to the Caliph of the Moslems, Umar bin-el-Khatab, asking for his advice concerning the conquered land - whether they should divide it among the soldiers, or leave it for its owners, or what? After consultations and discussions between the Caliph of the Moslems, Omar bin-el-Khatab and companions of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, it was decided that the land should be left with its owners who could benefit by its fruit. As for the real ownership of the land and the land itself, it should be consecrated for Moslem generations till Judgement Day. Those who are on the land, are there only to benefit from its fruit. This Waqf remains as long as earth and heaven remain. Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic Sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void. "
     
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    Your post which is Article 11 is followed by;


    “Homeland and Nationalism from the Point of View of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine

    Article Twelve:

    Nationalism, from the point of view of the Islamic Resistance Movement, is part of the religious creed. Nothing in nationalism is more significant or deeper than in the case when an enemy should tread Moslem land. Resisting and quelling the enemy become the individual duty of every Moslem, male or female. A woman can go out to fight the enemy without her husband’s permission, and so does the slave: without his master’s permission.

    Nothing of the sort is to be found in any other regime. This is an undisputed fact. If other nationalist movements are connected with materialistic, human or regional causes, nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement has all these elements as well as the more important elements that give it soul and life. It is connected to the source of spirit and the granter of life, hoisting in the sky of the homeland the heavenly banner that joins earth and heaven with a strong bond.

    If Moses comes and throws his staff, both witch and magic are annulled.

    “Now is the right direction manifestly distinguished from deceit: whoever therefore shall deny Tagut, and believe in Allah, he shall surely take hold with a strong handle, which shall not be broken; Allah is he who heareth and seeth.” (The Cow—Verse 256).”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
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    “Peaceful Solutions, Initiatives and International Conferences

    Article Thirteen:

    Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight. “Allah will be prominent, but most people do not know.”

    Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitrators. When did the infidels do justice to the believers?

    “But the Jews will not be pleased with thee, neither the Christians, until thou follow their religion; say, The direction of Allah is the true direction. And verily if thou follow their desires, after the knowledge which hath been given thee, thou shalt find no patron or protector against Allah.”
    (The Cow—verse 120).

    There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.
    The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with. As in said in the honourable Hadith:

    “The people of Syria are Allah’s lash in His land. He wreaks His vengeance through them against whomsoever He wishes among His slaves It is unthinkable that those who are double-faced among them should prosper over the faithful. They will certainly die out of grief and desperation.””


    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
     
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    Have any of the resident Hamas supporters read the Hamas Charter??? Perhaps they might share their interpretation of the preceding three articles of said Charter.
     
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    icannot find any credible information or evidence to support the claim that Hamas committed rape or mass murder, they killed hundreds of IDF though which is what happens in war, soldiers die. It's crucial to verify such serious allegations through reliable sources before sharing or believing them.
     
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    The genocidal mission statement of Hamas keeps being confirmed by their charter.


    The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement 18 August 1988 In the Name of the Most Merciful Allah


    ““Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with Allah, and a treaty with men; and they draw on themselves indignation from Allah, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed.” (Al-Imran—verses 109–111).

    Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

    “The Islamic world is on fire. Each of us should pour some water, no matter how little, to extinguish whatever one can without waiting for the others.” (Sheikh Amjad al-Zahawi, of blessed memory).”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
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    “The Islamic Resistance Movement emerged to carry out its role through striving for the sake of its Creator, its arms intertwined with those of all the fighters for the liberation of Palestine. The spirits of its fighters meet with the spirits of all the fighters who have sacrificed their lives on the soil of Palestine, ever since it was conquered by the companions of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, and until this day.

    This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realised.”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
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    “The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after.

    Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

    “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
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    The Slogan of the Islamic Resistance Movement:

    Article Eight:

    Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
    https://a.co/j1iL6gi
     
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    so all those people attending that Music festival who were murdered were actually IDF regulars?
     
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    “The Three Circles

    Article Fourteen:

    The question of the liberation of Palestine is bound to three circles: the Palestinian circle, the Arab circle and the Islamic circle. Each of these circles has its role in the struggle against Zionism.


    “Since this is the case, liberation of Palestine is then an individual duty for very Moslem wherever he may be. On this basis, the problem should be viewed. This should be realised by every Moslem.

    The day the problem is dealt with on this basis, when the three circles mobilize their capabilities, the present state of affairs will change and the day of liberation will come nearer. “Verily ye are stronger than they, by reason of the terror cast into their breasts from Allah. This, because they are not people of prudence.” (The Emigration—verse 13).”

    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
    https://a.co/cmNCbJ1
     
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    Hamas apologists would have us believe that IDF regulars dress up as women just like Hamas terrorists do.
     
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    I do wonder about woke white American kids who fluff Hamas and the other IslamoTerrorist scum. Their lifestyles would most likely get them murdered or tortured if they lived in areas controlled by the fungi-islamists. Is it the hatred of Jews? or is it because woke American kids hate America and its allies. Or is it because Jewish kids often do well in schools and some of these faux Jihadist supporters are jealous? It doesnt make sense.
     
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    Murdered by IDF allegedly, the ravers that is, just like the Israeli hostages were killed in cold blood by IDF.

    Any more questions?

    iMean its there in black and white, the tactics, HELLO.
     
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    I understand you. I have a friend who cannot find any credible information or evidence to support the claim that Israel is killing civilians in Gaza. And not like you, he showed me information which according to him is a proof that it is Hamas who is killing civilians in Gaza:

    Palestinians on purpose bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in order to blame Israelis:
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/21/midd...ensic-analysis-gaza-hospital-blast/index.html

    Hamas’ in Gaza is using civilians as of human shield:
    https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf

    Hamas prevented civilians to evacuate from the area which Israel said it will bomb:
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-g...reventing-evacuations-thousands-return-north/

    Hamas is teaching Gaza’s children that they should die fighting Israel:


    Hams build tunnels to protect themselves, and not civilians:


    Hamas is killing and torturing people in Gaza:
    https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/n...-killed-by-hamas-forces-during-2014-conflict/

    Israel is claiming it killed more than 8000 Hamas members – why we don’t see this number in people alleged killed by Israel?
     
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    just cut the crap-those music festival attendees were unarmed civilians: 364 were murdered by the Islamist scum and 40 or so were taken hostage-I don't know how many of them were murdered by the Islamists as well
     
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    They are not taught critical thinking. They are taught narratives, not to question those narratives, and anyone who does question those narratives is evil and should be canceled. The legacy mainstream media and academia is full of people that fit the description.

    For example the two sided discussion currently taking place in this thread would never be allowed on the campus of Harvard, Columbia, Brown, or any other college campus with the exception of Hillsdale.
     
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    It’s quite obvious that a significant part of the Hamas Charter is the complex elimination of Jews from within the geographic boundaries of Israel.


    “The Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is an Individual Duty

    Article Fifteen:

    The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised. To do this requires the diffusion of Islamic consciousness among the masses, both on the regional, Arab and Islamic levels. It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters.

    It is necessary that scientists, educators and teachers, information and media people, as well as the educated masses, especially the youth and sheikhs of the Islamic movements, should take part in the operation of awakening (the masses). It is important that basic changes be made in the school curriculum, to cleanse it of the traces of ideological invasion that affected it as a result of the orientalists and missionaries who infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah el-Din (Saladin).”

    “I swear by the holder of Mohammed’s soul that I would like to invade and be killed for the sake of Allah, then invade and be killed, and then invade again and be killed.” (As related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).


    — War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism by Alan Dershowitz
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    Those rave attendees were killed yes but allegedly by the IDF. The palestinian militants didn't even know there was a rave going on until they came across it but when they did they took hostages and were then treated well by all accounts, given food even when the palestinian militants were starving.

    The only evidence we have so far of Israeli hostages being killed is by the cold blooded hands of IDF terrorists.
     
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    this has been a propaganda piece brought to you by Hamas
     
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    clearly you don't since you keep repeating the same disinformation.
    icannot find any credible information or evidence to support the claim that Hamas committed rape or mass murder, they killed hundreds of IDF though which is what happens in war, soldiers die. It's crucial to verify such serious allegations through reliable sources before sharing or believing them.
     
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    Actually the IDF AND Israeli hostage survivors (H@das d@gan and y@smin por@t) have testified to IDF killing the Oct 7 ravers.
     
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    Israelis have it in their charter to kill Israelis if they are taken hostage.

    The Hannibal Directive (Hebrew: נוהל חניבעל; also Hannibal Procedure or Hannibal Protocol) is the name of a controversial procedure that was used by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) until 2016 to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces. According to one version, it says that "the kidnapping must be stopped by all means, even at the price of striking and harming our own forces."[2] It was introduced in 1986, after a number of abductions of IDF soldiers in Lebanon and subsequent controversial prisoner exchanges. The full text of the directive was never published, and until 2003, Israeli military censorship forbade any discussion of the subject in the press. The directive has been changed several times,[2] until its revocation in 2016 by IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot.[3][4]

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    In 2016, the Hannibal Directive was revoked by then-IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot
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    Then-IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (right) in a training exercise where the forces practiced a soldier abduction scenario. Addressing the IDF's operations forum, Gantz stated that IDF protocols do not allow for a soldier to be killed in order to prevent his abduction.[1]
    Two versions of the Hannibal Directive may have existed simultaneously at times: a written version, accessible only to the upper echelon of the IDF, and an "oral law" version for division commanders and lower levels. In the latter version, "by all means" was often interpreted literally, as in "an IDF soldier was 'better dead than abducted'". In 2011, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz stated the directive does not permit killing IDF soldiers to prevent abduction.[5]

    In case of the abduction of Gilad Shalit, invocation of the Hannibal Directive occurred too late to have any influence on the course of events.

    Israel has, with several notable exceptions, adhered to the principle of not negotiating with those it considers terrorists, especially in hostage situations. This policy led to some notable successes, such as Operation Entebbe, but also to loss of human life, e.g. the Maalot Massacre. In cases where Israeli soldiers were captured and no military solution was found, Israel was forced to negotiate with the captors for an exchange of prisoners. Large parts of the Israeli public would not accept abandoning captured soldiers to their fate.

    In 1970, a member of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) entered Israel from Lebanon and abducted a security guard in the northernmost Israeli town of Metula. He did this in order to secure a swap of the guard for a senior member of Fatah, jailed in Israel. In 1979, Israel agreed to exchange an Israeli POW held by Palestinians for 76 convicted Palestinian militants in Israeli jails.

    After the 1982 Lebanon War, Palestinian forces imprisoned nine IDF soldiers as POWs. Six were held by Fatah (the main faction of the PLO) and three by the pro-Syrian PFLP-GC. In 1983, Israel agreed to free 4,700 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners, including several high ranking PLO officers, for the six IDF soldiers held captive by Fatah. The following year Israel agreed to free another 1,150 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Many were allowed to remain in Israeli controlled territory.

    Dr. Avner Shiftan, an army physician with the rank of major, came across the Hannibal directive while on reserve duty in South Lebanon in 1999. In army briefings he "became aware of a procedure ordering soldiers to kill any IDF soldier if he should be taken captive by Hezbollah. This procedure struck me as being illegal and not consistent with the moral code of the IDF. I understood that it was not a local procedure but originated in the General Staff, and had the feeling that a direct approach to the army authorities would be of no avail, but would end in a cover-up."[20]

    He contacted Asa Kasher, the Israeli philosopher noted for his authorship of Israel Defense Forces' Code of Conduct, who "found it difficult to believe that such an order exists" since this "is wrong ethically, legally and morally". He doubted that "there is anyone in the army" believing that 'better a dead soldier than an abducted soldier'. Haaretz article about Dr. Shiftan's experience was the first to be published in an Israeli newspaper.[20]

    In contrast to the view of Kasher, the IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz said in an interview with Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth in 1999: "In certain senses, with all the pain that saying this entails, an abducted soldier, in contrast to a soldier who has been killed, is a national problem." Asked whether he was referring to cases like Ron Arad (an Air Force navigator captured in 1986) and Nachshon Wachsman (an abducted soldier killed in 1994 in a failed rescue attempt), he replied "definitely, and not only".[20]

    According to Prof. Emanuel Gross, from the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa, "Orders like that have to go through the filter of the Military Advocate General's Office, and if they were not involved that is very grave", he said. "The reason is that an order that knowingly permits the death of soldiers to be brought about, even if the intentions were different, carries a black flag and is a flagrantly illegal order that undermines the most central values of our social norms".[8]

    Harel writes that a kind of "Oral Law" has developed inside IDF, which is supported by many commanders, even at brigade and division level. It goes further than the official order, including the use of tank shells or air strikes. "A dangerous, unofficial interpretation of the protocol has been created," a senior officer told Haaretz. "Intentionally targeting a vehicle in order to kill the abductee is a completely illegal command. The army's senior command must make this clear to officers."[1]

    In anticipation of the Gaza War in 2009, Lt. Col. Shuki Ribak, the commander of the Golani Brigade's 51st battalion instructed his soldiers to avoid kidnapping at any cost and even made clear that he expected his soldiers to commit suicide rather than being abducted:

    [N]o soldier in Battalion 51 will be kidnapped at any price. At any price. Under any condition. Even if it means that he blows himself with his own grenade together with those trying to capture him. Also even if it means that now his unit has to fire a barrage at the car that they are trying to take him away in.[21][22]

    After a recording of Ribak's instructions was distributed by an anonymous source, the IDF reiterated its denial of having a policy of intentionally killing captured soldiers.[21]
     
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