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Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza after Blinken ends visit with truce deal still elusive
2024-08-22
[ARABNEWS] Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s across Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
killed at least 50 Paleostinians in the past 24 hours, Paleostinian health authorities said on Wednesday, as the military said troops continued to target forces of Evil and seize weapons and ammunition.

As last-ditch diplomatic efforts continued to halt the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, the Israeli military said jets hit around 30 targets throughout the Gaza Strip including tunnels, launch sites and an observation post.

It said troops killed dozens of armed fighters and captured weapons including explosives, grenades and automatic rifles.

The military issued new evacuation orders in the heavily overcrowded area of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians displaced by the fighting have sought shelter.

The evacuation orders, which the military said were needed to clear civilians from what had become ''a dangerous combat zone,'' were soon followed by tank fire with at least one person killed and several maimed by machine gun fire, medics and residents said.

The conflict churned on as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
ended his latest visit to the Middle East with no clear sign over whether a deal to end the fighting is in sight.

At stake in the talks Blinken had with leaders of ceasefire mediators, Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, as well as in Israel, is the fate of tiny, crowded Gaza, where Israel's military campaign has killed more than 40,000 people since October according to Paleostinian health authorities, and of the remaining hostages being held there.

The war in Gaza began on Oct. 7 last year when Hamas button men stormed into Israeli communities and military bases, killing around 1,200 people and abducting about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

For the displaced left exposed in Deir al-Balah, the lack of progress toward a ceasefire compounded the misery as they searched for space away from the fighting.

''Where will we go? Where will we go?'' said Aburakan, 55, a displaced person from Gaza City in the territory's north who has had to change refuge five times since October.

''We feel they are closing in. I live a few hundred meters from the threatened areas, and I have been searching since the early morning in vain for a space in western Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, or Nuseirat,'' he told Rooters via a chat app.
So, you can charge your smartphone?
''Unfortunately, we may die before we see an end to this war. All ceasefire talk is a lie.''

Paleostinian and United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
officials say most of the 2.3 million population have become internally displaced by Israel's ongoing military offensive and bombardment that have also flattened swathes of built-up areas across the enclave.

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Posted by:Fred

#4  Blinken worships at the church of the Democrat party.

He may eat matzah on Passover but his primary allegiance is party allegiance.
Posted by: Lord Garth    2024-08-22 20:14  

#3  Omeath Spaling8608 IS a liar among his many nyms
Posted by: Frank G   2024-08-22 13:29  

#2  Liar.

Yes, Secretary Blinken is Jewish, and even was reared by a Holocaust survivor who escaped the Nazi death march to take refuge in an American tank. But he was born in Yonkers and never took Israeli citizenship.

Nor is there any reason for Israel to respect someone who so clearly prioritizes Israel’s enemies — also America’s enemies, but whatevs.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-08-22 13:17  

#1  Giving the finger to the USA. Again.
And Blinken is a Jew and a dual citizen, even.
And still, Israel disrespects him and America like this.
Well, it's not like this is anything new.
Posted by: Omeath Spaling8608   2024-08-22 12:38  

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