So much hope for peace in Middle East

[special]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8yjr3zyz8o

Two separate Hezbollah rocket attacks have killed seven people in northern Israel, authorities say - the deadliest day of such strikes in months.


Stupid terrorist stuff like this undoes months of diplomacy.

[pdq]

Israel pounds Beirut's southern suburbs after US truce push

BEIRUT, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Israel pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with a series of powerful airstrikes early on Friday morning after issuing evacuation orders to residents, in the first such strikes in days targeting the dense urban area, Reuters witnesses said.

Huh. Why now?

The strikes followed a renewed but as yet of fruitless bout of U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at getting a ceasfire in Gaza and Lebanon to stop over a year of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

The conflict in Lebanon has dramatically escalated over the past five weeks, with most of the 2,800 deaths reported by the Lebanese health ministry for the past 12 months occurring in that period.

[gabester]

pdq wrote:
This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

Joe should order him taken out. Hopefully were Mossad to engage in tit-for-tat they'd either get him or the incoming President if that candidate's a man.

I know this isn't what we do or who we are, but exceptional times... The fate of the world is at stake, we can't go around acting like this is business as usual.

[special]

I would take all Middle East leaders and Biden and Trump and Kamala and lock all into room and unlock only when there is a peace deal. I'd keep Vance out of this since he may eat the others.

[Ted King]

gabester wrote:
[quote=pdq]
This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

Joe should order him taken out. Hopefully were Mossad to engage in tit-for-tat they'd either get him or the incoming President if that candidate's a man.

I know this isn't what we do or who we are, but exceptional times... The fate of the world is at stake, we can't go around acting like this is business as usual.
I hope you don't mean that literally. It would be a whole lot better if Biden felt this whole thing needed to stop for him to just tell Netanyahu no more money or bombs till you stop. Period. And do it.

[pdq]

Ted King wrote:
[quote=gabester]
[quote=pdq]
This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

Joe should order him taken out. Hopefully were Mossad to engage in tit-for-tat they'd either get him or the incoming President if that candidate's a man.

I know this isn't what we do or who we are, but exceptional times... The fate of the world is at stake, we can't go around acting like this is business as usual.
I hope you don't mean that literally. It would be a whole lot better if Biden felt this whole thing needed to stop for him to just tell Netanyahu no more money or bombs till you stop. Period. And do it.
I read today that both Ford and Reagan temporarily suspended military aid to Israel back in the day when they were being recalcitrant about peace deals. And that was when there was much closer military parity between Israel and their enemies of the time.

Kind of hard to imagine that now.

[gabester]

pdq wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=gabester]
[quote=pdq]
This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

Joe should order him taken out. Hopefully were Mossad to engage in tit-for-tat they'd either get him or the incoming President if that candidate's a man.

I know this isn't what we do or who we are, but exceptional times... The fate of the world is at stake, we can't go around acting like this is business as usual.
I hope you don't mean that literally. It would be a whole lot better if Biden felt this whole thing needed to stop for him to just tell Netanyahu no more money or bombs till you stop. Period. And do it.
I read today that both Ford and Reagan temporarily suspended military aid to Israel back in the day when they were being recalcitrant about peace deals. And that was when there was much closer military parity between Israel and their enemies of the time.

Kind of hard to imagine that now.
I mean I have to assume that Biden has already threatened this and only not followed through on it yet to preserve supportive optics for Jewish Americans before the election... and I have to hope that November 6th Bibi is cut off and no weapons or any funds until there's a peace deal on the table. This is a moment that calls for some hard lines... and if Bibi won't cooperate, sideline him. If that can be done without resorting to murder, all the better.

[AllGold]

gabester wrote:
[quote=pdq]
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=gabester]
[quote=pdq]
This is Netanyahu’s F-U to anyone seeking peace, and specifically Biden.

Joe should order him taken out. Hopefully were Mossad to engage in tit-for-tat they'd either get him or the incoming President if that candidate's a man.

I know this isn't what we do or who we are, but exceptional times... The fate of the world is at stake, we can't go around acting like this is business as usual.
I hope you don't mean that literally. It would be a whole lot better if Biden felt this whole thing needed to stop for him to just tell Netanyahu no more money or bombs till you stop. Period. And do it.
I read today that both Ford and Reagan temporarily suspended military aid to Israel back in the day when they were being recalcitrant about peace deals. And that was when there was much closer military parity between Israel and their enemies of the time.

Kind of hard to imagine that now.
I mean I have to assume that Biden has already threatened this and only not followed through on it yet to preserve supportive optics for Jewish Americans before the election... and I have to hope that November 6th Bibi is cut off and no weapons or any funds until there's a peace deal on the table. This is a moment that calls for some hard lines... and if Bibi won't cooperate, sideline him. If that can be done without resorting to murder, all the better.
I think you're right. Biden likely thinks he can't afford any unforeseen consequences before the election.

[SteveG]

see y'all in five days

[SteveG]

During a year of conflict with Hezbollah, a total of 12,400 projectiles crossed into Israel from Lebanon.