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So much crap.After spending over 10 months in harsh combat and risking my life daily with my team in Gaza and coming home to hear the media and other political pundits and social media whores try to paint us as the villains, here's what I have to say about it, as one who was actually there.
Links to articles I refer to in this episode:
In Sep 2014, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Retired Col. Richard Kemp told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Kemp pointed out that, during the operation, there was approximately one civilian casualty for every terrorist killed by the IDF, whereas the average in the world is four civilians for every combatant, and that, when taking into consideration Hamas’s use of human shields, this shows how careful the IDF is.
“No army in the world acts with as much discretion and great care as the IDF in order to minimize damage. The US and the UK are careful, but not as much as Israel,”
Former British commander in Afghanistan: No army acts with as much discretion as IDF does
Col. (res.) Richard Kemp told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel's army is more careful than the US and UK forces.www.jpost.com
John Spencer He feels that the US bears some of the responsibility for the devastation in Gaza because of how it’s slowed down and limited Israel’s ability to win the war. It’s a restraint that he says the US hasn’t imposed on its own military campaigns, and it has the effect of increasing Palestinian casualties and suffering by dragging out the fighting.
Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent
Let's put away our military history books. There is no comparison to what Israel has faced in Gaza—certainly none by which Israel comes out looking the worse.www.newsweek.com
Douglas Murray "You well know that Hamas did not commit the massacre of 7 October because of settlements. They did it by their own admission because they want to massacre every Jew they can get their hands on and Hamas has said they will do it again and again."
Watch: Douglas Murray schools Al Jazeera journalist on Israel-Gaza conflict
When you’re interviewing an expert, it never hurts to come prepared. But when Al Jazeera journalist Jane Dutton quizzed Douglas Murray on the conflict in the Middle East, the unsuspecting interviewer quickly became the interviewee in a rather humiliating twist… ‘You’ve got to inform your viewers...www.spectator.co.uk
"the regime in Tehran, the revolutionary Islamic government, showed once again what it is, and what it would like to do. And this isn’t just Israel’s problem, it’s the region’s problem. And the world’s problem.”
Douglas Murray on Iran attack, anti-Israel marches, and Israel’s resilience
In an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, Murray spoke about his views on Hamas and Israel’s prosecution of the war against the terrorist group and his warnings about the Iranian regime.
You’ve seen the videos of prisoners being raped - people being bombed at refugee camps - evidence of women being raped - mass graves in hospitals - 40,000 innocent killed mainly children and women and you post this as soon as your unbanned?
What actually goes through your brain cell when posting nonsense?
Can a leopard change his spots or zebra its stripes? You are a lost cause bro
