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On 10/9/2025 at 12:41 PM, The Real timschochet said:

Unless there is a Palestinian state with a viable economic future for its inhabitants, there is always going to be terrorism. 

Sorry, ive been busy this week. There has never been a Palestinian state.  Why is one needed to remove terrorism? They were given freedom to self rule in the past, and consistently elect terrorists.

Israel has a top global entrepreneurial culture.  Combined with a blank check from western apologist nations, if they embraced Israel and it's ways, they would have a thriving economy in no time. Then they will have shown that they are ready to self govern. 

My money is not on this outcome, though. I provide as evidence the past 80 years of reality. Hopefully I'm wrong, though.

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1 minute ago, Gepetto said:

WTF. I don't even want Canada or Britain to have a military base in our country. Unreal.

sources told CNN that the plan to build the Qatari facility has been in the works for several years, dating back to the previous administration.

A US official said the agreement with Qatar is routine and something the Air Force has done for decades with other partner nations including Germany and Singapore.

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2 hours ago, jerryskids said:

Sorry, ive been busy this week. There has never been a Palestinian state.  Why is one needed to remove terrorism? 

Because Turkey ruled them for centuries with an iron fist and no mercy. After Turkey was defeated in World War I, Palestinians have sought their own state. Great Britain first and Israel second, being western democracies, refused to rule with an iron fist (because we in the west don’t do that.) 

So for the past 110 years or so Palestinians have lived in utter destitution with no economic hope. You combine that with religious extremism and you’re going to have terrorism. You want to get rid of the terrorism, you either act inhumanly, commit crimes against civilization to defeat it, or you try to provide these people a chance to achieve prosperity and self rule. Those are your choices. It’s the dilemma Israel has faced since the Zionist movement started. 

Can I guarantee to you that giving these folks a chance at independence is going to achieve peace? Of course not. It may very well go the way you predict with more terrorism. But I know that the alternative has not worked, has never worked, mainly because Israel is not willing to behave like the Ottoman Empire. Nor should they. If they did they would lose their identity as a civilized, western nation. And I’m pretty convinced it still wouldn’t work. 

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1 hour ago, The Real timschochet said:

Because Turkey ruled them for centuries with an iron fist and no mercy. After Turkey was defeated in World War I, Palestinians have sought their own state. Great Britain first and Israel second, being western democracies, refused to rule with an iron fist (because we in the west don’t do that.) 

So for the past 110 years or so Palestinians have lived in utter destitution with no economic hope. You combine that with religious extremism and you’re going to have terrorism. You want to get rid of the terrorism, you either act inhumanly, commit crimes against civilization to defeat it, or you try to provide these people a chance to achieve prosperity and self rule. Those are your choices. It’s the dilemma Israel has faced since the Zionist movement started. 

Can I guarantee to you that giving these folks a chance at independence is going to achieve peace? Of course not. It may very well go the way you predict with more terrorism. But I know that the alternative has not worked, has never worked, mainly because Israel is not willing to behave like the Ottoman Empire. Nor should they. If they did they would lose their identity as a civilized, western nation. And I’m pretty convinced it still wouldn’t work. 

Those are my choices?  That sounds like one of your "full stop" posts.  It's a false dichotomy.  I gave you another choice, the obvious choice -- show the slightest interest in entering the 21st (heck, 20th) century before we gift you a country you've never had.  Ottoman Empire?  What about the Mongols, or the Gauls?  

I'll say it another way.  What about officially calling it a country will cause a loose band of warring tribes to elect a democratic government and pursue a capitalist society, when multiple attempts to give them self-governance have resulted in terrorist regimes?

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3 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I love how Trump says ‘mooozleem’ just like Obama now. What a trip. He pays attention when it’s worth it to him.

I love how Trump won the presidency. :thumbsup:

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1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Those are my choices?  That sounds like one of your "full stop" posts.  It's a false dichotomy.  I gave you another choice, the obvious choice -- show the slightest interest in entering the 21st (heck, 20th) century before we gift you a country you've never had.  Ottoman Empire?  What about the Mongols, or the Gauls?  

I'll say it another way.  What about officially calling it a country will cause a loose band of warring tribes to elect a democratic government and pursue a capitalist society, when multiple attempts to give them self-governance have resulted in terrorist regimes?

Well we’re not too far apart from each other I don’t think. Of course Palestinians are going to have to make a real effort here. I have to say that, as much as I sympathize with individual Palestinians, as a people they have screwed up and blown chances at a lasting peace and prosperity time after time after time. Their absolute best opportunity was in the early 90s. But they blew it. Now it’s going to be much harder. 

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15 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Well we’re not too far apart from each other I don’t think. Of course Palestinians are going to have to make a real effort here. I have to say that, as much as I sympathize with individual Palestinians, as a people they have screwed up and blown chances at a lasting peace and prosperity time after time after time. Their absolute best opportunity was in the early 90s. But they blew it. Now it’s going to be much harder. 

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On 9/8/2025 at 3:56 PM, Fnord said:

I somehow ended up on an email list for The Free Press. Without even knowing Bari Weiss (who I've long found a poor excuse for a journalist) was behind the site, a quick perusal of their articles in the email was enough for me to believe it was not a real journalistic outfit. CBS news seems like they're going down the road of losing journalistic integrity. 

Bahahaha 

 

 

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On 8/20/2025 at 4:40 PM, jerryskids said:

 

BTW I never saw your opinion on the FP article which exposed the 12 photos of starving Gazan children that the media is gaslighting you about.

I know you think the author of this article and maybe the subjects of it are Hamas, but:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss-free-press-incomplete-reporting-starvation-famine-children-palestinians-gaza

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Watching some of the hostages reunion videos has been very emotional this morning.

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10 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

There are no female hostages left alive.

They had been released previously.  Looks like other than the 20 released, there were only 2 hostages that Israel thought may have  been alive but were not.  There are still some dead bodies that have not been released though.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-hostage-release-9878d227949f0521fcf548a6fae3c1ca

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-hostages-ceasefire-10-13-25

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Great day of hope for the middle east and peace in the world.  Well done President Trump!

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33 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

They had been released previously.  Looks like other than the 20 released, there were only 2 hostages that Israel thought may have  been alive but were not.  There are still some dead bodies that have not been released though.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-hostage-release-9878d227949f0521fcf548a6fae3c1ca

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-hostages-ceasefire-10-13-25

>>The war was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, when some 1,200 people were killed and 251 kidnapped.<<

>>Some were at the Nova music festival, where almost 400 people were killed and dozens kidnapped.<<

>>On Monday, Hamas released 20 hostages into the custody of the Red Cross, …<<

>>Also Monday, two hostages previously thought to be living were confirmed dead.<<

It’s a lot. IMO this is a war crime & everyone responsible should be brought before a war crimes trial. But there will be no war crimes tribunal.

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40 minutes ago, avoiding injuries said:

I’m going to take a wild stab and guess liberals are finding something wrong here?

I’m pretty sure liberals are fine with this. Palestinians are celebrating - seriously they’re out in the streets partying. They have their nation state & Hamas survives with amnesty & no war crimes tribunal, and they get their 2700 prisoners back, families reunited. Only one who is unhappy in all this is Netanyahu, & probably foreign policy conservatives.

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Today is a great day in the history of the Trump presidency, I do not know how the peace deal will ultimately work out. And you all know what I think of Donald Trump; that hasn’t changed. But today he deserves the heartfelt thanks of this country and the world. Well done Mr. President. Take a well deserved bow. 

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There’s already some very disturbing news coming out of Gaza. I thought that part of the agreement was that Hamas was no longer going to be in control of Gaza. But apparently they have not only seized control they are in the process of executing anyone suspected of being a “collaborator” (e.g. all opposition.) The killings have begun. 
 

This ain’t good. I’m not seeing a good ending here. And I think that, as much gratitude as Trump deserves, he should pause before throwing out the “mission accomplished” banner….

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1 minute ago, The Real timschochet said:

There’s already some very disturbing news coming out of Gaza. I thought that part of the agreement was that Hamas was no longer going to be in control of Gaza. But apparently they have not only seized control they are in the process of executing anyone suspected of being a “collaborator” (e.g. all opposition.) The killings have begun. 
 

This ain’t good. I’m not seeing a good ending here. And I think that, as much gratitude as Trump deserves, he should pause before throwing out the “mission accomplished” banner….

At what point is Gaza responsible for their own peace?  

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3 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

There’s already some very disturbing news coming out of Gaza. I thought that part of the agreement was that Hamas was no longer going to be in control of Gaza. But apparently they have not only seized control they are in the process of executing anyone suspected of being a “collaborator” (e.g. all opposition.) The killings have begun. 
 

This ain’t good. I’m not seeing a good ending here. And I think that, as much gratitude as Trump deserves, he should pause before throwing out the “mission accomplished” banner….

Getting Israel / Palestine to agree to a peace agreement is Step 1. Trump deserves credit for getting them that far. Step 2 is seeing that they abide by it.

Biden negotiated a peace agreement last year that didn’t hold. He just didn’t do a victory lap, prolly cause he forgot about the agreement 5 minutes later and gets lost when he’s more than a block from home. :( 

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3 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Well not anytime soon. Not according to the agreement just signed. 

Link to the specifics of the deal or are you just going by what you heard on Lib radio?

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Look no matter what happens after this, Trump got the remaining hostages freed. That’s a big win. Nothing can take away from that, it’s a win forever in the history books. 

But as far as a lasting peace I was actually quite optimistic based on the terms of the agreement. I thought I saw possibilities for the future. I was especially intrigued by Lindsay Graham’s idea, which I heard the time yesterday, of a Palestine governed by the UAE rather than as an independent state. 
 

But it’s not starting off well. 

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Part of the agreement is that: 

1. Hamas would disarm 

2. Hamas would have no administrative control of Gaza. (That would fall to an international commission led by Tony Blair for the immediate future.) 

But if Hamas is seizing control and executing collaborators isn’t this already a violation of the agreement? In less than 24 hours. 

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4 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

How can you comment on the deal without knowing any of the details? 
 

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-peace-plan-ce2e84de8aa5fd308fe751ae9c3118e8

1)  I asked a question.  I can't ask a question?

2)  Your link is two weeks old.  There's no way that's the final agreement.  Is that what YOU are basing YOUR comments on?

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3 minutes ago, Strike said:

1)  I asked a question.  I can't ask a question?

2)  Your link is two weeks old.  There's no way that's the final agreement.  Is that what YOU are basing YOUR comments on?

Yes. I haven’t heard of any significant changes. 

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Just now, The Real timschochet said:

THAT I just heard on MSNBC about 15 minutes ago. 

No link.  Gotcha.

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