TimHauck 2,990 Posted August 9 24 minutes ago, Gepetto said: I don't believe at all that Hamas wants Palestinians to starve and/or die. Hamas came from these people. Hamas are Palestinian. Agree, I said something like this earlier. I’m sure Hamas was stealing aid then selling it at exhorbitant prices, but it sure seems like the hunger situation for regular Palestinians wasn’t as bad before the GHF got involved. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted August 9 5 hours ago, jerryskids said: Thoughts on the video? Hamas is bad. We agree. I just thought it was interesting he made sure to point out that there are only Palestinian journalists in Gaza, but failed to mention that’s because others aren’t allowed in by the IDF. Also seems like his key point was about how the “death totals” include Hamas members. I think most people know that and take those numbers with a grain of salt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted August 9 On 8/7/2025 at 2:05 PM, jerryskids said: Oh, and in that June post of mine you pulled up, I asked what Israel should be doing instead, but you can't say some version of "I don't know but not this!" Did you answer that? If so, please give me a brief summary. TIA The US no longer funding it is probably a good start. I think that might give Netanyahu more incentive to actually end it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Real timschochet 6,932 Posted August 9 1 hour ago, TimHauck said: The US no longer funding it is probably a good start. I think that might give Netanyahu more incentive to actually end it. Israel has been a good friend and ally but I don’t know why we need to give them military aid any longer. Israel has an annual GDP of 500 billion which is 28th in the world. They’re a wealthy nation. They can afford to pay for their own military. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted August 9 12 hours ago, TimHauck said: The US no longer funding it is probably a good start. I think that might give Netanyahu more incentive to actually end it. Wut? Your answer to what Israel should do is that the US should not fund it? Fine, let's play this out. Netanyahu now has more incentive to end it. What is "end"? Just leave? Let Hamas stay in charge so that they can rebuild and do another 10/7? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Saturday at 03:22 PM 51 minutes ago, jerryskids said: Wut? Your answer to what Israel should do is that the US should not fund it? Fine, let's play this out. Netanyahu now has more incentive to end it. What is "end"? Just leave? Let Hamas stay in charge so that they can rebuild and do another 10/7? They probably take over Gaza. But at least the US wouldn’t be complicit in it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted Saturday at 05:44 PM 2 hours ago, TimHauck said: They probably take over Gaza. But at least the US wouldn’t be complicit in it That seems to be what they are doing now. Also, "complicit" implies a bad thing. Israel has tried a bunch of times over 75 years to propose two-state solutions, every time rejected by Palestinians. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Saturday at 07:31 PM 1 hour ago, jerryskids said: That seems to be what they are doing now. Also, "complicit" implies a bad thing. Israel has tried a bunch of times over 75 years to propose two-state solutions, every time rejected by Palestinians. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. But they could have done that a lot quicker than 2 years. Wasn’t any recently proposed 2 state solutions rejected by Hamas? If they’re not involved in it which they shouldn’t be, I think there can be new conversations. And honestly, since Hamas was in control of Gaza, I’m okay if Israel takes it. But Hamas wasn’t in control of the West Bank, so that could be the centerpiece of the Palestinian state, and then get rid of the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas which would also solve a lot of existing conflict. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maximum Overkill 2,073 Posted Saturday at 07:34 PM Gaza and Hamas has to be eliminated, or else we'll be playing this BS game forever. It's horrible to say but it's truth. Israel needs to do it now to protect it's empire. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Saturday at 11:39 PM On 7/31/2025 at 2:47 PM, jerryskids said: Thoughts from the Hamas apologists here? I know you will say this is “Hamas Harry,” but Pulitzer Prize winning Palestinian writer says there is a group that is actually working to PROTECT aid from getting stolen (by Hamas or other criminal gangs). Not sure if the video above is the same group, but some of them do have the yellow vests. It does make you wonder since I can’t imagine Hamas is running around in neon yellow vests. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted Sunday at 12:53 AM 1 hour ago, TimHauck said: I know you will say this is “Hamas Harry,” but Pulitzer Prize winning Palestinian writer says there is a group that is actually working to PROTECT aid from getting stolen (by Hamas or other criminal gangs). Not sure if the video above is the same group, but some of them do have the yellow vests. It does make you wonder since I can’t imagine Hamas is running around in neon yellow vests. Pulitzer Prize winner? Is that like Obama winning the Nobel? Anyway, I suppose it's possible. Any idea why the crowd is throwing rocks at them, have their hands in the air in surrender/don't shoot me, and/or are running away from these heroes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 03:31 PM 14 hours ago, jerryskids said: Pulitzer Prize winner? Is that like Obama winning the Nobel? Anyway, I suppose it's possible. Any idea why the crowd is throwing rocks at them, have their hands in the air in surrender/don't shoot me, and/or are running away from these heroes? Maybe it’s actually Hamas in the crowd? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 03:34 PM Multiple IDF commanders give interviews on Israeli TV about how the job they were working on is the “complete destruction” of a Palestinian town. Yes Jerry, this article came from “Dropdead Hamas Harry,” but again, these were interviews given to an Israeli news station. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/senior-israeli-commanders-openly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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jerryskids 6,890 Posted Sunday at 04:46 PM 1 hour ago, TimHauck said: Maybe it’s actually Hamas in the crowd? Bless your heart. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 04:48 PM Just now, jerryskids said: Bless your heart. Maybe the bystanders thought it was being stolen but it really wasn’t. There were definitely some people in the vid that just looked confused. Multiple possible explanations here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted Sunday at 04:55 PM Gaza aid distribution site photos are staged for emotional effect, German media claims Since nobody responded to the video of the AP journalist explaining how you Hamas simps are being gaslit by the media, here is an article from two German media sources explaining it to you. Quote The BILD report focuses on a widely circulated photo of desperate Gazan women and children holding pots and pans in front of a food distribution site. There has been significant media attention over the last few days regarding reports by two German-language papers - BILD and Süddeutsche Zeitung - that accuse Gaza-based press photographers of staging photos of starving civilians. The issue of staged photos or photos taken out of context came to a head at the end of July when the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that a picture of a Gazan youth being portrayed as starving is actually suffering from a genetic disease. TheBILD report focuses on a widely circulated photo of desperate Gazan women and children holding pots and pans in front of a food distribution site. Except photos taken by others at the same site show that the hoard is actually standing opposite freelance photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, commissioned by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, BILD argues. The pots and pans are not being held up to the food distribution site, but the photographer, which Bild claims is staging for means of propaganda. Undistributed photos show Gazans calmly receiving aid Additionally, BILD adds that his photos at the Gaza aid distribution site show mainly women and children, but that other photos at the same site show mostly adult men calmly waiting for and receiving food. Fteiha did not distribute these ones. "I assume that many of these pictures with starving and sick children are simply staged or come from other contexts," emeritus history professor and photography expert Gerhard Paul told SZ. Paul, who has been researching images from Israel and Gaza for 25 years, said the photos are not fake, but "people are presented in a certain way or provided with a falsifying caption to mobilize our visual memory and emotions." Paul told SZ that he and his students at the University of Flensburg recreated the scenes from images of various wars in three dimensions in order to understand the situation depicted, which is often not easy to understand from the two-dimensional image. "Where is the photographer? Who is standing around him?" he asks. "What do the people depicted in the picture see? Do they see what we suspect, for example a food distribution? Or are they facing photographers?" "The images also have an additional function," Paul explained. "They are intended to overwrite the brutal images of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Many people don't even remember these pictures. Hamas is a master at staging images." However, he stressed that the journalists and photographers in Gaza are in a dangerous position, and due to their proximity to Hamas terrorists, cannot move freely. "Little bypasses Hamas," Christopher Resch of Reporters Without Borders told SZ. Resch also told SZ that the concept of photographers staging photos is not unique to Gaza, and is not necessarily problematic. "I don't think it's reprehensible when a photographer instructs people to stand here and there with their pots," he said. "As long as it approximates reality." Nevertheless, BILD's report stressed that the photographer in question - Fteiha - is not exactly unbiased in his photojournalism. He posts videos to social media saying "f*** Israel" and works for a news agency that speaks directly to the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who has had ties to Hamas. As a result of the investigation, the German Press Agency and Agence France Press told BILD that they will no longer work Fteiha and would carefully check the pictures of other photo reporters as well, whereas Reuters says his photos "meet the standards of accuracy, independence and impartiality." "Despite his bias, his photos are published by major outlets like CNN, BBC, and Reuters," Israel's foreign ministry seethed in its response to the two reports. "With Hamas controlling nearly all media in Gaza, these photographers aren’t reporting, they’re producing propaganda." "This investigation underscores how Pallywood has gone mainstream with staged images and ideological bias shaping international coverage, while the suffering of Israeli hostages and Hamas atrocities are pushed out of frame," the ministry concluded. The Jerusalem Post watched the video taken from the aid destruction site a few days ago, shared by Al Jazeera Arabic. It is worth noting that the same setting of the women and children with pots and pans is seen in the video, and they are receiving food, so it is possible that the photo by Fteiha was taken before the aid workers arrived. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gaza-aid-distribution-photos-staged-171043153.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gladiators 1,999 Posted Sunday at 05:00 PM 11 minutes ago, TimHauck said: Maybe the bystanders thought it was being stolen but it really wasn’t. There were definitely some people in the vid that just looked confused. Multiple possible explanations here. Multiple explanations. Sorta like when ICE tases a brown person, right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 05:08 PM 11 minutes ago, jerryskids said: Gaza aid distribution site photos are staged for emotional effect, German media claims Since nobody responded to the video of the AP journalist explaining how you Hamas simps are being gaslit by the media, here is an article from two German media sources explaining it to you. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gaza-aid-distribution-photos-staged-171043153.html “the photos are not fake, but "people are presented in a certain way or provided with a falsifying caption to mobilize our visual memory and emotions." Sad that this is what you’ve been reduced to, Jerry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 05:11 PM 3 minutes ago, TimHauck said: “the photos are not fake, but "people are presented in a certain way or provided with a falsifying caption to mobilize our visual memory and emotions." Sad that this is what you’ve been reduced to, Jerry. This makes no sense. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 05:43 PM 28 minutes ago, Strike said: This makes no sense. What makes no sense? The quote from the article Jerry posted? Or me pointing out it’s sad that he’s been reduced to being outraged over “falsified captions”? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 05:46 PM 1 minute ago, TimHauck said: What makes no sense? The quote from the article Jerry posted? Or me pointing out it’s sad that he’s been reduced to being outraged over “falsified captions”? Jerry's point is that you can't trust any of the propaganda coming out of Gaza. As he says you just believe anything Hamas Harry tells you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 05:49 PM 1 minute ago, Strike said: Jerry's point is that you can't trust any of the propaganda coming out of Gaza. As he says you just believe anything Hamas Harry tells you. But you can believe everything the IDF says. Lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 05:51 PM 1 minute ago, TimHauck said: But you can believe everything the IDF says. Lol Well, I've never done that but keep making stuff up. You wouldn't be you if you didn't do that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted Sunday at 06:03 PM 32 minutes ago, Strike said: This makes no sense. Tim refuses to entertain the idea that he's being gaslit by Hamas Harry and a complicit Hamas-friendly media. He always looks for a nugget of something in an otherwise damning post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryskids 6,890 Posted Sunday at 06:04 PM 14 minutes ago, TimHauck said: But you can believe everything the IDF says. Lol Hamas and IDF are morally equivalent! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 07:55 PM 2 hours ago, Strike said: Well, I've never done that but keep making stuff up. You wouldn't be you if you didn't do that. Yes, you have. On 7/2/2025 at 2:43 PM, Strike said: So Israel believes he was a terrorist. So they killed him for being a terrorist, not a journalist. One down. Only 199 more shots you got in that gun, son. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 08:00 PM 1 hour ago, jerryskids said: Hamas and IDF are morally equivalent! Strawman. The difference is that the sources I post aren’t actually from Hamas. You just think they are because some of the sources are Palestinian. But again, we wouldn’t have to rely on Palestinian sources IF THE IDF WOULD ALLOW OUTSIDE JOURNALISTS INTO GAZA… Of course, now we’ve got the IDF literally admitting their job is “complete destruction,” so I guess we’ve moved past “it’s not happening” and “it’s not widespread” to “it’s happening and it’s a good thing.” 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 08:20 PM Israel has kept a 16 year old (was 15 when initially detained) American citizen detained for 5 months, only accusation against him is throwing a rock. He has reportedly lost 26 pounds and contracted scabies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/palestinian-american-teen-detained-israeli-prison 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 08:47 PM 51 minutes ago, TimHauck said: Yes, you have. The IDF <> Israel. HTH. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maximum Overkill 2,073 Posted Sunday at 08:50 PM 29 minutes ago, TimHauck said: Israel has kept a 16 year old (was 15 when initially detained) American citizen detained for 5 months, only accusation against him is throwing a rock. He has reportedly lost 26 pounds and contracted scabies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/palestinian-american-teen-detained-israeli-prison Cry me a river Lib Boy. You don't even care about your own people, shame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 09:33 PM Israel murders more journalists. Strike and Jerry believe they were Hamas. Rinse, repeat. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/palestinian-media-reports-journalist-accused-by-israel-of-being-hamas-member-killed-in-strike/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 10:19 PM 4 hours ago, jerryskids said: Tim refuses to entertain the idea that he's being gaslit by Hamas Harry and a complicit Hamas-friendly media. He always looks for a nugget of something in an otherwise damning post. I recently came across this guy. A Jew from NY, so definitely not Hamas. This was an interesting story, about several Palestinians detained for months in Israeli prisons, often with no charges (including the guy from the story I linked above). With little if any coverage from US media, which IMO contradicts the claim that the MSM is “Hamas-friendly.” I know you’ll write off the whole thing though since the author gives credit to Hamas for saying they’d allow the Red Cross in to monitor their hostages. https://infinitejaz.substack.com/p/wheres-your-demand-to-free-the-hostages But speaking of gaslighting and the previous conversation about the “war on information,” did you see that Israel put up a Tims Square billboard of one of Hamas’s hostages saying “only Israelis are starving in Gaza”? Yes, Hamas is evil for starving the hostages, but please don’t tell me you believe this obvious lie. (I’m also still confused about @supermike80’s previous reply when I posted about these hostages, I guess he thought they were made up by Israel or something). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maximum Overkill 2,073 Posted Sunday at 10:23 PM 4 minutes ago, TimHauck said: only Israelis are starving in Gaza”? Facts, it's a terrible situation for the Israeli people. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 10:31 PM 29 minutes ago, TimHauck said: I recently came across this guy. A Jew from NY, so definitely not Hamas. This was an interesting story, about several Palestinians detained for months in Israeli prisons, often with no charges (including the guy from the story I linked above). With little if any coverage from US media, which IMO contradicts the claim that the MSM is “Hamas-friendly.” I know you’ll write off the whole thing though since the author gives credit to Hamas for saying they’d allow the Red Cross in to monitor their hostages. https://infinitejaz.substack.com/p/wheres-your-demand-to-free-the-hostages ROFLMAO. You're joking, right? This is from the about page for this substack: Quote What is this? Weekly dispatch on Israel/Palestine, stories from inside the West Bank, and the occasional longread. Helping you understand the sheer brutality of the occupation. And this is from a previous article on his Substack: Quote A key to understanding Israel is understanding that its officials lie about everything. Not occasionally, not strategically—but routinely, and often absurdly. They lie as a matter of course. Yeah, no bias there!!!! You think I should consider this fool credible? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,990 Posted Sunday at 10:49 PM 15 minutes ago, Strike said: ROFLMAO. You're joking, right? This is from the about page for this substack: Yeah, no bias there!!!! And no bias from “Israel” either? Besides, from what I’ve read, his focus is primarily on the West Bank, not Gaza. A “brutal occupation” may be an accurate description of the West Bank, TBH. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maximum Overkill 2,073 Posted Sunday at 10:50 PM 1 minute ago, TimHauck said: And no bias from “Israel” either? Besides, from what I’ve read, his focus is primarily on the West Bank, not Gaza. A “brutal occupation” may be an accurate description of the West Bank, TBH. It's called WAR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strike 5,679 Posted Sunday at 10:53 PM 2 minutes ago, TimHauck said: And no bias from “Israel” either? Besides, from what I’ve read, his focus is primarily on the West Bank, not Gaza. A “brutal occupation” may be an accurate description of the West Bank, TBH. Regardless, he's NOT CREDIBLE. And in my research I've yet to find evidence that he's even Jewish, which is your claim. Not saying he isn't, but not seeing that he is. Doesn't really matter though. You consistently provide these laughable sources as if they are credible. I consistently provide sources you can't dispute. I wonder why that is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites