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We have failed the people of Gaza.”
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has condemned these killing and has said Iran has trapped Israel and Biden failed to let Netanyahu fall in the trap.”
The murder of six million Jews was the prime causative factor in the creation of the state of Israel.”
Historian Paul Johnson writes in A History Of The Jews The Arabs, by contrast, were a conquering race whose sacred writings both inspired and reflected a maximalist position towards other people ... the very concept of negotiation towards a final settlement was to them a betrayal of principle. A truce, an armistice might be necessary and was acceptable because it preserved the option of force for use later. A treaty, on the other hand, appeared to them a kind of surrender.”
We are here in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to denounce the atrocities being committed against them by the state of Israel, which is a genocidal state that attacks the lives of a people,
said Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel at the demonstration, where Palestinian flags were waved and banners bearing the names of the victims were displayed It couldn’t be missed – it is a reminder of one of the barbarities that the Jewish people lived through,
said Daniel Krimer, a 70-year-old engineer who was in Israel visiting his daughter when the attack occurred It was a shock for us to suddenly wake up and hear what had happened. Unimaginable,
From day one, we have ensured the protection and safety of our captives, but Netanyahu's ambitions have prevented their return for a year."
Addressing the hostages captured during the attack in last October, Abu Ubaida stated I am with you, the people of Gaza, long embattled and in dire straits. You are in my thoughts and prayers daily,
The joyful dawn of what should have been a day of celebration was suddenly torn apart by unspeakable horror,
Since the atrocities of October 7, Jewish Australians have felt the cold shadows of antisemitism reaching into the present day, and as a nation we say never again,
Israel has every right to defend its territory and its people from existential threats,
The questions are getting louder, more pressing, and so is the public debate — less about whether Israel has a right to self-defense, but rather about where the limits of any right to self-defense lie,
The IAF [air force] conducted an extensive aerial operation and struck over 120 terror targets in southern Lebanon within an hour,
the military said in a statement Grief, anger, helplessness, fear for relatives and friends on both sides — these are the feelings that are troubling many people in our country,
This war has already killed too many people, brought too much suffering: for Israelis and Palestinians, and now also for the people of Lebanon."
It's been a very tragic conflict. And I think, in all fairness, this time last year, none of us expected to see a war going on for a full year. All we can do is join the government in calling for a ceasefire as soon as possible,
We now instead see the widening of the war northwards towards Lebanon, where, again, there have been some successes on the Israeli part. But again, a lot of civilian lives also appear to be lost, and in the process of being lost, as well as a lot of accompanying devastation,
We can’t understand how a year has passed,
said Shimon Busika, whose 25-year-old son Yarden was killed at the festival We will end the war when we complete all the goals we set: overthrowing the evil rule of Hamas, returning all our abductees home - both the dead and the living, thwarting any future threat from Gaza to Israel, and returning our residents in the south and north safely to their homes."