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Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 3:12pm On Nov 01, 2025
Hoaxen:
All this genocide accusations flying around up and down until it reached Nigeria and south Africa is a direct consequence of the bastardization of the term "genocide" by Hamas terrorists sympathisers.

They modified the definition of genocide to fit their anti Israeli propaganda and now it can fit almost every conflict around the world. 🤭

If Hamas jihadists "genocide" propaganda continues. The term "genocide" will loose any real meaning as a term.

Just imagine:
Trigger happy police officers kill some youths = youth genocide.

Fight occurs in a market place between two tribes leaving two members of one tribe dead= tribal genocide.

Random Nigerian bandits kill some European tourists= European genocide. Etc

A round of applause for Hamas terrorist sympathisers 👏👏👏 they have given a very simple and straightforward word new meaning. 🤡🤡🤡
The term genocide is a legal term with a legal definition, not a matter of opinion

Try again next time
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 3:00pm On Nov 01, 2025
LordAdam16:
Again that's not true.
This is a report of armed militias taking over and renaming communities in Plateau state.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/2024/06/02/disturbing-occupation-of-151-villages-by-armed-herders-in-plateau-state/

How is that different from what the Israelis are doing in the West Bank.

You should know your facts before commenting.

Your commentary is providing cover for more inaction that will lead to more killings.
The aim is to stop the Islamist groups from killing both Christians and Muslims.
However, Christian advocacy groups will advocate for the plights of Christians. It is that simple.

-Lord
There's a reason I didn't dwell too much on Plateau state despite the killings there

Plateau's insecurity goes beyond this relatively new advent of banditry, it has been a subject of inter-ethnic and inter-religious violence for decades, with both sides taking heavy losses

As far as Plateau is concerned and to a lesser extent Kaduna, both sides are culpable of what can be described as ethnic cleansing and in Plateau in particular, the Christians have always had the upperhand being the clear majority

Now before you misinterprete my words, my point is that Plateau isn't a good example because of the history of violence in the State. Everything must be put into context

Once again, I'm not questioning the advocacy for Christians, I'm questioning the misframing of the realities

Shouldn't be hard to understand
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 2:32pm On Nov 01, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Stop calling them bandits, there are islamic terrorist. No be me u go gaslight. People wey dey overrun military base and formation. Take over local government, communities.
We saw videos when they went for peace talks in Zamfara with the government. All were armed to the teeth
Call them whatever you want

Of course they're armed, they wouldn't have been such a problem if they carried catapults
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
LordAdam16:
Is your statement in bold not a damning revelation.

That Islamist militia groups can make entire settlements of Christians flee their historic lands in Nigeria.
The Israelis are doing it in the West Bank. ISIS did it in Syria. But Christians in Nigeria cannot protest because it also happens to Muslims.
So because there are killers out there, you would not seek justice when someone you know is a victim.

What are you arguing?
So when the Christians flee their historic lands, what is the religious constitution of those who take over the abandoned land?
What is ethnic cleansing?

You do know someone can interpret all these long shalaye as attempting to make excuses for these murderous beasts ba?

Islamists are killing Christians.
Christians said enough is enough.
You're telling them to mind their language.

-Lord
There's nothing damning about what I said

Bandits make Christians flee their lands due to attacks, true...bandits make Muslims flee their lands due to attacks, true

Comparing this to israel and the West Bank makes no sense. The israelis expel Palestinians and replace them with israelis, bandits don't replace Christians with Muslims, those places usually remain empty until normalcy returns and the people go back

When did I state that victims of violence shouldn't seek justice?

Bandits usually don't physically occupy areas they attack, they engage in hit and run attacks. They emerge from the bushes, attack and retreat back into the bushes. They also extort communities prone to being attacked by them, by levying 'taxes' on the people in exchange for sparing such communities. Boko Haram is the one that tends to occupy areas they overrun

You can interprete this however you want, you can even call me a bandit for all I care, but facts are facts

I'm not justifying killings but mischaracterizing issues will only create more problems
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 1:54pm On Nov 01, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I've lived in the NW too, one of the K- state bordering Niger Republic. If you don't want to acknowledge the Christian genocides in Nigeria, that's your own cup of tea.
Benue and Plateau is no go area. Southern Kaduna , they're also wrecking havoc.

We have seen Iranian jews and Christians freely conducting their religious activities in Iran without attacks or persecution, same thing in Gaza, Lebanon. Go to Russia, there are millions of Muslims and Christians we don't hear such story. Why is our own different? Whether Muslims or Christians the killings should stop in the North.

You can't get be shouting Free Palestine while at home , scores are killed cox of their faith/believe yet you are not doing anything about it.
Christians are being killed along with Muslims

As for a genocide specifically targeted at Christians, that doesn't exist

It would have been better if you had said that Christians might be endangered due to the killings against them since they're generally a minority in the North. Even then, I'd be cautious because the reality is that a genocide against Christians can only be possible if there's a collective Muslim effort against them in the North

Bandit groups don't even have the capacity to commit a genocide against Northern Christians, the only thing they can do is make them flee their lands die to violence and that happens in all areas, whether Muslim or Christian
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 1:46pm On Nov 01, 2025
LordAdam16:
I also disagree with the Christian genocide characterization.

But you will agree that this is a situation that certain interest groups primarily of a certain background have allowed to fester through inaction.

The facts are damning.
Christians are a minority in the North.
People are not going to wait until Christians are extinct in the North before stating that Islamist groups in Nigeria are killing Christians.
No Christian militia in the South is killing Muslims and then Christians in the South will try to muddy the waters by saying they're killing Christians too. It is simply not happening. No Christian militia is killing Christians or Muslims.

Why can that not happen in the North?
Why is any attempt to make that not happen in the North met with initial criticisms of framing.
We need to put comma in the right place while thousands are killed.

-Lord
I understand where you're coming from, though I want to make one correction...unlike Boko Haram, bandits aren't 'islamists'

Excluding possible foreign interference, there are a few reasons banditry got out of hand:

1. Unchecked cattle rustling against the Fulani people

2. Illiterate Fulani with no education, life skills and no real possessions apart from the cattle they herd, now found themselves deprived of their only source of livelihood and thereby took to criminality .i.e. kidnapping, bandit raids etc

3. Regular clashes between farmers and herders that spiralled into communal clashes

4. Illegal mining where herders were armed by politicians to protect mining sites, which led to violence and instability in those areas. A case in point is Zamfara

5. There are foreign interests that stir up violence in those same mining sites

6. Using the cover of banditry to settle old scores from past inter ethnic and inter-religious violence. E.g in Kaduna and Plateau

There are many other reasons, but I get your point

It's unfortunate how bad things have gotten, but I do hope this will atleast make those in charge situp and actually do something about it
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 12:53pm On Nov 01, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Lol @ the bolded. Don't be a hypocrite
Between Muslims and Christians who have been the overwhelming victims of Boko Haram violence?

Keep in mind that I don't care if you believe me or not, I'm just stating facts

Unlike you who reads things online, I've lived it
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 12:51pm On Nov 01, 2025
LordAdam16:
The interesting part is that no one said Muslims are not dying.
But somehow they want it to be forbidden to say Christians are dying.

They are on a long thing.

-Lord
I have no problem with stating Christians are dying

What I have a problem with is the framing of the situation. Calling it a Christian genocide is making it appear as a targeted campaign against Christians which is false

It's a problem of widespread insecurity affecting a whole region, across ethnic and religious lines
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 12:48pm On Nov 01, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Source = trust me bro, I no fit lie give u.
I'm a Northerner from Kaduna
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 12:46pm On Nov 01, 2025
LordAdam16:
You are wrong.
There have been killings in Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba.
Virtually all states in the North have been targeted.
We cannot keep playing semantics while more than a hundred thousand Nigerians have died with no end in sight.
If action is taken to stop the killings, it is going to stop both the killings of Christians and Muslims.

And no one here or anywhere on the planet can say these murderous elements have NEVER targeted a Christian settlement because of its religion.
Two things can be correct.

It is true that the US is drawing attention to this for nefarious reasons.
But you do not throw the baby with the bath water.
Condemnation of killings, some of which have had religious and ethnic undertones, is necessary by everyone with a pulse.

-Lord
I won't deny there have been killings, I stated such

My point is simple. The places that have it the worst regarding killings are : Zamfara, Niger, Katsina, Benue, Kaduna, parts of Sokoto and now parts of Kwara. These are the main hotbeds of the violence

All except Benue have majority Muslim deaths and victims. Taraba is more affected by intra ethnic violence than banditry, Nassarawa's is more of a spillover from neighbouring areas than it being an epicenter

Religious violence isn't new to the North, but the current pervasive insecurity isn't a religiously motivated one. That's why calling it a genocide against a particular group, implying the specific targeting of that group is simply false

The reality is that the continuous promotion of this narrative will only serve to create resentment between the Christians and Muslims of the North, especially from the Muslims, because they suffer it more

What is happening is as a result of the bastardization of governance at all levels
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 12:17pm On Nov 01, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Make nobody whine you,, even PBAT acknowledged the unprovoked attack and killings against Christians in Nigeria.

This is what Trump is saying, nothing new.
You should dull this narrative

First of all, far more Muslims get killed by the same elements killing Christians. The Gulf, ratio and disparity is as wide as 70:30, with Muslims getting it worse

Secondly, the main bandit hotspots are in Muslim dominated areas. For example, in Kaduna, despite all the media noise on Southern Kaduna, the headquarters of banditry in the State is Birnin Gwari. Nothing in Southern Kaduna comes close to Birnin Gwari which is Muslim dominated. The same is true for other spots in Kaduna like Giwa etc. There's just lopsided media coverage in favour of Southern Kaduna, usually to create a false narrative of Christian persecution

Thirdly, aside Benue, the other hotspots are Zamfara, Katsina, parts of Sokoto and recently Kwara. All these locations are Muslim dominated. Now in Benue, beside bandit killings, there are ethnic militias that operate there which media hasn't sufficiently covered. Though it doesn't change the fact that many have been killed by bandits

Fourthly, bandit hotspots are notoriously known for being in areas close to illegal mining sites. Politicians as well as foreign interests have fueled unrest in those areas for exploitation purposes and now with Trump's obsession with rare earth minerals, it's no surprise they're interested in Northern Nigeria

Fifthly, if you notice, there's been a collective surge in this Christian genocide narrative from the same people who promoted israeli genocide in Gaza. These are the same people promoting the false claim of white genocide in South Africa. It seems like a targeted campaign against those who were vocal in opposition to Gaza's genocide like Nigeria and South Africa. In South Africa for example, evidence has emerged that racist whites are being funded and armed to eventually carve out a separate state...Elon musk has been providing free starlink support to individuals known to advocate for a separate white State in South Africa

Sixthly, the picture of Tinubu you posted is a classic case of irresponsibility by Nigerian politicians who use whatever means to achieve their aims. Tinubu said that to vilify Jonathan's government in APC's quest to achieve power. The same thing was done with subsidy with occupy Nigeria protests and many examples

Calling it a genocide is claiming Christians are specifically targeted for their faith and in a Muslim dominated Northern Nigeria, makes it appear Muslims have a collective agenda against the Christians. That would have been okay had the Muslims not been more of the victims way more than the Christians. The problem is a failure of security

All that's going on is evidence of a weak State which Nigeria is. The problem is that we have people like you who are buying into the plans of foreign actors who have nefarious agendas, which if they succeed, will birth problems for everyone in the Country including you
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 6:41pm On Oct 29, 2025
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
U wan compare a "Secret Agent" with person wey inherent his father's wealth.
Their backgrounds reflect their leadership styles

Putin uses negotiations, compromise, blackmail etc, i.e. chess moves to achieve his aims. Which also explains why he believes in playing the long game often times

Trump on the other hand uses bullish tactics to try to force his way and believes in quick resolutions. A hall mark of a boss businessman who didn't build his way up
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 6:18pm On Oct 29, 2025
WriteerNg:
⚡Putin:

The nuclear power unit of the Burevestnik is 1,000 times smaller than a nuclear reactor on a submarine with comparable power.
When Putin speaks, you can tell he's a person who reads a lot

He seems to have the belief that a leader can't be caught off guard on essential topics and speaks very knowledgeably

Trump is the exact opposite...he loves to be heard but his words are usually hollow and he often tries to pass off a narrative not rooted in America's present realities, but in those of days gone by

Simply put, Putin is cultured and well read, Trump is all over the place
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by IMEI: 11:44pm On Oct 27, 2025
The Wild Robot

This movie has been reviewed here before, but I had to drop one too

This one made me teary eyed and that's no mean feat...I genuinely couldn't before watching it, remember the last time I was that emotional watching a movie

The only way I can describe it, is that it's deeply moving. I can't use other adjectives to describe it because it goes straight for your heart and pierces it

It's one of those I won't be deleting anytime soon

9/10 easy

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:35am On Oct 21, 2025
23jerryking:
The way you flip your table of ignorance on someone else while trying to sound clever. He clearly wrote (a branch of Judaism).
So with this logic of yours, we can therefore say that Lagosian is a branch of Christianity right?
And for the records, you were the one who referred me to the AI. There you have it.
You've only ever been good at cheerleading others' comments...stick to that and let others do the intellectual bit
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 11:56pm On Oct 20, 2025
23jerryking:
Which one is (a branch of Judaism)?😂😂
If he's a Samaritan then he's from the region of Samaria. You don't know that Samaritans have their own religious beliefs and scriptures? Abeg don't say this outside
"Nader Sadaqa’s identity as a Palestinian Samaritan Jew is crucial to understanding his story.

The Samaritans are a tiny ethnoreligious group, often considered the world’s smallest, who live primarily on Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian city of Nablus and in Holon, Israel.

They are adherents of Samaritanism, a religion cognate with, but distinct from, mainstream Judaism. The Samaritans assert that they are the genuine descendants of the ancient Israelites, specifically the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, who were not exiled during the Assyrian conquest in 722 BCE.

They hold their version of the Torah (the Pentateuch) as the sole holy text and believe it to be the original.

A core tenet of their faith is the sanctity of Mount Gerizim near Nablus, which they regard as the true holy site chosen by God, unlike the Jewish tradition that holds Mount Zion in Jerusalem as holy.

The Samaritans reject the Jewish religious canon beyond the Torah and believe they possess the original version of the ancient Israelite religion.

In the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Samaritans of Nablus have maintained strong, integral ties with the surrounding Palestinian society.
"

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/samaritans-of-the-resistance-nader-sadaqa-a-palestinian-jewish-prisoner-freed-by-israel/

The way some of you just quote stupidly with a confident ignorance is irritating...this is 2025 for God's sake, there's Google, AI and so many research tools
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 7:49pm On Oct 20, 2025
LordAdam16:
This is PM Meir saying she is a Palestinian.
Because before 1947, she carried a Palestinian passport.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yq1FZayXvTI

The attempt to erase Palestine as a country is a mortal sin.

-Lord
What they identified as before, is what they call fiction today

Truly, time reveals all things
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 6:56pm On Oct 20, 2025
Just learnt today that one of the commanders that Hamas facilitated the release of was a Samaritan (a branch of Judaism). He's essentially a Palestinian Jew

He was one of the commanders of the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP, which is the most hard-line Palestinian Resistance group

They're more hard-line than Hamas and Islamic Jihad and are a communist/Marxist group. They're so hard-line, that they reject acknowledging israel's existence, negotiating with israel and believe Israel must be completely eradicated only through armed violence

The group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was founded by a Christian Palestinian George Habash and is one of the eight Resistance groups fighting in Gaza

His name is Nader Saleh Mamdouh Sadaqa, a native of Nablus in the West Bank and this is his quote on why he fights:

"Military action was not my choice, but the choice of the stage (of the Palestinian struggle) – that stage in which we sought to express ourselves, and defend our convictions, principles, and the rights of our people,” Sadaqa was quoted by Al-Jazeera as saying

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
🙋🏾‍♂️

WriterrNg first and foremost
and
all associated with the thread

TAKE A BOW
👏🏾

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:20pm On Oct 19, 2025
Obedience40:
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

A few introductory history of Hitler Christian birth and some few Hitler quotes on Christianity is your proof🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a lawyer you if you are to argue for the case of Christianity being us a the yardstick for Hitler killing of 5 million people. That's what you are bringing to the table??🤣🤣🤣

Go and read more on Nazism and its ideologies and what Hitler planned to achieved
You always loved to bury your head in the sand
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 8:14pm On Oct 19, 2025
Obedience40:
Am not asking which religion Hitler was, my question is was "Christianity" the basis or the justification for the genocidal acts of Nazi Germany??

Bearing in mind that the same Nazi Germany targeted Christian groups like the protestant, j. Witness, Catholics etc who were against his ideals and ideologies

Everyone knows that Nazism has nothing to do with religion
The bolded is answered in the link

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 7:50pm On Oct 19, 2025
obedience4:
Hamas, Hazebolla and the Houthis are being called terrorist group by multiple countries and Organizations.. not two not three. Countries with similar religious affiliation have label them too

Madam give us your definition of what a terrorist group is and let's see if your friends won't fit the description

If you are not going to respond with your definition of what a terrorist group is..What and what criterias that makes a armed group a terrorist group don't bother to respond to my message


[i]Am still waiting for how "Christianity" was the reason why Hitler killed 5 million jews or how "Christianity" was the factor for the discrimination and subjugation of black south Africans by the apartheid regime[/i]
I don't like involving myself in religious talk but this might be relevant to the bolded

https://medium.com/belover/was-hitler-a-christian-6e6b1d01a8fb
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 2:44am On Oct 19, 2025
WriterrNg:
Okay but is Israel really a democracy.

How is Netanyahu still able to contest for another election?

This guy has been PM since God knows when.
🤷🏾‍♂️

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 9:53pm On Oct 18, 2025
WriterrNg:
What Jewish Hamas leader?
He's equating the far right party of ben gvir and smotrich which netanyahu is in alliance with, to Hamas...meaning extremists led by an extremist (netanyahu)
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 4:15pm On Oct 11, 2025
shoodboi2:
Tell them. You can see them trying to relabel a loss as a victory. Overnight, we are no longer hearing "Hamas will be defeated on the battlefield." They are even denying the fact that Israel was so humbled it had to go into direct negotiations with Hamas. Shame shame shame.
grin
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
Obedience40:
Permit me to drop this quote
"We all look but see differently"

When I look at the definition of "Genocide, i see no similitude between the definition and actions taken by the IDf in Gaza.There's simply no correlation nor justification for the genocidal claims.

Now, don't get me wrong, the IDF didn't cover herself with glory throughout the military operations, Certain war crimes were committed, throughout history no military apparatus is immune from this, when there's a large scale military operation especially in Urban areas. War crimes are bound to be committed by combatants.

Some over zealous idividuals from the IDf acted unilaterally against "the code of conduct" expected from being a member of the Israel defense force and orchestrated certain acts many of which were held accountable by the higher echelons in the Jewish military.

The key here is "Perception", and whatever influences our perception!!

What you perceive as "Genocide" via the legal framework that gave the definition for the term Genocide doesn't work in the situation in Gaza.

"We all look but see differently." You once said Hitler was right about the Jews. That's your perception!

The same reason why a fella shoodboi2 whose thinking faculties i want to believe are functioning optimally will call a mastermind terrorist and mass murderer Sinwar a hero!!

[i]P.s Regarding the sitting arrangement for the last meeting in Egypt, there's no picture nor info to portray the negotiators set in opposite direction as we have been accustomed to with the Ukraine and Russia meetings. If you have any piece of information to further give credence to your assertions, it will be nice.[/i]
Jerusalem (AsiaNews) – “At 2:00 am, all of the participants in the negotiations entered a large room with tables and chairs set up in a square. The Israeli delegation sat directly across from the Hamas delegation. This was the first time in history that official Israelis and officials from Hamas sat in the same room. The deal was signed and now we have to wait for its full implementation. And now we can begin to breathe again.”

Gershon Baskin, an Israeli political activist, founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), a former columnist for the Jerusalem Post, and a leading expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is among those who worked in recent months to reach the agreement signed overnight by Israel and Hamas.

https://www.asianews.it/news-en/For-the-first-time,-Israel-and-Hamas-in-the-same-room-to-reach-a-truce-in-Gaza-64038.html

Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
obedience4:
Just a simple question thou' Where you there when the last negotiations were done?? How did you know they sat face to face??🤣

Israel and Hamas have both sent negotiators to Qatar before. The recent meetings in Egypt wasn't the first sit down between both parties, it won’t certainly be the last!!

All wars ends on the negotiation table with some sort of agreements and the Gaza war won't be an exception.. Even your "saviour" Putin would also sit or send teams to negotiate the end of the Ukraine war..That's how it works!! Stop trying to paint a false picture dude, I can clearly see the sadness written all over your post

You guys have been screaming genocide for a long time, You people have made it a full time job to outline the destruction of lives and properties in Gaza, now that a ceasefire aggrement is now in effect and a real chance for peace, but guess what?? it is "peace makers" that are wailing all over the Internet!!!

Anyways, like someone said earlier Hamas "won" the war and Israel "lost" the war.. Yours is Israel was subdued into making the agreement.

"Whatever rocks your boat" my friend is welcome by me. Las Las una go dey alright
Why quote me just to add nothing on any point I made?

Literally the only thing worth responding to, is your questioning if they sat face to face. My answer is do your research, previous negotiations were done indirectly even if they were at the same venue, this time it was direct, with both sides in the same room

I don't need to scream genocide, it has a legal definition, codified as the Genocide Convention or more formally, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG)

Nowhere in my post did I use the terms victory or defeat, because it's pointless to do so. The reality is that the fact that a genocide took place in our lifetime, is a loss for humanity already. The only win would be to eradicate genociders and their cheerleaders, until then, humanity has a collective shame to bear
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI:
I think israel's bombing of Qatar had something to do with Trump's resolve for a ceasefire this time around

From all reports, the war criminals only notified the US after they had taken flight, likely to ensure air defenses were shut off and to avoid any possible US objections by forcing their hand

The Qataris were likely informed just before the attacks and they relayed same to the Hamas team which saved their lives, though it did achieve some fatalities

That singular miscalculation by the warmongering racist war criminals alarmed Trump, because it directly undermined US interests and it showed that netanyahu and his clan had become like mad dogs due to being unchecked

Trump realized he had to put a leash on his ally who had become a rabid dog, a danger to everyone including himself. Hence, the need for a halt to hostilities became critical

That explains the over-compensatory actions of the US towards not just Qatar, but the Gulf countries in general. Trump has even struck a more conciliatory tone with Iran lately

The reality is that the damage has already been done. The Gulf countries have seemingly realized that going forward, they cannot completely hedge their bets on only the US as they've become accustomed to and that explains why Saudi Arabia was so spooked, that they quickly signed a defence pact with Pakistan, solidifying what had been an unwritten agreement between the two for years, to come to the other's aid incase of an emergency. Though it's mostly a one-sided responsibility of Pakistan to Saudi, what had mostly entailed an understanding to deliver nukes in the event of Iran acquiring them, has now developed into a more comprehensive military setup, due to America's perceived unreliability

On the ceasefire itself, it's too early to judge. There's uncertainty as to it's holding and negotiations are still ongoing, but the idea of destroying Hamas has proven to be wishful thinking

In this last round of talks, Hamas negotiators sat in the same room as their israeli counterparts, facing each other eyeball to eyeball and reached an agreement. Previously, they never met each other. That must have been a very bitter pill for the israelis to swallow, because not only did they fail to defeat them like they promised, they had to be in the same room as them, negotiate with them and agree with them, to achieve some of their goals. This is all the more humiliating when you factor in the fact that israel had declared open season on all Hamas heads and yet they ended up subduing themselves before them to get a deal. Of course, it's not all down to Hamas, but they never bowed down and they still remain consequential

One thing's sure though, this utopian Trump dream of a kumbaya Middle East is likely a pipedream. There may be some semblance of quiet for the remainder of Trump's tenure, but the future is loaded with cheques that are yet to, but waiting to be cashed.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by IMEI: 10:17pm On Oct 04, 2025
LordAdam16:
Turkey always like to insert themselves into consequential developments.
That's their trademark.

That's how they claimed they warned Iran about the start of the 12D war, but the warning went unheeded.
That new lamba is par for the course.




Hamas has hardly moved from their positions.
It's Satanyahu that has had his leash yanked.
Hamas could have released all the prisoners in exchange for ending the war by this time last year.
Satanyahu has been the roadblock. Flouting ceasefires. Refusing to send negotiators.
He had thought he could defeat Hamas militarily and unilaterally impose a new reality.
That gamble has led to a dozen+ more recognitions, a UN genocide conclusion, and unprecedented isolation.

And at the end of the day, we're at the same spot we'd have been at a year ago with Trump asking for Hamas approval of Israeli withdrawal maps.
Little wonder why a new Israeli poll is showing that the vast majority disapprove of Satanyahu's handling of the war.
The demon has f*cked Israel in ways words can express.

-Lord
Someone on this thread said that Hamas will be defeated by January next year...inorder not to seem cowardly I'll mention the individual: Lawag3

One thing that media hasn't really covered indepth is the growing schism between the military leadership and political leadership of israel...the idf heads had repeatedly told netanyahu that defeating Hamas was impossible, but he ignored and pressed on. Apart from that, there's a growing number of conscientious objectors as well as a growing suicide rate in the soldiers' ranks that they're blaming on netanyahu and co

This is coupled with the fact that the US is evermore struggling to cope with its debt burden and continuous funding for the genocide, along with Ukraine. Plus the political pressure from both sides of the aisle i.e. the left and right who are growing more and more frustrated with the war(genocide), means there's pressure on Trump to rein in netanyahu, or at least hands off israel

Turkey is unique in that the forces within the country won't allow it to swing one way or the other and that explains why they're two faced a lot of the time. On one hand, there're forces for more European integration and on the other, forces for Middle East primacy

I'm not excusing Erdogan but he's engaged in a balancing act to ensure he has legs to stand on
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FoolishBoy419:
A'a. Mai ji daban, Bahaushe Kuma daman. Mu kawai muna cin arzikin yarenku ne cheesy

Ni mazaunin Kadunane amma a yanzu haka nima ina cikin Zaria.
Yarenmu dai

Duk sanda nake kusa yakamata mu hadu, kana reppin da kyau...ko a Kadunan, ko Kuma Zarian duk ba matsala
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FoolishBoy419:
Nayi karatu a jami'ar ABU. Kaima bahaushene? ko kawai dai kana jin yaren ne?
Mai Jin yaren ba bahaushen bane?

Inda kayi karatu ne gari na
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Vl3ly:
🇹🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Turkish pressure on Hamas is what broke the real balance. Turkey made Hamas agree to return all prisoners at once," - i24, citing an Arab source.
Hamas has been offering to release the prisoners for a long time now in exchange for an end to the war and full withdrawal of israel

They even agreed to Biden's plan, but guess who made an about turn? You guessed it, the war criminals

Matt Miller, the former US Department of State spokesperson, admitted in an interview last month that israel was responsible for sabotaging previous ceasefire efforts, contrary to what he claimed when he was on the job

Prior to that, in an earlier interview, he admitted that israel had been committing war crimes in Gaza, despite his public denials when he was on the job

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