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0neal:
Neither is the topic of this thread about Hamas and Isreal War

But it is discussed here at lenght, and you haven't objected to it.

can't you see "world News $ battlefield discussion" there?

0neal:
Let's be intellectually honest and think critically

If the reverse was the case and the muslim Palestinians were the ones with the Technological advantage over Isreal they would have wiped out the whole Jews from Gaza...

History don't lie

Is it the slaughter of Armenian Christains from world War 1
The take over of Constantinopol and change of its name to Istanbul.

Even the Muslim Palestinians PLO killed and displaced Christain Lebanese from their ancestral home during the Lebanese civil war, no retribution or reconciliation effort, case closed everybody move on, no social media then to plead the case of the Lebanese Christains.

The killings in even our own country during Buhari's regime.

How many times (if it has even ever happened) has a Christains group take arms to a mosque to slaughter worshippers??

Because this war is happening in the era of where social media is available, people are forming ignorant about the brutality of WAR especially when the adversaries are employing victim hood tactics to garner sympathy.

Most Christain nations accommodate Muslims peacefully and are given freedom of worship which even makes them breed like rats and even try to outnumber their host,

but the few minority Christians in Muslim majority countries live with persecutions, marginalization, oppression...but the media don't see that for social media human right, politically correct watch dogs to comments and condemn.

I believe in Humanity first, I have Muslim friends

And I try to be altruistic with my world views to the best of my Ability.

We all know the saying "Might make Right" still applies in this social media era, overtly or covertly.

Mr man this is not a religion thread

Obedience40:
comprehension mugu, did they attack civilians
The civilians killed were collateral damage, caught probably in the crossfire.
The majority of the civilians killed where black.

So according to your reasoning the ANC were killing the same black people they were formed to protect.

I keep hoping for the day where you will finally have a working brain,

you initially said ANC did not kill any civilians, it's now change to they did not kill white civilians,
Abeg no quote me again

The family of a soldier who was killed fighting in the Gaza Strip last year say that they have been given an ultimatum to remove the headstone from his grave because it has a cross on it, or have his body reburied outside the Haifa military cemetery.

The family of Staff Sgt. David Bogdanovskyi told Hebrew media on Monday that they had received a letter from the Public Council for Commemoration of Fallen Soldiers in the Defense Ministry following an ongoing dispute that had seen his headstone covered with a black cloth for several months.

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Bogdanovskyi, 19, was killed along with several of his comrades when an anti-tank guided missile hit a Namer armored engineering vehicle they were in, in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in December.

The Bogdanovskyi family had emigrated from Ukraine to Israel in 2014.

In a Facebook post, his mother defended the decision to put a cross on the headstone, saying, “David loved Israel from the bottom of his heart. The cross engraved on his headstone was an integral part of his personal identity and the faith in which he was raised.”

The family told Hebrew media that it was not clear to them why they were being singled out, claiming there were several other graves in the cemetery that bore crosses.

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David Bogdanovskyi. (Courtesy)
“The family are crushed, they cry non-stop and are in despair at the situation,” a relative told Chanel 12 news. “The were told that if they don’t take down the headstone the grave would be moved.”

In Israel, where personal issues like marriage, divorce and burial are governed by religious law, cemeteries are generally separated by religion.

However, in 2013 the Knesset passed a law that enables the burial of non-Jewish soldiers alongside their Jewish comrades in military cemeteries.

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The amendment to the law stated that “Any soldier who dies, including a soldier eligible for rights under Article 4(a) of the Law of Return, and whose relatives choose to bury him in a military cemetery, shall be buried in the plot and row, and directly alongside, the soldiers already buried in that plot.”

The key phrase is the one that includes soldiers eligible for immigration rights under Article 4(a) of the Law of Return; that is, non-Jewish family members of Jews. In effect, the bill enables the burial of soldiers belonging to the 300,000-strong population of immigrants from the former Soviet Union — who came to Israel as family members of immigrating Jews even though they are not halachically Jewish — alongside Jewish soldiers.


Soldiers place flowers and flags on graves of fallen Israeli soldiers in Kiryat Shmona Military Cemetery, on April 24, 2023, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)
“It’s not clear to us why we are being asked as there are several [graves] with crosses on them,” the family member told Channel 12. ” Why specifically do we have to take down David’s?”

The black marble headstone has an engraved picture of Bogdanovskyi in his military uniform along with his name written in the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, his unit symbols and a small cross.

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It sits above the standardized stone plaque that adorns all military graves in Israel.

In response, the Defense Ministry said it has been in a longstanding consultation with the family to find a solution because the headstone violates military cemetery regulation that bar crosses or other religious symbols.

It said that it had received complaints from families of Jewish soldiers buried nearby who said that the presence of the cross “offends them and harms their ability to pray and say the Kaddish mourning prayer.”

It also noted that the chief military rabbi had ruled that the cross harms the sanctity of the cemetery.

“As such, we have been involved for a long time with the Bogdanovskyi family in honest, heartfelt discussions to reach and agreement,” the ministry said, adding that it still hoped to reach a compromise.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/family-of-fallen-soldier-told-to-take-down-headstone-because-it-has-a-cross-on-it/amp/