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2026-05-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
US thought Iran war would hasten Gaza’s demilitarization. Instead, Hamas is emboldened
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Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-14 2026-05-14 04:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1804 views ]  Top
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1 Nothing will change until the population is evacuated.
Trump's optional foreign war has removed US control over the Strait of Hormuz and this will echo for the next century. Iran gets to charge tolls from now on. US destroyers ran away last week.
Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-14 05:20||   2026-05-14 05:20|| Front Page Top

2 ^ So dumb I had to read it twice.
Posted by Frank G 2026-05-14 05:36||   2026-05-14 05:36|| Front Page Top

3 Hamas is being funded somehow. Iran has no money. Are we back to giving them cash?
Posted by Super Hose 2026-05-14 06:14||   2026-05-14 06:14|| Front Page Top

4 
Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-14 06:35||   2026-05-14 06:35|| Front Page Top

5 Nothing will change until the population is evacuated.

When he's right, he's right - stopped clock effect?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-05-14 09:22||   2026-05-14 09:22|| Front Page Top

6 @5 No, rather a sign of the apocalypse
Posted by Chantry 2026-05-14 09:29||   2026-05-14 09:29|| Front Page Top

7 @#5 - That would mean he's correct TWICE per day.
Posted by DooDahMan 2026-05-14 09:56||   2026-05-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

8 Hamas is being funded somehow.

We’ve seen reports that Hamas controls most sales of donated supplies in Gaza, taxes the population just like a regular government, and has secret cryptocurrency accounts that people can donate to, just like PayPal and such. There are also their enterprises in Europe and elsewhere — it’s not all jihad all the time for their far flung minions, you know.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-14 11:07||   2026-05-14 11:07|| Front Page Top

9 It's not some kind of crazy conspiracy theory that Israel founded Hamas as a counterweight to the PA.
Funded them, kept them going during the difficult times. All in the service of a long-term goal.
How else did Hamas smuggle in paragliders undetected?
How did all the security cameras along the world's most guarded border this side of North Korea malfunction at the same time? We have video of the Japanese tsunami, of the J6 protest, of everything.
But the border footage of Oct 7 is all gone. All we have is the video of the genocide, which was somehow widely available and Israel even tried to post it on Youtube and organize theater showings in New York, despite depictions of human suffering and death being illegal.
Posted by Uninens Thromonter9996 2026-05-14 13:55||   2026-05-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

10 Board of Peace is what emboldened them.
Posted by mossomo 2026-05-14 14:20||   2026-05-14 14:20|| Front Page Top

11 It's not some kind of crazy conspiracy theory that Israel founded Hamas as a counterweight to the PA.

Crazy? No. Stupid. though. They were that part of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood that moved to Gaza when things got too hot in Egypt. They founded themselves without any help from Israel, and with plenty of subsequent help from their Egyptian brothers — and from the PLO, of which they are still a voting member along with all the other Palestinian terror groups, both on the socialist/communist side and the radical Muslim side. Hamas still gets direct deposit funding from the Palestinian Authority as figleaf for the PLO.

At one point Israel did look to Hamas as opposition to the PLO/PA — it was one of their social experiments — and given that Hamas threw the PA out of Gaza and is in the process of pushing it out of power in a good portion of the West Bank, it can be said that it was a successful experiment. But given the PA’s pay-for-slay program, a propagandized education just as vile as Hamas’s, and equally strong connections to the UNWRA and the NGO ecosystem, from Israel’s perspective both are her equally fervent enemies.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-05-14 14:41||   2026-05-14 14:41|| Front Page Top

12 #10 Hear, hear!
Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-05-14 16:08||   2026-05-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

13 I still vote for a line of bulldozers across Gaza and push everything into the sea.
Posted by DarthVader 2026-05-14 16:09||   2026-05-14 16:09|| Front Page Top

14  I still vote for a line of bulldozers across Gaza and push everything into the sea.

It really is the simplest idea. Maybe save some rubble as a monument to UN fecklessness, but otherwise do a big reset. The Trump Med will be fabulous!
Posted by SteveS 2026-05-14 17:21||   2026-05-14 17:21|| Front Page Top

15 Maybe save some rubble as a monument to UN fecklessness

"The UN breakwater is functioning well"
Posted by Frank G 2026-05-14 18:25||   2026-05-14 18:25|| Front Page Top

16 Maybe save some rubble as a monument to UN fecklessness

We have the Two Towers memorial for that.
Posted by Skidmark 2026-05-14 23:47||   2026-05-14 23:47|| Front Page Top

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