There is something rotten in the state of Israel...

[I AM MOBIUS]

I mean, we have known this for decades already... 🤷

But since the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and now the West Bank and Lebanon, the mask has fallen away and they're no longer pretending.

Their latest atrocity to human decency is voting in a death penalty into law...

Any country with the death penalty is, by definition, backwards and barbaric.

But they have taken it to a new level - theirs is also racist, as it applies only to Palestinians!

This isn't just the wishes of the few. This is a democracy. This is the will of the people, just like the genocide was.

Just like Trump being president is a manifestation of the wishes of the plurality of US voters.

Israel and the US are two deeply sick societies... 😥

[I AM MOBIUS]

From the Telegraph, that famously right-wing UK rag of a broadsheet...

[Provost Harrison]

From the Telegraph, that famously right-wing UK rag of a broadsheet...

How very...apartheid...

[Aeson]

Our death penalty is also racist. Just not fully or explicitly.

[Provost Harrison]

Our death penalty is also racist. Just not fully or explicitly.

Theirs is explicitly, not even any shame in hiding their apartheid policies any more.

The US aren't far behind in this though.

[Broken_Erika]

Gaza family says toddler released from Israeli custody found with cigarette burn marks

Israeli forces reject allegations of abuse, say child was provided medical attention

On March 19, the day before Eid al-Fitr, Osama Abu Nassar took his 18-month-old son, Jawad, to a supermarket east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza when eyewitnesses say he approached a restricted area and was detained by the Israeli military.

When Jawad was returned to his mother more than 10 hours later, he had injuries to his legs that looked like punctures and cigarette burns.

Waad al-Shafi’i, 29, said she had no knowledge of her husband and son's condition from 10 a.m. until roughly 8:30 p.m. local time, when she was contacted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to pick Jawad up from al-Maghazi market, after Israeli forces handed him over to authorities.

Al-Shafi'i said that when she retrieved Jawad, he was wrapped in a thermal blanket, visibly shaken, with bloodstains across the lower half of his blue sweatpants.

"I felt like he was in pain, so I hugged him, but he couldn't bear me holding him," al-Shafi'i told a freelance videographer for CBC News.

"When I exposed his legs, I saw that they abused him. Here, there were cigarette burns. And over here, there's an exit and entry [wound]," she said, pointing at round burn marks on his legs that matched the pattern of blood on the pants he was wearing that day.

His father remains in Israeli detention.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) rejected the allegations of abuse.

"The child received care and was under the full supervision of an IDF physician and additional troops until handed over to the Red Cross at the earliest opportunity," the IDF said in a statement to CBC News on March 26. "The troops acted to ensure the toddler’s safety and provided the necessary medical attention." Injuries consistent with cigarette burns: doctor


The IDF released video of the moment they handed Jawad over to Red Cross officials.

"He's stable, vitals are stable. He walked, jumped, he's happy," the soldier carrying Jawad can be heard telling the Red Cross member in the video.

Al-Shafi'i said Jawad could barely sleep that night, crying out yet recoiling from her touch. She said she gave him painkillers but the pain in his legs kept him and the family awake.

The next morning, al-Shafi'i took Jawad to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza city of Deir el-Balah, where doctors examined his wounds. Dr. Bissan Ahmed said Jawad cried loudly and was very reactive when she attempted to conduct a physical examination.

"There were multiple separate circular, sunken and regularly punctured marks that perfectly matched the effects of extinguishing cigarettes on the body," Ahmed told CBC News. "These are deep second-degree burns that cause tissue damage that may reach the nerves and cause severe pain."

• Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of sexual, physical abuse of Palestinian detainee

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Al-Shafi'i said her son was examined by multiple doctors who determined that the wounds on his legs were "from torture, not shrapnel or bullet wounds."

Doctors also found multiple puncture wounds on his legs they said were likely caused by a nail, according to a medical report seen by CBC News.

Ahmed added that in addition to physical signs of abuse, Jawad exhibited severe anxiety, appearing to be in "a state of panic and fear that occurs as a result of exposure to severe psychological and physical trauma." Neighbours tried to stop father


The Red Cross helped facilitate Jawad's release from the IDF and picked up Jawad from Kissufim crossing, which is located in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, between Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah.

The organization could not comment on the child's condition, due to privacy reasons.

Al-Shafi'i said that on the day he was detained, her husband was in psychological distress because his horse had died a couple of weeks earlier. It meant a loss of income, because Abu Nassar used the horse to transport bricks and other material. Al-Shafi'i said her husband also lamented the living conditions in Gaza, where much of the infrastructure has been destroyed during Israel's assault on the territory.

On March 19, eyewitness Yahya Abu Awad, who lives in the area east of al-Maghazi camp, saw Abu Nassar and his son heading to the supermarket, roughly 50 to 70 metres from the barrier that demarcates the Yellow Line, which is a temporary boundary to separate Israeli- and Hamas-controlled areas of Gaza under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement.

Abu Awad said he was confused when he saw Abu Nassar suddenly turn the opposite direction to head east, to the Israeli side of the line.

"We tried to catch up to him but we couldn't control him because of all of the gunfire … There was a lot of gunfire from the Israeli army. But he kept on walking," Abu Awad said.

Neighbours who witnessed the incident from a tall building in the area said they saw a quadcopter drone get close to the father and son, ordering Abu Nassar to put the child down on the ground and expose his own stomach to the army to ensure he didn't have any weapons strapped to him.

Abu Nassar was ordered to remove his clothes until he was in his briefs, before four soldiers came and detained him and his son.

The IDF said its troops were operating on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line when they identified a suspect approaching the line "while holding an unidentified object," referring to his child, who witnesses said was on his shoulders at the time.

"Despite repeated calls to stop and move away, the suspect continued toward the forces, coming within a very short distance of several tens of meters. Consequently, warning fire was directed to the roadside to create distance from the area," the IDF statement reads.

"The toddler was brought by a Hamas operative into a dangerous area to be used as a human shield," the IDF statement alleged.

• Systematic violence, denial of medical care contributed to Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody: report

• 'Like a nightmare': Gaza doctor released after being detained in Israeli prisons for over 6 months

Doctor says injuries not from gunfire, residue


The military said the injuries seen on Jawad were likely "splinters" resulting from gunfire that hit both father and son.

When asked about the IDF's claim that Jawad's injuries could be the result of gunfire, Dr. Ahmed at Al-Aqsa Hospital said X-rays showed no foreign objects inside the child's body as a result of weapon fire or gunpowder, ruling out any penetrating shrapnel or object as the cause of his wounds.

"The mechanism of action for these injuries is the direct exposure of a high-heat ignition source consistent with cigarette burns," Ahmed said in a message to CBC News.

Israel's two-year-long offensive campaign in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to the territory's health ministry. Since October 2025, when Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, at least 700 people have been killed, the ministry said. In that same time period, Israeli authorities said four of its soldiers were killed by militants in Gaza.

The IDF said Abu Nassar was taken by troops to a nearby military post where he reportedly received medical treatment and was questioned.

"During questioning, he identified himself as a Hamas operative and admitted entering Israeli territory during the October 7th massacre. He confessed to bringing his toddler son with him to prevent harm if he approached IDF troops," the army said, adding that Jawad remained with his father at the military post except when he was questioned.

Osama's father, Muhammad Abu Nassar, denied his son's involvement with Hamas.

"My son has had no involvement with Hamas — not me, my son or anyone has had any involvement with Hamas, we all work as brick carriers and movers," the 75-year-old said.

The family has no information on Osama's condition, Al-Shafi'i said, and has been unable to get any details from authorities.

• Death toll in Gaza far higher in first 15 months of war than reported, new peer-reviewed study says

On Tuesday, Dr. Aliya Khan, co-chair of Doctors for Humanity, appeared at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as part of a coalition of groups representing doctors and human rights activists in Canada. Speaking over Zoom, she called for "urgent and concrete" action from the federal government in light of the alleged abuse Jawad suffered under Israeli detention.

"Such heinous crimes and torture cannot be tolerated in a civilized world," Khan said, calling on the government to demand an independent international inquiry into the torture of all Palestinians, particularly children.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-toddler-israeli-military-custody-9.7148662

[Broken_Erika]

[Bereta_Eder]

europe will probably strike a deal with russia turn on the US, blocakde it and let israelbe overrun by the middle eastern pwoers that are wining this war

[Bereta_Eder]

when there is a gangrene you cut the leg and the US is nothing but a big gangrene

[Bereta_Eder]

no country has a "right" to exist but if it did, then israel lost it

its whole society is a hitler based sociaty, they are foam at the mouth genocidal brutes. and we are their best friends


even me which find a bit taxing to ever admit a peacefull future with the "danger from the east", even I bulk at the monstrocity that is today's israeli and their supporters.

I don't think israel will exist as a state for much longer though. there are huge tectonic shifts in the global security architecture and israel proved it is not worthy to remain in existence.


I will also not ever again scold another country for supporting dictatorships, guess whiuch counrty protected suadi arabia from a direct iranian balistic missile to their oil infastructure?
yes , greece and not once either
we apparantly have a greek patriot (the antimissile system) squad there and are protecting them. what was the question most greeks asked?

do the saudis payed for it (which is logical to ask since a single intecept is costing us 1 million euros) and yes the saudis are paying ius for everything, apparently they dont own patrio systems and even if they had they dont know how to operate it, but the big question is why are we supportinfg such a despicable dictatorship?
the minister of defense said we do it because that oil infastructure is important to us which is stupoid and not true since we get most of our oil from iraq and kazakstan

and having a big allience with israel

the only morally correct act we did is sending the crown of the marine ships and a couple of f16s to defend cyprus first and immideaetly. france spain and some other countries followed suit and I guesss it is a symbolic sign of european solidarity even though they were not necessairy but all this greek/european firepower around cyprus made turkey have a nervous breakdown so I guess it was worth it after all


but apart from defending cyprus, it is amazing how i have to eat my words about countries that support (or don't oppose) countries will very bad "governments"

anyway it is a new era the post ww2 global security architecture has collapsed under the weight of the orange idiot and there are huge challenges mainly for the US which will remain embroiled in this war for a long time


iran has already won everything it couldn't get in peace

[The Mad Monk]

They, and every other oil producing nation in the region that is not Iran, have signed deals with Ukraine to supply them with Ukrainian built interceptor drones.

...what were you saying about Russia?

[Bereta_Eder]

they cant do anything. they are at the mercy of iran compltetely and if your orange bafoon starts commiting even more crims not only he will get arrested or worse for crimes against humanity together with his pal netanyahu but he will also provoke iran to unleash real hell on all those little countries that have already been destroyed since their tourism and finance bubble is in shatters.

[Bereta_Eder]

About russia, it is time to snatch the american nail out of ukrane's cofin. and have a real change and the vast amjority of the EU wants it because we are not former nazi collabvoratos.

and that is a cease fire a frozen state, cheap russian gas (americans can shove theirs where the sun doesn't shine) and a concrete resolution that neither russia or the eu will interfere in eachothers business. we domn't need no satanic diabolical (go look up the etymology of the word) to divide us and saw the seeds of division to fatter their greasey pig pockets.

[Bereta_Eder]

Just like Trump being president is a manifestation of the wishes of the plurality of US voters.

americans are deficient and pron to totaliarism because they have an unhealthy fixation on law/order and punishment (and marriage but maybe the two are the same)
i'd say it's their protestant dna but other protestant countries are not that cooked

[Agathon]

The attitude towards Israel in the UK, US, and Canada is puzzling. It's almost as if Mossad has video of their political leaders "entertaining" livestock. It's very noticeable when you come from a country where this isn't really a live political issue.