Israel is Coming Apart at the Seams, It Seems

Trump could bring peace to the whole world and end hunger and usher in the Star Trek utopia they desire so much and they still would call him a fascist and not give him credit for it. You’re wasting your time.

We call him a fascist because he's a fascist.
The fact that he brokered a treaty that's already starting to fall apart doesn't change that.
By your logic, it didn't matter that Stalin was a brutal dictator because he helped beat the Nazis.

https://x.com/samhaselby/status/1978033148358177249?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

If he did that A.) I would be fucking happy. B.) I'd be suspicious he got body-swapped with Greta Thunberg, and the Greta body died before she could get back.

But still no credit.

After a thorough MRI and EEG.

Why should I give an authoritarian credit for anything? I don't care what he does, it doesn't cleanse his actions here.

Fun literature/philosophy fact:

In the original uncensored story of Hercules, Hercules throws a shit fit, and beats his family, but because of his strength, he tears them apart like roast chickens.
So, Zeus sends him on quests to redeem himself, and THAT'S how the story of his literally goddamned adventures starts.
Anyway, nothing he can do can wash the murder of his family off him, so he finally goes "fuck it" and dumps oil on himself, and burns himself to death.

Yeah.

Let's see Disney do that fucking version.

Anyway, all of that to say, Darth Vader had to die to complete his redemption, Chris Benoit is probably in Hell, and Trump will always be a turd.

I feel like Benoit at least needs an asterisk due to the excessive brain damage he had.
Less than a week before he went nuts, he was confiding to Chris Nowinsky that he was scared and needed help.

Trump tells CNN Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’ if Hamas won’t uphold ceasefire deal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/politics/hamas-warning-trump-israel-gaza

Where's his nobel prize already?

So we should put Turkey back in charge?

That Dark Side of the ring two part episode on Benoit was an eye opener. It got me thinking about other professional athletes like Junior Seau, who also one day just went nuts and killed himself. Thankfully he didn't take the family with him.

Am I the only one who assumes that this is a short-term thing that Bibi gifted to Trump to let him bolster his demand for a Peace Prize and some time things will go back to genocide and Trump backers will be all "ah, well, nevertheless..."

99% chance of that. The fact they are already calling the fact that some bodies can't be found (due to majority of buildings being turned into rubble and many of the people who knew where the bodies were killed) a breach of the ceasefire conditions says it all, since they publicly already knew and expected that would be the case weeks ago.

The fact that Hamas almost certainly won't disarm just makes it inevitable either way.

This was an entirely foreseeable difficulty. Why wasn't it catered for in the agreement?

Meanwhile of course, Israel returned scores of bodies with hands tied, gunshot wounds and showing evidence of torture and mutilation. But no-one seems terribly upset about that.

Well clearly if Israel did it then they must have deserved it. Israel are the good guys, so if it looks like they've done something bad you must just be mistaken about what they did or why they did it.

Here's the AI (Grok) response to "How many have Israel killed in Gaza during the current ceasefire?"

Imagine if this many Israelis had been killed. Or even "detained". The screeching would be heard on the moon and there'd be calls for nuclear annihilation.

Does anything here rise to the level of "provocation" according to @Paladin , who was urging Israel to show restraint in the face of inevitable Hamas violations?

Or is it the case that Israel is applying the Lebanon model, where they feel entitled to ignore all of their commitments and "ceasefire" simply means a return to lower intensity warfare?

Oh look, Doc doesn’t have an answer to this. Imagine that.

Dude, not sure what you’re trying to prove here, but fucking Grok is poisoning the air in Memphis. https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/

Seriously, don’t care what you think about AI, but if you’re going to use it, Grok should be at the bottom of your list if you remotely care about marginalized communities. By a wide fucking margin.

Ok, I was not aware of that. No more Grok.

Yeah Grok is Musks baby, whose only redeeming quality is that in-between wanting to talk about the genocide in South Africa it keeps roasting Musk no matter how much he tries to have it reprogrammed.

https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3m3ao5rmgcs25

The constant reprograming when Grok says things Elon doesn't like is one of the more low key hilarious things on the internet

Musk can't even get his artificial children to love him

Keep in mind that the Guardian is a right wing publication but this seems to be a decently researched article:

Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns

Jason Burke International security correspondent

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/17/hamass-aim-to-retain-authority-in-gaza-involves-keeping-the-guns

There's much to be said about it but generally The Guardian is perceived as left-liberal.

This afternoon, Israeli army targeted a bus in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza killing all of the following:

The children:
- Mohammad Abu Shaaban, 5-years-old
- Ibrahim Ihab Abu Shaaban, 6-years-old
- Anas Sufian Shaaban, 8-years-old
- Karam Sufian Shaaban, 10-years-old
- Jumana Ihab Shabaan, 10-years-old
- Nasma Sufian Shabaan, 12-years-old
- Nasser Ihab Abu Shabaan, 13-years-old

The parents:
- Ihab Abu Shaaban, 38-years-old
- Randa Abu Shabaan, 36-years-old

Is this a provocation, @Paladin ? Are these daily killings consistent with the picture you painted recently?

This week’s Foreign Affairs Interview is a good listen:

The world has watched as a cease-fire has tentatively taken effect in Gaza. All the surviving Israeli hostages are home and many Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released. Israeli forces have pulled back within Gaza, and much-needed humanitarian aid is rushing in. Phase One of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan seems to be working. But what happens next is more uncertain. At the time of this recording, conditions on the ground were still in flux, as the difficulty of Phase Two came into focus. The thornier details of who will govern Gaza and provide security there remain to be determined. Nor is it clear whether Hamas will actually disarm, as Trump’s plan calls the group to do. Most of Gaza is in ruins and many Palestinians fear that the cease-fire will only be a pause before a resumption of the conflict.

Shira Efron, Khaled Elgindy, and Daniel Shapiro have closely analyzed the war and its regional and global implications for Foreign Affairs over the last two years. All three are intimately familiar with the challenges of making peace in the Middle East: Efron, the distinguished chair for Israel Policy at the RAND Corporation, has advised Israeli security officials. Elgindy, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, counseled Palestinian negotiators from 2004 to 2009. And Shapiro, a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, served as U.S. ambassador to Israel during the Obama administration and as deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East during the Biden administration.

Executive Editor Justin Vogt spoke with Efron, Elgindy, and Shapiro on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 14, to make sense of Trump’s deal and the Gaza cease-fire—its promise, its fragility, and its potential pitfalls.

You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.


Host asks all three guests if there was more or less than a 50/50 chance Israel and Hamas will be back at war within a year and all three said some version of ‘slightly less’. So that is encouraging.