hap0206, Without a link in support your understanding the truck movements were monitored is nothing but empty Trump friendly words from you. My guess is you are lying about that, and that you have pulled your understanding out of your ass. I would be very happy to know if anyone else has read anything in support of what you say. I haven't.
"My understanding is that Isreal air monitored the truck movements and Mossad know exactly what and where the cargo is located -- but with Iran's surrender It's nuke program is finished -- We can hope that Hamas will surrender in a few days -- doubt if they can continue their war without Iran's support -- we can hope -- do you know if any one counted the women and children killed when we dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- collateral damage in war is terrible on the innocent until the war mongers surrender"
And, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki fatalities ..
By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74,000 in Nagasaki. In the years that followed, many of the survivors would face leukemia, cancer, or other terrible side effects from the radiation. https://www.icanw.org/hiroshima_and_nagasaki_bombings ..
of course, numbers have been estimated. Even I am surprised you are saying such idiotic things.
If you were at all interested you would agree Israel has most likely killed more in Gaza:
An Indifferent Media Is Failing to Report the 400,000 Dead in Gaza
Only the Palestinians, who are not allowed to live, don’t get the respect of having their deaths accurately estimated.
Ralph Nader Feb 24, 2025 [...] The official Hamas count that all sides like to cite is now over 48,000 deaths. As American doctors back from Gaza before the Rafah closing last year said—just about everybody surviving in Gaza is sick, injured, or dying. They put the death estimate almost a year ago at a minimum of 95,000, not counting tens of thousands of families buried under the rubble when Israeli F-16s blew up entire apartment buildings. [...] Why would all sides to this one-sided Israeli war of extermination rely on Hamas’ figures? Well, Hamas has an interest in low-balling the number of deaths to limit the rage of its inhabitants and allies abroad for not protecting the people of Gaza and not providing them with shelters. The Israeli super-hawks want to keep the undercount low to dampen down the international rage, boycotts, and demand for more sanctions and ICC prosecutions. The Biden administration and now the Trump regime also benefit from a low number.
Here is the Washington Post’s esteemed foreign affairs editor Karen DeYoung’s reply on September 6, 2024 to my inquiry:
“We use the Gaza MOH [Ministry of Health] figures – as does the United Nations, World Health Organization and virtually every other humanitarian organization – while noting that independent media are not allowed to enter Gaza and the casualty counts are most certainly underreported… The Lancet [British Medical Journal] report notes that based on other ‘recent conflicts…it is not implausible to estimate’ that four times as many have died than those listed by the MOH…The time will come, I believe, when an independent accounting can be done.”
But six months later the time still hasn’t come. The Biden State Department had a much higher estimate of deaths but refused to release their analysis, obstructing our Freedom of Information request filed last May 24, 2024. All kinds of estimates and projections by reputable universities, specialists, global health groups and UN agencies point to a much higher death and overall casualty toll. But the State Department won’t come forward with a reasonably estimated number that can replace Hamas’ statistical immolation.
For example, in late 2023, the chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh—Professor Devi Sridhar—said that if the destruction continues, half a million Palestinians would die in 2024. The devastation has gotten worse—the bombings, the genocidal denial of “food, water, medicine, electricity, fuel” in the omnicidal words of the high Israeli military officials, the spread of diseases, untreated injuries, babies born into the rubble, infants starved, lack of potable water, sick elderly without critical medicines, and more. This is the result of 110 thousand tons of bombs (Israeli admission) daily tank shelling and precise destructions. Yet neither she nor most other experts who have projected continuing mayhem have offered a number.
Interestingly, the media has no trouble estimating the Syrian deaths at the hands of dictator Assad (500,000) nor the deaths in the wars in Sudan or Ukraine. Only the Palestinians, who are not allowed to live, don’t get the respect of having their deaths accurately estimated. One team of Gazan undertakers said they buried 17,000 bodies in mass graves by February 2024, including 800 in one day.
Were the shoe on the other foot, Congress would not only have had intense public hearings: it would have declared war against Hamas. With total U.S. co-belligerency – from huge weapons supplies to the veto at the UN, Netanyahu gets away with blocking Israeli and all other reporters from going freely into Gaza, and shuts up those conscience-stricken Israeli soldiers who are sickened by what they were ordered to destroy. One of them said, “I felt like, like, like a Nazi … it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews.”
Some columnists in the U.S. like Charles Lane and Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post and Netanyahu’s mouthpiece, Bret Stephens of the New York Times, do not believe the Israeli military consciously targets civilians and civilian infrastructure. Israelis scoff at such naivete; many want more annihilation of all Palestinians whom they regard as “subhuman,” “vermin,” “snakes,” or “animals” (racist words from high Israeli politicians over the decades).
Some 45 years ago, former UN Ambassador and Foreign Minister Abba Eban —under then Prime Minister Menachem Begin—wrote that Israel “is wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr. Begin nor I would dare to mention by name.”
In August 2024, based on available historical, empirical, and clinical records, we estimated about 300,000 Palestinians had been killed. (See the August/September 2024 issue of the Capitol Hill Citizen). By now it is over 400,000. Yet the media still uses the figure by Hamas and ignores the lives blown apart under the killing fields in Gaza.
At 400,000 and growing, far more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than the combined total of deaths from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden in World War II. This week, Netanyahu dropped leaflets in Arabic signaling a forthcoming violent exclusion of Gaza’s trapped, unsheltered Palestinians from their homeland. More accurately estimated civilian casualties matters morally and for the intensity of the political, diplomatic, and civic resistance when the world learns the truer toll of death and injuries in this tiny enclave the geographical size of Philadelphia.
To remind the world of the daily Israeli violations of settled international law inflicted on Gazans (also in the West Bank and Lebanon), international law practitioner Bruce Fein compiled this concise list:
ISRAEL’S TEN VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN GAZA
1. Genocide Count I. Killing Palestinians in Gaza. 2. Genocide Count II. Deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. 3. Genocide Count III. Destroying hospitals and maternal care necessities intended to prevent births by Palestinian women in Gaza. 4. Crimes against humanity. Extermination and persecution of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza as part of a systematic attack directed at Palestinian civilians. 5. Deliberately targeting civilians and civilian property for destruction. 6. Failing to provide for the security and welfare of the inhabitants occupied by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza. 7. Impeding delivery of humanitarian assistance. 8. Forcible relocation of civilian population. 9. Use of military force causing civilian casualties vastly disproportionate to the importance of any legitimate military objective. 10. War of aggression against Gaza Palestinians.
"My understanding is that Isreal air monitored the truck movements and Mossad know exactly what and where the cargo is located -- but with Iran's surrender It's nuke program is finished -- We can hope that Hamas will surrender in a few days -- doubt if they can continue their war without Iran's support -- we can hope -- do you know if any one counted the women and children killed when we dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- collateral damage in war is terrible on the innocent until the war mongers surrender."
And your claim Iran's nuke program is finished is more utter illogical ravings from you. Seems in your keenness to defend Trump and his administration most all of your powers of reason have left you.
For decades Israel has been the main source of instability in the Middle East. For longer the military-industrial complex in America has been a major source for instability in the world. All your weasel words will not heal the murderous genocide Israel continues to lay on Palestine.
The United States Spends More on Defense than the Next 9 Countries Combined
Last Updated May 5, 2025
Defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of all military expenditures by countries around the world in 2024, according to recently released figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In 2024, the United States spent $997 billion on defense, which is more than the next nine countries’ spending combined. In comparison, China, which is the second biggest defense spender, spent $314 billion on military expenditures in 2024.
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SIPRI’s definition of defense spending is broader than the definitions that are most frequently used by federal policymakers and organizations such as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO reported total discretionary defense outlays of $850 billion in 2024, $147 billion less than SIPRI’s estimate. SIPRI’s total is higher in large part because they include payments for military retirement and some expenditures for international affairs in their total; such spending is located elsewhere in the federal budget. Nonetheless, the SIPRI comparison provides useful insights on the sheer scale of U.S. defense spending relative to other nations.
Although the United States spends more on defense than any other country, the Congressional Budget Office projects that defense spending as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) will decline over the coming years — from 2.9 percent of GDP in 2025 to 2.4 percent in 2035. That is proportionately lower than the 50-year average level of defense spending of 4.2 percent of GDP.
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Further, domestic defense priorities continue to face budgetary restraints as the cost to service our national debt grows. In 2024 alone, the United States spent $881 billion on debt interest payments — an amount that surpassed domestic military spending by $31 billion. Still, defense spending accounts for a sizable portion of the federal budget and the United States vastly outspends other nations. In determining the appropriate level of military expenditures in the future, as with other categories of spending, it will be important to evaluate whether it is being used effectively and how it fits in with other national priorities.
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