"Their deaths are on Hamas who made Israel's rule of engagement genocidal trash and war criminal under international law."___GWB probably
Some perspectives on the situation in the Israeli government. If Netanyahu stops the Gaza war before Hamas is completely eliminated then his right-wing coalition will fall apart and he will be out of office. Ben Gvir Threatens to Abandon Netanyahu if Gaza Offensive Lowered https://english.aawsat.com/world/47...s-abandon-netanyahu-if-gaza-offensive-lowered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered firm stances last Wednesday saying Israel intends to “continue the war on the Gaza Strip until the end” only following threats of the far-right wing in his government, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, political sources in Tel Aviv revealed. Ben Gvir spoke directly to Netanyahu and said his Otzma Yehudit party is the most loyal to him in the ruling coalition, even more than the Likud. However, the minister affirmed that if anyone intends to halt the Israeli Army before Hamas has been defeated and all the hostages have been returned, then the PM should take into account that Otzma Yehudit will not be with him. Netanyahu therefore understood that Ben Gvir would join efforts by some right-wing parties to change Netanyahu and to appoint a new Likud leader. This is the reason why the Israeli PM said Wednesday there would be no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip until the “elimination” of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Netanyahu's remarks came amid reports saying Israel is negotiating in an attempt to reach a new prisoner swap deal with the Hamas group. In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Netanyahu said, “We’re continuing the war to the end. It will continue until Hamas is destroyed — until victory.” He added: “Anyone who thinks we’ll stop is unmoored from reality... We’re raining fire on Hamas, hell fire. All Hamas terrorists, from first to last, face death. They have two options only: surrender or die.” But it seems that Ben Gvir and his partner, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, are not satisfied with Netanyahu’s announcements. They want more. “The idea of reducing activity in Gaza is a failure of war management by the small [war] cabinet. It should be dismantled immediately,” Ben Gvir said in a statement. “The time has come to restore the reins to the wider [security] cabinet,” he added. Smotrich, who is also a member of Israel’s war cabinet, expressed his rejection that Mossad spy agency chief David Barne be sent to Egypt to discuss freeing high-level Palestinian security prisoners in return for Israeli captives in Gaza.
ic you've pivoted from "hamas must be eliminated for what they did" to "hamas must be eliminated to pacify right wing zealots in Israel".
Yup, there's always more to the story than what meets the eye. Imo there's a number of different things at play here; religous beliefs, politics, power, revenge, hate and bigotry, probably money and greed. I just can't see how more hate and killing is an answer but both sides seem to prefer that solution. But imo, Biden is one of the biggest fools, you'd think he would have spent 5 minutes thinking about the outcome of partnering with Netanyahu in yet another Middle East conflict. But Israel are master craftsmen at manipulation, just nigh on everyone is blind because they believe the storytelling which for thousands of years comes out of Israel, perpetually conning the world with bs about salvation and redemption if you are one of the chosen.
Message to Palestinians from America and Israel: "Because you're not economically important to us, we wish you a Safe and Merry Fucked up Christmas from the bottom of our black hearts"
Israeli airstrike kills senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards general in Syria By Laila Bassam December 26, 2023 https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle...-guards-general-in-syria-20231226-p5etlv.html Beirut: An Israeli airstrike outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, three security sources and Iranian state media said. The sources told Reuters that the adviser, known as Sayyed Razi Mousavi, was responsible for co-ordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran. Iranian general Sayyed Razi Mousavi.Credit: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Iran’s state television interrupted its regular news broadcast to announce that Mousavi had been killed, describing him as one of the Revolutionary Guards’ oldest advisers in Syria. It said he had been “among those accompanying Qassem Soleimani”, the head of the guards’ elite Quds Force, who was killed in a US drone attack in Iraq in 2020. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said the assassination of Mousavi showed Israel’s weakness. “This act is a sign of the Zionist regime’s frustration and weakness in the region for which it will certainly pay the price,” Iranian media cited Raisi as saying. The Revolutionary Guards said Israel would suffer for killing Mousavi, who held the rank of brigadier-general. “Undoubtedly, the usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime,” the guards said in a statement read on state TV. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group condemned the killing of Mousavi as a “cowardly act”, saying he had played a vital role in supporting the resistance in the region as well as the Palestinian people and their cause. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s military. Israel has for years carried out attacks against what it describes as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it backed President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that erupted in Syria in 2011. Earlier this month, Iran said Israeli strikes had killed two Revolutionary Guards members in Syria who had served as military advisers there. Iran has sent hundreds of guards as “advisers” to help train and organise thousands of Shiite militia fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to back the government in the Syrian conflict. Fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah have also worked closely with Iranian military commanders in Syria. Reuters
Netanyahu vows to ‘deepen’ Gaza campaign in troop visit Nidal al-Mughrabi, Bassam Masoud and Emily Rose Dec 26, 2023 https://www.afr.com/world/middle-ea...-gaza-campaign-in-troop-visit-20231226-p5etm4 Cairo /Gaza / Jerusalem | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep up the fight against Hamas militants on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), as Palestinians mourned more than 100 people who Gaza health officials said were killed overnight in Israeli airstrikes. Mr Netanyahu visited Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip just hours after one of the besieged enclave’s deadliest nights in the 11-week-old battle between Israel and Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a security briefing with commanders and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip. AP Retaliating against Hamas for its deadly October 7 cross-border rampage, Israel has been under pressure from its closest ally, the United States, to shift operations in Gaza to a lower-intensity phase and reduce civilian deaths. But Mr Netanyahu told lawmakers from his Likud party that the war was far from over and dismissed what he cast as media speculation his government might call a halt to the fighting. He said Israel would not succeed in freeing its remaining hostages without applying military pressure. “We’re not stopping; we are continuing to fight and are deepening the fighting in the coming days,” he said in a statement released by his Likud Party, adding that “this will be a long battle, and it is not close to ending”. “The war will continue until the end, until we finish it, no less,” Mr Netanyahu, who has defied international calls for a ceasefire, also said during the Gaza visit. Women and children dying At a funeral in Gaza, a line of Palestinian mourners touched the white shrouds wrapped around the bodies of at least 70 people who Palestinian health officials said were killed by an airstrike that hit Maghazi in the centre of the strip. One man, Ibrahim Youssef, said his wife and four children, including a four-month-old baby, were trapped under the rubble of the house where they were staying in Maghazi. “What did they do wrong?” he asked. “Were there resistance fighters here?” The strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Monday. Palestinian media said Israel had stepped up its air and ground shelling in central Gaza. Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra said many of those killed at Maghazi were women and children. Eight others were killed as Israeli planes and tanks struck houses and roads in nearby al-Bureij and al-Nusseirat, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza killed 23, bringing total Palestinian fatalities overnight to more than 100. Pope Francis said in a Christmas message that children dying in wars, including in Gaza, are the “little Jesuses of today” and that Israeli strikes were reaping an “appalling harvest” of innocent civilians. The Israeli army said it was reviewing the report of the Maghazi incident and was committed to minimising harm to civilians. Israel says Hamas operates in densely populated areas and uses civilians as human shields, which Hamas denies. Bethlehem’s celebrations cancelled Christian clergy cancelled celebrations in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born in a stable 2000 years ago. Palestinian Christians held a candle-lit Christmas vigil in Bethlehem with hymns and prayers for peace in Gaza. There was no large tree, the usual centrepiece of Bethlehem’s Christmas observances. Nativity figurines in churches were placed among rubble and barbed wire in solidarity with the people of Gaza. In Gaza, Hamas and smaller militant ally Islamic Jihad, both sworn to Israel’s destruction, are believed to be holding more than 100 hostages from among 240 they captured during their October 7 rampage through Israeli towns, when they killed 1200 people. A Palestinian infant injured in Israeli airstrikes is treated at Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis. Getty Since then, Israel has laid much of the narrow strip to waste. Nearly 20,700 Gazans have been killed, including 250 in the last 24 hours, according to authorities in Hamas-ruled Gaza. The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has been driven from their homes, and the United Nations says humanitarian conditions are catastrophic. The Israeli military said on Monday two of its soldiers had died in the last day, bringing to 158 the number killed since ground operations began on October 20. Separately, three security sources said an Israeli airstrike outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The sources told Reuters the adviser, known as Sayyed Razi Mousavi, was responsible for co-ordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran, which supports Hamas in Gaza. The Revolutionary Guards, in a statement read on Iranian state television, said Israel “will pay for this crime”. On Saturday, Israel’s military chief of staff said his forces had largely achieved operational control in the north of Gaza and would expand operations further in the south. But residents say fighting has only intensified in northern districts. Diplomatic efforts, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, on a new truce to free the remaining hostages held in Gaza have yielded little public progress. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal, made in Cairo talks, that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. The militant groups have said they would not discuss any release of hostages unless Israel ends its war in Gaza, while the Israelis say they are willing to discuss only a pause in fighting.
Israel wants to show the world they're the big tough guy on the block. Israel are big and tough, killing unarmed civilians, no care, no remorse, no responsibility, no professionalism in their politics or military. They're big and tough - because they know America will support them no matter what. They know they can easily manipulate Americans with emotional bullshit. Because they can, they do. Americans love emotional bullshit, they thrive on it. And Western religion is nothing more than a huge emotional tear jerking bullshit marketing machine.
In my younger days I was an avid recreational hunter. There are a couple of strict rules: Identify your target. NEVER shoot at domestic animals, ie, cows, sheep, livestock of any sorts, doing that was unprofessional and wrong. Israel it seems has no qualms in killing the sheep milling in the corner of the paddock trapped.