The indicted criminal Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, whom the Israelis themselves had been calling "Crime Minister" for almost a year before the Hamas attack, is in charge of the failing state of Israel. Without intensive American support, Israel would not be able to prosecute its barbaric and cowardly shelling of Gaza. It is easy to fire US-made missiles and rockets indiscrimately a few kilometers away from a civilian target. Nothing heroic about that.
I personally remember the same exact method used by the equally barbaric Syrian army during its occupation of Lebanon, besieging Beirut and other cities for months on end and endlessly and indiscrimately shelling the city's residential areas under the pretense of fighting what it called terrorist militias. Syrian troops have always been cowards in using artillery from a distance to terrorize the population and without any other obvious objective. In Syria itself since 2011, the Syrian army shells and bombards from a distance, kidnaps innocent people, herds and tortures them in jail but never engages in ground combat. Syria had greater firepower that the Christian resistance in Lebanon, but in the end, it failed. Israel is using the same scenario: cowardly indiscrimate shelling and killing, plus kidnapping of innocent civilians, for the sole purpose of terrrorizing the population and driving them out of the territory, with some ground warfare but without any remarkable success.
Israel's objective is clear: Win more territory using the October 7 attack as a pretext. Unless Israel intends to expel all the Gaza Palestinians to the Sinai desert - which is I think its ultimate objective in another ethnic cleansing of what remains of Palestine - there is no way it can occupy and control Gaza and effect some sort of stability there. It failed two decades ago and it will fail again, this time in more difficult circumstances: If anything, Israel's barbarity in Gaza has helped Hamas recruit tens of thousands of new fighters over the last couple of months, both in Gaza and the West Bank. Those Palestinians who hated Hamas now have mutated into ticking time bombs. Regardless of whether they like or hate Hamas, the Palestinians now have a virulent hatred toward Israel, which is likely to begin appearing in the coming months. The trauma that Israel is inflicting on them by far surpasses what Hamas may or may not have done to the Palestinians, and is likely to reverberate at some point in extreme forms of violence.
Israel is stupid in thinking that by beating them to death or expelling them, the Palestinians will one day surrender to their fate and accept Israel and be friends with it. Israel is digging its own grave. With every war, with every occupation, it becomes more and more isolated around the world. Violence and racism cannot be the long term answer to the crime of the creation of Israel over the ashes of historic Palestine and the life of the Palestinian people. Israel may win for a century, for two centuries.... but just like their predecessor ultra-religious imbecile savages, the Christian Crusaders, they will one day have to pack up and leave. That has been the fate of all colonial enterprises, and Israel is no exception.
Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk slammed Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday as a “clear and present danger” to the country, and called on him to resign “before he does even more damage to Israel.” “[Netanyahu’s] determination to stay in power no matter the cost is a clear and present danger to Israel. He needs to resign…yesterday!” Indyk wrote in a post on X Sunday morning.
His comments came following a New York Times report that Netanyahu not only was aware that Qatar was shuttling millions of dollars a month to Gaza, where it helped prop up the Hamas government, but that he encouraged the payments.
According to the Times report, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials allowed the money to flow into Gaza in the hope that it would help maintain peace and stability in the region. By propping Hamas as a "bad" rival against the "good" Palestinian Authority, Netanyahu hoped to udnermine the latter and kill any hope for a Palestinian state by keeping the Palestinians divided and weak. Netanyahu also believed that Hamas had neither the desire nor the capacity to launch a large-scale attack. The Times previously reported that Israeli officials had blueprints of the Hamas’ plans more than a year before the Oct. 7 attack but chose to regard an actual attack as unlikely.
“He needs to resign before he does even more damage to Israel,” wrote Indyk, who was tasked with working to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal during his roughly year-long tenure as President Barack Obama’s special Mideast envoy in 2013 and 2014.
Indyk’s comments come as calls for Israel to scale back or end its violent campaign in Gaza have accelerated. The U.S. has vowed to stand with Israel, and recently vetoed a ceasefire resolution in the U.N. Security Council — a measure that had support from almost all other Security Council countries. However, U.S. officials have also called on Israeli leaders to take measures to avoid civilian casualties. The real scheme involves Netanyahu getting the Americans to give him time and cover, but also enhance Israel's propaganda by pretending to demand humanitarian aid to arrive to Gaza.
The war poses a challenge to President Joe Biden, as he attempts to balance support for America's chief ally in the Middle East with calls for a ceasefire from the left, as the civilian death toll in Gaza continues to grow. It is now a virtual consequence of the Gaza genocide that Biden will lose the 2024 elections. Many democrats will refrain from voting becuse they don't want Trump either, should the latter wins the republican nomination. A low democrat turnout would lead to an even disastrous outcome for Biden and an even bigger win for Trump than would have otherwise been the case.
Indyk warned in his post that Netanyahu is “currently causing a rift” with Biden, whom he described as “Israel’s only friend in this crisis.”
Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warns of a 'beginning of the end' for Hamas and urges it to surrender. If anything, this shows Israel's own beginning of the end and its desperation: It is not winning the war; it is not achieving its objectives; it is making enemies all over the world. If I were an Israeli citizen, I'd be afraid not only to leave my home, but to leave the country. Killing tens of thousands of civilians and herding an entire population into Indian-like reservations is not winning a war: It is an enemy-breeding practice.
Propaganda isn't working either. The Israelis keep messing up with ridiculous staged surrenders by pseudo-Hamas fighters, and stripping men of their clothes and humiliating them. The hasbara propaganda really believes that non-Jewish people are stupid enough to be fed this idiotic disinformation. It may have worked with the dumb Americans for a while, but people around the world have been tested and have experience. They understand nuances between barbarity and self-defense.
Israel's failure is strategic. It will not recover from its savagery against an innocent population and the collective punishment it is inflicting on Palestinians. Israel will be more isolated than it has ever been, and there won't be a senile old man in the white house to save its hide; instead, a second Trump administration will send the US spiraling into unrest and destabilization.
Israel's savagery has opened the world's eyes to how Israel was created in the first place. In the exact same manner that it is prosecuting its barbarity in Gaza, Israel was created with the same exact barbarity in 1948, with methods learned from their former tormentors, the Germans: ethnic cleansing, rapes, terrorizing the population destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages, razing them to the ground and renaming them with Hebrew names , and displacing millions out into concentration camps.
Yes, Israel was created, but no one believed it as a natural honest-to-God birth conceived in love: It was the gang rape of Palestine by European Jews, followed by a cesarean section using American and British retractors to force the mutant baby out. In 1948, Palestine was raped and the Palestinian people dispossessed of their land, regardless of the myths and biblical garbage invoked: None can be a justification for the crime committed against the Palestinian people. It will never work.
A final thought: Remember that the Israeli ruling establishment is of Eastern European stock - not Western liberals, but backward ultra-religious autocratic-minded idiots from Russia, Moldiva, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Belarus: all these countries - except Ukraine which is trying to change - are corrupt and ruled by conservative xenophobic autocrats. This is the cultural incubator in which Israel's rulers were born and raised. It may help you understand Israel's religious fanaticism and barbarity.
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