Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aims
Israel has tightened its siege of northern Gaza in the face of warnings from the UN and other aid agencies that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives at are risk, raising questions over whether the Netanyahu government’s ultimate war aims include territorial expansion.
The IDF says it is hunting Hamas militants but suspicions are growing that Israel is putting into practice a blueprint it had officially distanced itself from, known as the “generals’ plan”.
The plan, named after the retired senior officers promoting it, was intended to depopulate northern Gaza by giving the Palestinians trapped there an opportunity to evacuate and then treating those that stayed as combatants, laying total siege.
Hey, look, it's been exactly what we've been saying it is from the beginning. It's a landgrab. The liberals will be flocking to claim that this is definitely not just like Putin's landgrabs in eastern Ukraine, and that it is fundamentally different, either because Israel thinks that a thousand years old book promised them half of the Arabian peninsula, or some other nonsense about Hamas tunnels.
Not arguing with you, but I think Gaza is even worse.
What’s happening in Ukraine is terrible - but it’s a war between two countries, that each have an army.
What’s happening in Gaza is something else. It’s a country sending an army on a civilian population. Palestine has no army to defend itself.
And if, for the sake of argument, you accept Israel’s claim that it owns the Palestinian Territories, then it means Israel is turning its army against its own land and its own citizens.
And here you are wrong, Palestinians have no citizenship and nowhere to go. A lot of Ukrainians escaped the war, Palestinians simply can't do that. They are stuck in a very small land rendered completely inhabitable by now, with no escape and no future.
Siezing land is literally Israel's raison d'etre and raison d'etat. "Concerns that the Jewish Lebensraum project is may be doing what it was created for."
Israel is a colonial project of creating Lebensraum for Jewish people. That's not saying that Israel is equivalent to Judaism, rather that the explicit purpose of Israel is to create an ethnostate
If Kamala wins the biggest fear is liberals not demonstrating out of complacency. Similar to how the George Floyd movement died after Biden was elected. But subsequent years police violence has gotten worse.
Whomever wins this time, mass protests. Instantly. Everywhere.
For real change, we need to change local for cops. States hold police in check and unfortunately federal has little they can do.
Also Biden never had control of the house. He would need that for any federal change. I personally was effected by the police and wish my federal reps could do something. However, I live in a gerrymander hell hole called North Carolina.
But you are right, we need to stand united against the murdering of the palestinians.
Am i the only one paying attention to what she has said in interviews in the recent months ? If Kamala wins, Palestinians are gone. She will support Israel's right to "defend itself", which is, as we all know, politician speak for committing genocide.
If Trump wins, Palestinians are gone too. Palestinians are gone whichever way this toast falls because it is the will of the US people that the Palestinians are gone. They want them dead. They paid for their genocide over dozens of years and when it was obvious what Israel was doing, they kept doing it, even against the entire planet. Genocide is Biden's Requiem, but it was the combined complacency or willful support of 350 million people, excluding the Europeans who joined in too, like Germany.
Don't delude yourself that there's anything that can be done for Palestine at this point. All it's left is a generation of hurt children who will probably turn to terrorism because their families are dead. We, the Democratic, "civilized" world did this, or let this be done, to them. We act like we're better than everyone else, because of our elections, our freedom of press, our rights of the people, but at the end of the day, we commit genocide just like China. We are not better. We're just crap of the same sewers and we bear the shame for Palestine.
Harris for sure will stop it after she got elected. she is just toeing the line, pinkypromise. The US Dems truly dont want to support this genocide. All they say and do to the opposite is just for the election. Biden when in the 80s he said if there was no Israel the US had to create one was just anticipating his election dropout in 2024. Really guys just vote Democrats and this will end the day after.
The country that has armed settlers go take land all the time already in the West Bank? Nah. /s
I'm the kid who stood in line and watched everyone in the Pepsi Challenge pick the cup on the left. It was always on the left. It's how (this one anyway) was set up. So 50 people ahead of me choose Left like good consumers and get their prize (I think you got a Pepsi if you picked right - again maybe just how this one got run) and jack shit or a button if you picked Coke. I pick Right. Because I've always done stupid shit like that thinking this was the one that's different.
The idea of Israel not intending to gain territory to me is not a bet even the kid who failed the Pepsi Challenge would take.
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