More likely that they simply don't trust Hamas.
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It also feeds into Netanyahu's long time narrative about Iran being behind all the instability in Israel (not to mention the possibility of Iranian nukes). Every Iranian proxy. -Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis; have in the past few weeks attacked Israel, which will no doubt be scrutinized further in the coming weeks.
Call everything fake news and call it a day.
This is from the recent critical biography of Netanyahu from @Amir's Haaretz colleague Anshel Pfeffer:
"Netanyahu is no warmonger. For all his talk of confronting the Iranian threat, he has been too risk-averse to launch any wars—which is to his credit. He is the prime minister with the lowest casualty rates in Israel’s history."
Which seems a little strange when you consider his military career, during which he was a member and commander of the Sayeret Matkal unit of the IDF, responsible for engaging in daring and high-profile reconnaissance and rescue missions (his brother was famously killed during the unit's Entebbe rescue operation).
How can Israel NOT respond to that, if true? How can the US not get pulled in, if true?
It looks like sabre rattling designed to push the US into an overreaction without committing to the conflict. prod prod prod - Seems the US are determined to simply block until they land a punch. For whatever reason, the proxies don’t want to participate fully. posted in another thread -
it’s quite interesting how the US are simply taking a spanking again and keeping it on the downlow. Why are Iranian proxies not being turned to dust? Really looks like the US are trying to prevent conflict whilst they scramble assets into theater. You’d imagine guillot would stay on at centcom for now, even if it’s as a 4 star. They need his experience.
Did you see the marine generals comment about the MEU the other day?
Israel have no benefit in opening more fronts. Gallant has been wanting a first strike against hezbollah, but it looks to have been warded off by Biden/bibi. They dont have the realistic capacity to engage elsewhere. See above for US reaction. (And the book I suggested in the thread on general.) The us are incredibly tolerant of Iranian shenanigans.
I think the US will be incentivized to avoid a broader conflict. The obvious caveat being that if one of the many recent Iranian attacks on US troops in Iraq winds up getting anyone hurt or killed, then the gloves will be off.
stop punching yourself!Yeah, I replied about it before. He is risk-averse, period. He's paranoid and easily pressured. And he realises that when you start a military operation, you never know it will end. So he tries to avoid it.
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Everyone playing their own game of thrones as people die of bombs and hunger.
Yeah it's the United Nations.
Pretty sure you'd be at risk of getting fired from any job for saying entire countries, ethnicities or faith's were terrorists.
Pretty sure you wouldn't if you called Russia, any of the middle east countries terrorist states or even US/UK (based on their wars) terrorist countries.
You wouldn't and he knows that.
State of Israel meaning the Israeli government and military, not every Israeli in the country. Nobody should be getting fired for this nonsense, I hoped they get sued to feck.
Not sure why you've brought ethnicities or faiths into it when she only referred to a country.
I agree with you and know that you're far more knowledgeable on the matter than me, but I'm still personally convinced that it was the straw that broke the camel's back. He bet everything on security, and yet had the worst tragedy since the Holocaust happening on his watch, on Israeli soil.
No matter the cult behind him, I can't and refuse to believe that the Israeli society will put up with him after this war is over, unless too many people went off the deep end. I won't accept it, the Israelis are so much more than that.
This man is bad news, always was. His rightful place is in jail.
I was going to post this earlier (from an Arabic source) but I just felt empty after watching it. How can anyone live a life after this?
Talk about a disingenuous post: that’s not the choice. People can condemn both Hamas and Israel’s reaction while sympathizing with the Palestinian plight which is what most people are doing .
Edit: most people with a shred of humanity
And no one should trust the Israeli state.
Is it a risk you'd be willing to take using accounts linked to your employer?
Sweeping generalisations using platforms linked to your employment are not advisable.
They're already stretched by the Russia-Ukraine war and must keep an eye on China-Taiwan. They also have to manage their arab allies in the Middle-East.
It's perfectly understandable that they don't want the conflict to escalate, hence the quite astounding lenience when it comes to Iran.
Maybe if EU spends more on defense they could relieve the US here and there...but that's for a different thread.
Yes, the answer to war is more war.
Referring to a country as a terrorist state isn't a sweeping generalisation, it's a comment on its state apparatus.
344 children in the last 24 hours alone. It's horrific. The IDF and Israel are a bunch of pussies. Sitting in a room pushing buttons and killing kids. Wearing full body armour to deal with an enemy who has rocks and slingshots.
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza – Mondoweiss
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the "unique and rare opportunity" for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”
Really doesn't give two shits about the people of Gaza.
That's about what you'd expect from a racist that both acts and looks like a ghoul.
No one can justify this. A guy standing peacefully holding a Palestinan flag, no violence, except from the police, just a peaceful protest squashed from the government to protect an state practicing apartheid on a group of people.
No, Oliver is about as good as it gets when it comes to twitter osint hobbyists, i'll take his word. Stand by my critisism of that Toler fella though, he has an agenda, which is probably just nyt traffic nowadays i guess.
Neither does Egypt. Otherwise they would open the border and take refugees. But easier just to lay the blame at Israel
Gee, I wonder why?