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JohnSJ

(98,536 posts)
Tue May 6, 2025, 10:28 PM Tuesday

Netanyahu, Hamas, and the idiots who refused to vote for Harris, have now insured

that Gaza and the Palestinians there will be gone.

I cannot see how Israel will be viewed sympathetically by anyone after this.

If this proceeds, and I cannot see a trump administration not endorsing it, Israel may occupy the land, but they will lose their soul.

Jeremy Bowen: Netanyahu's plan for Gaza risks dividing Israel, killing Palestinians and horrifying world.

"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis that "we are on the eve of an intense entry into Gaza." Israel would, he said, capture territory and hold it: "They will not enter and come out."

The new offensive is calculated, according to the spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Brigadier-General Effie Defrin, to bring back the remaining hostages. After that, he told Israeli radio, "comes the collapse of the Hamas regime, its defeat, its submission".

The offensive will not start, Israel says, until after Donald Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar next week. Assuming Trump does not dissuade Israel from going ahead, Israel will need a military and political miracle to pull off the results described by Brig-Gen Defrin.

It is more likely that the offensive will sharpen everything that makes the Gaza war so controversial. The war, starting with the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, has taken the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis to a point as dangerous as any in its long history. Prolonging the war divides Israelis, kills even more Palestinian civilians and horrifies millions around the world, including many who describe themselves as friends of Israel."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd020j97l79o

F**K Netanyahu, F**K HAMAS, F**K THOSE WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR HARRIS, F**K THOSE WHO VOTED FOR trump. YOU OWN THIS HUMANITARIAN DISASTER.

VP HARRIS NEVER WOULD HAVE LET THIS HAPPEN.

and no one should count on anyone to come to anyone to come to the rescue of the innocents that are and will surely be caught in the middle of this outrage.

Because of the 2024 election, the next four years will destroy millions of lives, and to think that this all could have been prevented makes me sick.






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RockRaven

(17,225 posts)
2. In regards to your second sentence, perhaps sympathetic viewing is not deserved
Tue May 6, 2025, 10:35 PM
Tuesday

by virtue of choices made and actions taken.

And if that is the case, there is loads of responsibility to go around for that, beyond even those which you have listed.

Everyone can choke on their fill.

JohnSJ

(98,536 posts)
6. I think it is mixed Mosby, at least that is what the polls in Israel suggest, and
Wed May 7, 2025, 04:15 PM
Wednesday

Netanyahu is not viewed particularly favorably, which is why he needs the hardliners to keep his coalition together.

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