Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that calls for a ceasefire will not have any impact on the ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, and that Israel will attack with “increasing intensity” in the days to come.
“No international pressure will prevent us from operating with full force,” Netanyahu insisted, adding that the US and other nations expressed support for the ongoing strikes.
Realistically the “international pressure” has been virtually nil, with only a handful of general calls for restraint and no serious efforts to start negotiations. A ground invasion seems only a matter of time.
Indeed, Israeli Army Chief Benny Gantz says the military is all set for the invasion, and just waiting for final instructions from the Netanyahu government. Netanyahu ducked questions about the prospect of ending the offensive, saying only that it would end when he feels he has achieved his goal. When asked about a ground invasion, Netanyahu would only say that Israel is “weighing all possibilities,” except of course for the possibility of not continuing its attacks.
The Ultimate bad penny has turned up, and doesn't want to leave.
“weighing all possibilities,”
Why not just apply gas? Then final integration of the Gaza strip could proceed.
Someday that smug f**k will get his.
One reason US pressure is nil is that equivalence is made between the people of Gaza, who were nowhere around when three settler boys were kidnapped on the other side of Israel in the West Bank. I imagine the general impression is that the bombs are to get the perps. Then, two, you have CNN wringing its hands over two women on opposite sides, each equally fearing for their lives. It simply is not true, or I would have heard from people I know in Tel Aviv. Who's really scared? It is not the Israelis or Netanyahu would start looking for understanding.
Nutty-yahoo is a blood-thirsty POS.
Every know and then Israelis government needs to destroy some of the Gaza because Israeli government is sick. They are not alone, those who supporting them are also sick, I mean from Washington to Berlin to Stockholm they are mentally sick, sick to the point where they need to have destructive plan to make them happy. The reason for all that destruction is show of supremacy, show of fascism and racism which conclude the argument that Israel is a apartheid regime period.
According to reports Israel knew week ahead about three Jewish youngster being killed, but they decided that it is Palestinians that are guilty, as in 2006 when their solders knowingly were sent to cross the Lebanon border to start 2006 war with Lebanon where they were defeated. Behind this new Israeli massacre there are other matters hiding, one is to restart the war with Lebanon while weakening Hezbollah in Gaza, two is to continue with their destruction because of what they already knew and as said, they are sick.