This is the seventh “Gaza war” Israel has launched since Hamas took over the strip in 2007, the longest lasted only three weeks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still talking up a “protracted campaign” this time, and suggesting this war will soon be both the longest and deadliest of the bunch.
Israeli Army Chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz talked up more escalation of the war today, saying the war will continue to be “intensified” in the days going forward, while other officials spurned the notion of a ceasefire before their “military goals” are realized.
The current death tolls stand at over 1,231 killed in Gaza, overwhelmingly civilians, and 55 from Israel, 52 of them Israeli troops involved in the fighting. Today saw Israel attack yet another Gaza hospital, killing a number of civilians.
Over the weekend, Israeli officials were condemning the Kerry-brokered ceasefire offer, though the US insists it was identical to one Israel accepted 10 days prior. Netanyahu says Israel won’t accept any ceasefire at all now until it has destroyed every single tunnel in the Gaza Strip, which since they don’t know how many there are is a recipe for endless fighting.
That seems to be the idea, as the current war remains popular domestically in Israel, and a number of far-right cabinet members are condemning the notion of negotiating any settlement of the war.
Yet their use of a conscript army leaves Israelis particularly sensitive to military death tolls, and if the war drags on too long, a rising number of troops killed in a war without end could quickly shift polls the other way.
Of course he does. His political life probably depends on it, plus the Palestinians aren't just going to kill themselves now, are they?
Don't you just love how the American superpower has to beg the little sh!tstain country to PLEEEEASE pretty please stop killing all these women and kids? We're just SO powerless when it comes to our ability to pressure Israel and stop their violence!
If we just aren't in total awe of the jews and the jewish state, we sure as HELL behave like we are! Pathetic AIPAC controlled Kongress! Ever see Kongress agree unanimously on anything? Only if it is fellating of Israel! Do you see many "peace-loving" Americans all but salivating for the deaths of Palestinian civilians? Pathetic one-sided American media! SICK!
“Israel has a right to defend it self.” That statement is like coming home from work everyday and saying to your wife “honey I love” in order for your wife not to file for a divorce. Don’t know what it is, but Israel has America over a barrel from which the US is unable to escape.
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Oath of
Ukraine
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"I, Dygovbrodsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich, a citizen of Ukraine and a Ukrainian by origin, a true son of the heroic Russian people, swear that I will not stand aside and I will not lay down arms until the last Ukrainian conscious fascist bastard on our land has been destroyed, for the burnt towns and villages, for Lugansk, Donetsk, and Slavyansk, for the residents of Odessa on 2nd May, for the death of our women and children, for the torture and humiliation of my people.
I, Dygovbrodsky, Dmitry Alexandrovich, a citizen of Ukraine and a Ukrainian by origin, swear . . .
I will not forget this.
And if I do forget about them, may God forget about me."
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http://danielpwelch.com/1407iift.htm
Israel is after expending its territory into Gaza, from there they can negotiate, if the political climate admits, about the two state solution, as they call it. This is done when USG and EU supporting the Israel killings and destruction of Gaza. As in Ukraine, the EU and USG forcing the Russian speaking Ukrainians out of Ukraine, in Gaza the problem is that people of Gaza, 1.8 million of them have no where to go, therefore the only option for Israel is occupy Gaza and killing more of Palestinian people as they can.
Barack Hussein Obama manipulative and double standard politics hand in hand with EU concil presidents as Herman Von Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso and other EU governing concils playing a hand in Gaza and ukrain destructions. Barack Hussein Obama have managed to secure the savages territory in Iraq and Syria, is going to be a very long war between these elements and Iraqi, Iran and Syrian government, therefore it is time for Israel to be secured by grabbing more of Palestinians land. Barack Hussein Obama politics has brought nothing but destructions to people in Middle East and Ukraine, he is one of the most destructive politicians among others from the us Democratic Party period.
It's pretty sad when the Republican and Democratic parties are blatantly going against the will of the American people in getting involved in foreign debacles- and a growing number against our engagement to Israel- and it's the Communist Party who is taking to the streets to protest the war on Gaza that our government is enabling Israel to wage. On the one hand I'm ashamed of what our nation's political system has become, and on the other hand I'm about ready to dust off my ancient CPUSA membership card and raise the red banner again as I did in my youth. The whole system is simply going insane before our very eyes.
This is not a war. One side has no army, navy, airforce (not even a plane, a ship, any military barracks, storehouses,weapons from the US and other freedom-loving military providers) no shelters, no exits, no entrances, no imports of foreign fighters like the IOF. Israel has all the advantages, including mendacious propaganda about who is to blame; it is so one-sided, plus the occupying power is illegal and backed by the USA and undeclared nukes.
This campaign is destruction for its own sake, but the Palestinian spirit will not be crushed and 52 IOF dead soldiers will not help the morale of the criminal state of israel.
Civilization as we knew it is rapidly disappearing. When an out-of-control, genocidal war monger like
Netanyahu is given unlimited access to the US media to spread his foul, hypocritical, twisted, messages of "self defense for Israel" in justification of mass murder and genocide against the Palestinians, we have a moral obligation to challenge his criminal rhetoric and, failing a proper response, withdraw our financial, military and political support of this terrorist nation. This is still not happening and our country is aligning itself with a murderous, sadistic, blood thirsty regime. Time for an urgent and long lasting change.