Still trying to shore up a few more votes ahead of Tuesday’s election,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again trying to appeal to
his hawkish base by confirming that he will probably launch a full-scale war in the Gaza Strip some time soon.
While continuing to insist that Israel considers war “the last option,”
Netanyahu argued that he “will probably have no choice but to set out on
a full-scale military campaign” against Gaza.
Netanyahu has been centering his recent campaign on all his attacks
against Iran-linked targets, mostly in Iraq. He’s also promised that if
reelected he’s going to annex substantial portions of the occupied West
Bank.
These are issues that play well to the Israeli right, and Netanyahu
clearly hopes he can energize his base for the election with such
promises. While that may have worked in the case of an actual war,
however, his hawkish promises don’t seem to be substantially moving the polls.
And Trump will support another Israeli slaughter in Gaza. Evil loves evil.
As he’s said before about other regions in the world, Trump could solve the whole problem in about three days, but it would take killing millions, and he’s hesitant to take that route, but he will if he’s pressed!
Must be nice to live in Gaza and to be waiting for another onslaught because some douchebag wants to win an election. An indispensable ally indeed.
Was the attack on the Warsaw ghetto ever called a war?
Is this a rhetorical question?
I could ask you the same.
Figure it out.
I know the answer but got distracted by a complicated pun.
I thought it was great analogy.
It is.
This relates to Netenyahu possibly embracing violence to gain votes, how?
Who are you to dictate where I can take the topic?
There can be no “war” against Gaza
It is a genocide
When you deny that the language of this genocide
Minimizes and deflects the magnitude of the crime
You become complicit in it
War is indeed the last option for Israel. It is also the middle option. And the first option.
To be fair, Netanyahu is not very warlike, but he and his election concerns are not alone in this. He’d be happy with a tiny escalation somewhere with a guaranteed win. But there are also the generals. It is them who are most interested in war.
[edit] if anyone is familiar with the expression: the consensus is that there is a need to regularly ‘mow the grass’ in Lebanon and Gaza. The growing military strengh of Lebanon, the reduced freedom to act in Syria, and the strength of Iran increase this sense of urgency.
It won’t be war it will be an annihilation.
Bibi has no choice cause he would lose and probably be sent to jail for corruption afterwards.
Gaza — the whipping boy. Unable to stir up war with Iran to help with elections , unable to officially get a rise from Syria, Iraq or Lebanon after bombing them. And then. one small move from Hezbollah — and he runs. Israel had a small base apparently INSIDE Lebanese border. Hezbollah came close enough to hit an armored vehicle. The base hastily evacuated. RT Arabic team of reporters from Beirut went to the site. As it was not guarded, they entered through open door. Place was abandoned, but there were two armored vehicles, ammunition, snd even personal belongings. Why has the incident ended with some symbolic reply? And Lebanon’s president’s warning about Lebanese territorial integrity? So, Israel was unable to get anyone to bite, except when it was easy to expose Israel’s transgression.
With very little time left before elections — I am wondering if Trump’s conciliatory sound bites on Iran are all accepting that he may lose?