As Israel continued its bombardment of Gaza on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “conquering” the besieged Gaza Strip is a possible option to achieve his goals.
“You can either conquer them — and that’s always an open possibility — or you can deter them,” Netanyahu said of Hamas during a speech at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv. “We are engaged right now in forceful deterrence, but I have to say, we are not ruling out anything.”
A minister in Netanyahu’s Likud party also discussed the idea of Israel conquering Gaza on Wednesday, something he said was an inevitability. “There will be no way to avoid one day temporarily taking over Gaza,” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Ynet on Wednesday. “That day has not arrived for all kinds of reasons. I think the day will come, if not now then in the coming year,” he added.
Since 2005, Israeli soldiers and settlers have not occupied territory within Gaza’s borders. But the territory is still considered under occupation since Israel controls Gaza’s air space, waterways, and border crossings. Since 2007, Gaza has been under a full blockade.
President Biden spoke with Netanyahu by phone on Wednesday. According to the White House, Biden said he “expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire.” But after the call, Netanyahu said he is “determined to continue this operation until its aim is met.”
Netanyahu never read his Bible “God laughs at the plans of nations”
The only problem is there is no God if there where America / Isreal would have been turned to ash long ago .
Exactly. There will be no justice or peace except for what we make.
That’s a bias view, he is long suffering hoping we’ll stop trying to one up each other and care for another.. but it won’t last forever. And have you not read that Israelis were brutally kept as slaves for 500 hundred years in Egypt.. If God was the God you wanted “ancient Egyptian history” would be a myth like aliens 👽.
God does not show favoritism, all are repaid according to the works of their own hands, the current world plague effecting nation’s who boasted for decades of their “exceptionalism” while pushing China ahead and forcing all countries to be dependent on their ppl whom quietly worked during the same boastful warmongering decades of the west is proof God is omnipresent.
Okay, fine- ‘take over’ Gaza. But before you do that, are you planning on all those Gazan civilians becoming Israeli citizens? Are you planning on deporting them? Or will you simply kill them all? (Keep in mind, the US had a big problem with Russia ‘taking over’ parts of Georgia and the Crimea- both if which WANTED to go with the Russians…but will we have a problem with Israel ‘taking over Gaza’ which does NOT want to go with the Israelis?)
The Zionists do of course fully intend to incorporate Gaza, as they did the West Bank. The problem is, as you say, the population. Cleansing it of Arabs –killing leadership and warriors and terrorizing, demoralizing, and pressuring the rest, through subhuman living conditions, to leave– takes a good deal of time. But, from the initial provocations in Jerusalem and Sheik Jarra to the present terror bombing, that is precisely what this whole bloody exercise is really all about.
You are speaking of genocide, ethnic cleansing. It is not about religions or some book.
It is all about oil, water. It is known that there is a huge oil deposit in the Golan Heights. There is natural gas deposits in the ocean, that rightfully belongs to Palestinians, who are prevented from extracting it.
Now, let’s move to the other side of Syria. We have military forces camped over………….wait for it…………a Syrian oil field.
Follow the money. Israel wants to remove Arabs (Palestinians) off the the lands. Kill them or force them to the four winds, into other countries. They can do this because we helped them get the Bomb. Control of resources follows.
When one looks close as to why we give such support to Israel, it becomes clear the Israel is : 1) like a air craft carrier for the U.S. , 2) an entity securing resources (what Bill Clinton called “interests” 3) a means of controlling oil prices (which means prices at the pump; withhold oil = higher prices) .
Biden or any other president ain’t going to do anything. Just blah, blah, blah. All the nonsense about Trump, Gaetz, et al, just keeps us from following what it is all about.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ – OIL
Ironic. The Euros got rid of their “Jewish problem”, and established a means to base, or intervene in the ME. The zionists considered it a favor.
The British and the US used the same methods to force native Americans from their lands….settlers. Settlers are cheaper than military invasion, and “looks better”.
They tried conquering Gaza in ’14 and 60 Zionists came home in body bags within 48 hours before the IDF skulked off, tail between their legs…
Welcome back to Stalingrad, Israel.
Israel: Take over Gaza
Back the Blue Conservatives: Its self defense, if Palestinians dont like it then they should submit!
I honestly shouldn’t feed trolls, but what rock did you crawl out from under?
Afterthought: I suspect Netanyahu is setting up his “fellow citizens” for halting the slaughter. Holy Israel has sustained some fairly serious economic consequences from this bloody adventure. Bragging about the slaughter, plus claiming how much worse it might have been might divert those “fellow citizens” from what all this has cost them in terms of the old wallet.
I won’t even try to guess how the “talking points” will play out at home. If most of those “felllow citizens” are dumber than dirt, ‘Net’ might win the next election going away. If they’re not, who knows?
This man is a war criminal.
Man?
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No way in hell is Netanyahu stupid enough to “occupy” Gaza. First of all, unless the Most Moral Army In The World uses nerve gas or some such, they’re going to take an awful lot of casualties. And the citizens of the Apartheid state are increasingly allergic to this.
A bloody invasion would likely force the hand of Iran, Hezbollah, and possibly Egypt. Personally, I can’t believe it’s in the interests of the sh*thole state to put on the TeeVee either a Palestinian Mass Murder or another Death March. At some point everybody except maybe the Christian Zionists of the US are going to to say “enough is enough”.
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I actually think he is stupid enough. Nothing he has done shows that he is very intelligent at all. Just another crazy warmonger.