The Israeli defense minister on Monday announced a “complete siege” on Gaza and said Israeli forces were fighting “human animals” as Israeli airstrikes have been bombarding the enclave, which is home to about one million children.
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said Israeli Defense Yoav Gallant,” according to The Times of Israel. “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”
Also on Monday, Hamas warned it would start executing Israeli captives it has taken into Gaza if Israel does not stop its airstrikes. According to Middle East Eye, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the military wing of Hamas, said the prisoners were currently safe and sound but that they are being forced to act due to Israel’s airstrikes on civilians. He said if the bombing didn’t stop, civilian prisoners would be killed, and the executions would be documented.
Since Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on Saturday, about 1,600 people have been killed on both sides, including 900 Israelis and 700 Palestinians. President Biden said on Monday that 11 Americans were among the dead and that he believes others may have been captured.
An Israeli military spokesman said early Monday morning that about 100,000 troops are amassed in southern Israel waiting to execute their orders, which include making sure “Hamas will not be able to govern the Gaza Strip.”
US officials expect Israel to launch a ground incursion into Gaza soon, and the Biden administration is providing full support, including new military aid and the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to the region as a show of force.
Gaza has over 2 million residents and has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007, and has come under frequent Israeli bombings since then, leaving the people living in the enclave in a dire situation. Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, meaning a full-scale Israeli invasion will incur substantial civilian casualties.
It is so heroic to bomb defenseless civilians, women and children included. But the Israelis are always the victim, they need Americans to help killing Palestinians, if nothing else at least to pay the bill.
They’ll be victims for another 1000 years, long after the rest of the world has stopped wondering what they’re talking about.
When does the mandate end on the Holocaust ? It’s been milked for all it’s worth. A never ending PR stunt.
We are not speaking of the holocaust. We are speakingof today,with people alive today.However,knowing the potential for human evil,Israel must not only clean its own house,it must be prepared to do what is ncecessary for self survival.
Just as America will never get past the ‘stain of slavery’. The rest of the world will never get beyond the holocaust.
I am not stained by slavery.My ancestors were not in the US during those days,nor did they practice Jim, Crow.
I understand, neither were mine. I was speaking moreso of what Touqueville said when visiting America back in the 1800’s., and as far as government policies are concerned, he was right.
Looks like the Israelis are trying to trump the holocaust, one way to put an end to that.
Slavery was far worse than the holocaust.
It is so heroic for Hamas to ride around with a nude unconscious woman in their truck,screaming,planning to defile her to death.
A Palestinian man who lost 19 family members when his house was bombed could drive around with all the dead bodies, would that solve anything?
Gaza is bigger than the Warsaw Ghetto was, but the Israelis beat the Nazis on brutality.
It is heroic of the Israelis to defile Palestinians and to be proud of it. The Israeli leadership, human animals, call the Palestinians human animals and are treat them more brutally. Decent people would not treat an animal like that.
And our senile President and officials are in full support of the Israeli animals. All of us should be ashamed of the government and the people we elected. They have not a shred of human decency.
The “progressive” is lower than any animal.
You are a very smart person.
So once again,do you support Hamas rape Gangs-there will be no answer.
Maybe you speak up and tell all of us about the rights of the Palestinian people and how well they have been treated over decades by the good Israelis? The Warsaw Ghetto pales next to Gaza.
As far as raping goes, I am sure there is someone a friend, acquaintance, neighbor or even a family member who has committed a rape and you just don’t know it.
Next stop making allegations without any evidence. You seam to have a problem with sexuality, you don’t mention the woman who lost her three children when they bomber her home. Of course they must have died painlessly. Self-pity yes, but compassion or emphasis for other of course not.
I have neither seen, heard nor read of any Israeli women being raped.
( You listening, Thomas?)
It’d be HUGE on the MSM if there were any credible evidence of such. So far, Thomas hasn’t been able to provide it! 😝
“So far, Thomas hasn’t been able to provide it!”
Unwillingness and inability are not the same thing.
Thomas, if you make inflammatory statements, I would expect you of all people to provide a modicum of proof that such actually occurred.
How is mentioning that something that you would know about if you were willing to know about “inflammatory?”
.Look so see what is going on in your own family As far as evidence. when we see nude women hauled around by yeowling men in a truck,or women bleeding from their groins,it is quite self evident what is happened to them.Perhaps you can deny the 40 beheaded babies and or justify that.It is bad enough to kill someone with a button from 20 miles away,but to grab a stranger and decapitate or shoot them show abomination.
I never saw anything like that, there is talk, allegations and that is it. Even the president is a liar, he can’t be believed, politicians are liars, they are people without honor. Endless money and sex scandals are the way to get rid of unwanted competition. We have had decades of useless congresses not doing their job.
IDF is the most moral army in the world https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/the-idf-is-the-most-ethical-army-in-world-say-military-experts-1.64004
Israeli female soldiers banned from prison guard duty after alleged sex with Palestinian inmates
https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-female-soldiers-banned-from-prison-guard-duty-after-alleged-sex-with-palestinian-inmates-641284
It is just hoorible what the Israelies do to the innocent Palestinian women and children!!!!!
Its just horrible how Hamas does the mass rape thing.
Are you now accusing Hamas of raping the people of Gaza?
This makes the extermination acceptable to you?
The Atlantic just reported mass rapes of Israeli women by Hamas-are you happy?
It is a very biblical response. More’n a couple times the OT god saw a problem he created and/or knew would happen (Sodom/Gomorrah, everyone but Noah) and his only good fix was “kill ’em all” (great album; neither here-nor-there).
When a society is built on fables of supremacy and “Gott mit Uns”, an extreme response -even to the point of extermination- has culturally-relevant precident.
So they are the Untermensch?
Yup, bitter irony isn’t it? (The plural is untermenschen.)
Thanks
Thank you.
“ Current international humanitarian law (IHL) — the law of armed conflict — makes clear that the deliberate starvation of the civilian population as a tactic of war is prohibited and a prosecutable war crime”
that doesn’t apply to Israel
Or Israel’s puppet, the US of A.
Another puppet Chris Hipkins of New Zealand who reckons the seige is quite OK. Mind you he has to ring the Australian PM to check his statements who in turn checks with USA.
Tell that to fucking Israel and their daddy the US.
That was just a reminder to people who care.
That was just a reminder to people who care.
BS-Mass rape by Hamas is ok? Murder of hostages?
You excuse genocide? There are no hostages they are prisoners of war.
Collective punishment is a war crime. Mass murder is a war crime.
Israel must be disbanded they have lost the right to statehood. Palestine must be returned to the Palestinian people.
Hamas must get nuked.
You seriously want to nuke the people of Gaza? The people of Gaza are not the problem here, do you understand that?
People like you are the problem. Psychopaths. Supreme international criminals.
So called progressives who condone atrocities by those they favor are the problem.
How would that work out for Israel? Or do you think you can nuke your next door neighbor without it affecting you?
There is no genocide.find a new catchphrase.Mass rape as a weapon of war ,mass killing of non combatants- non combatants cannot be made POWs,use of hostages-all practiced by Hamas and their allies are true war crimes.
“Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.”
In other words, you get what you deserve.
Israel is a poisoned chalice. The Zionists and everyone who supports them is a criminal. That’s you, Jake. You are where hate comes from. Cry me a river.
Socialism,communism,and progressives are the true haters.
Gone are the days of the kibbutzim.
I accept that you are an authority on True haters.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98ebb18320140836a9f9ae9fbbbbe226877810dc5f258458df33ac555f6a06e2.jpg
Or Israeli children signing bombs destined for Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/5b47d285f6ec4eb480feddace735bcfa_18.jpeg?resize=770%2C513
How about the hate cartoons used by Hamas?
I don’t deny Hamas’ hatred toward Israel. You, on the other hand try to pretend it’s one-sided. Just like our government.
I am still curious, jake – what is your angle ? I am trying to determine both your political leaning and your motivations from your comments, but there is no nuance or semblance of constructive discourse in your one-liners.
I would rather not write you off as an Old White Israel-Firster (the jab at communism, Scourge of The Early 1980s, leads me to the first two adjectives). You are taking a very extreme and contrarian position and I (perhaps not least of any) might like if you could explain your position a bit better ?
If this was a pro-Israel site,I would offer a contrarian view.Here,the current viewpoint is anti Israel,with a strong smattering of good old fashioned Jew hatred. Any argument that is pro-Israel is not refuted,merely countered with profanity. I enjoy showing the “progressive” for what he is,self righteous and phony”.when I mentioned Hamas atrocities and gave a source-the response was “it did not happen. I did not approve of the Raygun era,nor do I approve of the Woke. Going to college,I was treated as a POS by people who professed their libby idealism loudly. When wealthy lib family members had their kids kept safe in the National guard during Viet Nam,they would not offer to help others.Then they asked for the favor of a lifetime. The right wrap themselves in the homilies about the flag and our boys,they care only for money,the left says others should pay for their latest scum ideals.
I see. So am I correct to infer that you find yourself (or place yourself) as something of a Centrist, tho you detest “progressives” and would then fall into a realm of conservative (large or small ‘c’ version) ?
If you’ve visited antiwar.com long enough you might remember the late great Justin Raimondo who, be this his major of two minor failings (the lesser being frequent fanboyism of Garet Garrett) seemed to me to claim the Center as the domain of his beloved libertarianism, with the Left and Right as “all idiots, except for us in the Middle.”
Do you see how perhaps you may come off as an angry ‘everyone’s an idiot EXCEPT for me’ Special Pleader ? A victim of everyone who somehow never saw your hallowed opinion as The One True Way ™ ?
You’re wasting your time, Uncle. The only possible way Hasbara Jake could respond intelligently would be via an extensive lobotomy.
Well now hold on, Gypsy Danger (appreciate your service vs. the kaiju, BTW) – I think They Whom You Call Hasbro has replied ?
Great post, Jeff!
When Stalin made a pact with Hitler,lefties said it was OK.When Hitler attacked the USSR,all of a sudden the left opposed him. There were no gulags,there was no Holodomor.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t Gaza also share a border with Egypt? If so couldn’t the Egyptians send in necessary supplies. Or is everyone expecting that Egypt will just do what they have done for the past 30 years and sit on their rump doing jack****.
Every once in a while when the Israelis start unloading on, or cracking down on, Gaza the Egyptians relax their border controls so that humanitarian aid, etc. can get in.
But they always have a finger in the wind when thinking about that, and this time Hamas sh*t the bed in such a big way that it may be a little while before they think it’s something that won’t backfire on them.
Yes, and I’m pretty sure Israel has the Rafah crossing closed now. It’s very unlikely that Netanyahu’s government would risk the departure of Hamas fighters or officials.
Still waiting for confirmation on those “rapes”, Thomas.
If there was factual evidence do you not think it’d be plastered all over the MSM by now?
Did I getcha?
current international allow does not provide for the use of gang rape.
“The Israeli defense minister on Monday announced a “complete siege” on Gaza and said Israeli forces were fighting “human animals””
In other words “Netenyahustan’s policy of the last 15 years remains unchanged”
“The terror Israel inflicts is the terror it will get”——Chris Hedges
Nicky Haley stated “Finish them off” Calling for the extermination of the people of Gaza.
I’d call Icky the “c-word”, but that would be sexist of me. Let’s just settle for motherf* cking Bitch with a capital B.
This is playing right into Hamas’ hands. Taking retribution against 2 million civilians, already living in squalor, so densely packed (14,000 per square mile) that any bomb or shell is bound to have collateral casualties, unable to flee or escape, with limited food and water, is not going to play well, anywhere.
The paid-for by the USA quislings who “run” most of the arab nations have a hard time now keeping their populations in check; something like this, if Israeli reprisals match their hard-liners rhetoric, can cause an explosion throughout the middle east. Even NATO member Turkey, and far away Pakistan, will have a hard time staying neutral.
And No, I am not excusing Hamas’ attack on civilians; they are a terrorist organization, doing what terrorists do; and I expect they are trying to provoke an unreasonable response from the Israelis. And, unfortunately, it looks like they are going to get it.
One man’s “terrorist” is another man’s Freedom Fighter.
Hamas did exactly what it set out to do: humiliate the much-vaunted IsraHelli military and intelligence. And yes, I am sad that innocent people died, but where are the MSM’s bitter tears for the hundreds of Palestinians murdered by the IDF and squatters just this year?
Do you blame the Native Americans for killing the settlers stealing their lands and eliminating their way of life?
The parallels are truly astonishing.
I blame anyone who intentionally kills innocent women and children. There is no justification for it, ever.
I am sure Hamas was prepared for a siege, Washington however should arrange for civilians to leave Gaza for the west bank to eliminate the inevitable collateral damage.
Israel must be disbanded they have lost the right to statehood.
Not all Israeli’s are right wing extremists, but the country suffers from one of the worst electoral systems in the world it allows extremists to form small parties and the coalitions are noting but far right. Moderates have no say in government
Its called Apartheid.
The true apartheid was practiced by the Arab countries who expelled their Jewish populations.
A better intellect than you (Einstein) totally disagreed with your take on Arab/Jewish history.
which was ….?
“There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us [in the western world], we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people. … Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.”
–Einstein
Actually,I find these words quite reasonable.
“There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us [Jews] and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us [in the western world], we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people. … Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.”
–Einstein
Israel was founded by terrorists and can only exist as a Jewish state because it has always had policies of ethnic cleaning and apartheid. Sorry, I wish it weren’t true, but it is.
I safely assume that 98% of Israelis are normal, peaceful people. And the 2% who aren’t, are in government.
Politics is a disease.
That doesn’t account for the fascist “settlers.”
Progressives should be sent to gitmo
Israel must be disbanded they have lost the right to statehood. Palestine must be returned to the Palestinian people.
Progressives should be sent to Gitmo or if they prefer-Russia.
You should be sent to Ukraine to put your butt where your mouth is.
American progressives should be sent to GITMO.
I am hoping that Egypt will use the border that they share with Gaza to bring in food and medical supplies. Unfortunately they will probably just sit on their rears and twiddle their thumbs like they have done for the past 30+ years
They should launch a pincer strike from the West to sandwhich Hamas and eliminate it.
How on earth can they do that?
Excellent (and depressing) interview with Rashid Khalidi:
A Democracy Now clip is age-restricted? Probably because it includes brief glimpses of the reality of this horror show. Can’t have young people upset by reality.
That’s been their assessment all along, though. Only the Israel government, in recent memory, can get away with referring to those not of their own as “animals”.
The “law and order” crowd do this all the time here.
It looks and sounds like Trumpism has had its desired effect.
This is in part, because many Europeans and Americans view Arabs and Muslims the same way as many in Israel.
And many Arabs and some Americans and Euros see Jews as devils.
It seems the Israelis did, in fact, learn something from their former oppressors in Germany. Even the most cursory look at anti-Jewish propaganda reveals them being regarded as sub-human or depicted as rats at almost every turn.
Zionism has been but a mirror image of Nazism. Or, is it the other way around ?
Anyone who supports mass murder of defenseless people is a Nazi. Such as hamas,Hezbollah,
I will watch to see how the defenseless people of Gaza at treated.
Actually-the Arab world has adopted Jew hating propaganda from the Nazis-take a look at what school kids are taught,take a look at some of their cartoons.
Calling Hamas animals is unfair to animals. Use of mass rape as a political weapon,shooting unarmed wounded.
Says who ? I haven’t even seen that claim in our perpetually lying MSM.
The Atlantic-that’s who says who.
Oh. A neocon rag. Got it. Did they throw in the overused supplying-of -Viagra-to-the-fighters canard ?
Says you only-you can’t handle the truth.
You are describing American animal behavior in My Lai (1968), Abu Ghraib and so on. “ people in glass houses etc etc
Does Mai Lai have to do with Hamas? What does Hamas have to do with Abu Ghraib? SQUAT.
And if you call them out on it, you are the racist!
Watching the behavior of Hamas,don’t insult the animals.
Look at it this way Jake. If a large group escaped from Auschwitz and killed a whole lot of Germans how would the escapees be regarded?
rape gangs are not part of idea of national liberation.
But but….this is the zionist “ right to defend itself “ by starving an innocent populace
If the shoe fits-Hamas men walk around with their raped victims bleeding from their groins,40 babies decapitated.
I’m surprised Gallant even qualified the descriptions of Palestinians as “human animals”. That’s certainly uncharacteristic of Israeli leadership.
Predator animals are more humane than the Israelis and Americans. They only kill for food, survival, not more than needed. They never kill their own kind, they protect their babies too and help each other as much as they can.
The Israelis practice genocide on the Palestinian people.
Americans are masters of the art of genocide. Think Japanese, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghans. The list goes on. Now who are the real “human animals” ?
Ask the people of Tibet about genocide.There was no genocide in each of the places you mentioned. don’t cheapen the word.
Ignorant lying American just like your terrorist government
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There is no genocide of palestinians.
…nor any war in Ba Sing Se.
Genocide =the deliberate killing or severe mistreatment of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group:
The Palestinian peoples are increasing their population-don’t cheapen the term “genocide”
That is why Israelis have license to kill and torture the Palestinian people? Boy, they even beat the Nazis, they legalize genocide and are proud of it.
The Israelis cheapen themselves, genocide is criminal regardless of the term.
all you can do is hurl insults,since you cannot answer a single point I make.
I am waiting for an answer from you about all the benefits Israel provides for the occupied Palestinian people. The genocide of Palestinians is just a fact of life. They are bombing Gaza killing people now, at this moment, do you deny it?
As if this is something new and have not been practiced already…!
If we recall Judah 1:19 (ESV), “And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.”
All the Hamassian forces need to hold Gaza and thwart the IDF’s war god, is early “Age of Empires” tech !
They are proud of it and want the world to know how good they are.
Gotta say something stinks about this whole affair. Egypt warned Tel Aviv something big was going to happen, and it was ignored. The Mossad has the best intelligence and elite operatives in the world, so here’s something to consider: WHO BENEFITS?? A. The extremist Zionist factions in Israel who are anti-Arab/Muslim/Christian who want to cleanse Israel of all non-Jewish influences and make it a solid Jewish state. B. Netanyahu who’s still in hot water. Nothing like a major crisis to distract the people and take the heat off. B. The uni-party in Wash. who goes around the world looking for trouble and causing trouble to keep those MIC (and AIPAC) funds coming in and further its global imperial agenda for corp. profits. Iran is the last country to be taken out in the 7 year plan exposed by Gen. Wesley Clark. C. It’s an election year and all the politicians can grandstand for democracy. Even Nikki said, ‘an attack on Israel is an attack on America. See where it’s going?
Everything you say is true. The conditions for a World War already existing as a result of the US actions in Ukraine have doubled with Israels policy and brutality. They thought they were invinceable but underestimated the rage and hatred for the unbearable conditions imposed. It was a case of fight or die.
Just one more thing that makes you go “Hmmmm”…..
More tin foil, STAT!
Now all they have to do is send what is left of the Gaza population over to the EU after the “operation” is done, their work will be complete.
“We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”
Another step taken by Israel in the final solution of the Palestinian problem.
Hail victory!
The final solution, the Gaza Cure, to starve the people of Gaza, genocide as a collective punishment. This is beyond despicable. This is beyond Nazism, this is pure EVIL.
They’re Fighting ‘Human Animals’ you mean Subhuman’s? Israel must be disbanded they have lost the right to statehood.
Release hostages and perhaps the seige will be listed.Kill hostages,starve to death.
They are prisoners of war.
btw the stupidity of that statement……
Gaza is an open air prison, 2.1 million Palestinian hostages who were born into captivity. 50% are children. The IDF shoot them randomly as they peacefully protested.
Israel must be disbanded they have lost the right to statehood. Palestine must be returned to the Palestinian people.
The Israelis are the new Palestinians. A Gazan with a Molotov cocktail should be shot.
So unarmed civilians can be taken as POWs in your book. BS.So a 90 yo lady in a wheelchair can be a POW. You don’t even know what a POW is.
The point i am making is that 2.1 million hostages have been taken by Israel.
So do youcondone the use of mass rape by Hamas as a political weapon?
I do not support mass rape of anyone. Are you now accusing Hamas of raping the people of Gaza?
This makes the extermination acceptable to you?
Atlantic reported raping of Israeli women by Hamas.Hope you are happy.
Is this the same Atlantic that told us Saddam Hussein has WMD’s
Of course they would. That’s called war propaganda.
If we look at similar sieges this one of Gaza is more serious than say the Nazi siege of Leningrad. Its quite conceivable one million in Gaza could die. And the world is doing nothing.
If a million Gazan civilians were to die, the total would just about equal the civilian losses in the siege of Leningrad and evacuations.
It is conceivable, certainly, that so many could be lost, but it’s very unlikely. Israel is capable, militarily and culturally, of visiting unspeakable horror on innocent Palestinians, but even the Likud ethnofascists and their mad extremist partners have some limits.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-10/bombardments-hit-area-of-gaza-sinai-border-crossing-gaza-officials
Israeli Defense Yoav Gallant : “We are fighting human animals,”
At least the Israeli government’s understanding of phylogeny has improved – upgrading Palestinians from “snakes” and “little snakes” (Yamina party’s Ayelet Shaked; former Justice Minister) to mammals. Baby steps.
Don’t forget “cockroaches”.
or vermin, as other master race wannaabe masters referred to some of their population.
I agree , Collective punishment is a war crime!!!!
so Hamas put 40 babies on the floor and killed them-are you going to arrest them and take them to the Hague?
40? What about Madeline Albright saying 500,000 dead Iraqi kids was “worth it”?
Score 10x points if Hamassian forces had dumped said “40 babies” out of incubators and bayoneted them. That classic trope shows up on EVERY war.
in order to steal those incubators for war bounty. That was the trope at the time.
Oh, no way ! I thought it was all about the bayonetting. What on Earth were incubators good for that they’d want to heist ’em so bad ?
Sell them in Baghdad. The propaganda piece of the time said they dumped the babes and stole the incubators.
They always referred to the Palestinians as “animals” and have treated them the same way.
IDF says Hamas fighters killed and decapitated babies at one kibbutz near the Gaza border, just like Sadam killed all those babies in Kuwait?
https://www.businessinsider.com/idf-says-hamas-decapitated-babies-in-israel-2023-10?op=1
https://citizentruth.org/fake-news-1990-that-ignited-gulf-war-sympathy/
Ooh ooh ooh ! I just made allusion to the “incubator / bayonet” thing in a reply down below this !
I guess we will see a de-nazification and de-militarization of Gaza therefore, expect an invasion and annexation of the land as Palestine as a nation, does not exist through the eyes of Bibi’s government.
Israel learning from Putin.
Israel learning from Lincoln.
A guess from your goodly Uncle here, Donald. On a sizeable wall in your house, there is a world map adorned with AP News photos of the world’s current hotspots of turmoil. And with the thinnest and weakest red gossamer you have pinned lines from each – all leading back to Moscow.
How’d you figure that?
Wow, bullseyes.
Yes, that’s exactly what i do all day.
Easy ! You’re like a postmodern Rudy Giuliani, except your catchphrase is “(noun) (verb) Putin”. But you’re nowhere near as shamelessly self-promoting as he was.
Israel Bombs Palestinian Refugee Camp in Gaza After Asking Them To ‘Leave Home’ https://www.thequint.com/news/world/israel-palestine-war-jabalia-relief-camp-bombed-by-israeli-air-strike-in-gaza
Many of them heeded the instructions, moved westwards and took shelter
in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the hope of being safe. Instead, they
were bombed.
During WWII, the Grand Mufti and Himmler planned to ship all the Jews to Palestine, put them in tents in the desert and bomb them. Sounds like Israel took the script over for their own purposes?