The US has sent military officers to Israel to serve as advisors amid preparations for an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, demonstrating the deep US involvement in Israel’s war.
Leading the officers is Lt. Gen. James Glynn, a three-star Marine Corps general who previously headed the Marines’ special operations and was involved in the US war against ISIS in Iraq.
According to Axios, Glynn and the other officers are not directing any operations but will provide advice about its plans in Gaza with the primary focus on the coming invasion. The US officers are sharing lessons they learned fighting ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, where a brutal nine-month battle took thousands of civilian lives.
According to an AP investigation from 2017, between 9,000 and 11,000 civilians died in the Battle of Mosul. About a third were killed by US-led coalition airstrikes or Iraqi forces, a third were killed by ISIS, and the cause of death for the rest is undetermined.
Since the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, Israeli airstrikes have been relentlessly pounding the besieged Gaza Strip. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 5,087 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza so far, including 2,055 children.
Israel’s invasion is expected to be focused on north Gaza as the Israeli military has told the 1.1 million Palestinians living in the area to evacuate. According to threatening leaflets dropped by the Israeli military, Palestinians who stay in the north will be considered “terrorist accomplices.”
Unbelievable. This is exactly how the Vietnam debacle started. “Advisors
“ then then more “advisors “. Navy, Air Force then the ultimate mistake, boots on the ground for years.
Ike sent the “advisors”. We funded the French. So it goes. ….
Where just where, exactly, are the Palestinian People suppose to safely go? 1.1 Million people!?!
Israel doesn’t care where they go, as long as it’s away. And Israel knows that there’s nowhere for them to go.
The US? I have to say that the eager, unapologetic participation in undisguised genocide is shocking even for our warmongering leaders. They are barely bothering to pretend that this is anything other than what it obviously is. Usually, they at least try to bullshit us and the world a little bit.
A little bit?
“ Israel has requested more military aid from Washington, $14.3 billion including $10.6 billion for air and missile defense. It will get it. Israel is rapidly depleting its stocks as it pounds Gaza, including in the south of Gaza where hundreds of thousands of displaced families from the north have fled.
Israel will not permit the distribution of the $100 million in US aid pledged for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, at least not until their scorched earth campaign is finished. But by then, Gaza will be unrecognizable. Israel will have annexed part or all of it. Maybe the money can go to building more illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. And pledging aid is not the same as appropriating it. So perhaps that, too, is part of the illusion.
Egyptian officials are acutely aware of what comes next. Up to half, maybe more, of the 2.3 million Palestinians will be pushed by Israel into Egypt on Gaza’s southern border and never be allowed to return.
“What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refuge and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted,” Egyptian president Abdulfattah al-Sisi warned.
Reports out of Egypt contend that Washington has promised to forgive much of Egypt’s massive $162.9 billion debt, as well as offer other economic incentives in exchange for Egypt’s acquiescence to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The refugees, once they cross the border into Egypt, will be left to rot in the Sinai.
“There is a grave danger that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba, and the 1967 Naksa, yet on a larger scale. The international community must do everything to stop this from happening again,” said Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/let-them-eat-cement
There is nowhere to go. That is the problem. Look up the Battle of Manila to see what is going to happen in Gaza with a land invasion. The US forces blasted nearly every building in that City killing the Japanese troops along with the civilians. Note the civilians were on the US side. In Gaza case, they are on opposite side. There might be 100,000 Palestinians dead or wounded in a ground attack. Hamas knows this, and yet they still launch their attack.
And exposed the nefarious intent of the right wing government of Israel. The Holocaust, terrible as it was, lasted roughly 6 years. The Palestinians have been in a concentration camp for 75 years. Impossible as it may seem, since Netanyahu entered the scene, it has become worse. Setter incursions. IDF killing Palestinians, even children, bulldozing Palestinian’s homes, destroying crops, incursions into mosques, all manner of intimidation, the blockade that has lasted 16 years ( which begs an interesting question: how did Hamas get their weapons, complicity by the Israeli administration?) Did the current Israeli government allow their 9/11, so as to implement their “final solution”?
“And exposed the nefarious intent of the right wing government of Israel” Is worth the price?
Iran smuggled weapons to Hamas-tunnels from Egypt-smuggling is a time honored way of life int he region.
They are the their own bad government-giving their own children to be brainwashed full of hate.
Speaking of hate just look in the mirror.
So anyone who dares to differ with your ideas is hateful.
Redundancy dear Jake?….
WAH WAH peace peace peace WAH WAH
It’s either to herd the “animals” into a tighter pen to get more bang for their buck, or force them into Sinai to relieve themselves of the prison expense.
Part herd and part carrot (food, water, medicine) to get the Palestinians to exit via Rafah. The head of state for Egypt, Sisi, will herd them to the Sinai to die.
Let Egypt take them,give themcitizenship.
I know they don’t gaf, but:
The United States Is Not Only Failing To Prevent Genocide, But Is Complicit.
We are not a signatory to the ICC. We just don’t give a sh*t. It is our official policy.
Doesn’t matter. At least someone is calling them out even if they don’t gaf. History, if people still exist, will be very unkind to psychopath Joe Biden. I thought Cheney was the worst pulling Bush around, but Biden may be the worst president in my lifetime.
You have a certain sense of poetry ED.
It resonates with me…
How to fix the American Ship of State Keep the Speaker position vacant!
LOL US advisors ? , military advisors who have never won a war .
“US Sends Military Advisors to Israel, Including 3-Star General”
Advisors are another name for US military troops. FJB!
Remember, only America can prevent peace in your country!
Lol…! Yes, US military advisors are excellent on killing civilians to accomplish their goals…! Their resume is 50 pages long covering Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Ukraine…!
The US will actively participate in another ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The US is actively participating in another ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
FIFY
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/20/israel-palestinians-egypt-west-bombs-rafah-border-crossing
Great. The “exceptional nation” sending a U.S. General to advise the IDF how best to ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Pretty f*cked up, right there.
Liberate Gazans from Hamas.
Liberate Jake from his ignorance of history.
Gazans are going to go through hell because of their rejectionist, Judaophobic government.
Israel created and funded Hamas! And then later begged Qatar to keep funding them.
You made my damn day, good sir! Thank you.
War with Iran.
Time to clean out the old bomb shelter ED… Ah, but I forgot, there is NO safe place in a nuclear war…
Inhale……………………………… Exhale………………….
Marijuana for breakfast and for PEACE!
Iodine for lunch?
Healthily cynical!
Does Israel really want to go to war to defend Zionism? Apparently the answer is no, which is understandable since Zionism is a losing proposition which leads to ethnic cleansing. The whole world can see it now.
Zionism gave a home to displaced people when the rest of the world was indifferent to their plight. Zionism is goooood.