Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff, met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday and said Israel’s military operations in Gaza will take “more than a few additional weeks,” Axios reported.
Blinken’s visit to Israel marked his third since October 7 and came as it’s unclear if Israel and Hamas will extend the hostage deal truce for another day. Israeli officials appear eager to resume the onslaught and plan on significantly expanding operations in southern Gaza.
Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet in Jerusalem. Sources told Axios that Blinken asked to be briefed about plans for the campaign in south Gaza, where it’s estimated 2 million Palestinians are located as hundreds of thousands fled from the north.
After the meeting, Blinken told reporters that the US remains committed to continuing to support Israel’s war. Blinken said he “urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm” and warned the operations in the south should not kill as many civilians as the campaign in the north.
Blinken said he “made clear the imperative before any operations go forward in southern Gaza there’ll be a clear plan in place that puts a premium on protecting civilians, as well as sustaining and building on humanitarian assistance getting to Gaza.”
Despite the warning, there’s no sign the US will use any leverage over Israel, as US officials have reaffirmed all military aid comes without conditions. According to the Axios report, Blinken didn’t ask Israel to stop the campaign but said the longer the war goes on, the more international pressure will increase to end it.
Netanyahu said he told Blinken the war would continue until the end. “This is the same Hamas that carried out the terrible massacre on October 7, the same Hamas that tries to murder us everywhere. I told him: We swore, and I swore, to eliminate Hamas. Nothing will stop us,” he said.
F*ck Blinken.
Blinken “puts a premium on protecting civilians?” That’s news to both me and Netanyahu? Did they say how much?
Netanyahu and the IDF have clearly put a premium on the civilians themselves. “Power targets,” dontcha know?
Oh yeah, like, what about this story from antiwar.com:https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/estimated-300-killed-shujaiya-massacre-says-palestinian-civil-defence?nid=322376&topic=Israel-Palestine%2520war&fid=492101
It’s gonna be a long war that costs regular people mucho,
Trust Blinken? He probably told Netanyahu to do whatever he wanted, because Blinken is a Zionist, a LIAR and a WAR Criminal, just like Biden and our Congress. Netanyahu has publicly said his intention is to destroy every Palestinian, that is Genocide. If Blinken was a man, a human, a True American he would tell Israel to STOP the war and initiate a Two State Solution.
You want Israel to stop a war that Hamas started on Oct 7. No, Hamas should surrender to save lives of people living in Gaza.
“Blinken said he ‘urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm’ (wink, wink) and warned the operations in the south should not kill as many civilians as the campaign in the north.”
I bet he and Satanyahu had a big laugh over this one. By way of deception they shall make war. The Zionist-controlled MSM will turn the other way.
I would instead call it Pentagon controlled MSM, because all wars are good wars.
That, too. All wars are good wars because war is our most important product.
In some ways, US foreign policy might be worse than Soviet, Japanese, and German foreign policy just due to the apathy.
No one cares. Nihilism.
“The Zionist-controlled MSM”
US foreign policy is neocon/military industrial complex controlled:
the pro-Israeli faction is just one part of a greater US foreign policy which has its own domestic and foreign goals independent of Israel.
That is: Israel is just one proxy of US foreign policy.
MSM mainly supports those greater goals regardless.
When we’re talking about Gaza we’re talking about the Zionist-controlled media. How could it be otherwise?
“When we’re talking about Gaza we’re talking about the Zionist-controlled media. How could it be otherwise?”
“How could it be otherwise”? Because – as I patiently explained:
a/ US foreign policy has greater US purposes, of which Israel is only one part; and
b/ mainstream media automatically supports all US foreign policy.
That is: mainstream media supports US foreign policy whether or not it has anything to do with Israel.
That is: ‘Daaa..KILL, ISRAEL, KILL!!!!’ is just one part of that mainstream media blank check endorsement of all US foreign policy.
here is what a supposedly actual Israeli said =
“”You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel.””
…… Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache
https://pdf.defence.pk/threads/six-jewish-companies-own-96-of-the-world-s-media.35800/
does that really seem very improbable?
however, google claims that Tzipora Menache is a fictional character. IMO probably is a fictional character, but certainly it is not Buddhists that own the US media.
“does that really seem very improbable?”
No more “improbable” than Israel’s intercepted Hamas call after the bombing of Gaza’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital:
‘Hamas operative # 1 here, reporting on the explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.’
‘Hamas operative #2 here – I read you Hamas operative #1. Tell me what caused the explosion al-Ahli Hospital – it was Israel right?’
‘No, Hamas operative #2 – we, Hamas, blew up al-Ahli hospital by accident when one of our bad rockets misfired.’
‘What, WE, HAMAS, DESTROYED aL-AHLI HOSPITAL?
‘Yes, Hamas operative #2, THE ISRAEL BOMBING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BOMBING OF AL-AHLI HOSPITAL – ISRAELI IS INNOCENT.
Because you know how Israel is: They are doing everything they can to protect civilians! The Israeli claims are 100% true and correct – we even checked the telemetry of the rockets!’
‘Tell no one, Hamas operative #1 – we will take advantage of the Palestinian victims – who I do not care about anyway, ha ha – and lie that Israel did it! Our Hamas disinformation writers will exploit the death of those civilians to serve our genocidal goal of killing every Jew from the river to the sea.’
doctored pretty well…!
Lots of words, doesn’t change the fact that Zionism controls the MSM narrative when it comes to Gaza. That’s all I meant to say.
if you look real closely you will notice that my dude is giving you a high-five. GRR. high-five right there.
This is a demolition, that is how long it will take to finish demolishing homes and infrastructure. Whoever the bombs don’t kill, disease and starvation will. The calls from the Israeli government and MSM for transfer of refugees worldwide will increase as time goes on. This will have a big price tag for the American tax payers, those settlements and resort condos aren’t going to build themselves.
“Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff…..
said Israel’s military operations in Gaza will take “more than a few additional weeks.”
That’s because there are still a lot of Palestinians left.
So basically, Tony is telling Bibi not to be quite so fucking barbaric in the south otherwise we’ll have a hard time selling your barbarism to the public. So, please keep the deaths in the south a smidgeon under the north’s total. But carry on and the check for $14.3 billion should be in the mail as soon as Shurmer and Johnson can get it to a vote.
When Palestinians are considered animals and not human beings, their extermination will just be pest management.
Blinken, Nuland and Company aren’t diplomats. At least Trump got read of Vicky for four years. I’m not surprised she’s back at the helm of US warmongering.
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Will there be anything left of Gaza??? Where does this all end? Complicity, US, is an ugly word…WAR CRIMES is an ugly deal…
How much of Gaza that will be left is up to Hamas. The longer they keep fighting with the intent of killing a few IDF soldiers, the long the destruction will continue.
Lots of Blinken talk and no actions…! US apparently gave Israel one month to get rid of Hamas. Israel failed miserably to do so and concurrently damaged US image around the world…! Now, US is in damage control mode…!
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
When @mehdirhasan was removed from his own show along with MSNBC’s two other pro-Palestinian hosts after Oct. 7, he didn’t utter a word.
With news that his show was just cancelled, he still remains silent. I get that the Comcast contract is lucrative, but dignity is also nice.
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It is clear that the administration’s in a pickle. Few Americans have any idea of what Zionism is. All they know is that Israel is our friend and by definition the good guy. Yet they are confronted with sickening scenes of gratuitous slaughter. And Sleepy Joe is supposed to be able to explain it.