The UN said on Thursday that the scale of destruction in Gaza hasn’t been seen since World War II and that it would take a minimum of 16 years to rebuild homes in the Strip.
“We have not seen anything like this since 1945,” said Abdallah al-Dardari, a UN assistant secretary-general. “That intensity, in such a short time and the massive scale of destruction.”
Al-Dardi said 72% of all residential buildings in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed. “The United Nations Development Programme’s initial estimates for the reconstruction of… the Gaza Strip surpass $30 billion and could reach up to $40 billion,” al-Dardi said.
Israel’s bombing campaign has been compared to the US and Allied strategic bombing of Japanese and German cities during World War II, which includes the firebombing of Dresden and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Israeli officials have pointed to World War II to justify the massive number of civilian casualties, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who made the argument to President Biden.
“It was pointed out to me that — by Bibi (Netanyahu) — that ‘Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,'” Biden said back in December. “
Biden said he told Netanyahu: “That’s why all these institutions were set up after World War II to see to it that it didn’t happen again.” At the time, Biden called the Israeli bombing campaign “indiscriminate,” but nearly five months later, he continues to support it.
A reconstruction effort in Gaza could only begin once the Israeli siege comes to an end, and there’s no sign that will happen anytime soon. Even if Israel and Hamas reach a hostage deal that includes a ceasefire, Netanyahu has made clear it will only be temporary.
The Zionists blatantly told the world they would “flatten” the Gaza Strip as is well documented in SA’s ICJ application. As promised these rabid supremacists have enthusiastically, much on video, destroyed Gaza’s hospitals, universities, schools, courts, public buildings, public records, stores, libraries, churches, mosques, roads, infrastructure, utilities and all other facilities required for sustaining life.
All of it mendaciously supported by US $, weapons, political cover through vetos, bribes, threats, and disinformation, breaking it’s own and international laws, destroying US international influence and making Americans less safe at home and abroad by creating more anti-American hate and terrorism.
With an empire in deep decline it’s no surprise the US government now intends on legally denying Americans their 1st amendment right of free speech; the greater the decay the more fearful and totalitarian the empire becomes.
This beats 1945, the Israelis are worse than the Nazis. Did the Nazis bomb hospitals and ambulances, kill doctors and nurses? The Palestinians have no army to fight back, Hamas is all they have. The Israelis are dehumanized animals.
After a rapist pogrom,it is quite good that Israel pursue the Hamas perpetrators. Nazis certainly bombed hospitals and killed health care workers. Have you not heard of Guernica,Rotterdam,Warsaw,London,Coventry? D o
y ou really think German bombs dodged hospitals and schools.
Once more ignoring killing anyone that gets in the way. But that’s “quite good”. I won’t call you Pig shit anymore. That would be a compliment
You are really deranged.
you keep using that word pogrom…
why are over 2 million people displaced, unable to eat and constantly being bombed and attacked? If there is a pogrom, its against the palestinians, as israeli leaders call them animals….
nothing you say could defend this atrocity.
don’t bother, he’s a just tosser lacking the intellect to make it as a troll, but god love him, he keeps trying 🙂
You’re right. I don’t know why I bother.
Because you have something he doesn’t – sincere, humane beliefs 🙂
Did not Hamas attack Israel in a particularly sadistic and murderous fashion on Oct 7?
did Hamas not fire 5000 rockets into Israel on that Day?
Even if true, did not Israel respond in the most despicable way possible making that Oct 7th attack look like child’s play in comparison? Dropping 25,000 fucking tons of bombs in the first six weeks of the “war”? Cut off aid to the point of causing the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet? How can a human being with a conscience ignore that? Ooops, I forgot who I was talking to. You are disgusting.
So did it happen,or not? make up your mind.
I have yet to deny the Hamas attack. The exaggerated bullshit you spew has been debunked. I do know the Israeli response of slaughtering innocents can’t be denied.
The IDF did that, not Hamas.
Nothing you can say that Oct 7 was not a pogrom,and the Israeli response understandable.
po-grom: an organized massacre of helpless people and esp. of Jews.
It doesn’t say EXCLUSIVELY of Jews. So, nothing you can say makes the Israeli ongoing pogrom on Palestinians in Gaza from Oct 8th to present day understandable. To the contrary, it is indefensible.
Free the hostages,end the war.
https://apnews.com/video/israel-government-israel-hamas-war-israel-protests-and-demonstrations-benjamin-netanyahu-80fa94064ad4429ebb52531ad3ca12dc
Bibi does not care about the hostages. He has had the IDF kill many by the bombing of Gaza. Released hostages have said as much. Media still prints that Hamas killed 1200 on 7Oct. Fact of the matter is perhaps less than 900, terrible as it was, were killed by Hamas fighters (of which 1500 died during the operation) the rest were killed by the IDF Apache helicopters and tanks, plus wild west shooting by foot soldiers. Bibi could have had the border re-sealed on 8Oct. Restored order. Dealt with Hamas directly. He chose the typical settler colonial method of scorched earth, killing anything that moves, just as the French did, just as the British did, just as the white settlers from Europe did in this North American continent. There is enough evidence to prove that not only did he know about the ensuing attack, he let it happen. There was no “failure” by the IDF, there was no initial resistance. Bibi has a lot of blood on his hands. Israeli as well as Palestinians.
“Guernica,Rotterdam,Warsaw,London,Coventry” Hospitals, schools, ambulances?
Besides , if the Nazis did that, that does not give license to Zionists to do the same. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Since the US used nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Russians are justified to drop nuclear bombs on Washington and the Pentagon?
Start with honesty: HAMAS is a resistance group against the brutal illegal occupier the Israelis, THEY ARE NOT TERRORISTS just because your war criminals tell you that. Israel is a terrorist nation and the IDF are war criminals in uniform and bound by the Geneva Conventions.
He tries, they try, but I have yet to hear 1 plausible reason for any nation to commit genocide. Unfortunately, they believe their own lies and that makes them think their lies are truth. So goes the mind numbing thoughtlessness.
“Did the Nazis bomb hospitals and ambulances, kill doctors and nurses?” Yea and yes.
Where is your evidence, this is really news. With all the writing and the books on the markets I have never come across even a hint of that. Even the allied carpet bombings honored the Red Cross symbols.
True, but in the final months of the war Allied pilots were ordered to bomb and fire on anything and everything that moved. The RC filed an official complaint about this new policy, which forced the organization to end its routine visits to all German-controlled prison camps inside German occupied territory.
That is true too, they bombed Germany until the very last day and civilian targets because the war was over, when Dresden was bombed, it was filled with refugees from the East, women and children and old people, no soldiers and no military targets, but it was a cultural monument, the Florence on the Elbe River. It was destroyed just because they could destroy it out of revenge or just for the fun of it. Who knows.
We don’t want to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also bombed when the war had really ended.
The military knows the value of the Red Cross protection, I don’t think they forgot that, they did not bomb hospitals or ambulances as far as I know, common sense prevailed I think and hope I am right.
“no soldiers and no military targets” Dresden was a major rail and communication center. Also there were over 100 factories in the city still producing war materials for the Germans.
As for Japan, there was zero indication that Japan was ready to surrender in the first week of August. Based on how hard the Japanese fought on Okinawa the US Army was projecting 400,000 to 800,000 Americans killed in action and 1.2 million to 3.2 million wounded in the invasion of Japan.
You have your own narrative, if you say so it must be so.
“As for Japan, there was zero indication that Japan was ready to surrender in the first week of August, other than that they had been offering to surrender since March.”
Fixed, no charge.
Author, Kurt Vonnegut, was there. He was a POW, and witnessed the aftermath.
Every building in Stalingrad was destroyed. That included the hospitals. When the Nazi were killing the Jews in the camps they did not spare the doctors or nurses. As for the allies honoring the Red Cross during carpet bombing, no they did not. RAF tried and many times succeeded in creating a fire storm. Fire storms don’t read the signs on buildings.
That is not the same as targeting Hospitals and Ambulances. Also there were air raids and bomb-shelters. And yes, hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed. They did bomb inner cities with no military targets, that is all true. But after that experience, “never again”, was the slogan for some time. I do know about the Hamburg firestorm sucking the oxygen out of the air causing a firestorm hundreds of miles away down in Munich. All the more reason to avoid wars, Ukraine war could have been avoided with a little good will, Biden does not have it even now and neither does Netanyahu and Biden in Gaza, they are sure they can win it, for the MIC it is great for profits, they could not ask for more. Biden is their man.
“That is not the same as targeting Hospitals and Ambulances” Yes it is the same.
And the RAF shot Red Cross aircraft during the war. Here is the command issue by the RAF
“His Majesty’s Government desire to accord to ambulance aircraft reasonable facilities for the transportation of the sick and wounded, in accordance with the Red Cross Convention, and aircraft engaged in the direct evacuation of the sick and wounded will be respected, provided that they comply with the relevant provisions of the Convention.
His Majesty’s Government are unable, however, to grant immunity to such aircraft flying over areas in which operations are in progress on land or at sea, or approaching British or Allied territory, or territory in British occupation, or British or Allied ships.
Ambulance aircraft which do not comply with the above requirements will do so at their own risk and peril.
Communiqué issued by the Royal Air Force July 14th 1940
Simply put the RAF shot air ambulances.
” the Hamburg firestorm sucking the oxygen out of the air causing a firestorm hundreds of miles away down in Munich” That is impossible. Those two cities are over 300 miles apart. Even a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb could not start a fire storm 300 plus miles away.
Before the development of the firestorm in Hamburg, there had been no rain for some time and everything was very dry.[4] The unusually warm weather and good conditions ensured that the bombing was highly concentrated around the intended targets, and helped the resulting conflagration create a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air which became a 460-metre-high (1,510 ft) tornado of fire.
And how in the heck would a fire storm in Hamburg travel 380 miles to put Munich on fire? It can’t. Your claim that that occurred is non sense.
Look, you have your opinion, so what?
The fire sucked the oxygen out of the air that was felt down in Munich.
Not only are the students and protestors being ignored,their heads are being busted like Chicago in 1968. This is how the power structure and the ruling class responds to challenges. I don’t believe that the American people are evil. i think they are depressed and don’t think they can make a difference.
Most of them are brainwashed and probably agree with the crackdown.
The govm’t has been ‘persuasively communicating,’ aka psyops, with the Am ppl since they had to high-tail it outta Vietnam, give ’em credit, they’ve done a good job of it 🙂
The “student’ children of the rich are being treated with kid gloves.
Because their parents own much of the institutions. Don’t you know that?
Or can buy their kids way in.
The majority of AP are deeply indoctrinated and unable to recognize it. They are so manipulated they can’t see it is against their own best interests.
But, but, the paycheck.
Rich spoiled kids are being handled with kid gloves.Very soon,left wing terrorists will assault the police,who will respond severely.
Where this “rabid supremacism” originated and why?
I can tell you where and why but pro-Zionist censorship will not allow my comment to appear on this website, though it supposed to be antiwar.
Fortunately the Israeli Central Bank has $200 billion of assets which can be used to repair the destruction as well as satisfy UNR 194 and ICJ opinion of 2004.
There’s also the natural gas they’re stealing from the Palestinians, already infringing on Palestinian waters 10.30.23 they awarded 12 licenses to 6 companies for new exploration.
LOL. Israel is not going to pay to repair the damages caused by the war Hamas started. If any thing Hamas and their supporters should be paying Israel and the US for the cost of the war.
Iraq,Syria,Algeria,And Libya can have their cash and oil assets pumped dry to the bone to pay the reparations to the Jewish families they evicted.
Take a look at the Hamas charter.
UN is antisemitic organization. All of them should be arrested immediately together with Putin and all Arabs in Palestine.
The Nobel Peace Price to Netanyahu.
Only then we will have a real rules-based order.
Is that you BIBI ?.
Sarcasm.
There is no distinction between sarcasm and reality anymore, please mark your sarcasm as such.
That is reality. That’s where the rules-based world order leads.
“It would take a minimum of 16 years to rebuild homes in the Strip.”
Not true. In two years displace or murder 1.8 million Palestinians. Year 3-6, build ocean front condos, Year 7-8, new tenants that are not Palestinians will move in.
You are extremely sarcastic and probably accurate in your prophesy. More money for Kushner and his brethren.
I don’t think he was being sarcastic.
He is only wrong with the time frame, it will take more time even with all the money the Israelis will get from the USA to rebuild and make it livable for the rich kids.
Lets hope it is sarcasm, time will tell.
Those condos will go up like Legos. Only possible delay would be the deportation and the murder of the residents of that strip.
You know me so well.
Not a prophecy. Just the typical blueprint used throughout the human history.
Anyone who thinks Garza will be rebuilt to house Palestinians can think again , there was never going to be two states the plan has and is for a greater Israel with no room for Palestinians .
In 2014 the USA airforce working with Kurdish militia completely destroyed the Syrian town Kobani. B1 bombers orbited 24/7 as the militia called in airstrikes until the whole place was reduced to rubble. This was kept secret from the American people. We have met the enemy and he is us.
And they still think bombing is all it takes to win wars, Gaza is proof of it. IDF ground forces defend nothing, they only kill defenseless civilians, mostly women and children, enough to want to p*ke.
You must be speaking of Hamas.
Hamas is a resistance movement, not a regular army, they have no AF. That means the Israeli army is waging war and killing mostly unarmed women and children. Are you proud of so much heroism? But when one gets killed you can’t stop crying for the poor kid. In war, when you kill others they can kill you too, so stop your crying.
Belt and Road Gaza!
China can build 20,000 homes in three days.
China can build ten story high rise in 28 hours.
China can develop and begin producing the $550 billion of Gaza’s proven oil and gas reserves in months.
China can send the bill to Israel.
“ “It was pointed out to me that — by Bibi (Netanyahu) — that ‘Well, you carpet-bombed Germany. You dropped the atom bomb. A lot of civilians died,’” Biden said back in December. ”
Two wrongs make right??
Bibi added that pre-European populations in the Americas, Australia and New zealand were decimated by the Europeans and therefore, since we are Europeans will do the same to the Arabs.
In 1945 after WW II, and in 1919, after WW I, there was a feeling among people, also among politicians: “never again”. Most people really don’t want have it ever again. If we could establish democracy in The West or, as alternative, create somehow a new elite which would share this feeling, then, perhaps, we can avoid to have it again. Is it possible? Probably not. So we will have it again and again until The West, as it is, is destroyed and replaced by something more human.
Why this problem concerns only The West but not China, Russia or India? Because China, Russia and India are not dreaming about full spectrum dominance of the world. They are quite happy as it is. Maybe their elites are wiser or something else but that is a plain fact.
Only,Europeanpopulations are old and stagnant,while Arab populations are growing,youthful,and restive.
Israeli officials have pointed to World War II to justify the massive number of civilian casualties, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who made the argument to President Biden.
Which means any Israeli city is fair game and it can’t be called terrorism. So, Hamas should either be taken off the designated terrorist list or Israel and the US should be added to it.
Ley Hamas release its hostages to end this war.
I replied to that same comment previously but that’s your game. Just keep repeating the same nonsense. The Israeli government, and not just Netanyahu, have made it abundantly clear that the “war “doesn’t end even if the hostages are released. You know that but either you are a paid Hasbara troll or you’re just an asshole troll that has nothing better to do. I’m thinking it’s the latter because your comments are so pathetic that anyone would be foolish to pay for them.
Just to clarify your title: “Not seen since [the Soviet dominated and controlled American and British regimes’ sadistic carpet-bombing and firebombing of the wives and children, the innocent families of German soldiers during] ww2.
Final tally of civilian deaths:
Great Britain: 32,000
Germany/Austria: 2,000,000+
For an in depth, well-documented study of how completely controlled FDR’s administration was by Soviet agents, read:
“Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government”
Without question, the Hollywood History we’ve all been fed about that heinous and utterly unnecessary war is a perfect inversion of the truth.
So Rotterdam,Warsaw,Guernica, London and Coventry bombings never happened,and never mind the death camps.
The main difference is, that while the bombing of the German and Japanese cities took courage on the part of the flyers because there was fire from the ground, Israel’s attack was a cowardly attack where they bombed people who could not fire back.
The media kept calling it a war. In a war you have heroes. Israel’s heroes were those shooting at grandmothers. And Biden, sad to say, is supporting that.
Raping and slaughtering unarmed civilians,as Hamas did,justifies bombing.
This morning, as I eat my cereal, with walnuts on top, drink my coffee, while consuming the news, I am sickened by the onslaught of pro-Israeli, pro-Zionist attacks on free speech, the defense of the genocide being carried out in Gaza and the West Bank. Jake Tapper, the bastion of progressivism, interviews an NYU professor, who condemned the “hate speech” against Jews, side-stepping the issue, the main issue, which is the brutality inflicted on Palestinians. As I scanned the news, it was apparent, to me, that the Israeli propaganda machine, with money connections, is taking over media, burying the facts of occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.
The main issue,is that from a period of extended numerous firings of missiles at Israel,Hamas crossed a border and murdered,raped,mutilated and tortured,and a just response is being delivered.