Israel’s largest labor union, the Histadrut, has called a general strike that will start Monday to pressure the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas.
The decision to hold a strike came after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages who were held in Gaza. “We must reach a deal. A deal is more important than anything else,” said Arnon Bar-David, the head of Histadrut. “We are getting body bags instead of a deal.”
According to Axios, the strike will almost completely shut down the country. Many private sector companies announced they would join the strike, and the Ben Gurion International Airport will shut down at 8:00 am local time.
The news that six more Israeli captives were killed in Gaza sparked major protests demanding a deal with Hamas. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released a statement blaming Netanyahu for their deaths.
“For 11 months, the Israeli government led by Netanyahu failed to do what a government is expected to do — return its sons and daughters home,” the forum said. “A deal for the return of the abductees has been on the table for over two months. If it weren’t for the thwarting [of the deal], the excuses, and the spins, the abductees whose deaths we learned of this morning would probably be alive.”
Netanyahu has been sabotaging the chances of a hostage deal by demanding Israeli control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, a condition the Israeli military doesn’t think is necessary. During a security cabinet meeting on Sunday night, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confronted Netanyahu about his demand.
“Continuing to impose constraints such as the decision on the Philadelphi corridor will result in us not meeting the goals of the war. The fact that we prioritize the Philadelphi corridor at the cost of the lives of the hostages is a serious moral disgrace,” Gallant said.
Netanyahu isn’t backing down on the demand, and told Gallant that “after the terrible murder of our hostages, such a step will send a dangerous message to Hamas and will lead to more and more concessions that will endanger Israel’s security.”
A few days before the hostage bodies were recovered, the Israeli security cabinet voted to back Netanyahu’s demand to maintain control of the Philadelphi Corridor. At the meeting on Sunday, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer said it would be a “grave mistake” to alter that decision.
Would be nice to see a general strike that lasts six months. That would really sink the Israeli economy, already moribund.
But I also won't be surprised if the Israeli government decided to outlaw the strike based on "war time conditions" and arresting strikers. They're already nearly in a civil war between the settlers and the government and between the IDF and the government, so that will likely make things even worse.
So it boils down to whether Netanyahu can maintain social control in Israel or be forced to do some sort of negotiations to get some hostages back.
And that means Hamas has the whip hand – they can simply demand to keep the original deal from months ago and Netanyahu will be forced to accept rather than piling on new conditions.
Which, of course, won't stop him from trying.
Civil riots in Israel Saturday night and now labor union strike could lead to civil war…!
The Likud gov’t is Israelis own worst enemy. Facts-on-the-ground has failed. Israelis deserve a lasting and secure peace.
Do they deserve a lasting and secure peace because of successful genocide in Gaza?
NO!! They don't, they must know what their ruling monsters are doing. What they can do to their own people, they can and do much more evil to the Palestinians, and they know it.
Israel needs a real government with leaders with integrity and human decency. They don't have it. The ruling elite are monsters.
Even a controlled press can't hide their inhumane behavior.
What is wrong with the Israeli people, we want to believe they are a civilized nation.
A lot of people wanted to believe Germany was a civilized nation too. It wasn't.
The goal of the Versailles unconditional surrender was to destroy the rising Germany, they did succeed and Hitler was the end result, the next WW succeeded, but they needed Germany against the communists, now they are trying again, Germany must be wiped out. The Anglo Saxon massacred the Indian tribes and drove what was left on reservations. The guns made the difference and that has not changed. It is not for Freedom and Democracy, it never was. Humans are primitive people.
Did you do well in the AfD elections?
The AFD did very well, they are a common sense right of center conservative party. There is nothing extreme with which the losers tried to demonize and destroy the parties. Common sense and political substance won. So did the left of center party of BSW Buendnis Sarah Wagenknecht, on third place, a party barely one year old. Nothing extreme, just rational, sane leadership is what made the parties, the voters spoke, 74% voter participation, nothing to sneeze at. The vassal old parties lost big time. Alice Weidel outstanding in the AFD party and Wagenknecht leading BSW, both strong leaders, women with substance. They are leaders with Vernunft. (common- sense)
That is not a serious argument. They are using immigrants, asylum seekers, and progressives for the standard fare targets during the Third Reich. For folks wishing to go deeper read this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/the-trial-of-bjorn-hocke-the-real-boss-of-germany-far-right
That is ridiculous, may I ask how many refugees did the Americans take? Germany has millions and all of them get shelter and social services like health care and education. The real help the Americans provided was the sabotage of the pipeline, an ally no less. The Germans did not forget, they got back at the slime in Berlin. Of course with millions of refugees the crime rate has gone up. Germany the size of Montana and a population of 80 millions provides refugee services Homeless Americans can only dream of. They do not live in conditions like refugees from S. America on the Mexican/ American border. That goes for the British, they sit on their island without having refugees rolling over the UK and the Guardian is blowing the horn for the official governing gang to let Germans take care and pay for the BS they produce.
The Germans should start shipping the immigrants to the US, and the UK the nations supporting the war crimes in the ME.
“may I ask how many refugees did the Americans take?”
From where? St. Louis, Missouri alone had a Bosnian Muslim refugee population of about 70,000 — about 20% of the city’s population — as of the 2000s. They seemed to be pretty good people. Somewhat insular. They tended to gather in one neighborhood, Bevo Mill, which is now known as “Little Bosnia.” If you want a good steak in St. Louis, look for a place that advertises they’re halal. Haven’t had a bad steak at a Muslim establishment yet.
Thomas, who created the mess in the ME and Ukraine? The US HAD NO BUSINESS THERE. The fact is, the US STILL OCCUPIES EUROPE and is the colonizer all over the world. Why else would the US have military bases all over the globe and does regime changes whenever the elected governments are not to it’s liking, not to forget using sanctions to destabilize nations.
I’m not sure what the argument is here.
You asked how many refugees the US has taken in. I asked from where.
As for who created the mess in the Middle East and Ukraine, the answer is “all of the involved regimes, but especially the US and Russian imperial regimes.”
Opportunist politicians, whether Wagenknecht or Höcke, are not the first to use racism to advance their political ambitions. Viz. Bibi. Merkel, even though a right winger, was the last decent German chancellor.
I have listened to them in the Bundestag, they are fresh air, there is nothing extreme that I know of, the AFD is a normal right of center party and the BSW is center left. Both stand for common sense national politics in the interest of the German people. All speakers of both parties are highly educated and know their facts. The current ample government is treasonous. So the voters let them know, they had enough of them. And all the coalition knows to do is to demonize both parties, not based on real political facts. All the little tricks Americans use to rig elections. Bot parties have attractive, competent leadership. Kudos to the people. both new parties have two very attractive no nonsense leadership women, both have their PHD. Alice is lesbian, it is known and no issue, Sahra is married to Oscar Lafontain a retired leader of the former, old Schmitt and Brandt SPD, her new party is barely one year old and won about 15% of the votes, the AfD won some 31% and is about even with the old Merkel CDU. The Greens and Genscher’s old FDP are out in both states.
Merkel could have been better, she pleased the Americans more than the Germans, her party lost the majority. The AFD could end up replacing the CDU next year.
"What is wrong with Israeli people" – millions of them migrated to what is now Israel, and what one hundred years ago was Palestinian Arab land. They came there not to live peacefully together with Arabs. The idea was, and it is now, to chase Arabs away from the land. Participation in such a project isn't good.
The Israeli's actual worst enemy is the West. Without their arms, their control of the international press and diplomatic covering Israel would have been forced to behave like a normal nation, take responsibility for their own actions and be forced to acknowledge their interest in peace. Instead the Israeli had 80 some years of unlearning that, aquiring the knowledge instead that everyting they do is without consequence, entitled to impunity and the eternally indefatigable world-champions of victimhood because of the US en Europe, the very same world that invented anti-Semitism and boosted that disease to such diabolical heights of perversion that it put the Devil himself to shame.
"Israel would have been forced to behave like a normal nation" – do you think if migrants from Latin America will create their own nation on U.S. territory they would behave like a normal nation?
Notice not even one voice in Israel's regime support withdrawing from the Gaza Egypt border in order to comply with their peace treaty with Egypt.
That's because, as also has not been reported here, the Israelis want to control the border so they can open it when the time comes to expel the Palestinians from Gaza and into the Sinai desert. Both the Egyptians and the Palestinians understand this and is why they're digging their heels in.
And for that plan to work, Israel has to control all of Gaza's borders now and forever or it wouldn't be a very effective concentration camp.
I would have no idea of this watching the morning news here in the US………which continues to support Netanyahu & the other Israeli criminals…..no mention of this strike……..Hopefully this strike will bring about a ceasefire and in the US an arms embargo……….
"Israel’s Main Labor Union Calls Strike…" No worries. Matrix' Brainwash talking points: 1. This didn't happen. 2. It's small. 3. It's all Hamas fault. Check with your neighbors in a couple of days to confirm they got those talking points. Mine already did.
https://x.com/i/status/1830337158600876511
Unfortunately, the Rubicon reflects the unlikelihood of a ceasefire to actualize between the conflicting parties. This goes beyond a Hamas-Israel chicken-scratch peace settlement. The world has a stake, however limited.
Good!
Unfortunately, the Rubicon reflects the unlikelihood of a ceasefire to actualize between the conflicting parties. This goes beyond a Hamas-Israel chicken-scratch peace settlement. The world has a stake, however limited.
Israelis can't expect a new government to effect a peace settlement. This is a depopulation/genocide event that will continue to the last Jew and Palestinian. The Washington Zionists and WEF cult might prefer it that way.