Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a massive escalation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in the Israeli city of Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday.
“The Prime Minister has ordered the IDF to carry out an intensive operation against centers of terrorism in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
The buses that exploded were empty and in separate parking lots, and Israeli police said two additional unexploded bombs were found. No one was wounded or injured in the blasts.
Israeli police say they’re treating the incident as a “suspected terrorist attack,” and Israeli officials are claiming the blasts are tied to the West Bank, although so far, no Palestinian group has taken credit for the bombing. The following day, Shin Bet arrested two Jewish Israelis in connection with the attack.
On January 21, Israel launched a new operation in the West Bank dubbed “Iron Wall” that has focused on the northern cities of Tulkarm and Jenin and their refugee camps. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed, and tens of thousands have been forcibly evacuated from their homes, the most significant displacement in the territory since 1967.
The Israeli military has expanded its “open fire orders” in the West Bank, leading to a surge in the killing of Israeli civilians by IDF troops. Among those killed in the recent operations have included a pregnant woman, a two-year-old girl, and a seven-year-old boy.
Netanyahu’s order suggests the Israeli assault on the occupied West Bank will intensify even more. The bus explosions also risk the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza as elements of the Israeli government are looking for excuses to restart the genocidal war.
False flag.
Sure smells like it.
They need them for the world to come to their side again. America and the EU supporting them all around is no longer enough. They want the world to elevate them to the superior beings that they themselves believe to be.
They were looking for an excuse to continue the rampage and of course msm reports it as fact.
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No wounded, no dead, but terrorist attack anyway lol
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'This is not a game': Psaki calls out GOP lawmakers for flip-flopping on Russia. #MarcoPolo
Of course they flip flopped, why not? Their boss flip flops all the time, depending where there is more money or more support.
Now according to MAGA Putin is weak adn Trump will triumph over him, Russia is on its last legs, people have fled in droves adn Russians are starving. Read it just this morning. This kind of stuff used to come from the Democrats now it is coming form MAGA. I guess according to political games being played the Democrats will have to flip as well now and support Russia and Putin as the good guy.
Can Trump's perceived "coddling of Russia" be a tactic to get Putin to weaken ties with China and isolate them (as if that were possible)? And find a reason to go after the RF again later? Wouldn't be the first time that our State Department pretended "friendship" with a Head of State only to screw them over later, as most people on this page know. And of course, in reality, Trump has shown anti Russia actions (sanctions, arming of Ukraine) and rhetoric not so long ago.
Some othrs on the net have worried about that, russia maybe weakening their association with BRICS. But in the end I think Putin and Lavrov have wised up about the West and the uSA.
Trump can lift sanctions. China can't. Trump wants to isolate China more than he wants to hurt Russia. If Trump makes the offer will Putin change sides like he did in 2014 when he left the anti-China G8?
No, Russia is well aware that any promises/agreements/treaties/accords that come from the US have a shorter expiration date than a jug of milk from a discount store.
You may be right. We will see. In the next few weeks or months we will see if Putin is willing to change sides again or if he is committed to a long term partnership with China and the global south.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4a47d4adbaabb4a2ca2147ebe479e5f49e9142293d560ebc651c77da1915a7de.jpg He’s been “committed to a long term partnership” for over a quarter of a century, I’d be surprised if he were to abandon his long term strategic and economic partner in China, much less the rest of the world that make up the rest of his country’s export market. If you had posited that a quarter century ago perhaps there might have been some consideration of that idea, but not now.
Good graphic. China is on the rise. Russia continues to decline. US sanctions are hurting Russia. China mostly adheres to US sanctions and refuses to support Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. So, what will Putin do when Trump offers Russia an end to the Ukraine war on Putin’s terms and sanctions relief in return for breaking Russia’s strategic alliance with China. I honestly don’t know what Putin will do.
Hopefully he’ll laugh in Rump’s face. China is a far larger and more profitable market for Russia than the US ever will be, a far more stable ally, and they share a very long and difficult to defend border which people of various ethnicities span. More likely he’ll politely decline and give Rump some face saving excuse.
I suspect that Putin is a frustrated wannabe imperialist who turned to China after he was kicked out of the G8. But I would be happy to be proven wrong. Putin will likely make a choice in the next few months. Then it will be history. Bozos like us in the peanut have no vote. We just post our comments into cyberspace while the real people make the decisions.
Unlike most people, I enjoy studying history and recently have been on a ‘central Asia’ kick. Fifteen hundred years ago I would have agreed with you, those peoples were still expansionist and clan-oriented. Modern Central Asians, including today’s Slavic peoples, have tended to be more insular and nationalistic, protecting their home territories and people rather than attempting to expand them. In modern history Russia’s only colony was its brief foray into Alaska and British Colombia, they’ve been much more interested in acquiring external goods through trade and alliances rather than domination. As long as there has been a Russia they’ve had much more to fear from European expansion than Europe has had to worry about them. Besides, they’re the world’s largest country with a rather small population, they don’t have enough people for the territory they already have.
I think (this is just my opinion) that without a historical background most people view the entire world though their own cultural lens, which leads to inaccurate conclusions. Like you said though, we’re just a bunch of random people bringing our own personal baggage into these discussions and drawing our own conclusions after viewing the world though our own personal biases. We’ll see what happens over the next few months.
Russia colonized Ukraine in much the same way as England colonized Ireland and roughly over the same time period. Russia also colonized the Asian countries it conquered through the 20th. The Grand Duchy of Moscow had imperial ambitions shortly after it emerged from the collapse of Rus. Russia saw itself as the Third Rome, the successor to the Byzantine Empire and heir to the Slavic provinces of the Ottoman Empire. and the ecclesiastical center of Orthodox Christianity and the protector of the faith of Christianity in the Muslim world that led to many wars and intrigues. Russia was also the main competitor of the
British Empire “Great Game” for domination of India and rest of Eur-Asia in the 19th century.
There's no shortage of 'concern trolls' out there claiming that poor Russia is led by weak and feckless men with no understanding of Rump's "5-D Chess game". I have noticed their population dropped dramatically after the NED's funding chaos, but the Pentagram's 60,000+ "cyber warriors" are apparently still on the job.
Putin hasn't stayed on top of the quicksand of one of the nastiest political environments on Earth for over two decades by being either weak or feckless though, he's not going to fall for games being played by babes in the woods.
Trump wants to drive a wedge between Russia and China, which Trump and the Neocons both see at the USA's main adversary. Trump's opening gambit is to give Russia what Putin wants in Ukraine followed by an offer of normalization and sanctions relief. What will Putin do in the face of Trump's charm offensive?
Putin has to be disappointed by China's lack of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. China opposes sanctions in principle but Chinese companies mostly adhere to American sanctions against Russia. China has refrained from giving Russia any military aid in Ukraine. Putin can't be happy that he has had to get weapons and manpower from Iran and North Korea while China stayed neutral in the Ukraine war. Trump can lift the sanctions. China can't. So what will Putin do?
It might be a "tactic" employed by a person with Kindergarten-level understanding of foreign policy. Russia is not stupid enough to fall for it, their own Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly says that the Untied States is not "agreement capable".
Your comic book style nonsense driven "analysis" does not work here. Trump just got done yesterday saying Putin is a strong and capable leader. Gee I guess that makes you wrong again, a common occurrence.
That's funny "according to …." is your favorite fact. No sale.
The story on Putin's weakness, Russia's economic problems, and so on, came from the leftist MSM, the day Russia invaded. I guess you got that 100% wrong too.
You are of course unable to cite any examples from MAGA to support your nonsense.
According to the MSM (which is not 'leftist', it's 'elitist' since that's who owns them) Russia was about to run out of artillery shells in April of 2022, and then regularly about every other month since. They've finally admitted recently that Russia can make as many artillery shells in a month as all the NATO countries combined assemble in half a year.
I'm sure Orwell is spinning in his grave.
President Trumpenführer removed sanctions imposed on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, in violation of international law. Trump’s move has been celebrated by Israel’s fascist far-right.
Zionist attacks and theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank have soared since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza.
At least 266 Palestinians and one Israeli citizen have been killed by the IDF terrorists since the ceasefire agreement came into effect.
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This shift and attack on the West Bank was preplanned when Netanyahu agreed to Trump's cease fire deal so that Trump's inauguration could go on for three days without news of bomb atttackes in Gaza. In return Trump told him that he had free reign in the West Bank and Trump lifted the sanction as you stated.
Bibi wasted no time to go after the West bank starting with Jenin and now ongoing.
MAGA is cheering, saying the bible prophesy is working whatever that is.
duh duh duh duh duh blah blah blah orange man's fault blah blah blah blah duh duh duh duh duh
Golly gee thanks for your "analysis". Now go watch MSNBC more.
Oh wow you are the first person I know that was an insider on the Trump-Netanyahu discussions. We are so honored to have you here.
Refresh our memory, who was president when Israel killed 40,000 civilians? Is that what you call "free reign".
GFY MAGAT.
Refresh our memories! Who wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza?
This has to be the first time I agree with you. Strange world we live in.
I get it.
Too strange.
The law was changed in 2024, allowing for Israel to annex as much of the West Bank as it wants. Smotrich was claiming that 40% of the territory would be annexed by the end of this year, although I don't think they've actually started to do it yet.
Crap. Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank is a violation of international law.
International Law has never meant much to either Israel or the Untied States.
Fascists don't believe in laws.
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Biden threatened to do it, now Rump carries it out. “If the two parties are so diametrically opposed why does US policy stay the same no matter which one is in power?” – Caitlin Johnstone
False flag.
Anyone else thinking this is a false flag attack?
If it was a regime false flag, I’d expect there to be casualties.
This feels more like an “expose vulnerability”/”send a message” attack, which could have been done by either non-regime Israelis who wanted more focus security for buses or by Palestinians who wanted to demonstrate/warn that they can still reach out and touch Israel if they see a need to.
All these are possibilities until more is exposed.
Speculations…!?
I seriously doubt Palestinians blew up unmanned buses. Why would they, so they can say “if you don’t heed our demands, we’ll commit acts like this on buses with people !”? That is exactly what the Israeli leadership wants to try and justify their ethnic cleaning. It has always been that way. Nothing the Palestinians say or do will change Israel’s plans. Blowing up some buses might expedite Israel’s actions, but won’t otherwise make a difference. Now, an enraged Pali who just lost his entire family in an airstrike might target Israeli people in an attack…
While it would represent a change from the usual tactics, it's not like the tactic of "make things explode without actually killing people" hasn't been used before. The IRA used it during its bombing campaigns in England, for example.
IMO, blowing up structures with no intended human casualties may have provided some leverage for the IRA. The fate of the Palestinians is sealed, as far as the Israelis are concerned, and the Palis know they can’t leverage them. False flag.
Non sequitur. If the fate of the Palestinians is sealed, no false flag needed.
Your entire case for it being a false flag is that you’ve decided it’s a false flag.
A. The Israeli leadership believes the Palestinians’ fate is sealed. However, blowing up buses, empty or not, and making up bullshit stories about the two Israeli kids being strangled to death, helps galvanize the support of the people of the world who still buy into this charade of Israel as victim, and that makes it easier to carry out their diabolical plans.
B. My case for it being a false flag is that there is absolutely zero to gain for Palestinians to gain by blowing up empty buses, unless you can demonstrate otherwise.
It is possible they screwed up and set the timers wrong.
You might be right. But it simply might be a screw up where the timers were set wrong or malfunctioned.
I guess if you repeat that enough times even you will believe it's true eventually.
And if you call it a false flag just once, you will believe it is true. That fact is there is no proof of a false flag.
I can put 2+2 and come up with 4. All you're doing is speculating. And the reason you're speculating is because it looks exactly like a false flag, and you just don't want to admit it.
How many zero-casualty false flags are you aware of? No casualties = no verisimilitude.
The only one they have to convince is the US. And they don't need casualties to do that. So, to answer your question, at least one.
This is the October 7 playbook on a smaller scale. Were there any babies cooked or were there rapes committed on these buses before the explosions? Gee whiz someone PLEASE stop the "mad dog" before it engulfs the world in flames!
He had help first from Biden and now has help from Trump and EU idiot leaders. The rest of the world does not count for him or the US.
The most dastardly act of sabotage since Spain sunk the USS Maine!
Remember Bus 13!
The buses that exploded were empty and in separate parking lots, and Israeli police said two additional unexploded bombs were found. No one was wounded or injured in the blasts.
You'd think they'd need a few dead bodies to make the False Flag operation look more realistic. But since they can violate the Gaza cease fire hundreds of times and have ZERO ramifications, why bother?
They should have said they found "40 beheaded babies" after the explosion.
Can't put anything past them, unfortunately.
If it were an Israeli government project there would have been dead citizens and probably a token Palestinian who would be claimed to be a suicide bomber. My guess would be one of the hyper-religious settler groups, they generally don't believe in sacrificing their own.
Empty buses explode. No group claims responsibility. Netanyahu orders expanded military operations in West Bank. Reports that 4 Israelis were arrested. Sure smells like a false flag operation or an inside job. Imagine what would happen if the next prisoners exchange occurs and one or more of the buses carrying Palestinian prisoners explode. Israel would say it was extremist settlers did it in response to these explosions and to punish and avenge Israelis killed by those Palestinians with "blood on their hands."
Israel would say it was extremist settlers did it in response to these explosions and to punish and avenge Israelis killed by those Palestinians with blood on their hands.
And 80% of the population would approve.
That's the problem that this tribe will not understand, the things they take pride in education, ingenuity, wealth, power, articulation, etc. are gifts to be thankful for, responsibilities to be held accountable for, tribulations to face with good moral character. Most of them continue to fail on every account. Thus, the miserable existence they perpetuate for themselves and others.
Predictable action after the false flag.
I don't get why Israel bothers with these false flag gestures in order to get what the American government always gives them: carte blanche to slaughter as many Palestinian women and children as possible.
Vermin crawl over the Earth in Tel Aviv.
Where's the Orkin Man when we need him?
They won't get tired of killing…! But they may get tired of the consequences…!
This is so obvious. Any excuse will do for the zionists to escalate.
And trump will support their actions to the fullest.
False Flag fits perfectly…! false flags are flapping in the occupied lands…!
There was an incident! We must escalate!
There was no incident. We must escalate!
Have you heard about the three buses that exploded in Tel Aviv? You won't hear about them anymore, though.
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