The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that Israel has yet to launch a ground invasion of Gaza over fears that Hezbollah could launch a major attack from the north.
An Israeli ground incursion appeared imminent on Friday and Saturday after Israel told 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate north Gaza, but now it’s unclear when the invasion will start. The New York Times previously reported that the invasion was delayed due to weather conditions.
Sources told The Jerusalem Post that Israel was worried Hezbollah could be waiting until the bulk of the Israeli military is committed to the ground invasion in the south to open a second front in the north.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire on the Israel-Lebanon border, and there have been casualties, but the Post report said Hezbollah’s attacks have been at a “fairly low threshold.”
The report comes as Iran is warning that the “resistance” in the region, referring to Hezbollah and Shia militias operating in Iraq and Syria, might take action if Israel’s bombardment of Gaza doesn’t stop.
“The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with [Israel] … in the coming hours, we can expect a preemptive action by the resistance front,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday. “If the crimes in Gaza do not stop immediately, new fronts will be opened.”
The US has deployed two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Eastern Mediterranean in the name of deterring regional actors from entering the war. The implication is that if Hezbollah does launch a major attack on Israel, the US might directly intervene, which means a major regional war.
While this is unfortunate, it should be clear that Israel is succeeding in its anti-terrorism and counter-genocide operations. As the world comes together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, there cant be divisions allowed to divide us, as we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
That is a tad over simplified ME. When people are OCCUPIED, they gotta do what they have to do, in order to survive. I would not be overly gratuitous,where Israel is concerned.
Minor political disputes can be settled without large scale atrocities and deaths of innocent civilians, and any movements that attempt to use these tactics for their political goals and policies immediately cease to be legitimate political entities.
What about a Homeland?…..
Places like Jerusalem have changed hands at-least twenty times. Innocent civilians don’t deserve to die for it to happen one more time…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/05/jerusalem-history-israel-capital/923651001/
Ohh yeah, that “innocent civilian” crap again. After 100 years of slow motion genocide of the Palestinians there’s very little innocence left in the Zionist abattoir.
Every Israeli citizen is required to serve in the military. Males, 36 months females 24 months. After their active duty they remain in the reserve … forever. They shed their uniforms but they don’t shed their criminal culpability. So there is hardly an Israeli citizen who qualifies as either innocent or civilian. (A bit of ethically-tainted sophistry? Perhaps.) While that doesn’t justify their slaughter, it’s still an element in a complicated story … not much innocence in the Zionist abattoir.
Have you seen the picture of that 95-year-old POS butcher who took part in the massacre of innocent civilians — genuinely innocent — at Deir Yassin in 1948?
(Much like the 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi recently feted by the Canadian Parliament. You can’t make this sh!t up!)
“The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 130[1] fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi killed at least 107 Palestinian men, women and children, in Deir Yassin, a village of roughly 600 people near Jerusalem, despite having earlier agreed to a peace pact.”
That 95-year-old monster, proud of his savage butchery 75 years ago, stood in his Israeli reservist uniform — yes my friends, 95 years old, and still in the reserve!!! … “innocence” personified!!! — with his AR-15 assault rifle, enthusiastically urging his young IDF compatriots to slaughter the Palestinians of Gaza “root and branch”.
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I still wanna know, Mirrors, are you a Professional Hasbarist, or simply a brainwashed amateur?
I’m not particularly aware of the case of the 95-year old soldier, but if your bringing him up to invalidate or discredit the counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations of the IDF as they continue to take all reasonable measures to prevent civilian casualties this would not work, as why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal. I find it highly ironic you spend a large amount of time pushing what amounts to an “ethnic taint” “position” against the Israeli civilian population when people in “Gaza” are often coerced or simply not informed when terrorist groups such as Hamas hide weapons, personnel and equipment in their homes and so on. Would that mean it would be okay (or, as you so unfortunately put it, “complicated”) if the Israeli Defense Forces started specifically targeting them? I’ve responded to your final “response” in a comment above, but its been left on pending for a while so it might take a bit…
It’s obvious you know how to copy and paste. You make the same fucking comment over and over, but you rearrange it to make it sound original.
Some examples:
the counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations of the IDF as they continue to take all reasonable measures to prevent civilian casualties
why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israe
actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal.
No, there are significant substantive differences between those excerpts. The first one describes the types of of operations the Israeli Defense Forces has and the reasonable precautions they take, the second one describes how and why you shouldn’t judge a state by the actions of a small amount of its citizens, and the third one accurately describes the policies of “Palestinian” governments in practice and in their own words. If you are instead referring to “reusing” arguments, I reserve the right to repeat information on how the legitimate state of Israel conducts counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations when you have not actually refuted that the way these operations are run would absolutely not be “terrorism”.
How is assassinating an Al Jazeera reporter or running an American college student over with a bulldozer a “reasonable precaution?”
No, Israel did not “assassinate” an “Al-Jazeera” journalist (their name literally translates to “Arabian peninsula”), they were practically in the middle of an active shootout between Israeli Defense Forces and “Palestinians” they were trying to cover in which they unfortunately did not survive (they appeared to have died from stray gunfire but the specific side is still unconfirmed). The death of Rachael Corrie was an accident under contested circumstances (some argue the driver should have been able to see her) in which she placed herself before a bulldozer in a form of protest, but what is clear is that she was deliberately endangering herself as a form of attention. Not that anyone would ever deserve to die for actions like that, I’m simply pointing out that the state of Israel would not be particularly responsible for how lucid a certain bulldozer driver would be on any particular day. Meanwhile, you have yet to regale another thread with the specific “substantive points” you’ve consistently avoided addressing, should I take this as an admission of defeat?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61403320
https://forward.com/news/9497/american-killed-by-israeli-bulldozer-as-civilian/
You could have simply said “the state of Israel is never, ever, ever responsible for any action taken by its principals or employees,” and saved yourself a bunch of copying and pasting of bullshit excuses.
So your response to a researched and concisely worded explanation is simply to claim it was copy-pasted? Figures. You’ve yet to actually address any of the points I’ve made. And what exactly were the Israeli Defense Soldiers supposed to do during the active shootout, simply ask the “Palestinians” to stop very very nicely? If you read the article you’ll notice Israel had both an investigation into this incident and overall deaths in the region, what else were they supposed to have done, stopped existing? I’m going to leave off this “conversation” with another response you’ve refused to address:
Why should anyone listen to your irrational state-hatred when you yourself might not even exist without the advances of nation-states, such as vaccines and industrial agriculture…
“Why should anyone listen to your irrational state-hatred when you yourself might not even exist without the advances of nation-states, such as vaccines and industrial agriculture.”
Lots of people might not exist absent X. That isn’t evidence that X is an unalloyed good, or that the results produced by X couldn’t have been produced without X.
As for vaccines, interesting point.
In 1991, I was threatened with court-martial if I didn’t accept a vaccine from a tube clearly marked EXPERIMENTAL — DO NOT USE ON HUMANS (the law was later changed because of that precise incident to prevent future occurrences, which is why the COVID-19 vaccine had to be fully approved before the Secretary of Defense could make it mandatory).
Then my mother died of COVID-19 three months after the Moderna vaccine passed its general safety trial and while the FDA was sitting on it and forbidding her to have it.
I have no problem with vaccines, mind you. I was a clinical trial volunteer for the Novavax product and among the more vaccinated humans now living (the entire childhood battery back when it included smallpox and such, the full domestic military battery, the overseas battery TWICE, the experimental vaccine that was forced on me, the experimental vaccine I volunteered as a guinea pig for, and a booster to it, flu shots every year, etc.). But it’s not obvious that government’s role has been, generally speaking, constructive in the area.
And it was more likely that agriculture gave rise to the state than vice versa.
So it was precisely because of your specific experience with a vaccines that the U.S. government made large substantive policy changes. Well surely such a completely factual and not at all made-up story must have tons of documentation to prove it, right? As for the Covid-19 vaccine, I’m actually not particularly a fan, I forget which one I had (yes, I had more than one, a decision I later came to regret) but my arm felt kind of weird and it turns out that some of the technical details of the vaccine make it much different from other historical vaccines, such as Polio and that sort of thing. While I don’t really have a problem with medical advancement I would have certainly appreciated more notice from the media about some of these changes in their messaging to the public. Sorry about your mother, not sure particularly what else to say. I guess my initial point was more that without these advances almost directly due to nation-states (banks for industrialized agriculture, subsidies for vaccines) human society would probably not be able to support its current population. As for agriculture, I feel like there’s a pretty wide gulf between the mainly subsistence farming still practiced in some areas of the world and the miles of mechanized “farming” that caused the Dust Bowl, something that would have been much harder to achieve without loans and the like, thus me crediting it to the nation-state. For government’s role, I suggest looking back at the Somalia research I did, that place under a period of relative anarchy was not a very fun locations to live in. The line of thinking you’ve gone down reminds me a little of the opening sections of “Hamilton” in which they’re all reflecting on whether anyone will remember their contributions, not going to say some one-liner but still.
“So it was precisely because of your specific experience”
No, it was due to the incident which included my specific experience.
At the time, the Secretary of Defense could just order military members to accept an experimental vaccine, and in that case did so.
A few years later, due to complaints and litigation, Congress changed the law to require a presidential waiver to mandate an experimental vaccine for military personnel. And Biden didn’t want to issue such a waiver and risk looking bad if it turned out the vaccine caused everyone to grow a third arm out of their chest five years later, so he just leaned on FDA to fully approve the vaccine so that he could fob issuance of the mandate off on SecDef.
All of which was explained at length in “tons of documentation” concerning the push for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Okay, that story’s much more believable. Although I’m not particularly a fan of Biden as a political figure or his policies (Afghanistan withdrawal memories come to mind), I don’t really appreciate your description of Biden “leaning” on the FDA. While he can hold meetings and ask questions for officials under the executive branch, I don’t think aside from announcing his personal hopes it could be developed quickly he would have particularly tried to change the policy and procedures of an at-least nominally independent scientific testing and safety compliance organization. That period of time was kinda fun though, remember the whole “Imagine” video? I think Anthony Fauci retired after being the most highly paid U.S. government employee a while ago, finally putting to rest both his policies and his career.
I was talking about your comments on this site. Those things I posted are repeated on this site in several of your comments. Same exact language.
Well yeah, sometimes I don’t particularly feel like retyping the same evidence and arguments multiple times when its directly relevant.
Minor political disputes
Sure, why not.
Israel had sympathy a week ago but I’m not seeing it much now. Virtually no one I know supports Israel’s response. I see it from suits on TV and don’t doubt it is widespread but the reality is safe to the say is the world seem pretty divided over it.
Huh, I can’t say I’ve had that experience. Me personally I don’t have like a burning hatred against people who don’t support Israel’s counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations, I just think they’d probably be misguided.
Babies are terrorists
support Israel’s counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations,
Even when they do it with terrorism and genocidal operations.
Except you have yet to prove your unsupported accusations. So as to their operations, I wonder who would be correct?
They’re bombing the shit out of Gaza as we speak. If Hamas’ attack qualifies as an attempt at genocide, than what would Israel’s bombing of Gaza be? You can label it as a “counter terrorism” operation all you want but it’s still mass punishment and the loss of life will be much more pronounced than the Hamas’ attack on Israel.
Yeah, no divisions can be allowed to divide us, so get with the program and oppose war oh frequent reader of antiwar.com.
Yes, yes, …Kill all those baby behead’rs, their mothers & grandmothers (all breeders of more genocidal baby beheaders)! who dare to want to recover their homes. How dare they resist the oppression and the brave godsped IDF.
Interesting:
16 October 2023
Yasmin Porat, a survivor of the bloodshed at Kibbutz Be’eri, near the boundary with Gaza, says many Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli forces.
An Israeli woman who survived the Hamas assault on settlements near the Gaza boundary on 7 October says Israeli civilians were “undoubtedly” killed by their own security forces.
It happened when Israeli forces engaged in fierce gun battles with Palestinian fighters in Kibbutz Be’eri and fired indiscriminately at both the fighters and their Israeli prisoners.
“They eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she told Israeli radio. “There was very, very heavy crossfire” and even tank shelling.
The woman, 44-year-old mother of three Yasmin Porat, said that prior to that, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians for several hours and treated “humanely.” She had fled the nearby “Nova” rave.
A recording of her interview, from the radio program Haboker Hazeh (“This Morning”) hosted by Aryeh Golan on state broadcaster Kan, has been circulating on social media.
The interview has been translated by The Electronic Intifada. You can listen to it with English subtitles in this video and a transcript is at the end of this article.
Notably, the interview is not included in the online version of Haboker Hazeh for 15 October, the episode in which it apparently aired.
It may well have been censored due to its explosive nature.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
Exactly, the brave godsped IDF special ops.
To that:
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi confirmed Sunday that he is drafting regulations that will empower him to order police to arrest journalists for factual reporting and target anyone he believes has damaged national morale during Israel’s ongoing war against Gaza.
Haaretz reports that Karhi—a member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party—is preparing draft emergency regulations titled “Limiting Aid to the Enemy through Communication” which would allow him to direct police to arrest any civilian, remove them from their home, and seize their property if he believes they have disseminated information that might harm national morale or be used as “enemy propaganda.”~Common Dreams
Sounds like he’s been watching Putin and Zelenskyy for ideas.
I’d say a lot of the US mixed in. They don’t have to make arrests, the msm is in lockstep with propaganda.
Don’t forget that a Democrat threatened Taibbi with jail and sent an IRS agent to his house while he was testifying, even though he owed no money.
Then there is the corporate/government collusion of censorship and cutting off funding for independents like Consortium News or The Grayzone. The Hamilton 68 scam tagged CN as “Russian bots”.
One more:
Inverted totalitarianism
“Sounds like he’s been watching Putin and Zelenskyy for ideas.”
Yes, I’m sure he’s scrambling. He must envy the US, where mainstream media is naturally compliant and seldom requires the imposition of harsh measures.
Blood lust is taking over the planet, not just wars, but violent societies as well, US is a good example with the coming ‘helter skelter’ free for all race wars.
This must be an actual NPC.
Millions throughout the world protest Israeli war crimes
What’s happening:
Thousands protest in Australia against Israel’s war on Palestinians
Thousands protest in Malaysia and Indonesia against Israel’s war on Gaza
Over 150,000 protest in London against Israel war on Palestinians
Tens of thousands protest Israel’s war in cities throughout Britain
More than 15,000 in Chicago protest against Israeli assault on Palestine: “If we see children and families getting killed we must talk about it”
At protest outside White House: “The IDF is killing people while the western powers and media are complicit”
Protest in Dearborn, Michigan: “I’m here to stand up for humanity”
Protest in New Orleans suburb: “The American politicians and lobbyists … they are giving Israel billions and billions a year to commit a massacre basically.”
Thousands in New York protest genocidal onslaught on the Palestinians by Israel
Mass protests erupt internationally against Israeli war on Gaza
Open letter from Harvard employee opposing persecution of students protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/15/hzvk-o15.html
brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces
Once more:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98ebb18320140836a9f9ae9fbbbbe226877810dc5f258458df33ac555f6a06e2.jpg?w=320&h=247
Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal. This is a deliberate distortion and should be treated as such.
I can copy and paste too.
“Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel”
Because that is exactly what it is. And they add up. Israeli terrorism makes Palestinian terrorism look amateurish. They just use better toys provided by the king of the terrorists, the US.
Thats great. So I guess you’d be fine with Canada hypothetically launching missile terrorism and cross border genocide against the U.S. and leveling cities like New York because they were “close to the border”. And if you feel bad about any of the people who might die, you shouldn’t, because Canada wont accept the oppression of the 45th parallel! As well as the lack of political representation in the Quint! We must extrapolate the isolated incident of Tarnak Farms into an indictment against the entire American state! I’m going to have to end this hypothetical here, as in the real world the U.S. would absolutely crush Canada militarily (Israel has underperformed in some combat aspects), but you need to understand that this not a logical path you want to go down.
What in the fuck are you talking about? My comment was about you giving the same damn answer to me previously. Exact same answer in two different comment sections. We’re done hasbara.
Read the room. Israel is losing what little sympathy they’ve had in the world. it’s losing it’s young who don’t want to be forever associated with a fascist regime. It’s losing it’s Evangelicals for the same reason.
It should be clear that Israel continues to pursue its 100-year terrorism-fueled genocidal effort to erase the once-rightful and peaceful residents of historic Palestine. As the Zionist-vassalized world comes together to obsequiously condemn Hamas’s courageous and just liberation struggle and support terrorist Israel. To that end we must not allow the truth to come out, lest it create divisions that would hamper our criminal aims. As criminal accomplices we must support the craven souls of the Israeli Murder Forces in their Satanic determination to complete their genocidal mission.
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It would be helpful Mirror if you would come out from behind the anonymity of your moniker to give us some information regarding your perspective, so that we can know why it is you take the position you do. Since the majority of the Zionist-propagandized western population support your position, there’s little reputational risk involved for you.
So step out of the shadows and let us know why you believe what you believe.
Well, at the risk of sounding condescending my opinions and perspectives are based off of verified information, while most of the accusations against Israel continue to be either unsupported or distortions (can you cite and/or prove how the IDF would be filled with “Satanic determination”? How can the state of Israel be “genocidal” because of its counter-terrorism and anti-genocide operations that take every reasonable measure to reduce civilian casualties while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal? The recent statement by one of the Defense Ministers has also continued to not be valid, as in context he was clearly talking about Hamas). On the topic of dropping a “moniker”, I don’t particularly feel like giving out my real name and information to this online forum, as firstly thats just standard operating procedure on the internet and secondly I get the impression that some users on this site (not you, like joechilla?) are incredibly anti-Semitic. However, I continue to remain free to discuss my moderate, reasonable stances.
“. . . (can you cite and/or prove how the IDF would be filled with ‘Satanic determination’?”
I’m guessing that’s a judgment call based on observation.
Can you prove it isn’t?
Those accusations can quickly become a rabbit-hole, as technically I can’t prove the sky isn’t really made out of sentient cotton-candy, as isn’t that just what they’d want you to think. So at a certain point, I can just point out there is an overwhelming body of researched and corroborated explanations for why this would not be true, and while sure there may remain a microscopic chance the initial claims were true, at a certain point we have to accept the overwhelming amount of evidence to prove the former.
Pretty much everything you have written here and up to this point, is a Hasbarist lie. Hardly surprising since this is generally the western view as a result of complete “narrative” saturation resulting from Zionist media control.
You appear to have no interest in the truth. If you care to find out what it is, simply access this link and read the history. History according to the Zionists themselves:
The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/mideast/hidden/index.htm
Beyond that further engagement with you is pointless.
Somehow I actually read a significant section of your “source”, it wasn’t particularly illuminating or convincing. Firstly, plenty of individuals have died from if not emerged seriously maimed or injured from “rocks” thrown by “Palestinians”, and as such when a serious volley of them is thrown against others in an unprovoked and unjustified riot, security measures, such as the use of some small arms, can absolutely become necessary. Secondly, the incendiary rhetoric used by the book is unsupported, as it noticeably does not give examples of how security forces “ …shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian youth”. It proceeds to only mention people who were arrested during this period, without giving the reader sufficient context as to whether or not these arrests would be justified given the numerous documented atrocities perpetrated by “Palestinians” during the period of the first “Intifada”. It also noticeably appears to give a very biased and distorted version of events for army seizures from hospitals, as it does not at all dispute that these people would be arrested for legitimate crimes but that they “ …would never be seen again”, something that happens if you commit sufficiently horrific actions and are subsequently arrested for it. We are never given any context as to why the young man mentioned would have been shot 3 times aside from the vague implication that it was somehow Israel’s fault (this may surprise you, but it is usually terrorist organizations like Hamas that break into people’s homes to kill them), as we are instead introduced to his mother, who subsequently implies that she doesn’t care what presumable terrorist measures are taken as long as she “receives” land she views as hers. She would probably be dead if Israeli security forces showed as callous a disregard for human life as she did. We are told that security measures for the screening of weapons, equipment, and personnel that have been used to kill indiscriminately is “characteristic” of the “Nazis”, notably not including how else Israel would prevent such atrocities from occurring. In what I’m sure was an attempt at clever word-trickery, it never states who would be doing the “…[shooting] at and [beating] with sticks.” It brings up a policy of some individual shifts from detainment to a form of physical punishment, but never states what evidence or what actions the people subjected to this would have done. While I could spend an inordinate amount of time reading this whole “source” and explaining its issues, its emotion-based appeal quickly falls apart on further analysis, and as such does not appear to hold the “truth” you claim it holds. Your not obligated to “engage” with me, but that also doesn’t subsequently make you correct on this issue.
I sadly assume normal people are driven to terrorism by living in apartheid prison hell where their land is stolen and they are viewed as sub human and then become raging insane with desire for revenge for loss of dignity and loved ones.
Then people driven to extreme revenge insanity by apartheid land-theft and murder of friends and family retaliate with an atrocity designed to force the oppressors to either show their honor or cowardice to invade Gaza and do street battle against fearless living dead among the rubble.
Oppressors have made monsters of those attempting to live as best as possible under psychopathic oppression. Israel made the rules of this ugly game.
The Israeli leadership has no honor. Hollow to the core.
Well said OG1, well said.
First Excuse: Bad Weather
Second Excuse: Hezbollah attack from north
Third Excuse: Biden in Israel
Fourth Excuse: See the second one…!
Hezbollah beat up Israel rather badly in 2006 and by most accounts is stronger, more organized, better armed and with much more combat experience today. The IDF performed very poorly.
Fear of a Hezbollah attack is a perfectly rational fear.
How about a swap.. Hezbollah get’s Northern Israel and Israel gets Northern Gaza.
There is a point there. Most members of Congress have demanded that Russia must return the stolen Crimea to Ukraine but they have never demanded that Israel must return the stolen Golan Heights to Syria. Hypocrisy is the breakfast, lunch and dinner of our Congress.
No shooting fish in a barrel, no IDF.
Signs of senility everywhere.
It’s possible that the Hezbollah and Iranian threat to enter the War of the Gaza operation continues has been taken seriously by the Israelis. If that plays any role in the prevention of further bloodshed in Gaza, then that’s a good thing.
Yes. Let’s not forget that the bombing, missile strikes, siege and forced relocations continue.
Maybe Israel believes they can fend off the missile barrage long enough for the US to do the job they’ve been wanting the US to do for the last 40 years. Especially with those assets being moved into the region. Maybe Israel will even do a false flag on those assets to make sure the US does what Israel wants. The whole fucking thing looks like a false flag.
Well said wars, well said.
If Israel believes Hezbollah plans to enter the war if Gaza war continues, than look out for 1967 preemptive style attack by Israel on Hezbollah.
Israel is not taking the bait.
Terrorists wanted Israel to over-react and
invade Gaza getting bogged down so Hezbollah could strike their flank from the north.
That simple.
New Israeli strategy,
aid relief to southern Gaza for refugees,
pick apart northern Gaza from air, sea and artillery.
Reallocate troops to the north and destroy Hezbollah attacks.
Smart.
“Israel is not taking the bait. Terrorists wanted Israel to over-react . . .”
Yeah, Israel is showing wise restraint. For instance, it appears that it has just killed hundreds of Palestinians in an airstrike on a hospital. A careful, thoughtful bunch, those Israelis.
Military targets after notification for civilians to leave.
So considerate and thoughtful. Smart.
More than Israelis got before the sneak attack and butchery of babies and women. Dumb.
I thought you would come up with something better than that since the Israelis were tipped off by several parties about the attack and the butchery in part is in question. Not smart.
Believing crappy propaganda. So dumb.
You should read my post on genocide on the hospital strike thread. Then you should follow the link and read the relevant parts of Convention on Genocide. Then you should sit quietly and think carefully about what sort of human being you want to be.
At the moment, judging by your posts here, it seems that you want to be the kind of human who is complicit in the crime of genocide.
Absolute projection.
The Gaza Strip is only 25 miles long and 7 miles wide.
In the meantime, the IDF and settlers are rampaging in the West Bank to keep things boiling until the assault starts in Gaza. https://www.salon.com/2023/10/17/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-dozens-of-west-palestinians_partner/