Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel was “trying to [minimize] civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we’re not successful.” The prime minister’s statement comes as the UN warns that the Israeli fuel embargo of Gaza could cause widespread starvation in the besieged enclave.
In an interview with CBS News on Thursday, the Israeli Prime Minister said Tel Aviv was trying to wipe out Hamas with minimal civilian casualties. He stated, “That’s what we’re trying to do: minimal civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we’re not successful.”
Netanyahu went on to blame Hamas for the high civilian death toll in Gaza. “Any civilian death is a tragedy. And we shouldn’t have any because we’re doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm’s way, while Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm’s way,” he argued.
The Israeli leader says his forces have taken steps to warn civilians of upcoming strikes. “So, we send leaflets, [we] call them on their cell phones, and we say: ‘leave’. And many have left,” Netanyahu said.
In the first weeks of the Israeli military campaign, Tel Aviv instructed Gazans to move to the southern half of the strip. However, at least some who fled their homes were killed while trying to evacuate. After fleeing, numerous Gaza residents have been unable to locate basic resources and were forced to return to their homes.
On Wednesday, Israel began instructing Palestinians in southern Gaza to evacuate. It is unclear where the people could go.
Since Israel started bombing Gaza six weeks ago, at least 11,000 civilians, including 4,500 children, have been killed. The UN reports, The UN reports “One in every 57 people living in the Gaza Strip has been killed or wounded.” Dozens of journalists and doctors are among the dead. Over 100 UN staff members have been killed.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, told the UN Security Council the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza has decimated the healthcare infrastructure. “WHO has recorded at least 137 attacks on health care in Gaza, with especially severe impact on Al-Shifa Hospital in recent days, where newborns on life support are dying due to power, oxygen, and water cuts, while many other patients of all ages are at risk – as well as medics, and people sheltering on the hospital grounds,” he said.
Netanyahu attempted to justify the two-day raid on the al-Shifa Hospital by claiming Israel believed it would find hostages in the facility and that Hamas was using the building as a headquarters. He told CBS News there were “strong indications” that Israeli hostages were being held there, and this was “one of the reasons we entered.” However, none were found.
The Israeli Prime Minister went on to say Tel Aviv had “concrete evidence” that there were “terrorist chieftains and terrorists” in the hospital, but that these fled as Israel’s forces advanced. Israeli forces who entered Al-Shifa found a small number of guns and uniforms.
After a Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7, Tel Aviv cut off all food, aid, water, and fuel into Gaza. The Israeli government has relaxed the embargo and allowed small amounts of food and water into the besieged enclave. However, the lack of fuel has now completely halted all aid shipments. While Netanyahu says he is attempting to take a moral path and save Palestinians’ lives when possible, the international aid agencies warn that there is now a risk of mass starvation in Gaza.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Hubris leads inevitably to Nemesis and ruin … His judgement is coming, and right soon …
I hope you are right.
Judgement? He is a god damned liar and he has lots of company in MSM and government. He may be treated like he did Rabin, maybe that could be possible.
Netanyahu claimed Israel was ““trying to [minimize] civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we’re not successful.””
oh i totally believe him because he is a super cool-guy – in fact he is a veritable Fonzie!
How could he do that, civilians are the only target there is.
they knew it they said they aim for damage, no mention what kind of damage, like the non existing WMD in Iraq?
Author Norman Finkelstein refers to Netanyahu as a showman. The show he is conducting is murder, ethnic cleansing.
Shocking. I wonder what the problem was? Maybe it was 40+ days of Israel maximizing civilian casualties? Or maybe it was Putin? Or Covid?
If he really, really, really wanted to limit civilian deaths, why doesn’t he just stop the bombing??? Hmmm???
PRO AMERICAN RALLY Madison Square Garden 1939
https://youtu.be/QExM4GdtXDI?si=OMDxtICXC9XPokbR
This was done by the “Lincoln Project?” Now they have it on Showtime? These people never stop. Evil never sleeps.
that is footage of an actual PRO AMERICAN RALLY Madison Square Garden 1939
The footage appears too perfect to be actual. Here’s some of what I read about this group but the Grayzone folks know more: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-lincoln-project/
Israeli girl was allegedly taken hostage on Oct. 7 and was released 23 days later.
oops! somehow she was posting on her social media account on Oct 12. oops!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1725162999025905692
Interesting. Where can we read of this.
i got it at WhatReallyHappened.com but now i can’t seem to find it there.
edit) i did find this though =
EXPOSED: Israeli Actress POSES As Palestinian Nurse In Propaganda Video
https://youtu.be/KzABRM9YFfI
Not very good actress. The drum beat touch cracked me up. If she is an actress of note, then I am Lawrence Olivier.
She is good enough to cheat American simpletons. Actually, they love to be cheated. That’s why they believe in any anti-Russian, anti-Chinese and anti-Arab nonsense.
The US has lost its right to exist.
BDS the US/Nato/Israeli complex.
No state ever has any right to exist in the first place, any more than any other criminal conspiracy.
So then,according to you,the Palestinians have no right to a state.Which I do not agree with.
Sometimes if you want to make breakfast omelet for one, you have to break few dozens of eggs.
Somehow I don’t think he is as broken up by this as he claims
The lies of Satanyahu are so arrogant because he is in service of Satan.
He is Satan incarnate, joined at the hip with Biden, his brother, the Devil incarnate. They have many more siblings, too many to name all of them.
And Hamas are freedom fighters.Yea right.
Hamas is fighting for simple human rights, the right to live a decent life and a future for their children. They are real reasons, not some abstracts like freedom, and democracy when there is no food , no shelter and no future.
In what universe has Hamas ever given a shit about human rights?
When they were elected they started with social programs the CORRUPT PLO has never done anything for the people.
Look how the Palestinians are being treated on the WB and Abbas has done what other than fill his pockets?
Next, what I think is not important, what the Palestinians think and know is what counts. For all I know, they support Hamas, like it or not.
Worldwide the people demonstrate for the human rights of the Palestinians and not the Israelis. Many non-Zionist Israelis support the human-rights of the Palestinians.
Now in what universe have Western Democracies ever given a shit about human rights for the Palestinian people? When you see the body of a small child wrapped in a white sheet attached to the adult figure, father or mother, in a white sheet normal people with a heart cry for them, what about you? Would you give a shit about the human rights of Palestinian babies and demonstrate for a ceasefire?
Why does genocide Joe do nothing for the babies in incubators?
Hamas, like all states, cares about power. They care about “human rights” when it makes for good propaganda. Other than that, not at all.
I agree that PA/Fatah are no better on that subject. Nor are the US, Israeli, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese, Indian, etc. regimes.
States are ranchers. People are their livestock, to be sheared, milked, and slaughtered at will.
Thomas, what is your point? Who represents the Palestinian people in Gaza and in the WB LEGALLY? Who protects Palestinian private property on the WB, PA/FATAH? Why were some 200 Palestinians, including children killed in the WB? By all accounts IDF protected the settlers while robbing and killing Palestinians? What authorities in the West speak out for human rights of the Palestinian people? Who protects the hospitals in Gaza, any UN commission investigating inside the hospitals? Palestinians are human animals according to Israeli officials, is that a lie, did they not say that? Is bombing defenseless unarmed civilians including women and children legal or morally justifiable? To order them to move out because they will be bombed in a few minutes is no more than “cover your ass ” Israeli talk and you know it. They can paint it as they wish, war crimes are war crimes, the massacre of civilian population is a war crime even when Israelis do it. Call it genocide, it is the massacre, the murder of the Palestinian people, it does justify to call Biden Genocide Joe.
“Who protects Palestinian private property on the WB, PA/FATAH?”
Nobody.
“Who protects the hospitals in Gaza”
Nobody.
“Palestinians are human animals according to Israeli officials, is that a lie, did they not say that? ”
Yes, at least one of them recently did, and there’s a long record of similar statements from others.
“Is bombing defenseless unarmed civilians including women and children legal or morally justifiable?”
No, it isn’t.
I’m not sure what you think we disagree on, other than the fact that Hamas is no better than the Israeli regime when it comes to human rights, murdering civilians, etc.
“Hamas, like all states, cares about power. They care about “human rights” when it makes for good propaganda. Other than that, not at all.”
What is your point?
What is it you want to say with it? Hamas does what the IDF does for Israel? IDF is no better than Hamas?
Frankly, I believe that Hamas people are fighting for their very personal and individual human rights, they are not war profiteers and they are volunteers not conscripts or mercenaries.
They are not perfect, but they believe in their own human rights, no one is doing it for them.
I don’t think we disagree, but I openly support Hamas in support of the Palestinians and their children.
Hamas is not an official army, it is a resistance movement against the oppressor’s on their soil. Like the French partisans opposed the Wehrmacht in France.
That is the difference in my opinion.
That is what my moral compass tells me.
“What is it you want to say with it? Hamas does what the IDF does for Israel? IDF is no better than Hamas?”
Correct.
If your moral compass tells you that murder and other crimes are OK if you’re a member of a “resistance” rather than of “an official army,” or vice versa, your moral compass is off by about 180 degrees.
If you want to know why Hamas picked October to crank up hostilities, look back to July, when Hamas was having trouble suppressing protests by “their own people” over, among other things, Hamas taking a $15 rake-off from Qatar’s $100 monthly stipends for poor Palestinian families.
Hamas was starting to fear being thrown out of power, so Hamas decided to bring in the usually bogeyman to distract “its own people” from its depredations. It doesn’t give two shits about those people’s human rights.
Self-defense is resistance, the Palestinians have a right to live, you expect them to commit suicide by just rolling over and die.
Thomas, read Norman Finkelstein’s book GAZA, first published in 2018 available in paper back, very informative with lots of footnotes. He is qualified based on his life experience, the life of his parents and his education and most of all honesty, he lobbies for no one, he put his career on the table. Read it and judge by yourself.
Palestinians need Hamas, it is the only power they have, Hamas are the Palestinian children born in the concentration camp and shaped by it.
I agree that the Palestinians have a right to live.
I don’t expect them to commit suicide by just rolling over and dying.
I also don’t pretend that Hamas is on their side. Like all regimes, it is on its own side, the side of power.
Maybe Hamas is not a regime because they all are in the same boat with the people. They live in Gaza with all its horrors and they are an elected government. Abbas and his Fatah has done nothing for the people on the WB, his corruption is well known. The Hamas are not perfect, but look what we have, called government. Netanyahu, he and his Likud people are as insane and pigheaded as our Genocide Joe and his cabal. We need a statesman in the WH. Our choices at the moment are Biden, Trump, maybe Haley and Harris and not much chance something better pops up. I will not vote, I refuse to vote for such incompetence. Enough is enough.
Most of Hamas’s leadership seem to live abroad. And in luxury.
As governments go, even if Hamas is no worse than the Israeli, US, Russian, Chinese, etc. regimes, I don’t see any good reason to suppose that it’s better.
And no, they’re not an “elected” government. The last time they allowed “elections” was in 2006. That was 17 years ago. The median Gazan was one year old then.
This is an asymmetric war , Israel has been waging a massacre on the Palestinian civilian population for almost a century, a population which is more than 50% less than 25 years old. The Palestinians don’t have a state and no military. They live in a concentration camp in Gaza and on the occupied WB without any rights, they are open to violence from IDF protected settlers.
We can be sure that the leadership lives much better than the people.
I don’t know how you can consider the conditions equal with wars between two military powers? Israel, USA and the Western powers, nuclear powers against an unarmed impoverished Palestine people is not between two equals. Thomas, you are not fair and neutral. Israel and the US are complicit in the massacre of a beaten down unarmed nation, mostly young people and babies.
“The Palestinians don’t have a state”
Incorrect. The state of Palestine exists and is recognizecd by most other states on the planet, including the UN as an observber state and the ICC as a member jurisdiction.
“I don’t know how you can consider the conditions equal with wars between two military powers?”
I don’t know how I could do that, either. I’ve never tried to and doubt that it would work.
I am well aware that Israel, the US, and Hamas are complicit in the murders of many Palestinians. The only way in which Hamas is different is that it pretends to be on the side of the people it helps murder for its own benefit.
I come to believe you are trolling for the CIA or some kind of government propaganda agency.
Maybe the leadership live abroad, that is not the majority. Their election was fair and square, that is more than we can say about our elections, ours are bought and paid for and votes for window dressing.
Their election may have been “fair and square” … 17 years ago. They haven’t allowed an election since.
This year, they were violently dispersing street protests against their misrule and executing dissidents for supposedly aiding Israel to try to hold on to power. Their last gasp, their Hail Mary play, was to bait Israel into being the bogeyman who makes them look not as bad. And it worked.
I have no expertise, but my observation is that the Palestinian society still is a cohesive family oriented society as well as their cohesion with friends and neighbors. How else could they survive the misery they have been faced with? The Hamas people are members of that society.
Just the same to see the brutalization of young Israeli people when they learn to see nothing wrong with humiliation of Palestinian people on checkpoints and the killing of young demonstrating people and children. It must brutalize young people, war in general brutalizes young men and women. The consequences will affect the Palestinians and Israelis for decades to come.
I add the devotion medical people, Doctors and other medical personnel show by staying on duty taking care of patients for as long as they possibly can. They don’t do it for money.
When ” an official army ” does the killing it is legal but the resistance of the victim is murder?
That is what you are saying.
Well, yes, except for the fact that I’m saying exactly the opposite of what you claim I’m saying, I’m saying what you claim I’m saying.
Hamas Palestinians are fighting for simple human rights, but how would you know?
Are you a Zionist, who pays you?
Hamas is fighting to eradicate Jews. During the process they have kidnapped, raped, and killed Jews.
Ironically, Hamas is getting destroyed by Jews…..LMAO!
““That’s what we’re trying to do: minimal civilian casualties. But unfortunately, we’re not successful.””
Netanyahu continued, saying “I dunno – we tried Nothing, and it didn’t work.”
Netanyahu is the Great Dissembler, always has been, always will be.
He’s also an idiot – of the Blinkin variety.
I haven’t been this surprised since OJ Simpson was unsuccessful in preventing stabbings
Hold up, phresh – I don’t believe OJ did That First Thing. That Second Thing, in Vegas, yeah he did (folks shouldn’t’ve been sellin’ off his s**t) but that first thing, na’ah.
Nor do I think Mike Tyson did that thing in Indiana.
Michael Jackson, tho – he DEF did what he was accused of – and admitted he did, in at least one of his songs (‘Man In The Mirror’)
What can one say; Nutandyahoo is a sick pup. Just heard that the Israeli army gave the people in Al-Shifa Hospital one hour to evacuate.
A band of Doctors, caretakers, people, and patients left the hospital on foot, wheelchairs, and pushed on beds. People who unable to move and tending doctors were left behind. Meanwhile the Israeli army started razing the hospital with bull dozers according to what I heard on Al-jazeera a few moments ago. Is this scene created by Israel sane? But let us not forget who is enabling all this tragedy; the US government, and in particular Biden leading the mess. Nutandyahoo and Biden are partners in war crime. Whatever soothing words they say is sheer bull doo doo. These sickos got to go.
They reported, they were forced to evacuate at gun point, no ambulances the pictures of the babies out of the incubators are unbearable, I recall no pictures from concentration camps that moving and they were very moving.
“The Israeli Prime Minister blames Hamas for the dead Israeli civilians” Typo? *Palestinian civilians? Although he probably would also blame them for that and everything else including his own terrible approval rating. He doesn’t realize that he is really not that photogenic with them empty cold eyes. On US TV, the intelligent people realize that he is the embodiment of their own enemies. …I said “intelligent.” I know there aren’t a lot of them. I’m just sayin… …Okay, I’m hoping… That was a typo.
Start a war, and your people suffer.
Benjamin Netanyahu is both a liar and a criminal, one of the worst of the 21st Century,
And he has lots of company, and with help from our MSM glorifying such scum. Journalists who sold their soul for million $$$ salaries have as much blood on their hands as the political scum bags.
Netanyahu went on to blame Hamas for the high civilian death toll in Gaza. “Any civilian death is a tragedy. And we shouldn’t have any because we’re doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm’s way, while Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm’s way,” he argued.
Dropping thousands and thousands of bombs on 140 square miles of land with over 2 million people packed in that have no place to hide and he has the fucking gall to say there shouldn’t be ANY civilian deaths. My only hope is somehow he is captured by Hamas and given the Gaddafi treatment. But use a sword. A loooong sword.
Western Democracies are governed by war criminals, scum. Not a shred of decency in the nations leadership.
The reports coming from the Gaza hospital are heartbreaking.
The inhumane scum in Washington is justifying it.
Al Jazeera’s live REPORT from Al Shifa Hospital, you have to have a heart of stone to not cry and damn the scum in DC and Tel Aviv and the NATO NATIONS.
I have no words to express my feelings. I voted for the scumbag of a president.
“”I voted for the scumbag of a president (Biden)””
right then. Trump is a worse scumbag and everything that is happening right now would also be happening if he was in the whitehouse instead of Biden. actually probably even worse things would be happening.
Possible, but he could not be worse than Biden. Biden is responsible for the massacre of Ukrainians, an avoidable war, if he had a will to avoid it, the same is true for Gaza all in less than one term in office, not to forget his stoking against China.
Trump could not have been worse, he is a conman but is not known to be a war monger like Biden, a neocon.
Trump is a conman who conned you into believing he isn’t a warmonger.
That is all possible, actually the Democrats conned me with Biden. Trump did not win a second term, he was happy to sell weapons, he appointed neocons too. No telling how he would have governed in a second term. I realize it does not pay to vote for the lesser of two evil, evil is evil, you can flip a coin before you vote. I decided not to vote if there is nothing to vote for. No telling what a second Trump term would be and no telling how terrible another Biden term would be. Hillary too was a rotten choice and so was Bush and Obama. Neocons and big money work hand in hand regardless who is president, Nuland and Blinken are old hands in state. Don’t forget, the election is all about selling one person out of two who have already been selected by the nations leading elite with the primary process.
I’m with you in this. Not going to vote in the next cycle for the simple reason that both sides are running political trailer trash.
“political trailer trash”
It says it all.
Yeah, “political trailer trash” reminds us that Americans still think it’s OK to sneer at and mock poor people in difficult circumstances.
I grew up as “trailer trash” and, as an older adolescent, I beat the living shit out of a couple people who used that term as a taunt. More morons should get beatings like that.
Pull your heads out of your asses, RBE and Lysistrata!
Please take my apology for that, I was thoughtless to say it. I should not have said it, I know people who do live in trailers. I meant they are wealthy, educated, human trash. Again, I apologize, I am VERY sorry.
i have been ignoring the vote for POTUS but i always make sure to vote for local issues because they are important
https://youtu.be/lI9hhE5epQ0?feature=shared
I have to listen to to this every so often. For some reason I get a charge out of it.
You are correct, in my case, at least. I voted for him the first time. Never again.
Trump would be the same except there would be more tax-cuts for corporations and the attempted elimination of environmental protection regulations
That is all true, but we will never know. I just can’t imagen Trump to be even bloodier than Biden and all the presidents before Biden, they all are war criminals, how deep in blood depends on the circumstances. Biden adds up, he is responsible for the mass murder of Ukrainians and the thousands of babies and children among the massacre of the Palestinians. The Neocons and the Zionists are such evil people, so despicable, I have no words. And why and what for??? All of them know that bombing hospitals, schools, churches and civilian, are war crimes. They knew there were no military activities in the vicinities of the hospitals, as much as Bush/Cheney knew Saddam had no WMDs, they knew then, and bloody Biden knew now. He is joined at the hip with the criminal, evil SATANyahu. HOW MANY BABIES will they kill today?
Everyone supporting their war crimes are complicit war criminals. All of them know that bombing hospitals and civilians who don’t even have air raid shelters are war crimes. They do know that.
Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalee were literally the only good-guys who ever graced the uncle sam. at some point every single one of us will have to decide if we are a the good-guy or if we are the bad-guy.
edit = figure it out you idiots!
Yes, both were great people with character, they lived by their religion. They were one of a kind, they were humble people which made them so different and great. They were trusted and respected.
President Carter was a good president, I think he was the last president who left office with the budget in order for the next president, which was Reagan who started the mismanaged non stop budgeting with tax cuts and increased military deficit spending. There was Norquist and the Laffer curve and deficits as far as the eye could see.
And they denigrated President Carter, calling him the worst president, and look what we have had since he left office.
wow “Trump is not a neocon….”
really man, let’s not pretend that “republicans” have any different action leagues than democrats do.
Trump is all about making money, selling weapons like no one else, he has no coherent policy like the neocon PNAC people, but he kept their policies in tact, he broke the Iran agreements and spoke about stealing oil resources, not like an old political type. He started the trade wars with China and sanctioned Russia as the neocons wanted. But he can be bull headed, so he had to go. Compare that with Biden, he is a neocon and much easier to handle, so he says some stupid things sometimes, people forget. But we are living in crazy times.
They’re equal in the scumbag department.
BBC proves that the Israeli army is moving weapons around to show them as “found” at a specific place
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64130
You’re just a holocaust denier. 😉
The unfortunate fact for Palestinians is that neither the Israelis nor Hamas gives a shit about Palestinian lives.
That may or may not be true, but this absolutely is not a “both sides” reality.
If not for Israel’s land theft, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, decades of vicious brutality, etc. there would be no Hamas. Because there would be no need for a resistance movement.
The “both sides” is between Hamas and the Israelis. The Palestinian people are pawns. If you think that Hamas gives a damn about Palestinian lives, then you haven’t been paying attention.
Even after I explained, you clearly don’t get it. I’m not very patient or tolerant right now, so I’ll let it go. Maybe someone else will try to teach you what you should know about reality in occupied Palestine.
You could use some education yourself.
Satanyahu emerging from his earthly shape. An amazing thing to watch. No earthly or heavenly laws apply to him.
I am more and more inclined to believe that the pinnacle of overreach, the Hubris has been reached. And cautiously accept the view that Israel has imperiled its own existence. Gaza may be flattened, even with massive loss of life, Palestinians will survive. Region is not what it used to be. Now tgey are well armed, united better than any time in its history. Turkey coordinates with Iran. Saudi Arabia coordinates with Iran. Egypt with everyone. Jordan is well armed snd has motivated population, over 50% Palestnian. Syria has Russia on its soil, while China and Russia back Iran with 20-25 year agreements. This will end up with Israel power being degraded and being forced to cede territory in West Bank and Gaza, possibly even Golan Heights. US presence cannot help. Naval asset are vulnerable. US needs China to buy its bonds, all the bluster is irrelevant. Only China can buy them, ending this precarious month to month budget. Over trillion in interedt paymentd exceds defence budget. China will have condotions. Sonwil Russia to save US face in Ukraine. It was easy for Satanyahu to start a war. He may not have a say in how it finishes.
I hope you’re right.
The US should rebuild and if needed,protect its manufacturing base-put our underemployed people to work. Then China’s importance will decline.rigth now-Gaza is still part of Palestine.
You’d think that Bibi would have a good point of reference: the holocaust?…….
This just in. Another UN school has been hit. You know, if should be apparent to the members of the UN that these attacks on UN facilities are attacks against the UN. When will there be punitive ACTION!? Let me answer my question: the officers of the UN do not want to have their oh so busy day interrupted by a little thing like genocide, the killing of women and children. Disgusting.
It is disgusting that for some people,the killing of Israeli women and children is acceptable.
Everyone is horrified by the IDF slaughtering Israeli civilians on 7.Oct
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
Just a question, are you for real or are you just the wild card joker in a deck of cards?
At the UN more people appear to take early retirement. They tended to be idealistic young people when they started to work for the UN.
Maybe it is just my imagination, the UN has been misused and abused by the USA and Israel.
The Russian Federation in Avdiivka is about to storm the coke plant…….Zelenski in a panic told his Generals to defend the COKE plant at all costs.
No one had the balls to tell Zelenski…..not that kind of coke.
Of course. The Avdiivka coke plant is a key base for Kiev’s forces and has been since 2014. And even in its seriously-damaged condition, it was one of Europe’s largest producers of coke before last year’s invasion.
Losing Avdiivka will be a very big deal, a bad one, for Ukraine.
According to the NAP (nonaggression principle) it is prohibited to initiate the use of force against another person. The only legitimate use of force is for the protection of life and property against an aggressor. I remember a striking application that Rothard gave of the NAP . Suppose that Jones murdered the wife and three children of Smith in the most horrific way you can imagine (you can substitute Hamas for Jones in this example). Smith in his just war against Jones chases Jones into an elementary school with a machine gun. Jones uses the elementary school children as a human shield to protect himself against the just retribution of Smith. Smith responds by opening fire on Jones and in the process not only kills Jones but also kills 25 elementary school children. In this example Smith had a perfect right to seek justice against Jones and only Jones. None of the elementary school children Smith killed in the process of killing Jones ever aggressed against Smith or his family, therefore Smith had no right to kill those children even if Jones was using them as a human shield. Smith only had the right to use force and seek justice against Jones. Smith is guilty of the murder of 25 elementary school children. When considering the events of October 7 Israel has a perfect right to hunt down and even kill those persons who where guilty of murdering innocent civilians. However, like in the case of Smith, Israel in its just war against the October criminals, cannot go into an elementary school and massacre innocent children. Netanyahu’ s explanation that Israel in its response to the October 7th attack is trying to minimize civilian deaths but cannot do so, sounds more like a confession to mass murder than a justification of Israeli policy in Gaza
Israel wants to clear out the real estate, by bombing, starvation, lack of medical care, basically make it uninhabitable for whoever is left. Some members of government are already making noises about the world taking refugees, a “We bomb them, you take them” policy with the American tax payer picking up the tab as usual.
Instead of amassing weapons and plotting crimes against humanity Hamas could have built a port facility that could have served to get aid in and people out. Most countries in the Mediterranean have good navies and merchant marines.
Build it with what? Israel doesn’t allow anything in that could be used as a dual purpose.
They had plenty of cement to build tunnels to retreat after their murderous atrocities.
Right. And they would have been allowed to build “a port facility that could have served to get aid in and people out”? What planet are you living on?
I think he was going to say “Maximizing civilian casualties” however was corrected by a proof reader.
Hamas and all Palestinians have the right to resist their occupier. The Israeli occupier has no right to self defense.
Donbass and all ethnic Russians have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Syria and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Iraq and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Afghanistan and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Libya and all ethnic Muslims have the right to resist their occupier. The US occupier has no right to self defense.
Blaming the victims for the many many crimes against humanity committed against them is fascist.
Totally solid good sir, SOLID.
Sorry added Syria and Iraq, hopefully you still agree, its a re-occurring theme for the last few decades.
Occupy a resource rich area, brutalise the local population, loot the resources, then call any resistance terrorism and murder them all. You know defending democracy and human rights.
In other words,people that you approve of have the right to do nasty things to people that you don’t like.
Therefor,all US citizens of of non- Native american decent are occupiers and subject to bad things. Israelis born in Israel are occupiers and subject to bad things.
Israel bombed Al-Shifa Hospital. Mass Murdering Palestinian civilians. Israel is now desperately looking for evidence of Hamas command and control centers. No evidence has been produced.
Imagine being the type of person that just shoots hospital patients in cold blood. Imagine being a person that supports mass murder of critically injured patients. Palestinians are terrorists though right? You make me sick.
These are horrendous war crimes, crimes against humanity. That they are even looking for evidence now means that it was an excuse to bomb a hospital in cold blood and under international law they have to assume its a civilian structure unless they have proof its NOT. The target was NOT Hamas, the target was to ethnic cleanse and genocide the Palestinians in Gaza.
Where is the UN, the ICC? When the dust settles every person representing the UN and the ICC must be arrested for their complicity and support of war crimes. All those who profited from supreme international crimes must also be arrested for profiteering from these crimes.
Unfortunately their wont be much of humanity left once this is done. Gaza isnt a humanitarian crisis, its a crisis of humanity. The blood lust of humanity cannot be satiated, the greed of humanity cannot be satiated it is beyond disgusting.
Anyone who thinks the Israeli attack has anything to do with Hamas is woefully mistaken. The word you’re desperately seeking is “OIL”.
What goes around, comes around. Netanyahu can escape prison for only so long.
Natanyahoo is a war criminal he has to be lockup.