According to Israeli media reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused requests from his top military and intelligence officials to discuss potential plans for a post-war Gaza.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu rebuffed three separate requests from the heads of Mossad, Shin Bet, and the Israeli Defense Forces. “Time is running out and decisions need to be made already about how to act with regard to all the relevant actors inside and outside the Gaza Strip. The Americans want explanations,” an unnamed Israeli security source said.
In response to the report, Netanyahu’s office said that he had instructed his top aides to prepare for preliminary deliberations on the matter. The news of Netanyahu’s refusal to discuss the topic comes as Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s minister for strategic affairs, is in Washington and due to meet with high-level US officials to discuss the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The US and Israel have very different visions for a post-war Gaza as the Biden administration is calling for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to take over while Netanyahu has publicly rejected the idea. The Israeli leader has said several times now that he envisions an open-ended Israeli military occupation of Gaza.
The US and Israel are also far apart on Israel’s current military operations in Gaza. US officials have said they advised Israel to wrap up the current phase of the war, which involves constant airstrikes and ground operations, to take a more targeted approach against Hamas leadership.
But Netanyahu and other Israeli officials said military operations are expanding in Gaza and have vowed the onslaught will last a long time. So far, the US-backed Israeli massacre has killed over 21,000 Palestinians, including over 8,000 children, according to numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, which is believed to be a low estimate.
Netanyahu has an interest in continuing the onslaught as his political career is in peril due to intelligence failures that led to the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. The Israeli leader has also come under heavy criticism for his strategy of helping prop up Hamas to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Polling has shown that the majority of Israelis want Netanyahu to resign after the war.
There were no “intelligence failures”. He knew full well what was coming and when it was coming. How could he not know. Sin Bett, Mossad, probable spies in Gaza, our listening posts and cooperation. He also knew full well that the incursions into the mosque, detailing Palestinians, allowing settlers to run amok, shooting Palestinians would evoke an attack, a breakout of the concentration camp. No, there was no “intelligence failures”. Netanyahu wanted the attack to happen in order to; 1) save his political *ss, 2) have the excuse for the “final solution” to the Palestinian “problem”, to increase the land grab in full. Oh yeah, he even sacrificed his own people on 7Oct for the “mission”, the manufactured 9/11. He is a full blown monster and a danger to his country, and with the nukes Israel has, it would not be out of the realm of possibility that he would pull off the Sampson Option.
Well said ! He needs to be stopped, arrested, given a fair trial and hung.
And not necessarily in that order. 😉
Shows your sense of logic.
Throw him to the mob.
Like in the Odessa pogrom.
That mob would have lifted him up on their shoulders as a hero… They were Nazis y’know… Hell, you probably ARE one!
A ridiculous conspiracy theory.
How’s the view from that hole in the sand that you’ve got your head stuck in?..
Hurts the eyes, I’m sure. SO much grit. Contact-lenses are shot.
A 3-day warning from Egypt. Warning from soldiers from within the IDF. The ridiculously slow response after the attack. But mostly, Israel needed an attack that would allow them to have free reign to kill with impunity. All the other skirmishes with Hamas just didn’t have enough Israeli casualties to allow for the type of onslaught we have seen since the attack. Israel got exactly what they wanted. It worked to perfection. A whole bunch of dead people and a propaganda machine second to none and away we go. The real conspiracy theory is that Israel was caught off guard.
“A 3-day warning from Egypt.”
I had read that the Mafia in the US often received warnings of impending “hits” by other ‘families’, from the F.B.I. of all people. Who had ears to the ground & surveillance giving them the best intel.
Ignored at a capo’s peril.
The question is did they ignore it because they didn’t believe it – or because they did..
Ironically Netanyahu and Zelensky find themselves in similar situations. The only real way out is unconditional surrender. Any other outcome will cost their people too much.
Likud should accept 181 as the basis for a secure and peaceful Jewish State before it’s too late. The Likud has failed miserably
Israel is a 19th cent. colonial race-state … of the worst stripe. The UN, in contravention of its own charter, demanding abolition of colonialism, created it. It’s illegality is patent. It has no “right to exist”. The S. African solution is the only legal one.
Robert, YOU NAILED IT BROTHER. But, all kidding aside, it’s even worse. I think it’s not a “19th century colonial race-state.” It’s at least a 2000 year old colonial race-state based on something that God himself never said.
It was a tribe(s) of nomadic shepherds in the hills of Canaan who in the 6th cent. BC began getting organized by a group of their shamans returned from Babylon inspired by Nebuchanezzor’s state to take the step from a group of tribes led by chiefs to a kingdom. To accomplish this they created a new god, YHWH, a Big Chief, anathematized their old Canaanite god Ba’al, and generated a book of stories gleaned from older surrounding cultures, a myth-history, and rules. C.onsolidation occurred over a longish stretch eventuating in a tiny statelet for perhaps a century until Alexander the Great arrived. Foreign domination and occupation solidified their seperate identity until Hadrian and son dispersed them for good in 70 AD. For the 2000 years since they have maintained and cultivated an extreme reactionary tribal culture as the core of their identity. And Zionism makes claim to Palestine on the priest-crafted fiction of a contract with a god they themselves made up.
So you knew the answer to the question all along and you never told us? They “chose” each other?
Yes, and the deal was: God would grant it them in return for abject loyalty as demonstrated bu (no longer sacrificing their eldest man-child) having themselves castrated, latterly circumcision, as it were conceding to Him all rights to the women, children, and sheep. … which when you think about it, not so different from Americans today, eh?
Not the best deal ever made.
Israelites : “And you’ll defeat all our enemies.”
God : “Sure ! Or help you do it.”
Israelites : “Even if they have chariots of iron ?”
God : “….”
Yes, you point to the societal cost of the transformation, Chieftan God to War Lord God, …. kinda hits close to home, no?
Indeed. I can see why conservatives like the consolidation of the old pantheon into a monotheistic religion (small government and all), but I do think pantheism holds many more advantages, particularly towards back story and consistency of characters.
Indeed. I can see why conservatives like the consolidation of the old pantheon into a monotheistic religion (small government and all), but I do think pantheism holds many more advantages, particularly towards back story and consistency of characters.
Me too. “Empire” is a hateful thing. The optimal would have the US, Russia, China, … balkanized, a truly multipolar world. Nations no country larger than Costa Rica.
I think we’d have a better civilization overall if there were such sub-divisions of extant encompassing-states into smaller, more tribal nations.
Still maintain trade and economic and social ties – the EU has done well to effectively end intra-European warfare and hostility by tying ever member state to a common currency and economic co-dependency.
Critical is to allow people to be WHERE they want to be; tribal-nations that wish to form themselves as Christian nations or Moslem nations or Libertarian nations or whatever tie-that-binds consenting, like-minded people in those regions are fine – so long as people who DO want to live that way can go there, and people who DO NOT want to live in that micro-society may leave.
This is my dream of future space colonisation – Humans can go forth and settle new worlds and form such societies, LITERALLY millions & billions of miles away from every other competing Human endeavour. May the best social philosophy prosper.
Zionism makes claim to Palestine on the priest-crafted fiction of a contract with a god they themselves made up.
They didn’t make it up… They co-opted it.
Your right, but it was an hyper-projection of the tribal chief; not the sun, the sky god of settled agricultural people, the Egyptions.
All this does nothing to change the reality-Israel and Palestine are real- two nations locked in a death struggle. I can argue that Arabs did not come to Palestine until 700 AD-so what-they are human,as Israelis.
Just so. But Justice is the sine qua non of a healthy body politic.
As if only Christians worship correctly. They worship a dead young Rabbi,yet hate and kill his people.
How do you know what God did or did not say? Have you heard directly? Most Jews were exiled from their homeland for two thousand years,and the Arabs did not get to Palestine befire apx 700 ad.
There were people living on that piece of land long before the Jews existed. Palestinians are descendants of those people who lived there. Many became Jews and then Christians and many became Muslims later. Arabs as ethnicity group were all over the region long before Islam. Most of the people who converted to Islam in the area were native people not newcomers.
And the Palestinians have been there for two thousand PLUS years… That’s why they named the land Palestine.
DUH!
What gives anyone a right to exist-a broken condom?
How do you define “exist-a” ? Assuming you mean “exist” but the coherent use of hyphens is outside your cognition.
That plan died 75 years ago. Come up with a real idea.
give up your home to Native americans.
When will the Israeli pay for the property they stole ?
https://www.plands.org/en/articles-speeches/articles/2019/when-the-denial-bubble-bursts-an-israeli-kibbutz-faces-the-nakba
Get a UN resolution demanding that and we can talk.
Until then UNR 194, UNSC 2334 demand that Israeli pay reparations plus damages. 2334 references this ICJ opinion –
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-178825/
Surrender means extirpation,exile, and death.
Hear hear!
If you dish it out you ought to be able to take it.
Unfortunately, both nuttyahoo and zelensky do not care about the costs to their own people, let alone the people theyre killing.
And Putin cares about the 100,000 dead Russian troops? And Hamas cares about the 20,ooo civilians that they got killed by their reckless attack?
Oh, I see. In your worldview , Zelensky and Netanyahu are the “good guys” fighting evil and making a peaceful and prosperous world for all.
You are recommending that Israel surrenders unconditionally to Hamas??? What did you eat this morning?
Netanyahu’s plan now in motion is to repeat the Armenian Genocide.
He can’t say that (in English). So he refuses to say anything, and just does it.
He is quite clear about it in Hebrew, and our press just ignores that.
Exactly… 100%… But I haven’t seen him really “refuse to say anything.” Have you? Like every time they ask him: What are your plans? He answers: “Kill all the Palestinians.” The next day, his answer: “Kill all the Palestinians.” Dude! He even wished me a “Merry Christmas,” while at the same time he told me he’s going to “Kill all the Palestinians.” But for some reason he added that’s because, “We’re fighting MONSTERS.”
Why do we let that Nazi push us around ? Cut all support to the apartheid state..they spit on us then demand more money and bombs. Why are we letting this hateful regime drag us down with it ??
Because we love it so much. It looks like us. it acts like us. We love it like we love our own children. …Strike that. We love it more than our children. …Why? Obvious. We’re willing to sacrifice our own children for Israel. Remember the USS Liberty?
Remember the USS Liberty?
Aye… Never forget!
A question more and more people are starting to ask… Particularly young ones. The future looks bleak for the Zios and a little bit brighter for humanity.
Military occupation under military law not civil law for nonjews. Problem>?
Ask the Lakota.