“‘WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?’
The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.
‘SQUEAK’ he said.
Death waved a hand dismissively. ‘WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME’ he said. ‘I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE’” #Discworld#Netanyahu#Rafah#WarCriminal#StopGenocideInGaza
If Biden does not course correct soon, he is going to throw this election. In that case, the damage to our ability to form alliances may be permanent. How can we have any credibility with Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, etc. after witnessing the lack of seriousness which we afford to our “ironclad” commitments?
One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
...states a real semblance of justified grievance. This must STOP.
President Biden was right to halt the delivery of offensive weapons to #Israel.
This can be but a first step. #Netanyahu has for decades been a grand master of letting US presidents look like school boys when informing them, often after the fact, of aggressive actions against its neighbors or #Palestinians. This must STOP. If Israel wants to be an equal nation,...
...however, this does not discredit all of his arguments.
The #Palestinians or their forbears did not commit the #Holocaust atrocities. This was done by the #fascist and communist regimes of Europe. They should have equal right like the Jews.
As long as this great injustice has not been remedied, war-mongers like the #Mullah Regime and the #Netanyahu Regime will always have ample possibilities to rekindle the embers. Al of...
#Netanyahu has for decades been a grand master of letting US presidents look like school boys
Don't leave out AIPAC, which has dominated both American political parties. AIPAC courts the GOP but let's not forget that a former Dem party chair was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, foursquare in support of the Zionist project.
There cannot be double legal and moral standards, ..."with liberty and Justice for all.”
As a sidenote:
History will judge whether the current presiden of Russia or Israel or the former president of the US, #TFG, will have caused the most lasting damage to their respective countries in the long run.
What is at stake for the USA is nothing less than Democracy and individual...
...liberties, the final collapse and partitioning of the Russian Federation, and statehood and a safe heaven for Jews for Israel, as well as a Superpower guarantor of its security . I'd say with regard to discrimination and persecution Jews have already been set back globally since October, 2023.
Probably the most lasting achievement of #Netanyahu.
However, the end never justifies the means. Over 30k civilian deaths are too many.
I did not live during the Vietnam War, but the currently globally spreading student protests clearly show that the #Netanyahu Regime has clearly abjectly lost the propaganda war for the minds and hearts of the global public.
Every day doesn't only cost innocent civilian lives in Gaza and Israel, but the remainder of any moral "Holocaust credit" that the Regime...
...deems to be limitless. It is not. It is approaching bankruptcy with every day that the war drags on.
That Hamas has agreed to the terms of a #ceasefire only accelerates its exhaustion. #Netanyahu seems to have forgotten that this year is a super-election year globally. Governments around the globe will not be able to ignore the students' demands, rightful or not.
French novelist Émile Souvestre wrote in 1848: “There is something more powerful than strength,..
"For example in this situation, if we abandon Israel that could result in making that region into a new Iranian radical Islamist caliphate with strong ties to Moscow."
I agree. I don't think that going along with #Netanyahu's extremist policies in Gaza is necessary to prevent this, though.
#Israel is part of the West. As is #Hungary. Rogue leaders must be removed without "dumping" their countries.
Following the #Biden administration's announcement that the US will withhold large bombs and artillery shells if Israel moves into a full invasion of Rafah, #Netanyahu asserted Israel's readiness to proceed independently into the crowded city.
“If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails,” declared Netanyahu in a video statement.
Israel has reached out to US Senators to condemn Biden's decision and demand the immediate reinstatement of #weapons to Israel, with some senators even calling for Biden's impeachment over this move.
"The Biden admin has said a major invasion would be a red line -noting that it could result in more civilian deaths. Aid groups -already having difficulty distributing much needed aid to the >1.4M ppl -current fighting: killed dozens of people in the last 24 hrs -more robust IDF presence now. 2 brigades, one’s a specialist in tunnels & the other one were the perpetrators of the WCK incident. Those are the 2 brigades operating now & in South Rafa."
Netanyahu's alliance with #TFG was known, but the fact that he did the IL PM's bidding, is why he'd prefer TFG to Biden in Nov:
"Back in the day Netanyahu asked Trump to support his request, sent via then-Mossad director Y Cohen, to Qatar, to get more money to Hamas. Trump agreed. Billions flowed. Trump was 100% all in.
#Netanyahu, under the illusion he's a Jewish Churchill in a bunker fighting Hitler, reposts his Armageddon "WE WILL STAND ALONE." 5/5/24 speech
-N Tarnopolsky
What's with this Israel BS about continuing the attacks until Hamas releases Israeli hostages. Hamas agreed to release the #hostages as part of the #ceasefire deal but #Israel turned down the release of hostages because that would mean they would have to stop murdering innocent men, women and children. #Netanyahu has never cared about the hostages.
President #Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to #Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in #Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
President Joe Biden's decision to hold up delivery of high payload munitions to Israel was taken in the context of Israel's plans to carry out an offensive in Rafah that Washington opposes without new civilian safeguards, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday. More information with FRANCE 24 correspondent Irris Makler and former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Frank Lowenstein. #Israel#UnitedStates#Netanyahu #Gaza#Rafah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNmQi6xlyrY
Ma'ariv newspaper describes the situation as: There is a new prime minister in “Israel”.
They add that in practice, Benjamin Netanyahu has become the servant of his master, Itamar #BenGvir, and this raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated?
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir appeared in front of the cameras a few days ago while leaving the Prime Minister’s Office, acting Prime Minister, and announced in an unambiguous tone: “I warned the Prime Minister that we will not enter #Rafah, nor will there is an illegal deal.
The Prime Minister heard the words, and promised that "Israel" would enter Rafah, and promised that the war would continue, and promised that there would be no illegal deal.
These words and tone of voice leave no room for doubt in the heart of every listener. There is a new prime minister in the State of #Israel.
This raises the obvious question: To what extent has Netanyahu deteriorated? It has reached the point where even a response from a prime minister, in order to preserve his dignity, is not uttered.
Netanyahu, despite thousands of disagreements, knows what the majority of the people want: the release of detainees, and he also knows what is important and useful to the people.
But he follows Ben Gvir and Bezalel #Smotrich, because that is what is good politically for Netanyahu for obvious reasons.
Russia: leading beneficiary of #Oct7. As IL moves into Rafah -likely to get worse. #Putin now finds it easier to depict Biden’s liberal INTL order as a hollow shell. Biden: will back IL if: ICC issues any indictments of #Netanyahu. Biden supports: ICC indictment of Putin. Until Oct7, Putin & Netanyahu recognized in the other a strongman ldr *do what it takes to hold on to power -shared disdain for American liberals Since Oct7, RU: tilted away from IL. https://www.ft.com/content/368207df-f52d-43d1-a9cf-a13121a55574
11KM-Podcast: Warum Netanyahu die Bodenoffensive in Rafah braucht
Gegen alle Warnungen der Verbündeten weitet Israels Premierminister Netanyahu die israelische Militäroffensive in Rafah aus. Welche Gründe er hat und was dies für die Menschen im Gazastreifen bedeutet, erklärt 11KM.
#Netanyahu has been more or less a dictator of Israeli policy for nearly 30 years.
Multiple administration has been force fed his nationalist garbage. If it wasn't for the #hostage negotiation, Palestine would be fully destroyed by now.
The #Biden admin paused the shipment of thousands of weapons to #Israel, including controversial 2k-pound bombs, amid mounting concern about the country’s plan to expand a military operation in southern #Gaza that could dramatically increase the conflict’s death toll, U.S. ofcls said Tues.
It's not normal to use 2000 lb bombs in the rescue of #hostages but it is normal to use 2000 lb bombs in the destruction of an enemy in a tunnel. The civilians used as human shields remain dangerously in the middle.
The priority for #Netanyahu is obvious and he will not be negotiating the future #peace.
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
According to reports in the Hebrew media last month, #BenGvir demanded of the Israeli chief of staff at a briefing: “Why are there so many arrests in [#Gaza]?
“Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”