In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Benjamin Netanyahu names three conditions for peace. Let’s review the conditions and the stumbling blocks to them.
Three Prerequisites for Peace
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Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.
First, Hamas, a key Iranian proxy, must be destroyed. The U.S., U.K., France, Germany and many other countries support Israel’s intention to demolish the terror group. To achieve that goal, its military capabilities must be dismantled and its political rule over Gaza must end. Hamas’s leaders have vowed to repeat the Oct. 7 massacre “again and again.” That is why their destruction is the only proportional response to prevent the repeat of such horrific atrocities. Anything less guarantees more war and more bloodshed.
Second, Gaza must be demilitarized. Israel must ensure that the territory is never again used as a base to attack it. Among other things, this will require establishing a temporary security zone on the perimeter of Gaza and an inspection mechanism on the border between Gaza and Egypt that meets Israel’s security needs and prevents smuggling of weapons into the territory.
The expectation that the Palestinian Authority will demilitarize Gaza is a pipe dream. It currently funds and glorifies terrorism in Judea and Samaria and educates Palestinian children to seek the destruction of Israel. Not surprisingly it has shown neither the capability nor the will to demilitarize Gaza.
Third, Gaza will have to be deradicalized. Schools must teach children to cherish life rather than death, and imams must cease to preach for the murder of Jews. Palestinian civil society needs to be transformed so that its people support fighting terrorism rather than funding it.
That will likely require courageous and moral leadership. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas can’t even bring himself to condemn the Oct. 7 atrocities. Several of his ministers deny that the murders and rapes happened or accuse Israel of perpetrating these horrific crimes against its own people. Another threatened that a similar attack would be carried out in Judea and Samaria.
Egypt Proposes a Deal, But Israel and Hamas Say No
Yesterday, I wrote Christmas for Gaza? Egypt Proposes a Deal, But Israel and Hamas Say No
A Starting Point
If both side genuinely dislike the deal, we have a starting point for negotiation.
It’s clear that Israel would dislike this proposal for several reasons. Does Hamas dislike the deal?
If Hamas has to give up power, and that can somehow be enforced, they probably do hate this proposal. But what’s the enforcement mechanism to keep Hamas out of power?
No Future in One-Sided Proposals
There is no future in one-sided proposals. The beauty of the Egyptian proposal is that everyone hates it.
I do not expect Israel to accept that deal now.
However, after Hamas is weakened further, especially if Israel can take out all or most of Hamas leaders, we have a genuine starting point for discussion.
The alternative is endless war.
I brought up destroying or weakening Hamas and keeping militants out of power, even asking “what’s the enforcement mechanism to keep Hamas out of power?“
Netanyahu proposes a “a temporary security zone on the perimeter of Gaza and an inspection mechanism on the border between Gaza and Egypt.”
Details including the definition of “temporary” are going to be a stumbling block.
One thing I missed is “Gaza deradicalization”. Will that take months, years, or decades? How does that work? Is it even possible?
Assuming it is possible, Israel will have to prove itself. That will take investment in Gaza, more services, and more jobs. Mistrust is not one-sided.
Israel needs to build enough trust so that the ordinary Palestinian will be willing to hand over extremists and report extremist plans.
So, what does “temporary” mean? How long is it?
War! Too wipe out living beings for the pleasure of those in power.
The article and subsequent discussion in the comments make the case that the US needs to withdraw from everywhere and pursue a neutralist foreign policy.
The prerequisite for the US to pursue a neutralist foreign policy, is to give up having the world’s reserve currency, and to re-adopt the pound, and abolish the Fed and accept the supremacy of the Bank of England. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
All I would want on Israel and the Palestinians is a US policy that is in the US’s best interests. Neither Biden nor Trump are even close to delivering on that simple proposition.
I own a technology company.
We just cancelled our business with an Israeli company and migrated our platform onto a Chinese companies product.
I’m sure we’re not the only one.
You’ll only see the subtle cancelling of Israel increase. Actions always result in reactions. The dust has not even begun to settle.
I have a lot Jewish friends who truly don’t support what is happening over there. It’s a derangement they want no part of.
Mish For President
…so you’re a terrorism supporter…
You’re just another of the dunderheads who have “discovered” a re-invigorated passion for the Palestinian “cause” on October 8th.
Even if the Palestinian claim on the land of Israel had vastly more validity than the Jews’, which is clearly not the case, supporting Israel’s determination to eradicate Hamas/Isis after the massacre is now the only moral choice. The alternative is to demonstrate that large-scale massacres are effective at galvanising support, thereby ensuring that they proliferate as a first-line choice for all aggrieved interest groups, especially Islamic terror organisations.
Apparently AussiePete did not comprehend Fast bear. Fast bear’s technology company just recently cancelled their business with Israel, as legions are now doing. They were doing business with Israel through October and November. Fast Bear’s company took the moral high ground after Israel abandoned credible, moral self-defense and substituted ‘large scale massacre,’ barbarically slaughtering more than 20,000 civilians, mostly children, and also recklessly destroying the homes and businesses of two million. Today, Israel allies are “terrorism supporters.”
Hamas thanks you for your support….
“…barbarically slaughtering more than 20,000 civilians, mostly children…”
There’s never been a war where the dominant force has done more to minimise opposing civilian casualties, including warning of airstrikes in advance, whereas Hamas actively work to maximize their own civilian casualties, as that is their only source of propaganda leverage.
Apparently Fast Bear’s position is that Israel is obliged to shrug their shoulders and allow Hamas to perpetrate October 7th type massacres again and again, as that is their stated intention.
Seems your infatuation with thousands year old fairy tales has clouded your duty to reconnoiter reality “ethically and morally”, a task that any nine year old little girl can accomplish with ease.
Toxic, cruel and immoral behavior is only found acceptable by people inculcated in depravity. Humans are more good than bad – those who adhere to toxic ideologies were tortured by toxic families and toxic ideologies until they become self obsessed like a dog prodded with sticks in a metal cage; gnashing and snarling at every opportunity.
Just because snarling feels right to you – does not mean it is right. So while I deplore your view I am also empathetic to that cage and stick from which it springs. You’re likely a victim of a toxic environment – if others find your view deranged, you might ask why?
The possibility exists that your view is in the wrong.
Have you considered that?
Do you self reflect or do you only react?
You sound like you are reacting.
Reacting comes from programming.
Then we need to ask:
Who programmed you?
Will your programming help society as whole progress or is it a net detriment.
Destroying Gaza might have worked 10 years ago. But it won’t work today because the veil hiding the 700 years colonialist crimes are lifting everywhere. Gaza will likely be seen as the last criminal colonialist action on earth. As such it will permanently wound the Jewish cause. This won’t be an Iraq or Libya coalition war lost in time but a notable Jewish crime against humanity soiling the Jewish reputation forever.
Israel is destroying Hamas, which cowardly shelters behind civilian infrastructure. If they wanted to “destroy Gaza” they had every excuse they needed when Hamas sent thousands of missiles into civilian areas of Israel – instead, they invented and successfully deployed an anti-missile system and just got on with their lives. So Hamas plotted and schemed and finally found a way to provoke the war that they wanted.
Play stupid games – win stupid prizes
Yep.
So you support the atrocious psychopathic genocidal Chinese Communist Party?
I mean really?
Straight from the horses mouth. No punches pulled.
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Israeli Govt. gives update on Israel-Hamas war
Israeli Government Spokesman, Eylon Levy, provided an update on the Israel-Hamas war on Tuesday. Levy says Hezbollah launched an anti-tank missile from inside Lebanon, injuring a civilian.
LiveNow Fox
26 Dec 2023
https://www.livenowfox.com/video/1386548
It’s clear. Netanyahu’s intent is to destroy the civilian infrastructure in Gaza so the Palestinians have nothing to return to. If this were being done to the Jews, we’d never hear the end of it. But they control the media and it is all being cast as Hamas’s fault: they’re hiding behind human shields. When this lame excuse for wholesale slaughter is repeated over and over, the rubes believe it.
Bulls***. Israel had all the excuses they needed “to destroy the civilian infrastructure of Gaza” when Hamas launched thousands of rockets into civilian areas of Israel… Instead, astonishingly, they invented and successfully deployed an anti-missile system and just got on with their lives.
Hamas was begging for just this kind of war for years and they finally found a way to provoke it.
I don’t get why so many people are leaping to the defence of people who would kill them.
Unspoken is this promise: we (Israel) will continue to invade, settle and eventually annex the West Bank. Israel’s actions in Gaza establishes the precedent for the West Bank as well.
Netanyahu promised the Religious Zionism Party to expand and eventually annex occupied territory via a Plan approved by Donald Trump (and never rescinded by Biden). Annexation of Gaza won’t happen right away, but Israel is very patient. Israel thinks in decades while the world thinks in months.
Also unspoken (and politically desirable in many ways): we (Israel) will continue to frustrate goal #3 (de-radicalizing the Palestinian population) by expanding Israeli settlements and applying strict Israeli military law (apartheid) to Palestinians (but not Jews) in the occupied territories. We (Israel) will continue to use every act of violence against Israel as a justification for more expansions of territory until the dream of a greater Israel is achieved.
Biden has declared himself a Zionist. He has quietly enabled Trump’s policies on expansions to quietly proceed. In short, this is a project supported by both political parties. Any member of Congress that opposes Israel and this project will be targeted by the pro-Israel lobby and defeated. This is true for every member of the U.K. Parliament as well (example: Jeremy Corbin).
In short: there will be no Peace. It does not serve Israel’s interest.
What more need be said?
Biden isn’t an anythingist, it’s his programmers that are the continuity peddlers.
Israel is the only states that are held to a standard of the “right of return”, and people actual belive it. I would put Russia secound on that list. Do Armenian get to go back to Turkey, Jew to central Europe, Germans to Kalingrad, et al…..Native population in the US get their land back. No
It complete silliness to think we can right “wrongs” from the past. If you think Gazans et al are going to get their homes back….you are ignorant, and not very smart. Oct 7 unified the Jews for another 100 years. If I had bet on who would be a thriving, rich society in a 100 years. I would bet on the Jews.
Of course the Ar menians should get their land back from Turkey and Azerbaijan!
Bibi has turned Israel into a pariah state. What neighboring country would or could normalize relations with Israel at this point – their own people would never allow it. The fact that Biden has encouraged Bibi (or at least turned a blind eye) during this rampage is sickening.
Just watch. Israel mints money.
Well, the Hamas group will have their requests too, so I expect no peace will be had. As long as Israel has endless American tax dollars to spend, there will be no peace.
This could certainly be the start of some Peace over there, but we shall see over time. I think all 3 will be needed myself, and no exceptions. I hope and pray for the people involved, that they can come to some sort of mutual agreement to simply stop trying to hurt one another. That would be huge!!
1st: Hamas must be destroyed. > This can occur, but not in the annihilation sense. Capturing, so to speak, ALL Senior Leaders would be a must, and many second and third tier Leaders as well. Messaging can only change from the top down, if it is to be wholly acceptable.
2nd: Gaza must be demilitarized. > This is occurring now, and is not an option. Much will have to be agreed upon by other neighbors as well, to make it work longer term. It can and must be accomplished over time, but you need to plant the seed now, if you wish to watch and allow it to grow. This will need a lot of help and support. Again, it can be done however, but it will be painful, costly, and ongoing, and will definitely require neighbors support.
3rd: Gaza will have to be de-radicalized. This can be tampered around with now, and should be, but until, and only, if 1 & 2 are accomplished first, but not in their entirety, but a path to success becomes obvious. People will feel safe then, and this is very necessary to have, if you wish it to succeed. Many of these people were and are raised to do what they are doing, from Birth!
Deradicalize the schools? That’s a good one. Perhaps we could do that in the U.S. while we’re at it?
Anyone from Youngstown, Ohio to Hastings, Nebraska (minus blue zoos and college towns) excused for not GAF?
It’s your tax dollars that DON’T fund your health care, your tax dollars that DON’T fund higher education, etc cetera…..
India will protect the Indian Ocean after a second attack. Yesterday the Hooties attacked a ship in the red sea. Today Israel destroyed a drone near Dahav beach in Sinai in front of European vacationers. On Xmas day Hezbollah attacked St Mary’s Greek Orthodox church in N. Irseal. NYC Intifada cont.
Egypt told Bibi that attacking Rafa is crossing a red line. Al Sisi fears that the Palestinians will flood Sinai. Bibi might have given Al Sisi permission to beef up the Sinai, thus turning Sinai from a neutral zone to an Egyptian military camp. Since the IDF crossed Gaza Israel lost 157 troop, killing more than 20K Palestinians.
Israeli hostages became Yahya Sinwar human shield and Harem. Bibi exchanged Sinwar and 500 prisoners for Igaal Shalit. Hamas killed many hostages. The less they have the less cards Egypt, Qatar and Hamas have to negotiate a ceasefire.
Hamas fought AGAINST Iranian proxies in Syria. They are more aligned with ISIS. But why not start off with lies if they sell to the American dupes.
What an asinine article. Israel basically wants the natives to never take up arms and resist it, and to ensure Palestinian children are brainwashed into accepting their ethnic cleansing and occupation quietly. Western supporters of colonialism find these goals very noble.
If you regard the October attack as acceptable “resistance”, then Israel’s response must be also “acceptable”, especially since Hamas wanted it, as it gives them Israeli targets at home.
Since you are ideologically opposed to “colonialism”, presumably you also want all non-Aborigines to leave Australia…?
Just you
Can I stay at your place…?
These are nebulous goals whose goal posts can easily be changed. Anyone who didn’t know that Bibi planned to use the allowed deaths of a few thousand Israelis to remove all Arabs from Gaza forever is really very slow in the head. Gaza has been nothing but a thorn in the side of Israel and a terrorist breeding factory. Right or wrong doesn’t matter today anymore than it did when G_d himself was telling Israel of the Old Testament to take over the lands, cities and livestock of those who were killed off to make room for Israelites. What is fair or not fair, anyway? Who other than G_d can judge this?? Also, look at how Andrew Jackson mowed down the North American Indians. Might makes right. Always has. Probably always will.
Ever see the movie Escape from NewYork? Well that is Gaza’s future
Slaughtering babies and women and destroying everyone’s home is an obvious first step in de-radicalization. Does Bibi think we’re all as stupid as he is?
Well, it seems they might have a good reason to move to Egypt now 😊
Who? Hamas? Who voted them in to go into civilians houses and commit atrocities?
Palestinian society must be deradicalized? Really? Israel has just radicalized Palestinian society well beyond the levels before 10/7. What’s even worse is that Israel is radicalizing a whole new generation throughout the Middle East. We may well come to view Al Quaida terrorists as a bunch of pussycats compared with the terrorists that are coming next.
The radicalization is the result of Zionist occupation and oppression. Deradicalization cannot happen as long as the occupation and oppression are going on.
Really………So once all the Jewish people leave the religion of peace will actually be peaceful with their global neighbors? And Black Christians will no longer be brutally killed in Nigeria? Your either an Anerican educated liberal under the age of 40, an Islamists, a complet F-ing moron or all 3
So why do Muslims wage war in the Philippines?
why does the US wages war on most of the world?
remind us why did it wage war on Iraq again?
Yeah, but the Philippines… answer that one first…
Then try southern Thailand, and then the muslim rape gangs of Rotherham. Answer those; then we’ll do the USA.
They talk about radicalized Gazans as if radicalization has no cause or reason.
The cause and reason is Islam. The Palestinian constitution forbids Arab Jews from being citizens and Hamas treats the few remaining Gazan Christians as dhimmi human shields. So not only must Hamas and Islamic Jihad be destroyed but the palastinian authority needs a complete purge if they ever want peace in a 2 state solution
Netanyahu does not dictate the terms. As a consequence of the 1948 nakba one billion Muslims must see all zionists dead or vacated from the land of the Semite natives of Israel. There will be war until Israel repairs the damage they did. Bygones are not bygones after seventy five years. The world and his dog take a dim view of Jews perpetrating genocide upon the Semite natives of Israel held captive in a Jewish Gaza concentration camp for seventy five years.
Remember the rule of holes. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Islam is garbage and it’s followers are moon cultists. The muslims will end up nuked by the civilized world and the Chinese solution practiced (i.e. Uyghur camps). They must secularize and coexist with others, everywhere in the world it’s always muslims causing problems with others.
Well according to statistics Christians beat all other religions combined in terms of kills. But… for a while now, both Catholic and Protestant branches are behaving pretty well.
No they don’t, stop lying for the moon-worshipping paedophile cult.
Is Islam much different to Christianity or Judaism? Based on a moral epics from times well past. Some good bits, but also with a bunch of hatred in them and the powerful people seem to like the smiting and hatredy bits better than the caring for other humans bits.
fundamentally it’s territorial – and changing your mind means death… that’s kind of a fundamental difference.
Do not forget, this was Israel’s land, long before it was the Arab’s land. They were kicked out in 586 BC, returned in 300 BC and then kicked out again in 70 AD and 130 AD.
If bygones are not bygones after 75 years, then why not 2000?
And ISrael has repeatedly tried to give the Palestinians their own government as long as they agree to live peaceably with Israel. They have turned down the offer 3x now.
They need to accept that Israel isn’t going anywhere and they have to accept reality.
Asking Israel to just up and leave their land is like asking every American to leave America and turn their lands over to the native Americans. It’s an idiotic request.
That is BS logic. If you were born in one state, and then moved on to some other state (for whatever reason), you don’t get the right to move back to the state you were born in and throw someone out of their house so you can occupy it.
How many Gaza’s that exist today were alive in 1948?
Less than 1%.
So using your own logic, Israel should stay right where they are. They have been there as a nation for 75 years.
And it’s apparent you do not know what happened in 1948.
The Jews of Israel were already living there when England withdrew and the UN decreed Israel as a nation into existence. The Arabs attempted to kill every single Jew in the land (and these people were living there for generations beforehand) and were surprised when the Jews won.
The Arabs living in the land that the UN chartered as Israel left their homes voluntarily, hoping to come back and get more land, houses and pillage the Jewish homes that would now be vacant. They fled to Gaza and since the Arabs surprisingly lost, they were not able to return.
This is not made up history, it’s well documented, fully supported by history and ignored by modern liberal thought.
“There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”
–Golda Mier (As quoted in Sunday Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Post (16 June 1969))
“When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area before the First World War when Britain got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then? Palestine was then the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraqian border. Eastern West Bank was Palestine. I am a Palestinian, from 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing in this area as Jews, and Arabs, and Palestinians, There were Jews and Arabs.”
Golda Meir (“Iron Lady of Israeli politics” Thames TV (1970))
Too true,about time we saw some Hamas 1500 kg bombs devastating Israeli homes and lives.Followed by D28 Palistinian driven Caterpillar Bulldozer’s crushing their Biblical ideological pipe dream back into the past where it belongs
So you’re just crying that you’re not as powerful as your sworn enemy…? BooHoo.
No doubt every German and Japanese felt the same way just before they lost the Second World War. How do you think they feel about that defeat now…?
You can either start with humility (which is the essence of virtue by the way) or have humiliation forced upon you. We might be approaching Hamas’ 1945 moment now….
Which “states” are we talking about? There weren’t any there before WW2… at least not since the Romans invaded about 2,000 years ago.
European settlers conquered the indigenous in this land.
European settlers are seeking to do the same over there.
It’s not the 19th century.
The world is watching with growing contempt.
What European settlers?
Israel is not European. They are long term residents of the land of Palestine.
They’ve allowed a lot of Jews to return to the land, but the original Jews in 1948 were the actual residents of the land of Palestine and had been there in continual succession for thousands of years.
The majority of Israelis were born in Israel and only a minority have parents or grandparents that came from Europe. And nearly half the Israeli Jews are of African or Asian ancestry with large numbers from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Morocco and Egypt.
There is a synagogue near my dentist in Misr El Gedida (Egypt) hasn’t been used in decades as the Jews were expelled. One of them was murdered on October 7th and he was 80 years old.
Houthi’s in Yemen expelled the last Yemeni Jews recently, the last Afghan Jew left last year to join his children in Israel. So where should the Jews go if the countries that their ancestors came from expelled their ancestors?
“the world” of corrupt genocidal dictators and primitive illiterate cultists?
Agreed! This point have even been made by the 2nd in command of the PLO in the West Bank. Strangely enough, this story has received no real media play since it came out.
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Palestinians must find new path from Israeli rule after war, top official says
By Samia Nakhoul and Ali Sawafta
December 17, 2023
RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Immediately after Israel’s war in Gaza ends, all Palestinian factions including Hamas must take a serious look at the failure of their policies to achieve freedom for their people, a top Palestinian Authority official said.
Hussein al-Sheikh, 63, said war in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel meant Hamas should make a “serious and honest assessment and reconsider all its policies and all its methods” once fighting subsides.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinians-must-find-new-path-israeli-rule-after-war-top-official-says-2023-12-17/
If the right of return extends back 2000 years then most of the worlds population needs to relocate to make way for those who ancestors may possibly have lived near where they live now.
Back 75 years it’s clear who was pushed off their lands by armed force.
And isn’t Judaism a religion. Anyone can become a Jewish, you don’t need to prove genetic links to Judea to become Jewish, so..
“ Remember the rule of holes. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
Like terrorist tunnels for example?
Asking about Israeli trust building ignores the Palestinians who live, work, and vote in Israel today. Of course, they are the Un-radicalized and do not have imams who weekly promote terrorism. For the most part.
The Israeli government owes the Israeli citizen freedom from terrorists. That absolutely means the destruction of Hamas. It means salting Gaza so that no replacement for Hamas can exist.
What methods are “too drastic” if your family had been tortured, raped, then murdered? Your child, your mother, or your son? I submit hunting Hamas the same way Nazis were hunted after WWII. First, Gaza must be Hamas free. Rip the band aid off quickly. Slowly prolongs the misery.
It’s not just retribution for Oct 7th. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc. pumped many thousands of rockets into Israel on a regular basis. In fact, they are STILL doing it, even amidst the huge IDF force presently in Gaza!
Would anyone enjoy living in an area where they had to run to shelters on a regular basis, week after week, to protect themselves from incoming rockets launched from Gaza? I am amazed that Israel waited as long as it did to finally decided to clear the terrorists out of Gaza.
As for Palestinian citizens working in Israel, the government has accused some percentage of them as spies who funneled info back to terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel shouldn’t have created and funded Hamas to begin with. There was an article by Tal Schneider in the Times of Israel on October 8th titled “For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces,” a December 10th article in the New York Times by Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman titled “Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas, as well as a Haaretz article from 2018 titled “Netanyahu: Money Transfer to Hamas Is the Right Step, I Know How to Bear the Cost.”
If you or I even donated $100 to Hamas on our own, we’d be in prison on terrorism charges. But when the US government gives our tax dollars for Netanyahu to give to Hamas, it’s somehow okay. Hamas in charge of Gaza is what Israel and Netanyahu wanted and maintained, and now they’re murdering children by the terrorists they sponsored did what they did, paid for by American taxes with Bibi’s blessing.
“Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized.”
Sounds like a plan. It will be impossible to achieve, of course, but at least Israel is drawing the line in the sand.
Keep it up, Bibi! Israel is nowhere near done with phase one. Time to start moving into southern Gaza and drive them into Siani and force Egypt to step up.
Israel and its Genocidal plan,will ensure the destruction of Israel by its own hands.
Do I feel sorry for the oppressor ?
Not one bit.
Reap what you sow.
Oh really? What do you think will happen to the nuclear weapons in Israel? I can assure you, Mecca, Medina, and every other Middle Eastern city will be in the upper atmosphere.
It’s pretty clear the blog is being hammered by some Muslim troll farm.
And Gaza is reaping what it sowed and will keep reaping it until Hamas is destroyed. Unfair on the innocents but so was bombing Germany and Japan into surrender
But unlike Germany and Japan, few are really innocent in Gaza.
Hamas was liberal with support to its Gazan residents. Such support ranged from cash stipends, free apartments, cars, furniture, food, cash for each baby they produced. Hamas in conjunction with the UN, arranged for never ending aid in the form of over 500 trucks of incoming supplies EVERY SINGLE DAY prior to Oct 7th and more, making living in overcrowded Gaza easy..
Now all of Gaza is paying the price of embracing and implicitly supporting Hamas, whether for their philosophy of death to Israel or for their freebie distributions.
Hopefully, this will a lesson that other populations dependent on handouts take to heart for the future.
Yup, Israel is going to be destroyed. Did you see the news item today that Intel is building a $25 billion chip plant in Israel? I’d wager that Intel doesn’t agree with your future prognostication. [lol]
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Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for $25 billion chip plant amid Gaza war
Kia Kokalitcheva
26 Dec 2023
Israel’s government has awarded a $3.2 billion grant to Intel as part of a $25 billion investment the chip company is making in a manufacturing facility roughly 40 miles south of Tel Aviv, both sides reportedly said Tuesday.
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https://www.axios.com/2023/12/26/israel-intel-grant-chip-plant
Thank you, now everyone knows that they should avoid anything with ‘Intel inside.’