Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present

[Davey Crockett]

Lead news story in Bartlesville, Oklahoma today.....


Oklahoma Senator James Lankford has let it be known that once the Senate and House reconvene into session, he will be introducing a bill that cuts U.S. funding to members of the United Nations that expel, downgrade, suspend or otherwise restrict the participation of the State of Israel. This is a bill that is modeled from current legislation already in place, which prohibits funding to United Nation entities that elevate the status of the Palestine Authority to a member state.



Here is what Lankford had to say on the importance of this bill getting passed:



“Israel deserves to have the world's full support in their defense against unspeakable terrorism. Our greatest ally in the Middle East has faced vicious attacks since their founding in 1948, but the latest all-out assault from the Iranian regime and their terrorist proxies intends to wipe Israel off the map.”



Several other Republican Senators signed on in support of the bill.

 

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As Israel ramps up war on multiple fronts, nobody knows what Netanyahu’s endgame is​

Analysis by Ivana Kottasová, CNN
October 23, 2024

Netanyahu is playing a complicated game, trying to balance the contradictory demands of the many allies he cannot afford to lose.

Jack Guez/Reuters
JerusalemCNN —

When Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza last week, many inside and outside of Israel hoped it could be the moment Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would declare a victory and scale back the Gaza operation in hopes of securing a ceasefire and hostage release deal.

A week after Sinwar’s death, it is increasingly clear they have been wrong.

Netanyahu, who celebrated his 75th birthday on Monday, is Israel’s longest serving prime minister, steering his country through its longest ever war.

Israel’s international allies, as well as many inside the country, are pressuring Netanyahu to end that war now, pointing out that Sinwar’s killing came off the back of other military successes, most notably the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

But instead, Netanyahu has vowed to continue to fight, leaving the world guessing what his ultimate goal might be.

He has hinted that his ambitions might go well beyond crushing Hamas and Hezbollah, the two most immediate threats Israel is facing. He said Nasrallah’s killing was “a necessary step” toward changing “the balance of power in the region for years to come,” raising concerns about his willingness to plunge Israel into a direct confrontation with Iran.

Israel and Iran are dangerously close to yet another major escalation after Iran launched a massive ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1.

Netanyahu immediately promised retaliation, but three weeks later, the world is still waiting to see what Israel will do next. The US and other allies have urged Netanyahu to exercise restrain and avoid striking Iran’s nuclear and oil assets, but it is unclear whether they succeeded.

Netanyahu has publicly stated that he wants his military to eliminate Iran’s proxies that pose the most immediate threat to Israel: Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. But it is increasingly obvious that might be impossible to achieve.

 

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The current situation in northern Gaza shows why. The Israeli military has already withdrawn from the area twice after saying, both times, that it had crushed Hamas there. Yet earlier this month, the IDF went in again after seeing what it said were signs of Hamas re-emerging in the area.

Northern Gaza is now once again one of the epicenters of the war, with the IDF bringing immense amount of suffering on people who had returned to what was left of their homes after the last Israeli withdrawal.

Similarly, weeks into Israel’s operation in Lebanon, Hezbollah continues to strike. A drone fired over the weekend slipped through Israeli air defenses and struck Netanyahu’s beach house some 50 miles from the Lebanese border. On Monday, a drone fired launched Lebanon managed to get through Israeli’s air defences and strike Netanyahu’s beach house in the coastal city of Caesarea, some 50 miles from the border of Lebanon.

Netanyahu’s reluctance to strike a ceasefire deal, even now after securing several military victories, has angered many in Israel. Weekly mass protests against him and his government are back on, demanding an agreement with Hamas that would secure the release of the 101 hostages still held in Gaza.

Aviv Bushinsky, a former Netanyahu adviser and spokesperson who is now a political analyst, said the fate of the hostages – dozens of whom are still believed to be alive – is crucial for Netanyahu’s future legacy.

“If Netanyahu is not able to release any more hostages, either by military means or by diplomatic means, (people) are going to say he failed, and they will always remember what they call ‘The Netanyahu proposal’ in July where they said Netanyahu, at the last minute, added (a) few more conditions to a ceasefire agreement that effectively terminated the deal,” he said.

Bushinsky told CNN that if the war ends without any more hostages or bodies being released or rescued, it is possible some people could eventually start questioning the decision to kill Sinwar – something that was almost universally welcomed across Israel last week.

“And this is my greatest fear, that people will say, ‘oh, you see, we made a mistake by eliminating the single individual you could negotiate with … who knows what would have happened, but at least you had some kind of door to knock on’,” he added.

 

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Many Spain ships were lost in a storm in a war against England in one day. No ships were lost in expeditions around the world!

Since then they rule the world atop Anglo-Saxon world.

Call it black magic??
Mystery

 

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Netanyahu’s legacy​

At the same time, Netanyahu needs to consider the demands from the US. The Biden administration has made it very clear it wants Israel to work towards a deal that would end the war.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel on Tuesday, urging Netanyahu and his government to do more to cool the tensions.

But Netanyahu seems to have grown increasingly immune towards the pressures from the US – Blinken’s trip this week is his 11th visit to the Middle East in a year, yet like the previous trips, it seems to have achieved little.

Tensions between Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden are well documented, but they are likely to get a lot worse in the near future.

With the US election looking to be on a knife edge, Biden has to carefully calibrate his approach to Israel so as not to hurt Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances of winning. He needs to be seen as taking a tough stance on the horrific humanitarian situation in Gaza to stop Arab-Americans and progressives from ditching his party over the war Israel is waging there. Yet he must also continue to support Israel in order not to anger moderate and Jewish voters who expect the US to stand by the Jewish state no matter what.

“The American elections play a dramatic role in how Netanyahu perceives what’s going to happen,” Talshir told CNN. “He has a window of opportunity because there’s very little chance that Biden can restrain Netanyahu now. But after November 5, things are going to change,” she added.

She said that regardless of who wins, the Biden administration may exert a lot more pressure on Israel to end the war in the two months between the election and the inauguration of the new US president.

Biden has already hinted he might increase the pressure – warning Israel the US may stop supplying Israel with weapons unless the humanitarian situation in Gaza improves.

People living in northern Gaza are being forced to leave the area by the Israeli army on October 22, 2024.

Mahmoud sleem/Anadolu/Getty Images

 

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“Netanyahu knows that there is no bigger picture of victory afterwards, because both Sinwar and Nasrallah are dead. So the question is whether what he wants is to wait for (former President Donald) Trump (to get re-elected) and to get some sort of big defense alliance between the US, Saudi and Israel, which would be, from his perspective, probably more likely under Trump,” Talshir said, adding that striking such a deal would give Netanyahu a huge political boost at home.

“He is the head of state of Israel at the most devastating point since the state was established so the farther away he gets from October 7, and the more military victories that he gets under his belt, the more likely he is to reemerge as victorious,” she said.

For Netanyahu, establishing a legacy as the prime minister who saved his country is the dream, Bushinsky said, adding that if he managed that, he might even consider stepping down.

“Most people think that he won’t, but I worked with him and I have seen him once, in 2001, passing on the opportunity of being prime minister. Maybe he has changed, but I think that if he is able to end up as a big hero, someone who has done some kind of Churchillian act for the State of Israel, he would say to himself, enough is enough,” he said.

“And then his mission would be to strike some kind of a deal with the prosecution, maybe they’ll let him go and he will be able to go abroad, give lectures as the one who defeated terror … and if he won’t have any criminal record, he’ll be able to sit in all kinds of advisory boards and earn lots of money, which he feels that he’s lacking.”

 

[Mobius]

Pakistani nuclear weapons are here to protect Pakistan, we can't use them on a tiny area like Israel or Palestine without fallout

We can do nothing with the Arab states so muddled, compromised and frankly cowardly

All the Muslim world is guilty and can do more, but it's the Arabs that have chosen this path and block the rest of the Muslim world

Only reason Iran is able to respond because it has prepared a resistance around Israel


When Pakistan was in the same situation with Afghanistan, regardless of the consequences or opposition whether it was the USSR, USA, NATO, India
Pakistan ensured the defeat of all these entities to ensure our region was not occupied

Yeah, but first give a pi$s poor, significantly illiterate, environmentally gravely endangered country like Pakistan $50 billion to protect itself from a giant military and economy like India with India's 'Cold Strike' and other doctrines about Kashmir, also while India is certainly an American 'Strategic Ally', while Pakistan's economy is deeply dependent on the West and the GCC countries, while the Israelis have a strong anti-Pakistan presence in India for decades and in a situation where a prominent Indian analyst recently said that '99% of Indians are with Israel'.
The disasters that would await Pakistan if Pakistan jumps into the fray would be of historic proportions.
The Overseas Pakistanis are so deluded to push Pakistan to jump off a plane without a parachute! I am so SICK of them misleading the foreigners about Pakistan's options--or lack of options--given Pakistan's extremely vulnerable points which would affect 220 MILLION Pakistanis!! But then the overseas Pakistan have their own parachutes in the West. @UKBengali , @Davey Crockett

The original post was a figure of speech. With regards to Pakistan assisting the resistance, there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever to not help out.
"Pakistan ka matlab kiya? La ilaha illala"
Or is this just more chooran for the masses only? When a massacre is taking place of your brethren, you don't sit there making excuses. The Arabs have made their choice. They will have to answer for it. But what is Pakistan's excuse? That we were in bed with the Zionists living of their IMF handouts? Not good enough. Yemen has acted with very little resource. Iran has acted with millions of sanctions. Pakistan can also act. The dollar khor generals jumped at the opportunity to supply weaponry to Ukraine....absolutely shamefully! Why can't they supply weapons via Iran, Iraq, Syria & Lebonon? Where there is a will, there is a way and if you have trust in God, then the consequences shouldn't matter. When Iran is attacked and the war expands to our doorstep, WTF you going to do then? Do we really think they won't come after Pakistan then? Did we not learn from Iraq/Libya/Syria?

 

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After Sinwar’s killing, Israelis call on Netanyahu to seize the moment and strike a deal with Hamas​

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN

Demonstrators block a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2024, protesting against the government and demanding a ceasefire deal.
Ivana Kottasova/CNN

Tel AvivCNN —

With the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, many Israelis are sensing a window of opportunity to bring back the hostages still held in Gaza – and they are making their voices heard.

Huge crowds of protesters gathered across several cities in Israel on Saturday, demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government make the return of the hostages their top priority — something they believe has not been the case so far.

Sinwar was a hardliner with little interest in negotiating with Israel. The US, which mediated the talks in Cairo, has repeatedly accused him of being one of the main blockers of a ceasefire deal.

His demise could pave the way to a ceasefire agreement. But getting there will depend on Netanyahu.

The prime minister has long been trying to balance the demands of his far-right coalition partners, who seem dead-set on refusing any kind of deal with Hamas, with the increasingly loud calls from Israel’s Western allies, including the US, who are pressuring him to strike an agreement and bring the war in Gaza to an end.

Now he is once again facing large-scale protests calling for him to act.

Demonstrators block a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv

 

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Curse these zionist nazis. May the world hate them, humiliate them and the Palestinians destroy them.

 

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Oklahoma Senator James Lankford

LOL, Oklahoma is solid evangelical country. Nice people generally but they believe in The Rapture.

When I lived in Tulsa, I visited Oral Roberts University one day. Beautiful campus and sculptures.

 

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Lead news story in Bartlesville, Oklahoma today.....

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Oklahoma Senator James Lankford has let it be known that once the Senate and House reconvene into session, he will be introducing a bill that cuts U.S. funding to members of the United Nations that expel, downgrade, suspend or otherwise restrict the participation of the State of Israel. This is a bill that is modeled from current legislation already in place, which prohibits funding to United Nation entities that elevate the status of the Palestine Authority to a member state.



Here is what Lankford had to say on the importance of this bill getting passed:



“Israel deserves to have the world's full support in their defense against unspeakable terrorism. Our greatest ally in the Middle East has faced vicious attacks since their founding in 1948, but the latest all-out assault from the Iranian regime and their terrorist proxies intends to wipe Israel off the map.”



Several other Republican Senators signed on in support of the bill.

Let him do it.
Its not the 1950s or 1990s anymore.
Guys like him are traitors to the US