• burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Israel is doing this for no other reason than vengeance. They need to kill palenstinian civilians at a rate of 100/1 for each Israeli citizen that has been killed. There is no moral high ground in this situation. It is very sad.

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      They have already alluded to wanting to make them leave, a second nakba, etc. Nobody can claim they don’t want ethnic cleansing anymore.

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            1 year ago

            Well not really, Qatar will have something to say about that.

            Qatar pretty much owns London for a start, so no doubt will pull Sunak’s strings when the time comes.

            Let’s not forget how Israel’s formation started.

            We’re going to see a Mossad type rescue of the hostages, that’s all.

            Hopefully the voice of reason will dull this down for now. US secretary of state has already told Benji what’s what.

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      I think it’s more than just revenge, I think the Ukraine war provides additional cover for finally entirely taking the Gaza strip. It is a convenient time to ‘end’ the conflict while Western and EU cash / human rights organisations are tied up on the Russian front.

      Edited to add: my foggy covid memory has some recollection of five-eyes intelligence or other credibleish rumours this was being planned for earlier, but the risk from the new pandemic was too uncertain for it to proceed. Mid-2021 maybe? Israelis were getting the shits with Netanyahu (again), and he was getting internal political competition / resistance at the time and so he used the IDF to provoke religious tensions just a little harder than usual. That way he was able to justify a defence rationale for a ‘new’ military campaign and revive his image. I mostly just remember that the warnings were getting more frequent after the Ukraine invasion kicked off.

      Edit 2: that’s right, he lost power for a bit with several elections and there had been talks about international courts looking into apartheid at the same time too, and he made deals with the far-right to cement power. What a mess.