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Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.

It was unclear whether the talks had broken down or simply paused, but the failure to reach an agreement on this week’s round of meetings raised apprehension of an imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ridiculous that Biden is changing policy due to students protesting a war just because the aggressor/initiator is losing badly. He’s lost their votes already.

Hoping they take Rafah soon and eliminate every last Hamas jihadist and hopefully get some hostages back alive

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Was like reddit karma keeping track of up/downvotes, could tell an obvious troll from a mile away

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it, profiles here only show number of posts and comments. I didn't even notice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It used to show the karma count on profiles but that feature was removed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Yes, that's correct, you used to be able to see karma on profiles but now karma does not appear on profiles.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Taking Rafah... Rafah has been occupied for the better part of a century, my dude, they're not taking land to root out terrorists. They're just killing people for the sake of killing people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Got a source that they’re killing people just for the sake of it? I’m pretty sure they’re after these delightful people: https://thisishamas.com

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There’s a post about another mass grave found at a hospital a few scrolls above this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s horrible, but there are mass deaths in a war. If Hamas surrendered themselves the war would end.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually, the percentage rate at which people are dying in Palestine exceeds that of WWII. They've also got the most dead reporters in such a short timeframe, perhaps ever recorded.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which figures are you using? Hamas figures can be taken with a pinch of salt. The best approximation I saw was 3:1 non combatants to combatants which as awful as it sounds is actually very good for dense urban warfare.

Hamas are not fighting like a regular countries army would fight. They do not care for their own civilians

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you fuck the boot before you eat it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you kiss your jihadist family with that mouth? Or did they all go to paradise detonating themselves already?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Jihad is a word often used to describe priests or people faithful in times of hardship, it's even part of the scifi term Butlerian Jihad which describes people who overthrow a robot overlord. It doesn't really indicate connection or relation to any Muslim sect, if that's your misconception. Most of the comments here are probably white agnostic millennials.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

If you think Israel does not want any civilian casualties in Gaza, ask yourself some of these questions:

  1. Why have more than half of the homes in Gaza been demolished?
  2. Why has Israel shelled hospitals and refugee camps?
  3. Why has Israel intentionally crippled Agriculture in Palestine?
  4. Why has Isreal limited the amount of water and electricity available in Gaza?
  5. Why do the aid trucks entering Gaza have an average wait time of 20 days? Does it take you 20 days to search a vehicle?
  6. Why have the IDF opened fire on crowds gathering around those trucks delivering food?
  7. What country did Hamas weapons travel through to get there? It wasn't Egypt, as the former Muslim Brotherhood, whom Hamas is a branch off of, in Egypt was overthrown a decade ago.

Netanyahu allowed Gaza to arm themselves. Netanyahu ignored warnings of the attack in October. Netanyahu allowed them to enter from multiple directions while the best surveillance system on Earth suddenly became useless. Netanyahu brought you this war.

If your goal was to kill as many civilians as possible without risk to your "own people" nearby, then you would operate this war much like Netanyahu has. I believe he would have napalmed the entire region if the rest of the world weren't threatening sanctions and intervention.