Israeli PM criticises leaders after their call for halt to Gaza offensive and restrictions on humanitarian aid

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of “emboldening Hamas”, after they called for a halt to Israel’s military offensive and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Earlier this week, the leaders of the UK, France and Canada condemned the Israeli government’s “egregious” actions in Gaza, warning that the UK and allies would take “concrete actions” unless Netanyahu changed course.

In a post on X on Thursday evening, the Israeli prime minister said Hamas wanted to “destroy the Jewish state” and “annihilate the Jewish people”.

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      What is so scary and infuriating is this is the point. Find the blowback and firehose hate at it until you get a nice story you can give the arms dealers.

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      yup. if you are on the brink of death, and hamas can maybe keep you alive a few more hours, suddenly your moral compunctions with their methods wash away. and so we’re clear, hamas sucks. but when faced with death you take what you can get, and bibi is forcing hands

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    They don’t need anyone else to embolden Hamas, their complete disregard for the civilian lives does that by itself.

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    So he took a break from war crimes and genocide to once again hide behind his antisemitism shield. That shtick is getting old. And to think for 50 yrs I was a supporter. No more.

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      Good for you. It’s brave to change. I had to edit my views a lot too. I appreciate it when people normalize it. /s?

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    Ummm. It might be good if a war criminal is critical of you. It means you’re not a war criminal as well

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    Says the guy who let suitcases full of millions of dollars get “smuggled” to Hamas over and over…

    But reporting in the New York Times has revealed that Netanyahu’s government was more hands-on about helping Hamas: they helped a Qatari diplomat bring suitcases of cash into Gaza, indirectly boosting the militant organization, according to the report.

    The calculus — the Times reported on Sunday, citing Israeli officials, Netanyahu’s critics, and the man’s own reported statements — was to keep Hamas strong enough to counteract the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, allowing Netanyahu to avoid a two-state peace solution and keep both sides weak.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escorted-suitcases-cash-hamas-qatar-report-2023-12?op=1

    No one has done more to keep Hamas in power than Israel, because Hamas is their excuse to not treat Palestinians as humans.

    Bibi is just probably shitting himself after the people he let smuggle all those suitcase gave trump a 400 million dollar plane.

    Less support for Israel could very well have been one of the thing Qatar gets out of that deal

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      Less support for Israel could very well have been one of the thing Qatar gets out of that deal

      If this turns out to be true I might actually cheer for the Gulf for once.

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    Nah, man. He’s emboldening Hamas. In the long-run, after a generation of hate simmers because of Israel’s actions in Gaza, Israel will be right back where it started. He cannot wipe out an ideology. Hamas, maybe. But the threat won’t disappear. It’ll return.

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      They are systematically destroying Gaza, that’s their plan. They want to make it impossible for anyone to return to Gaza, so that Hamas or the idea of Palestinian Gaza can’t continue. Aside from starving the people, they are literally going street by street and leaving nothing but empty desert.

      There are singular people in Caterpillar D9 dozers who are posting about destroying 2-3 apartment complexes per day. One person. Think about how long it takes to build an apartment complex, and how much of your life is in your apartment, and what would happen if you just lost all of it one day.

      Another favoured tactic is to just fill an M113 with explosives to the brim, and blow it up to flatten a whole street all at once. It is not even a secret that the IDF has it as unofficial policy that if they enter a building in Gaza, they blow it up or burn it down.

      Whole towns are destroyed now. Not like “in ruins” destroyed, but “nothing but the desert” destroyed, even the rubble is flattened. This is going to end with millions of dead and refugees as it stands now, angry at a world that let Israel completely erase their lives with impunity.

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    Honestly I haven’t even heard of any attack or repercussions against Israel since the Oct 7 attack. Does Hamas even exist anymore?

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      They do, and they’re still war criminal pieces of shit (just like their bud Netanyahou, who helped them many times) who are hated and protested against by many in Gaza. They’re just not getting eliminated at all because the IDF needs an excuse to bomb gaza again.

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      Hamas still exists. They constantly injure or kill IDF soldiers that move too close to the rubble in Gaza. In particular they keep existing i places that Israel claims to have under control and where they claimto have “eliminated” Hamas.

      This shows a few things:

      1. Israel is only good at mass murdering Civillians with indirect fire. When it comes to fight people on the ground, they are lackluster.
      2. The proclaimed goals of freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas cannot be achieved by the incompetent Israeli military.
      3. Israel is lying about its military goals. It is clear that their goals are the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Something for which you dont need a military, just goons with guns.