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cbabe

(3,549 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 11:58 AM Apr 3

As heard on Thom Hartmann: caller listed all

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Yonnie3 (a host of the Editorials & Other Articles group).

the organizations being targeted and cleared from Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders
World food kitchen
UN
Al Jazeera
Others?

Caller suggested Israel does not want witnesses.

Your thoughts?

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Walleye

(31,045 posts)
1. Seems like they did target journalists
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 12:00 PM
Apr 3

multigraincracker

(32,715 posts)
2. Most Israelites are Secular.
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 12:02 PM
Apr 3

Only the Right-wing Ultra-Orthodox support BiBi.
Lots of demonstrations going on now in Israel. I support them.

LuvLoogie

(7,027 posts)
5. It seems that most Israelis support the right-wing policies.
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 01:33 PM
Apr 3

They were good with them until October 7th. Are there demonstrations against the accelerated expansion of settlements in the West Bank?

Bettie

(16,124 posts)
3. Also, if they keep food out
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 12:17 PM
Apr 3

then Netanyahu will say "See, my hands are clean! They died of starvation!".

Of course he doesn't want witnesses or food/medical care reaching the people he wants dead and gone.

Lonestarblue

(10,063 posts)
4. Several opinion writers have written about Netanyahu's lack of a plan for after he ends the war.
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 01:25 PM
Apr 3

I think his plan has been obvious for months. Some of his right-wing ministers have been public about it. The plan is to bomb every building in Gaza to rubble to make the area unlivable, kill as many Palestinians as possible with bombs and drones, bomb all the hospitals (killing nurses and doctors) to prevent any medical treatment, prevent any humanitarian aid from reaching GAZA so that people starve to death, and forcibly remove any Palestinians left alive to the Sinai desert and just dump them there with no life-supporting resources. This is war crimes and genocide, not just retaliation for 1200 Israelis murdered by Hamas.

It struck me s odd that put of the blue, Jared Kushner piped up about clearing Gaza of civilians so its valuable waterfront could be developed. Have Jared and Bibi been talking?

cbabe

(3,549 posts)
6. Oil and gas reserves even more valuable:
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 01:48 PM
Apr 3
https://iacenter.org › 2023 › 11 › 15 › behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves

Behind Israel's 'end game' for Gaza: Theft of offshore gas reserves ...

Nov 15, 2023U.N. study sights Palestinian natural gas reserves. A 2019 study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and

Codifer

(548 posts)
7. As I remember,
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:53 PM
Apr 3

the USS Liberty was a witness in 1967.

I could be wrong.

Warpy

(111,338 posts)
8. I'd say he's got a point
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:57 PM
Apr 3

but the more likely story is that some higher ups simply don't care, their lust to destroy every luxt to destroy ever real, potential, or imaginary threat blinding them to any other consideration. Under Netanyahu, Israel has become a typical Middle Eastern state, and that is a bitter indictment.

Israel has a tough road ahead if they ever manage to get rid of Bibi and the assholes who have kept him in power. It's going to be a tough sell to the rest of the world to get back the good will they once enjoyed.

That makes me very sad.

onecaliberal

(32,894 posts)
9. As usual the world watches while innocent women and children are slaughtered. Too busy reporting on a fucking orange
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:58 PM
Apr 3

cancer. This makes me sick.

Yonnie3

(17,482 posts)
10. Locking this post
Thu Apr 4, 2024, 08:19 AM
Apr 4
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