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Related: About this forumNetanyahu Vows to Keep Bombing 'Full-Force' After Horror Day for Palestinians
Shortly after 42 people were killed in Gaza City on Sunday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a televised address in which he vowed to continue launching airstrikes full-force.
Airstrikes on a major downtown street in Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday razed three residential buildings and killed dozens in the space of just five minutes, Palestinian health officials said. Among them were 10 children and 16 women. At least 50 people were wounded, and rescue crews spent the day sifting through the rubble, pulling out some survivors.
It was the single deadliest attack in Gaza since the last major war between Israel and Gazas Hamas rulers in 2014.
Despite increasing pressure from foreign leaders to negotiate a ceasefireparticularly after the Israeli military destroyed a building that housed international media outlets on SaturdayNetanyahu said the bombings would go on.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netanyahu-vows-to-keep-bombing-full-force-after-horror-day-for-palestinians/ar-BB1gNj84
He has to distract from the fact that he can't get a working government together.
Walleye
(31,024 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,081 posts)We were watching the news.
He had uncles and aunts killed in the Holocaust and he cannot understand why Israel is doing this.
He actually was pained by this situation.
I didn't know what to say to him. But I said a secret Hail Mary for peace.
Baitball Blogger
(46,711 posts)He is so going to hell.
comradebillyboy
(10,147 posts)electorate and keep him in his job as PM. He may be right.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Remember the last time he staged a similar assault on Gaza? At night, the residents of the surrounding Israeli towns would pull their sofas outside so they could watch the show in comfort.
It rarely fails. Just as when George Wallace was losing popularity, he would say its time to play the n***** card, so politicians throughout the world know the best way to regain their standing is to create an Other (or use a pre-existing one) preferably one much weaker than you, and unleash hell on them. If this were here instead of in the Middle East, crowds would be chanting USA! USA! at news of the slaughter of dark-skinned women and children.
PortTack
(32,767 posts)Things will get better