Netanyahu mulls plan to empty northern Gaza of civilians and cut off aid to those left inside
https://apnews.com/article/hamas-israel-generals-plan-eiland-gaza-219d7eb9a3050e281ccc032d5a56263c
Netanyahu left gov't in fury when Sharon withdrew Israel from the Strip.
He's been wanting Gaza back ever since. He expressly funded Hamas to keep the PA weak (common knowledge in Israel, discussed on Oct 8, 2023 in newspapers) because he was *never* for a two-state solution. He boasted about sabotaging the Oslo Accords.
But the West doesn't care, least of all Evangelicals who see this as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
We are a morally impoverished civilization.
It's also a little over 100 years since Jabotinsky's infamous Iron Wall essay.
He was a critical theorist and actor in the formation of the type of Zionism that influenced the creation of N's Likud Party - and is celebrated as such to this day.
"Every native population in the world resists colonists ... That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing ... to prevent the translation of the land from 'Palestine' to the 'Land of Israel.'" (1923)
I've shared this before: it came my way about 17y ago, when I was volunteering in Genรจve for two different NGOs trying to gain influence regarding a Statehood movement for Palestine.
It is the driest, longest (120(?) pages when printed?), most diplomatic recounting of the international process leading to a "State of Israel"...
"Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem"
A UNISPAL publication.
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https://www.un.org/unispal/history2/origins-and-evolution-of-the-palestine-problem/
Always good to reshare.
I don't know if footage of firefighters being shot at by IDF while they put out a blaze reached you a few days ago, or the mass fire in tents in Al Aqsa Hospital yesterday (more civilians burned alive on video), but more maddening than atrocity after atrocity is all the armchair rationalization: the relentless, selfish fear of "but how's this going to affect the 'side' I'm rooting for?" which keeps people from acting like decent human beings.
Our devotion to #deathTOYS sales (Wall Street) is featured in a decent Wikipedia article...
Keynesian policies did such great things during the Depression, for "poor people" (and despised by Republicans of the day), they took a second look at it, and rerouted the "benefits" to ...
"Poor War manufacturers that go bankrupt in peacetime".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism
Yes. This ties into a recent in-depth NYT review of the US's massive investment in nuclear arms.
Climate change is also caught up in oil imperialism; countries *cannot* afford to move from oil & gas while engaged in war - and there is *always* an argument to be made for war-readiness that will keep a reliance on petroleum strong.
We're killing ourselves in multiple ways for failure to conceive of foreign policy outside Kissinger's realpolitik.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/10/opinion/nuclear-weapons-us-price.html
@TheNewsOwl What?
125 years later. Nearly a "fait accompli"?
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