Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

I think refusing to vote for someone who greenlit:

• ethnic cleansing,
• the destruction of a city that housed a million people,
• the making of nearly two million people homeless,
• the murder of well over ten thousand people, and
• the murder of more children in two months than were killed in all other armed conflicts over the last five years combined

is entirely proper. If the alternative is worse? So be it. I certainly can't vote for someone who did that.

 

So who is it you’re not voting for, Netanyahu? Because even if Biden had the ability to “greenlight” those actions, I don’t recall him doing so.

 

I will tell them what I would tell anyone disillusioned with Biden. He will listen and adjust. I know if 1000 people flood my local Congressman's office will calls, that will go up the chain to Prince Hakeem and he will take take that to the administration who will take that into consideration of how they interact. You think Trump and his people will care?

 

This journalism is quite serious...

"We cannot and must not look away from what is happening in Gaza. Half its population was forced from the north by merciless bombardment; now the Israel Defense Forces’ attacks upon the south have intensified and dozens of tanks have entered. Adults and children alike anticipate their deaths. More than 15,900 people in Gaza have been killed already, the vast majority of them women and children, according to Palestinian officials. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has directed the military to act with “increasing force” in its pursuit of Hamas, this time facing an even larger, denser population in even more desperate circumstances."

The Guardian view on Gaza’s devastation: don’t look away. See the bigger picture too | Editorial | The Guardian

 

If a podcast episode in Jonah Goldberg's retirement home for Weekly Standard alumni, featuring Matti Friedman (who blamed unarmed Palestinians for their own deaths when they were shot by Israeli snipers) convinces you that coverage is biased, that suggests that the slightest breeze would have convinced you.

 

I am sorry, did he just start covering news in the last two months.?

All due respect dude but I can't take this post seriously.. This is the first time that coverage is not in lock step with Israel government and this dude wants to play the victim card!?! FOH!!

 

I went with the epilogue you provided and from there I made me decision. I can't be responsible for making a decision on a preview you provided.

 

Israel-Hamas war live: Fear grips southern Gaza amid Israeli bombardment | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

"UN warns of even more ‘hellish scenario’ unfolding in Gaza

The UN reports that Israel launched one of its heaviest air, land and sea bombardments of the Gaza Strip over Sunday and Monday, killing at least 349 Palestinians and injuring more than 750, according to the territory’s health ministry.

With Israeli ground operations now focused on southern Gaza, conditions “do not exist” to deliver aid, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories Lynn Hastings said, warning that “an even more hellish scenario” is about to unfold in the Palestinian enclave, according the UN’s latest Gaza assessment.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also reports:

• Rafah was the only location in Gaza where limited aid – flour and water – was distributed on Monday, while distributions in nearby Khan Younis have all but ceased due to the intensity of fighting.
• Tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis for Rafah have nowhere to stay and are camping in the streets and other outdoor areas “where they erect tents and makeshift shelters”.
• All telecommunication services in Gaza were cut on Monday evening and aid organisations fear the lack of communications will further hamper the provision of “life-saving assistance”."

serious journalism?

 

Netanyahu, according to the Israeli press, has instructed Ron Dermer, his Minister of Strategic Planning and a very close aide, to explore ways to "thin out" the Gaza population. Along with the renewed proposal to push them through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the English… pic.twitter.com/MTIULDVy0N

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 1, 2023

So this is kind of consistent with my feeling that the post-operational vision is of a Gaza largely devoid of Palestinians.

 

I don't think the promise of a hellish life under Trump will work on people for whom the situation is already horrific. Like the lady who organized for Biden in 2020 but had now lost 60 relatives in Gaza.

 

When you work for Der Spiegel and post stuff that would be embarrassing even for a Bild reporter.