Agreed. I can't see Netanyahu being around much longer. He's not polling well because of the attacks, the previous domestic issue involving the judiciary, and his ongoing legal cases. The sooner the Israelis ditch him, the better.
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Agreed. I can't see Netanyahu being around much longer. He's not polling well because of the attacks, the previous domestic issue involving the judiciary, and his ongoing legal cases. The sooner the Israelis ditch him, the better.
How are they gonna do that while keeping the status quo going?
I can't see the hatred caused by the current situation to just disappear like that.
You could probably make a pretty convincing case that a demilitarized Gaza without Hamas would no longer be the status quo. They would still have to deal with settlements on the WB though.
Ah the magical world where removing Hamas suddenly makes Gaza a utopian democratoc nation content. Great stuff and not at all confusing cause and effect.
It worked in afghanistan, so why not here?
As well as the actual war, there’s an ever evolving online war too… interesting to see how followers of both sides spend ages seeing if posts/videos are real or fake.
Lots of people suggesting that this recently released video is Israeli propaganda (and said poster has apparently already been shown up for this before). If true, I for one am shocked.
https://x.com/avivaklompas/status/1731335430807908717?s=61&t=ZvGzfV2Qafn11jKrPfufuA
As I don’t know whether someone sounds fluent or not (any Arabic speaking Caffites welcome), one of the responses has kindly given an idea of how bad the Arabic/accent allegedly sounds to people who’d know. Queue Kevin Hart…
https://x.com/blues19_05/status/1731841635678318961?s=61&t=ZvGzfV2Qafn11jKrPfufuA
Lots of people suggesting that this recently released video is Israeli propaganda (and said poster has apparently already been shown up for this before). If true, I for one am shocked.
https://x.com/avivaklompas/status/1731335430807908717?s=61&t=ZvGzfV2Qafn11jKrPfufuA
As I don’t know whether someone sounds fluent or not (any Arabic speaking Caffites welcome), one of the responses has kindly given an idea of how bad the Arabic/accent allegedly sounds to people who’d know. Queue Kevin Hart…
https://x.com/blues19_05/status/1731841635678318961?s=61&t=ZvGzfV2Qafn11jKrPfufuA
He sounds like he has an accent, but nowhere near the farcical Kevin Hart comparison
You're spot on about the online information war. Both sides are doing whatever they can to gain the upper hand because (for Israelis) they know it can influence policy, and for Palestinians, it can influence demonstrations and general sentiment about the conflict.
Not as bad as the Kevin hart comparison but he definitely does not have a levantine or Gulf Arabic accent. Unless the Israeli Beduoins have an accent different to their Egyptian or Gulf equivalents.
The White House: “We are concerned about reports regarding Israel's use of white phosphorus.”
It's beyond a parody at this point.
This will be another horror story in this whole nightmare. The fighting over resources will be tragic.
Disgusting shit.
There might be no Hamas, but there will tens of small Hamas. The Palestinians will not sit and watch the occupiers humiliate them every day without any pushback.
Installing puppets in Gaza controlled by the Israeli government, yeah good luck with that. How can anyone think that this will work? these installed people wont even feel safe to go on the streets of Gaza giving the hatred created by this war, almost every singel family have lost one or more civilian if not entire families.
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He does not even speak well Arabic. FFS.
He does not even articulate himself well in Arabic.
a technocracy usually does not mean strong democratic institutions since they are damaging to the rule of the better-qualified class who run things. for example, singapore, and some of the post-mao chinese govts.
i'm going to be bold and suggest that having strong democratic institutions for a govt in gaza will not be in israel's best interest and will not help in reducing "israel-hating parties".
the part about secularism is also debatable. among the arab parties within israel, the conservative islamist party denounced all armed struggle, while the left-secular party, which usually elects one jewish MP has a leader who supported the first intifada. only the islamist party has ever been a part of the israeli govt. but of course in israel-controlled territories, the dynamic is reversed.
I was being sarcastic, we just need to see who's in charge of afghanistan right now. These puppet attempts are nothing but a band aid, as the israelis will find out if they try it.
This presumes a continuation of Netanyahu style divide and conquer governance in Israel, which given where he's polling, isn't likely to happen. Gantz, for instance, is trouncing Bibi and would easily win if an election were held today and would have different policy positions on Palestinians and beyond.
Vomiting emoji.
gantz, as IDF chief during the 2012 and 2014 bombings, as former PM, and as current member of the war cabinet, has not shown any signs that he has major disagreements with longstanding Israeli positions and practices with respect to Palestine.
Rabin was also a General and wound up in the Labor party and was assassinated because he was a bit too liberal for some. Gantz is viewed as a centrist, so its highly unlikely he will mirror Netanyahu's policies just as Lapid didn't.
Its always funny to see the parody account always responding to him
.Good article. Sinwar's commitment to release every Palestinian from Israeli jails seems to have backfired spectacularly as the Israelis have been taking more prisoners at a 2 to 1 ratio to those they've given back to Hamas in hostage swaps.
The bit about expecting a regional war was delusional.
Thread on the challenges of aid actually reaching Gazans
Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual
Good article on the coverage, focus, and language around the ongoing slaughter.
https://defector.com/palestinian-suffering-is-never-as-urgent-as-the-counterfactual
A comment under the article:
"3 weeks ago, I left a comment on "Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be." At the time, our family knew we'd lost about 20 or so people. Today, we have only 1 surviving family member in Gaza - an 11-year-old girl. It's too late for us, but it's not too late for many others. We do what we can to get the word out and resist in our own way."
Good article on the coverage, focus, and language around the ongoing slaughter.
https://defector.com/palestinian-suffering-is-never-as-urgent-as-the-counterfactual
A comment under the article:
"3 weeks ago, I left a comment on "Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be." At the time, our family knew we'd lost about 20 or so people. Today, we have only 1 surviving family member in Gaza - an 11-year-old girl. It's too late for us, but it's not too late for many others. We do what we can to get the word out and resist in our own way."
Not the same one as in the previous tweets, but apparently the IDF itself was running one of these gore groups:
"To exterminate the cockroaches, la familia heroes": the influence department in the IDF, which believes in psychological warfare operations against the enemy, operates a Telegram channel during the war called "72 Virgins - No Censorship" which targets an Israeli audience and displays the bodies of Hamas terrorists with the promise of "exploding the terrorists" the fantasy"
What would you say were the major deviations from Netanyahu policies by Lapid? It was a short stint as PM, but my understanding is that settlement construction continued in the West Bank.
They're centrists obviously, so somewhat open to a 2-state solution should one somehow become possible, but what actual material changes to Netanyahu's policy do you think Lapid or Gantz would make?
Everyday goes by the Israeli state becomes closer and closer to the apartheid S. African state in terms of language (in action Israel is hundred times worse). But the language used is getting closer, for example:
Israeli state propagandists use now the term "Israel is defending the entire western world from radical Islam". That was the same logic the Old S. Africa used "we are fighting on behalf of defending the western civilization" in a message to invoke global support from the general European and american public. It did not work then, and I hope it will not work now in making the lives of Palestinians even harder and worse.
Israeli state propagandists use now the term "Israel is defending the entire western world from radical Islam". That was the same logic the Old S. Africa used "we are fighting on behalf of defending the western civilization" in a message to invoke global support from the general European and american public. It did not work then, and I hope it will not work now in making the lives of Palestinians even harder and worse.
That plus a UN peacekeeping force between the borders + full control over domestic matters + ability to maintain and keep its own foreign policy, economics and trade relations (the last few being why Annan rejected the deal)
Absolutely. Israel shouldn't be allowed one inch into Gaza, buffer or otherwise.
I don't think Lapid was around long enough to make any meaningful long term changes to policy. On Gantz, I believe he just got into a spat with Smotrich about him setting aside funds for settlement expansion hurting the war effort and actually threatened to vote against the budget unless it was changed. He has also previously squabbled with Ayelet Shaked about settlement policy and came out against the Evyatar settlement outpost (he and Lapid both called for it to be demolished)
Unfortunately, given the nature of Israeli political coalitions where some parties are against settlements and others are vehemently in favor of expansion, it will be very difficult for any politician to undo settlements without risking their own coalition collapsing.
The difference is that the whole international community agreed that South African apartheid was evil and they took actions against it. Now not only are not taking actions but they are promoting it right and left. Media and funding
The rhetoric is now that the Palestinians deserve it for not capitulating to Israel, they obviously don't love their children or have any humanity if they refuse to surrender.
Civilians capitulating is kinda hard when they are just trying to get on their lives