Israeli Paper Blames Netanyahu for Latest War in Gaza
Netanyahu said his country will continue to carry out revenge attacks in Gaza after an earlier attack by Hamas that killed hundreds
The editorial staff at Haaretz placed blame for the recent Hamas attack squarely on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the latest war with Hamas.
The headline read, “Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War,” and said the problems started when he was establishing his coalition government of hardliners and “embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians.”
In the past, Netanyahu marketed himself as a cautious leader who eschewed wars and multiple casualties on Israel’s side. After his victory in the last election, he replaced this caution with the policy of a “fully-right government,” with overt steps taken to annex the West Bank, to carry out ethnic cleansing in parts of the Oslo-defined Area C, including the Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley.
This also included a massive expansion of settlements and bolstering of the Jewish presence on Temple Mount, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as boasts of an impending peace deal with the Saudis in which the Palestinians would get nothing, with open talk of a “second Nakba” in his governing coalition. As expected, signs of an outbreak of hostilities began in the West Bank, where Palestinians started feeling the heavier hand of the Israeli occupier. Hamas exploited the opportunity in order to launch its surprise attack on Saturday.
Netanyahu said his country will continue to carry out revenge attacks in Gaza after an earlier attack by Hamas that killed hundreds in Israel.
He said Israel’s Air Force will strike any location that houses these fighters and “turn them into ruins.”
As of the publication of this article, Israel said it dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza. Palestinian health officials said at least 1,417 Palestinians have been killed and 6,200 have been injured, according to the Associated Press. The report said nearly 450 are children. In total, at least 2,600 lives on both sides since Hamas launched its attack on Israel last Saturday.
TRENDPOST: The “surprise” attack by Hamas should not have surprised anyone who has been paying attention to the worsening human rights abuses that have been inflicted on the Palestinian people via Netanyahu’s hardline government and the escalation of violence against Palestinians by Israel that has long gone on.
Indeed, Hamas named its early morning raid: “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.”
Muhammad Deif, the Hamas military commander, said Palestinians “are regaining their revolution.”
Deif said the operation was launched in retaliation for Israel’s “desecration” of the famed Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in occupied Jerusalem.
The holy site has been a flashpoint in relations between Israel and Palestine and Israeli forces have stormed the compound on several occasions, prompting the UN in 2022 to blame Israel for using “widespread, unnecessary and indiscriminate use of force.”
TRENDPOST: While the Western media continually chastises Russia for its war against Ukraine and its intent to occupy Ukraine, those who note Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land are denounced as being “anti-Semites.”
In the 1967 six-day war, Israel invaded and seized Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights, expelling some 300,000 Palestinians from their homes, while gaining stolen territory that was three and a half times its original size.
Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. They violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 that states, “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
The U.N. Security Council, the U.N. General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice, and the High Contracting Parties to the Convention have all affirmed the Fourth Geneva Convention applies, that this is occupied territory, and Israeli settlements there are illegal.
Just last week, the Netanyahu government worked to make the life of the average Palestinian more challenging when it closed off the one route into Israel, which meant thousands of Palestinians missed their paychecks.
It is worth noting that—besides hating Russian President Vladimir Putin—the only other topic that the media whores and their politician pimps can agree on is Israel’s right to bomb innocent civilians in Gaza.
Daniel Kurtzer, who served in Tel Aviv as the U.S. ambassador to Israel during the George W. Bush administration, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government of breaking a 2004 deal with Washington by legalizing a group of nationalist and religious settlements in the West Bank, The Guardian reported. He urged the Biden administration to take further steps in preventing Israel’s “creeping annexation.”
He told the paper that it is a “significant violation” of a commitment that the Israeli government made with the U.S. to dismantle illegal outposts and illegal settlements.
“Now you’ve come full circle,” he said. “Not only are they not dismantling these illegal outposts, but they’re trying to legalize them ex post facto. And there have been many that have been built since that time, so that the number is really quite significant.”
“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush.” — Donald Trump
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The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria, and it just hasn’t worked. Then they got crazy Trump actually saying we should stay out of the Middle East and focus on our own problems, and people were listening . . . What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
So, they sent their puppets like McCain, Romney, Clinton, and Biden out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this war and Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.