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Biden Needs To Come To Israel’s – And His Own – Rescue
For now Israel seems to lose its war against the Palestinian resistance.
The October 7 attempt to gain hostages by Hamas and Islamic Jihad was successful. Israeli outrage about it should have been directed against the Israeli government and its army for their chaotic response. They likely killed more Israelis than Hamas did.
But outrage was instead instigated against the external enemy. In this case all Palestinians.
A united Israel urged its government to wage revenge. The government's announced aim is to remove Hamas. That however is impossible to do to a social movement with deep roots in its society. The real aim is to remove all Palestinians from Gaza, to either kill them or to dump them in some foreign land. This would be followed by an attempt to remove all Palestinians from the West Bank before capturing and annexing the south of Lebanon.
However no foreign country is likely to support such a genocide and to take up the burden of millions of unruly refugees.
The Israeli government still wants to satisfy its people but has no way to achieve that.
Meanwhile the resistance against Israel, which has been built by Iran over several decades, is increasing its response. It aims to press Israel into conceding defeat and to liberate the Palestinians from their Zionist occupiers.
Changing a society's mind requires a slow and long response. In the north Hezbullah is slowly escalating its tit-for tat war with the Israeli army. Some 100,000 Israeli civilians have fled from the border zone. The Ansar Islam movement in Yemen has blocked maritime traffic to Israel's Eilat port. The U.S. attempt to counter that has failed:
Despite the US calling the Red Sea tensions "an international challenge" requiring a united response, the initial coalition support was limited, with only 10 nations, including Bahrain as the sole Arab state. The Pentagon later announced that 20 countries had joined the coalition, with Greece and Australia among the new members.
In a setback to the US, France, Spain, and Italy have declined their participation in the alliance.
Local resistances in Iraq and Syria are attacking U.S. troops deployed in those countries. As long as its troops are there the U.S. can to nothing to prevent that.
There are also threats to Israel's Mediterranean coast line. Hezbollah has the ability to close down Haifa and and other Israeli ports. Missiles, cruise missiles and drones from Gaza, from Lebanon, Yemen and from resistance fighters in Iraq and Syria continue to target Israel day by day.
With more than 350,000 Israeli troops mobilized and Palestinian workers from the West Bank banned, Israel's economy is, for lack of workers, in deep trouble.
Its military forays into Palestinian cities in Gaza have so far achieved little results but incurred significant losses. All the army can do is to destroy those cities block by block. But Hamas continues to fight back, even in rubble.
The current plan is to make Palestinian life in Gaza so miserable that leaving it will be for them the only alternative to certain death. But leaving whereto when no one wants to take them?
That is a question Israel and its U.S. backers fail to answer.
With the war going into a prolonged, unsustainable phase the Israeli government needs to do something else, or fail.
It plans to open a new front in Lebanon against Hezbollah. But a repeat of the 2006 war, which Israel lost, can not be risked. To fight Hezbollah on the ground Israel needs active U.S. backing, not only by U.S. delivery of weapons, but by U.S. forces on the ground.
A new U.S. war in the Middle East against a well prepared enemy is the last thing President Biden needs for his re-election campaign.
Pictures of Israeli settlers and their army raiding Ramallah to steal money from Palestinian money exchanges also lead to more negative voter responses.
Hamas says it can fight the war for several months.
Biden needs to shut the war down.
Either he does that now or his chances of a reelection will decrease even further.
That said, would you agree that perhaps Lavrov was mainly hinting at hypocrisy and inconsistency in Israel’s words and actions
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 28 2023 19:21 utc | 89
Not tough to make a straight call. Cuba did it. I guess they’re just not as “sophisticated” as Lavrov.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Dec 28 2023 19:53 utc | 104
I agree with both of you.
Lavrov’s word salad basically says: “If Israel can do what it wants in Gaza, nobody should criticize our SMO.” However, in doing so he likens Palestinians to Ukronazis. Which is ridiculous, nasty and supremely ironic. Lavrov is too smart to do something like that by mistake. Judge for yourself. I think Russia sees its connection to Israel as its reentry to the “Garden” even if it is hedging its bets with the Jungle in BRICS, SCO.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1923676/
Question: Our time is drawing to a close, but we still have an important topic – Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced that the war will go on for months. Allegedly, Hamas is destroying.
Although the Americans have been flirting with him for a long time. You even wrote a year ago article in « Izvestia » about all kinds of dramatization. What was the result? Was it also some kind of staging of Hamas’s attack on Israel? How to perceive all this? Some even think that the destruction of the Gaza Strip – is a special operation to dig a parallel Suez Canal from the Gulf of Eilat through the Negev desert. There are three hundred kilometers. With modern technology and money – it’s easy. What was that? What is the essence of this geopolitical process?
Sergey Lavrov: Now there are many conspiracy theories.
Just the other day, our television and social networks once again transmitted a message from one of the Western media, Western journalists, researchers (in my opinion, S. Hersh also published this), that the entire Israeli leadership a year before October 7 this year was warned by intelligence of an impending large-scale terrorist attack.
I can not allow (if true) that no preventive measures have been taken. Moreover, I know how much the Israeli army and its security forces are able and always ready to deliver preventive strikes.
It reminded me of another conspiracy theory when, on September 11, 2001, twin towers were attacked by terrorists, after which the war in Afghanistan began and the project « the Great Middle East » was announced.
There were other less bloody conspiracy theories – landing on the moon. Until now, no one can finally calm down. Although, it would seem, in all three cases such a number of people should have known what was happening. This still remains unclear. Strange.
I don’t even want to admit that normal people can sacrifice hundreds of their fellow citizens in order to have some kind of excuse, or trample on a terrorist organization that they hate and want to completely destroy it, or get some economic, logistic benefits.
You said that Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu announced that Hamas should be completely destroyed as a military force. It looks like demilitarization. He also said that extremism must be destroyed in Gaza. It looks like denacification. Moreover, it’s not very clear to me why the previous Israeli government, when Y. Lapid was the prime minister (before that he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, then became the prime minister), so reacted to the beginning of our special military operation. His reaction was amazing to me. Like, as Russia dared to use force against the civilian population, annexed Ukrainian territories.
It was not fair. We talked about this with him. I don’t know how he is analyzing and describing the events now, but Israeli Prime Minister B. Netanyahu, despite numerous criticisms from around the world and the fact that he was in a serious situation, he did not allow and does not allow himself any statements regarding Russia. Telephone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin took place twice (eleven, 2). The Israelis, like the Egyptians, helped us evacuate our citizens who were held hostage or simply wanted to leave the Gaza Strip.
We need to be very careful about our common history with Israel. And above all, to the history of the fight against Nazism. This is the main thing that unites us historically. This is the foundation of our genetic code if you want.
The Holocaust and the extermination of the multinational Soviet people – are things of the same order, except for numbers. 6 million people. – Holocaust and more than 20 million people. – peoples of the Soviet Union.
A year ago, the Israeli ambassador to Kiev during a press conference on the day of remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust to the question of how he relates to the singing of S. Bandera, R. Schuhevich and other Nazis in Ukraine, use and honor this symbolism, said nothing. He was asked if this means that Israel has changed its attitude. He answered « no » and said that for the Israelis they are still Nazis, unacceptable, and that will be forever. But, they say, Ukraine has a difficult history. I understand why Ukrainians treat these figures and political structures like that. This is already scary.
Posted by: pq | Dec 28 2023 21:12 utc | 113
The hasbara trolls seem to me incapable of rationality; they keep on bawling and sniveling that these comments threads are full of jew hatred from anti-semites. Which is a bizarre conclusion, a wildly untrue take on what goes on here.
I daresay i feel pretty sure that EYE am the ONLY poster here who actually hates not only almost all jews but judaism itself. Quite unlike the rest of posters, I don’t believe that judaism is even a religion in any true sense of the word. It is at best a club and at worst a cult. A club or cult no non-jew can join precisely because jews proudly proclaim they see non-jews as less than human. I do not find it reprehensible to despise people who follow writings that say a million of me are worth less than one of their fingernails. To the contrary i find it sane and wise and essential to declare them dangerous and to defend myself – and humanity – from them.
So, unlike everybody else in here, and unlike every Palestinian I ever met, it is EYE alone who wishes to see every last jew uprooted from Palestine and sent packing – to anyplace where the population is armed and able to defend themselves from the jews, who again, are dangerous to a humanity who must become properly alarmed by their beliefs and their intentions.
Unlike the rest of posters here, I see ‘egalitarian jew’ as an oxymoron. Since they believe they have no peers, they will stand forever in mankinds way as the rest of us try to forge the egalitarian future that is our only way forward if we wish to survive, let alone thrive and have peace and plenty. Much, MUCH more needs to be said about this crucial point, but I’ll leave it for now.
If there really are jews who really do see my (and everyone’s) life and rights as truly equal to their own, i have no problem with that rare jew. But unlike the vast majority of other posters in here, I just don’t believe many of them exist. Because lying is what jews do, because deceiving us goys is a commandment to the terrible talmud tribe, i will never be able to be sure any truthful jew is talking to me. that is sad, but it’s their rules, not mine, that are the determining factor in the matter.
I think i am also the only one here who repeatedly gags at all the ludicrous sympathizing and/or empathizing with israeli and other jews coming from many if not most who write here. All the nauseating defending of same, the calls that we need to ‘understand’ ‘these poor mislead israeli jews’ make me literally sick. And the hasbarats studiously ignore that it just never seems to end, it goes on here day and night in these comments threads while the Palestinian moms dads sisters brothers doctors nurses teachers reporters poets intellectuals – and babies – and more babies – get blown to bits, kidnapped, executed in cold blood, disappeared, bulldozed, denied medicine, denied anesthesia – and on and on – and while the Palestinian hospitals, ambulances, homes, shelters, schools, bakeries, buildings, roads, universities, libraries… the culture of a fine people is being erased; at least it will be if the jews are allowed to continue.
Seriously – raise your hand if this comment of mine is making you disapprove of me for my hatred of jews. Nah, you don’t even need to bother – i already know how very much i am disliked here for my anti-jew and anti-judaism attitude. It’s my POINT.
I think i am quite alone here in my conclusion that jews who don’t renounce judaism have forfeited rights to respect and freedom. Because they have demonstrated beyond doubt they are too dangerous to allow to roam free amongst the human tribe they see as their worthless inferiors. No different than any other murderer who picks random victims so is a danger to everyone, locked up they must be.
Seems to me the vast majority of posters here made it their serious business to learn the truth about the history of the zionist project since at least the late 1800’s, and of the illegitimate establishment of illegitimate “israel” – and still y’all insist we must make the ole judaism is not zionism distinction. I used to think that, too. Then I read more, learned more about jews and judaism.
Who invented zionism? Was it jews? Who invented “israel”? Was it jews? Somebody else besides jews – only helping jews? Who constructed the US jewish lobby with its ironclad grip on the entire US government? Was it jews? Who turned us foreign policy into war after wars against jew’s enemies? who brought us nakba1 and now nakba2? Is judaism, aka “the tribe,” the culprit? who has succeeded in pitting the dumbed-down Christians against the Muslim world?
Why is genocide joe willing to bankrupt the usa to fight for the jews? Why is donald trump meanwhile running ludicrous ads on teevee in amurdica absurdica saying he alone can protect us from Hamas terrorists coming over the border with mexico? Why are my fellow countrymen so unbelieveably mal-informed? Who owns the media here? jews!
To repeat it for the last time: I feel quite sure that I am the ONLY poster here who actually hates not only most jews but judaism itself. My sense of self-respect and sense of self-defense may be stronger than most people’s.
I wish Hamas, AnsarAllah, Hezbollah, Iran etc etc etc- were half as angry and mean as I am. They have a ways to go.
There’s really nothing above this line worth debating, and yes i expect to be kicked out of here, but before i go i am reposting a comment below that I hope will get some discussion this time around:
“I’ve seen several references … to “Normal Jews”. What is a Normal Jew? Do they go to synagogue? Do they follow the teachings of their rabbi? In which case they will have been indoctrinated with the teachings of the Talmud since birth and by default will be supremacists in outlook.
Or are secular Jews “Normal Jews”? If one is not following the teachings of the rabbis or attending synagogue, can one still be called a Jew? Jewishness is not a race, how then would one account for the Ethiopian Jews? Or the Ashkenazi? It is a supremacist religion, based on being the “chosen people” of their god. So if secular Jews reject the teachings of the rabbi, are they still jews?
Secular jews still enjoy the ability to network with the whole Jewish diaspora to gain advantage in life, specifically against the goy. So in this respect, they are still following rabbinic teachings (Talmud). So are secular jews just lazy jews who still get the benefit of their Jewish faith?
Again, what is a “normal Jew”? As I mentioned previously, jews have institutionalised the bearing of false witness. One only has to look at the quote from Blinken above to see that. All I know is that, as a minority exercising overwhelming influence in the world today, expecting “normal jews” to make any difference to the state of play is naive and self deceptive.”
Posted by: Phalanges | Dec 22 2023 9:42 utc | 191
My apologies to Phalanges for reposting their post in my hate-full one.
God bless Palestine
Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Dec 29 2023 0:39 utc | 157
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