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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza “indefinitely” after its war with Hamas. Mish Translation: We ain’t leaving.
No Ceasefire Says Us and Israel, Indefinite Stay, Says Netanyahu
ABC news, other sources similar reports a month into war, Israel envisions an ‘overall security’ role in Gaza indefinitely
Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control there one month into a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory.
In an interview with ABC News that aired late Monday, Netanyahu expressed openness to “little pauses” in the fighting to facilitate delivery of aid to Gaza or the release of some of the more than 240 hostages seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war.
But he ruled out any general cease-fire without the release of all the hostages. The White House said there was no agreement on U.S. President Joe Biden’s call for a broader humanitarian pause after a phone call between the leaders.
The war has already come at a staggering cost, and Israel unleashed another wave of strikes across the territory Tuesday. Entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble, and around 70% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes, with many heeding Israeli orders to head to the southern part of the besieged territory, which is also being bombed.
The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 10,300, two-thirds of them women and minors, according to the the Health Ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. More than 2,300 people are missing and believed to be buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, the ministry said. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, and Israel says it has killed thousands of fighters.
What’s Next?
Neither the US Nor Israel Will Say (But I will).
Israel has vowed to remove Hamas from power and crush its military capabilities — but neither Israel nor its main ally, the United States, has said what would come next.
Netanyahu told ABC News that Gaza should be governed by “those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas,” without elaborating.
Mish Translation
With every war, Israel takes more and more territory. Israel is now in Gaza to stay “indefinitely”. Than means It’s not leaving any time soon, if ever.
US a Part of the Problem
The US has always supported Israel, no matter what Israel does, and that is a big part of the problem.
As I have stated previously, I support a two-state solution. But I have also stated I fail to see how that happens now.
If one steps back from the who did it first blame game, it’s easy to see why Israel is taking this hardline stance after what Hamas has done.
However, killing innocent kids in response to killing innocent kids hardly seems like a solution. The repetitive process just makes more enemies on each side.
Only the genuine bystanders blast both sides.
Free Money
The US’s unwavering support for Israel includes $130 billion in direct aid has been with no strings attached. Free money seldom solves anything, and this is another case in point.
Q: How long will the free money continues?
A: Indefinitely, of course.
The US industrial military complex will settle for nothing less.
Biden’s Democratic Coalition is Splintering Over Israel and the Economy
While pondering what I said above, please note Biden’s Democratic Coalition is Splintering Over Israel and the Economy
Radical political polarization will continue …. indefinitely.