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Israel’s criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel’s last and best chance at bringing the hostages home

“Hysteria for political reasons,” Minister Benny Gantz termed the statement issued over the weekend by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (also known as “the diplomatic official”), in which he reiterated that with or without a temporary pause in the fighting for the release of our hostages, “We will enter Rafah and eliminate the remaining Hamas battalions.”

Later, before the end of Shabbat, Netanyahu sent another announcement, in which he denied reports saying Israel had agreed to a cease-fire as part of a deal.

Netanyahu had hoped that the Egyptian proposal, which was more far-reaching than anything he had been willing to accept in the past, would be rejected by Hamas. Over the weekend, when the negotiations took a positive turn, Netanyahu found himself in distress, as was expressed by his flurry of statements. Given our familiarity with his family environment, including his pampered son on the front in Miami, his fright is indeed understandable.

  • Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    last part as in ‘They also shut down AlJezeera news and Israel claims they are the ‘‘only democracy in the Middle East’’’

    they have the same laws for all citizens. jews, muslims, druze, etc.
    palestinians living in the west bank are citizens of the pa (or jordan), not of israel.
    the situation in area c of the west bank is a result of the failed oslo accords and bibi’s policy of “status quo”.
    article by prof mohammed wattad, who is an israeli-arab (his own words)
    israel’s declaration of independence
    basic laws of israel

    shutting down a state backed media group that has ties to the muslim brotherhood (hamas is a branch of theirs), from a hostile state that hosts the billionaire leaders of hamas, is similar to the shutting down of rt in europe - which is a state backed media group of a hostile state.

    in israel you don’t vote for the prime minister, you vote for a party. as part of the coalition creating process, the pm is chosen as part of the agreements between parties.
    one of the pm’s parties in 2022, naftali bennet, had much less votes than the likud ever had.
    basic law: the government
    knesset

    posting something twice and then replying to someone with a similar link isn’t “spamming”.
    pointing out the reality of this specific action / situation isn’t “defending” anything. that’s a very black and white view of things.
    same as when i criticize a state it doesn’t instantly mean i’m against it or hate it.