Netanyahu knows that every time a child dies, Hamas gains sympathizers and people willing to join, and yet Israel keeps saying the eradication of Hamas is the only way to secure their nation. This is a forever war.
That's why they're doing the genocide
They don't just gain sympathizers in Gaza. They gain sympathizers globally, especially in ME countries. And the genocide of people in Gaza won't eliminate the Palestinians, anyways. They are a worldwide diaspora now, just like the Jews.
I feel like you skipped a few steps in your conclusion, cause having retyped this comment several times now, it does seem logical (though logically evil and morally corrupt; which nobody's surprised). And I'm not entirely convinced it's just Netanyahu trying to create a "forever war"
I was gonna say that it seems more like "blatant genocide" than a "forever war"... and how can a war be "forever" if one side is obliterated?
But then I thought, "Maybe genocide is just a bonus for Isreal", while also being a 'unique' way to stir-up the concept of "War on terrorism, in the US". Their "War on drugs" has lost some traction (and also serves a different purpose), but maybe they can put a convoluted spin on the "War on Terrorism".
The US is allowing "allies" to commit genocide for the greater good of their own military complex/gain?... because their current "forever wars" have been experiencing downturns? Maybe it is a "forever war" with genocide as a bonus for Isreal?
I can't dispute your statement well, because it doesn't seem too "off key". It just feels like you've made some logical leaps... or I'm just falling into conspiracy-driven-logic. Idk, but I appreciate giving me something to ponder more closely
I would also suggest you read this article about Netanyahu's former best friend and about his using this war as a pretext to cement dictatorial power.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324
I should have definitely given more context.
Aid trucks remain stranded at the Southern entry points, with Raremoved closed over Israel crossing Biden's supposed red line. Israeli citizens - not IOF - routinely block the trucks and destroy their contents while the IOF watches. Israel maintains its blockade of Gaza that it has imposed since 2007 that prevents aid from entering any other way and used pressure campaigns on Turkey and Guinnea-Bissau to hamstring the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
It's important to remember that the oppression of Gaza and Palestinians is a central project of Zionism that spans multiple leaders and requires the active consent of several coordinating parties, with the US imperial apparatus at the top and the Israeli Zionist project just below. If Netanyahu died today virtually all of Zionists' policies would remain in place. Netanyahu was not in power when most of them were instituted.
Opinion polls now show increased support for Netanyahu since October and if you dig just a little deeper you'll find that the primary complaint of Israelis is that he's not even more militaristic, more brutal, and "protecting" Israelis in this fashion. In other words, the illusion of immunity was broken and they are lashing out. Imagine who would have power if Netanyahu died.
Biden provides unconditional support to this genocidal project and this is more or less in line with decades of US policy, although he is even to the right of Reagan in that he won't pick up a phone and actually draw a line. A return to the status quo, which was still horrible for Palestinians, is a bridge too far for the Biden administration. And as you can see, that administration enjoys wide cover from tired and bad faith talking points from a media apparatus that equates the humanization of Palestinians with antisemitism.
If you oppose genocide and consider Palestinians human, then our shared enemies include but also go beyond the current leaders of the United States and Israel. The deeper underlying forces are political economic. They're why when students demand divestment the University administrations would rather sic cops on them than lose a little cash. They're why military contractors nearly always get their way. They're why people like Biden and Netanyahu receive support in the first place, including the tired and politically incompetent lesser evil vote nagging. Political power is not to be a sheep following the orders of wolves, but to become educated and work together.
Meanwhile, Hamas leaders sit in Qatar, congratulating themselves on what a successful jihad they've waged against Israel. The blood of many innocent Palestinian women and children has been shed, which is what they said they needed to draw global attention to the conflict and increase recruiting of future Hamas fighters, funders, and apologists.
The funny bit is the Zionists still pulling out the "Hamas" card in the face of this shit:
The only people in the contemporary era in the whole damn World that did anything worse than the purposefully starving of tens of thousand of children that the Zionists are doing were the friggin Nazis. NOBODY other than Nazis and Zionists comes anywhere close to this level of Evil.
Hell, even before this crap came to the attention of the rest of the World, the children-murder ratio between Zionists and Hamas was already over 1000-to-1.
While I agree with your overall sentiment that Israeli actions outweigh HAMAS actions, this betrays a massive underestimation of global atrocities in the modern era. There have been a lot, most of which are not covered in a typical history class. Several go well into the millions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(1946_to_1999)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(21st_century)
I was thinking just in terms of murdering children including the specific targetting of children (which the IDF has done both with snippers and by bombing playgrounds).
In absolute terms of civilians, there were a number of worst atrocities, though in terms of percentage of the target population, not so much (possibly none at all but the Nazis, depending on what the the proportion between counted deaths and real deaths amongst the Palestinians is, since those whose corpses were not found and brought to Hospitals - i.e. those still buried in the rubble of the over 70% of Gaza building that were destroyed - were not counted, something which got worse after Israel destroyed almost all Palestinian Hospitals: the 40k deads are likely a significative underestimation and we might never know how significative that is because Israel does not allow independent UN observers to go check it).
What's really "special" in the genociding done by the Zionists is the number of children being killed, the percentage of the target population killed, the targetting of Hospitals and medical personnel, the targetting of Humanitarian Personnel (worst ever, according to the UN) and the targetting of Journalists.
But, yeah, in absolute numbers of adults killed, things like Darfur and the Rwanda Genocide were worse.
bloody My Little Ponies of the Middle East.
Insanity. Even if these numbers are exaggerated 2x that's still 25k kids in danger.
That boggles the mind
Gaza is quite literally mostly chldren. Average age was already ~18 before this latest stage of the genocide started. The adults have mostly been killed, imprisoned or driven out.
It's disgusting what Israel is doing and disgraceful that they are claiming racism if you happen to not approve of what they are doing. There, I said it.
Ironically, claiming that the people who call you out for committing war crimes are antisemites is EXTREMELY antisemitic.
Criticising Israel is what got me kicked off Reddit
That's just heart breaking. Israel needs a heart.
Every child the Israel government kills in Palestine they make a hundred enemies across the world. If there is justice in this world Netanyahu will be hanged for war crimes.
The war of religious shitheads.
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