Posted on 05/10/2024 4:25:32 AM PDT by Freeleesy
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett says US President Joe Biden’s decision to delay a weapons shipment to Israel is “deeply misguided,” in an interview with CNN.
“If Hamas is granted immunity because it hides behind civilians… that means that the whole global jihad organizations are all going to adopt human shields as the core way of conducting terror,” he says.
Bennet: "...We never target civilians.”
“In fact,” he continues, “we have the lowest ratio of collateral damage in the history of urban warfare.”
Israel is “bending over backward in order to prevent unnecessary deaths,” he says. “Otherwise we’d get this whole thing done within three days if we didn’t care about it.”
“global jihad organizations” have one thing in common.
when hamas murdered innocent civilians is when Israel SHOULD have completely taken off the proverbial gloves and absolutely crunched hamas once and done. when a bully bloodies your nose you don’t spar, you run if you are WEAK and hope they won’t do it again OR you beat the bully to a bloody pulp to send a message...do it again and there won’t even be pulp left. instead Israel is still playing footsies with Hamas. “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission” Admiral Grace Hopper USN
Good luck, Mr. Bennett, in getting that message out to a large enough audience for it to make a difference!
HAMAS is built on a foundation of hate that is near total in Gaza.
Israel can kill every member of HAMAS but the hate will live on in Gaza (and in the USA among those Joe Biden’s team imports) for many decades.
The hatred is now magnified by Israeli war destruction and damage.
“beat the bully to a bloody pulp to send a message...do it again and there won’t even be pulp left”
If the ‘pulp’ is in the form of buildings, the bully was been whacked hard, but the bully obviously is still malevolent and now has little left to lose.
Israel might use tear gas and smoke and mercaptan bombs to help the human shields flee.
These seem to be old, but seem worthy of study by Israelis:
https://www.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/hostage-rescue-units
This is a listing of Blinken’s efforts on behalf of the hostages:
https://www.state.gov/subjects/hostage-recovery/
the point was predicated on the immediacy of beating the qwap of a bully before they can get away. agree that just blowing their house down is ineffective, as we all now see. someone said “fighting fire with fire is not as effective as fighting fire with gasoline”.
WIKIPEDIA
Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state and is only to be handed out for treason, genocide, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people during wartime. Israel is one of seven countries to have abolished capital punishment for “ordinary crimes only.”
ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Israel
“blowing their house down”
If HAMAS leaders don’t actually own their houses (or apartment units) all they lost was chattels.
Wouldn’t require a single bomb. Cut off the water. In three days, some of the population is either dead, or wishing it were. In 14 days, everyone is either dead or so weak from thirst, the IDF can march in arrest or kill Hamas with minimal opposition, turn the spigots back on.
Just how much of the infrastructure has actually been destroyed? If I simply go to a web search map, say, Google, which indicates imagery from 2024, and zoom in and hunt around in, say, North Gaza, overall it just doesn’t look that bad. A small F2 tornado going through there would appear to be a much greater calamity from an infrastructure standpoint...
[HAMAS is built on a foundation of hate that is near total in Gaza.
Israel can kill every member of HAMAS but the hate will live on in Gaza (and in the USA among those Joe Biden’s team imports) for many decades.
The hatred is now magnified by Israeli war destruction and damage.]
Muslim massacres of Christians in the Middle East killed Christian hatred. Christians there became resigned to Muslim butchery, eventually becoming aligned with Islam against their Christian brethren who showed up during the Crusades. Middle Eastern Christians often hate the West. The fusion of Nazism and Communism that was Baathism was dreamed up by Michel Aflaq, a Middle Eastern Christian. George Habash, a prominent and vicious Palestinian terrorist leader, was a Christian.
“...The hatred is now magnified by Israeli war destruction and damage...”
And THAT may be the ultimate (or certainy an alternate) goal of the Hamas effort, anyway
Yep. Same as Bush 43 and Afghanistan.
Bounce the rubble.
“12% of Germany was killed in WW2”
So far, around 34,000 gazans have been killed, roughly half of whom have been combatants, out of a population of about 2,400,000. That is a 1.4% casualty rate, almost an order of magnitude less than the Germans suffered.
Similarly, the civilian : combatant casualty rate in Gaza’s urban warfare is slightly greater than 1:1, compared to the modern urban warfare ratio if 9:1. So on this measure too, Israel has achieved nearly an order of magnitude improvement.
And still today, FReepers, of all people, accuse Israel of “genocide”. Either they are terribly badly informed, or their anti-semitism has clouded their ability to perceive.
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