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The Rafah tipping point: The culmination of Israel's war on Hamas - Taking on the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza can end the war or create the ultimate humanitarian disaster. Perhaps both simultaneously.
Jerusalem Post ^ | FEBRUARY 11, 2024 | DAVID BRINN

Posted on 02/12/2024 6:23:15 AM PST by SJackson

Edited on 02/12/2024 11:45:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

After more than four months of war triggered by the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel, it’s all come down to Rafah.

Since Israel invaded Gaza, more than 200 soldiers have died, the IDF has killed over 8,000 Hamas members, according to their assessment, and another 15,000-20,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed, according to Hamas estimates.


(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; rafah; sinai
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1 posted on 02/12/2024 6:23:15 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 02/12/2024 6:24:07 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: SJackson

War is a “humanitarian catastrophe” and the sooner they win, the better.


3 posted on 02/12/2024 6:27:32 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SJackson
Does anyone (even the msm) actually believe anything Hamas says? I call BS on the number of innocent palestinians dead. And no one ever asks why neighboring countries won't take them.
4 posted on 02/12/2024 6:31:20 AM PST by small farm girl
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To: SJackson

JPost is the voice of Israeli leftists, if I understand correctly.


5 posted on 02/12/2024 6:33:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: SJackson

I don’t give a frog’s watertight bung hole about the “plight of the palestinians”’in Gaza or anywhere else. They’re all complicit in this savagery. I hope the IDF completely depopulates that rat hole without a shred of mercy or remorse.

There are no civilians there. They support Hamas almost universally. If they want this war to end they would have already delivered the heads of the Hamas leadership to Bibi on silver platters.

L


6 posted on 02/12/2024 6:33:23 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SJackson

ham ass terrorists could always surrender, and end the war they started.

If not, oh well! Bombs away!


7 posted on 02/12/2024 6:34:47 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: SJackson

F ‘em ALL


8 posted on 02/12/2024 6:35:38 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: SJackson

Hamass just needs to release the hostages, disarm and destroy the tunnels.

Easy-peasy.


9 posted on 02/12/2024 6:38:32 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Uncle Miltie

They’re middle of the road. You’re probably thinking of Haaretz, an Israel version of the NY Times


10 posted on 02/12/2024 6:46:49 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: Uncle Miltie

JPost is the voice of Israeli leftists“

Well it sure looks that way.


11 posted on 02/12/2024 6:48:38 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Uncle Miltie

Interestingly Haaertz is Israel’s oldest paper. Jerusalem Post in the Mandate period was known as the Palestine Post, changed their name with independence.


12 posted on 02/12/2024 6:48:39 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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The Gazan sheep are all rounded up.

Now in peaceful one by one encounters, the trapped Hamas goats can be extracted from the flock


13 posted on 02/12/2024 6:53:38 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: SJackson

Aha. Well, *I* find the Jpost to be too squishy ... prolly like any ol’ McRomBush.


14 posted on 02/12/2024 6:53:45 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
"JPost is the voice of Israeli leftists, if I understand correctly."

I don't think this is entirely a leftist thing. Judaism is institutionally preoccupied with viewing every question from all possible viewpoints, which sometimes leads to them looking for the dark lining in the silver cloud.

That's why the final act in a Jewish wedding is the newly-minted husband stamping on a wine glass. To remind them that even on this most joyful of days they must remain aware that life is not without suffering. Or as Psalms 2:11 says, "Rejoice with trembling."

15 posted on 02/12/2024 6:55:54 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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Displaced Palestinian woman Laila Abu Mustafa, who fled her house

Where is her husband? Why would a man want his wife and family living with terrorists? Could it be he's a terrorist, huh, but the media paints her as the victim. Egypt doesn't want them. There's a reason no country in the world throughout history has ever wanted them.

16 posted on 02/12/2024 7:09:41 AM PST by bgill
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To: small farm girl

I have the same question as you do - if these are really persecuted innocents, why don’t the neighboring countries take them in? My answer is that those countries don’t want murderous terrorists. They would be bringing trouble into their countries.


17 posted on 02/12/2024 7:17:38 AM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Lurker

There it is.


18 posted on 02/12/2024 7:26:34 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SJackson

IT IS VERY HARD TO GET RID OF TERMITES-—

BUT IT IS ALSO NECESSARY


19 posted on 02/12/2024 7:47:06 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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I don’t give a frog’s watertight bung hole about the “plight of the palestinians”’in Gaza or anywhere else. They’re all complicit in this savagery.

Wasn't this the logic many Muslims used to celebrate the carnage of 9-11 against the "great Satan"?

If they want this war to end they would have already delivered the heads of the Hamas leadership to Bibi on silver platters.

Using what----their second amendment rights? The first elections in 18 years? Congregating in plain sight hoping the one you're plotting with isn't a member of Hamas and your children will live to see another sunrise?

20 posted on 02/12/2024 8:04:24 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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