Posted on 04/07/2024 4:42:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The IDF on Sunday announced that it had concluded the active invasion stage of the war for now while leaving open the possibility of a future new invasion of Rafah in deep southern Gaza.
Although a top IDF official said that this change had nothing to do with US pressure, the timing was unmistakable in coming right after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last week.
Critically, this means that Palestinians can, on one hand, move freely within southern Gaza and Khan Yunis and that there is a complete vacuum for preventing a return of Hamas governance, but the IDF is keeping northern and central Gaza cut off from the south.
Hamas immediately declared the IDF withdrawal, even partial, a victory for sticking to its position of demanding IDF withdrawals, including of troops in northern Gaza.
The world’s attention will likely now shift to whether the IDF will invade Rafah first, whether Hamas will cut a deal for the hostages to avoid such an invasion, or whether Israel will concede further to Hamas’s demands for returning more Palestinians to northern Gaza.
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Don’t forget, the Oct. 7 terrorist rampage broke a ‘cease fire’
How many times has this exact scenario played out?
Bibi has failed his objective and therefore handed presidency to Biden
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Yes that the ticket. Americans will forget everything that his administration has done except he forced Israel to back down. Really? That is your take on the situation?
Yes, amongst all those offered, that is the reading that sounds most accurate. It's a good chess move, and may the prepared conclusion be devastating.
"The world" is cowardly and stupid, so it needs to be played.
Idiot. It was NOT a genocide. It was a war. We weren’t conducting a genocide on Saipan or Okinawa even though a lot of civilians perished. Second of all, 99% of Gaza supported, kept secret and cheered the October 7 atrocity.
This gets silent, but truly deadly.
The modern special forces have their beginnings in the Israeli Resistance of WW II. The Israelite Resistance fought the Nazis with special forces. And they have an excellent history of success , their strength being extremely accurate and thorough intel., fearlessness and lightning strikes.Their women operatives were astounding. Hamas does not stand a chance.
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Yes yes yes yes
Don’t you see it !!!
The more wars under the Biden presidency the better chance for Biden to not get re election
Biden needs to be shown to be the fool that he is. More wars under Biden. No wars under trump
I see this as clear as day
Israel lost the war in the city of Washington Dc. Israel will not be mocked—the Mossad will take its revenge on the Democratic extremists. Never Again!
Ceasefire coming
All in Hamas terms
Probably 75% hostages dead
Israelis are way to dependent on USA weopons and this dependency needs to stop 🛑
If it was in preparation for a nuke strike, then I’d be okay with it.
the terrorists and terrorist sympathizers will live to fight another day
Yep, this is Pedo Joes fault, and innocent Israelis will die in the future because of it!
Yet
Two posts proving why the clueless are still globalist stooges. Spittle and lick brightly shining. Knee meet jerk.
Another tour de force of your intellect. As reasoned a response as we should ever expect from you. Just stooging out for that POS Netanyahu, the idiot responsible for everything from 10/SIX on. How about some kind of defense for the gilded situation you’re in. You think this has been a complete success. Not one peep of second guessing Ole Bibi, the magnificent from you. What a tool.
Israel anticipates Iran to respond to Israel’s recent bombing if Iran’s Embassy in Damascus. Freeing up forces by pulling out of urban hellholes seems logical, as does encouraging Hamas fighters to come out of their hidey holes.
Yes, I believe it is also a chance to rest and recharge. The remaining four HAMAS battalions cannot be allowed to survive, or HAMAS will take control of Gaza again. There is also a need to relocate some terrorist enablers and their future terrorist children out of Rafah before the IDF goes in.
Make the UN get off its a$$ and build refugee camps in the north of Gaza and on the West Bank: women and children only, no men under the age of 70. Move the non-combatant males to a separate Israeli-run camp outside Rafah, like in the area where the Greenhouses used to be. Then, they hit Rafah with everything the IDF has, take above-ground control quickly, and then battle underground.
Politically, Netanyahu is dead; he was the PM for the worst attack in Israel's history. His opposition may be in trouble as well. The investigation of what went wrong goes back to the previous administration. Until this war is over, they need a tough leader; when it is over, they will need someone just as hardline against the Palestinians. Just not Netanyahu or the previous PM.
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