"Biden realized that Netanyahu was lying to him about the hostages," the official told Haaretz. "He's not saying it publicly yet, but in the meeting between them, he specifically told him, 'Stop bullshitting me.'"
On Friday, a senior member of the Israeli negotiating team told Haaretz that Israeli defense chiefs believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in a hostage deal/cease-fire with Hamas. Israel's Channel 12 also reported on a tense exchange between Netanyahu and the defense chiefs, in which Shin Bet head Ronen Bar said, "It feels like the prime minister doesn't want the framework that's on the table." Turning to Netanyahu, he added that if that is the case, "you should tell us."
Mossad chief David Barnea stressed to Netanyahu, "There is a deal on the table. If we delay, we could miss the opportunity. We have to take it." Netanyahu, per the report, reacted angrily, accusing the defense chiefs of being "soft."
Gee, what could have possibly clued Biden into the fact that Netenyahu was being disingenuous? Could it possibly have been the fact that after every time they spoke, Bibi would immediately go on-air in Israeli press and brag about what a little removed Biden is and how he’s completely in Bibi’s pocket? Could that have been a sign?!
Comparing this war with the Holocaust is stupid. Even if you ignore the numbers, the situation itself is completely different. Palestinians are armed, hostile and a threat. German Jews were just harmless citizens, some even being in the German army, defending the country.
Did you really even think this through like at all?
Believing leveling the civilian infrastructure and killing vast segments of families won't lead to further radicalization and terrorism is stupid.
Believing Israel can't protect its borders if it actually read its own intelligence reports and committed even half the number of IDF to its 20-mile border as it did to this offensive is stupid.
Believing attacking Gaza actually resolves the problem or even deals with the larger nations feeding those terrorists is stupid.
Believing Bibi actually cares and isn't just trying to wage an imperial conquest while trying to avoid ongoing criminal trials in Israel is stupid.
Believing executing 4 women and children for 1 Hamas operative is worth it is fundamentally stupid.
They had 75 years to make peace. As the party with constant military supremacy and backing of the hegemonic power, the onus was on them to make it work. But we've known for decades that Israel's leaders sabotaged the so called "peace process" and only wished to foster more hostility so they of leverage their military superiority.
Good thing both sides have been breeding child soldiers like crazy so they both can have the blood orgy they crave so much.
We just want to forget this cursed land of hate exists, is that so much to ask?
the united states will continue to fellate israel until the end of time, regardless of who's POTUS. and israel knows that to be the case, regardless of who's leading israel. the intelligence alone is something the US will never give up. in addition to being really the US's only reliable tentacle in the middle east
lol and what's the difference between all those countries and israel? and why would the US send mountains of weapons and cash to israel and much less to the other "allies"? hint: it rhymes with "schmuslims."
Over the course of the Genocide the notion that we really want israel to exist as a strategic ally has started to look extremely wonky to me.
Looking at previous history as well, I have concluded the "strategic partner" narrative is purely an excuse for israeli lobbyists. Such as the best funded lobbyist for israel
Well the US have been busy inventing a back up for decades now.
Who else in the middle east has a sizable population that spans many countries which, in the case of independence, would conveniently destabilize the middle east yet wholely depend on the US for survival, as it would be completely surrounded by sworn enemies, therefore would have to act as a defacto US state in foreign affairs?
Anyway, we are halfway there now and the rest shouldn't take too long
You mean the Netanyahu whom Sarkozy and Obama called a liar 10 years ago? I mean, come on, obviously anyone with close knowledge of Israel ans Palestine knows Bibis track record – but if Obama knew it 10 years ago, then even his then-VP maybe should have known it too ????
We should back away from Israel. We have absolutely no legitimate business with them and they bring nothing to the table.
Israel offers no unique military logistics, as we already have full access to the region via neighboring installations. They offer no substantial business to the U.S. They bring only strained relations with neighboring countries, with whom we have much more lucrative business ties.
It's time to back away from this toxic, one-sided relationship. It's time for Israel to be diplomatic with their neighbors instead of starting wars they want the U.S. to win for them.
A discussion of surveillance within Israel would be incomplete without a confrontation with political economy and the development of security technologies. Neve Gordon (2009) argues that the ‘Israeli experience’, in its various manifestations, has played a pivotal role in the formation of Israel’s homeland security industry and its subsequent transformation into a global success story. The innovations in security and military technologies developed in Israeli laboratories have also facilitated the increased ‘virtual occupation’ of Gaza since the ‘Disengagement Plan’ (Sperotto 2010). Israel’s ‘separation barrier’, widely cited as a violation of Palestinian human rights, is premised on an array of sniper towers, electric fences, trenches, cameras, sensors, patrol roads, ditches, and military patrols (International Court of Justice 2004; B’Tselem 2006; International Federation for Human Rights 2004) – a blend of technological devises and various surveillance techniques developed in Israel.
What these political-economic perspectives on surveillance offer is a ‘made in Israel’ approach to the development of security strategies and methodologies, as well as the construction of a surveillance apparatus that is deployed in Israel, the OPT, and abroad by purchasers of this know-how. The IDF’s recent upgrades to the Gaza fence is noteworthy, considering the interface between the military through the newly-upgraded Combat Collection Corps, the network of intelligence agents working within Gaza, surveillance technologies, and national security policies determined to enforce iron clad borders (Katz 2010). This provides a testing ground of sorts for military strategy, technology, and border policies that could effectively be adapted for use outside of Israel. In 2006, Elbit Systems was awarded a contract, along with Boeing, to build the security wall on the U.S.-Mexican border (World War 4 Report 2006). Because of the international public acclaim that accompanies Israel’s defence industry, Israeli-based firms, as well as foreign companies that contribute to the country’s security apparatus, such as Motorola, Elbit, Boeing and others, have become targets of the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign (Macdonald 2010; New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel n.d.; The Council on Ethics 2009; Cattatori 2009; Campaign Against U.S. Terror Weapons n.d.), which constitute the central internationalist non-violent movement against Israel’s illegal military occupation of Palestinian territory and continuous defiance of international law (see Bakan and Abu-Laban 2009).
Israel tests it's surveillance technology on Palestine, then exports that technology to other countries.
But if something were to happen to Israel, the death cult can't continue to try to kickstart the rapture so we can go to the mcdonald's playplace in the sky.
Any bets on whether this will change anything? I mean yeah, it doesn't seem likely and the prevailing opinion seems to be "fuck no", but I have no idea how informed that opinion is.
This specifically? Probably not just because Biden only has a few months left. But I think we're going to see a generational change in attitude from future presidents. Israel better get their shit together before that happens.
Yeah it's the rope that's he's used to kill 40,000 Palestinians I'm more worried about. If that's a price someone is willing to pay for political calculus then they're bad people.