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Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.

It was unclear whether the talks had broken down or simply paused, but the failure to reach an agreement on this week’s round of meetings raised apprehension of an imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

well fingernails are better than bombs and white phosphorous

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

Political theatre.

US keeps trying to pretend and appear rational, peaceful, trying to end "war", then ships a ton more to start the slaughter. Then US sends another warning…

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They will also be fighting with:

  • Toothpicks
  • Plastic straws
  • Cotton balls
  • Rubber bands
  • Feather boas
  • Marbles
  • Jump ropes
  • Paper clips
  • Marshmallows
  • Bubbles
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Victimitation

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

When you play the victim role one (or rather 50) times too many.

According to Israel, everyone is against Israel

Sometimes, when everything is shit, check your shoes instead of telling others that they are shit

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And everyone who dares criticizing them is obviously antisemitic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Can a country have a gender, too? Can the state of Israel be a woman so its also sexist not to commit genocide?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Especially those self-hating Jews.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Israel has already been preparing for this eventuality for years. They’re not as dependent on US aid as one might think. They had started working towards reducing their dependence on US military aid specifically because of US presidents trying to set milquetoast restrictions like, “Please stop committing war crimes so openly.” And our aid makes up much less of their GDP (though still something like $3+ billion/year). Likely they’ll just take their business elsewhere to countries more willing to ignore war crimes. We should still stop providing aid to them though, they’re a belligerent country and committing war crimes & genocide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I kinda wanna see Israel start weapons development with China. Just to see people lose their shit.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Send those interceptor missiles to Ukraine instead

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Blah blah blah, go actuallt do it, I'm gonna enjoy the show, genocidal human stain...

Also was this nonCredibleDefense or what, for real?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Israel's ministry of peace said on Thursday that the withholding of arms would pose no obstacle to the swift end to the looming Hamas threat. They added - All previous Palestine land will be ready for Israel citizen settlements by next spring. /s In case that's necessary.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’

He said that if he were in charge of Israel his number one priority would be getting civilians out of the southern city of Rafah, and that “with diplomacy” it could be possible to get them into Egypt.

“But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” he said. “I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.”

He reiterated the point a little later, saying: “I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.”

Just need a little Lebensraum and we can get it with this Final Solution.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Ok. Have fun.

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