Re: Israel
Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 4:23 am
In today's email news brief Haaratz, a newspaper in Israel reports:
"Blinken said Israel has not shown the U.S. a "credible plan" to prevent Hamas from re-establishing its presence in areas of Gaza the IDF has left, warning Israel could face an "enduring insurgency." The Biden administration has reportedly offered Israel intelligence on the location of Hamas leaders in exchange for avoiding a major Rafah offensive. Israeli officials said negotiations for a hostage release deal have not halted. Egypt announced it is joining South Africa's petition against Israel at the ICJ due its military operation in Rafah. Hezbollah is reportedly planning to gradually withdraw most of its combatants from the border with Israel."
Further:
" The Netanyahu government has, almost from the very beginning of the current war with Gaza, pitted itself not just against Hamas but against Biden. The president has revealed time and again [the government's] defects by showing his much clearer understanding of what should be done to advance Israel's long-term interests" - David Rothkopf
and further more:
WEST BANK: An empty house in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma was set on fire overnight into Sunday by unknown perpetrators who graffitied on the walls the phrase "price tag," used by extremist settlers, as well as referenced 30 days since the murder of 14-year-old Israeli Binyamin Ahimeir, who lived in a nearby settlement.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said that one Palestinian was shot and killed during an IDF raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus overnight into Sunday. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, another Palestinian was wounded and transported to a hospital.
Finally:
'Israel declared war after Hamas killed at least 1,200 Israelis and wounded more than 3,300 on October 7. In Gaza, the Hamas-controlled health ministry reports that at least 35,034 Palestinians have been killed. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hold hostage more than 129 soldiers and civilians, dead and alive, including foreign nationals.
The war comes after ten months of the most significant domestic political and social crisis in decades, due to legislation promoted by the Netanyahu government aimed at dramatically weakening Israel's judiciary and potentially rescuing Netanyahu from the three corruption trials he faces – and amid an escalation of violence between West Bank Palestinians and Israeli settlers, the latter empowered by Israel's most right-wing government ever.
But will this ever end:
A review of the past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%8 ... tra_affair
"Blinken said Israel has not shown the U.S. a "credible plan" to prevent Hamas from re-establishing its presence in areas of Gaza the IDF has left, warning Israel could face an "enduring insurgency." The Biden administration has reportedly offered Israel intelligence on the location of Hamas leaders in exchange for avoiding a major Rafah offensive. Israeli officials said negotiations for a hostage release deal have not halted. Egypt announced it is joining South Africa's petition against Israel at the ICJ due its military operation in Rafah. Hezbollah is reportedly planning to gradually withdraw most of its combatants from the border with Israel."
Further:
" The Netanyahu government has, almost from the very beginning of the current war with Gaza, pitted itself not just against Hamas but against Biden. The president has revealed time and again [the government's] defects by showing his much clearer understanding of what should be done to advance Israel's long-term interests" - David Rothkopf
and further more:
WEST BANK: An empty house in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma was set on fire overnight into Sunday by unknown perpetrators who graffitied on the walls the phrase "price tag," used by extremist settlers, as well as referenced 30 days since the murder of 14-year-old Israeli Binyamin Ahimeir, who lived in a nearby settlement.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah said that one Palestinian was shot and killed during an IDF raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus overnight into Sunday. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, another Palestinian was wounded and transported to a hospital.
Finally:
'Israel declared war after Hamas killed at least 1,200 Israelis and wounded more than 3,300 on October 7. In Gaza, the Hamas-controlled health ministry reports that at least 35,034 Palestinians have been killed. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hold hostage more than 129 soldiers and civilians, dead and alive, including foreign nationals.
The war comes after ten months of the most significant domestic political and social crisis in decades, due to legislation promoted by the Netanyahu government aimed at dramatically weakening Israel's judiciary and potentially rescuing Netanyahu from the three corruption trials he faces – and amid an escalation of violence between West Bank Palestinians and Israeli settlers, the latter empowered by Israel's most right-wing government ever.
But will this ever end:
A review of the past:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%8 ... tra_affair