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Currently, the death toll from “Operation Slaughter” is 1,200 Israeli dead and nearly 2,000 Palestinian. 500 or 20% of the Gaza dead are children. And yes, even babies (see below).
As the IDF prepares for its invasion of Gaza, mobilizing its full active duty force of 250,000 troops along with 360,000 reservists, it ordered all residents of norther Gaza, 1.5-million (according to UNWRA figures), to leave their homes. This equates to three-quarters of the entire population. This would be equivalent to 7-million Israelis or 250-million Americans. It will be the greatest act of ethnic cleansing in the past 35 years (1991 Bosnia-Serb war).
The army clearly plans to eradicate all of the area. These people will have no homes to return to when it’s over (if it’s over). The army’s seeks a clear field of fire to destroy Hamas infrastructure and hunt down all its fighters and eliminate them. This, it believes, will fully and finally eradicate Hamas as an effective fighting force. The IDF plans are not only ethnic cleansing, but full-scale genocide.
Hamas, of course, will reposition its forces south of the eradication zone, from which it will launch attacks on the Israeli forces. It will not destroy Hamas. It may reduce its resistance capabilities. But eventually it will replenish them. If anything it will make it stronger with an even greater will to resist and endure.
The only sure way to eradicate Hamas is to launch an exterminationist campaign like Sri Lankan army did against the Tamils, slaughtering 20,000 and liquidating the groups entire leadership cadre. While it surely has plans it could implement to achieve this, the world might (just might) object. Though given its tepid response to the impending slaughter, even that is doubtful.
My guess is that Israel will declare all of northern Gaza a restricted buffer zone and not permit anyone to return. If so, that will only increase the misery of a people now living in an open air prison. Instead, it will become an even more miserable hellhole. And even the phrase “open air” no longer applies, since Israel controls even the skies over Gaza. Except, of course, during the Hamas assault, when Hamas paragliders owned the skies for a time.
The UN issued an urgent call for world leaders to tell Israel they must not do this. It issued an appeal to Israel to stand down. The response of Israel’s UN ambassador was to tell it to shut up and fall into line with the rest of the world decrying Hamas terrorism.
UNWRA says it currently has 300,000 Gazans sheltering in its facilities. It cannot possibly do more than it has. That in itself is a shocking number. Can you imagine nearly 1-million Israelis sheltering in the buildings of a single NGO?
Israel has launched a major propaganda campaign to arouse outrage against Hamas and protect it from future claims of crimes against humanity, once it launches what promises to be a catastrophic ground campaign. One that will dwarf Sherman’s March to the Sea, in which his Union army killed and burned everything in his path.
In a phone call with Pres. Blinken, Bibi Netanyahu offered a mendacious narrative, claiming Hamas beheaded babies and raped women. As you will see below, both claims are categorically false.
Biden in turn, gave a briefing to American Jewish leaders in which he claimed to have viewed “confirmed photos” of such horrors. Immediately afterward the White House press office clarified that the president had not actually seen the images, but was relying on what he was told by Netanyahu. That’s the equivalent of a cuckolded husband finding his wife in bed with another man and believing his wife’s denials. Bibi is an inveterate liar. He lies like he breathes. In fact there is a phrase Israelis use to describe him: “liar, son of a liar.”
It’s one thing when an Israeli leader levels incendiary and false allegations against an enemy. But when the President of the United States does it it has global impact. People can and will die from such inexcusable lapses.
The Israeli diplomatic corps has been dispatched to world capitals for dog-and-pony shows featuring pictures of dead babies, what I call “terror porn.” To be clear, the fate of the actual babies (including Palestinian) is heinous. But these cynical displays exploits the deaths for political gain. The goal isn’t only to elicit sympathy. It is to anesthetize the world to what is coming: full-scale genocide. If world leaders are forced to view these images, they will be so disgusted they won’t dare criticize Israel’s impending massacre.
As part of this campaign, is no longer making bogus claims that babies were “beheaded” and women raped. That is likely becuase Oren Ziv, the Forward and other media outlets have debunked both claims. They’ve asked the IDF, and it has responded that it has not found any such evidence.
If Israel wishes to focus on its dead babies, let’s not forget that thousands of Palestinian babies have died in Gaza during repeated Israeli invasions. There are no Palestinian media blitzes or dog-and-pony diplomatic campaigns to elicit sympathy. So let’s keep that in perspective.
Before Israel goes all-in on the claims of rape, we should remember that Israel’s premier historian of the 1948 war, Benny Morris, confirmed using archival evidence that Israeli forces raped Palestinian women. After the War ended, there continued to be incidents of rape, as I’ve recounted here. Further, during an earlier Israeli invasion of Gaza, “Rabbi” Eyal Karim, later named the army’s chief rabbi, declared that it was permissible for soldiers to rape Palestinian women in order to bolster their fighting spirit. In other words, be careful what you claim about your enemy. The chances you have engaged in precisely the barbarity you claim they have, will bite you in the ass.
Reports say the Israeli diplomats are using images of dead babies. This means they’ve retreated from the earlier lies and now feature claims that are more accurate. This is a feature of Israeli propaganda. It makes an initial claim that is either a lie or a partial truth. When the effect of that wears off or its proven a hoax, it then moves to equally incendiary messaging, but which hews somewhat closer to the truth.
Secretary of State Blinken began a trip to the region visiting all the usual spots: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Israel, etc. With one glaring omission: no visit to Palestine. That speaks volumes. It appears that he may be desperately attempting to salvage the Saudi-Israel normalization process, which has been halted due to the currrent “unfortunate circumstances.” He may also be seeking to explain or assuage the Arab capitals concerning the current conflict. Though what he can say that will make them feel reassured is unclear.
He took time during his Israel stopover to view Israel’s terror porn. It apparently shocked him to the core. In fact, he declared that the Israeli deaths were “the equivalent of 10 9/11s.” This in itself is an outrageous statement. 3,000 Americans died in one of the greatest national disasters since Pearl Harbor. His statement is an insult to the memories of the victims. American victims. Is it the job of an American diplomat to in effect diminish our national tragedy and declare it inferior to that of a foreign country? Blinken’s obsequiousness to Israel and its interests, even amidst tragedy, is objectionable. You can express your support in ways that don’t diminish your own country’s suffering.
The rape and baby murder stories are false?
All the mainstream British media, including Guardian (anti Israel to the core) are saying Hamas raped and murdered babies.
I think this is mass hysteria already.
@ Jeez: Saying something is true without offering a source is just plain dumb. As for the Guardian, when given a choice between your claims of what the Guardian said, and an Israeli journalist and eyewitness who never saw any evidence of this, and who questioned the IDF who also confirmed it, I think I’ll take Oren Ziv any day.
But now he’s saying something different:
https://twitter.com/OrenZiv_/status/1712201898063745301
What about all the other eyewitnesses? The ones from Zaka?
Is this all one big conspiracy?
@ Benjamin: Either you can’t read or you’ve argued in bad faith. There is nothing different in that tweet than his previous reporting. He does not say women were raped or babies beheaded. That is what my entire rebuttal of Israeli claims is about.
You hasbarists will have to do better. Be careful what you post in your comments. Be accurate & precise in what you claim sources say. OTherwise, you may face moderation.
Dear Jeez
History does not start on October 7th 2023.
The Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians started ove a hundred years ago when the first Zionist set foot in Palestine.
October 7th is a needle in hay stack compared to the atrocities committed by the Zionists against the Palestinian people over the last 100 years.
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I was liking Blinken alot prior to this attack. He’s disappointing now, clearly taken, probably triggered by his background and connection to the Holocaust but also the political. The Holocaust reverberates in this tragedy, as does 9/11. There have been many mass massacres in history.
Jews, especially Israeli, get so traumatized and triggered and then the impulsive military response which perpetuates and has perpetuated this conflict from day one. But Palestinians are also traumatized and triggered. Self serving leaders take advantage of this. Biden’s and Blinken’s support rates high w Israelis. We have been Israel’s unconditional support, support that has helped keep this human tragedy going. And Israeli propaganda now has been overwhelming . I am starting to hear other voices and viewpoints, especially w photos coming out of Gaza. Nathan Thrall in the Forward and on MSNBC. Peter Beinert also on cable tv were good.
Terror porn is a good term. It does the work of the terrorists for them strengthening the effect of horrification which is what Hamas wanted. It seems to be what Israel also wants, to be victim again.. In that view this is a really sickening situation.
The comparison is outrageous. One side deliberately and brutally murders old women and children. The other side wants to protect its citizens and launches an attack in which, unfortunately, innocent people are also injured. Hamas kills children on purpose and is ready for its own children to die as a human shield to protect them. It’s an existential war, either us or them. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances, innocent people will also be harmed, but we have no other choice if we wish to stay alive
@ Amier:
‘fraid not. Both sides deliberately murder civilians. Deliberately. Not one side. Both.
And Israel has murdered ten or 20 times the civilians that Hamas has. Including old Palestian women and children. In fact, it much more lethal and efficient at such slaughter. So don’t give me your bullshit about “we’re so moral, we care about civilians.” Blah blah blah. It just doesn’t work here.
Is that what you’re going to tell the 500 (so far) Gaza mothers whose children are being murdered: so unfortunate that we had to kill him or her. That will make them feel better I’m sure. Got news for your. Your fake empathy and aplogetics for genocide is pathetic.
Israel is killing children in Gaza now. 500 at last count. But you seriously claim that because some general didn’t say explicitly, kill children, that this let’s you off the hook? And you murdered 500 of them? Are you JOKING??
Nope. The Holocaust was an existential tragedy. Having 1,200 Israeli killed is a national tragedy. But that doesn’t even come close to “an existential war.” Your claim is ludicrous. Is Hamas going to destroy Israel? How would it do that? But assaulting Ovdah and all Israel’s other military bases and turning the guns on the IDF? Are you kidding me? “Existential” my ass. Again, that shit doesn’t fly around here.
I suggest that you stop peddling hasbara bullshit. What you’re offering is tired, recycled hasbara talking points. Either come up with something new that’s worth addressing or head on back to the Jerusalem Post or Arutz Sheva, where you really belong.
Israel uses the term “existential” abusively. It’s supposed to trigger the ceaseless forever victimhood that Israel has been losing a grip on. Israel, armed to the teeth, and has been getting away with using disproportionate force as policy ( I learn since Moshe Dayan). It does not work. In fact works so perversely that one might ask if Israel needs this war to go on to justify it’s existence. This is what the traumatized do, even states, when they don’t evolve. Disproportionate force and forced displacement are war crimes (UN). The excuse might be well the “terrorists” (perpetrators) of this murderous attack, and their infrastructure, are hiding in these dense areas. Then you have to go a little deeper into why they are there and in such density and under occupation. Then you get into having to be honest and fair about the whole history, or you just talk to one side, your side.
Dutch Islamophobic caretaker PM Mark Rutte talks NATO politics at Sobibór Memorial and on Gaza he spoke with Bibi Netanyahu who ascertained the IDF Army always abides by the rule of law. The Israel flag flies high at his office Het Torentje in The Hague and across the nation.
Another link to Dutch PM decision to raise the Israeli flag in article from right wing newspaper De Telegraaf banned after Nazi occupation 1940-45 for collaboration.
”Rutte calls Netanyahu: ‘Full right to defend’”
How can a tiny minority, Jews, 1 in 500 globally, steal an entire country in the middle of the Islamic world?
Answer … Semitism … “policy or predisposition favorable to Jews” in the Christian West.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Semitism
As early as 1895, Theodor Herzl confided to his diary, “We shall try to spirit the penniless [native] populations across the border by procuring employment for them in the transit countries.” — https://jewishcurrents.org/could-israel-carry-out-another-nakba
How will it end? Another Holocaust, that may bring down the entire planet with the Samson Option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Biden must recognize Palestine on 1967 borders or doom the world to a future nuclear war.
@ Steve: I agree with what you wrote, excluding the comment about “Semitism.” As I’ve argued scores of times here & everywhere. This has nothing to do with Jews or Judaism. Or nothing to do with the benighted fundamentalist view of Judaism practices by many of Israel’s religious Jews. This is a national and political conflict. Not a religious one as far as most Jews and Palestinians believe.
I keep reading the headline of this comment as” Israel Plans to ETHICALLY Cleanse Gaza” oops!
That’s a more appropriate headline.
Clearing civilians = cleansing
Not clearing them = genocide
Western standards don’t apply to the middle east, unfortunately.
Apparently international law doesn’t apply to “the most moral army in the world” when Netanyahu decides to have his own Warsaw Ghetto. TY for all you do.
Palestinian wells were poisoned as well by the Jewish Terror gangs in an effort to make those emptied villages unviable in 1948.
Greetings from Israel,
Whatever Israel may be planning, pursuant to International Law. Hamas is guilty of the crime of genocide.
“The terrorist attacks constituted genocide in violation of the Genocide Convention and Article 6 of the Rome Statute if the perpetrators acted with genocidal intent, i.e., the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”
For an attack to constitute genocide, it is not necessary that the perpetrators successfully achieve that destruction as a result element; it is sufficient that the perpetrators acted with the required “dolus specialis,” which in the case of genocide is the intent to destroy the group in whole or in part.
According to the Elements of Crimes, the predicate acts must have “taken place in the context of a manifest pattern of similar conduct directed against that group or was conduct that could itself effect such destruction.” Given the widespread nature of the attacks in multiple locations at the same time, including the large number of perpetrators and victims, it would appear that the “manifest pattern” requirement applies to this case. The terrorist attack was therefore genocidal in nature.
https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/12/international-criminal-law-analysis-of-the-situation-in-israel/
@ Minuteman:
Except it isn’t. Hamas wasn’t intending to destroy Israel.” Hamas cannot destroy Israel. You, I and everyone in the world, including Palestinians, know that. But even if I concede that argument (which I don’t) Hamas was responding to a far more lethal and methodical genocide perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians. The weaker party doesn’t commit genocide, the stronger party does because it actually has the power to entirely exterminate the weaker (and would do so if not for international opprobrium).
Again wrong. “A manifest pattern of similar conduct” contradicts yr argument. Hamas had never mounted such an attack before. So there is no “pattern,” manifest or otherwise. All previous attacks were a response to Israeli acts of genocide, as was this particular attack. Hamas had never mounted a ground attack (except for a limited foray to attack a single military target on the “border”) inside Israel, except during a war Israel initiated in which Israel invaded Gaza. Oops, there goes your argument.
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“Hamas wasn’t intending to destroy Israel.”
Hamas didn’t have to intend to destroy all of Israel.
The law requires an “intent to destroy, in whole or IN PART, a NATIONAL, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”
The string of kibbutzim that Hamas raided were ‘part’ of Israel and the national group were ‘Israelis’.
“A manifest pattern of similar conduct”, doesn’t mean how many times Hamas raided kibbutzim and slaughtered residents. The pattern is that how the kibbutzim were all similarly set upon and their residents kidnapped or slaughtered.
The manifest pattern is proven by the documents captured by the IDF.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-14/ty-article/hamas-planned-to-kill-and-abduct-civilians-documents-from-the-deadly-assault-reveal/0000018b-2d74-dff1-a5eb-fffde4b70000
Are you seriously moderating Minute Man for doing no more than linking an opinion penned by the Dean of Cornell Law School?
@ Miroslav:
So by your argument (which is wrong), Hamas intended to “destroy” Israel in part. Presumably the “part” was southern Israel. How well did they achieve their supposed intent? Hamas couldn’t destroy any part of Israel even if it wanted to. And it certainly knew it could not do this. So there is no “intent.” Attacking a country is different than seeking to “destroy” it.
Certainly, the atomic bombs on Japan were genocide. The Dresden bombings as well. THey all sought to destroy Japan in whole or part. Perhaps the Hanoi bombings qualify as well. But Hamas’ attack? Not even close.
No, it’s not. A pattern of conduct means pursuit of a strategy over time and consistently. It’s ridiculous to claim a pattern of conduct can be confined to a single event.
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“A pattern of conduct means pursuit of a strategy over time and consi.stently. It’s ridiculous to claim a pattern of conduct can be confined to a single event.”
No, not according to the Elements of Crimes, which requires the predicate acts must have “taken place in the context of a manifest pattern of similar conduct directed against that group OR [emphasis added] was conduct that could itself effect such destruction.”
So, even one singular act ‘could itself effect such destruction’.
You make a conclusory statement, without support, whereas Jens David Ohlin is the Dean of Cornell Law and an Emeritus Contributor to the Opinio Juris blog.
The terrorist attack was therefore genocidal in nature.
You said: ” The weaker party doesn’t commit genocide, the stronger party does because it actually has the power to entirely exterminate the weaker (and would do so if not for international opprobrium).
Right. The weaker party are the Israeli kibbutzniks and the stronger party is Hamas which has the power to exterminate the weaker.
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@ Miroslav:
Again, the second half of the sentence does not prove what you claim it does. A single act does not prove a manifest pattern of conduct. The Hamas attack could not “effect” the destruction of Israel or even of southern Israel. So again, you fail.
I don’t care who he is. I can’t tell you how many academics, including law school professors make claims that are unfounded, biased, and unsupported by sources.
Israel has the power to destroy Gaza and Hamas hundreds of times over. It has proven it scores of times when it has attacked, invaded, assassinated Gaza and Gazans. Claiming that in a single incident Hamas had more power than the Israelis it killed is ridiculous.
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U.S. Negotiations for Tiniest Humanitarian Corridor
Major headlines in Western warmongering media …
US advises its citizens in Gaza to move closer to Egypt’s Rafah crossing | Reuters |
Washington worked with Egypt, Israel and Qatar to try to open the Rafah crossing for limited hours on Saturday afternoon to allow 500 to 600 Palestinian-Americans to leave.
THAT’S ALL FOLKS
Israel Targets Humanitarian Convoy in Gaza
Making friendly European states complicit in ugly war crimes as the leaders remain 100% behind atrocities perpetrated by IDF Armed Forces of Israel.
Gaza civilians afraid to leave home after bombing of ’safe routes’ | The Guardian |
Analysis of aerial photos and social media posts confirms attack on road identified as safe by Israeli army
The Friday afternoon bombing in Gaza City, which killed a reported 70 people, including children, and which Hamas blamed on Israel, occurred on Salah-al-Din Road, a main thoroughfare in the overcrowded enclave.
Graphic video
Richard
Israel says its goal is to kill all Hamas leaders and fighters. But won’t Hamas leaders and fighters join the thong of civilians moving south, out of Israeli fire?
That suggests that the Israeli order to evacuate the northern part of the Gaza Strip is for ethnic cleansing. Israel wants to take over, steal, the northern third of the Gaza Strip. That will then confine the 2 million Gazans into a smaller area than they had been trapped in. If so, Gaza will become more of a hell hole.
You make a good point. I was asking the same question. Maybe Egypt is hesitating because they would have to scrutinize, police, and/or surveil the civilians some of whom may be Hamas or sympathizers. Why should Egypt want Israel’s problem for who know how long or permanently? Israel, especially Netanyahu, made this problem, caused the situation to come to this point.
I don’t know if Israel would want more than a flattened buffer zone or one with those prison towers. I don’t think this has been thought through. ( My cousin & family was a Gaza settler, Gush Katif until 2005, the “disengagement”; they grew tomatoes and had a horse farm. The settlers lived apart and were resented from what I understand)
The New Yorker just published this important interview with a Hamas leader. It’s important because it’s rare, Don’t you think we should know what they are thinking? What their justification is?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-was-hamas-thinking?utm_
I hope this will be read.
About ethnic cleansing, the Daily Mail thinks Arab countries should absorb Palestinian immigrants like Israel absorbed the Arab Jews who fled or were forced out in 1948, like India and Pakistan and even like the USA, and Israel shouldn’t have to live with a threat. British are becoming the most Zionist country in the world even outdoing America.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12631373/PETER-HITCHENS-seriously-call-Israel-nation-size-Wales-weaken-defences-agreeing-clamour-two-state-solution.html
@ Jamila: The Daily Mail? Really? And since when has it served as a credible source on any subject, let alone the history of ethnic cleansing and forced population transfers. Arab countries have no obligation to accept Palestinian refugees. That is Israel’s responsibility since it expelled them. Not to mention that the USA, India and Pakistan willingly accepted refugees in these cases. The Arab states do not want these refugees. Nor can they be forced to accept them.
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WTF “Palestinian immigrants” ⁉️
The only people Israel is seeking to ethnically cleanse is the Hamas terrorists who refuse to accept the existence of the state of Israel and dedicate their lives to the holy mission of eradicating Israel and its inhabitants, including civilians, men, women and children, as they demonstrated so clearly a week ago.
@ Ock: A lie. Israel has forcibly expelled 1-million Palestinians from their home. That is ethnic cleansing. Like it or not (and you don’t). Too bad.
indeed, for their own safety and protection, would you rather israel doesn’t clear them and they then get killed in the fighting with hamas? probably yes, so you have more ammunition for your diatribe
@ ock:
I take such garbage comments very seriously. Do NOT presume to know what I believe. Do not impute to me opinions or views of me you have. You’re already moderated. You have only way to go from here.
As for Gaza, I don’t really care what Israel does or why it does it. That doesn’t matter in terms of culpability under international law. The act is what matters. Ethnic cleansing for any reason is a war crime.
Having people temporarily removed from a geographical area is considered ethnic cleansing? or do you already have proof that they will not be allowed to return and a different group of people, say Israelis, will take over?
And the reasons behind the removal do matter:
International law allows the involuntary removal of persons only where it is strictly for the security of the persons or for imperative military reasons, but only for as long as the removal is necessary.
(source: https://iimm.un.org/legal-concepts/)
Every move the Israeli military makes, is thoroughly examined legally beforehand. International law isn’t perfect, needs to be updated to address terror warfare, but it’s what there is now.
This act in Gaza is done for the security of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.
@ Benjamin: They have not been “temporarily removed.” They have been expelled, not “removed.” That is considered ethnic cleansing. As for proof, you apparently did not read the post, which you should always do before posting a comment. My Israeli security source says that anything moving inside the buffer zone will be killed. I think that seals the question of whether the expulsion is temporary or permanent.
NO it doesn’t matter.
What the IDF calls “imperative military reasons” is ridiculous. They’ve stolen thousands of dunams of privately owned Palestinian land declareing it a closed military zone for critical military use. Somehow the land ends up in the hands of settlers. So much for imperative military reasons. Not to mention that stealing even more dunams from Gazans for a buffer zone doesn’t offer Israel “security of persons.” Despite previous land theft for the purpose of creating an earlier buffer zone, it failed during the Hamas attack.
The bullshit is strong in this one. Israeli military law isn’t real law. It’s law in the service of apartheid. That’s not law.
Now I know you’re an idiot. Believing your propaganda.
That’s you one comment permitted in this thread.
Richard, I hope it isn’t pedantic to say that 2,624 Americans died on 9/11. I’m not sure how deeply the US cared about the hundreds of other nationalities who also died.
I think you misunderstand Biden’s “10 9/11s”. I think he meant that in proportion to the size of their populations, Israel lost 10 times as many as the US.
(If that kind of comparison means anything, it has struck me in the past that Baruch Goldstein’s killing spree was roughly equivalent to 9/11.)
Forgive me if I am just being pedantic.
@Huw:
Not sure what in my blog post you’re referencing regarding the death toll from 9/11.
I read the quotes from Blinken’s interview and he didn’t reference anything about comparing 9/11 to Israel’s population. If that’s what he did mean he didn’t say it. So I’d rather not speculate on what he meant and focus on what he actually. I’m not disputing the possibility he may have meant that. It’s just not there explicitly.
No problem. It’s useful to have people fact-checking my work.
“All the mainstream British media, including Guardian (anti Israel to the core) are saying Hamas raped and murdered babies.”
The Guardian, no its not.