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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country is “embarking on a long and difficult war” as it deals with an unprecedented hostage crisis after Palestinian militants launched a surprise land, sea and air attack from Gaza, killing hundreds and infiltrating into Israeli territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country is “embarking on a long and difficult war” as it deals with an unprecedented hostage crisis after Palestinian militants launched a surprise land, sea and air attack from Gaza, killing hundreds and infiltrating into Israeli territory.

Saturday’s shock attacks by Hamas led to the deadliest day in decades for Israel and come after months of surging violence between Palestinians and Israelis with the decades-long conflict now heading into uncharted and dangerous new territory. Questions are also swirling over how the entire Israeli military and intelligence apparatus appeared to be caught off guard in one of the country’s worst security failures.

Israel’s political-security cabinet convened late Saturday and made a “series of operational decisions aimed at bringing about the destruction of the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, in a way that would negate their ability and desire to threaten and harm the citizens of Israel for many years to come,” according to a statement from the office of Israel’s Prime Minister.

  • QuokkaAEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    But one side is avenging current grievances, because Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been ongoing for 50 years, it hasn’t stopped.

    As long as the powerful abuser keeps pushing people to breaking point, you can’t fault them for lashing out.

    • BraveSirZaphod
      2•9 months ago

      I am actually going to fault murdering 200 people at a festival and raping women and then parading their naked body through the streets.

      I’d also fault bulldozing Palestinian villages to make land for settlements. I don’t think saying Side A Good, Side B Bad is particularly productive in a situation this messy.

      • QuokkaAEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Treat people like animals and you don’t get to be shocked they act like animals.

        Israel has now cut off the water to 2 million Palestinians, do you not understand the difference in scale of atrocities being committed here?

        • BraveSirZaphod
          2•9 months ago

          Hamas could unconditionally surrender, release the 130 hostages, and vow to abandon any further attempts to attack Israeli citizens, and the water and electricity would be turned right back on.

          I genuinely do not understand how someone can see a group that has murdered and raped civilians, taken over a hundred hostages, and then attempt to justify their actions.

          • QuokkaAEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            How many tens of thousands of Palestinian women has Israel raped and murdered yet you fucking sit here supporting them you sick fuck.

            In the following hours she was taken from the hut and forced to shower naked in full view of the soldiers. Three of the men then raped her.

            After the Sabbath meal the platoon commander, identified by Ha’aretz as a man called Moshe who had served in the British army during the second world war, proposed a vote on what should be done with her.

            One option was to put her to work in the outpost’s kitchen.

            Most of the 20 or so soldiers present voted for the alternative by chanting: “We want to fuck”. The commander organised a rota for groups of his men to gang rape the girl over the next three days. Moshe and one of his sergeants went first, leaving the girl unconscious. Next morning, she complicated matters by protesting about her treatment. Moshe told one of his sergeants to kill her.

            She was forced into a patrol vehicle with several soldiers, two carrying shovels, and they drove off into the dunes. When the girl realised what was about to happen she tried to run, but only made it a few paces before she was shot by a Sergeant Michael.

            Israel has been doing this for decades. It still continues today, and survivors are not even allowed to legally challenge it because Israel refuses to recognise their right to be heard.

            • BraveSirZaphod
              1•9 months ago

              You had to go back to 1949 to find an example and I’m meant to be convinced that these are remotely equivalent?

              Meanwhile, I have to go back to two days ago to find who knows how many cases?

              To make it clear though, that is horrendous and has absolutely no justification. Why are so many people not able to say the same thing about the actions of Hamas?

      • QuokkaAEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        It’s not good vs bad.

        It’s oppressed vs oppressor.

        • BraveSirZaphod
          1•9 months ago

          If your resistance to oppression causes you to rape and murder civilians, you deserve to be oppressed.

          There are ways to fight back that are not the intentional murder of innocents, and you know that just as well as I do. Do you really have such little faith in Palestinians as to think that they don’t know that rape and murder are wrong? That they’ve simply been forced into these actions by the twisted machinations of the West?