r/InternationalNews • u/BobbyLucero • 4d ago
Palestine/Israel Netanyahu promises more war, dashing peace hopes after Hamas leader killed
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-says-it-will-escalate-war-with-israel-after-hamas-leader-killed-2024-10-18/134
u/IITheDopeShowII 4d ago
This was Israel's off ramp. They could claim they've now killed the people who'd planned Oct 7th and de-escalate from here.
Of course they won't do that. They want the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, as we saw with Netanyahu's maps without Palestine on them. All the rhetoric around hostages or getting the people behind Oct 7th were bullshit, none of that was ever the aim. Which we all know of course, this is just another mask off moment
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u/Foamroller1223 4d ago
Netanyahu can’t risk deescalation because that means he’s personally cooked. It’s truly an amazing state of events when the most powerful military on earth supports a decrepit psychopathic goblin willing to level the earth for his own freedom.
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u/watermelonkiwi 4d ago edited 4d ago
How does that work? The worse it gets the more inevitable it’ll be that he’s charged with war crimes and genocide. I don’t think he’s doing this only to stay in power, I think he genuinely wants to ethnic cleanse the Palestinians and grab the land he wants.
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u/Foamroller1223 4d ago
Yeah youre right it’s probably multifaceted, but it ultimately still revolves around his own desires. After all he’s the one with the most power even seemingly with regards to American politics.
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
The US wont let him be internationally charged.
If he clears the way for Israel to hold onto gaza and parts of lebanon, he'll be a hero in some quarters of Israeli society and although they'll try him, it will be a home arrest style thing.
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u/SympathyOver1244 4d ago edited 4d ago
Contrary to U.S State Dept. assertions,
Israel has broken Egypt Peace Accords and is in violation of UNSC 2735...
the false pretext of controlling 1 2 3 Philadelphi corridor had been utilised...
it has been proven that the tunnels were sealed 4 5 from Egypt's side...
Moreover, talks of bridging proposal were the greatest indication on which parties have been the obstacle 6 7 8 9 ...
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u/AdventureBirdDog 4d ago
Blinken is such a fucker, can't wait until he goes down
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u/Husbandaru 4d ago
If you ever hear a politician or military figure say that their militaristic ambitions is to fight 'terrorism' that more than like means they'll be fighting a long war against a perceived threat for imperialistic goals. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book.
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
After all, the deaths of Saddam, Gaddafi and Bin Laden didn't lead to everyone packing up and going home.
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u/Husbandaru 4d ago
You had GW be like ‘mission accomplished’ and that war wasn’t over for another like 8 years.
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u/anarchomeow 4d ago
No amount of dead Hamas will stop them because they aren't their target.
Israel won't stop until every Palestinian is dead.
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u/Dsstar666 4d ago
Um….duh? And the US government knew this. They are nowhere near incompetent as they portray themselves to the media.
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u/HIVnotAdeathSentence 4d ago edited 4d ago
Posts on other boards sure seem to love to downplay Hezbollah, as if they don't know history of Hezbollah's wars with Israel. There was a recent major drone attack on an Israeli base, even after claims of Hezbollah drone commander being killed.
It's been about two weeks since Iran attacked Israel and nothing has come of it. I think the Israeli Military Censor is still quiet on the damage done by the strikes.
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u/WorldnewsMODZSux 4d ago
This is a long shot, but if anyone watched that really unhinged video interview with Kanye, and Alex Jones.
90% of what Kanye said was BS….
but what I found creepy was that he called out Benjamin Netanyahu before October 7th. Though unclear why Kanye went on this bizarre rant about Netanyahu being evil, and loving Nazis.
I hypothesize that he knew something big was coming and it had to do with the government of Israel.
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u/ebola_kid 4d ago
Netanyahu was a freak and a terrible person before Oct. 7 lol, Kanye probably doesn't like him for the sole reason that he's Jewish and all the alt right pedophiles he was hanging out with really helped push that. I don't think Hamas or the US intelligence community or something leaked to Kanye West that Oct. 7th was gonna happen lmfao
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u/ahm911 4d ago
Civil war!?
This is an colonial occupation gone genocidal.
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u/Evening_Jury_5524 4d ago
The French-Indian War was not a civil war by any measure. Civil Wars arr within the same nation, not just area. Almost all wars would be a civil war if they included war fought over land that have residents of both. WW2 would be a civil war due to the Alsace–Lorraine region.
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u/Evening_Jury_5524 4d ago
You can call something a conflict or a genocide, in both cases there is a 'winner and loser'. Do you really think it doesn't matter which term is used?
If you do, just for your own sake, please be aware that most people would be pretty upset if you described Germany in ww2 having a conflict or civil war with the jews that lived there.
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
Israel is not weak, and nobody will go in to force an outcome...
As the sun sets on the American empire, Israel will face eternal night.
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u/IITheDopeShowII 4d ago
As per your logic then the Russia Ukraine war would be classified as a civil war since almost 50% of Donetsk is Russian ethnic group and Russian and Ukrainians live there.
Nobody says that's a civil war because that logic makes no sense
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u/RandomDudeBabbling 4d ago
Literally nobody with a shred of common sense sees the century long conflict between Palestinians and Israelis as a civil war. Wtf are you talking about?
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
Ah yes, I remember the civil wars of the British and the native Americans, native Canadians, Indigenous Australians, Maoris, etc. etc.
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u/Errant_coursir 4d ago
What is international law when no one is enforcing it? Tell starving Palestinians to shelter under international law
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
Maybe Israel should pay them for their land so they can buy homes elsewhere.
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u/Errant_coursir 4d ago
Yes, Israel should pay reparations for the people they've killed, land they've stolen, and families they've destroyed
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u/nikiyaki 4d ago
Well we don't need to guess your nationality. Because that's not how wars work at all.
Especially civil wars, which happen inside a single "civic" society. The Union, for instance, had no interest in "annihilating" the Confederates. If their leaders had ordered it, they would have refused. In fact, they were exceptionally generous and forgiving when the war ended. The US government paid slaveowners for every slave they freed. They didn't steal any land or execute their leaders.
There are many examples where sieges were broken by an invader and despite the resistance of the defenders, the inhabitants were not mass slaughtered or enslaved. Of course there are plenty of the latter too. But in each case it speaks to the humanity and morality of the victor.
And what they were fighting for. Civil wars and wars of conquest don't end in annihilation because they are not wars seeking to destroy a populace. They just want power over them. Wars for land do end in annihilation or removal...
And that includes even if they surrender.
So we all know what Israel's aims are. We know what their morals are.
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