Not like they have a lot of reasons to stay, after their land has been stolen, houses bombed, electricity cut off (killing all critical patients including premature babies), water and food supplies stopped, and 100’s of children already killed.
Edit: and now getting rained on by white phosphorus (a war crime chemical weapon).
They are wading into their own Afghanistan, which is what the attacks appear meant to do.
Yes I’m sure those 1 million Gaza children deserve to die in the most awful ways, with heir limbs torn to pieces, so that we can stop them from “beheading babies” (which apparently has now been debunked).
Their parents are terrorists who murder babies. They’re using their own children as shields. I would support forcible removal but I doubt terrorist sympathisers like you would.
What parents? The average (median) age of a person in the Gaza strip is EIGHTEEN. 18 fucking years. Life expectancy is so short due to the numerous human rights violations by Israel that half the population of Gaza are KIDS. Is there any wonder at all that it’s a hotbed of radicalization?
So, it seems the Israeli government knew something was going to happen and then let it happen so that they could steal more land in response.
WTF is wrong with them.
I’m not gonna allege specific knowledge of this attack, but there is plenty of evidence that Netanyahu and his cabinet saw continued provocations by Hamas as a key to retaining their power.
Whether he did anything to make it happen, an attack like this was very much on his wish list.
https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history
a columnist at Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper unearthed evidence that Netanyahu has intentionally propped up Hamas rule in Gaza — seeing Palestinian extremism as a bulwark against a two-state solution to the conflict.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” the prime minister reportedly said at a 2019 meeting of his Likud party. “This is part of our strategy — to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
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This is why Netanyahu reportedly saw Hamas rule in Gaza as something of an asset. So long as the Palestinians remain divided among themselves — Hamas in charge of Gaza and the moderate Fatah faction in power in the West Bank — then a peace agreement is likely impossible: You can’t come to a negotiated settlement without a unified negotiating partner. The terrorist threat Hamas poses, on this thinking, can be managed; the endless blockade and periodic military operations, euphemistically called “mowing the grass,” can keep the danger posed by Hamas within acceptable parameters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047
Evidence Israel knew / was forewarned about the attacks
While I also hold this suspicion, there is fairly little evidence of this.
However, I’d say the biggest evidence is that it was literally the 50th anniversary, down to the same holy day, of the last time Palestine forces attacked Israel. The fact that Israel didn’t at least have some sort of elevated defense last Saturday is absolutely unforgivable. This is not quite a smoking gun, but definitely at least gun smoke.
I think calling their lack of preparation for something that hasn’t happened in 50 years suspicious is a stretch, regardless of whether or not there was an anniversary.
It’s not that it’s not happened in 50 years, it’s that it’s the anniversary of an event and it’s a big anniversary. Instead of a slightly raised security presence, it was markedly reduced. The US has heightened security every year on key holidays, and the US does’t have such an immediate threat right next door. Meanwhile Israel is generally more militaristic as a nation with mandatory service. The lack of defensive forces present on the day is just ludicrous.
You often see reports after a successful attack that “so-and-so warned such-and-such about this-and-that days before attack”, but they almost certainly get dozens of warnings a day from lots of sources. Some are right, some are wrong. The attacker only has to be lucky once. The defender has to be lucky every time.
That’s not to say that Israel won’t capitalise on the chance to flatten Gaza, because I browsed /r/combatfootage and have eyes, but I think they’d rather not have hundreds of Israelis held captive and over a thousand dead.
but I think they’d rather not have hundreds of Israelis held captive and over a thousand dead.
I think the average Israeli wouldn’t want that. I also think the ultraconservative faction (which includes most of the current govt) is celebrating this opportunity to seize more land.
Egypt warned them days before, the USA has confirmed the warning by Egypt. Hamas has released training videos showing the paratroopers training with flying gliders. Yair Lapid released a video in September warning the government was ignoring intelligence signals.
I see a clear picture emerging.
Egypt warned them days before, the USA has confirmed the warning by Egypt.
I’m not so sure on this, I think the US politicians that said this could well be repeating the same single source we’ve heard. Egypt didn’t officially say that they notified Israel, either, that came from a source within Egypt’s intelligence services. It may well be true, but I just wouldn’t rate those statements as good evidence - as far as I’m aware no one from within the US intelligence community has confirmed it.
There are two possibilities I see. Either Israel knew it was going to happen, and let it, or they didnt know. Both are unfathomably irresponsible, and unforgivable.
Israelis should be tearing their own government apart for their ineptitude and/or treason, and likewise, Palestinians should be tearing Hamas apart for being so stupid and impotent.
No matter what the facts on the ground are, Israel is an incompetent and poorly governed state. Based solely on the demographics and economics, the average Israeli is far more to blame for the current state of affairs, than the average Palestinian — the average Israeli has been alive over a decade longer than the average Palestinian, and the average Israeli is about 20x wealthier than the average Palestinian…
More than 2/3’s of Gaza’s population are under 30, and the vast majority are not only poor, but poorly educated. Only a few % of the population are over 65. Most developed economies have an over 65 population of 10-20%, including Israel… The stats aren’t much better for the West Bank. Essentially, 99% of the Palestinian population have lived their entire existence under Israel’s apartheid rule — segregated in either Gaza or the west bank.
Contrast that to Israel, which is a wealthy, well-educated, developed economy; that have maintained similar demographics with the rest of the developed world, and actually far exceed the USA in most statistics related to quality of life and standard of living.
When will the world stop acting like an impoverished, uneducated, largely illiterate non-state — that isn’t even recognised by most of the world — populated by children and young adults… Should have it’s shit together and act with more wisdom and humility than a rich, educated, developed country; governed by middle aged adults and boomers?
