#the netanyahu government

[eretzyisrael]

by Seth Mandel

As we consider the nature of the astonishing events both in Gaza and in Lebanon over the past month, we should recognize this one clear fact: Israel spent the last year not only fighting a two-front war in real time but learning from its every step and every move how to win the war that had been thrust upon it. And now it is.

I don’t need to rehearse it all for you, but I will, because it’s just so…exhilarating. The elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah since 1992, brought to a climax a period of daring Israeli actions that included, but are not limited to:

—the assassination in the spring of leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran’s most elite military unit, in a building in Syria.

—Israel’s use of some kind of science-fictional weapon we normies still don’t have a bead on against an Iranian site after the ineffectual missile attack Iran launched in response to the Syria killing—a clear message to the mullahs that Israel possesses terrifying capabilities Tehran cannot predict and that therefore Iran would be wise not to try and find out. And it hasn’t.

—the assassination inside Tehran in an apartment complex owned and run by the mullahs of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh—a plan so daring and melodramatically implausible it seemed to have been lifted from the pages of one of Daniel Silva’s glorious Gabriel Allon novels.

—the trapping of senior Hamas leadership in a corner of the city of Rafah following a months-long halt outside this southernmost point in Gaza—a pause largely due to the historically embarrassing pressure exerted by an increasingly pusillanimous and morally impotent Biden administration and its fear of an electoral blowback in one state out of 50 in a country generally extremely supportive of Israel’s efforts.

—the relentless grinding down of Hamas to the point that in the past week Israel is now openly declaring that Hamas no longer functions as a military but has been downgraded into some kind of counterinsurgency at best.

—Operation Grim Beeper, in which Israel wounded or took off the fighting map literally thousands of Hezbollah operatives in a single second, followed a day later by the same attack on the secondary communications devices Hezbollah resorted to with their pagers blown up.

—Operation Northern Arrows, a series of Israeli strikes that did more damage to Hezbollah’s colossal missile stash in six hours than it had done in the 34 days Israel had fought Hezbollah in a conventional war in 2006. In a day’s time, the Israeli airforce hit 1,600 sites in Southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley.

—The picking-off of Hezbollah leaders systematically wherever and whenever they have been accessible for such elimination, beginning with military commander Fuad Shukr and reaching its apex on Friday with 83 tons dropped directly on the head of Hamas’s command-and-control superbunker—killing Hassan Nasrallah, the world’s most destructive terrorist over the past 32 years, thus decapitating Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel, the United States, and the Jewish people worldwide for four decades.

—the continuing elimination of Hezbollah leaders following Nasrallah’s death, three so far, demonstrating that the decapitation of Hezbollah is not going to be followed any time soon with any kind of regeneration.

And after I finish writing this and before you begin reading it, more will have happened to boost Israel’s side of the war-fighting ledger. And if you had told me just a month ago at the end of August that I would be writing these words at the end of September, I would have thought you mad.

Just one month ago, Israel had plunged into a despair deeper than it had experienced at any time after October 7 when the nation learned that six hostages, including the Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had been murdered just minutes before they might have been rescued. Throughout Israel and the Jewish world, even some hawks found themselves all but ready to give up the fight because the continued plight of the hostages had just become too great to bear. A ceasefire was needed. Bring them home now.

The problem wasn’t an Israeli unwillingness to achieve a ceasefire. The Netanyahu government and its negotiators  accepted general ceasefire terms at multiple moments over the summer. Rather it was Hamas that would not proffer any kind of hostage return that even the United States, which wanted the ceasefire desperately, could view as minimally acceptable. But Israelis and Jews around the world had, without even knowing it really, been surviving on a kind of desperate optimism that things were really going to work out in a movie-ending sort of way. The loss of that optimism was soul-crushing and once again threatened to turn Israel inside out against itself even as the war was not won.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah was firing rockets, killing Druze children, and keeping the North depopulated. Israeli military leaders and Israelis have long known they would not be spared from directly engaging in this war on the northern border. But a country in mourning and a Jewish people worldwide overwhelmed by a degree of open hostility toward us most of us had never known could hardly bear the thought of that second front. Not to mention Yemen. Not to mention Iran.

Which is why September 2024 may go down in the annals of Jewish history as the time our people looked despair in the face and refused to submit to it. Israel said, through the proper democratic vehicle of the Jewish state’s duly elected government, that it would no longer hold itself back in hopes of a deal that would not emerge or tie an arm behind its back to manage a relationship with the United States when the U.S.’s position in all these matters had become all but inexplicable in its inconstancy.

The Netanyahu government acted, and with a kind of determination and confidence that has breathed new strength and a new sense of resolve into the Jewish people. Whatever the divisions and concerns and cautions inside the corridors of power about the astonishing onslaught of Israel against the Iran Axis of Evil, the fact is Israel stared into the abyss and said, “Not today. Not this week. Not this month. Not ever.”

[nando161mando]

Biden’s State Department in a nutshell.

[tomi4i]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[aestheticdaydreamer]

UN rapporteur: Israeli crimes in Gaza could keep ICC ‘busy for the next five decades’ The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory has said that “accountability is more needed than ever” over Israeli war crimes in Gaza. “The colossal amount of evidence concerning [international] crimes committed by Israel in Gaza just over the past 6 months could keep the [ICC] busy for the next five decades, especially at the current proceedings pace,” Francesca Albanese said in a post on X. She was responding to footage of four Palestinian men being killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza.

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Horrific scenes .. an Israeli drone targeted 5 unarmed Palestinian civilians in Al Sikka area in Khan Younis city in the beginning of February 2024.

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[Original Washington Post Article]

It's really, really important to remember that the US doesn't support Israel because it just does whatever The Jews™ tell it to. Christian Zionism is extremely powerful and worth reading up on and understanding if you want to end US support for Israel.

(PS. in these prophecies, at the end, the Jews either convert or die)

[heritageposts]

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

Average pro israel supporter

[vintageseawitch]

to everyone who is still not going to vote for Harris or will vote third party because of Gaza: please say with your whole chest that you want trump to win. we're living in the real world & it sucks but it's between the two. just say that you're perfectly okay with Project 2025 being implemented. just say that you're fine with mass deportations, another Muslim ban, people being sent to camps, people getting serial numbers, millions of women at risk for reproductive reasons, more oil drilling than ever before as they deny climate change. tell anyone you care about that is worried about any of these things that you are okay with all of this happening. no matter who we get, things will be happening over there. if you don't want to help your own house, how can you possibly help anyone else's?

"if she loses, just know it's because of her policies. they should have chosen a better candidate." THIS IS SUCH A COPOUT. we're going to have someone in charge of our military one way or another so they are ALL warmongers!! y'all have no fucking clue how this government works!! you're not marrying your candidate & to wait for someone perfect means you never live in the real world anyways.

it won't be entirely your fault if she loses, but if you're working harder for her to lose it's not good. just say that because we live here, we ALL deserve what we're gonna get, & that's including you because you're going down with the rest of us.

there's this thing called "being concerned about more than one thing" & another is telling everyone vulnerable around you that your principles matter more than other real people. where is the anger for Congress. for trump meeting with netanyahu & violating the Logan Act to do that. there's so much at stake in this election. who would you feel safer to protest under? whatever, y'all think they're "the same." we won't get your votes? odds are, a bunch of y'all will get deported anyways should he win. good luck.

[bonesashesglass]

https://x.com/thecradlemedia/status/1837548818612494837?s=46&t=9u7dtsvl8XZD8A7j2V6ckA

Right now, Israel is dropping massive bombs on civilian areas in Lebanon 💔

Please, spread and share this news. US media will try to bury it, don’t let them. Make them feel our rage

[defleftist]

Every time someone refers to what’s happening in Palestine as a war a bit of me crumbles inside. This isn’t war. It’s genocide. Call it what it is. Israel is committing genocide and the world is watching and the leaders don’t care. They don’t care about killing Palestinians and given different circumstances they won’t care about killing you.

[anarcho-commeownism]

just a reminder that the amount of people you see in congress listening to netanyahu is artificially inflated. i imagine this is why the audience was giving him a standing ovation every five seconds, tbh.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the EU Foreign Policy Chief have all now affirmed that they will abide by the ICC warrant and arrest Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes if they set foot on their soil.

Here’s some background on jurisdictions that the US government is conveniently ignoring.

Repost from @luciuxness:

The Warrants - Does The ICC Have Jurisdiction? What Will America Do? What Do We Do Next?

[nando161mando]

They created more outrage over absurd accusations against Palestinians of rape than actual rapes that 'Israel' blatantly commits against Palestinians and doesn't even bother denying.

[girlinafairytale]

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Brian Stewart

But since deferring to Washington last October, the Netanyahu government has generally met Hezbollah’s continued aggression with remarkable restraint. As it pounded Hamas in Gaza, Israel pointedly refrained from doing anything remotely comparable to Hezbollah, preferring to absorb its attacks and bide its time until Hamas had been defeated as a military organisation. But this posture was unsustainable indefinitely in the teeth of relentless aggression without inflicting further damage on Israel’s deterrent power—a remote consideration for inveterate critics of Israeli counter-terrorism but an essential one for the stewards of Israeli security.

In recent days, a decision was finally made by Israel’s war cabinet to spurn the Biden administration, which has not displayed much interest in allowing its allies to actually win wars initiated by their enemies. First, Israel detonated Hezbollah’s communication devices, which Israeli intelligence had booby-trapped with explosives, decommissioning thousands of Hezbollah fighters and operatives at a stroke and spreading paranoia through its rank and file. This ingenious attack compelled the militia’s senior officers to meet in person, which provided Israel with the opportunity it needed to waste Hezbollah’s chain of command, including Nasrallah himself.

Netanyahu ordered the strike in the Dahiyah before he left Israel to address the UN General Assembly, underscoring his nation’s independence from a global consensus that has preferred to denounce Israel while giving succour to its terrorist enemies. The alternative would have been to permit Iran’s revolutionary network, laboriously built around Nasrallah since he was elevated to lead Hezbollah in 1992, to remain intact. It was pure folly and naivety, in Washington as much as in Jerusalem, to think that such a malign and expansionist force could be safely accommodated, let alone absorbed into a durable regional order.

Hezbollah’s malice toward Israel has been unambiguous since its inception. An early Hezbollah manifesto—its 1985 open letter addressed to the “Downtrodden in Lebanon and the World”—promised to evict outside powers from Lebanon and terminate “the influence of any imperialist power” (besides Syria or Iran). The main enemy of the “Islamic resistance,” it declared, was the United States, which deployed Israel as the “spearhead” to inflict suffering on the Muslims of Lebanon and beyond. The clerics directing Hezbollah’s foot-soldiers have been committed in word and deed to perpetual war against Israel ever since.

Contrary to the popular myth that Hezbollah emerged as an organic “resistance” organisation during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the group was already a stalking horse for Iranian interests in the Levant by then, created and trained by the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. The ill-conceived and ill-fated Israeli invasion undoubtedly aided the group’s proliferation —it “let the genie out of the bottle,” Yitzhak Rabin later conceded—but it was Iran, intoxicated by the euphoria of its 1979 revolution, that nurtured its lethal proxy on the shores of the Mediterranean. And it was Iran that provided the materiel and military backing to its fellow Shi’ites in south Lebanon who, until then, had been a disdained underclass in Lebanon’s polyglot ethnic makeup. Its operatives and fighters, newly urbanised and in search of religious purpose, came to think of themselves as warriors in Ayatollah Khomenei’s wilayat al-faqih, a Shi’ite notion of ordained supremacy. In time, Hezbollah became not only the most powerful force in Lebanon but also the most dynamic and feared militia in the Middle East.

The group’s poisonous ideology—a grim trinity of anti-modernism, anti-Americanism, and antisemitism—combined with its revolutionary passion has wrecked Lebanon. Hezbollah began by driving suicide truck-bombs into US targets and kidnapping prominent Americans, evolved into an anti-Zionist guerrilla army, and then effectively took over the Lebanese state from within. In the process, it emerged as a uniquely malevolent force in the Arab world. As Thanassis Cambanis observes in A Privilege to Die, Hezbollah is “not quite a state, but much more than a political party; not quite an army, but much more than a terrorist network; not yet a full-fledged transnational movement, but much more than a Lebanese faction.”

[reality-detective]

You should know by now that Israel has everything to lose when D. Trump gets into office. He is talking in the context of what Benjamin Netanyahu is requesting the US government to do on his behalf of conquests.

Benjamin Netanyahu.

He was behind 9/11

He was behind the USS Liberty attack.

He was behind the Hamas attack.

As a matter of fact D. Trump blamed him for pulling support when they were taking out Qasem Soleimani. Which was a very shady move that D. Trump didn't like. We are talking about a war criminal. A man who can not even travel to other countries without getting arrested.

You had Iranian leaders who were relieved when Soleimani was taken out. So I highly doubt D. Trump will be launching a strike on behalf of Bibi towards Iran when most nations know Israel is a threat to the entire planet. He was the one who gave dual citizenship to 89% of our congress. Just by that alone they are traitors.

Israel was behind the occupation of the Sinai Peninsula in 1956.

Israel was behind the Al-Amira apartment complex attack in Beirut in 1982.

Israel was behind the Lavon Affair attack in 1954.

So do not act like D. Trump is hell bent on wiping out innocent people, when he knows who exactly the targets are.

The Swamp IS Deep 🤔