Israel Declares War After Hamas Attacks
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Police in Paris broke up another student protest in support of Palestine near the Sorbonne University on Monday. Several dozen students shouted “Long live Palestine!”, stretched out a huge Palestinian flag, and then staged a sit-in protest in front of the entrance to the educational institution.
After some time, law enforcement officers ordered the students to end the protest, but some did not want to leave. The organizers of the action complained about the harsh actions of the police, accompanied by a corresponding video.
After some time, law enforcement officers ordered the students to end the protest, but some did not want to leave. The organizers of the action complained about the harsh actions of the police, accompanied by a corresponding video.
It truly does
So Biden trying to convince Bibi is better to let the Saudis deal with Iran.
“The Biden administration is directly demanding that Israel not conduct a military operation in Rafah.
The famous American journalist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, who is considered “Biden’s mouthpiece,” writes about this in an article for The New York Times, citing sources.
The White House talks about this publicly, but in private the Americans’ statements are even more straightforward. They tell Israel: "no massive invasion of Rafah, period."
“We are not telling Israel to just leave Hamas alone. We are saying that we believe there is a more targeted way to go after the leadership without destroying Rafah block by block,” a senior US official told the publication.
Biden wants to prevent another wave of mass civilian casualties.
The US is proposing that Israel instead create a defensive coalition against Iran with Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia. This will require Israel to end the war, which has dragged on for six months, and agree to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The day before, the Israeli media also wrote that pressure on Israel to prevent the operation in Rafah was increasing”
“The Biden administration is directly demanding that Israel not conduct a military operation in Rafah.
The famous American journalist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, who is considered “Biden’s mouthpiece,” writes about this in an article for The New York Times, citing sources.
The White House talks about this publicly, but in private the Americans’ statements are even more straightforward. They tell Israel: "no massive invasion of Rafah, period."
“We are not telling Israel to just leave Hamas alone. We are saying that we believe there is a more targeted way to go after the leadership without destroying Rafah block by block,” a senior US official told the publication.
Biden wants to prevent another wave of mass civilian casualties.
The US is proposing that Israel instead create a defensive coalition against Iran with Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia. This will require Israel to end the war, which has dragged on for six months, and agree to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The day before, the Israeli media also wrote that pressure on Israel to prevent the operation in Rafah was increasing”
Nice find bro…
I’d make a thread on this
Both did great…. Great questions and great bull shit answers
Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘extraordinarily generous’ ceasefire deal
Mike BrestApril 29, 2024 11:16 am
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas to accept the latest ceasefire proposal, which he described as “extraordinarily generous” for them.
The U.S. is among a group of countries, including Qatar and Egypt, that have acted as mediators for months between Israel and Hamas but have been unable to get both sides to agree to a ceasefire deal dating back to December, after the conclusion of a weeklong ceasefire.
“Hamas has a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel and they have to decide quickly, and I’m hopeful they will make the right decision and we can have a fundamental change in the dynamic,” Blinken said on Monday in Riyadh at the World Economic Forum.
Blinken emphasized Hamas needed to respond quickly due to Israel’s intention to carry out full-scale military operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have fled during the war. It’s also Hamas’s, the terrorist organization responsible for the deadly Oct. 7 attack that prompted Israel’s military response, last remaining stronghold in Gaza.
The secretary arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop on his latest trip to the Middle East where he will meet with regional leaders to discuss varying aspects of the current dynamics in the region, including the ceasefire proposal, the Israeli hostages, potential Israeli-Saudi normalization, as well as Iran’s continued threat to peace and security in the region.
Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian foreign minister, said he was “hopeful” about the latest proposal and said it has “taken into account the positions of both sides.”
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who is also in Riyadh, also described the proposal as “very generous,” and said it includes a 40-day ceasefire and could include the release of “potentially thousands” of Palestinians held in Israeli detention, according to the Washington Post. The first ceasefire deal, which lasted a week, included a provision forcing Israel to release three Palestinians for every Israeli hostage who was released.
The U.S. has said it does not support Israel carrying out a ground invasion of Rafah due to concerns of significant civilian casualties, and does not believe Israel has done enough planning to safely evacuate the civilians in Rafah, in part due to the significant infrastructure damage throughout the rest of the Gaza Strip.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday, where Biden “reiterated his clear position” against a Rafah operation, according to a White House readout.
Getting Hamas to agree to a ceasefire, even one that is temporary, would hold off an Israeli invasion of Rafah, though the terrorist group’s leaders have rejected recent proposals.
“If we can get that in place, then that gives you six weeks of peace,” U.S. National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said on ABC. “It gives you no fighting for six weeks and that includes no fighting in Rafah. And what we’re hoping is that after six weeks of a temporary ceasefire, we can maybe get something more enduring in place.”
The current proposal on the table reportedly includes Israeli concessions compared to the previous offer. Israeli leaders had demanded Hamas release 40 of the roughly 130 hostages they continue to hold since Oct. 7, though the current deal would only call for the release of 33 people, according to the New York Times.
Two other obstacles that Israel and Hamas disagree on are whether Palestinians who lived in northern Gaza but fled south in the war will be allowed to return home, as well as how long the stoppage in fighting would last. Hamas wants Palestinians to be able to return freely to the north and wants to see the cessation of fighting be indefinite. Israel has capitulated on the first but not the second.
So Biden trying to convince Bibi is better to let the Saudis deal with Iran.
“The Biden administration is directly demanding that Israel not conduct a military operation in Rafah.
The famous American journalist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman, who is considered “Biden’s mouthpiece,” writes about this in an article for The New York Times, citing sources.
The White House talks about this publicly, but in private the Americans’ statements are even more straightforward. They tell Israel: "no massive invasion of Rafah, period."
“We are not telling Israel to just leave Hamas alone. We are saying that we believe there is a more targeted way to go after the leadership without destroying Rafah block by block,” a senior US official told the publication.
Biden wants to prevent another wave of mass civilian casualties.
The US is proposing that Israel instead create a defensive coalition against Iran with Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia. This will require Israel to end the war, which has dragged on for six months, and agree to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The day before, the Israeli media also wrote that pressure on Israel to prevent the operation in Rafah was increasing”
Since October the Arab world is stunned by that poor performance coming from the IDF on all fronts (Gaza, Northern Israel and that weak counter attack against Iran). They all know now, that having Israel by their side against Iran won't change shit !
Again that conflict in Gaza is for Israel what the collapse of the Berlin wall was for Russia/USSR it's over !
Israel wants the US to put sanctions on...the ICC lol wow!
They really believe they are above all law created by man.
US military pier in Gaza to cost $320 million, Pentagon estimates
Apr 29, 12:43 PM
JERUSALEM — A U.S. Navy ship and several Army vessels involved in an American-led effort to bring more aid into the besieged Gaza Strip are offshore of the enclave and building out a floating platform for the operation, which the Pentagon said Monday will cost at least $320 million.
Sabrina Singh, Pentagon spokeswoman, told reporters the cost is a rough estimate for the project and includes the transportation of the equipment and pier sections from the U.S. to the Gaza coast, as well as the construction and aid delivery operations.
Satellite photos analyzed Monday by The Associated Press show the USNS Roy P. Benavidez about 5 miles from the port on shore, where the base of operations for the project is being built by the Israeli military. The USAV General Frank S. Besson Jr., an Army logistics vessel, and several other Army boats are with the Benavidez and working on the construction of what the military calls the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, system.
A satellite image from Sunday by Planet Labs PBC showed pieces of the floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea alongside the Benavidez. Measurements of the vessel match known features of the Benavidez, a Bob Hope-class vehicle cargo ship operated by the Military Sealift Command.
A U.S. military official confirmed late last week that the Benavidez had begun construction and that it was far enough off shore to ensure troops building the platform would be safe. Singh said Monday that next will come the construction of the causeway, which will then be anchored to the beach.
U.S. and Israeli officials have said they hope to have the floating pier in place, the causeway attached to the shore and operations underway by early May. The cost of the operation was first reported by Reuters.
Under the plan by the U.S. military, aid will be loaded onto commercial ships in Cyprus to sail to the floating platform now under construction off Gaza. The pallets will be loaded onto trucks, which will be loaded onto smaller ships that will travel to a metal, floating two-lane causeway. The 1,800-foot causeway will be attached to the shore by the Israeli Defense Forces.
The U.S. military official said an American Army engineering unit has teamed with an IDF engineering unit in recent weeks to practice the installation of the causeway, training on an Israeli beach just up the coast.
The new port sits just southwest of Gaza City, a bit north of a road bisecting Gaza that the Israeli military built during the current fighting against Hamas. The area was the territory’s most populous before the Israeli ground offensive rolled through and pushed more than 1 million people south toward the city of Rafah on the Egyptian border.
Now Israeli military positions sit on either side of the port, which initially had been built, as part of an effort led by World Central Kitchen, out of the rubble of buildings leveled by Israel. That effort halted after an Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers on April 1 as they traveled in clearly marked vehicles on a delivery mission authorized by Israel. The organization says it is resuming its work in Gaza.
Aid has been slow to get into Gaza, with long backups of trucks awaiting Israeli inspections. The U.S. and other nations also have used air drops to send food into Gaza. The U.S. military official said deliveries on the sea route initially will total about 90 trucks a day and could quickly increase to about 150 trucks daily.
Aid organizations have said several hundred such trucks are needed to enter Gaza every day.
In the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage, Israel cut off or heavily restricted food, water, medicine, electricity and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip. Under pressure from the U.S. and others, Israel says the situation is improving, though United Nations agencies have said much more aid needs to enter.
Gaza, slightly more than twice the size of the city of Washington and home to 2.3 million people, has found itself on the precipice of famine. More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the fighting began, local health authorities say.
On Sunday, Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the amount of aid going into Gaza would continue to scale up.
“This temporary pier will provide a ship-to-shore distribution system that will further increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” he said in a statement.
But high-ranking Hamas political official Khalil al-Hayya told the AP that the group would consider Israeli forces — or forces from any other country — stationed by the pier to guard it as “an occupying force and aggression,” and that the militant group would resist it.
On Wednesday, a mortar attack targeted the port site, though no one was hurt.
As Hezbollah warns that escalation may end Israeli presence in northern Israel, senior IDF official says escalation ‘only way out’
Neither Israel nor Hezbollah appear ready to back down in the near future
J. Micah Hancock | Published: April 28, 2024
In an interview with the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen newspaper on Saturday, Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem claimed that residents of Israel’s northern communities “cannot be returned” and said that increased fighting between Hezbollah and Israel “may end their return permanently.”
Qassem was responding to comments by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who visited the northern front last Wednesday for an operational assessment. While there, Gallant claimed that Israel had eliminated half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon.
“The operational results are very impressive - half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon were eliminated,” Gallant said on Wednesday.
Gallant went on to say: “Our main goal was and remains to ensure that a different security situation prevails here, and that the residents of northern Israel will be able to return to their homes in a quiet and safe manner. We are dealing with a number of alternatives in order to establish this matter, and the coming period will be decisive in this regard.”
According to Sheikh Qassem, “the continuation of the aggression against Lebanon does not restore the ‘settlers’ of the north.”
Qassem also called on the world to “wake up and stop the war on the Gaza Strip.”
In an interview with NBC News in November, Sheikh Qassem said Hezbollah viewed its activities as “luring the Israeli forces to get busy in the north,” in order to distract Israel from Gaza.
“Therefore, we will continue to do so, and we will not wage a full-scale war unless the Israelis decide to get into war against us,” Qassem said at the time. “Then we are ready for the full confrontation.”
In the interview with al-Mayadeen Saturday, Qassem said that Hezbollah has decided “to respond to the Israeli aggression proportionately, so that any Israeli aggression will be matched by an expansion of response, resistance, and confrontation by Hezbollah.”
However, Qassem stated that Hezbollah, “does not want a major war, but it will not accept that Israel exceeds the limits of confrontation.”
Hezbollah is in a difficult position, as it attempts to present itself as Lebanon’s primary defender against Israeli aggression, however, amid the five-year-long economic crisis that has gripped the nation, which is partially Hezbollah’s doing, the group may be losing some political support in the country.
Hezbollah launched around 26 rockets overnight into Israel’s northern communities, triggering air raid sirens in some communities. The Merom Galilee Regional Council reported impacts in open areas near the communities of Meron and Safsufa, while some of the rockets were intercepted. One Israeli soldier was moderately injured in the attacks according to the IDF.
The terror group took credit for the attacks, saying it launched rockets and drones in response to Israeli aggression. Earlier on Saturday evening, Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in the areas near Markabah and Serbin.
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, a senior IDF official claimed that while Israel did not want to engage in a full-blown war with Hezbollah, the way to achieve calm in the northern arena is through escalation.
“There is a way out and it’s to escalate,” the official said. “Israel cannot stop right now. It’s dangerous for the whole region.”
The prevailing view suggests that Hezbollah is employing a strategy of escalation to achieve de-escalation by demonstrating a willingness to increase confrontation. If the group demonstrates a willingness to keep escalating, the thinking goes, then Israel, which doesn’t want a full-blown war, will eventually back down.
The IDF’s position appears to be that, while Israel anticipates a larger conflict with Hezbollah at some point in the near future, Hezbollah's main supporter, the Iranian regime, is not interested in a larger conflict with Israel at present. Therefore, escalating actions now might compel Hezbollah to retreat.
With tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from northern communities, and rising concerns about Iran's nuclear threat, Israel appears to believe that its non-military options are limited, and it is demonstrating a willingness to continue or increase the conflict on its northern border in order to effect a change in the situation.
Western allies do not agree with Israel’s aggressive stance.
French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne, who is currently in Beirut, is expected to present a proposal for de-escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.
U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein arrived in Israel on Thursday for meetings with Gallant and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, where he is believed to have presented a new proposal for ending the Israel-Hezbollah escalation.
At present, neither side appears willing to back down first.
U.S. and French efforts to de-escalate coincide with ongoing negotiations by the United States, Egypt, and other mediators for a hostage and ceasefire deal in the war in Gaza.
Lost in time, this is not the 70's by eliminating people they don't change shit on the battlefield it's quite the opposite, those ninjas are replaced by more competent guys which leads to where they are now , they can't do shit with the Hamas in Gaza and the same goes for the Hezbollah !
Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘extraordinarily generous’ ceasefire deal
Mike Brest
April 29, 2024 11:16 am
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas to accept the latest ceasefire proposal, which he described as “extraordinarily generous” for them.
The U.S. is among a group of countries, including Qatar and Egypt, that have acted as mediators for months between Israel and Hamas but have been unable to get both sides to agree to a ceasefire deal dating back to December, after the conclusion of a weeklong ceasefire.
“Hamas has a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel and they have to decide quickly, and I’m hopeful they will make the right decision and we can have a fundamental change in the dynamic,” Blinken said on Monday in Riyadh at the World Economic Forum.
Blinken emphasized Hamas needed to respond quickly due to Israel’s intention to carry out full-scale military operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians have fled during the war. It’s also Hamas’s, the terrorist organization responsible for the deadly Oct. 7 attack that prompted Israel’s military response, last remaining stronghold in Gaza.
The secretary arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop on his latest trip to the Middle East where he will meet with regional leaders to discuss varying aspects of the current dynamics in the region, including the ceasefire proposal, the Israeli hostages, potential Israeli-Saudi normalization, as well as Iran’s continued threat to peace and security in the region.
Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian foreign minister, said he was “hopeful” about the latest proposal and said it has “taken into account the positions of both sides.”
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who is also in Riyadh, also described the proposal as “very generous,” and said it includes a 40-day ceasefire and could include the release of “potentially thousands” of Palestinians held in Israeli detention, according to the Washington Post. The first ceasefire deal, which lasted a week, included a provision forcing Israel to release three Palestinians for every Israeli hostage who was released.
The U.S. has said it does not support Israel carrying out a ground invasion of Rafah due to concerns of significant civilian casualties, and does not believe Israel has done enough planning to safely evacuate the civilians in Rafah, in part due to the significant infrastructure damage throughout the rest of the Gaza Strip.
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday, where Biden “reiterated his clear position” against a Rafah operation, according to a White House readout.
Getting Hamas to agree to a ceasefire, even one that is temporary, would hold off an Israeli invasion of Rafah, though the terrorist group’s leaders have rejected recent proposals.
“If we can get that in place, then that gives you six weeks of peace,” U.S. National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said on ABC. “It gives you no fighting for six weeks and that includes no fighting in Rafah. And what we’re hoping is that after six weeks of a temporary ceasefire, we can maybe get something more enduring in place.”
The current proposal on the table reportedly includes Israeli concessions compared to the previous offer. Israeli leaders had demanded Hamas release 40 of the roughly 130 hostages they continue to hold since Oct. 7, though the current deal would only call for the release of 33 people, according to the New York Times.
Two other obstacles that Israel and Hamas disagree on are whether Palestinians who lived in northern Gaza but fled south in the war will be allowed to return home, as well as how long the stoppage in fighting would last. Hamas wants Palestinians to be able to return freely to the north and wants to see the cessation of fighting be indefinite. Israel has capitulated on the first but not the second.
How arrogant. Of course the US and Britain would feel their ally’s deal is good. This would be like the Houthi’s urging Israel to accept Iran’s “generous” offer.
Yep…. You see how we switching the leader in the conflict against Iran.
We trying to convince the region to form a conflict against Iran.
“Saudi Arabia led coalition against Iran”
Listening to the news on SiriusXm in my truck.
Sounds like all hell is breaking loose in NYC Columbia University.
What’s the word NYC BGOL cats?
Sounds like all hell is breaking loose in NYC Columbia University.
What’s the word NYC BGOL cats?
Absolutely wild/absurd that bgol.us faggots screamed "ruSSiaNz iNTerFeREncEz' for YEARS have no comment on Israel openly buying US politicians lol
Regular democratic city, protect Israel at all cost bullshit
Dawg you think they seen that thread, I have on the matter?
It's a mathematical certainty that they did.
