cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34331174
Published date: 7 August 2025 11:52 BST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls from senior ministers to advance ceasefire negotiations and deliberately restricted all aid to Gaza in order to force a surrender from Hamas, internal government transcripts published by Israeli news outlet Channel 13 have revealed.
The transcripts from an Israeli war cabinet meeting on 1 March show that Netanyahu ignored repeated calls from senior defence officials to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in order to secure the release of Israeli captives, and then to renew hostilities after.
Netanyahu instead chose to unilaterally break the ceasefire in March and bar all aid to Gaza, in the hopes of forcing a surrender by Hamas.
This was despite Hamas complying with the talks, contrary to the war cabinet’s expectations.
Why dont israels population vote this dictator out
Remember everybody, jizzrael started the ethnic cleansing in the forties with the nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Of course it is, Benjamin Netanyahu is a damn war criminal. Gaza is becoming one big Nazi death camp.
I would love to see him starve to death while the world watches so he would know what he is causing
Lots of news from the ‘no shit’ category lately
It pisses me off, it’s what all Israel’s supporters say.
“Oh it wouldn’t be necessary if Hamas didn’t make them do it.”
It sickens me that they believe any group of people to be such non-persons that it’s justified to treat them this way… These are human beings and what’s happening to them is not cosmic accident or common misfortune. They’re being tormented to death, by people who revel in causing pain.
There’s no excuse for war crimes, no justification for crimes against humanity. NONE
The Nazis said similar things when “liquidating” the Warsaw Ghetto after the Jewish resistance mounted an uprising.
The Resistance to the Oppressor is used to justify the Oppression itself.
What do you think is going to happen in America the first time someone peels one at an ICE operative?
W A R - C R I M E S
Netanyahu and a disturbing amount of others see all Palestinians as Hamas. They aren’t starving civilians to death to pressure Hamas. They’re genociding all Palestinians on purpose because they don’t see them as human beings. It’s unspeakably horrible, and it’s being silenced.
The mainstream is hoping that when all Palestinians are dead or displaced they won’t have a voice to object.
see all Palestinians as Hamas
Despite opinion and anger here, there’s a lot of truth to that. Imagine seeing your friends and family brutally murdered, or your friend shot in the kneecap as sport for some IDF fuck, and then saying you don’t support any kind of resistance.
And that sentiment, punctuated by Oct 7th, makes Israelis afraid, somewhat reasonably. The people they’ve oppressed will always be inclined to strike back. The people they’re genociding would be even happier to genocide Israelis.
The point is that there is no protagonist in this fight. There’s nuance and no easy answers.
None of that justifies the very clear and deliberate genocide Israel is carrying out. It was extremely clear this was their plan when they killed the World Central Kitchen people. They’ve planned this genocide, knowing exactly what they’re doing and the consequences.
It’s the nation-state equivalent of a schoolyard fight where one student pulls a knife and slashes the other’s throat. It doesn’t matter how the fight started, or what their motivations were at the beginning, we don’t stand for that kind of brutality. You have a right to defend yourself, but that is very clearly beyond justifiable.
I feel like the people speaking out for Palestine are often making the same mistake DARE did with drugs in the 1990s. You can’t make everything black & white, even with kids. The program would have been more effective had it acknowledged nuance and been more truthful.
Not that I think it’s a big difference. It might be impossible to stop the genocide regardless of our approach here.
Public sentiment here doesn’t compare to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment, and I don’t think changing the messaging slightly is going to change either that or the overall outcome.
I’m proud of the people who have put themselves at risk to speak out, the ones who face real world consequences like Mahmoud Khalil.
Most (nearly all) of the “pro-life” crowd is like this in the US.
Nobody paying attention is surprised. Evil people.
Agree
Yadah
At this point, who didn’t already know that displacing (if not erasing) non-Israeli Gazans was the plan along?
And Netanyahu’s government has made plenty very similar on-the-record statements ever since it came into power.
Hamas doesn’t surrender and 90% of the inhabitants of Gaza starves to death? WIN! Now you can “mop up” the remains and occupy the region with near to none opposition.
Hamas does surrender? WIN! You can claim a historic victory, jail every Hamas member that come forth and occupy the region with near to none opposition.
On a psychopathic level devoid of any ethics it is genious…
It’s not genius at all, at least not on the basis of “winning”. There is no “winning” this conflict without a political solution, and there is no political solution without full rights for Palestinians.
Netanyahu is judging that the world will let him get away with genocide as long as he does it slowly. If he actually genocides Palestine, he won’t have a problem any more.
Well… there is a winning situation for Israel (and i assume they are moving in this direction): No Palestinians, no further problems.
If there is no armed resistance in Gaza, Israel can “mob up” without any difficulty.
The reason why many intelligence and military people now voiced concern is not because they care about the lives of the Palestinian people, but because Gaza is a nightmare to conquer and occupy. Hamas and other armed groups are very creative and had decades to fortify Gaza for another invasion. For instance a lot of the explosives they use for their traps are unexploded ordnance from Israeli attacks.
Israel in large part used to blow up buildings in Gaza with US made anti-tank mines. They move to use the D9 armored bulldozers instead, because the fighters could capture significant stockpiles of mines and use them to blow up Israeli tanks. Now the bulldozers are easy targets for sniper fire and explosive attacks. Israel seems to rarely send in soldiers on foot, instead relying on heavily armored troop carriers that end up becoming sitting ducks and targeted with self made rocket launchers, shaped charges or having an explosive dropped in the often open hatch. There even was a video of fighters using an artillery rocket by simply laying on the ground and triggering the charge so it would fly forward towards a target.
Israels army hasn’t fought a proper war on the ground for many years. Most soldiers are just used to pushing around women and children in the Westbank than to actually fighting against an armed opposition. The key strength of Israel is its airforce. But bombing things to rubble only gets you so far, as the US and NATO have seen in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen…
If you consider food a weapon, you have lost your humanity, and you will get no sympathy or support from me.
Was it ever a question that it wasn’t on purpose?
Because it wasn’t obvious enough how much of a cruel psychopath this man was
shun and exile. let him roam the earth seeking shelter and food.
Least surprising revelation ever. It’s easy to have such ambitions when you don’t consider an entire population people.
