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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed criticism of spiralling Palestinian civilian fatalities in Gaza, saying Israel tries to avoid them but that Hamas seeks to use telegenically dead Palestinians for its cause.
Speaking to CNN on the 13th and bloodiest day yet of Operation Protective Edge, which began with airstrikes but morphed into a ground operation last Thursday, Mr Netanyahu did not directly answer when asked whether Israel is headed towards an all-out reoccupation of the Gaza Strip. Instead, he said Israel would take whatever action is necessary to halt Hamas rocket attacks against Israel
I support taking whatever action is necessary to stop this insane situation, he said. Nobody wants to go to excessive military plans, but what is happening here is excessive.
The premier said all Palestinian civilian casualties are unintended and regretted by the Israeli army, but accused Hamas of wanting to pile up as many civilian dead as they can to make Israel look bad. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-netanyahu-says-hamas-using-rising-death-toll-to-make-israel-look-bad-9617583.html
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)from such a racist, hateful, warmongering piece of shit who gets off on occupying, putting the screws to, and killing Palestinians using OUR tax money to do it? And I'm sure Rachel Corrie knew all about that. Of course, I some circles her nickname is, disgustingly enough, "St. Pancake", which should give you an idea of the kind of mindset they're coming from.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)enough
(13,262 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Not the military battle, the other one.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
tritsofme
(17,399 posts)Using them as human shields to further that goal.
How dare the Israelis point this out?
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)In the 4 hospitals that were bombed this week.
So devious of them.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)They're doing a helluva good job of it.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)When we see with our own eyes Israeli warships shelling a beach and killing small children, with nary a "Hamas" in sight, we can only assume that the majority of the killings are the same, and this "human shields" line you've been repeating so often and so long that it's lost all meaning is exposed as the utter bullshit that it is.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)How about giving back some land, then, asshole?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
mike_c
(36,281 posts)Really, really twisted and narcissistic.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)lark
(23,156 posts)Forced by mean Hamas to kill children at the beach, it wasn't their fault, how could they have known children would be there?
libodem
(19,288 posts)Where the POW's stuff rags so far down their own throats at Gitmo it is impossible to dislodge them even after death.
It made us look bad and really that's was all bush was concerned over. Typical conservative.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)You have finally lost me. I am not in favor of war as an answer. Bye Bye Ben.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)You're doing that pretty good on your own.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Nothing he says will ever change that.
Spazito
(50,453 posts)Pisces
(5,602 posts)losing public sympathy.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)peoli
(3,111 posts)peoli
(3,111 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Seriously, it's the only path to peace.
is fundamental. I would love to see progressives take the reins in Israel. I know many Israelis want this and are working for change. I stand with them and have not given up on the goal of a progressive Israeli government.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)asshole? Or is that "considered" Anti-Semitic?
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)We need to immediately suspend all military and other assistance to either side.
If they chose to kill one another off then that is their choice. It is a horrific option but that is THEIR CHOICE.
I am tired of U.S. resources, time and effort going to try to sort out a problem the two sides need to sort out for themselves. Let's let them resolve this themselves.
Israel doesn't need our financial or military assistance.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)klook
(12,165 posts)Those sneaky Palestinians...winning by dying!
Another devious tactic is putting all those residential areas in the path of Israel's weapons. You gotta watch these tricksters!
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)imthevicar
(811 posts)Stupid you sound!?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)This is why he posted this icon:
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. . . to let you know that it wasn't the onion.
World leaders are making it easy to write satire these days. It's just like a reporter putting his by-line on a press release and turning it in as his own story.
imthevicar
(811 posts)Ok Genius, BEBE!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)before throwing a knee jerk response your way.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)Fuck 'em both.
alsame
(7,784 posts)children, hospital patients and the elderly.
Bibi is a neocon sociopath, same as Cheney and the PNAC crowd.
democrank
(11,104 posts)Netanyahu should be tried for war crimes.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)The truth is making you look bad you phucking psychotic asshole.
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)As opposed to un-telegenic? What?.. No dead uggers allowed?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)His followers, who should be putting a check on what is increasingly looking like a sociopathic operation, are arguably worse.
2banon
(7,321 posts)the irony, oh the irony.. but thanks for the post just the same..
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)nilesobek
(1,423 posts)and he's very vocally anti-Israel. I caught him drawing Hitler mustaches on all the newspapers that had Bibi's face on it. I had to 86 him from the store but I couldn't restrain the chuckles I got, especially after management declared the man, "insane."
I hope the good people of Israel can see what a catastrophe this really is. No one is going to trust them anymore.
JI7
(89,264 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)If there was a rising death toll in Israel, Bibi would have told it on the mountain. There are no winners in a war.
Phlem
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malaise
(269,157 posts)to the Hague
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)this is a big change for DU, I am reading this is General Discussion.