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Related: About this forumIsrael Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power
New reporting indicates that the Biden administration has approved Israel's plan to attack Rafah in exchange for Israel not launching counterstrikes on Iran. "Israel is almost certainly going to respond to the Iranian strike in some way," says Mairav Zonszein, a senior Israel analyst for the International Crisis Group. Now "it has the benefit of being able to dangle both threats": an invasion on Rafah that would heavily increase the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza, or an attack on Iran that would likely spark a wider regional war. While Israeli approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drastically waned, Zonszein suggests that its military campaign shows no signs of stopping. "Israeli society is largely a right-wing society. It is a society that has not spoken about or thought about Palestinians or the occupation except when it's forced to. And it's a society that has gotten used to acting with impunity."
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Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Apr 18
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(32,787 posts)1. Bibi the fascist knows his days are numbered! Why ITF did they re-elect him? He was out and they brought him back
COME ON!
Uncle Joe
(58,389 posts)2. Because Israel is largely left in the dark regarding the reality of Gaza, the West Bank,
East Jerusalem and he plight of the Palestinian People, by its' information sources, and that boils down to Netanyahu being as good as the other most likely major candidates being considered in regards to how the Palestinian People are treated.
It wasn't easy trying to find liberal or progressive leaders in the Jim Crow South either, Jimmy Carter being "a man among men."
Being a peace maker requires a huge amount of courage and fortitude especially when it means swimming against easy, popular opinion.