The Israeli leader has vowed to assault the Palestinian city of Rafah against the direct wishes of the US president.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that his maximalist war aims are supported by “the overwhelming majority” of his citizens, and that US President Joe Biden was “wrong” to suggest that his actions in Gaza are “hurting Israel.”
With the death toll in IDF’s Gaza operation passing 31,000, Biden told MSNBC on Saturday that Netanyahu should “pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost” in the Palestinian enclave. Biden went on to say that Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than he’s helping Israel,” and that a planned Israeli invasion of Rafah – a city in the south of the strip where more than a million Gazans have sought refuge – would be a “red line” for Washington.
“I don’t know exactly what the president meant,” Netanyahu told German tabloid Bild on Sunday, “but if he meant…that I’m pursuing private policies against the wish of the majority of Israelis and that this is hurting the interests of Israel, then he is wrong on both counts.”
“They are policies supported by the overwhelming majority of Israelis,” Netanyahu continued. “[Israelis] support the action that we are taking to destroy the remaining terrorist battalions of Hamas. They say that once we destroy Hamas, the last thing we should do is put in charge of Gaza, the Palestinian Authority.”
“They also support my position that says that we should resoundingly reject the attempt to ram down our throats a Palestinian state.”
Netanyahu has promised to continue the war in Gaza until Israel wins a “total victory” over Hamas. He has also said that Israel will have “full security control” over the “entire area west of Jordan,” a statement that implies a return to Israeli occupation of Gaza and precludes the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
While Netanyahu is an unpopular figure in Israel, these policies have broad public support. According to a recent poll conducted by the Israel Hayom newspaper, 81% of respondents agreed that “military pressure should be applied to Hamas” until its leaders agree to release the roughly 100 Israeli hostages still in its captivity, while a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute last month found that 63% of Israelis oppose the creation of a Palestinian state.
Some 68% of Jewish respondents to the poll said that they oppose the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, something that Biden has repeatedly called on Netanyahu to guarantee.
In a further slight to Biden, Netanyahu told Bild that he intends to defy the US and push his forces into Rafah. With more than a million displaced Palestinians sheltering in the city, the UN has warned that an Israeli assault “could lead to a slaughter” of civilians.
“We’ll go there,” Netanyahu said. “We’re not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again.”
Hamas fighters attacked Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages back to Gaza. Netanyahu responded by declaring war on the Palestinian militant group and imposing a near-total siege on the enclave. In just over five months of fighting, Israeli forces have killed more than 31,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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Col.D.Mcgregor/ judge Napolitano
1. Stop ALL payments, loans, and foreign aid to Israel;
2. Stop supplying weapons;
3. Resume aid to the Palestinians, and supply the weapons to the same so that they can defend themselves and their homeland of 1700 years;
4. Since parasitic Israel has no real resources, they will try, using the little vaudeville J3wi$h clown Zelensky, to accommodate the exodus of Zionist Israelis back into the Ukraine (Khazaria). This has already failed, with much thanks to the Russian Federation blocking the Zionist Bolsheviks from stealing their land, assets, resources, and re-instituting J3wi$h Communism once again that will kill more Russians than the last time.
5. The U.N. Security Council, the ICC, ICJ, NATO are ALL FRAUDULENT ORGANISATIONS THAT ARE RUN BY THE J3W$!!Understand that!
6. The Israelis and Zionist AshkeNAZI / Khazarian J3w$ should be place in Siberia, where they can mine the resources whth the monetary proceeds paying for the rebuilding of Palestine.
The soon-to-be-displaced J3w$ can live in the hell that Russian Orthodox Christians suffered under the J3wi$h Bolshevik GULAG Camp Commandants, the world that the J3w *Joseph Stalin (J3wi$h name; Iossif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili) created in Magadan, Vorkuta and Kolyma.
At least the dorms, barracks, and GULAG apartment towns are still there and serviceable; and the Russians can take 20% of the mining revenues, while war reparations to Palestine will be 45% of the GDP. AND-
The Russians can insure that the remoteness of the Israelis will NEVER attack another nation ever again, nor interfere with the world’s governments, economies and court systems ever again by weaponising the Siberian frontier thus insuring the rabid, genocidal Khazarian Mafia J3w$ will NEVER impose their arrogance ever again on the world!
God Bless Russian President Vladimir Putin!!!