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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.
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Yeadah
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.
W A R - C R I M E S
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.
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…
While true, are there enough Palestinians left in Gaza to mount such a resistance?
You don’t need many people to make it hell for the occupiers to occupy. The Sunni “insurgency” in US+allies occupied Iraq was estimated to have about 3,000-7,000 fighters. Meanwhile the US had up to 160,000 occupation soldiers staged in Iraq around 2005-2006 before slowly giving up against the resistance.
This is also why Israel aims on building concentration camps. It makes resistance much harder to organize than if people still have their own homes, have jobs and can meet without direct surveillance.
basically holdomer, like what russia did with ukraine.
Holodomor, and the details are not quite the same. The end result will be though, if anyone survives at all this time around.
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.
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.
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.
Agree
There were a few Palestinians protesting against Hamas a few months ago but Hamas killed them. That said, Hamas does have broad support in Gaza.
If it’s Hamas or the people actively murdering their children and starving them, then it’s not much of a choice.
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Was it ever a question that it wasn’t on purpose?
If you consider food a weapon, you have lost your humanity, and you will get no sympathy or support from me.
Least surprising revelation ever. It’s easy to have such ambitions when you don’t consider an entire population people.
Did he starve Hamas? Or did he starve Gazans while Hamas leaders were unaffected, accessing food as they wish? I think we know the answer.
Hamad leaders are dead
Contrary to the Israeli claims there is no evidence of Hamas stealing food.
The video Israel published of the last moments of Yahya Sinwar showed him fighting on the front lines and until the last moment. Releasing that was very stupid from a propaganda perspective as Israel itself proved its claims about Hamas leaders hiding in tunnels and being well fed to be lies.
Doesn’t matter. The laws of war don’t matter if you don’t subscribe and they’re not enforced.
No lie! Netanyahu’s at war, can’t stop or he’ll face prison, the Israeli Jewish population believes Palestinians are sub-human vermin, and worst, the billions will cease flowing if he stops fighting.
There is NO reason he will stop. Sanctions didn’t cripple Russia, not yet anyway. Like Putin, Netanyahu hopes to come out the other side unscathed. What choice does he have? Bashar al-Assad hung in there for a good while!
The only answer is superior violence. Killing fascists is the only path. Always has been, always will be.
All’s fair in love and war people. This is nothing new.
EDIT: I’ll add; Cutting off money is a faster path to peace. But AIPAC has bought and sold American and European politicians. Too late? I dunno.
Thr court has no obligation towait for end of thr genocide to trial him. Thr court simply love what Netenyahu is doing in gaza
Yes the Netanyahu is made of Netanyahu
