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.
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.
The Nazis said similar things when “liquidating” the Warsaw Ghetto after the Jewish resistance mounted an uprising.
There’s no excuse for war crimes, no justification for crimes against humanity. NONE
This is the end stage of the “War on Terror”. We’ve fully internalized anyone with a Muslim faith (or with a skin tone associated with a Muslim faith) as a terrorist. Elderly civilians are simply terrorist who never got caught. Children are future terrorists. Everyone in between is a “Military Age” threat to national security.
In the same way that Africans in America are correlated with criminals and gangsters, East Asians are marked out as academic cheats, Hispanics are labeled as lazy welfare queens, and the LGBTQ cohort are regularly called pedophiles, Arabs are de facto scary religious radicals. Killing them is no crime. It’s always some form of self-defense.
Of course it is, Benjamin Netanyahu is a damn war criminal. Gaza is becoming one big Nazi death camp.
"Gaza is becoming " it should “Gaza has been”.
I would love to see him starve to death while the world watches so he would know what he is causing
I’d keep the livestream playing constantly.
If you consider food a weapon, you have lost your humanity, and you will get no sympathy or support from me.
Again, Netanyahu is a genocidal maniac that should be tried in Neurenberg and sentenced to death there just to make the fucking point.
I think you mean The Hague, that is where the ICC court is.
I know, but I do mean Neurenberg because of its historical significance in this case
We tried the Serbian genocidal war criminals there. It is more significant these days.
I know, I know, and I’m all for the IOC, but this is a Jewish person committing genocide. I think it would be fitting to have that particular trial in Neurenberg, just to drive the point home.
That’s fair.
He needs the Mussolini treatment
and those who Didn’t do anything knowing that are also guilty,
That’s not how anything works, you can the jail the vast majority of the world with that attitude. It’s not that simple
Was it ever a question that it wasn’t on purpose?
Remember everybody, jizzrael started the ethnic cleansing in the forties with the nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Right after the Holocaust.
There are many other countries with similar examples
It’s almost as if human beings, from any and all races, are always controlled by a small group of assholes who like nothing more but to have power at any cost
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.
He needs to be hung for crimes against humanity.
Least surprising revelation ever. It’s easy to have such ambitions when you don’t consider an entire population people.
This is probably one of the top 10 dumbest war strategies in history. Make the population of the region you’re eventually seeking to occupy hate you even more, and on top of that, it makes the very foolish assumption that Hamas leadership would give up if they see their Gazans suffer, which is so naïve it’d be funny if it weren’t so sad. Hamas leadership doesn’t give a shit if ordinary Gazans starve. In fact, they probably think it’s all the better for their recruiting numbers, seeing that I have yet to see a single Hamas fighter suffering from malnutrition on the level of ordinary Gazans.
To external observers paying attention, this can only lead one to conclude either Netanyahu is a terrible military strategist or he’s using this “strategy” as a cover to snuff out the entire Arab population of Gaza. For all I know, both are true!
It’s the second. It’s always been the second. Dude indirectly funded hamas for this purpose.
If you plan on wiping them out or shipping them away, this strategy is quicker.
Bibi is literally the 21st century Hitler. He’s doing everything to the Palestinian people that Hitler did to European Jews except putting them in ovens. So far.
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…
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…
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.
No shit.
Yes the Netanyahu is made of Netanyahu
Because it wasn’t obvious enough how much of a cruel psychopath this man was
