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.
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.
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.
No shit.
So many times I’ve seen Zionists argue against this. Wonder how they’re gonna try to salvage it now?
Remember everybody, jizzrael started the ethnic cleansing in the forties with the nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
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.
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.
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.
There’s no excuse for war crimes, no justification for crimes against humanity. NONE
He needs to be hung for crimes against humanity.
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.
see all Palestinians as Hamas
Despite opinion and anger here, there’s a lot of truth to that. Imagine seeing your friends and family brutally murdered, or your friend shot in the kneecap as sport for some IDF fuck, and then saying you don’t support any kind of resistance.
And that sentiment, punctuated by Oct 7th, makes Israelis afraid, somewhat reasonably. The people they’ve oppressed will always be inclined to strike back. The people they’re genociding would be even happier to genocide Israelis.
The point is that there is no protagonist in this fight. There’s nuance and no easy answers.
None of that justifies the very clear and deliberate genocide Israel is carrying out. It was extremely clear this was their plan when they killed the World Central Kitchen people. They’ve planned this genocide, knowing exactly what they’re doing and the consequences.
It’s the nation-state equivalent of a schoolyard fight where one student pulls a knife and slashes the other’s throat. It doesn’t matter how the fight started, or what their motivations were at the beginning, we don’t stand for that kind of brutality. You have a right to defend yourself, but that is very clearly beyond justifiable.
I feel like the people speaking out for Palestine are often making the same mistake DARE did with drugs in the 1990s. You can’t make everything black & white, even with kids. The program would have been more effective had it acknowledged nuance and been more truthful.
Not that I think it’s a big difference. It might be impossible to stop the genocide regardless of our approach here.
Public sentiment here doesn’t compare to the anti-Vietnam War sentiment, and I don’t think changing the messaging slightly is going to change either that or the overall outcome.
I’m proud of the people who have put themselves at risk to speak out, the ones who face real world consequences like Mahmoud Khalil.
Most (nearly all) of the “pro-life” crowd is like this in the US.
Nobody paying attention is surprised. Evil people.
Agree
I don’t believe it. I think Hamas is the excuse, starvation is the objective.
Was this ever in question?
W A R - C R I M E S
Was it ever a question that it wasn’t on purpose?
At this point, who didn’t already know that displacing (if not erasing) non-Israeli Gazans was the plan along?
Least surprising revelation ever. It’s easy to have such ambitions when you don’t consider an entire population people.
