The New York Times insists that if Israel rejects the Bidenites’ advice to pull out of Gaza, it does so at its peril: “NYT admits US officials were wrong about the IDF in October, and wrong about Rafah, but thinks they are right now,” Elder of Ziyon, August 15, 2024:
So these officials were completely wrong in October. They were also wrong about Israel’s taking Rafah, which they now admit is exactly what destroyed Hamas’ supply lines from Egypt – and cost far fewer casualties thna they had confidently predicted.
By ignoring warnings from the Americans not to seize Rafah because of worries over civilian casualties, the IDF managed to kill a great many terrorists who had fled to the southernmost city in the Strip both from Gaza City and from Khan Yunis. Its control of Rafah has also made it easier for the IDF to control the Kerem Shalom crossing and to seize the Philadelphi Corridor, control of which has allowed the IDF to locate and destroy many tunnels bringing smuggled weapons from Egypt into Gaza.
But the US wants to send a message to Israel, and the New York Times is more than happy to do their bidding:
William J. Burns, the C.I.A. director, is due in Qatar on Thursday. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East coordinator, has headed to Egypt and Qatar. Amos Hochstein, a senior White House adviser, landed in Lebanon. One of the messages the officials are expected to deliver is that there is little more Israel can accomplish against Hamas.
Which is the entire point. This article isn’t reporting; it is a mouthpiece for Biden administration talking points.
If you look at what Israel has actually been doing, you would see that its success is not diminishing, but increasing. As it gathers more intelligence from captured terrorists and taking materials it discovers, it is getting more and more accurate than when it started….
Consistently, Israel has gotten better and better at targeting the terrorists. The entire reason that the Palestinians made up huge casualty lies about the airstrike on the Al Taabin school is becase [sic] it was a triumph of intelligence, taking out over 30 terrorists gathered in the mosque – a proportional attack by any definition of the term under international law….
In its latest statement on the airstrike, the IDF has now identified by name 38 Hamas terrorists killed at the command-and-control center functioning inside the Al Tabin school. That means in that operation at most 55 civilians were killed, and the ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths was 55:36, or 1:5:1, an unheard-of ratio in the annals of warfare.
Many Hamas commanders, and leaders of its “political” wing, too, are being systematically eliminated by the IDF. Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ “political wing,” was recently blown up in at a Tehran guesthouse. Hamas’ military commander in Gaza, Muhammad Deif, was killed on July 13. A deputy commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Marwan Issa, was killed in March. And dozens of other high-ranking Hamas combatants have also been killed, as the IDF continues its relentless campaign of targeted assassinations.
Those in Washington who predicted last October that an Israeli invasion of Gaza to destroy Hamas would not succeed were proven wrong. Those who then insisted that the IDF should refrain from entering Rafah because it could not possibly evacuate more than a handful of its estimated one million inhabitants were proven wrong again. In May, the IDF managed in a matter of weeks to move 950,000 people out of the city.
Now the Bidenites are urging Israel to end its war in Gaza because, they claim, there is not much more of Hamas to destroy, and the IDF needs to avoid further civilian casualties. Neither is correct. Though the IDF has had a stunning success in dismantling Hamas, killing at least 17,000 of its combatants, there remain roughly the same number who, if not seriously wounded, are still capable of fighting, and they need to be smashed as a fighting force even if they cannot be entirely eliminated. As for civilian casualties, in the last three months Hamas has continued to claim roughly 38,000-39,000 casualties, as usual without distinguishing between civilians and Hamas operatives. The IDF has over the past nine months honed its ability to minimize civilian casualties, having ever greater success in warning people away from places about to be targeted, by making greater use of precision weapons, and by relying less on airstrikes and more on ground troops in its operations.
When Hamas recognizes reality, and agrees to the deal that Israel now is willing to accept, this war in Gaza will stop, and the IDF can turn its full attention to much more threatening enemies — Hezbollah and its puppet-master Iran. The IDF high command has not forgotten the Talmudic injunction: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.”
SC says
Why would anyone listen to the papal defecational, stair tripping, cyclist falling, clueless retard that claims to be the leader of the free world but cannot even lead his wife off the stage.
He is just a face, and a dumb one at that, everything he has allegedly ever done was the work of hundreds of unthinking, obedient, little liberal hamsters in their wheels carrying out the orders of the grand wizards behind the curtains.
Wellington says
Joe Biden gets almost everything wrong. His Presidency has been a disaster—the southern border, massive inflationary spending, manifesting weakness to tyrants, using lawfare to go after his political enemies (and which has done terrible damage to the American legal system), demonizing upwards of half of all Americans (Biden’s September 1st, 2022 speech before Independence Hall is quite arguably the single most despicable speech ever given by an American President), et al.
And Israel too, where Biden has not only given terrible advice to Israel since October 7th of last year but, even more awful, this extremely incompetent man ensured the slaughter in Israel on October 7th by renewing the stupid Iran nuclear deal that Obama first foolishly put us into, Trump thankfully took us out of, and Biden put us back into, and also by lifting sanctions on Iran which Trump had imposed and which had bankrupted said miserable country, making it far less capable of funding Hamas and Hezbollah—something that Biden also “corrected.”
Joe Biden—worst President in American history, even worse than Pierce, Buchanan, Hoover, Carter and Obama. Yes, the worst.
maria says
Yes agree
Troybeam says
Biden a figure head used for signature to approve whatever the leftist in charge want.
somehistory says
If “there is little more” that they can accomplish, they may as well go ahead and accomplish it. Don’t stop now when they are so close that “only a little” remains to be accomplished.
somehistory says
Kind of OT
“Hamas plotted to threaten UK in 2022 by ‘kidnapping’ bodies of WWI soldiers – report”
“Israeli troops operating in Gaza earlier this year reportedly discovered a Hamas plan to exhume the remains of British soldiers from World Wars I and II buried in the Strip and hold them in order to deter the United Kingdom from moving its embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
According to The Telegraph newspaper, the plot was detailed in a seven-page document discovered by Israel Defense Forces soldiers in an underground compound in Khan Younis that has been linked to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the terror group’s slain military commander Muhammad Deif.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-plotted-to-threaten-uk-in-2022-by-kidnapping-bodies-of-wwi-soldiers-report/ar-AA1oWQcZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=4a49a9e7cc8a47778fff013bd6dd3bbd&ei=31
medaber_emet says
who the fuck is ALLA
Muhamad was a War lord sick rapist and a pedophile
Western civilization should have banned Islam long ago
this is a murderous evil cult that has no place in modern life
Let’s go Brandon
James Lincoln says
Israel and its IDF should continue to ignore “advice” from the anti-Semitic Biden regime.
Blougeoisie says
They only want a win for Harris. Don’t give it to them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! If anything, it should now be paypack time for Netanyahu – not merely to settle ole scores, but to send a strong message to both parties not to interfere in elections in other countries, particularly Israel’s
If one recalls, both Presidents Clinton & Obama tried to get Netanyahu defeated in elections. Clinton did it successfully – sending James Carville there to do operations for Labour. So now it’s time for Netanyahu to cause a Democrat debacle
Here is a masterstroke way he can do it. In October – the month of October surprises – he should step up operations against Israel’s enemies, be it against Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hizbullah or even Iran. Do it in a way that draws international attention, particularly from the Globalist Left. It should be enough to trigger the Intifada section of the Democrat Party, & have them bay for Biden’s/Kamala’s blood. Obviously, Kamala will be pissed, and will oppose Israel, maybe even voting against Israel in the UN like John Kerry did, which should piss off the Jewish vote of her party to at least move to RFK or abstain, if they can’t move all the way to Trump. But short of the US declaring war on Israel, even that won’t satisfy the Intifada guys, who’ll either break for Conrad West or Jill Stein (in Michigan, West has been disqualified, so Stein it is, unless they can’t stand her Jewishness and therefore abstain)
End result: Kamala should lose 2 of her voting blocks – which may be crucial not just in battleground states like Michigan, but also in some less marginal states like Minnesota, Virginia and New Jersey. If would be hilarious if all of these states were to turn red. Icing on the cake: it might finally break the ☭+☪ alliance, & give us back the Democrat Party of Kennedy
James Lincoln says
I like your “masterstroke”, Infidel.
A Harris / Walz win would be devastating to Israel.
rick says
Whenever there is a real cessation of fighting in Gaza there should remain a standing Israeli right to target remnants of Hamas from reconstituting itself. They may call themselves another name which for Palestinian terrorist gang, is a common practice. Also the release of both too many prisoners and of a certain terrorist background is like giving Hamas the seeds to build anew. So targeted killing have to continue even after a ceasefire. And Sinwar must either be killed, or surrenders to face trial. That is an absolute.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s a good and wise thing to ignore the advice of evil men
Goofy says
I don’t think that the Israelis ignored the advice from the Biden administration.
The views of a nation which in military matters has been so consistently wrong for such a long time are precious as long as you make sure to act accordingly, meaning to draw the opposite conclusions!
Norman Gardner Gardner says
Islamic radicalism and Hamas is an example of it is the greatest danger to western democracy at the present time. Harris and Biden have tolerated it within the Democratic party while Tlaib, Omar, Bowman, Bush and some others have spewed hatred towards America as well as Israel. Harris has employed loyalists to Obama who was a sneaky back stabber in many ways as her liasons. She is an empty headed individual who allowed criminals to prey on civilians and is not fit for leadership. I don`t care for Trump but at least he will deal with the Muslim Brotherhood and their domestic allies which she won`t and he won`t tolerate the BLM rioters that have harmed the black community big time.