Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza -- against the advice OF the military leadership

[choie]

The hell on earth gets worse. Fuck Netanyahu.

"Israeli leaders early on Friday approved a plan for the gradual military takeover of all of Gaza, a pivotal and risky decision that went against the recommendations of the Israeli military and promised to take the nearly two-year war into uncharted terrain.

After 10 hours of deliberations, a majority of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet backed his proposal to prepare to conquer the core of Gaza City, according to a pre-dawn statement from his office,

At a later stage, the military is expected to push into central areas of the enclave where Hamas is believed to be holding Israeli hostages and where the military has largely refrained from operating before.

The goal, according to the statement, is to achieve a decisive victory over Hamas. The plan allows for the provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population “outside the combat zones,” it said."


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-offensive.html

[mcar]

1. This would not be happening

if people had voted for “Killer Kamala.”

[LeftInTX]

14. I don't know about that. It probably would have been more "dragged out".

The only thing that would have prevented it, would have been a new election in Israel. Maybe she could have stalled it until a new election?

[mcar]

16. Pres. Biden, VP Harris and their team

were pushing for a cease fire and peace deal. They were putting pressure on the Israeli government.

Some may argue that it wasn't enough, but it was a damn sight better than what we've got.

I wonder why there aren't protests anymore.

[LeftInTX]

18. Yep, hardly any pro-Palestinian protests. PSL is up to recruiting Democrats, so they are keeping it on the low-down.

Party for Socialism and Liberation here are now involved with "No Kings", "50501", "Indivisible" and trying to imbed themselves in the local Democratic Party to recruit people. They change their stripes very quickly.

PSL is anti-Trump, but they are also anti-Democratic Party. Lots of people don't realize that. They are pretty much anti-everything and want a communist revolution.

[mcar]

21. Thanks for that info

[electric_blue68]

24. I hadn't heard of them

[Gaugamela]

2. So basically its a death march to the sea for

the few that have the strength left, who will then be tossed into the waves. Anyone who tries to show up in boats to save them will be blown out of the water with bullets and bombs made in the exceptional US of fuckin' A.

Did I miss anything?

[NoRethugFriends]

4. It's a terrible situation

Your exaggerations are no help

[Gaugamela]

5. Many on DU still have faith in American Exceptionalism. They cling to it like the right clings to their

guns and religion.

In the post above I was speaking metaphorically, but it’s not far from the simple truth. What we’re seeing now is exactly what I said would happen two weeks after Oct. 7th.

[NoRethugFriends]

8. I have no faith in American exceptionalism

Just pointing out that it's an exaggeration, that the real thing will be terrible anyhow

[Gaugamela]

10. "A terrible situation" is a pearl clutching understatement that pretends

that there are no accountable actors in this crisis and no remedies. It’s an atrocity on a massive scale — in other words, a genocide. Israel will continue to use starvation and US supplied weapons to conduct this atrocity until all Palestinians are dead or driven from Gaza. They’ve said as much. And there’s nowhere for the Palestinians to go but into the sea. Mincing words won’t make the “situation” go away.

[NoRethugFriends]

13. Nope.

I was not at all excusing Israel. I believe it is an atrocity.
I also believe you are exaggerating what will happen, though it will be terrible.
BTW, do you think Hamas and their death to the Jews bears any responsibility?

[Gaugamela]

23. I don't think I'm exaggerating. In fact, I think it's patently obvious given Israel's current

trajectory and what Netanyahu and extremists in his government have said. I have no doubt that there are plans in reserve to raze the Al-Aqsa Mosque and build a new temple on the Temple Mount.

I suppose it's possible that Trump might change his stance on Gaza if he's desperate for a distraction from the Epstein scandal. But I doubt it, because he needs the evangelical support. He's not running again, and his brain will be useless mush in 2 years, but if he loses too much support he might get 25/4 by his own cabinet. However, what is an exaggeration is stating that "your exaggerations are no help", as though somehow I'm damaging the Palestinian cause, or the situation in Gaza. The point of this obvious exaggeration is to inflate the importance of your opinion.

From the polls I've seen three quarters of Americans disapprove of the Biden/Trump consensus on Gaza. If three quarters of the American people have no effect on Washington policy, it's a given that no post on DU will have any effect. In fact, I seriously doubt many posts here change anyone's mind about anything, even among Duers. In any case, your opinion is no more important than mine.

As for your question, of course Hamas bears responsibility. But when a society is reduced to abject poverty, as the Palestinians have been by the oppression of Israel, the rise of gangs, militias, and warlords is inevitable. The UN recognizes the right of an occupied people to fight against their oppressors. That doesn’t exonerate terrorism against civilians, but Israel has had Gaza in a stranglehold for decades, and enjoys the largesse of the US MIC, and when you get this kind of extreme asymmetry in warfare the oppressed will use any means at their disposal. Israel, on the other hand, a state that would not have been allowed to consolidate under the Geneva Conventions due to their seizure of Palestinian territories and natural resources, is committing war crimes.

[Bread and Circuses]

26. Thank you for your clear and true statement

[Emile]

3. Trump wants it leveled so he can build Trump resorts

on top of their dead bodies.

[AloeVera]

27. Can't blame Trump for this one.

It's Israel's plan of ethnic cleansing, always has been. Netanyahu was enabled, but it was always for Israel. The end goal was to "take over Gaza" as just announced. They're not doing it for Trump.

This whole "Trump Resorts" thing, whether people realize it or not, just serves to deflect blame and accountability for a genocidal state engaged in ethnic cleansing. As if the last nearly two years hadn't happened.

[JBTaurus83]

7. China

Is the only nation that may have the power to stop this. Once they are done with Gaza they will move on to the West Bank.

[vanessa_ca]

9. They already started with the West Bank :( -eom

[WarGamer]

11. I'm old enough to remember when people laughed

At the idea that Israel, the US and the House of Saud want to turn GAZA into Dubai v2.0

[LeftInTX]

15. They aren't going to turn into into Dubai 2.0!

That place is toxic, literally.

Dubai 2.0 is BS talk as an excuse for military conflict and treating people like shit. It's would be like racist people saying, "Indian Reservations should be like Las Vegas because they allow gambling, but they're not because they receive money from the federal govt".
I've heard people in Israel say, "If Hamas wasn't there, Gaza would be another Dubai". But those remarks have always sounded racist to me.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates

[WarGamer]

22. No... the point I'm making is...

The wealthy and powerful want to remove Gazans from the land to build resorts and high rise apts...

Just like... Dubai. Which... is an awesome place, BTW. Ive been there twice.

[AloeVera]

28. Thank you. Yes.

[Jacson6]

17. This will be Israel's Vietnam.

IMHO.

[Ping Tung]

19. The U.K. opposes the planned takeover. As does Germany who will also stop sending military aid to Israel.

Starmer condemns Israel's plan to take over Gaza City

hhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2kyg0g8kxottps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2kyg0g8kxo

Germany halts military exports to Israel for use in Gaza amid outcry over Netanyahu plan

https://apnews.com/article/germany-mideast-weapons-b957e28b73ee94ed33fbd2d4e4d36246

[brush]

33. France also before Germany and the UK.

[milestogo]

20. Monsters, all of them.

[electric_blue68]

25. Good on The UK, and Germany. Don't think it'll help but it good for their moral standing.

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[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

29. If it happens, it will be a land grab by the United States of America. The Pentagon is too chicken shit to

make its intentions public. In reality, Israel is nothing more than a Trump property. America is channeling Iraq, and is coveting Gaza as if it were Kuwait.

[Jack Valentino]

30. Israel's Vietnam ?

Probably not. The North Vietnamese had a bigger army and more partisans and were much better armed
than the starving inhabitants of Gaza...

[Jack Valentino]

31. Since they will create a "combat zone" out of ALL of Gaza,

the statement about humanitarian aid is sheer pablum.

The plan allows for the provision of humanitarian aid to the civilian population “outside the combat zones,” it said.