Those of us with long memories can see Benjamin Netanyahu's goal
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I also recall that in the late 20th century there was a situation when many native Palestinians fled Israel with Yasser Arafat and the PLO, and camped up in Lebanon under the protection of the Lebanese government. Israel was unhappy with this, pursued the Palestinian refugees with Biblical violence and reduced Beirut to rubble. The jewel of the Mediterranean was no more and Israel had no immediate economic rival in the Middle East.
The state of Israel was created by the British after the end of World War Two from the remains of the Ottoman Empire. They had not forgiven the Turks for siding with the Germans during World War One. They wanted to create a new world order and for the British to have major influence in this new world order. They carved up the Arab states into separate ad hoc states, which was opposed by TE Lawrence who had built up a relationship with the Arab people. Small-minded bureaucrats with no significant battlefield experience took over.
The British created Israel with the intention for it be a client state, but Britain had lost its influence in the world as many former colonies had gained independence and did not bow to 'mother England' any longer. This came to the fore during the fiasco that was the Suez Crisis. Great Britain was no longer the world power it thought it was. Israel was no longer a client state of GB but became a client state of the US and has been ever since. Everything Israel does is okayed by the US.
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Yasser Arafat and the PLO were bombed out of Lebanon and returned to Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank. Israel had further plans. Under the Israeli government's control, Mossad infiltrated [[Gaza]] and encouraged young radicals to oppose Arafat and El Fatah, and to do this they paid them millions of dollars and supplied them with arms.
That was the origin of Hamas. Hamas are an Israeli creation.
Hamas won the elections in Gaza. Yasser Arafat and El Fatah were ejected to the West Bank.
Israel has infiltrators in Gaza; nothing of significance happens in Gaza that Israel is not aware of. The Israeli government was made aware by its own observers and by Egypt that something was brewing in Gaza before October 7 2024. They deliberately chose to take no action. The result was what we all own know. Many female members of the IDF who had the responsibility of observing Gaza were slaughtered.
This gave Netanyahu the excuse to launch a full-scale attack on Gaza in search of the hostages, it also gave the 'hilltop boys' occupying the West Bank an excuse to attack and assassinate Palestinian residents of the West Bank. This was never about the hostages. That could have been resolved within weeks. This is about a deliberate land grab by the Israeli government of Gaza and the expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel, including the West Bank. Not only that, since the regime change in Syria the IDF have occupied 'defensive positions' in Syria. They have also launched missiles into Syria in support of Druze against Bedouins. There are Druze inhabitants of Israel but it is very hard to believe that Israel would launch missiles against Syria except for selfish reasons.
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I have engaged in discussions via social media with American supporters of Israel who have accused me of being an anti-Semite who believes jihadist propaganda, but they have declared that Balfour promised them (although being American citizens, they identify definitely with Israel) the West Bank of the Jordan where the country called Jordan is.
All this, put together, makes me think that what Netanyahu is all about is to create Eretz Israel and occupy all the land that the previous state of Israel occupied.
Israel is a puppet state of the US. This leads me to believe that the US is fully supportive of this and why supine governments do not oppose what is quite plainly an international war crime.
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