Israel Tells Army to Prep for Large-Scale Military Operation Against Gaza Over Flaming Kites

in #news6 years ago

 This week, the Israeli Army was given orders to prepare for a  “large-scale military operation” of the Gaza Strip, which would include  an invasion of the region. These orders come just a day after Israeli  army warplanes attacked the Gaza Strip. Israeli officials are justifying their actions by citing small  attacks that were recently blamed on Hamas. 

This type of rhetoric is  typical from the Israeli government, they attempt to play the victim by  claiming that they are retaliating against Hamas, to justify attacking  innocent and defenseless Palestinians. “We are in the midst of a campaign, there’s an exchange of blows  and I can tell you the Israel Defense Forces are ready for any scenario,” Netanyahu said in an interview, according to Haaretz. As the Times of Israel reports,  on Sunday, the IDF’s 162nd Armored Division launched an exercise  simulating a war in the Gaza Strip, including the capture of Gaza City.  

While the military said it was planned in advance and was not related to  the weekend’s exchange of fire, the manner in which the exercise was  publicized by the military led many to see it as a tacit threat to  Hamas. Israeli officials said that if the launching of flaming kites doesn’t  stop, the invasion would go on. However, according to a report cited by  the Times of Israel, the report said Hamas would only put a complete  stop to the flaming kite launches if it can achieve some sort of  accomplishment, such as the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with  Egypt. 

When the state of Israel was created, instead of integrating the Arab  and Jewish cultures together, the ruling class put policies in place  that would force the Palestinian people onto infertile ghettos,  separated from water sources and food-growing lands by giant walls. The  Palestinians were also not given the right to organize, own property, or  work, and without these basic freedoms, they remain refugees on their  own land. 

These policies would result in a growing hostility between the two  groups which eventually flared up in physical violence. This violence  has spread all throughout the oil-rich Middle East and has allowed the  western establishment to have a permanent involvement in the region’s  affairs. 

This is why Israel is often referred to as an apartheid state, and in  fact, they regularly pass laws to downgrade the social status of Arabs.  Just this week a new bill was passed, called the ‘nation-state bill’  which sparked controversy by stating that,“the right to exercises national determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.” 

MPs Ahmed Tibi and Ayeda Touma-Souliman from The Joint List, a  coalition of Arab-dominated parties in the Israeli Parliament, shouted “You passed an apartheid law, a racist law,” at Netanyahu as he gave a speech praising the new measure.

 Reports from the Health Ministry in Gaza claimed that several of the 41 Palestinians killed on Monday were teenagers,  and as many as 1,700 civilians are now left suffering from injuries  after Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on protests near Israel’s  border fence. This comes in addition to the dozens of Palestinians who have been  killed and the thousands who have been wounded by Israeli sniper fire in  recent months. 

While Israel has falsely claimed that every man or  teenage boy who participated in the protests was a “militant” for Hamas,  and deserved to die, there was one civilian death that was particularly  notable. Yaser Murtaja, a Palestinian photojournalist, was wearing a jacket that clearly said “PRESS” when he was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli sniper on Friday. As The Intercept noted“Either  the Israeli sniper could not clearly see who was in the rifle scope—in  which case the claim that the use of live fire is precise is shown to be  untrue—or the soldier intentionally fired at a journalist, which is a  war crime.” 

While Israel has justified the killings by claiming that their soldiers opened fire because the suspects “attempted to infiltrate” the Israel-Gaza border, a disturbing video was leaked  last month that showed multiple Israeli men celebrating after a sniper  targeted and shot a non-threatening man who was standing in a field on  the other side of their border fence. 

To prevent evidence like this from reaching the surface the Israeli  government is reportedly targeting journalists and human rights group  with a newly proposed bill that would outlaw the filming of Israeli  troops, which critics are calling an obvious attempt to hide war crimes  that are regularly committed by the country’s military. If passed, Reuters reported that the new law will impose a possible five-year prison sentence on anyone who takes recordings “with intent to harm the morale of Israel’s soldiers or its inhabitants.” 

The prison sentence will reportedly be raised to 10 years if the recording was taken with the intent of “damaging national security.” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman praised the bill and said that it was necessary to fight “terrorism.” 

“Israeli soldiers are under constant attack by Israel haters and supporters of terrorism who look constantly to degrade and sully them. We will put an end to this,” Lieberman said. 

Deputy Palestinian Information Minister Fayez Abu Aitta pointed out  that this is an obvious attempt to cover up the Israeli government’s own  terrorism and war crimes. 

This decision aims to cover up crimes committed by  Israeli soldiers against our people, and to free their hands to commit  more crimes,”  Aitta told Reuters. 

The text of the bill suggests that there are “anti-Israeli and  pro-Palestinian organizations which spend entire days near Israeli  soldiers waiting breathlessly for actions that can be documented in a  slanted and one-sided way so that soldiers can be smeared.” 

In recent years, as the horror that the Israeli government unleashes  upon the prisoners of Palestine has been exposed, global public opinion  is finally beginning to shift against the apartheid state. In response,  the governments in the U.S. and Israel have both been forcing  legislation to keep a lid on the genocide that is taking place. 

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So if they want to prevent the invasion all Hamas has to do is to agree to stop raining fire down on the Israelis but that is too big an ask?

Right!

So, if the "invasion is prevented", will Israel allow the Gazans to have an airport? What about electricity (two hours a day right now)? Access to the coast for fishing? Clean water (undrinkable by 2020)? The ability to leave? Or are the Gazans (75% are women and children) suppose to just sit and wait to die off? As Gaza will be unlivable by 2027.

Doesn't excuse Hamas. But Israel has no plans to allow Gazans to have a speck of human dignity.

It's hard to say what the future holds. Anyone who claims to know is probably full of shit. If they want all of those things perhaps they should stop with the flaming kites and rockets and shit?

Want basic human rights? The Israeli government is filled with right-wing racists who, on record, talk about "putting the Gazans on a diet" and do not allow them to leave. So if only the desperate people of Gaza just did what those who deny them life & liberty wanted them to do, the Israelis would allow them to live in peace? Even though the same Israelis have been bulldozing and colonizing the West Bank for 40 decades? The same Israelis who have separate laws for Arabs within their country?

If only they stopped with flaming kites (lol), the Israeli army would stop sniping civilians, bombing civilian populations with American made jets, tanks and troops.

They are starving to death, with no escape. So they should lay down and die? Because the people who are starving them to death asked them to stop?

lol.

or they can keep starving and lighting kites on fire, how's that working out for them?

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Who writes this shit for you? So many falsehoods and misrepresentations, where to start? I guess at the beginning.

Israeli officials are justifying their actions by citing small attacks that were recently blamed on Hamas.

"small attacks" huh large scale arson is no big deal to you, did you even bother look at the effect of these "small attacks".

"blamed on Hammas" Do you dispute that Hammas is the government democratically elected by the Arabs? Who else should we blame? Mohamed for his anti-jewish religion.

This type of rhetoric is typical from the Israeli government, they attempt to play the victim by claiming that they are retaliating against Hamas, to justify attacking innocent and defenseless Palestinians.

This type of rhetoric is typical of people who swallow Hammas propaganda and spread it as truth, ignoring attacks and then blaming Israel when they respond to attacks. If the Arabs are so innocent and helpless why not stop attacking.

Hamas would only put a complete stop to the flaming kite launches if it can achieve some sort of accomplishment, such as the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

"Hamas would only put a complete stop to the flaming kite launches"

Now your blaming Hammas or wait you knew they were responsible from the start because they rule Gaza. If they want egypt to open their border crossing why attack Israel?

When the state of Israel was created, instead of integrating the Arab and Jewish cultures together, the ruling class put policies in place that would force the Palestinian people onto infertile ghettos, separated from water sources and food-growing lands by giant walls. The Palestinians were also not given the right to organize, own property, or work, and without these basic freedoms, they remain refugees on their own land.

What a load of horseshit!! In the part of Israel not controlled by Arab supremacists Arabs are perfectly integrated, %20 of the population is Arab and they doing are just fine.

When the state of Israel was formed the Arabs of British Mandate Palestine and the Arabs in the surrounding countries declared a war of extermination against the Jews. They lost, but the Arabs haven't given up and are now waging a war of terrorism and propaganda which you are swallowing hook line and sinker!

That's all the horseshit I have time for right now.