Posted on 05/28/2024 11:17:08 AM PDT by KingofZion
Israeli tanks advanced further into Rafah on Tuesday, according to witnesses, as the Israeli military said it was expanding operations in the southern Gaza city amid growing international condemnation.
The tanks passed near the Al-Awda mosque, a central Rafah landmark, Palestinians in the city told The Wall Street Journal. The Israeli military didn’t comment on the specifics of its push into Rafah, but Israel’s Army Radio said the military had added a brigade to the five already operating in the city and troops were engaging in close-quarters combat with Hamas.
Israel is trying to thread a needle by pursuing a fight with Hamas in Rafah without further damaging its relationship with the U.S., its closest ally, or derailing fragile relations with the Arab world.
*** Israel for months has said it wants to destroy the last of Hamas’s military structure in Rafah and disrupt the U.S.-designated terrorist group’s smuggling network from Egypt into Gaza. But the U.S. has repeatedly warned Israel that it needs to do more to protect civilians.
*** Fighting also continued Tuesday in northern and central Gaza, where the Israeli military said it killed militants in aerial strikes and located weapons-storage facilities.
Mediators are seeking an initial six-week truce in which Hamas would release roughly 20 living Israeli hostages, along with an unspecified number of bodies of Israelis who died while in captivity. The initial deal could be followed by a cease-fire of up to one year and a phased Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, according to Arab mediators. Restarting talks would depend upon whether Hamas agrees to engage, Arab mediators said. Hamas has been approached but hasn’t yet agreed to participate, believing Israel to not be serious about reaching a deal, the mediators said.
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Hope they continue to do what needs to be done, pearl clutchers be damned.
Global uproar? Yeah right.
ood!! - just get the job done, asap!!
More like global media uproar.
Mediators are seeking an initial six-week truce
Global uproar? Heck, I’m cheering for Israel.
Go Old Testament on them.
Remember when the Arabs killed 3,000 Americans and then we went to war against them for two decades killing or displacing millions of them?
I do.
So does Israel.
hamas-sholes agree to IDF ceasing fire.
“Hope they continue to do what needs to be done, pearl clutchers be damned.”
Nation Building’s last stand in Gaza:
Rafah isn’t just the last stand for Hamas, but for an entire foreign policy establishment. Op-ed.
Nation Building’s faulty premise is that people everywhere want what Americans want.
And so we ignore what they say they want. We ignore what they vote for. And then we ignore it when they actually start killing each other as we try to give them what they’re supposed to want.
Nation building was built on denying that tribalism is a fundamental force and that demographics is destiny. We refused to believe that in Afghanistan, we refused to believe it in Iraq and now we still refuse to believe it in Gaza. But the trouble is that the Arab Muslims of Gaza do believe it.
After two decades of failing to win a war (because we didn’t even try) maybe it’s time to let the Israelis give it a shot. What’s the worst that could happen? Gaza will be overrun by Islamic terrorists? Muslims will hate us and try to kill us? There will be op-eds in the New York Times?
The Israelis have grown tired of trying to win the hearts and minds of rapists, kidnappers and killers.
They’ve grown tired of giving them what we think they want and are giving them what they deserve.
Maybe we could learn something from their experiment in ‘un-nation building’.
Daniel Greenfield
Nation Building’s last stand in Gaza Rafah isn’t just the last stand for Hamas, but for an entire foreign policy establishment. Op-ed.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/390668
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“Egypt has become increasingly frustrated with Israel’s operation in Rafah, which sits on the other side of Egypt’s border with Gaza.”
If that’s the case, maybe Israel should blow holes open in the security fence and let the Gazans and Hamas members flee into Egyptian territory.
Unexpected uproar.
I don’t remember any uproar over Oct 7.
Perhaps muslims should consider the consequences of their actions next time they attack, rape, torture, and slaughter civilians on Jewish holy day and sabbath.
Make it Rafah on them, Israel.
G_d bless Isreal & IDF.
When there is a ‘Global Uproar’ about the Islamofascistnazi Death Cult, then I will pay attention.
I was hoping that Israel would scrap most of Gaza into the Mediterranean, fill the underground terror network with sea water (and add some piranhas for good measure). Then, we move the so-called United Nations to Gaza. No limousines, no police escort, just a few tents. Let’s see who really wants ‘unity.’
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