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Israel Begins Occupying All of Gaza
The New American ^ | May 19, 2025 | Paul Dragu

Posted on 05/19/2025 5:10:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

After President Donald Trump left the Middle East on Friday, Israel launched its mission to take over all of Gaza, following through on a promise officials made weeks ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement on Monday that the aim is total occupation: “The goal of the current expansion of the IDF’s operation in the Gaza Strip is for the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] to take control of the entire territory in order prevent Hamas from looting humanitarian aid,” he said, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Total Blockade

Israel imposed a total blockade around the Gaza Strip on March 2 with the stated agenda of strong-arming Hamas into concessions, including releasing the remaining Israeli hostages. Israel has accused Hamas of siphoning off food and water intended for civilians, allegations backed by U.S. officials and journalists on the ground. Yet the blockade and Israel’s overall campaign to root out what remains of Hamas have undeniably resulted in dire conditions for civilians. Trump said last week that “a lot of people are starving.” Pope Leo XIV said in his inaugural mass, “In Gaza, the surviving children, families and elderly are reduced to starvation.”

Israel has faced intense criticism over the inhumane conditions of the Palestinians, most notably from American college students and the United Nations, two historically untrustworthy sources. But the criticism is crossing ideological and political borders. The issue has taken center stage on several of the most popular media platforms among conservatives, Republicans, and libertarians, including “The Joe Rogan Experience” and Tucker Carlson podcasts. Polls suggest Israel has now lost support even among its most consistently loyal bloc,...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bloggers; gaza; johnbirchsociety; lookwhohatesjews; rop
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1 posted on 05/19/2025 5:10:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

liberating


2 posted on 05/19/2025 5:10:38 PM PDT by faithhopecharity
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
send the Fakestinians home (almost all of them Occupying Gaza hail from Egypt, so just open the damned Egyptian blockade and let them repatriate themselves)
3 posted on 05/19/2025 5:11:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It means that they are going to cause trouble in Europe.


4 posted on 05/19/2025 5:17:44 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: faithhopecharity
...so just open the damned Egyptian blockade and let them repatriate themselves.

Egypt does not want them and won't take them.

Looks like they will be dumped into Libya.

5 posted on 05/19/2025 5:18:33 PM PDT by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time...)
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To: faithhopecharity
liberating

Once USAID and UNRWA funds dried up, Hamas collapsed fast.

6 posted on 05/19/2025 5:19:54 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now deport the Palestinians and build a big business
Beautiful fence around it.


7 posted on 05/19/2025 5:32:04 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope every last one of them starves.

L


8 posted on 05/19/2025 5:33:19 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Zephaniah 2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken […] 5Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. 6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. 7And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon

Zechariah 12:6In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

9 posted on 05/19/2025 5:37:31 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: flamberge

fine, the further the better!
(the BEST idea so far is to move them all to an Indonesian island. Indonesia has thousands of islands. And they can be best-guarded on an island to protect civilized human societies everywhere from their bloodthirsty savage attacks. Libya will be a big step forward but President Trump’s proposal of an Indonesian island will be the very best outcome possible given the lack of vehicular capacity to blast them into the Oort Belt.)


10 posted on 05/19/2025 5:43:28 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Israel: The tiny country with the towering will to win against all comers bent on destroying it.


11 posted on 05/19/2025 5:54:43 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Once USAID and UNRWA funds dried up, Hamas collapsed fast.

Agreed

And the Hamas billionaires still have their billions, and never get near Gaza

12 posted on 05/19/2025 5:56:34 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stealing aid is a war crime.

I suspect the thieves are well-connected. They’d make great bargaining chips.


13 posted on 05/19/2025 5:58:35 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is what God told Joshua to do about four thousand years ago.

It's about time.

14 posted on 05/19/2025 6:00:15 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: flamberge; faithhopecharity

>Egypt does not want them and won’t take them.

You can tell this by looking at the wall Egypt build to separate themselves from Gaza. It is serious business! It makes Trump’s big beautiful wall at the Mexican border look like a joke!


15 posted on 05/19/2025 6:06:45 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Arabs are occupying all the land. They are imperialist settlers and must re
be driven out of Jewish, Christian, Hindu and all African lands. Not only can there be no “Palestinian” state, no Islamic country on the planet has a right to exist.

Every single one was formed by Muslim conquest on other people’s land, who were butchered, raped and enslaved. Every. Single. One.

By the “imperialist colonizer” argument, every single Muslim country should be liberated. Therefore, “Palestine” cannot be allowed. Nor can Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and about 50 others.


16 posted on 05/19/2025 6:07:43 PM PDT by libertarian66
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Egypt doesn’t want them (back) and for good reason. Nobody in their right mind wants them ( except the quislings ruling France, Ireland, UK…).
But the Egyptian blockade needs to be opened to at least enable through transit


17 posted on 05/19/2025 6:23:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Lurker

I hear Trump has conned Libya into taking a million of them. 😏


18 posted on 05/19/2025 7:04:35 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: faithhopecharity

What makes you think “almost all of them hail from Egypt”? Do you have any proof at all for your claim?


19 posted on 05/19/2025 7:18:26 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Destroy Hamas!


20 posted on 05/19/2025 7:45:03 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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