The expanding Israel-Hamas war

[rareboy]

The obscenity of this is almost overwhelming.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/world/trump-promotes-gaza-plan-ai-video-intl/index.html

 

[rareboy]

So Israel thinks it is playing 3D chess as well?

This is why everyone gives up on the Middle East.

Wanting to keep Syria 'weakened' by getting the US to support rrrZZxia maintaining a presence in the country they ruined?

No doubt that TrumpCo. will be all for it.

Israel wants US to keep Syria 'weak' by allowing Russian bases, sources tell Reuters

Israeli officials have told Washington that Syria's new Islamist rulers, who ousted pro-Russian Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, will pose a threat to Israel's borders if backed by Turkey, Reuters wrote, citing four sources familiar with the communications.

kyivindependent.com

 

[rareboy]

The war was always destined to expand.

 

[Norri]

Despite my distaste for Trump I can’t criticize him for taking on the Houthi’s. They are targeting western shipping but not Russian or Chinese shipping reason enough to, at a minimum, make them feel some pain. As the old order fades away this is the chaos the future holds for us all.

 

[rareboy]

With all the MAGAs giving credit to Trump for the Biden ceasefire....are they all now pinning the blame for the failur of the ceasefire on Trump....or is that also still Biden's fault.

 

[rareboy]

A trauma surgeon stationed at one of Gaza’s largest hospitals says the carnage this week is beyond anything he has seen in Ukraine or anywhere.More than 500 have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since Tuesday, when Israel’s government broke a two-month ceasefire with Hamas and has escalated attacks since.Hospitals continue to be overwhelmed with more than 900 injuries and facing ongoing shortages since food and fuel were cut off by Israel’s government in early March.UNICEF says Tuesday was the single deadliest day for children in Gaza since the war began.

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

Despite my distaste for Trump I can’t criticize him for taking on the Houthi’s. They are targeting western shipping but not Russian or Chinese shipping reason enough to, at a minimum, make them feel some pain. As the old order fades away this is the chaos the future holds for us all.

So, the Trump Administration doesn't want to be the world's policemen but they are okay with being the policemen for shipments of Arabian oil?

 

[rareboy]

The genocide continues and the world has turned its back.

Breaking down a deadly week in Gaza as Israel kills hundreds

More than 370 Palestinians have been killed by Israel this week, as the UN continues to warn of imminent mass starvation

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Norri]

So, the Trump Administration doesn't want to be the world's policemen but they are okay with being the policemen for shipments of Arabian oil?

This is where the details of his ‘deals’ matter. It would be very easy for Trump to offer to protect Saudi oil shipments and for them to repay him via investments in private deals. Boss Tweed has nothing on this guy.

 

[KaraBulut]

The genocide continues and the world has turned its back.

Breaking down a deadly week in Gaza as Israel kills hundreds

More than 370 Palestinians have been killed by Israel this week, as the UN continues to warn of imminent mass starvation

www.aljazeera.com

Pulling the lens back a little bit. Trump gave speeches this week in the middle east defining what he defines as the US' new foreign policy. Basically, the US only cares about itself and everyone else in the world can do whatever they want, whenever they want.

So, Israel is starving millions of people in Gaza. The US is doing nothing to stop it. Israel has blocked food deliveries to Gaza for 2 months. The food warehouses are empty.

Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade

Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.

www.bbc.com

Two months after Israel cut off all supplies from entering Gaza, Mr Matar is warning that the few dozen remaining food kitchens are set to close in days...

On 2 March, Israel shut all crossings to Gaza - preventing all goods, including food, fuel and medicines from entering - and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas. It said these steps were meant to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages it still holds.

Recently, the UN's World Food Programme and Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said they had used up all their stocks of food aid.

I am surprised that Trump didn't make a stop in Gaza to scope out a location for the Trump Golf Resort in Gaza.

 

[KaraBulut]

This is where the details of his ‘deals’ matter. It would be very easy for Trump to offer to protect Saudi oil shipments and for them to repay him via investments in private deals. Boss Tweed has nothing on this guy.

Except Trump was bragging that the Saudis were buying billions of dollars in military equipment from the US. If the Saudis are buying planes and bombs, why aren't the Saudi's doing their own policing of their shipments. Isn't this the "World's policemen" thing that Trump is always complaining about?

 

[rareboy]

For decades, the Sauds have been very adept at using their oil to get the Us and other western nations to do all the dirty work for them. They don't fight the wars, they don't directly intercede as comabatants
in proxy wars.

The US for all intents and purposes is a guns for hire agency for the House of Saud.

As you point out, there is no reason why the Saudi's shouldn't be protecting and policing the shipments and the Gulf.

Why aren't the Saudis dictating terms on Gaza and Palestine

There's no reason why they shoudn't be builing their own planes and weapons.

Except they love to also be a power that can keep the US government in their pocket.

And they love to do everything in secret and behind the scenes.

 

[Norri]

I don’t believe the Saudi’s can project the kind of power necessary to protect their shipping but Yemen is close by and they could threaten to resume bombing them if they attack ships transporting Saudi oil and if they didn’t do that I wouldn’t protect them either.

 

[rareboy]

TrumpCo. looking to clear the shoreline so that he and the Israelis can get on with stealing all the land?

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[TX-Beau]

TrumpCo. looking to clear the shoreline so that he and the Israelis can get on with stealing all the land?

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.

www.nbcnews.com

This is just more lies. No "deal" will ever be reached. Toad is kissing up to Bibi, probably for some financial gain.

 

[rareboy]

The Quid pro Quo?

“.. In exchange .., the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago ..”

 

[TX-Beau]

The Quid pro Quo?

“.. In exchange .., the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago ..”

Maybe, but I suspect Libya will be the most surprised of all to find out they will be "hosting" a million mouths to feed and house. People who will have to be forcibly removed from Gaza, resulting in the opprobrium of every other Muslin nation in the region.

There's probably no amount of money that's worth that.

 

[rareboy]

All the other Muslim nations have abandoned the Palestinians in Gaza.

I mean, they have abandoned the humans.

Some, like Qatar, the Sauds, Iran, Syria and others may still be very much committed to using the Palestinians to harry and harrass Israel are still committed to funding war, but the people have been abandoned because no other Muslim country wants to accept more impoverished and enraged refugees.

And I suspect Libya will not take them either.

 

[TX-Beau]

All the other Muslim nations have abandoned the Palestinians in Gaza.

I mean, they have abandoned the humans.

Some, like Qatar, the Sauds, Iran, Syria and others may still be very much committed to using the Palestinians to harry and harrass Israel are still committed to funding war, but the people have been abandoned because no other Muslim country wants to accept more impoverished and enraged refugees.

And I suspect Libya will not take them either.

What I was referring to was that the process of removal would end up a humanitarian disaster, probably requiring forcible eviction, and no matter how the rest of the Muslim world might feel about Palestinians in their own countries, there would be consequences for whoever participated in that. It would be, quite literally, Biblical.

In the end, Bibi doesn't want to bother with the extreme logistics of that, and he'll starve them all to death and save the cost.

What Toad is doing is giving legitimacy to the idea that the Palestinians need to be elsewhere, whether he realizes it or not, it's normalizing Bibi's genocide.