Thread by @Doranimated on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A weapons embargo on Israel ensures that Biden can’t get either what he says he wants or what we might fairly assume he wants. A thread. Biden says he wants a hostages-for-prisoners deal/ceasefire. But by pressuring Israel he emboldens Hamas to make unrealistic demands. Biden says he wants a two-state solution with a “revitalized”Palestinian Authority (PA) in charge of Gaza. But by saving Hamas he ensures it will block Fatah (the ruling party in the PA) from gaining a foothold in Gaza. The policy is stoking a Palestinian civil war. Biden says he wants to alleviate the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip but by precluding a ceasefire deal and emboldening Hamas, he prolongs the war and therefore the suffering. A speedy Israeli victory is the only pathway to anything approaching normalcy for Gazans. Biden says he wants to free the hostages (some of whom are Americans) but his strengthening of Hamas’s negotiating hand ensures that Hamas will demand more in return for each hostage — at every step of the way. Some hostages it will hold forever, to maintain leverage. Biden says he wants to stop the Houthi attacks on commercial shipping, but by emboldening Hamas he emboldens the Houthis. Biden says he wants to end the Israel-Hezbollah war, but his reduced support for Israel emboldens Hezbollah. It also makes Jerusalem more prone to escalate as a way of deterring — of proving to Nasrallah that diminished U.S. support does not offer him immunity from attacks. Biden wants Tehran to help prevent a regional war, but by emboldening all elements of the “Resistance Axis,” his policy has the effect of widening the war. For the first time, Iran attacked Israel directly. It changed the rules of the game in its favor, yet paid no price. Biden says he stands against antisemitism, but by, in effect, accusing Israel of inexcusable brutality against innocent woman and children, he places the authority of his office behind the blood libel of the age. Biden says he wants normalization between Israel and the Saudis, but by weakening Israel he makes it less attractive as a partner. By elevating the two-state solution he forces Riyadh to emphasize its support. An Arab country can’t be less pro-Palestinian than the U.S. Finally, Biden calls his support for Israel “ironclad,” but his personalized attacks on PM Netanyahu encourage the opposition to try to bring him down. The policy stokes dissent and discord when promoting unity of purpose against a common enemy should be America’s goal.
“But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and whole must always be thought of together.” —Carl von Clausewitz"
Thread by @davidfrum on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Biden making the same error w/r/t Israel that he previously made with Ukraine: trying to micro-manage from a distance somebody else's defensive war by limiting categories of weapons. This error doesn't limit war. This error prolongs war, by denying the ally the means of success. I often think the Biden foreign policy would produce more success if its architects were less clever. "Give the Ukrainians/Israelis enough that they don't lose, but not enough to win" is an idea to baffle all lesser minds. The micro-management of Israel's war is one part of a much bigger scheme: an Arab force to police Gaza, reform of the Palestinian Authority, a Saudi-US defense agreement, etc. etc. Less clever people would have arrived at a simpler plan: fight Hamas until it's beaten. Biden will seek re-election in November on a foreign policy record that includes the fiasco of the Afghanistan exit, inconclusive wars in Europe and Middle East, no new trade agreements. He needed one clear success. Israel's war could have been it. But no. Too simple."
Ari Fleischer on X - "Biden has lost his mind. If he does this, he is helping Hamas to survive - and win. I’ll take Donald Trump’s mean tweets any day. None of them is as bad as Biden."
Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט on X - "A few points:
1. President Biden has always been a friend to Israel, but the arms-halt for Rafah is deeply misguided. Here’s why:
A. Israel’s leverage on Hamas leaders is that we’re coming to kill them and nobody likes dying. If you prevent Israel from entering Rafah, you’ve taken away Hamas leaders’ incentive to cut a hostage deal.
B. It may create a miscalculation for Hezbollah and the other Jihadists in the neighbourhood. They might mistakenly think that Israel doesn’t have enough arms and ammo-depth, which might tempt them to attack us.
C. If we run short on precision-bombs we’ll have to use less precise ones>>more civilians will die. The precise opposite of everybody’s intention.
D. A halt sends a message of daylight btwn US and its ally Israel. Bad here and everywhere.
E. It’s morally wrong b/c it accepts the false narrative that Israel is supposedly targeting civilians or is nonchalant about civilian death. If we didn’t care we’d bomb the hell out of Gaza and finish this war in 3 days without losing boys in battle. We just lost 5 boys over the weekend. The fact is that almost half the Palestinian casualties are of Hamas members. THAT IS PROBABLY THE LOWEST FIGHTER:CIVILAN DEATH RATIO IN THE HISTORY OF URBAN WARFARE.
2. Israeli government should have captured Rafah and destroyed Hamas four months ago. I’ve no idea why our government is so slow and seemingly indecisive. Neither do understand why we pulled out division 98 that had been sealing the Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah. Sort of like removing the lid on a can in which they were trapped, allowing them to disperse all across the Gaza Strip.
3. We can’t assume we have endless time. This wavering is damaging: international pressure building, Hamas has ample time to boobytrap Rafah and escape to other areas. Speed and continuity are basic tenets of winning wars. Stop talking, just do it. FAST.
4. If we accept the premise that civilian death is unacceptable in war, it guarantees that all terror groups in the world will adopt Hamas’ MO of human shields. Many more civilians will die. In NYC, London and Paris.
5. Israeli ministers must stop their petty political postering and infantile rhetoric, and stop causing self inflicted damage. We in Israel know that it’s all hot air, but people around the world assume that a minister’s words are serious. And Israel pays a tangible price for this clownship.
6. Somehow planning for post-Hamas Gaza has become a taboo in our government. The mere discussion is portrayed as a“soft lefty defeatist” thing. It’s not. It’s necessary so that when we capture a certain city (e.g. Han Yunus) in a tough and costly battle, we know who we hand it over to and who runs it. This ensures that Hamas will not re-enter the moment we leave, thus causing us to have to fight 3-4 times to recapture the same place(!). We can decide to keep Israeli temporary admin, or local Palestinian, or other options. But we need to decide SOMETHING. Who fills the void. Otherwise by default it’s Hamas, the worst of all options. And that’s what’s happening right now. Thats like mopping water up a slanted floor just to have the water keep sliding down. I think Israel’s leadership shuns this for (mistaken) political reasons. So our government must get over it.
Bottom line: We’ve lost precious time, but this is still winnable. Israeli government must decide at last what it wants. If we want to defeat Hamas, then let’s do it. US should support Israel and if anything, urge its leadership to act more decisively and faster so we finish this ASAP."
May 9: Biden Halts Aid to Save Hamas - "Burnett asked Biden if he “heard the message” of campus protesters upset by reports from Gaza of “mass graves and summary executions, that there’s been evidence of.” Rather than point out that these reports are crude lies for which there is absolutely zero evidence, other than the say-so of the same Hamas sources that brought the world the fake IDF massacres at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the aid convoy in February, the president merely said, “I hear the message.” Shivving an ally and laundering a blood libel—two outrages for the price of one! But in truth, no one should be surprised. That the White House would ultimately attempt to use its leverage to preserve Hamas in Gaza was baked into the American response to Oct. 7 from Day 1. Indeed, it was the entire purpose of the administration’s messaging campaign to exonerate Iran and to forbid the Israelis from acting against Iran’s prize proxy in the region, Hezbollah, in the immediate aftermath of the attack. By framing the war as the latest skirmish in the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and not as a hot front in the Iranian terror empire’s cold war against the U.S.-led regional order, the White House effectively set a trap for Israel... Don’t hit the Iranians—even if they directly hit you, as the mullahs did in April. We, the Americans, will guarantee your “defense,” even as we also guarantee the security of the Iranian satrapies on your border, cripple your ability to conduct offensive operations, and thereby effectively undermine both your sovereignty and security. But to be fair to Team Obama-Biden, they have long been clear about who they are and what they want in the Middle East. At some point, the Israeli leadership has a responsibility to acknowledge reality...
'Any kind of major Rafah ground operation would actually strengthen Hamas’ hand at the negotiating table, not Israel’s. That’s our view.'
That was National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaking to reporters on Wednesday. Now you, as a simpleton, might think that degrading Hamas’ military power, killing its leaders, and seizing its territory would reduce its leverage in negotiations. But that’s why you don’t have a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College, and John Kirby does...
a New York Times “investigation” titled “How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel.” The Times explains that it measured communications that “invoked Mr. Soros or globalists conspiratorially” or in ways that “evoked … historical tropes.” We’re going to take a wild guess here and assume that those include factually true claims that Mr. Soros—like other progressive oligarchs, Jewish and non-Jewish alike—has donated millions of dollars to an anti-Israel protest movement that has projected “Glory to the martyrs” on the buildings of $81,000-a-year universities, as well as to various other progressive and radical causes. And just in case any readers failed to get the message, the Times, in an otherwise irrelevant parenthetical following a mention of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), offered a helpful reminder to Jews about who their real enemies are supposed to be, in the estimation of the American establishment:
'Evangelical Christians'"
Jacob Siegel on X - "Israel put itself in this position by taking US aid and leveraging sovereignty for vassal status. Netanyahu, Gantz, Lapid, they're all culpable. The Israeli ruling class is the real problem."
Open Source Intel on X - "REPORT: The day before Biden announced a freeze on arms sales to Israel, his administration granted a waiver on sanctions, allowing arms sales to Qatar, Lebanon, and Iraq, despite their alignment with Hxmas. This waiver bypasses sanctions on weapon sales to countries that boycott Israel. Via @Kredo0"
Yoav Kaufman on X - "It is pure insanity to me that Trump seems to be the more sane of the 2 candidates right now, at least regarding Israel. How did we get to this point??"
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "When Hamas believed the US was fully behind Israel, it agreed to a ceasefire and released 104 hostages. Since the US started sending mixed messages that can be interpreted as support for Hamas, there have been no truces and no hostages were released. Something to consider."
Richard Hanania on X - "It’s really awful to see. At some point we all realized that for all their pretensions to being serious people, on identity issues the insane university activists controlled the Democratic Party. Now we’re learning it’s the same on foreign policy."
Rachael Bade on X - "NEWS THIS AM🚨: @SpeakerJohnson told @RyanLizza & me that he feels betrayed by Biden after learning he is willing to withhold offensive weapons to Israel. He says he hopes Biden's CNN comment was a "senior moment." If not, he accused the president of reneging on the deal they made to pass aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan last month"
EducatëdHillbilly™ on X - "Just so we’re all on the same page, Joe Biden is building Hamas a port for $350 million of our dollars and just cut off all aid to Israel… our allies. So Hamas get $350,000,000 and our allies get nothing. Carter didn’t even do that."
Fifty Shades of Sarcasm on X - "@RobProvince Too bad Biden didn’t withhold Gaza ‘humanitarian aid’ until Hamas released all the hostages….this could have been over months ago."
Hamas wants more Palestinians to die, so they wouldn't have released the hostages anyway
Thread by @sfrantzman on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " The story of the US delaying munitions for Israel is getting a lot of coverage, the BBC call it the "biggest warning yet for Israel." So here's my question. While countries are growing frustrated with the long war in Gaza, have there been any real repercussions for Hamas since Oct. 7 on the global stage? What I mean is this. Hamas is hosted by two western allies, in Doha and Ankara. There were no repercussions for Hamas leaders in Doha after Oct. 7. While the US and western leaders expressed support for Israel, they didn't move to sanction those leaders more or put them on trial for crimes against humanity. Hamas leaders openly celebrated in Doha on Oct. 7. They faced no repercussions from the US, and Doha is the major non-NATO ally. And since Oct. 7 the Hamas leaders have jetted around the region, hosted as if they were a state by Turkey, a NATO member. So Hamas has gotten the message after Oct. 7 that there are no repercussions for its attack. You can argue that Hamas faced repercussions from Israel's offensive in Gaza. But outside of Israel and Gaza, the group faced no repercussions I can think of. It massacred hostages with citizenships from around the world and held them hostage...and no country sought to bring it to trial for war crimes, or to detain its leaders. In the opposite, Hamas has been given MORE support since Oct. 7. It has not been condemned by the UN or most countries. This is what is jarring about the pause in munitions for Israel. If the goal of the international community was to stop the war, and not have wars like this, then Hamas perpetrators should all be charged and the group should stop getting the red carpet, but instead it is literally still hosted by western allies. I think the message is kind of clear. There was a lot of lip service to condemning Hamas in the West after Oct. 7...but no one sought to arrest its leaders, the way they did in the Balkan wars for Mladic or others they charged with crimes. How is what Hamas did on Oct. 7 different than Srebrenica? The group openly massacred 1,000 people and put out footage of it. It massacred children, women, elderly people, and took children, women and the elderly as hostages. It openly paraded the body of Shano Louk to crowds. But no one put out charges for the men in that video. There's something strange about the impunity Hamas enjoys. It carried out a genocidal massacre openly and faces no repercussions on the global stage, no real condemnation from the int'l community...and in fact is still seen as a partner by many int'l NGOs...and is still hosted by western allies. Even when you do get a condemnation for Hamas in the region, it comes in the "all lives matter" form of "we condemn all killing of civilians"...and when int'l orgs discuss Gaza they say "armed groups"...they never say Hamas. In the opposite, they often praise Hamas police for "law and order." What part of "law and order" is parading the body of a dead person in the streets for men to spit at? I think one can conclude that the Western powers, whose allies host and back Hamas, do not really condemn Oct. 7 in a meaningful way. They never wanted it defeated or dismantled and in fact they have worked to prevent that from happening. They have some interests in Hamas, interests that go back many years and are probably only discussed quietly. How might those interests be discussed? With terms like they used to discuss why they didn't mind Saddam Hussein. A useful authoritarian genocider for some countries, until he got too powerful and invaded Kuwait. They might say things like "of course the Oct. 7 attack was awful but Hamas is a legitimate political party also and we need to make sure we engage with them too, they will be part of any future unity government in Ramallah and any future two state solution." They might say things quietly like "of course we condemn Oct. 7, but remember Hamas leadership didn't know about it and we need to engage with the moderates and we have an interest in talking to them, otherwise they will only talk to Iran." It's the same way Hezbollah gets out of any real sanctions and is portrayed as a "partner" in Lebanon. Unfortunately when we look at the pause in munitions, it is a big message to Israel. There was no similar policy change regarding Hamas after Oct. 7 in the West...no attempt to get their leaders to leave the western allies that back them, no attempt to isolate Hamas, or to bolster the PA. And this is most glaring...the has been NO ATTEMPT to bolster the Palestinian Authority after Oct. 7. This tells you what you need to know. There is a powerful Hamas lobby, it's powerful and complex..and it has made it so Hamas is condemned in statements sometimes...but in general the goal is to bring Hamas to power in Ramallah. There is a growing addiction to Hamas in the region and globally. And this is going to lead to more wars, just like it led to Oct. 7. Responsible leaders would not want Hamas to grow, but unfortunately the new world order that Iran is advancing with Russia and China and other powers...sees Hamas as one of the key pawns and Hamas' alliance with western allies means the West is blind to the advance of this pawn and how it is destroying the MIddle East."
"Minorities" don't have agency
Mike Pompeo on X - "President Trump was impeached over false claims that he played politics with military aid. It was always a lie. Joe Biden is ACTUALLY doing the very thing President Trump was accused of. He's holding up aid to our ally, Israel, to play politics in an election year. Where is Adam Schiff? Where is the outcry from the press?"
UNRWA staff stealing and selling humanitarian aid, Gazans report - "UNRWA staff are stealing aid and selling it for profit, while those who report it face reprisals, according to numerous reports published by Palestinians in an UNRWA-related chatroom. The posts expose a deep frustration by employees that senior UNRWA employees are engaged in the abuses, and that the agency is doing nothing about it. This comes amid a recent call by UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini for countries to increase direct cash assistance to Gazans because, although “there is more food available… it still does not mean that the food is accessible.” The chatroom is run by a former UNRWA employee, Haitham al-Sayyed, who was removed from UNRWA in 2016 after he publicly called out the agency for hiding an UNRWA school map that denied the existence of Israel, covered up with a white cloth to hide it from the cameras while UN chief Ban Ki-moon was holding a press conference in June 2016. In the 17 years he worked for UNRWA, al-Sayyed created several chat rooms for staff and educators to share posts, many of which feature antisemitism, incitement to hatred and Jihadi terrorism. Today, al-Sayyed continues to operate these chat rooms where he disseminates information about UNRWA salaries and other agency news relevant to employees. Despite recent scrutiny of UNRWA promotion of terorism, and promises of reform, the chat rooms continue to thrive with posts from thousands of employees who were recently celebrating Iran’s attack on Israel... Thieves Compared to Jews... These chats allude not just to serious problems within the management of aid distribution by UNRWA but also to a deep frustration by the staff to the lack of accountability and the inaction of UNRWA’s top officials to respond to these crimes. Lazzarini’s band-aid solution seems to be to give Palestinians “more cash liquidity.” But this would only serve to reward the corrupt and further entrench the profiteering system. Other UN agencies with higher proportions of international supervisors on the ground such as WFP, UNICEF, and WHO are better equipped to mitigate these problems but many keep insisting that only UNRWA can do this work. In light of these and many other well-documented problems within UNRWA, donor states should consider their funding priorities carefully"
Damn Zionists! The Israeli monsters are stopping aid from coming in again!
The war against the Jewish story - "This moment didn’t happen in a vacuum. The anti-Zionist forces in academia have been preparing the ground for decades, systematically dismantling the moral basis of each stage of Zionist and Israeli history. The attack began on the very origins of Zionism, which was transformed from a story of a dispossessed people re-indigenizing in its ancient homeland into one more sordid expression of European colonialism. (Europe’s post-Holocaust gift to the Jews: leaving us with the bill for its sins.) Next, the birth of Israel in 1948 was reduced to the Nakba, or catastrophe, a Palestinian narrative of total innocence that ignores the ethnic cleansing of Jews from every place where Arab armies were victorious and the subsequent uprooting of the entire Jewish population of the Muslim world. Post-1967 Israel was cast as an apartheid state — turning Zionism, a multi-faceted movement representing Jews across the political and religious spectrum into a racist ideology and reducing an agonizingly complex national conflict into a medieval passion play about Jewish perfidy. And now, with the Gaza War, we have come to the genocide canard, the endpoint in the process of delegitimization. To turn Israel into the world’s arch-criminal requires three forms of erasure. The first is of the connection between the land of Israel and the people of Israel. In the anti-Zionist telling of the conflict, a 4,000-year connection that has been the heart of Jewish identity and faith is irrelevant, if not contrived outright by Zionists. The second is the erasure of the relentless war against Israel, placing its actions under a microscope while downplaying or entirely ignoring the aggression of its enemies. There is never any context to Israel’s actions. Only by erasing Hamas’ atrocities can Israel be turned into the villain of this war. In focusing on Israel’s actions and dismissing those of Hamas, campus protesters are providing cover for October 7 denialism. This is a new version of the Holocaust denialism prevalent in parts of the Muslim world: The atrocities didn’t happen, you deserved them and we’re going to do it again (and again). On a recent trip to New York, walking along Broadway on the Upper West Side, I saw dozens of defaced posters of kidnapped Israelis. Rather than tear down the posters, the vandals had blacked out the Israeli faces — a literal defacement. And a useful metaphor for the anti-Zionist assault on our being. The third form of erasure is dismissing the history of peace offers presented or accepted by Israel and uniformly rejected by the Palestinian side. No offer — an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza, the re-division of Jerusalem, the uprooting of dozens of settlements — was ever sufficient. It is hard to think of another national movement representing a stateless people that rejected more offers of self-determination than the Palestinian leadership. The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal, a successor to Nazi Germany, marks a historic failure of Holocaust education in the West. This moment requires a fundamental rethinking of the goals and methodology of Holocaust education. By over-emphasizing the necessary universal lessons of the Holocaust, many educators too easily equated antisemitism with generic racism. The intention was noble: to render the Holocaust relevant to a new generation. But in the process, the essential lesson of the Holocaust – the uniqueness not only of the event itself but of the hatred that made it possible — was often lost. Antisemitism is not merely the hatred of Jews as other but the symbolization of The Jew — that is, turning the Jews into the symbol for whatever a given civilization defines as its most loathsome qualities. For Christianity until the Holocaust, The Jew was Christ-killer; for Marxism, the ultimate capitalist; for Nazism, the defiler of race. And now, in the era of anti-racism, the Jewish state is the embodiment of racism... this latest expression of the antisemitism of symbols is justified by some anti-Zionists as honoring “the lessons of the Holocaust.” Unlike the Iranian regime, which clumsily tries to deny the historicity of the Holocaust, anti-Zionists in the West intuitively understand that co-opting and inverting the Holocaust is a far more effective way of neutralizing its impact."
House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war - "Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the centrist pro-Israel group J Street, said his organization opposes the bipartisan proposal because he sees it as an “unserious” effort led by Republicans “to continually force votes that divide the Democratic caucus on an issue that shouldn’t be turned into a political football.”"
Surprise! Another Jew who is not uncritically pro-Israel
Tamara 🎗 on X - "After screaming about famine, this guy realises that aid can’t get in if the crossing is bombed by Hamas. Three Israeli soldiers died during that barrage."
Josep Borrell Fontelles on X - "A ceasefire is urgent, to get to the liberation of the hostages and bring relief to those starving. We unequivocally condemn Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s barrage of rockets fired towards Kerem Shalom area."
Daniel Rubenstein on X - "If you and 3,000 of your well-armed colleagues decide to massacre people at a music festival, burn families in their homes, gun down people in their cars, occupy villages, partake in barbaric sexual violence, and take grandparents and small children as hostages, make sure when your attack is over that you hide in your densely populated hometown where your family, friends, neighbors, teachers, and local police think you are heroes. The “international community” will protect you and help ensure that you are in a position fulfill your promise to do it all again soon."
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "Funny. Copenhagen Pride demanded that the companies that sponsor their pride parade such as Maersk, Dansk Industries, Google, Novo Nordisk and others stopped doing business with Israel. Instead, the companies withdrew their support from Copenhagen pride. Epic fail."
The Rabbit Hole on X - "Many of the protests we see are not organic. For example: US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) receives funding from George Soros. From the article: USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”"
George Soros, Maoist fund Columbia's anti-Israel tent city
$1 of third party funding only disqualifies protests that don't push the left wing agenda
David Bernstein on X - "I'm tired of people denying that the protests, and thus the protestors, are pro-Hamas. SJP is running the protests. SJP is, in fact, undeniably pro Hamas, including praising the 10/7 massacres. If protesters don’t want people to think they are pro-Hamas, they need to start peace or pro-Palestinian organizations that aren’t, because right now by working for SJP, they are working for Hamas. Maybe there was an excuse in November, when some people just wanted to "stop the war" and SJP was the only organized game in town. But now it's been over half a year since 10/7, and progressives who say they are anti-Hamas have had all that time to organize alternative anti-war groups. They haven't, and it's because they don't object to joining protests organized by Hamas's US mouthpiece. Even if they aren't ideologically pro-Hamas, they are effectively pro-Hamas. And ideologically, they don't have the same revulsion against a pro-Hamas group they would have against a group led by the Klan, or even mainstream Christian conservatives. So they are at least anti-anti-Hamas."
Brianna Wu on X - "In the last 24 hours:
✅ A list of Jewish writers was created for non-Jews to boycott
✅ Almost 20,000 people protested a Jewish woman in Eurovision
✅ an avalanche of LGBT clubs declined to host Jews Tell me again, how all of this isn’t devolving into antisemitism."
AusPolMate Researched Threads & oddities on X - "Al Jazeera showing Palestinians using civilian buildings in Rafah to fire RPG's & mortars. Notice how the mortars have no guidance, this is why they end up killing Palestinians. Ask yourself, how does Al Jazeera get this footage and why they don't show it to the western audiences"
Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ on X - "Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley on the Israel-Hamas war: “If you take 1,200 Israelis [massacred on Oct 7th] and apply it to the United States, that'd be 50,000-100,000 people dead in a morning! Can you imagine what we would do?""
John Spencer on X - "This is exactly what I have been saying. If you think the U.S. would have done things differently in Gaza, you are right, we would have used overwhelming military force to achieve the goals of returning our hostages, removing the group that attacked us from power & destroying their military & capabilities, as quickly as possible. Don’t take it from me, take it from the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who would have given the options on how to respond to our President."
The people who believe Israel has no right to defend itself also think the US has no right to the same, so. They want both countries to be destroyed, so
Meme - BBC News (UK): "Israel-Gaza war: How to spot disinformation on social media"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The BBC itself recently had to apologise for airing misinformation over a pro- palestinian protest."
