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Israel Attacked and its Response

JuiceCrewAllStar said:
very long, very good article in LRB about Israel and its use of the Holocaust as a political tool that had this impressionable paassage:

A strenuously willed affiliation with the Shoah has also marked and diminished much American journalism about Israel. More consequentially, the secular-political religion of the Shoah and the over-identification with Israel since the 1970s has fatally distorted the foreign policy of Israel’s main sponsor, the US. In 1982, shortly before Reagan bluntly ordered Begin to cease his ‘holocaust’ in Lebanon, a young US senator who revered Elie Wiesel as his great teacher met the Israeli prime minister. In Begin’s own stunned account of the meeting, the senator commended the Israeli war effort and boasted that he would have gone further, even if it meant killing women and children. Begin himself was taken aback by the words of the future US president, Joe Biden. ‘No, sir,’ he insisted. ‘According to our values, it is forbidden to hurt women and children, even in war ... This is a yardstick of human civilisation, not to hurt civilians.’

paywalled: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
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Well worth the read
 
In the investigation carried out following the incident, one of the operators admitted he had made a mistake in "incriminating" the person thought to be carrying a weapon and that "he was probably carrying a bag."

According to Har-Even, the first missile strike was "based on a mistaken identification, and the second and third strikes were carried out against standard operating procedures," as army protocol mandates that after a first strike there needs to be another "incrimination" of the target, instead of automatically assuming that the original target had moved to the other vehicle.
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So they want us to believe they slaughtered seven aid workers because someone mistook a bag for a gun?

Israeli Army Says 'Series of Mistakes' Led to Killing of World Central Kitchen Workers in Gaza
 
A classic example is the original George Floyd press release

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Investigative Update on Critical Incident - Minneapolis Police

Investigative Update on Critical Incident May 26, 2020 (MINNEAPOLIS) As additional information has been made available, it has been determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigations will be a part of this investigation. ### Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction May 25...
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Israel has starting withdrawing troops from Southern Gaza and dismissed two officers involved in the tragic killing of the seven aid workers. Where are the counter calls to release the hostages?
 
centerdeac said:
Israel has starting withdrawing troops from Southern Gaza and dismissed two officers involved in the tragic killing of the seven aid workers. Where are the counter calls to release the hostages?
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Honestly not sure why you're linking the two? The Israeli government has been very clear that they don't give a shit about the hostages. And the response to international outcry over the slaughter of seven aid workers is hardly credible. I thought I saw that the scape-goated officers were still in the IDF?
 
You know that's bullshit. Also, Hamas must make a trade for relief. Besides, it's not looking great for their future after this episode.

 
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