Yep.

The goal is to be able to say something while evading responsibility for having said it.

Yes - he framed his statement with one of the stock phrases that people use when they want to be able to say something, then later, if necessary, claim that that’s not really what they said

I don’t think a news source has a responsibility to include that bit of transparent rhetorical trickery in a headline.

So… is he desperately dishonest or insane?

Because none of that hysterical gibberish made even the slightest bit of sense.

Yes - there have been widely differing accounts of events throughout this war.

On the one hand, there’s been Israel’s account. And on the other hand, there’s been the truth.

The survivors, after the ones that Israel has already killed and the many, MANY more the deaths of whom by malnutrition and disease they’re currently very deliberately engineering.

Yes.

Broadly, the whole situation is only murky and complex if you grant some credence to Israel’s rhetoric. If you start with the presumption that Netanyahu and his hard-right cronies are lying and that conquest has been the goal all along (and not just from the beginning of the current hostilities but for years now), then everything falls neatly into place and it all makes perfect sense.

That’s certainly not a coincidence.

That’s rather obviously been one of Israel’s primary goals from the start - to destroy as much infrastructure as possible, to create as much hardship as possible for the Palestinians.

And rather obviously, that’s in service to their longer term goal of taking full and direct control of Gaza. They want to render it uninhabitable, so that they can cast their planned occupation as a practical or even humanitarian necessity, rather than what it in fact is - brazen, and brazenly illegal, conquest.

The central point to keep in mind as far as all of that goes is that Netanyahu and his hard-right cronies have, at every turn, entirely rejected a two-state solution and any form of Palestinian autonomy. To just the degree necessary to maintain a PR facade, they claim that conquest is not their intent, but if it’s not going to be a two-state solution, conquest is literally the only alternative, so it is and can only be their actual goal, and their claims to the contrary are and can only be quite simply lies.

And not coincidentally, the wholesale destruction of Gazan infrastructure in which Israel has self-evidently engaged fits right in with that interpretation.

I think it’s long past time for a serious international conversation about profoundly mentally ill politicians.

…Iron Truth volunteers conflating Palestinian advocacy with material support for Hamas…

So Iron Truth lies.

How unsurprisingly Orwellian…

I think the significant part there though is that it’s what the US government did almost 200 years ago. Not that that excuses it, but it was a much more primitive and ignorant world then, and at least some of it can be ascribed to that primitiveness and ignorance.

Doing the same thing in the modern world though - that’s just pure, unmitigated evil.

As intended.

Israel’s strategy with the West Bank is masterful. Wholly and completely evil, but masterful.

Either the Palestinians just accept their lot, in which case Israel incrementally takes their land through their “settler” proxies, or the Palestinians (entirely justifiably) try to fight back, in which case the IDF goes in and kills a bunch of them, and Israel takes their land anyway.

It’s fucking despicable, but it works, and if one is devoid of morality, empathy or simple human decency, that’s all that matters.

Bluntly?

This is the dumbest variation I’ve ever seen on the already dumb idea of trying to compensate for a perceived lack of content on Lemmy by just cribbing stiff from Reddit.

It doesn’t matter if it’s Reddit, Lemmy or anywhere else - if the username checks out, then the username checks out, and that’s an amusing tidbit worth mentioning.

And this is definitely a case in which the username checks out.

Ah. And all the pieces fall into place.

Motherfuckers.

What the fuck business does Israel have “allowing” anything at all to do with Palestine?

And how the fuck does the US government negotiate with fucking Israel regarding Palestine and still continue to pretend that Israel isn’t violating Palestinian rights?

I doubt you’d even get a coherent sentence. Just random strings of emotive nouns and adjectives with irrelevant verbs sprinkled in here and there.

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“Failing” implies that it was unintentional.

The evidence quite clearly indicates that it was not - that it was instead a very deliberate choice made in pursuit of long-term goals

Netanyahu explicitly rejects a two-state solution. His goal is to annex all existing Palestinian territory.

The Palestinian people are justifiably unwilling to submit to that, because they know that that way leads to them being made second-class citizens of an apartheid state.

The only alternative then is for Israel to conquer those territories - to kill enough Palestinians to terrorize the rest into subjugation. And that is, certainly not coincidentally, the exact strategy they’re pursuing at this moment.

And the Hamas attack is the specific thing that made it possible for them to do so with at least some colorable semblance of justification.

Therefore, the only reasonable conclusion is that when the Israeli government learned of the planned attack, a deliberate choice was made to not move to prevent it - to allow it to happen, because it would serve Netanyahu’s purposes when it did. As it has.

I suppose one could. I have no idea why anyone but an emotionally disturbed moron would though.

It seems sort of like condemning punching yourself in the nose while punching yourself in the eye - it’s like you somehow managed to both get the point and miss it completely, at the same time.