Category Archives: Israel

Israel’s War Aims

It wasn’t very clear from the beginning what the Israeli government and IDF actually wanted to achieve in the first place in Gaza. Punish Hamas for the three abducted and killed youths in the Westbank in which Hamas was apparently … Continue reading

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Endlösung?

Update below. When confused Israeli blogger Yochanan Gordon yesterday maundered about a “permissible genocide” in Gaza and The Times of Israel posted this lunacy (but fortunately retracted it afterwards), it came to my mind that abused children likely abuse when … Continue reading

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Who’s Driving Who Into the Sea?

Juan Cole had questioned the other day whether Israel has any war aims, “ordinary” countries when fighting wars usually have. Well, when looking at the map, it’s clear that there is only one aim: extermination. Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on … Continue reading

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Razing the Ghetto Postponed

Two years ago, I had expected that the IDF would raze the Gaza ghetto but they didn’t. Today’s pictures of what the IDF has done in Sheja’iya recall those of what Nazi Germany did after the Warsaw uprising exactly 70 … Continue reading

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Inappropriate Comparisons

When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maundered the other day in a CNN interview, apparently nervous, about “telegenic dead Palestinians” for the cause of Hamas in the current ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, any reasonable friend of the State of … Continue reading

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