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Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of...

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Huge demonstrations in Israel: Many friends abroad have been asking why Israelis are taking to the streets today in the largest demonstrations since October 7. Given that Hamas executed the hostages, why are they demonstrating against the government? The reason is clear: there is a consensus within the Israeli security apparatus, including the defense minister, the chief of staff, and the head of the Mossad, that the government, led by Netanyahu, is making demands that could sabotage a real chance for a deal to return the hostages. These demands, which lack real security value, are seen as politically motivated. It's important to note that no one in Israel is under the illusion that Hamas is necessarily interested in a deal. Israelis understand that Hamas, with its acts of mass murder, abduction, rape, and looting, is responsible for the situation we are in. However, Israelis—and especially the hostage families, and the families of those who have already been returned, alive or dead—expect the Israeli government to do everything in its power to bring them home. This includes being willing to agree to a deal. Israel has already seen significant success in the negotiations, including a tacit agreement from moderating countries and Hamas that this deal would not mark the end of the war. The IDF would be understood to continue pursuing Hamas after an interim deal that was supposed to release between 18 and 30 live hostages, some of whom were executed in cold blood by Hamas between Thursday night and Friday. The majority of Israelis do not trust this government. It has not won a single reputable poll since March 2023, long before October 7, and it certainly hasn't won any since then. Most polls indicate that most Israelis believe the Prime Minister prioritizes his political survival—specifically, retaining the far right in his coalition—over the return of the hostages. This fear of a disastrous election defeat, and the potential end of his political career, seems to take precedence. This is the context behind why hundreds of thousands of Israelis, many of them reserve soldiers, are now protesting during a time of war. They are making a single demand: that the government do everything in its power to bring the hostages back home. They do so with the full understanding that it's not only up to the government, and that the enemy is both cruel and calculated. This demand is far more than political pressure on the government to agree. It’s about the essence of Israel as a society that enshrines the value of solidarity, encapsulated in the Mishnah’s teaching that saving one soul is akin to saving the entire world. The idea that Israel will do everything—not only through military force, which no one doubts, but also through political moderation and compromise—to return Israelis who were kidnapped, sometimes from their beds, by a cruel enemy, is central to the Israeli identity. And it is this part of the Israeli identity that the government has completely managed to unmoor by its actions. It is this part of the Israeli identity that people are demonstrating for.

נדב איל Nadav Eyal

279,391 views • 2 years ago

🚨Former Israeli Acting President Avraham Burg: Iran was NOT an existential threat for Israel, Netanyahu launched a WASTED war! ‘Hezbollah at the northern part of Israel is a problem, as an uncontrolled substate militia, it’s a problem for the Lebanese government, for the Israelis and maybe even for the Syrians. I mean, the entire triangle of the northern part of Israel should be troubled by the very existence and the kind of independence of Hezbollah. And something is to be done about it. Iran was not, if you ask me, an existential threat to Israel. It was a real problem. It was a real threat with the proxies and the fire and the fire belt around Israel and the provocations all over the Gulf and all over the Middle East. But it was not such an existential threat and could have been dealt differently by diplomacy, by agreements, by different equilibrium and balances. And last but not least, Hamas proved that October 7th 2023, that it is really very, very, very malicious and very criminal when it comes to their motivation to annihilate the state of Israel and to kill as many Israelis as possible. All these three are problems that Netanyahu believed, and unfortunately too many Israelis still believe that can be solved by muscles, by power, by military manoeuvres, without understanding the very ancient wisdom of war. A war that does not have a next step, which is political, which is agreement, which is a settlement, which is a kind of a new setting, is a wasted war. And all the victims, be them Israelis or be them Lebanese or innocent Gazan people or innocent Iranian people, are simply human sacrifice. It’s a waste. It’s a shame.’ -Avraham Burg joins us for Monday’s episode of Going Underground to discuss the US-Israeli war on Iran, and much more. Don’t miss it, follow us on X and follow our Rumble channel, link below in the replies 👇

Going Underground

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You haven’t thought this through. (‘Grotesque’) Hamas runs Gaza and is still, unbelievably, quite popular. It is committed - absolutely - to killing all non Muslim Israelis (& many of the Muslim ones too, for supporting Israel). It’s not an idle commitment. We saw what happens when the border is breached - an abomination, an orgy of depravity. I’d love people like you to visit the Nova Exhibition to see for yourself the images and videos taken by the butchers themselves. Then consider whether Israelis (not just the govt which many, many people dislike) are justified in wanting to destroy Hamas. Then… consider how one would do that, given Hamas’s propensity to put their own civilians directly in harms ways for propaganda purposes (see video below as one of many example). It’s extraordinary, but completely consistent, that having built more tunnels than a large city subway, Hamas built precisely zero tunnels to protect civilians. Why do you think that is? Again, watch this video for answers. Every child fatality is appalling. But given Hamas’s meticulously documented tactics, it is a miracle that the ratio of combatant to civilian fatalities is what it is (even using Hamas’s propaganda numbers). Gazans have received more aid per capita than (likely) any people on Earth. They deserve a government that uses that money to build up, not down; to teach their children to thrive, not die. If and when they do, the violence ends and they flourish. And Israelis meanwhile will no longer face that particular existential threat and would likely vote for a very different type of peacetime government, one which would take a very different approach to the ongoing settlements. None of this is simple, despite the implication in your tweets (a staggering one in five of which relate to Israel, as opposed to so many other horrors in the world). But the alternative is perennial violence and misery. Richard I’ve done you the courtesy of replying but I’m certain that even if every single one of your assumptions and prejudices were forensically disproven, your general position & israel obsession would be completely unmoved. Please do visit the Nova Exhibition and then try to do some ‘independent critical thinking’.

Zac Goldsmith

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John Mearsheimer on October 7: “It’s consistent with international law for Hamas to want to break out of the concentration camp and engage with Israeli military forces in combat, which means they’re going to kill some of them. So the fact that they killed Israeli soldiers is not a case of murder. Now, there were clearly Israeli civilians who were murdered as well, but I would be willing to bet, in the final analysis, however, that Hamas did not murder many of those Israeli civilians. But be that as it may, whoever murdered those civilians committed a war crime. But I think most of the Israelis who were killed were either soldiers, who were legitimate targets, or they were civilians who were killed by the Israeli forces. I think you cannot underestimate how many Israelis were killed when all that [Israeli] firepower was brought to bear. And if you look at the pictures and you listen to what happened, it’s clear that those Apache helicopters really wreaked havoc on everything that was down on the ground, and of course that included Israeli civilians. [...] What’s also quite stunning about this whole issue is that no one talks about why there was a breakout. Nobody talks about the fact that this was a concentration camp and what was being done to the Palestinians was abhorrent. And of course there was going to be a breakout from that concentration camp at some point. [...] This is not to excuse the murder of civilians that took place at the hands of Palestinians, but the more you look in detail about what happened, the clearer it becomes that Israel bears a great deal of the responsibility for what happened that day”. Full interview on the Katie Halper Show: Katie Halper

Thomas Fazi

385,280 views • 10 months ago