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US Officials Are Not Happy With Israel's Latest Security Protocol in Gaza
2024-01-28
[Townhall] Over 1,000 Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
bully boyz invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, and committed an unprecedented campaign of rape and murder. These terrorist thugs butchered at least 1,200 Israeli civilians. Hundreds more were kidnapped and remain captive and at the mercy of these sub-human dogs. Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?...
the professional left and academia have decided to toss their lot in with the terrorists, along with engaging in targeted harassment of Jewish people and their businesses—the Left endorses Jewish genocide, like the Nazis before them.

So, they can whine about a ceasefire, but Israel is still stacking these terrorists’ bodies like sandbags—the higher, the better. Hamas runs the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Health Ministry, so you can’t trust the corpse count estimates. Even if it did soar into the tens of thousands, Paleostinians overwhelmingly support Hamas and the October 7 attacks. The entire sociopolitical foundation of the people here is pro-terrorist. So, excuse me while I don’t care about how the IDF is turning Gaza into a glass bowl. Still, there’s international pressure being placed on Israel to adopt some pauses. It’s worthless since Hamas can’t be trusted.

Israel said they will be taking a security role in Gaza for the foreseeable future. It’s not an occupation, but they’re taking additional steps to ensure October 7 can never happen again, like the creation of a one-kilometer-wide buffer zone along the entire border with Israel. Israeli troops and engineers have already cleared out the area. It’s been opposed by US officials who’ve made their concerns known. Still, Jerusalem has rightly ignored the advice of an American president who is serially wrong on foreign affairs. While some argue that this buffer veers into iffy territory regarding international law, Israel has drummed up a simple phrase to blunt such scrutiny (via Wall Street Journal):

Beginning last November, an Israeli soldier and members of his reserve unit worked day after day in a northern section of the Gaza Strip to create a wasteland.

Their orders were to clear a 1-kilometer-wide area along the border, the soldier said, as part of an Israeli plan to construct a security zone just inside Gaza—to which Paleostinians would be barred entry.

With bulldozers and other heavy equipment, they leveled greenhouses and other structures, filled Hamas bully boys’ tunnel shafts and plowed under farm fields.

"Everything has been flattened," the soldier said. "It was mostly agriculture. Now it’s a military zone, a complete no man’s land."

[...]

The project is a source of growing frustration for U.S. officials, who say they first voiced their opposition to such plans shortly after the Gaza war began and have watched with growing dismay as Israel has pushed ahead anyway.

U.S. officials warn that turning the border along the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip into a no man’s land would deepen Paleostinian fears that Israel intends to occupy all or part of the crowded enclave, and make it harder to persuade Arab governments to help rebuild the shattered territory after the fighting stops.

[...]

Shaul Arieli, a former Israeli colonel who served in Israel’s Gaza division and is now an expert on Israeli borders, said the creation of a permanent buffer zone inside Gaza likely would be illegal under international law because Israel would be assuming control of land beyond its recognized territory and, as an occupying power, would be prohibited from altering boundaries.

Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have said they don’t intend to permanently occupy Gaza, but they have said they would maintain "security control" for an indefinite period, a term they have not defined but that, in addition to a buffer zone, is likely to include the option to mount raids against bully boyz even after the war ends.

So, it's permanently temporary, then, right? That’s fine by me and anyone who thinks we need to keep these bully boyz under the thumb of civilized society. Israel has warned its citizens that this will be a long war and that months of fighting lie ahead, albeit potentially in a low-intensity phase. The security role is part of that operation, and this DMZ project in Gaza shows that Jerusalem is in for the long haul as it should.

As for concerns about rebuilding Gaza, the fact is Arab nations couldn’t care less about dead Paleostinians. You see that with their refusal to take in refugees because these people are trouble—they’re Petri dishes for instability and terrorism. So, please, spare us that talking point. The strip will need an urban renewal project at some point. For now, the IDF needs to focus on killing the bully boyz and destroying their tunnel networks through explosives or flooding them with seawater.

Posted by:trailing wife

#11  Wikipedia:

Nationality Israelis
Major ethnic Jews (7,208,000, 73.6%), Arab/ Palestinian (2,080,000, 21.1%)[1]
Minor ethnic Other (non-Jewish, non-Arab) 554,000 (5.7%)[1]
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-28 15:01  

#10  There are Arab citizens in Israel already. I made a short visit there on a ship long ago and coordinated shore patrol at a USO for several days. What I saw with respect to Arab-Israeli relations was a mixed bag. Some acted like Israeli citizens; some acted like militant Arabs. Absorbing the thoroughly radicalized West Bank and Gaza crowd in one gulp is something that no government in the world is willing to do including Iran.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-01-28 11:16  

#9  It's not a Carthaginian solution. Check Egypt's wall with Gaza for insight.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-01-28 11:11  

#8  #7 No they can't. Arabs have a record of lying long before it was codified into their religion.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-28 10:10  

#7  No gaza. No west bank. palestinians can become citizens of israel IFF they reject sharia law.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-28 10:07  

#6  Tunnels don’t work unless you control both ends. Tunneling is also highly detectable.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-01-28 09:30  

#5  Why...

When did a politician ever not take credit for the work of others? Especially in an election year.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-28 06:47  

#4  Why can we not be a good silent partner ?

Since the IDF is doing the fighting and dying, how about we let them find their own security solutions ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-28 04:25  

#3  Hama will try to dig tunnels beneath the security strip[.

Something to think about.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2024-01-28 04:15  

#2  A kilometer wide security strip + vigilance will take you further than vigilance (h/t Al Capone).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-28 01:25  

#1  IMO, it would be easier to simply maintain better vigilance with the existing infrastructure. The intel and operation failures before and on October 7 need to be fixed.
Posted by: lord garth   2024-01-28 00:58  

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