While reports say that Israel and Hamas are nearing a temporary ceasefire agreement that could see some Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinians captives, that progress hasn't stopped Netanyahu from reminding the world that he still plans to move forward with Israel's planned ground invasion of Rafah, which will put around 1.5 million Palestinians are risk.
Veteran Journalist Elijah J. Magnier noted that even if a deal is made, that doesn't change Israel’s long-term goal of ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population—a plan that the U.S. is well aware of, as it builds a $320 million pier off the Gaza coast, amid concerns that it will be used to force Palestinians off of their land.
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It will be a blood bath if Rafah is invaded. But a bloodbath is exactly what Netanyahu wants.
All part of his ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza.
It's all quite mad of course.
But then Israel is a lunatic genocidal nation at the moment, and no one in Israel is arguing against it.
It's Israel versus the rest of the world.
This will not end well for Israel's survival as a nation if Arab countries take great exception to it!
Response to Rachel Blevin's "Netanyahu Doubles Down on Rafah Invasion Plans, Despite Ceasefire Talks w/ Elijah J. Magnier"
Just watched your video interview with Elijah.
My take on the pier is simple: while it may have been sold to the US by Netanyahu as a way to get aid into Gaza, and while it may be a long-term plan of Netanyahu to use such a pier as a way to remove Palestinians from Gaza, I submit that it has a far more sinister purpose.
I believe the US neocons and the Israelis have decided to finish off the Palestinians, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran all in one fell swoop. We know this has been their desire for decades. It appears certain that Israel is going to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon, and it's also almost certain that Israel can not win that war without direct US military assistance, at least with air and naval power and most likely with US boots on the ground.
Well, what happens when Israel attacks Lebanon, and Hezbollah rains down thousands of missiles out of its 100-150,000 stockpile on Israel's ports and airfields? And the US can no longer land air transports of tons of bombs and other military support to Israel as a result?
This is where the pier comes in. Located three miles off Gaza, it is invulnerable to Hamas which does not have long-range accurate missiles to hit it with - only unguided rockets. It can be used to deliver military support - including units of US troops - to the ground in Israel en route to northern Israel - and perhaps into Gaza as well.
People don't get that this entire situation was PLANNED by the US neocons and the Israelis. People forget that the Hamas operation on October 7 was in RESPONSE to a planned provocation: the Israeli threat to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque. People forget that the Hamas operation was called "The Al-Aqsa Flood." The Israelis KNEW that Hamas would have to respond to that provocation. They just didn't understand how effective it would be. But that doesn't matter because the Israeli plan was always to undertake the operation against Hamas which they are undertaking now.
The Israelis also understood that Hezbollah in Lebanon would respond to this operation - and that would give the Israeli reason to attack Hezbollah. And with Joe "I'm a Zionist" Biden as President, the US would be obliged to directly support Israel in Lebanon.
The only problem for the neocons and the Israelis for the last 15 years since 2006 was in getting a casus belli to justify a wider Mid-East war and a US administration that would be crazy enough to commit US troops in support of that war. There was also the problem of getting an Israeli administration crazy enough to be willing to directly commit genocide and risk Israel's survival in such a war.
Well, in Biden and the current Israeli government, they got what they wanted.
And as Alexander Mercouris likes to say, "The neocons have no reverse gear." they always double down on a plan no matter how likely it is to fail as seen by everyone else. Ukraine is a prime example.
What this means is that Israel and the US are intent on finishing off all their enemies in the Middle East - from the Palestinians to Hezbollah to Syria and especially Iran. This is why Israel deliberately attacked the Iranian Consulate in Damascus.
For their part, the Axis of Resistance, which has been preparing for just this event for the last twenty years, are also ready for the final conflict. From Hamas to Hezbollah to Ansarallah to Iraqi Shia militias to Iran, they are ready to fight the US to an Afghanistan-like debacle.
So all these "negotiations" and other mainstream media reported nonsense are merely an instance of Ali's "rope-a-dope" tactics; cover stories; lies. Both sides know where this is going and nothing is going to stop them from getting there.