Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, has said that he was given assurances that the war on Gaza would continue and Israel would launch a “gradual takeover of the entire Gaza Strip”.
Smotrich said that Gaza was currently “ruined and disintegrated, uninhabitable” an that it would “remain that way”.
He added: “Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”
Netanyahu said in a video address on Saturday that Israel would continue its war on Gaza in “new, forceful ways” if the second stage of the ceasefire agreement proved to be “futile”.
“President [Donald] Trump and President Biden have given full backing to Israel’s right to return to combat if Israel concludes that negotiations on Phase B are futile.”
Some people were saying Trump would be the better option because he hadn’t done anything in Palestine, so he was the better alternative
Noone said Trump was going to be better. We said that the Democrats needed to be punished for supporting genocide and Israelis fascism in an effort to make them reconsider that. This is not about winning an immediate political win, as the US has many people quite contempt with supporting a genocide.
However in the long run punishing the Democrats for supporting genocide and Israeli fascism will make the party abandon that position or perish to a better progressive party.
This is why AIPAC gained power in the first place. They established the ability to punish and make the party lose that opposed them. Not to make their supporter win, but to make their opponent lose. This way they made sure that both parties would make the US the little bitch of Israel.
And now that Harris lost, with many voters being alienated because of the Democratic party supporting the genocide and Israeli fascism, AIPAC is doing overtime to downplay the effect Gaza had on the election and Israel has upped its propaganda budget extensively.
We are flipping the script and it is working, but it takes more time. And it takes a look beyond the next election, which is why the propaganda effort for the last election was to make all target audiences of the Democratic party just panick over this election instead of thinking long term. This is not just a play by the Israel lobby but also by the “liberal” side of the Oligarchy that are represented by the Democratic party.
No, some people on Lemmy told me that Biden was a known bad, and Harris being a Democrat would be following the party lines, and so is also a known bad.
Trump hadn’t waged war against Palestine, so he was an unknown. And an unknown is better than a known bad.
That is what multiple people on Lemmy told me.
I’m willing to bet that the Democrats don’t even associate their loss with Israel one bit.
EDIT: Also, there’s someone else in another reply to my comment who is saying Trump is better
I’m not saying he’s better in general.
But, on this specific one thing he is better, and that is only because Biden is a blood soaked monster that didn’t care about the genocide enough to make a single phone call.
Israel is a client state that is wholly dependant on free US weapons and money. Israel has received a third of ALL the cumulativw foreign aid that the US has given out over its lifetime.
Threatening to turn the free weapons and money spigot off is enough to compel Israel to do what the US wants. This is why Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush Jr. were able to that exact thing.
Biden chose not to end the genocide. Hamas has accepted this deal since February.
At any point in time Biden could have picked up the phone and ended this. He made the choice not to and is responsible for every dead refugee and dead IDF soldier since then.
There is nothing difficult about any of this moral calculus at all.
EDIT: and to be clear, I didn’t think Trump would be better. I thought he would be as bad. But we have a temporary peace deal that we didn’t before. Israel, the country that raped multiple Gazan hospital administrators to death, stopped bombing civilian refugees.
Is there a peace deal now that his ambassador, Steve Witkoff, forced through?
Even if it is temporary, that is still better.
There is no worse then rock bottom. That is where Biden is. The worst you could do is stay in the same place.
I’ll believe it when I see it, lol
In Trump’s time as president, he has consistently used his shovel to find places deeper than rock bottom.
You just did.
Israel just releaseed 77 children from prison.
Because of Trump? Do you have a source for that?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/14/trump-envoy-witkoff-netanyahu-hamas-israel-hostage-deal/
There is a lot of sources. This is basically public knowledge. Any search would have found them for you.
I should have run the link above through the Let Me Google That For You website.
You don’t “force through” a negotiation. Trump and his crew of brigands deserve no credit and you should feel embarrassed for thinking they do.
You absolutely do for a client state that is completely dependant on your free weapons and money.
This is the same deal that has been in place since May.
Biden could have forced this through at any time, exactly as Reagan, Clinton, and Bush did.
You should feel embarrassed that you literally know nothing about our relationship with Israel.
Qatar literary said it is the same deal since February 2024. Israel Media literary said, Trump advisor came request meeting on Saturday, Israel refused and he made it clear they are doing the meeting.
Trump advisor did two trip to Qatar and they say we reaching a deal.
Meanwhile, Blinken, do a trip and leave, the next day more bombing happens.
No one saying Trump is the good guy, but we cannot deny the truth he wanted a ceasefire and it happened.
Meanwhile Biden didn’t want a ceasefire otherwise it would have happened.