Losing the Plot: Israel's Premier to Face New Gaza Reality | Ramzy Baroud

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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

Sept. 10, 2014

Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly -- his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush

Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s war on Gaza has also disoriented the policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like never before. Since the announcement of a ceasefire on Aug. 26, his statements appear erratic and particularly uncertain, an expected outcome of the Gaza war.

Since his first term as a prime minister (1996-99), Netanyahu has showed particular savviness at fashioning political and military events to neatly suit his declared policies. He fabricated imminent threats that were neither imminent nor threats, for example, Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Later, he took on Iran.

He created too many conditions and laid numerous obstacles for peace settlements to ever be realised. The late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, laboured for years to meet Israel’s conditions, and failed. Abbas has taken the same futile road. But Netanyahu’s conditions are specifically designed to be unattainable.

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1. Wow - he got to "genocide" quicker than usual

Might be a new record.

[Scootaloo]

2. His only mistake is labeling it "Netanyahu's"

it belongs to the whole of Israel.

[oberliner]

3. No, his mistake was that genocide is not happening there

And to say that it is makes one look ridiculous.

[Scootaloo]

4. I used to think so, myself

I've come to the realization that there's just no better way to describe what Israel does to Palestine, however.

[oberliner]

5. You used to be right

I appreciate the thoughtful nature of the post you linked to, but I completely disagree with what you've written there.

[Scootaloo]

6. I'm certain you do. I doubt your disagreement has any basis, however

Aside from your standard that "anything that doesn't flatter Israel is wrong," as you made on that Independent article the other day. it's not exactly a compelling argument, that.

[oberliner]

8. I'm certain you think that

There are people who have articulated why it is not genocide much better than I can. I'm sure you can find one such explanation if you were so inclined.

And you have also put in quotation marks something that I neither said, suggested, nor implied.

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7. I love how it's labeled genocide.

Less than .0015% of the population was killed in the recent conflict. It's by far the worst planned, most inefficient and ineffective genocidal campaign of all time. Given the birth rate of Gaza was +3.48% in 2013, this genocidal campaign is doomed...DOOMED!