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Israel under attack from Hamas

Bill Ackman continues to be an idiot who doesn't understand anything that happens in the world except in the context of his own political fetishes.
Sure, attack him personally instead of what he's actually written.

But I'd expect nothing more from you.
 
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Sorry, let me be clear:

What he's written is partisan hackery that doesn't even attempt to understand the world outside his own extremely limited lens.
Another attack on him with no factual or logical rebuttal of anything he wrote.

Do you understand how discussion works?
 
From ISW 9/2. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-september-2-2024

Hamas released hostage propaganda on September 2 that likely intended to increase domestic Israeli pressure that Hamas likely calculates could create more favorable terms for Hamas in a ceasefire agreement and weaken the Israeli state. Hamas released propaganda videos featuring six recently executed Israeli hostages on September 2 calling for a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner exchange.[15] Hamas also released a graphic in Hebrew stating that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16] Hamas has previously released hostage propaganda during periods of unrest and during ceasefire negotiations.[17] These videos are part of an information operation that aims to undermine Israeli public support for the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Hamas leaders likely seek to exacerbate the tensions in the Israeli domestic sphere and cause further psychological distress by airing this propaganda. Hamas leaders may believe that the Israeli public and officials will increase pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to drop demands from ceasefire negotiations that Hamas dislikes, such as continued control over the Philadelphi Corridor. Maintaining Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor would help prevent Hamas and other Palestinian militias from rebuilding their capabilities quickly by interdicting major smuggling operations into the Gaza Strip that would accelerate Hamas’ ability to resupply itself, as CTP-ISW has previously argued.[18]

Netanyahu recounted today the history of the Philadelphi Corridor, claiming every period where the corridor was not controlled was followed by an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. He claimed equipment to manufacture rockets was imported through the corridor. Terms of surrender that permit Hamas to rearm and follow up on pledges to continue attacking Israel, cannot be accepted.

Hamas continues to ask for Israel’s strategic surrender when it says that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16]

Meanwhile in the US marches supporting Palistine continue, on Labor Day.
 
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From ISW 9/2. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-september-2-2024

Hamas released hostage propaganda on September 2 that likely intended to increase domestic Israeli pressure that Hamas likely calculates could create more favorable terms for Hamas in a ceasefire agreement and weaken the Israeli state. Hamas released propaganda videos featuring six recently executed Israeli hostages on September 2 calling for a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner exchange.[15] Hamas also released a graphic in Hebrew stating that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16] Hamas has previously released hostage propaganda during periods of unrest and during ceasefire negotiations.[17] These videos are part of an information operation that aims to undermine Israeli public support for the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Hamas leaders likely seek to exacerbate the tensions in the Israeli domestic sphere and cause further psychological distress by airing this propaganda. Hamas leaders may believe that the Israeli public and officials will increase pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to drop demands from ceasefire negotiations that Hamas dislikes, such as continued control over the Philadelphi Corridor. Maintaining Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor would help prevent Hamas and other Palestinian militias from rebuilding their capabilities quickly by interdicting major smuggling operations into the Gaza Strip that would accelerate Hamas’ ability to resupply itself, as CTP-ISW has previously argued.[18]

Netanyahu recounted today the history of the Philadelphi Corridor, claiming every period where the corridor was not controlled was followed by an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. He claimed equipment to manufacture rockets was imported through the corridor. Terms of surrender that permit Hamas to rearm and follow up on pledges to continue attacking Israel, cannot be accepted.

Hamas continues to ask for Israel’s strategic surrender when it says that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16]

Meanwhile in the US marches supporting Palistine continue, on Labor Day.
From ISW 9/2. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-september-2-2024

Hamas released hostage propaganda on September 2 that likely intended to increase domestic Israeli pressure that Hamas likely calculates could create more favorable terms for Hamas in a ceasefire agreement and weaken the Israeli state. Hamas released propaganda videos featuring six recently executed Israeli hostages on September 2 calling for a ceasefire and hostage-for-prisoner exchange.[15] Hamas also released a graphic in Hebrew stating that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16] Hamas has previously released hostage propaganda during periods of unrest and during ceasefire negotiations.[17] These videos are part of an information operation that aims to undermine Israeli public support for the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Hamas leaders likely seek to exacerbate the tensions in the Israeli domestic sphere and cause further psychological distress by airing this propaganda. Hamas leaders may believe that the Israeli public and officials will increase pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to drop demands from ceasefire negotiations that Hamas dislikes, such as continued control over the Philadelphi Corridor. Maintaining Israeli control of the Philadelphi Corridor would help prevent Hamas and other Palestinian militias from rebuilding their capabilities quickly by interdicting major smuggling operations into the Gaza Strip that would accelerate Hamas’ ability to resupply itself, as CTP-ISW has previously argued.[18]

Netanyahu recounted today the history of the Philadelphi Corridor, claiming every period where the corridor was not controlled was followed by an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. He claimed equipment to manufacture rockets was imported through the corridor. Terms of surrender that permit Hamas to rearm and follow up on pledges to continue attacking Israel, cannot be accepted.

Hamas continues to ask for Israel’s strategic surrender when it says that Israel will only secure the release of living hostages through negotiations, not military operations.[16]

Meanwhile in the US marches supporting Palistine continue, on Labor Day.
Medieval opponents require medieval tactics. I'll leave it at that.
 
Is that really true, though? Did America really take to the streets to celebrate this? Because I didn't see it at all. Maybe I'm in a bubble.
Well a marcher at Columbia University did deny Hamas’ culpability in Gaza Strip deaths, and accused IDF of genocide. IDF didn’t start the war.

There was a declaration that Palestinians had rights to military arms because Zionists had won in 1948 (paraphrased).

Google still recalls …

Fighting began with attacks by irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of the Arab Liberation Army composed of volunteers from Palestine and neighboring Arab countries. These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities, settlements, and armed forces.

Not sure an irregular Arab militia really qualifies as a government with a right to military arms, myself.
 
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Today Harris stated that there needed to be an immediate cease fire and that 2000 lb (bunker buster) bombs had indeed been withheld from the IDF request. Apparently the administration is unwilling to let the IDF win as fast as possible. All tunnels in declared evacuation areas have to be acceptable military targets; don’t they.
 
Yesterday, ISW said … Hamas receiving humanitarian aid and disbursing it supports obey or starve tactics for civilian control.

Israel is refocusing its operations in the Gaza Strip to prioritize “destroying the pillars of Hamas’ civil rule . . . especially the distribution of humanitarian aid,” according to an anonymous Israeli official. The official told Israeli media that controlling aid distribution enables Hamas to project the image that it still controls the Gazan population.
 
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Today Harris stated that there needed to be an immediate cease fire and that 2000 lb (bunker buster) bombs had indeed been withheld from the IDF request. Apparently the administration is unwilling to let the IDF win as fast as possible. All tunnels in declared evacuation areas have to be acceptable military targets; don’t they.
This is the same Kamala Harris that said Israel shouldn’t go into Rafah because she had “studied the maps”.

She shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near Middle East diplomacy.
 
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