Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told Israeli Army Radio that Israel’s war aims are not just the total destruction of Hamas, but the country also aims to reduce the size of Gaza. The pronouncement is the most explicit indication yet that Israel will move to annex parts of Gaza, as some analysts have speculated.

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    10 months ago

    A ploy? Meaning they hired Hamas to attack and kill their own people so they could then take more land?

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      10 months ago

      In less than 10 hours after the hospital blast, Isreal released a torrent of evidence they didn’t do it. Video, film, conversations, informants, ect. But I’m suppose to believe they were in the dark about the Octobet attack? Even after advanced warning from the U.S and Egypt. That dog won’t hunt monsignor. At best they didn’t know how bad it would be.

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        They were totally in the dark, yet hours later justified every bomb with their precise information of how every single bomb target was a known hideout for Hamas terrorists.

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      No, they didn’t hire Hamas. They actually created them like they exist today.

      By not doing anything after the Oslo agreements and just sitting their happily that they could de facto occopy the area while someone else (the internation community) pays until Hamas got a majority in 2006.

      By even then not supporting the peaceful side against Hamas but sitting their gloating as Palestinians killed Palestinians.

      By indirectly supporting Hamas to use them as an excuse showing that the National Authority isn’t speaking for Palestinians and so there is no need to work with them in any way.

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      No, all they did was unlock the door and turn off the security cameras, same result tho. The rave was birdseed in the middle of a giant red target.