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It’s time for Bibi to level Rafah.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:49 pm
It’s obvious Hamas won’t release any hostages.
Give the larping students something to REEEEEEEEEE about.
You cannot negotiate with terrorists.
Give the larping students something to REEEEEEEEEE about.
You cannot negotiate with terrorists.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:50 pm to Rebel
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It’s obvious Hamas doesn’t have any hostages
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:50 pm to Rebel
I’m slowly coming around, but strictly for the schadenfreude
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:51 pm to Rebel
It is past time for the Pandas .
Posted on 4/30/24 at 2:54 pm to Rebel
I just saw this from Sy Hersh. Sy is interesting because he thinks Israel has gone way overboard, but then was mostly relaying complimentary info about how Biden navigated Israel and Iran lobbing stuff at each other.
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The White House’s apparent lack of interest in the most difficult foreign policy issues—as the president focuses on re-election—has bewildered some veterans of the intelligence community. “The Biden Administration is wandering in the wilderness,” I was told by an American intelligence official. “They speak publicly and daily of their objectives. Victory in Ukraine and the war in Gaza. Resolve the Palestinian quandary. Checkmate Xi. Defend Taiwan. Strengthen NATO. Restore our economic strength and limit global climate change.
“Noble,” he said. “But glittering generalities. Each is a title to a needed NIE that does not exist nor has been undertaken. Where is the National Intelligence Council and our stable of the nation’s greatest experts on every issue? Producing unread and irrelevant products” on such issues as UFOs and DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] in the community. No products on the capabilities and intentions of world leaders and the countries that are the keystone of policy development and implementation.”
In 2009 the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government published a background memorandum on the NIE process. It described NIEs as the American intelligence community’s “most authoritative written judgments on national security issues. NIEs usually provide judgments on the likely course of future events and highlight the implications for US policymakers.” In my own reporting on NIEs for the New Yorker, I learned that the final recommendations and conclusions are often reviewed by prominent outsiders in the academic community, after appropriate clearance, to assure objectivity and impartiality [nb. Note cut] before they are distributed to the White House and other vital offices throughout the government.
In a talk ten days ago in Texas, William Burns, the CIA director who has been playing a key role in hostage talks between Israel and Hamas, complained that Hamas rejected what he called a far-reaching proposal that would involve freeing hostages in exchange for unspecified concessions from Israel. Burns claimed that Hamas’s obduracy was responsible for delays in much needed humanitarian relief to Gaza. The New York Times reported today that Israel has reduced the number of hostages sought for release by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire truce. Secretary Blinken called the reduction “extraordinarily generous” on the part of Israel. He said that “the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and ceasefire is Hamas.”
I was given a different account of which party was responsible for the failure of the talks by the intelligence official. He complained about the lack of “guidance” in the hostage negotiations—something that an NIE might have provided. “No one in the White House or the administration asked the intelligence community for guidance,” he claimed. If so, they would have been told that the prospects for a settlement were dim. “Israel is going to kill Hamas,” he said. “When the last member of Hamas takes a bullet, then there will be a ceasefire. They are going into Rafah. End of story.” He cited a classic Turkish proverb to characterize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position: “We will burn a blanket to kill a flea.” The official added that the Israelis have told Washington that if Netanyahu “stepped down tomorrow, a war cabinet member would take his place and there would be exactly no change at all in their policy or commitment.”
The official’s predictions for the immediate future are dark ones: “Bibi will be indicted by the International Criminal Court, along with three Israeli generals. The IDF begins the Rafah squeeze on five known Hamas lairs. US policy remains incomprehensible. Events on the ground and massive financial aid are uncoupled from policy.
“World leaders are working on the problem. I could go country by country. The United States? Our leader thinks his uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:15 pm to Rebel
When it happens, make sure you and your loved ones are nowhere near a left leaning college campus, which is most of them.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:35 pm to Rebel
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It’s time for Bibi to level Rafah.
It’s past time for Bibi to level Rafah. And dig it up.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:36 pm to Rebel
Drop bombs between the minarets down Casbah way.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:37 pm to Rebel
She’s probably hot tho, judging by what is visible.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:41 pm to Rebel
This is correct get it over with
Posted on 4/30/24 at 3:46 pm to Rebel
Hostages or no hostages. Finish them
Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:35 pm to 4x4tiger
Hostages are not coming back. Kill Hamas now.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:48 pm to teke184
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Drop bombs between the minarets down Casbah way.
The King called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the Minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the Sharif was chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Sharif was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
Now the King told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The Sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a cruisin' down the ville
The Muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille
The Sharif don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
The Sharif don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rockin' the Casbah
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