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Uncle Joe

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13. You have presented no actual evidence and Netanyahu just fired the man that was calling for an investigation
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 05:20 PM
Nov 8

of October 7th committed by a terrorist group that was financed and supported by Netanyahu.

In the middle of a 13-months-long, two-theatre war in Gaza and Lebanon, and a spiralling military engagement with Iran, the prime minister of Israel saw fit to dismiss the defence minister, Yoav Gallant. In his place he appointed a career politician, one Israel Katz, who was the foreign minister – not that anyone in Israel noticed him then.

Katz has zero defence credentials, zero credibility with the military top brass, and zero experience in managing such a huge and complex system. That’s on-brand Netanyahu; under him, four defence ministers have been fired or resigned.

This is not an isolated event. Netanyahu has always surrounded himself with eminently underqualified sycophants who never challenge or threaten him. But now, after a series of military successes and high-profile assassinations – including the Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah; Hamas’s political chair, Ismail Haniyeh, and its leader, Yahya Sinwar – Netanyahu felt empowered to dismiss Gallant, a career major-general turned politician. This recklessness must be viewed in two contexts: Netanyahu’s state of mind and the timing of the dismissal.

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Gallant has also called for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry that would investigate and understand why the events of 7 October 2023 occurred. Netanyahu has never taken responsibility for the worst calamity in Israel’s history and refuses to be held accountable.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/netanyahu-fired-defence-minister-gallant-israel

Why do you believe that Netanyahu is so afraid of an investigation of the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history? An objective observer would think he wants to get to the bottom of this.

Atrocity begats atrocity. Where does it stop? tetedur Nov 8 #1
Gabor Mate is excellent as always! Gaugamela Nov 8 #2
Thank you!!! For posting this Uncle Joe! Gabor is wise, empathetic and compassionate!!!!! Clouds Passing Nov 8 #3
At 50 seconds in he says there were no rapes. Mosby Nov 8 #4
That's a false statement which at odds with your own copy of his statement. Uncle Joe Nov 8 #6
Denials and deflections. Beastly Boy Nov 8 #5
None of your graphic depictions are evidence of "babies in ovens" that's what he says is false. Uncle Joe Nov 8 #7
"Babies in the ovens"? Absolutely not! Babies burned together with theit mothers? No comment... Beastly Boy Nov 8 #8
A "fine line?" what do you think has been happening in Gaza for the past year? Uncle Joe Nov 8 #9
Are you saying that claiming babies were not burned in the ovens when they were burned otherwise is not Beastly Boy Nov 8 #10
There is a major difference between there was no rape and there was no evidence of MASS rape Uncle Joe Nov 8 #11
But... but... there WAS evidence of mass rapes! Deliberate mass rapes. Beastly Boy Nov 8 #12
You have presented no actual evidence and Netanyahu just fired the man that was calling for an investigation Uncle Joe Nov 8 #13
You are right. The evidence was not mine to present. Beastly Boy Nov 8 #14
No, it's not evidence of "babies in ovens." Uncle Joe Nov 8 #15
Whatever you say, Uncle. You can't expect me to keep stating the obvoius, evidence included, Beastly Boy Nov 8 #16
P.S Paragraph 10 from your own link Uncle Joe Nov 8 #17
oh please... didn't you read the rest of the report? Or its conclusion? Beastly Boy Nov 8 #18
Yes, here is paragraph 20 they want an investigation as well, but can you post a single sentence or paragraph that Uncle Joe Nov 8 #19
P.S.S. Here is paragraph 86 Uncle Joe Nov 8 #20
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