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Israel announces cease-fire with Hamas



We need to understand something. Even Israel, which is still the most beloved of all US allies, could carry on defending itself for exactly 10 days (May 10th to May 20th) before being compelled by American back-channel diplomatic pressure to declare a cease-fire.

A data point to keep in mind in case of any future Indian conflicts with Terroristan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6uhOmTMWU
List of All Hamas Rockets That Were Fired into Israel
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Ambar wrote:I don't know if its still true but until few years back Palestine had the highest population density in the world and also the highest birth rate in the world beating countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. You would think when you are short on land you want to be careful about producing more babies but no, they want to create an army of believers to overwhelm Israel with numbers and the result is more poverty, lack of jobs, lack of space and more frustration despite all the help.
They don't believe they lack space. They have been operating under the delusion fed to them by Hamas that it is only a matter of time before all the jews are thrown out and they have a free Palestine "from the river to the sea" and then they can move into all the nice cities and infrastructure built by the Israelis.
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Rudradev wrote: We need to understand something. Even Israel, which is still the most beloved of all US allies, could carry on defending itself for exactly 10 days (May 10th to May 20th) before being compelled by American back-channel diplomatic pressure to declare a cease-fire.

A data point to keep in mind in case of any future Indian conflicts with Terroristan.
I think they may have made a deal with Biden where the US will replenish their Iron Dome system with missiles (they must have been running low by now) in return for accepting the ceasefire. The Iron Dome system has been funded by the US, with Raytheon manufacturing the missiles with several subsystems coming from US vendors even though the Israelis developed it.

Biden promises to replenish Iron Dome, help rebuild Gaza
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Israel Hamas conflict simulated in Command Modern Operations and TacView

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itq041gDgfA

This video simulates the current conflict going on between Israel and Hamas. I am not going in to political details and just focussing on military aspects. Hamas started by firing a number of low tech rockets win to different Israeli cities from within Gaza. Unfortunately for them, Israel has a pretty good air defence system comprising of Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow for protection against such primitive rockets, many other types of artillery and longer ranged guided missiles. Due to limitations of Command Modern Operations database, currently it is not possible to simulate this war scenario to exact details. So I've made some modifications to use alternate weapon systems.
For example, there is no option for Qassam short ranged rockets or other longer ranged rockets which Hamas has stockpiled with some help from Iran and Syria.
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Ambar wrote:
mody wrote:Which bombs is Israel using to flatten the building in Gaza? Seems to be a ground penetrating bunker buster type ammunition.
There's a very cool video on youtube where a Israeli pilot hovers over a building, first uses a low intensity bomb to blow the roof of the building exposing hidden rocket launchers, and then uses a high explosive bomb to completely flatten the structure.


EDIT : Here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-gL21T ... unVerified
Wanted to know particularly which bombs are being used to flatten the multi-storied buildings. From the videos available, it seems some kind of a ground penetrating bunker busting munition. The bombs penetrates the ground and destroys the foundation of the building and the structure then simply crumbles.
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nachiket wrote:
Ambar wrote:I don't know if its still true but until few years back Palestine had the highest population density in the world and also the highest birth rate in the world beating countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. You would think when you are short on land you want to be careful about producing more babies but no, they want to create an army of believers to overwhelm Israel with numbers and the result is more poverty, lack of jobs, lack of space and more frustration despite all the help.
They don't believe they lack space. They have been operating under the delusion fed to them by Hamas that it is only a matter of time before all the jews are thrown out and they have a free Palestine "from the river to the sea" and then they can move into all the nice cities and infrastructure built by the Israelis.
Palestinians are not yet seeing the writing on the wall. Qatar, Iran and Turkey are just playing games using Hamas/Islamists pushing their own agendas. If we see the Vox video below as a reference map of Israeli settlements, situation on the ground is anything but clean segregation of population. A separate Palestinian state is not happening.
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Rudradev wrote:Israel announces cease-fire with Hamas



We need to understand something. Even Israel, which is still the most beloved of all US allies, could carry on defending itself for exactly 10 days (May 10th to May 20th) before being compelled by American back-channel diplomatic pressure to declare a cease-fire.

A data point to keep in mind in case of any future Indian conflicts with Terroristan.
SImple Hamas ran out of Imported rockets, Israel had finished off enough of Hamas for the time being, then wait till next round when with Israel wink wink some more rockets gets in, Israel keeps its defences in working order, population is aware of the danger, Arab leaders are deterred by the clear military capability from Israel and Palestinian infrastructure is even worse shape.
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While Israel may have destroyed a lot of Hamas infra, plus large depletion of its rockets, for Israel there is a worrying development in the new increasing support for the P'inians in the US,UK and Europe,especially from the younger gen. who are deeply critical of the v.high civilian collateral damage esp. children. Even a v.pro- Israel pres., Biden, was put under enormous pressure by his party to cobble together a ceasefire....for the moment at least. Only the US supported it at the UNSC, with even Ru and the PRC on opp. sides. Intl. support for its settlement expansion is fast evaporating too.
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The young crowd, the leftists, the university types and the anarchists in the west have always been pro-Palestine, it is nothing new. What is new however is that historically this crowd did not wield much influence on the government policies especially in the US, but now they do. Remember PLO in the 60s to 90s used to find shelter in many European countries readily thanks to the radical left there (Red Army faction for ex helped PLO with logistics) but now they are also getting political shelter. Israel must have seen the rising far left in US and their increasing clout in congress, i am sure the formalization of relationship between KSA, UAE, Bahrain was to counter this development. One thing is for sure it is only a matter of time before Iran directly attacks Israel and its anybody's guess how the middle east will look like from that point forward.
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I seriously doubt Iran attacking Israel.Sheer suicide on its part if it ever happens. The Persians are not Arabs! Remember that it was Saddam spurred on by the West who started the Iran- Iraq war.I have a book listing the dozens of western cos. who sold him arms, chemicals for chem-weapons from er....the Germans, remember Xyklon- B? Iran has cleverly established strong proxies in the region like the Hiz. to do their biz.But did you see that there were no attacks against Israel from Lebanon during the latest round of conflict?

Iran wants sanctions lifted at any cost and will for now do nothing to imperil that from happening. It is ready to resume the terms of the N-deal , limit its N-weapons ambitions, which is what the international community should press for. A failure to resolve the issue and resume the N-deal could be catastrophic.
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Its a fallacy to believe Iran will stop pursuing weapons of mass destruction once the sanctions are lifted, if anything they will use the billions of dollars/euros flowing into their economy to modernize their military and further speed up nuclear weapons development . At some point Israel will be forced to attack Iranian nuclear installations and when Iran retaliates it is anyone's guess what happens next.

As for Hezbollah not opening another front against Israel there are 2 good reasons - a. Biden administration is close to re-establishing the nuclear deal with Iran and freeing up billions of dollars currently held up in seized Iranian accounts in western countries. and b. Khaled Mashal and Iranian mullah gang dont always see eye to eye. They have further drifted apart since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. While Hezbollah may not want to see Hamas lose the war they certainly want to see Mashal weakened politically.
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Ambar wrote:Its a fallacy to believe Iran will stop pursuing weapons of mass destruction once the sanctions are lifted, if anything they will use the billions of dollars/euros flowing into their economy to modernize their military and further speed up nuclear weapons development . At some point Israel will be forced to attack Iranian nuclear installations and when Iran retaliates it is anyone's guess what happens next.

As for Hezbollah not opening another front against Israel there are 2 good reasons - a. Biden administration is close to re-establishing the nuclear deal with Iran and freeing up billions of dollars currently held up in seized Iranian accounts in western countries. and b. Khaled Mashal and Iranian mullah gang dont always see eye to eye. They have further drifted apart since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. While Hezbollah may not want to see Hamas lose the war they certainly want to see Mashal weakened politically.
plus +1 .

A sanction free Iran is not good news for India directly, but oil prices are bound to fall i think
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Philip wrote: ...But did you see that there were no attacks against Israel from Lebanon during the latest round of conflict? ...
A few rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Haifa, but they weren't attributed to Hezbollah. There were also reports of attempted border intrusions

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-4-roc ... -injuries/
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X-posted in the Arty. td.

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/05/lea ... hezbollah/
Learn From Gaza, Prepare For Hezbollah
If you thought the recently concluded Gaza conflict was bad, a war with Lebanese Hezbollah would be much worse, involving 100,000 more rockets, many with longer ranges.
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I am hearing a slightly different view of the ceasefire. Apparently it has been brokered by the Egyptians who have carried on the talks with hamas and the Israeli leadership. Apparently, Netanyahu acknowledged the role of the Egypt govt. for the same but hasn't said anything about the current US administration. It was well known that Obama didn't have the most cordial of relations with Israel.
The analyst was saying that this was showing the weakening of the American policy at least with respect to the middle East or shifting of support from Israel to Iran and other countries slowly.
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venkat_kv wrote: The analyst was saying that this was showing the weakening of the American policy at least with respect to the middle East or shifting of support from Israel to Iran and other countries slowly.
Biden's policy in the Israel-Palestine conflict is likely to remain muddled and ambiguous. He is caught between the state department (and his own view) which wants to continue regular US policy towards Israel and the far left lunatics in his own party who want a drastic shift towards the Palestinians. His problem is that the far left is increasing in numbers and are getting louder and have already taken over a lot of media and nearly all universities.
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^ I don't think Biden's State Dept wants to continue the regular pro-Israel policies of previous US administrations. Anthony Blinken has made openly critical remarks about Israel that you would not have heard from Hillary Clinton or John Kerry (let alone Mike Pompeo). He is nowhere near as extreme as the Squad Democrats with their Islampasand BDS propaganda, but certainly represents a shift even kn thr mainstream foreign-policy establishment in the US. Only Biden himself seems to be sticking as close to the old course as possible.
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Rudradev wrote:^ I don't think Biden's State Dept wants to continue the regular pro-Israel policies of previous US administrations. Anthony Blinken has made openly critical remarks about Israel that you would not have heard from Hillary Clinton or John Kerry (let alone Mike Pompeo). He is nowhere near as extreme as the Squad Democrats with their Islampasand BDS propaganda, but certainly represents a shift even kn thr mainstream foreign-policy establishment in the US. Only Biden himself seems to be sticking as close to the old course as possible.
Rudradev ji ..you are spot on..wanted to check your thoughts on greater undercurrents
1. Impending US engagement in indo pacific
2. "Exit" from Afghanistan
3. Transition to a post oil economy. In a few years both of the oil demand and production will start decreasing (forecasts are 2020). Majority of auto will shift to electric in US by end of 2030 decade. I do hope capital intesive assets like air, sea transport to continue through oil but still at least 30-40% dent. Asian countries would have advantage. That means less oil trade, so that means less reliance on dollar for a global trade. Not sure how does that take things further.
4. with need for oil going down, what need usa has to be in ME to ensure peace and stability? they would be happy to sell weapons and chips to anyone who can afford it or need. the only need i see is containing external influences and maintaining super power status. But at what cost? At some point, South east asia did fall off from their radar after exhaustion with Korean war, and Vietnam war.
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^part of this semi disengagement with Israel is probably due to the distaste left by bibi's antics during previous presidential elections. That didn't go down too well with the establishment.
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ArjunPandit wrote:... they would be happy to sell weapons and chips to anyone who can afford it or need. the only need i see is containing external influences and maintaining super power status.
One nit. Americans sell the IP for the chips - not chips themselves. That would be SoKo, RoC, Japan, and PRC.
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Philip wrote:I seriously doubt Iran attacking Israel.Sheer suicide on its part if it ever happens. The Persians are not Arabs! Remember that it was Saddam spurred on by the West who started the Iran- Iraq war.I have a book listing the dozens of western cos. who sold him arms, chemicals for chem-weapons from er....the Germans, remember Xyklon- B?
Sirji, that should be Zyklon-B, manufactured by the German chemical manufacturer, I.G. Farben. After the war, I.G. Farben changed its name to Hoechst AG. Today, Hoechst has subsidiaries all over the world including India.
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g.sarkar wrote: Sirji, that should be Zyklon-B, manufactured by the German chemical manufacturer, I.G. Farben. After the war, I.G. Farben changed its name to Hoechst AG. Today, Hoechst has subsidiaries all over the world including India.
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Actually, IG Farben was liquidated after the war by the victorious Allies. 23 directors were tried at Nuremberg as war criminals and 13 were convicted.

The company was reformed as (eventually) three companies BASF, Bayer and Hoechst. The last named is now part of the French pharmaceutical company SANOFI.
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Vayutuvan wrote:
ArjunPandit wrote:... they would be happy to sell weapons and chips to anyone who can afford it or need. the only need i see is containing external influences and maintaining super power status.
One nit. Americans sell the IP for the chips - not chips themselves. That would be SoKo, RoC, Japan, and PRC.
Why only Americans. Isn't there an international organization?
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Bye,bye Bibi! There will be cheering in Gaza and the West Bank among the Palestinians and Hama.....,but not for too long! The opposition to Bibi have conjured up an unlikely coalition.but the PM for the first half of the term will be Naftali Bennet,head of the right wing Yamina party. No easing up of attitude towards Hamas,etc. at all.

https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/world ... t-him.html
Bibi's rivals reach historic coalition deal to oust him
Friday, 04 June 2021 | PTI | Jerusalem
Israel's Opposition parties on Thursday set the wheels in motion for a potential national unity government after clinching a last-minute agreement to oust Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in the Jewish nation's history.

Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, announced an eight-party coalition had been formed after tough political negotiations.

Under a rotation arrangement, the head of the right-wing Yamina party, Naftali Bennett, 49, would serve as the prime minister first before handing over to Lapid.

Lapid, 57, officially informed President Reuven Rivlin and Knesset (Parliament) Speaker Yariv Levin about the deal late Wednesday night, barely half an hour before the Wednesday midnight deadline.

The announcement came after a series of back-to-back meetings with the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu camp in the 120-member Knesset.

"In accordance with Clause 13(b) of the Basic Law: The Government – I am honoured to inform you that I have succeeded in forming a government...MK (Member of Knesset) Naftali Bennett will serve as a prime minister first,” Lapid told Rivlin.

"I commit to you Mr President that this government will work to serve all the citizens of Israel including those who aren't members of it, will respect those who oppose it and do everything in its power to unite all parts of Israeli society," the Yesh Atid party leader said.

Lapid will serve as foreign minister until the two men swap roles halfway through the term. There still needs to be a parliamentary vote before the government is sworn in.

The Israeli president thanked Lapid saying, "We expect the Knesset will convene as soon as possible to ratify the government, as required.”

The development, seen by some as historic as it includes an Arab party in the coalition, will break an ongoing political impasse that has seen Israel go through four polls yielding inconclusive results in less than two years.
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rsingh wrote:
Vayutuvan wrote:
One nit. Americans sell the IP for the chips - not chips themselves. That would be SoKo, RoC, Japan, and PRC.
Why only Americans. Isn't there an international organization?
Yes, there is. But IP is owned by the design houses who develop the IP. Most design houses are in the US so are the ECAD software vendors. Mostly in Si valley and some in Austin, Texas.
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Mean while in Libya. Another Malayali/Keralite issued with 72 virgins and unlimited liquor supply.
Malayali Christian who embraced Islam killed in Libya says Islamic State
Malayali engineer dies fighting for ISIS in Libya?
Report reads..IS says Abu Bakr was working in Bengaluru before moving to the Gulf.
Philip wrote:The opposition to Bibi have conjured up an unlikely coalition.but the PM for the first half of the term will be Naftali Bennet,head of the right wing Yamina party.
How long will this coalition last? It is a bigger joke than the Maha-Thug-Bandhan conjured up by 'secular forces' in India. It is like Bajrang Dal, PFI/SDPI, CPI(M) joining hands for a common cause.
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Sachin wrote:

How long will this coalition last? It is a bigger joke than the Maha-Thug-Bandhan conjured up by 'secular forces' in India. It is like Bajrang Dal, PFI/SDPI, CPI(M) joining hands for a common cause.
Except for the fact that even the israeli left wing is much more nationalist and patriotic than our "Hindu Nationalist Party".
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Vayutuvan wrote:
ArjunPandit wrote:... they would be happy to sell weapons and chips to anyone who can afford it or need. the only need i see is containing external influences and maintaining super power status.
One nit. Americans sell the IP for the chips - not chips themselves. That would be SoKo, RoC, Japan, and PRC.
If I am right some foundries are still operational in US. So chip manufacturing is not completely nil in US. But yes TSMC(Taiwan) has left American companies like intel behind when it comes to manufacturing technology for chips. Even Intel itself sources its chips from TSMC. Similarly South Korean companies like Samsung have taken the lead in memory chip production.

Having said that TSMC is on track to build a fab unit in Arizona with an investment of approx 12 billion usd. So America will continue to have a robust if not the leading presence in chip manufacturing.
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Meanwhile Israelis are continuing to shaft Iran in different ways. The latest events are probably retaliation for the sins of Hamas.

Fire & Explosion Hit Iran Steel Factory In Third Major Incident In 5 Days
A large fire broke out Saturday night at a steel factory in the southeast city of Zarand in Iran. It's the latest in a mysterious string of blasts and 'accidental' blazes at sensitive sites to beset the Islamic Republic, raising questions of possible Israel sabotage akin to what happened a year ago in the summer of 2020.

"The governor of Zarand told the Iranian Fars News Agency that no injuries were caused in the incident and that the incident was under control," The Jerusalem Post reports. "The incident was reportedly caused by the sudden overflow of molten material in the blast furnace, with the governor stressing that no explosion occurred." But some early videos show otherwise.
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Social media videos showed a sizable blaze which appear to have triggered a significant explosion, however, resulting in debris and what looks like molten steel flying into the air.

Even if Iran suspects that Israel is behind some of these latest incidents over the past month, Tehran officials are likely reluctant to go public with accusations given negotiators are reportedly on the cusp of a nuclear deal in Vienna, and as the country is gearing up to vote for a new president this month.

Israel has vowed to thwart a deal by any means possible, with embattled PM Netanyahu lately openly verbalizing he's willing to consider any level of action even if it causes "friction" with the United States.

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One Middle East news source reviews the recent string of fires and explosions hitting key Iranian assets as follows:

Three days earlier, a major fire tore through the Tehran Oil Refining Company in the outskirts of the Iranian capital.
Another explosion followed by a fire sank Iran’s largest naval vessel in the Sea of Oman, near it shores, on June 2.
On May 23, nine people were injured in another blast at a plant producing explosive materials in central Iran...
three days later, a pipeline explosion at a petrochemical complex near Iran's Gulf coast left one dead.


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And there are others which barely made it into international headlines over the past two weeks, as Jerusalem Post notes:

"At least one fire has been associated with an Iranian military site, with The Guardian reporting that a blast hit the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), which produces a variety of aircraft, including drones, for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces in Iran's Isfahan Province."

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Are the Pakis training the Hamas and the Iranians supplying them with weaponry., nice arrangement
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I never understood this. What difference it make if BiBi stays or go. Israel is proactive in its security matters. If someone thinks that by changing prime minister they can change Israel's will to fight, ther are fooling themselves.
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rsingh wrote:I never understood this. What difference it make if BiBi stays or go. Israel is proactive in its security matters. If someone thinks that by changing prime minister they can change Israel's will to fight, ther are fooling themselves.
The Palestinian groups are in the new Govt. They will destroy it from inside.
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vijayk wrote:
rsingh wrote:I never understood this. What difference it make if BiBi stays or go. Israel is proactive in its security matters. If someone thinks that by changing prime minister they can change Israel's will to fight, ther are fooling themselves.
The Palestinian groups are in the new Govt. They will destroy it from inside.
Look like IDF is on autopilot. No compromise on security.
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vijayk wrote:The Palestinian groups are in the new Govt. They will destroy it from inside.
But have the Israeli jews become so stupid to not to see through this? Or are there arms being twisted to allow such a government to rule the country? Or else the problem in India; deracinated wokes - that seems to have reached Israel as well.
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rsingh wrote:I never understood this. What difference it make if BiBi stays or go. Israel is proactive in its security matters. If someone thinks that by changing prime minister they can change Israel's will to fight, ther are fooling themselves.
Well to reinforce your point here, bibi was in Israeli special forces with extensive battlefield experience. So is the new PM naftali Bennett. He was also in the same unit(sayaret Matkal) along with maglan unit. Again with extensive combat experience including against hezbollah in Lebanon. These guys are the real deal true Hardcases. I cannot comment on the future of Israel but make no mistake, their leaders are no snowflakes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/worl ... hamas.html
Israeli Aircraft Bomb Gaza Just Days Into New Government
After a day of rising tensions, which saw a far-right march in Jerusalem and incendiary balloons launched from Gaza, Israel’s new coalition government ordered airstrikes against Hamas.
By Patrick Kingsley, Isabel Kershner and Adam Rasgon, June 15, 2021

GAZA CITY — The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it had conducted airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, after officials said that the militant group Hamas had sent incendiary balloons into southern Israel from Gaza, in the first eruption of hostilities since an 11-day air war between Israel and Hamas ended last month.
The Israeli military said that it “struck military compounds belonging to the Hamas terror organization, which were used as facilities and meeting sites for terror operatives in Hamas’ Khan Yunis and Gaza Brigades.” Palestinian news reports said that one of the strikes caused property damage, but there were no immediate reports of casualties in Gaza, a densely populated urban strip.
The day of rising tensions was the first test of a new Israeli coalition government just three days into its term. It started when the government permitted a far-right Jewish march to pass through Palestinian areas of Jerusalem on Tuesday night, over the objections of Arab and leftist parties in the coalition, and despite threats from Hamas that it would retaliate.
The march was a scaled-down version of an aborted far-right procession originally planned for last month, which Hamas cited to justify firing rockets toward Jerusalem on May 10, setting off the latest air war between the militants and Israel.
Gaza has barely begun to recover from last month’s fighting, which killed at least 250 Palestinians and 13 Israeli residents, and damaged more than 16,000 homes in Gaza, according to the United Nations, and as Gaza militants fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israel. Rebuilding has yet to restart in earnest, and Israel and Egypt, which control access to Gaza, are still withholding key financial and material assistance.
Some analysts believed those factors kept Hamas from launching full-scale rocket attacks after Tuesday’s provocative Jewish procession through Jerusalem, an annual event known as the flags march. Hamas frequently releases incendiary balloons into southern Israel, and they tend to be less destructive than rockets, though they sometimes scorch large stretches of farmland and land near homes.
Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who was sworn in on Sunday, has taken a tough stance against the launching of these balloons in the past and criticized a previous government for its lack of response.
A few months before he was appointed defense minister in 2019, Mr. Bennett wrote in a tweet that those launching the balloons were “terrorists” who should be killed. According to Ynet, an Israeli news site, he also said that year that the balloons were life threatening and damaged Israeli deterrence against Hamas. “An explosive balloon is like an anti-tank missile,” he said, adding, “whoever launches one is a terrorist who is trying to murder Israelis and must be hit.”
The new government is under tremendous pressure from the right to be tough on Hamas — both internally, from Mr. Bennett and his Yamina party, and externally, from former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party. Some members of the coalition insisted that any blocking of the flags march would be giving in to threats from terrorists.
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some one made a mistake if they thought that things would ease if they changed PM Netanyahu.



Here is what to know about Bennett, Israel's new PM, a technology millionaire turned far-right religious lawmaker who is a staunch supporter of Israeli settlements and opponent of a Palestinian state.





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chetak wrote:some one made a mistake if they thought that things would ease if they changed PM Netanyahu.





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I’ve Killed Lots Of Arabs In My Life And There’s No Problem With That”
The just-announced formation of a new government in Israel is not a cause for celebration. For those who might think new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must be an improvement after 12 years of appalling racism from Benjamin Netanyahu – think again!
Netanyahu was infamous for statements of race-hatred such as:
· “The way to deal with Palestinians is to beat them up. Not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until its unbearable”“Palestinians are an existential threat to Israel”“Israeli is not a state for all its citizens” (ie he’s right – it’s an apartheid state – Palestinians are second-class citizens)
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Bennett is on record as advocating the murder of Palestinians taken prisoner. The former Israeli Defence Force officer says: “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life and there’s no problem with that”
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The joke is on the islamists and leftists who think they got rid of "hate monger Netanyahu".
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