Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area.

In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the IDF Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that since troops had been forced to enter some areas twice, such as Jabaliya camp, “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return to their homes”.

International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.

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      Welp trump won, the first cog has started. As a canadian, i hope the usa will be with the good side of the ww this time also.

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    I’ve got a crazy idea that probably won’t work, but who knows:

    Let’s start making tons of memes of Bibi making Trump his little bitch. Make fake quotes that make the rounds of Bibi calling Trump a useful idiot, or easier to control than Biden. Try to get Trump to see doing whatever Israel wants as being weak, and make him get into a huge row with Netanyahu.

    Israel isn’t Russia, and I don’t think Bibi has Trump by the short hairs like Putin does.

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    You know, now that Biden has lost the election and no longer needs the support of AIPAC, there’s no reason for him to continue to allow Netanyahu to do this.

    Biden could stop this all with a phone call. He could tell the US ambassador to the UN to stop vetoing Security Council resolutions about Israel.

    But he won’t. Because it’s not about electability. The truth is that Biden supports what is happening in Gaza. He thinks the primitive barbaric Gazans are getting what they deserve for standing up to the noble white people who are trying to civilize them.

    You know what that’s called? It’s called being a white supremacist.

    Biden is a genocidal white supremacist, and I wish the Democrats would fucking admit it, but they won’t.

    WHAT’S HIS EXCUSE NOW, DEMOCRATS? WHAT’S HIS EXCUSE NOW?

    Genocide apologists, all of them. Scratch a liberal, find a white supremacist.

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      There was a great book on Biden called “Yesterdays Man”. Biden’s political career began as a racist (anti-bussing) and tough on crime. Other than that he was a typical democrat for his era.

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      Trump already won, no need to keep making fake arguments against democrats

      Now Palestinians will continue to suffer, but Ukrainians and Americans too! Good job

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        Trump already won, no need to keep making excuse for democrats.

        Now Palestinians will continue to suffer

        And who’s fault is that?

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            No, it’s Biden’s fault. Why are you trying to deflect blame away?

            Just admit that you don’t care about Gazans.

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              I care a lot about palestinians. Which is why Harris should have won. With her you have a chance to get improvement. With Trump things get worse.

              But in the end if the choice is between fascism and non fascism and you pick neither you are responsible for the fascism

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                  Where did I do that?

                  I said Biden is not a fascist which he clearly isnt. He does support the Israelian genocide by sending weapons and that is wrong and in every other election would be justified to punish by not voting.

                  Here it was the democracy on the line. You will now thanks to your actions never again have the chance to elect someone who will protect Palestine. You instead get Trump who will support Israel even more and probably have more settlements named after him.

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        Americans won’t suffer anything like what Palestinian and Ukrainians (if they do lose).

        But they sure live ti be the center of attention.

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      Let me guess: You didnt vote right? Then you helped someone become president who is going to be much worse for palestine. Ukraine and Taiwan.

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          You people seem to be slow. So again: When the choice is fascism or no fascism you pick no fascism. If you like the candidate or not. The choice is simple.

          Maybe in the next election you would have the luxus to not vote then. Now you wont have next elections and you killed palestinians, Ukrainians and most likely Taiwanese people because of your stupidity not to realize that democrats are not good but better than republicans for palestine

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            When the choice is fascism or no fascism you pick no fascism.

            And how does that excuse Biden for genociding Gazan?

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                  Are you that stupid? Read the thread again. It started with voting or non voting. Seriously american non voters are even dumber than american voters.

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    Surprise surprise. Remember when this bullshit first kicked off and they were like “Oh yeah, we’ll totally let them back in once the fighting stops”? Yeah, that was never the plan.

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    “International humanitarian law experts have said that such actions would amount to the war crimes of forcible transfer and the use of food as a weapon.”

    “Bibi laughed and said: get fucked loser. The strong do what they will and the meek suffer what they must. Who’s going to stop me? Biden? Trump? The rest of the world that isn’t doing shit but finger wagging? HA! We won, cry more snowflakes. He then punched a child in the face and continued laughing.”

    “Biden has remarked on the subject saying: Hurnmenlem… whaaa? We beat medicare.”

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      I was with you until the end.

      If you’re going to satirize Biden, you have to do more than just pull direct quotes from him.

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        Yeah that one’s on me, it’s really hard to satirize someone that’s already a joke. :P

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        Sure! I mainly accept laughs though, thoughts and prayers are worthless where I’m from. :P

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    Yep, they see the writing on the wall. I wonder if they’ll wait until after inauguration to start allowing Israeli settlers to build towns and beachfront property, or just do it now?

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      Probably now. It’s not Iike Biden did anything to stop them either.

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          Your argument is not very strong. Slow death versus fast death? Actually, I think that the IDF might be going about as fast as they can.

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          Its already been happening. Just look at what’s happening in northern Gaza.

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              Attitudes like that is why Democrats lost the Arab vote, which made them lose swing states like Michigan. Israel is currently undertaking an extermination campaign in Northern Gaza, openly saying they want to settle Northen Gaza, killing civilians in West Jerusalem as well as demolishing homes, invading Lebanon, and trying to start a regional war with Iran. Trump didn’t do that, Biden did. Saying it’s going to get worse under Trump is meaningless when terror attacks and civilians are being slaughtered with impunity. A genocide is a genocide. Whether one is slower or faster makes little difference.

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                Of course, of course. Not like saying ‘we condemn Israel’ would’ve cost them any votes in other states.

                Vast majority of Americans are deeply compassionate and concerned about what goes on in the world, especially Middle East.

                Obviously, Americans are a monolith and DNC chose to go against its opinion and lost the election. That’s what happened.

                🤡🤡🤡

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                  Supporting Israel was the unpopular opinion. Over 2/3rds of Americans supported enforcing a ceasefire, 80% of Democrats did. They didn’t do it for the popular vote. They did it for political convenience and foreign lobbying.

                  The compassion of a vast majority of Americans doesn’t mean shit when their tax dollars are funding a genocide.

                  They lost the election because they failed to listen to their voters. This failure is a failure of the DNC and the overall Democratic party. Full stop.

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          He gets that chance now, though probably they will continue doing exactly what they want at their chosen pace because no one was ever standing in their way.

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        They won’t kill them. They’ll let them die of “natural” causes (disease+starvation).

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        Look maybe they’ll go the Canadian way of reeducation and integration instead. That works super well I’m told. I’m also told it definitely doesn’t count as genocide so they’ll be all clear. Great plan.

        /s in case that’s not terribly obvious