The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
Al-Qassam brigades have announced they will essentially* execute one prisoner for every Palestinian killed by the bombing on Gaza.
In my opinion this is the only thing they can do to regain control of the situation. Israel has been indiscriminately bombing Gaza since yesterday, and has already killed some of their own people in Gaza.
This is essentially shifting the power struggle to Hamas, who now gets to decide when POWs die instead of the IOF. We’ll see if it stops the bombing.
Israel is bombing indiscriminately. They don’t even know where these hostages are and could very well be bombing them. They don’t give a fuck about their own civilians in the first place.
Yeah part of me thinks they want all the hostages dead so they can better play up the Palestinians are barbarians who must be eradicated angle domestically and internationally. If they should have to help with that via bombing, being unreasonable, etc, I think the vile government there might consider that a small price to pay to finally get to carry out its genocide to the final stage.
The more dead white people the more CNN can sob about “monsters”. If you think liberals went crazy over relatively white looking Russians attacking honorary white Ukrainians you haven’t seen anything yet once the media whips people into a frenzy over the evil brown savage hordes massacring the innocent, beautiful whites. They could see a real opportunity here to create a power play where they can steamroll over decades of organizing against Israeli apartheid and in one emotional swoop push repressive laws into place criminalizing and clamping down hard on support of Palestine and basically driving the western consensus to no longer care about it, to label any support of Palestinians as antisemitism.
I mean you have to look for education at the US and things like operation Northwoods, strategy of tension, gladio, terrorism in Europe post WW2 and realize Israel received their education from these people. Their existing strategy we must remember includes things like inciting hatred of Jews by tying them to zionism to drive more Jews to Israel to increase their own legitimacy. That Jews die as part of that process is not a problem to them.
They’re already masters at spin, have numerous orgs aside from the bourgeois press set up for manipulation of opinions, spreading out of context photos, etc. So the blowback on them upping the ante by “refusing to give in to demands of terrorists” as they’ll put it will likely be very minimal, the dead hostages will be lionized, their deaths used to justify further atrocities and if any of their families deviate from that line and try to blame the regime in Tel Aviv, well, they’ll be silenced in short order, deplatformed.
The situation does not look great for an ideal resolution. The Palestinian people at this point just need to resist ferociously enough that the IDF is thrown back and can only engage in air strikes rather than actually succeeding in a ground operation.
Update: no hostages were executed