Israel now says it will occupy Gaza City - not the entire Gaza strip (08-11-2025--Hour2)

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So it's one area in the central part of the Gaza Strip. There's another one. I think it's called the central camps that these are the last two spots that Hamas controls, and so they're going to seize Gaza City with a three month offensive, which immediately prompted criticism at home and abroad, bucking warnings from the Israeli Defense forces that the operation risks the lives of the remaining hostages in addition to potentially sparking a humanitarian disaster. Right, so this is the problem. What do you do with an enemy that wants its own people to die because it makes its opponent, namely you, It makes you weaker. The more people you kill, the weaker you become. And they are relying on the pressure from the rest of the world on you to get you to stop and to leave me alive. Right, if I'm Hamas in this scenario, I remain alive. I get to rearm I get to control Gaza. I get to then start planning the next October seventh, I get to keep all my tunnels. I get to claim victory. And now, thanks to the utter dumb assory of our European acquaintances, now Hamas doesn't have any incentive to negotiate any further because they've won the promise of recognition of a Palestinian state. Don't know what the borders are, don't know who would be in charge, not really sure how this is supposed to work. But the Europeans got this in their head that this is a really fantastic way to force Israel to stop trying to kill the perpetrators of October seventh, a death cult and Islamist death cult that is at their doorstep and has been for one hundred years, trying to wipe out all of the Jews since the massacre at Habron. So like the rationale hasn't changed, their philosophy hasn't changed. It's all still built on the same lie that the Jews are going to tear down the Alaksa temple or mosque. Rather like that's that is what has animated them for one hundred years. That's why they went and slaughtered hundreds of Jews back when the Jews were just the filthy dogs that were second class citizens that couldn't own land and Jerusalem and all of that. So now that they got some land, now they're stronger than the Palestinians. Ooh, that's the knakba right there, man, That's what makes them. That's the humiliation to the Palestinian Arabs. That's the humiliation that these people that we had as second class citizens for hundreds of years, that they beat us, and they have beaten us so many times now, repeatedly handily, and so we know we can't beat them militarily, So we're going to beat them in a pr war, and we're going to beat them in that pr war by making them kill our people. That's the strategy. And Europeans have decided to reward that strategy, which now will mean we get more of it. Looking forward to that, Oh yeah, that's going to be fantastic. When now certain populations in European countries, for example, that have grown and grown and grown due to rampant asylum seekers and illegal immigration into those nations, that now they have a population that they they're gonna turn around and they're gonna say, well, we want we want these types of sharia law courts, for example, Sharia courts in Britain, and Britain's gonna say no, really, all right, Well if you say no, then what they'll just adopt the Palestinian tactic and then what are you gonna do? Right, You can't go after them because then they're they're hiding behind the civilians because that's the tactic, right, you use your own people as meat shields, and then you cry about all of them dying when it is your fault. They are dying again. This is a war started by Hamas. The conquest would stop if a hostage deal is clinched, according to according to the report cited by Ed Morrissey at hot air dot com. So if the Hamas Houlaes want release the hostages, then they won't go in and seize Gaza city. Maybe that works, Ed morris He says this might be the least bad of all the options Netta Nyahu has in front of him. Hamas won't negotiate on the basis of conceding power, not even to other Arab forces, as a recent declaration by Sunni nations demanded. Right, you've got Sunni countries, Muslim countries that are saying Hamas can't remain in power. The question is, though, who would be the occupying force of Gaza. Who's going to go in there and provide the security to prevent Hamas from rising again and to prevent any further attacks by Islamists across the border into Israel. And Israel says, we don't want to do it. America doesn't want to do it. The Arab League has to do it. These Arab nations, they have to do this. Do they want to do it? Well, Cutter and to Kayea, I think that is how they're pronouncing it nowadays. They don't want to do it. They've been supporting Hamas. They want Hamas to continue fighting. They like it. Turkey is emboldened and empowered. So and Cutter has been harboring the Hamas leaders as they grow fat in their apartments in Cutters. So, yeah, they're not looking to end this thing. So it's going to take some other Arab nations, Muslim lead countries, Muslim countries to go in and provide the security. But they're not going to go in and stamp out Hamas. They're going to make Israel do that. So Israel has to go in there. Israel has to clean it all up. They got to kill as many of the Hamas fighters as they can. They have to take the pr hit, they have to take the propaganda, and then the Arab countries will come in and provide security. And we'll see how that goes, if it ever comes to fruition problem. Hamas isn't talking at all to anybody except Turka. Ok kya, it's Turkey. Okay, it's Turkey anyway, not even their patrons in cutter and not even their bad faith proposals are being submitted. Hamas thinks they have Israel over a barrel thanks to the feckless moral midgets in Paris and London. And to a certain extent, Hamas is correct on this kre Starmer or two tier kir as they're calling them now in Britain for the two tiers of justice, one for the Pakistani Muslim is Lamists immigrants and then another tier for UK citizens. They get the book thrown at them for putting up a mean tweet about all of the rampant illegal immigration and the rape gangs and such. They get thrown in jail, they get charged fines and such. But if you're actually running the rape gangs, ah, that's just slap on the wrist. Just don't do it again. Two tier care as well as mah Huh, are about to reward a mass with a recognized state for all of the terrorism conducted over the last nineteen years and especially after October seventh. Congratulations Samas. You are rewarded with your own state. That's the Europeans, all right. 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I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. Back to the Ed morrisseypiece at hot air dot com. And I've got some more stuff here from Politico and The Times of Israel on this topic. So if Netan Yahoo withdraws from gaza As now people are demanding that he do right, get out of Gaza and all this just leave hamasastan intact that will fuel terrorism for another twenty years. And you are exhibiting either some sort of bias or ignorance or some conceit to think that that won't happen again. See here's the thing. I have watched enough of the Hamas leaders. I've watched enough videos out of Pallwood. I've watched enough of these people in their own words. I've watched videos that come out of their schools. And that is a multi generational death cult in Gaza and to a lesser extent the West Bank, but particularly in Gaza, the whole society is ordered around killing Jews and conquering Israel. But they couldn't do it militarily, and so they lured Israel in. And the strategy is to kill as many of their own civilians, and the civilians are aware of this too. Now, I'm not saying all of them want to die for this, cause a lot of them do not, but a lot of them do. That's what happens when you indoctrinate and brainwash multiple generations of children from preschool all the way up. They this is part of their society. How do you break that, you base? I mean, that's a very tall order. To love your life and to love your children more than you want to kill Jews. That's a difficult thing to get out of a population that has been told that's the case for a century, and that has been what's going on. That's been what's going That is what's going on. And people in the West, this is a foreign concept. How why would they do that? How could they do that? No, it's just about you know, they want their land and this and that those people have been kicking each other off the land for a very long time. But at the root of it is that the Jews rose up as second class citizens and threw off the Arabs the Palestinians after the Palestinians made them their lap dogs for centuries before. So you're going to just leave these people on your border. We would never America would never allow this. We would never allow al Qaeda to operate in Tijuana, right to control Tijuana and to be lobbing missiles into California and Texas. We would never allow this. We would go in there and we would level the police. So, on the other hand, fighting this war to an unconditional surrender or a leveling of the place Carthage style that's going to cost the lives of the hostages, not to mention a significant number of IDF soldiers, massive civilian deaths in Gaza and likely and Israel's diplomatic partnerships that they have been developing for decades. It would end Hamas, but the lengthy occupation necessary would likely give rise to more terror and insurgent groups. The Israeli electorate won't won't like either of these outcomes. They don't like this one either, but Nitta Nyahuo has little choice. The declarations by Macron and Starmer from France and England respectively, make it more necessary than ever to scour Hamas from what will be a state with the presumed right to militarized security, and Demas will seize control of it. Then the hostages are likely going to get killed and the people that I've been reading and watching interviews of for the past year. This is where they've all kind of they've all come to this that all of those hostages will likely be murdered by Hamas, if they haven't already been. Hamas will also capture more IDF soldiers. They will torture them, they will parade around their corpses. They will celebrate with bloody hands and such, which is what that symbol means. By the way, you Hamas olays when you hold up a hand with it's covered in red, you know, like, that's what that's that's the murder of that soldier. And the guy pokes out his head out the window and he's waving his hands that he had castrated the soldier and was bathing in his blood and showing the bloody hands and such like. That's what you're dealing with, is so net Yahuo's opposition is ripping him over this. Germany responded with an arms in Bargo, so they're not going to their German government will not approve any exports of military equipment, which, to be fair, letting Jews get slaughtered is very on brand for Germany. 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France and the United Kingdom, along with Canada, announced in recent weeks plans to formally recognize Palestine, while Norway, Spain, and Ireland formally recognized Palestine back in twenty twenty four, I saw today Australia mate is doing it too. Quote today most of the Jewish public is against the Palestinian state for the simple reason that they know it won't bring peace, It will bring war, said Nintan Yahu. Right, this is not about a two state solution. That's been a myth for decades. That's why the Palestinian authority, it's why the PLO, it's why everybody's always rejected all of the offers of a Palestinian state, is because they don't want to Palacestian state unless it means Israel is gone. That's it. They refuse to live with the Jews in the neighborhood. That's the point. I don't know why this is so difficult for people to understand. This is literally what the leadership tells us. Now, if maybe some leaders come along and they don't get thrown off of roofs or drawn and quartered in the public square, then maybe that changes. But right now it has not. Netanyahu said, I think it's actually shameful. He says, it's not going to change our position. We will not commit national suicide to get a good op ed for two minutes. We won't do that. Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Have you noticed that the talks with moss fell apart on the day Macrone made the unilateral decision that he's going to recognize a Palestine and state, and then you have other people come forward, other countries say, well, there's not a ceasefire by some we're going to recognize a Palestinian state. Well, I gom Hamas. I basically conclude, let's not do us Thea's far right because they can be rewarded and we can claim it as a victory. So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. They feel emboldened. Right, So in other words, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Maclon, that's the only French I know. They've got Palestinian blood on their hands, right, people who die now because Hamas is emboldened. They do not want to do any deals. They're not talking to anybody anymore. They're not engaging in any negotiations. So that's thanks to the European leaders who thought that they were just like standing in solidarity with their you know, burseoning Muslim populations. They're doing it for a domestic audience mainly, and you're going to get a whole bunch of Gazans killed. Netanyahu said regarding the Palestinians, quote, if they want to live here next to us, they have to stop seeking our destruction. My goodness, why not just ask for the moon bibby Holy Cow. I mean, he says, to give them an independent state with all the trimmings is to invite a future war, and a certain war. That is something that today the Israeli public forcefully opposes. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv and cities across Israel on Saturday evening to call for a hostage deal and a ceasefire agreement before Israel launches its planned mission to conquer Gaza City, as families of the captives called for a general strike in opposition to the plan, like a worker strike throughout the country, because they say it will mark a death knell for their loved ones. Going into Gaza City will prompt Thomas to murder the hostages. This is a piece by Gnom Leman and Toll staff at the Times of Israel. Oh sorry, that's TOI staff. So that's Times of Israel staff. Never mind the hostages and missing families. Forum and a press release before the rally said quote, a bright red flag is waving over the government's decision to sacrifice our loved ones. The forum urged decision makers to reach a comprehensive hostage deal, stop the war, bring us back our loved ones. Their time is up right, So you do a ceasefire deal, and then you allow Hamas to take back control and what release what several thousand Palestinian terrorists that are right now in Israeli jails, release all their prisoners back to them, and then you get like thirty thirty five dead hostages, fifteen to twenty living hostages. Maybe that's what they're demanding, and Hamas remains in place, and then they get a Palestinian state recognized by European countries, as was mentioned by several relatives of hostages during the protests on Saturday night. Groups representing the families of the hostages and fallen soldiers are leading a push for a general strike. Slight problem, they're not allowed to actually do that. The National Histodrut Labor Federation says that a strike is not expected, while the hostage ceasefire negotiations have all gone cold, and unnamed Israeli official hinted at the possibility of bringing Hamas back to the negotiating table for a ceasefire hostage release deal. Quote with the flooding of the Godza Strip with humanitarian aid, Hamas's starvation campaign is fading away. I think the biggest mistake Israel made was there they calculated that there was enough food that had already gotten into Gaza to feed the population for three months, and so they put an end to the aid in order to try to get the hostages released. But we find out, according to the United Nations itself, that between eighty five and ninety percent of all of the aid has been stolen by Hamas and their affiliated gangs, and so it didn't get to the people. So you've got pockets that were now starving for food. Enter the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. They've been doing relief efforts. Obviously, this is an existential threat to Hamas because again Hamas is using the depths of their own people to gain sympathy to force Israel to stop fighting. That's their way out of this war. There is no other way out of this war for Hamas. Israel holds all the cards right. They can level the entire area if they wanted to, They could walk away if they wanted to, they could do anything in between. They have complete dominance except in the pr battle and that's what Amas is playing to and that means more gosins have to die through starvation or military action. They don't care. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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You to the band has now come out against Israel, joining that genius level expert Roger Waters insert anti Semite anywhere in there. Their own homelands are about to cave due to political malpractice. But the world needs to know what insulated divas think about Israel. Yeah, it's not surprising. You know, look, war is hell and the images that we see are obviously going to engender sympathy and empathy. Obviously people are going to not want to see this stuff. They don't want to see the violence. But there was there was a crowd of people that opted for the violence every day for a century basically, And that's what we are witnessing is the result of that desire to take the fight to the Jews and to kick them out of their ancestral lands. They've been doing it for one hundred years. They've been doing it ever since Mohammed you know, was it Sora nine when all of us when he tried to get the Jews to get on board. He even made a lot of his tenets of his new religion. He's like, hey, look I pray multiple times a day too, and know, hey, look we bow this way too. We're just like you guys. And the Jews were like, no, you're not, You're not a prophet pound sand Mohammed, and then he got really mad and then he's like, you know, all that earlier stuff I said about getting along with everybody, screw that time to murder some Jews. And then the rest of the book just talks a lot about murder and Jews a lot about it. So here's a peat tweet from Sarah. Also, the area once referred to as Palestine was the home to Jewish people, Muslims, Christians, and more. Israel's population is the only Middle Eastern nation that emulates the former Palestine. In other words, Jewish people are Palestinians too because they were in the Palestine Mandate. They lived there too, and the Brits in nineteen twenty one turned over control of what is now Jordan, which is by the way, people don't realize this when you hear people talk about the West Bank. You know, it's a fun game is to ask these leftists, these Hamas holies that are wearing their cafeas as an accessory, a fashion accessory. Ask them where's the west bank? What is the west bank? Because it's the west bank of the Jordan River, that's the natural boundary. And see, yeah, they divided it along that river, and so like that was supposed to be where all the Palestinian Arabs went Jordan. But Jordan doesn't want them. Jordan doesn't want to take they want the issue, or they don't want that population in their country. So yes, Sarah, one could easily say that this would be a second Palestinian state. In fact, what is now the Jerusalem Post, a Jewish led newspaper, used to actually have the word Palestine in its name because Jews were a vital part of the former Palestine. Yeah, no, no, no. History began on October seventh or October sixth, open air prison. By the way, I mentioned the photos coming out of Gaza. Since Hamas attacked Israel on October seventh, Gaza based activists posing as journalists have continued to flood international media with fake and staged images. German newspapers with names I cannot pronounce exposed one such photojournalism the other day, whose work has been picked up by leading German and Western news outlets, including The Times magazine and CNN. Anas Zayed Fatelah, a freelance journalist commissioned by turkeys state run Anadolu news agency, has been spreading Hamas propaganda by taking staged photos depicting supposed misery and suffering in Gaza. Media outlets across the world have been publishing his staged and orchestrated images, holding them up as proof that people in Gaza are facing a dire humanitarian crisis due to Israel's military operation to liberate hostages and eliminate Hamas's terrorist fighting force. Now, the hunger is almost always real, but the pictures are not, according to this German publication. Indeed, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is great. Many have been killed in Amasa's war against Israel and many are starving. However, the staging of this misery often benefits Hama and it's propaganda. For people who have been following this for a long time, we refer to this as Pallwood. They have been doing this for a very very long time. Go to YouTube and search Pallywood, pa l y Wood, Pallywood, and you will see like the videos that are captured of these staged events, and the most like the famous one and they have replicated it many many times of the years, which is somebody is claiming to be injured and they have to be carried to an ambulance and they get handled in the roughest of ways. Do you ever see these videos where they're like carrying somebody and they're just like, oh, and they're in pain whatever, But there are camera shots from outside of that scene and you see them getting carried to the ambulance and then they get out of the ambulance and they're fine. That's why they call it Pallywood. It's been going on for like thirty years. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.