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Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation - Mondoweiss

Related - https://hexbear.net/post/2725394

written in the fucking 1970s

You could argue they already have, but I think they're still in the transitory stage, as there are still (as far as I have heard) living Israeli hostages/POWs in the Gaza Strip. I think the clue for when that transition tips qualitatively is going to be when the hostage families, as an action group, become a pro-war force domestically rather than a relatively anti-war force.

Once there are no more verifiably-living Israeli captives in the Strip, there is going to be a campaign originating from either a) the Israeli government itself or b) a citizen group mixed with grieving families of unaccounted-for IDF captives/civilian hostages and unhinged settlers/zealots, which will subsequently be co-opted into official policy, that lump-sums the captive count and the unknown count into a rhetorical 'unknown, possibly captive' count that is used as justification to continue the war.

There’s pretty much a seamless setup for this idea to take root—so much so that I believe it is almost inevitable:

1. The promulgation of "Hamas' labyrinthine and sprawling underground tunnels" as rhetorical justification for indiscriminate targeting is very neatly slotted into a mythos of mass captivity of an unverifiable amount of people in said tunnels
2. Mass bombing and indiscriminate targeting inevitably and demonstrably leads to mass casualty and wasting of infrastructure. Ruling out the laughable idea that the IDF is an entity with iron-tight discipline among its ranks, you are going to have rank-breaking, overextension, and hooliganism (a la Looney Tunes' Greatest To Ever Do It World Cup Flag Kicker), often unaccounted for, that will have combatants buried under the rubble or generally out-of-sight in the aftermath, pumping the MIA count
3. On-the-ground journalism in Gaza has been decimated, both by the carnage and by Israel’s active hostility and repression towards outlets that don’t toe the line
4. Hostages are already being killed in Israeli airstrikes, and the indiscriminate nature of these strikes as well as there being no count (as far as I’m aware) of the current number of verifiably-alive and verifiably-dead captives lends itself to a blurring between the POW and MIA counts

I am willing to put money on this being a major facet in the domestic movement to continue the current state of the war within the decade if Israel continues to exist as the entity as it is now. The only thing that holds me back is that I think it would be irresponsible for me to take others up on that wager because I feel like I would be scamming people with an unwinnable bet.

https://archive.ph/2uQPj

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2722326

Hey, everyone.

You can start through this hyperlink here.

That's if you're just starting the A Song of Ice and Fire book series (which the TV show Game of Thrones is based off of).

Discussion question for today:

What are your favorite parts of Dorne?

https://subium.com/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kuf72qqe5m2t

The Checkmate, Lincolnites finale is here and is a sprawling epic. If you post here I can basically guarantee you'll have a great time.

Correct, yes I do, stop reminding me because then I am reminded of all the times i have to hear some drivel about rules based international order, rogue states or racism from someone who doesn't

This is in regards to Ms. Rachel.

https://kufiya.org/

There's an auto-queue and at the time of writing this there's like 3600 people in it (and an estimated like hour wait), so no guarantee of anything being in stock by the time you read this; but I figured I'd post this in case anyone was waiting on them to restock.

This Bluesky post my a journalist is from ~45m ago.

NEW: Judge Merchan notifies the parties in People v. Trump that the following comment was posted about a week ago on the NY Courts Facebook page:

"My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted 🎉 Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!! ❤️”

https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3kueeqrhiws2l

Follow up

Good news: Katie Phang thinks there’s reason to believe the FB comment from the supposed juror’s cousin is a fake...

I bet the journo ends up deleting that post because "good news" will get him in trouble if the right-wing learns about it.