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Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s ‘red line’ on Rafah (www.politico.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some types of leaders like to engineer (through inaction) attacks on their own country, because that will justify the type of situation they like to have. More or less: (a) you can't get rid of me! Look how dangerous things are (b) we have to keep killing them, they deserve it, look what they did.

I have no idea if Netanyahu's that way, or if the intelligence failures came just from the cloud of incompetence that for some reason tends to surround far-right leaders. But the first one definitely seems possible.

(Oh also sometimes (c) my friends who sell weapons are gonna get rich rich rich)

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure he didn't cry about the death of tripping ravers in a socialist desert kibbutz.