TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military says it has launched a new ground offensive in Gaza, sending troops back into areas they had retreated from during a nearly two-month ceasefire. This comes a day after Israel broke the ceasefire with a punishing series of airstrikes that killed more than 400 people, many of whom were children, and wounded hundreds more.

The IDF said it aims to expand what it calls the “security perimeter” separating Gaza and Israel, and to create a “partial buffer zone” between the north and south of the Gaza Strip. The IDF says it has “taken control and re-established” its presence in the Netzarim corridor, the large strip of land dividing Gaza’s north and south that troops had occupied during the war and retreated from as part of a January ceasefire agreement.

  • gregs_gumption@lemm.ee
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    No. Biden refused to listen to 10% of his base in the hopes of keeping the 90% happy. That 10% decided they’d “hold Biden accountable” by supporting Republican flavored genocide, because reasons. Congratulations, I’m sure Biden really learned his lesson.

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      Unfortunately a large block of the American voting base believes in fairy tales.

      “But evangelicals’ support isn’t simply driven by a theology that compels them to love the Holy Land, detached from its convulsive domestic and global political implications. For many “Christians Zionists,” and particularly for popular evangelists with significant clout within the Republican Party, their support for Israel is rooted in its role in the supposed end times: Jesus’ return to Earth, a bloody final battle at Armageddon, and Jesus ruling the world from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In this scenario, war is not something to be avoided, but something inevitable, desired by God, and celebratory.”

      https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481

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      Never was there ever a poll with 90% of Democrats in support of Israel’s war. Usually the strong majority of Democrats wanted it stopped. You’re just writing fan fiction here so you can feel good about dismissing a genocide as a worthwhile political event.

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      Never was there ever a poll with 90% of Democrats in support of Israel’s war. Usually the strong majority of Democrats wanted it stopped. You’re just writing fan fiction here so you can feel good about dismissing a genocide as a worthwhile political event.

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      Well, if the 90% of his base is why he was supporting Israel, I’m sure they are happy with this result as well, so whatever the 10% did doesn’t really change anything. You sound pretty chippy for getting to blame the 10% for everything the Democrats did wrong, so clearly you’re part of that 90%.