What Israelis are trying to do in the northern part of the Gaza Strip is to empty it, basically to send the citizens who are there. We are talking about 350,000 to 400,000 to the south. [00:00:18] It goes hand in hand with the plan or the agenda of those settlers who are in government. There are ministers who are settlers who want to resettle the northern part of the Gaza Strip. [00:00:36] The IDF has ramped up its military operations in northern Gaza, and according to reporting directly from Israeli media, there's an ominous reason for that. Insider sources in the Israeli military say that they've all but abandoned [00:00:53] hopes of a hostage deal with Hamas, and have also set their eyes on essentially grabbing land in Gaza instead. Oh, and allegedly eradicating Hamas. As Haaretz reports in closed room discussions, senior defense officials say [00:01:10] the chances of reaching a hostage deal appear slim right now. One of the reasons cited is that since negotiations were suspended, there has been no discussion among international players involved in the talks. I mean, as we've known, one of the main reasons is the Netanyahu government [00:01:28] has absolutely no interest in engaging in cease fire negotiations in good faith or reaching a cease fire deal. In addition, Israel's political leaders haven't held any discussions with the security branches about the condition of the hostages. [00:01:44] So they have all been they've been abandoned by the Israeli government. Let's be clear about that. Instead of focusing on returning the captives, they've been escalating military operations in northern Gaza. Last night, for instance, there was an IDF strike on a school in Gaza [00:02:00] where Palestinians were sheltering. That ended up killing 22 people, including, of course, children. And this morning, a strike hit outside Al-Aqsa hospital, killing five people and injuring about 70 others, some very severely. [00:02:16] Tents caught on fire and residents were carried to. Residents were carrying injured individuals to the hospital, and there was also a horrific video showing one man who was burned alive, [00:02:31] IV drip attached to him and everything. Army commanders in the field, who spoke with Haaretz say the recent decision to launch operations in northern Gaza was taken without any in-depth discussion. They said it appeared that the operations were aimed principally [00:02:47] at pressuring local residents, who were again told to evacuate the area for the coast as winter is approaching and remember, upward of 80% of all buildings in Gaza have been leveled, completely destroyed. Keep that in mind when you also consider the fact that winter is coming, [00:03:05] but wait until you hear about the surrender or starve plan. We're going to get to that in just a moment. But first thoughts? Yeah, that's that's what I wanted to go to first actually, because, you know, they've cut off aid to northern Gaza since October 1st. So the starvation plan has begun already. [00:03:23] Before we get to it, though, let me just say, look, I know that for the rest of the planet, it's already super clear what Israel is doing. The right to self-defense as an excuse they use. 12 months ago now, it's been a year of brutal slaughter after slaughter and relocating the Palestinians [00:03:39] and the ethnic cleansing and the nonstop bombing of their neighbors. So. So the only people left that are to address, to get this change are the people that are in power. Right? So the people in power here in America and people in Israel. [00:03:55] And so for those folks, they think that Israel is still defending themselves. But once they do this operation and they take northern Gaza, or they take southern Lebanon, or they take both. Remember, it's not like Israel is going to admit it. [00:04:12] They're going to have a whole new set of talking points. Oh, we had to take half of Gaza for security reasons. And boy, and you're creating a border zone. And this is the only way to keep us safe. And. But remember, every imperial power has said when taking land [00:04:27] that they were doing it for self-defense. So there's going to be no excuse left once. This is pure ethnic cleansing, pure theft of land. So if you say, hey, look, in the old days, you conquer land, you keep it. That's what you do. And a lot of people on social media, probably mostly Israeli bots and trolls, [00:04:46] but but some real people who are Israeli supporters are saying, yeah, of course, why not take their land? Take. We're conquering army. Take their land. Or at least you're being honest about it. Okay, but that's in the old days, and we were trying to get past the old days. Why were we trying to get past old days? [00:05:02] Because in the old days, there would be things like the Holocaust where you would say, hey, you know what? I'm going to create World War Two here, and I'm going to take the Sudetenland. I'm going to take Poland, I'm going to take all this land. And if anybody is in my way, I'm going to kill them. And then I need a scapegoat like the Palestinians. I mean, in that case, it was the Jews. [00:05:17] And so I'm going to say that they're the dangerous people and they're going to destroy all of us unless we kill them first and then so and then you go to kill them all. So it's not like we haven't seen this movie. And I don't mean to say that, like, right now, 6 million Palestinians [00:05:33] haven't been killed, only 42,000. But remember when they started doing the carpet bombing of Gaza? Even the released hostages, Israeli hostages, say today we thought we're going to get killed. We didn't understand why they were dropping bombs [00:05:49] on the buildings we were in. And the reason is because they didn't give a damn about the hostages. And now they're saying basically, yeah, the hostages are dead. We don't care about them. We want the goddamn land. And so keep it real. It's about land. And if you don't understand that, you're either deeply biased [00:06:06] or you just haven't realized the pattern that's happening here, that is super obvious to the rest of us. So let's talk a little bit about the surrender or starve plan. So it is possible that the military operations that are currently taking place in northern Gaza are essentially laying the groundwork for [00:06:24] this so-called surrender or starve plan. Now, this plan was devised by a retired major general by the name of Giora Eiland, and was recently presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [00:06:40] It calls for all residents of northern Gaza to be evacuated within a week to so-called humanitarian zones in southern Gaza, Those who choose to remain would be considered Hamas militants even if they are not Hamas militants, [00:06:55] even if they are elderly people who are immobile, even if they are severely injured, individuals who aren't able to evacuate, even though they might be individuals who have nowhere else to go for shelter, for safety. They would be essentially military targets because they would [00:07:11] be considered Hamas militants. Even if they're not now, they would be cut off from humanitarian aid, and they would face hunger. And Israel would then maintain control over the North for an indefinite period of time, meaning forever. Okay, that is the plan. Now, Eiland says that the only way to stop Hamas and bring an end to the war [00:07:31] is to prevent its access to aid. This is a direct quote. I am not I'm not making this up. I'm going to read it verbatim. Here's what Guiora had to say. They will either have to surrender or to starve. It doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to kill every person, [00:07:50] it will not be necessary. People will not be able to live there. The water will dry up. Okay, so if you are offended by my earlier German analogy, sad day for you. This is exactly what the Germans did. [00:08:05] It wasn't what they did at the end, but it was. We're not even at the beginning anymore. Now we're in the middle. So. But they're not militants. And in fact, remember, we're getting this from Haaretz. Who's getting it from sources inside the Israeli Defense Department. [00:08:21] Israeli defense officials and intelligence officials, Shin bet officials write their own government saying, what are we doing? Are we really going to kill all these people? Are we really going to take this land and then try to hold it, and we're really going to slaughter them all. We're going to starve them. Are you guys serious? [00:08:37] And so they're going to the Israeli press going, oh, they're serious. They're actually going to slaughter them all or starve them to death just to take the land. With our blessing, by the way. Yeah. And our money. And our money. So we're paying for that genocide. [00:08:53] And now anyone who says it isn't a genocide is totally delusional. Utterly delusional. So there's, like, there's nothing left, guys. All there is is just nonsense talking points, justifying over-the-top old school colonialism, vicious imperialism, trying to take land. [00:09:11] If you're outraged by Putin trying to take land in Ukraine, wait till you get a load of Netanyahu all over the Middle East. I want to go to our own. Bregman, who is a teaching fellow at King's College London and a former Israeli military officer. Here he is describing what he believes will happen in Gaza. [00:09:31] I know exactly what's going to happen in terms of the dynamic. They will empty the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They will establish military camps there, connected to electricity and water, and then settlers will move in. [00:09:50] That's the long term plan. So Yoav Galant, who is the Israeli minister of defense, told US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that the IDF is not carrying out this plan. It's just that everything that you see transpiring in northern Gaza at the moment [00:10:08] is a coincidence, in that it's exactly what the plan describes. - But they're not carrying out the plan. - Yeah. That's why Israeli defense officials and Shin Bet officials are going in a panic to the Israeli press, saying it is the plan. It is the plan. Right. [00:10:23] And that is the idea that Israeli defense officials and Shin Bet officials would be saying, watch out for Israel, and the current government is going to ethnically cleanse these people. That means Israel has jumped the shark months ago. [00:10:38] They're desperate at this point to get you the news. We're about to do something horrific. And so it's not about you. By the way, they started on October 1st, so how could it be a coincidence when you say, oh, the surrender or starve plan is a coincidence, [00:10:53] but I stopped allowing food into and water into northern Gaza two weeks ago. That's not a coincidence. That's just the direct action that you took. So in the context of all this, guys, now, when you look at the fact that the IDF and the Israeli government, again, [00:11:12] according to the Israeli press and no one disputes this anymore, knew about October 7th and chose not to do anything about it. Their official explanation is we didn't think they could really do it. But currently we see that Israel has incredible intelligence operation, right? [00:11:28] So they just missed the biggest attack on Israel ever, even though they knew about it, but chose not to do anything. And then you see, all of a sudden the excuse is Naomi Klein again brilliantly explains in her piece about, oh, we are the victims we [00:11:44] we were forced to defend ourselves. And since we're defending ourselves, we're allowed to take as much land as we like and kill as many Palestinians and Arabs as we like, and coincidentally invade other countries that are nearby and maybe take their land as well. Right. [00:11:59] And remember, it took the IDF a long time to even respond to what happened on October 7th, because all of the soldiers were stationed near the West Bank. I mean, really, you're not going to have any military stationed near Gaza. [00:12:15] You know, even if you think that Hamas didn't have the capability to carry out the kind of attack they did on October 7th, wouldn't you, as Prime Minister, want to ensure that you have a security presence near Gaza, just in case Hamas has that capability. Let alone the fact that it took them hours and hours and hours to get there [00:12:33] while people were being killed and sexually assaulted and taken hostage. And the IDF was nowhere to be found. Right. For an enormous period of time, but I'm sure that also was a giant coincidence. But it doesn't matter whether you think October 7th, [00:12:50] they let it happen on purpose. Not all of Israel, obviously. The people in Israel that got killed didn't want to be killed. The people taken hostage didn't want to be taken hostage. We're talking about government officials, guys. It's never about ethnic identity. North Korea and South Korea are the same exact identity. They have two very different governments that lead to two very different results. [00:13:09] And North Korea, they have concentration camps just like Israel does in Gaza. Okay. It isn't because of their ethnicity. It's because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And as they're doing this insane lunatic plan with a deeply right wing government [00:13:26] of Israel, America is going, attaboy! Here's more money and more money and more money. And if you kill more and you take more land, we're going to send you even more money. And right now, by the way, we're amping up Israel's defense forces. But we say because some Hezbollah rockets got through [00:13:44] and they're like, wow, it happened. Like, I can't believe it. It turns out we might lose 1 or 2 people. In fact, in this case, they lost four soldiers. Wait, I thought Hezbollah was vicious terrorists who only wanted to kill civilians. Why did they targeted a military base? Wounded 61, killed four. [00:14:00] Okay, so, by the way, their, kill ratio of civilians to, to fighters for Israel is way, way, way worse than Hamas or Hezbollah while they pretend to be innocent. So, guys, at the at the end of the day, [00:14:17] right now, Israel is executing this plan exactly as the people inside the Israeli government have warned us. They are not a monolith, but they but we do have a fringe lunatic, part of the Israeli government that has taken over completely. [00:14:33] And if we keep sending them money, they're going to keep doing this plan, and then we're all going to be morally responsible for one of the worst genocides of our lifetime. Well, we will continue sending them money. Both political parties support what is currently happening in Gaza, [00:14:49] in the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Syria, potentially a full blown war with Iran. There is no difference between the two political parties on this issue. So I am disgusted by the fact that we are morally culpable for what's happening. [00:15:06] But the American people apparently have absolutely no choice. You have a uniparty on this issue and that's it. 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