Brutkey

merely rhys
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Good grief.

Huckabee, pissed off about Starmer's entirely reasonable statement opposing Israel's apparent plan to occupy Gaza City, is actively advocating for starvation, forced deportation to other countries, and uhh, for repeating the Dresden fire-bombing in Gaza I think?

I remind myself that Israel's shift in March is entirely enabled by the support he has from Trump and his appointees like Huckabee. Americans chose this, and Huckabee is a stark reflection of them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/08/huckabee-starmer-gaza-dresden

merely rhys
@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf

The Grauniad has a few pieces up on the proposed occupation, but I think this one is the most astute: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/08/the-guardian-view-on-israels-gaza-takeover-plan-a-destructive-act-that-must-be-stopped

With the relaxed RoE the IDF is operating under, under which policing operations around GHF sites have been disastrous, expecting an occupation of cities to be anything other than a catastrophe is insane. As Israeli military commanders have said, it'll be a meat grinder. Worse than Iraq.

merely rhys
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Rosenberg on the settler movement's wider plan to annex Gaza: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/08/right-wing-israeli-settlers-annex-gaza/683776/?gift=y-oC1QlmgLOUZVvlEoH84_NaAnu1jg39vxpc7bNU4Jc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Netanyahu is shielded by Trump to the point where unlawful annexation will be tolerated if he goes for it, catastrophe be damned — but Likud is vulnerable. The best hope for every side of this awful situation is an election.

A no confidence vote can't be forced for another four months though, and short of his far-right coalition collapsing an election (that he'll surely lose) won't be until October next year.