Comments From An IDF Insider

Rocket hits a munitions cache in Gaza

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From Twitter (X) poster Joseph D. McBride, Esq. (@McBrideLawNYC): 

I AM TALKING TO MY SOURCE IN THE IDF SPECIAL FORCES.   ----UPDATE----

There is going to be a huge retaliation. Over 100,000 Israeli soldiers are already on the border with Gaza. It is estimated that Israel will enter Gaza with 250,000 soldiers and completely destroy Hamas.  Thousands more will die on both sides. But this time, the feeling in Israel is there is no other choice.

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People forget that Israel initially gave Gaza its freedom when Yasar Arafat and the PLO were in charge. At that time, there was no blockade of Gaza and no settlements in Gaza. They were all ripped out by the Israelis.

Then Hamas took over Gosha by force, killing all the PLO representatives and declaring that even though they got Gaza as they wanted, they would not rest until Israel was destroyed and all the Jews were killed.

Most of the Western world, despite propaganda cries, remembers these facts.

There is no oppression in Gaza. All they need do is accept Israel's existence, and then the Blockade will be lifted.

People also forget that Gaza's biggest border is Egypt (land and sea). Egypt also imposes a blockade on Gaza because it was discovered that Hamas was planning terrorist actions in Egypt. 

People should understand that it is not only Israel. 

Only last week, Israel opened the border with Gaza and allowed thousands of people from Gaza to cross into Israel every day to work and get very high salaries compared to what they make in Gaza. It now turns out that they used this opportunity to put sleeper cells with weapons in Israel. These people are now walking around Israel, killing civilians. People from Gaza will never be let into Israel again. Just like Egypt doesn’t let them come to Egypt.

There’s a big gap between Reality and propaganda. At the end of the day, the children of Gaza suffer. They are being brainwashed to hate, ensuring they will never have a future as professionals, doctors, engineers, and other academics, which they badly need to build their country.

These Israelites want peace.

When Anwar Sadat agreed to peace with Israel, we gave him everything he wanted back. We Israelis are such suckers. Offer us peace, and we’ll give you everything. 

Joe, if you ask me, and you know very well that I’m not a radical, it seems that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Netanyahu’s government was about to be kicked out in the next election. And now everybody in Israel has become more extreme because of this. Hamas just pushed the process back another 50 years. 

The West Bank is clearly a different story because Israel violated agreements with the Palestinians. The Palestinians were initially asked 2,500 settlers there. Many Israelis said accept the settlers and end it there. Now, you have almost half a million settlers, and half of the Israeli military command lives in the settlements and Israeli towns in the West Bank. The Palestinians in the West Bank have a fair claim, in my opinion, according to the Oslo Accord. But if they had just accepted 2,500 settlers, they would not be dealing with 500k today.

Somebody in the background wants to keep the Palestinian problem alive, which is the reason that the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza cannot get any Arab passport. Many Palestinians desire passports from Arab countries so they can leave the West Bank and Gaza. The Arab League insists on keeping them refugees.

On the flip side, Arabs living in Israel all have Israeli passports. They’re well-educated, have two kids on average per family, and are involved in all aspects of Israeli society. 50% of the doctors in the Israeli hospitals are Israeli Arabs. Those Arabs don’t want to mix with the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza or the West Bank.

In recent years, Israeli Arabs started joining the Israeli military. That is how good it’s been.

Unfortunately, it seems like Hamas wants to kill everybody.