"Netanyahu announced Friday that he had ordered the Israeli military to present the cabinet with a plan to both evacuate the city’s civilian population — augmented by over one million refugees from the strip’s north and center — and destroy Hamas’s remaining battalions in the area."
"...I have a bad feeling here. Many things could get wrong and people will be hurt on all sides. .. "
- Hardly surprising. The ostensible aim "Destroying Hamas remaining battalions" is bullshit, whilst the use of the word "evacuate" is utterly cynical...where to?
The idea of course is the same as mooted months ago: push the Palestinian population into Egyptian Sinai and make them "someone else's problem." If that works the will do the same with the West Bank Palestinians vis a vis Jordan. the Egyptians have already been offered massive amounts debt forgiveness by the US to agree to this and still turned it down, but the Israelis have apparently decided to do it unilaterally: in the hope that the Egyptians will bend to US will or alternatively will massacre Gazans trying to escape Israeli bombing by illegally crossing the border and thus take the heat off them.
The very idea behind this is to hurt or kill lots of people: Palestinians, and neither do they care if they harm Egypt.
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