Nuclear weapons would have left the region uninhabitable for decades and fallout likely would have reached Israel. It would make it impossible to set up pipelines or bases for the gas reserves.
Why deplete the reserves of nuclear weapons when it's far more enjoyable to slowly bomb with conventional weapons? To cover Gaza it would probably take 5 to 10 nuclear weapons.
Sadists love pain and suffering. In Netanyahus perspective this is more like a cat killing a rat and playing with it for a bit till it's dead.
Conventional weapons are free -supplied by the US taxpayers so no worries as to cost.
Hamas is virtually defenseless against the US supplied state of the art weapons. A few Chinese firecracker rockets with a grenade ducktaped to the tip and some Ak47s with no ability for resupply.
At the beginning of this conflict Hamas supposedly stated that it would kill hostages if Israel didn't give prior warning of an attack. Hamas has not executed any hostage to date. In fact they are willing to negotiate for the release of them but have been thwarted by both Israel and the US against the wishes of the international community and citizens.
In the media I have only heard directly from Netanyahu that Palistinian people are "human animals" and have to be exterminated. I have yet to hear anything reliable from Hamas stating the same about Jews. Hamas leadership has not been granted the same worldwide media platform Netanyahu has enjoyed.
And to repeat again - Palistinian people have been invaded and occupied by Israel since 1948 and oppressed by Israel up until present for fighting back against their oppressor. And the US has knowingly and willingly aided. It benefits the US by providing a distraction from domestic issues, an excuse for military presence in the Mideast and the hope of a war against Iran ,Syria, Lebanon (and with the current attacks and counterattacks we are virtually at war with them now) and more profit for the MIC to the demise of Americans who are completely ignored by our "representative government". And in a roundabout way they blame Hitler.
Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. Seeing all the pictures coming in from the Middle East. We have evolved not one iota in the thousands of years since the Ancients roamed our planet. Mankind needs to remind itself of how great it can be if it puts aside once and for all religion, poverty, inequality, hate and war...! These are complex problems for sure, but not unsolvable. "The Pale Blue Dot speech" is needed now.
With footage from inside the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa, The Grayzone examines the Israeli military's policy of attacking and eliminating medical care centers across the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory as it seeks to expel its residents.
Stray dogs are entering hospital grounds eating the rotting corpses of dead bodies.
The Israelis and their US sponsors have created a world where it’s normal to fire on hospitals, journalists and UN workers while killing 5,500 children in 45 days.
Israel Vows Extermination, Ignoring World Demand to End Gaza Genocide, w/ As’ad Abukhalil
"...the right-wing government of Netanyahu would choose to use one or more if cornered" This really sounds bad. How does Astore know what Netanyahu would do? Astore sound like an American, b.t.w.
I'm not sure why you did it, but you left out the very important beginning of Astore's sentence, " IT'S NOT BEYOND THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY THAT" [emphasis mine] ... the right-wing government of Netanyahu would choose to use one or more if cornered." He doesn't claim to know what Netanyahu would do. And what does it matter if he is American?
I do not think the beginning of the sentence is "very important" at all. If this is all you have I do not think you are a very good activist. You seem ridiculous. Another "radical" bites the dust.
The last paragraph in Jonathan Cook's article you linked Ray;
"So Israel is taking advantage of this moment to “finish the job”. The final destination is clearly in view, as, in truth, it has been for more than seven decades. The crime is unfolding step by step, the pace quickening. And yet senior politicians and journalists in the West – like their predecessors – continue to be blind to it all."
And I'm watching Al Jazeera live on my TV as I type here. I'm watching an Israeli rubber-tired tank-like vehicle running around the West Bank ramming Palestinians cars into total wrecks on the side of the road! Some with drivers in the cars.
Ever since the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, the Israeli's have been allowed to get away with spreading lies and propaganda.
All always echoed uncritically by the mainstream western media.
The latest episode of duplicity involved a doctored video ostensibly showing evidence that the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza is used by Hamas as an operations center.
Even the BBC is tired of this Hasbara bullshit.
This was deemed too over the top even for the UK's state-run BBC.
"Meanwhile, Joe Biden penned an op-ed to the Washington Post equating Hamas with Putin as 'pure, unadulterated evil.'”
If anyone is "pure unadulterated evil" it is those who provide the weapons.
Nuclear weapons would have left the region uninhabitable for decades and fallout likely would have reached Israel. It would make it impossible to set up pipelines or bases for the gas reserves.
Why deplete the reserves of nuclear weapons when it's far more enjoyable to slowly bomb with conventional weapons? To cover Gaza it would probably take 5 to 10 nuclear weapons.
Sadists love pain and suffering. In Netanyahus perspective this is more like a cat killing a rat and playing with it for a bit till it's dead.
Conventional weapons are free -supplied by the US taxpayers so no worries as to cost.
Hamas is virtually defenseless against the US supplied state of the art weapons. A few Chinese firecracker rockets with a grenade ducktaped to the tip and some Ak47s with no ability for resupply.
At the beginning of this conflict Hamas supposedly stated that it would kill hostages if Israel didn't give prior warning of an attack. Hamas has not executed any hostage to date. In fact they are willing to negotiate for the release of them but have been thwarted by both Israel and the US against the wishes of the international community and citizens.
In the media I have only heard directly from Netanyahu that Palistinian people are "human animals" and have to be exterminated. I have yet to hear anything reliable from Hamas stating the same about Jews. Hamas leadership has not been granted the same worldwide media platform Netanyahu has enjoyed.
And to repeat again - Palistinian people have been invaded and occupied by Israel since 1948 and oppressed by Israel up until present for fighting back against their oppressor. And the US has knowingly and willingly aided. It benefits the US by providing a distraction from domestic issues, an excuse for military presence in the Mideast and the hope of a war against Iran ,Syria, Lebanon (and with the current attacks and counterattacks we are virtually at war with them now) and more profit for the MIC to the demise of Americans who are completely ignored by our "representative government". And in a roundabout way they blame Hitler.
Should I be more explicit?
Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds. Seeing all the pictures coming in from the Middle East. We have evolved not one iota in the thousands of years since the Ancients roamed our planet. Mankind needs to remind itself of how great it can be if it puts aside once and for all religion, poverty, inequality, hate and war...! These are complex problems for sure, but not unsolvable. "The Pale Blue Dot speech" is needed now.
There's a black, stinking sore on the face of mankind and it is called the USA
With footage from inside the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa, The Grayzone examines the Israeli military's policy of attacking and eliminating medical care centers across the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory as it seeks to expel its residents.
Stray dogs are entering hospital grounds eating the rotting corpses of dead bodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBb830Ggs4
The Israelis and their US sponsors have created a world where it’s normal to fire on hospitals, journalists and UN workers while killing 5,500 children in 45 days.
Israel Vows Extermination, Ignoring World Demand to End Gaza Genocide, w/ As’ad Abukhalil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsbwUT-p8vo
Another good one, people just don't see through all this destruction. Linking again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Yes, it takes one to know one. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend. xo
"...the right-wing government of Netanyahu would choose to use one or more if cornered" This really sounds bad. How does Astore know what Netanyahu would do? Astore sound like an American, b.t.w.
I'm not sure why you did it, but you left out the very important beginning of Astore's sentence, " IT'S NOT BEYOND THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY THAT" [emphasis mine] ... the right-wing government of Netanyahu would choose to use one or more if cornered." He doesn't claim to know what Netanyahu would do. And what does it matter if he is American?
I do not think the beginning of the sentence is "very important" at all. If this is all you have I do not think you are a very good activist. You seem ridiculous. Another "radical" bites the dust.
The last paragraph in Jonathan Cook's article you linked Ray;
"So Israel is taking advantage of this moment to “finish the job”. The final destination is clearly in view, as, in truth, it has been for more than seven decades. The crime is unfolding step by step, the pace quickening. And yet senior politicians and journalists in the West – like their predecessors – continue to be blind to it all."
And I'm watching Al Jazeera live on my TV as I type here. I'm watching an Israeli rubber-tired tank-like vehicle running around the West Bank ramming Palestinians cars into total wrecks on the side of the road! Some with drivers in the cars.
When is this nightmare going to end?
If they're "blind," it's willfully so. They know what's happening and prefer to look the other way.
Over 50 PRESS journalists now killed Bill.
If it were not for Al Jazeera TV we would all be "blind" to this 2nd Nakba.
Jimmy Dore;
Ever since the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, the Israeli's have been allowed to get away with spreading lies and propaganda.
All always echoed uncritically by the mainstream western media.
The latest episode of duplicity involved a doctored video ostensibly showing evidence that the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza is used by Hamas as an operations center.
Even the BBC is tired of this Hasbara bullshit.
This was deemed too over the top even for the UK's state-run BBC.
The BBC Has Finally Turned Against Israel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBvkBXfirPo
BTW, The BBC has since taken this video down. I guess they got pressured.