Martha Raddatz: I want to show you a timeline Admiral Kirby [serving as White House National Security Communications Advisor since 2024] and wonder why things might change this time.
November 6 - death tollen Gaza passes 10,000
November 10th - Secretary Blinken: Far too many Palestinians have been killed
December 12th - Biden says Israel is losing support to indiscriminate bombing
December 22nd - Death toll in Gaza passes 20,000
February 8th - President Biden calls a response in Gaza over the top
February 29th - Death toll in Gaza passes 30,000
March 2nd - Vice President Harris said there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next 6 week
April 1st - IDF strike kills seven World Central Kitchen Aid workersSo why do you think anything will change?
John Kirby: I’m glad you brought that timeline up because it shows the degree, the growing Degree of frustration that we’ve had with the way these operations are being prosecuted and the way that uh the Israelis are acting on the ground in terms of Civilian casualties - so it we have been increasingly frustrated and again that was a core message that the president delivered to prime minister Netanyahu in their phone call this week, this past week that if they’ve got to do more, they’ve got to make changes now. The Prime Minister assured the president, that he would do that we’ve seen some announcements in those early hours, that’s welcome, we got to see more, we’ve got to see it over time and the Israeli media is reporting this morning that the IDF withdrew ground troops from Southern Gaza um they’ve been fighting there in Khan Yunes for four months!
Martha Raddatz: What what does that tell you?
John Kirby: Well it doesn’t, it’s hard to know exactly what that tells us right now, this was just an announcement that they made. I’d certainly let them speak to their operations uh as we understand it uh and through their public announcements, it is really just about rest and refit for these troops that have been on the ground for four months and not necessarily that we can tell indicative of some coming new operation for these troops they’ve been on the ground for four months, uh the the word we’re getting is they’re tired they need to be refit and and and…
Martha Raddatz: Just one final question there’s there’s such a dramatic disagreement between what the Israelis say and what they say in Gaza about what is happening on the ground obviously we’ve seen some video of that - why hasn’t the US insisted on more on the ground accountability? Why aren’t we, and I’m not saying in a combat position, on the ground accounting for this ourselves to make sure the rules of law are followed?
John Kirby: The president’s been very clear, we’re not going to have uh us boots on the ground in Gaza fighting in that war or involved in that conflict what we will do is make sure that they have the tools and capabilities they need to defend themselves and what we will also do and the president made this clear is hold Israel accountable for the way in which they’re conducting these operations. [The question was why, remember?]
Es gibt aber natürlich auch wieder gute Nachrichten:
Netanjahu: „Dieser Sieg erfordert den Einmarsch in Rafah“
Dieser Sieg, wird kein leichter sein, dieser Sieg wird steinig und schwer, dieser Sieg für den marschiern wir in Rafah ein, dieser Sieg beinhaltet keine Zwei-Staaten-Lösung mehr. Dieser Sieg, wird gegen Hamas sein, dieser Sieg bedenkt nur den Right sector, Sir. Vor diesem Sieg, mussten wir noch 2000 Hektar im West Jordanland nehmen, darauf achtet doch eh niemand mehr.
Dieser Sieg, war Verteidigung, steinig und leer.
Israel’s largest land seizure since Oslo Accords deals fresh blow to Palestinian statehood
Israel declared 800 hectares of land in the West Bank as property of the state on Friday [22.03.2024], a move that will facilitate use of the ground for settlement construction. The area covers large swaths of the Jordan Valley, a vital region for a future Palestinian state, and is the largest piece of land to be seized by Israel since the early 1990s.
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Dieser Sieg, für den warn zwei amerikanische Flugzeugträger notwendig, die da mal daneben standen und nie Boots on the ground liefern wollten.
