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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 workers

So 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.

src: click

Die­ser Sieg, für den warn zwei ame­ri­ka­ni­sche Flug­zeug­trä­ger not­wen­dig, die da mal dane­ben stan­den und nie Boots on the ground lie­fern wollten.

Veröffentlicht by me am Dienstag, 09. April 2024 unter Allgemein, Media.