Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Israel attacks Rafah while sending delegates to negotiate further details of a truce with Hamas" video.

  1. From the paranoid perspective of an Israeli government advisor, all they’re seeing is that the people funding HAMAS (Iran, et al) are now the ones calling time and offering back hostages, right at the point that Israel was about to smash a central support hub for HAMAS’s whole operation. Now there are Israelis who are chomping at the bit, thinking they may find other things when they get in there? Whether that be intelligence, billions of dollars worth of fighting technology and weapons, who knows what else? The actual remaining hostages, perhaps? But, because this call from HAMAS to accept Israel’s ceasefire proposal (And being Israel’s terms and conditions, so you would think they would accept them instantly?) come from Iran and their allies, Netanyahu instinctively feels the need to get in there and see what it is that they’re so keen to protect. Humanitarian concerns will have not have even crossed Netanyahu’s mind, nor those of his opponents in this complex war. And we must never forget, so long as Netanyahu is fighting this war, he is keeping the sword of Damocles from dropping on his head, in the form of elections, criminal charges and facing the corruption charges of which he is already accused. In that respect Netanyahu is very much like Vladimir Putin. Now, he is a warlord or he is nothing. It is not just in his political interests to keep this war raging (so long as he can maintain a significant minority of supporters), it is his lifeline. We are asking a proud, callous, sociopathic man to face shame, indignity after indignity, humbling and probably jail time or even self termination (the YouTube algorithm makes my comments disappear if I use more appropriate words), or he can fight a war. He is THE WORST person to be leading Israel at this crucial moment in their history. Whatever happens, this cannot end well for the Israelis. As for the Palestinians . . . Well, it’s already gone about as badly as it can and will get worse. But the innocent paying for the crimes of the guilty is a feature, not a bug, in this conflict, on both sides. Unless American pulls the plug, which they show no signs of doing, there can be no end to this conflict until Palestine ceases to exist. We are watching a genocide. And we’re doing very little about it, except helping to protect the perpetrators from Iranian missiles.
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