• Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    US military advisors also have been directly helping the IDF plan the invasion into Gaza. He’s definitely trying to play dumb, probably because there’s actual backlash to this stuff that’s reaching the mainstream. Like, when you get Wolf Blitzer of all people stunned speechless on live TV at the IDF justification for striking a refugee camp, you know it’s out of hand over there.

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      9 months ago

      They’ve been doing more than just advising: The US has military assets in the air above Gaza, adopted a naval stance threatening Hezbollah, and put Delta Force operators on the ground.

      Which makes all of the softening language sound like spin to me, fwiw.

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        9 months ago

        An IDF admitted to him that they purposely bombed the Jabalia refugee camp

        The next day, they bombed it again

        The day after, they bombed it a third time

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        9 months ago

        He was interviewing an IDF Lt Col about the initial bombing of the refugee camp. He was pushing about if the IDF didn’t care about the civilian casualties and looked rather taken aback after several attempts to push for a straight answer the only one he got was that “This is the tragedy of war.”