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Rahul's avatar

It's the next step in making Gaza unlivable so that whoever's somehow survived the past year's depravity is left with two choices - stay and starve or pack up and leave. They tried the 'UNRWA is Hamas' ruse by extracting confessions by the 'most moral' of means (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/after-the-unrwa-report-more-accounts-of-israels-torture-in-gaza) but since that hasn't entirely worked, they've now gone for the outright ban.

Over the past few weeks, the General's Plan is being carried out into full effect to further 'thin out' the population and drive more Palestinians out of Northern Gaza. My hunch is they'll go on a few more rampages to drive the Palestinians into the southern half of Gaza below the Netzarim Corridor (massacring as many as they can in the process). The IGF already has control of the Philadelphi corridor and has built so called 'buffer zones' along the eastern wall of the Gaza concentration camp. They'll cage all of the remaining Palestinians in this area and surround them and then really turn on the screws. No food, no water, no electricity, no medicine, no nothing. They'll probably stop firing/bombarding this area as frequently so the world starts looking away. Then they'll turn up the pressure on Sisi (dangling huge bribes in the process) to accept some 'refugees' while letting the rest languish and die from hunger over a few months to a year from a full blown famine. For this to work, removing UNRWA is crucial as they are the only ones with the means to bring in and deliver aid across Gaza.

To expect the callous West and it's despotic Arab partners to do anything is futile (deep down, many of them want the Palestinians gone too). Although I reckon this is is highly unlikely, it would be quite a statement if a powerful country from the global south, say China, pulls together a 'coalition of the willing' to deliver massive quantities of aid to the Gaza coast in large convoys escorted and protected by the navies of all participating countries for a sustained period of time. Done with the all the PR and publicity, it'd be such a big middle finger to the Western 'rules based order' and all of its institutions. The soft power dividend that it'll gain throughout much of the world would be massive (showing global leadership and the likes). And would the US really risk a direct confrontation with China in the Mediterranean over aid delivery? And if the US stays on the sidelines, can the genocidal apartheid regime do anything about it?

Nonetheless, I concede this is far fetched. I think most countries in the global south are content with watching the 'civilised' West lose its credibility and standing by its own doing without having to lift a finger.

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ymg's avatar

So how many posts have you written since you suddenly decided attacks on UNIFIL and Irish peacekeepers don't matter?

What a disingenuous hypocritical cunt you are.

Free Palestine from Hamas and hypocritical pro-Islamist poseurs like you.

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