I have a bachelor’s degree in political economy, which included multiple classes on foreign relations.
Israel knew of Hamas’ attack a year before it happened. Netanyahu ignored the information in a manner very similar to how the Bush administration granted visas to the 9/11 attackers. The response has been disproportionate, has focused on non-military targets, and has created a million refugees. These are war crimes on par with the brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Israel has had countless opportunities to avoid this terrifying situation. Israel set up Hamas originally and continues to tacitly support them in the background according to numerous high-ranking Israeli sources.
Israel has created a refugee crisis of historic proportions in Gaza, massacring children, bombing apartment buildings and hospitals, and other war crimes on par with what their ally Russia is committing in Ukraine.
After this latest report in the New York Times, it is obvious that the United States is assisting Israel in committing War Crimes which were defined in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and that the extremist Likud government does not share any values with the American government, least of all the Democratic Party.
I find it disturbing that the United States government is so hesitant to give Ukraine the aid they call for to repel the fascist Russian invaders from their land, as they rape and murder innocent civilians across Ukraine, but when Israel directly ignores reports from their intelligence agency about an incoming attack from Hamas and then respond by striking non-military targets the United States gives them everything they want, even as they violate treaties which the United States drafted and is a party to. This needs to be reversed.
Slava Ukraine.
References
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/