Continuous and violent clashes and explosions in Rafah. 🔥

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The Western propaganda is framing Netanyahu's decision to dissolve the war cabinet as an attempt to sideline Ben Hmir and Smalltrich following the withdrawal of Gantz and Eizenkot. This interpretation, however, misses the mark entirely.

The war cabinet was initially formed to include opposition members, aiming to mitigate the influence of extremist factions on critical war decisions, at least in appearance. With the dissolution, Netanyahu finds himself back at square one, now free from consulting with others on war strategies while remaining fully at the mercy of Ben Hmir and Smoltrich's demands.

Amidst a nation more divided than ever, facing conflicts on multiple fronts, the collapse of a war cabinet intended to project a facade of unity and address internal divisions is truly remarkable.

In a normal "country," wars are certain to unite all factions against the external enemies. Apparently, that is not true for an artificial apartheid state whose citizens have nothing in common other than a synthetic language.


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Report (June 18, 2024):
Gantz, during his meeting with Biden's envoy to Lebanon:

- Time to reach an agreement on the northern border is running out

• We will support any effective action on the northern front from outside the current government

• We are committed to removing Hezbollah threat from the Israeli population on the northern border.

Comment:
There is an important piece of information that has been left out from such reports.

The envoy in question is Amos Hochstein, who served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a tank crewman prior to moving to Washington. He was a foreign policy adviser to Democratic Party members of the U.S. government House Foreign Affairs Committee from 1994 to January 2001. A lifelong lobbyist for energy companies and a recent appointee of Blinken.

Now, he's serving as a mediator for "peace". But what kind of mediation can be expected from an ex-IDF?

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