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8d8a9d4e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @09e1d236 @b870d4c8 I guess for the Palestinians it’s same difference be it Netanyahu or the security forces. Both directly benefit with continued conflict.
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Loukas Christodoulou | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3e1777d8 @09e1d236 netanyahu depends on far-right settler support so he's been more eager to expand settlements than the liberal military would have been - but in the oncoming inferno I don't think there will be as much nuance, I'm afraid.
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35b63ff8 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b870d4c8 @3e1777d8 

And he has appear.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives his first public statement on the massive attack by the Hamas terror group, saying the country is at war.

“Citizens of Israel, we are at war,” he says. “And we will win.”