Netanyahu Vows “Every Hamas Operative Will Die” As Israeli Citizenry Mobilizes For War

editorial October 12, 2023

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PM Netanyahu, just after forming an emergency war-time government with Benny Gantz…

Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Every Hamas operative will die. Hamas is ISIS." pic.twitter.com/7HBwdwS10f
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 11, 2023

And Gantz too spoke of total societal mobilisation in Wednesday night’s words:

Benny Gantz, who joined an emergency government with Netanyahu, stated on Wednesday that his cooperation with the government is “a clear message to our adversaries and to all Israeli citizens: all of us together are mobilising.” Gantz said after the Security Cabinet meeting in which he participated, “Just as people from left and right, from the city and the village, go out to fight, decisions of the government will also be made by people from different camps. Now, we are all one camp—the camp of the people of Israel.”

These Israeli leaders don’t seem too concerned (an understatement) about the immense and rapidly mounting civilian casualties among Palestinians caught under the air war with nowhere to go, as a long, bloody ground campaign in the Gaza Strip looks inevitable.

Below is an interesting clip from 2009 of Pat Buchanan offering his thoughts on what’s been a decades-long crisis:

Pat Buchanan warns in 2009 that the brothers of the little girls killed by Israel during the bombing of Gaza that year would grow up to join Hamas and fight Israel. Well, it's 14 years later and they're grown up now pic.twitter.com/ZMNjcTv7Pp
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 11, 2023

IDF reservists have been returning to Israel from abroad in droves…

A welcome party receiving returnee IDF reservists at the airport.#OperationIronSwords pic.twitter.com/Rjsp5JddRo
— Edward (@DonKlericuzio) October 11, 2023

US National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby confirmed that the United States will be sending the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean after it was already announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford would be deployed as part of “support” operations related to the Israel-Gaza conflict.

However, Kirby said that the Eisenhower will not be directly joining or escorting. Instead, the carrier will be in the region for availability if called upon. While in a press briefing, Kirby tried to downplay the dual carrier deployment as somewhat routine or expected, but they will certainly be on standby to potentially intervene if all hell continues to break loose in the Middle East.

UPDATE: NSC Spokesperson John Kirby confirms the USS Dwight D Eisenhower carrier strike group will be headed to the Mediterranean but says it will not join the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group as a second strike group, but will be available in the area if needed. pic.twitter.com/kpaAxbgXfc
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) October 11, 2023

Kirby also confirmed that the US administration is in talks with Qatar as part of mediation efforts to free the hostages being held by Hamas. It’s believed there are Americans among the captives in Gaza, which at this moment is being pounded by Israeli airstrikes. Kirby said the following:

“Obviously, we’re in discussions not only with the Israelis about what hostage recovery could look like, but with other allies and partners in the region. And there are some countries like Qatar that have open lines of communication with Hamas, so of course, we’re casting the net wide, as you would expect; we want to get all the hostages back with their families, particularly the American hostages, no question about that.”