Occupation and slaughter: Netanyahu and taking over Gaza

To say that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had lost the plot is to assume he ever had one.  With a dearth of ideas as to how to come up with a “final solution” to the Palestinian problem, he has received a majority approval from his cabinet colleagues to take over Gaza City.  It took a late-night meeting with the security cabinet lasting some ten hours. A statement released on the morning of 8 August from his office mentioned a five-point plan intended to defeat Hamas and conclude the war.  None of this is an improved version of what has come before: the intended disarming of Hamas, the return of all hostages, demilitarising the Gaza Strip, assuming security control of […]