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Biden aide: Israel taking steps to protect civilians that even US might not have done
2023-12-14
[IsraelTimes] White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggests that some of the steps the IDF has taken to prevent civilian casualties in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
might go further than what the US would have done if it were in Israel’s place.

Kirby highlights the map the IDF published alerting civilians as to which neighborhoods it is planning to attack, so that they can evacuate ahead of time.

"That’s basically telegraphing your punches. There are very few modern militaries in the world that would do that. I don’t know that we would do that," Kirby says during a press briefing.


White House National Security Council Coordinator For Strategic Communications John Kirby buttons his jacket before talking to news hounds in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on December 13, 2023 in Washington, (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
The White House spokesperson is one of several officials in US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s administration who appear to be trying to walk back or soften the message voiced by the president yesterday, when he characterized Israel’s bombing campaign against Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in Gaza as "indiscriminate."

Kirby says Israel has also reduced its Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the south, relying more on ground forces than it did in northern Gaza.

"They moved into southern Gaza on the ground in a way that was much smaller than they planned to do," Kirby says. "We think that was an output of some of the advice and counsel we provided them about urban warfare."
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Posted by:trailing wife

#1  That not a compliment, John!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-14 03:36  

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