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White House official says Israel has ‘accomplished most military goals in Gaza’
2024-06-03
[IsraelTimes] Israel has accomplished most of its military goals in the war against Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says.

Asked for the basis of US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
’s assertion on Friday that the Hamas terror group can no longer carry out another attack akin to the one it launched against Israel on October 7, Kirby responds, "It is based on accumulation of our own intelligence assessments across the intelligence agencies."
Oh. That.
"We’re also not saying that Hamas has been wiped off the face of the map. We have not said that Hamas has no military capabilities," Kirby says in an interview on ABC News’ "This Week" program. "We have not said that they don’t still represent a viable threat to the Israeli people. Of course they do."
Then Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
"But they don’t have the military capabilities to do what they did on the 7th of October. From a military perspective only — as President Biden said — the Israelis have accomplished most of their goals 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...
," Kirby asserts.

This gap between Hamas being unable to carry out another October 7-like attack and still representing a viable threat to Israel will likely lie at the heart of deliberations by Israel as to whether it will stick with the hostage deal proposal its war cabinet authorized last week.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#9  â€œIsrael has accomplished most military goals in Gaza- certainly more than we intended “
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-06-03 18:57  

#8  Does Hamas exist? Then it's not over.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2024-06-03 15:24  

#7  Netanyahu on Biden deal: I am not ready to end war
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-06-03 13:44  

#6  It's not even the end of the beginning until the hostages are recovered, dead or alive.
Posted by: Glenmore   2024-06-03 13:09  

#5  The IDF was caught unprepared on Oct 7 for the kind of attack that happened. This won't happen again and another Oct 7 attack by Hamas will not work.

There will be a different type of attack.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2024-06-03 12:29  

#4  When Soviet forces surrounded Berlin, they had "accomplished most military goals". Finish it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-06-03 08:09  

#3  Baghdad Bob level baloney.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-06-03 07:54  

#2  There are some still alive, so it is not over. Finish them.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-06-03 03:38  

#1  Now say it in Pashto, John.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-06-03 01:54  

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