For the first time, Israel is giving a potential timeline for its ground offensive into Rafah. Benny Gantz, a minister in the Israeli war cabinet, says that ...
This is an unusual approach given how the campaign has gone so far. Why?
It's fucked up, even the fact that they expect the world to take their word for it shows me two things. First, that the international media is willing to just swallow anything Israel says, hook, line and sinker. Second is that Israel simply assumes that to be true from the get-go.
If the media has not held them accountable for declaring safe-zones and then bombing them immediately afterwards, they're not about to do it this time around either.
It's fucked up, even the fact that they expect the world to take their word for it shows me two things. First, that the international media is willing to just swallow anything Israel says, hook, line and sinker. Second is that Israel simply assumes that to be true from the get-go.
If the media has not held them accountable for declaring safe-zones and then bombing them immediately afterwards, they're not about to do it this time around either.