Ziofascist Israel’s Intent to Commit Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Part 2: IDF Officers’ and Soldiers’ Statements
Part two of an article sub-series about Israels’ 2023 to 2024 intent to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity which highlights the respective work of Younis Tirawi in the form of a long Twitter/X thread about 99 IDF officers’ and soldiers’ statements and two of Tirawi’s respective articles. (Part 1)
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To conclude with excerpts from two respective articles by Younis Tirawi:
Senior Israeli military commander Gur Rosenblat is explicit: All of Gaza, “not just the Hamas organization,” must be eliminated and its 2 million people driven out. The Strip, he writes on social media, should “cease to exist.”
While Rosenblat, the head of Israel’s Northern Infantry Brigade who also serves as the deputy general director of the country’s Education Ministry, makes clear he’s not speaking in his official capacity in an Oct. 13 Facebook post, he does not attempt to disguise his genocidal calls. “People who are human beasts and their supporters must pay a high price — if not with their lives, then with expulsion,” he writes.
Just three days later, an Instagram account with the username @gvrrvznblt that claims to be Rosenblat, posted a photo with the caption: “Why don’t we kill ten, twenty thousand Gazans a day with shelling for every day they don’t return the abductees [Israeli hostages]…Madness.”
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“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
This is what the deputy commander of Israel’s 749 Combat Engineering Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Adi Bekore, posted on his personal Facebook account on October 9, 2023, just two days after the Hamas attacks of October 7. Numerous soldiers from the battalion he had command over liked the post. It is a quote from a biblical passage in which the biblical nation of Israel is commanded to attack the Amalekites, an ancient biblical nation that was a recurrent enemy of the Israelites. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also invoked this reference early in the war — a moment cited by South Africa in its case to the ICJ as a piece of genocidal rhetoric:
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More death threats by the insane and sociopathic Ziofascist Israelis and a reply by Younis Tirawi: