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Introduction \u2013 May 17, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Beyond doing little more than echo the conventional narrative, the linked FT<\/a> article is insulting because readers are expected to pay to read it. It reads:<\/p>\n

A week ago, Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, faced the humiliating end of his fifth prime minister.<\/p>\n

After four stalled elections, he once again failed to form a government. His rivals had united in an unlikely coalition and were about to form a government designed to overthrow him. With the courts reopened after the coronavirus shutdown, his trial on corruption charges was gathering momentum.<\/p>\n

But then Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, entered the fray\u2026<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

While it claims, \u201cNetanyahu\u2019s career has “inadvertently” been resurrected\u201d by the ongoing conflict in Gaza, it makes a crucial error. I don\u2019t know if that is a matter of plain oversight, or a deliberately calculated omission but the FT fails to take into account the possibility that Netanyahu may have ordered the raid on Al Aqsa in order to provoke Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The week before Netanyahu had been in dire straits politically so the raid may have been a last desperate gamble to provoke Palestinians and provide a diversion from his failing political fortunes.<\/p>\n

If so it has worked and Netanyahu is now basking in the glow of a political revival, paid for with the blood of hundreds of Palestinians. Ed<\/p>\n

Gaza rocked by fresh airstrikes after Netanyahu vows to keep attacks at \u2018full force\u2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Oliver Holmes, Bethan McKernan, Julian Borger \u2013 The Guardian May 17, 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Israeli warplanes have launched what appeared to be the heaviest airstrikes yet on Gaza City, hours after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, signalled the bombardment would rage on.<\/p>\n

The series of attacks early on Monday rocked the city from north to south for 10 minutes and was more intense, covered a broader area and lasted longer than the raids 24 hours earlier in which 42 Palestinians were killed<\/a> \u2013 the deadliest single attack in the latest violence between Israel and the Hamas militant group that rules Gaza.<\/p>\n

Local media reports said the main coastal road west of the city, security compounds and open spaces were among the targets hit early on Monday. The power distribution company said the airstrikes damaged a line feeding electricity from the only power plant to large parts of southern Gaza<\/a> City. There were no immediate reports of injuries.<\/p>\n

The Israeli army spokesperson\u2019s office said the strikes targeted Hamas\u2019s \u201cunderground military infrastructure\u201d. As a result of the strike, \u201cthe underground facility collapsed, causing the civilian houses\u2019 foundations above them to collapse as well, leading to unintended casualties\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, air-raid sirens sounded for the seventh consecutive day across southern Israel<\/a> as Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza launched more rocket attacks into the country \u2013 and reaching further \u2013 than in the entirety of the 2014 war.<\/p>\n

As the UN security council met in a specially convened session, foreign ministers and ambassadors called for a ceasefire and for both sides to respect international humanitarian law, but there was no sign of even a temporary truce to allow medics in Gaza<\/a> to recover people \u2013 alive and dead \u2013 from under collapsed buildings.<\/p>\n

The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was heading for an \u201cuncontainable security and humanitarian crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fighting risks dragging Israelis and Palestinians into a spiral of violence with devastating consequences for both communities and for the entire region,\u201d Guterres told the UN security council on Sunday. \u201cIt has the potential to unleash an uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis and to further foster extremism, not only in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, but in the region as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

After speaking with Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, wrote on Twitter that \u201call parties need to deescalate tensions \u2013 the violence must end immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a televised address, Netanyahu said Israel\u2019s attacks were continuing at \u201cfull force\u201d and would \u201ctake time\u201d. Israel \u201cwants to levy a heavy price\u201d on the Hamas militant group, he said, flanked by his defence minister and political rival, Benny Gantz, in a show of unity.<\/p>\n

Hamas also pressed on, launching rockets from civilian areas in Gaza towards civilian areas in Israel. One hit a synagogue in the southern city of Ashkelon hours before evening services for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Israeli emergency services said. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Hostilities have repeatedly escalated over the past week, marking the worst fighting in the territory that is home to 2 million Palestinians since the devastating 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

The latest outbreak of violence began in East Jerusalem last month, when Palestinians clashed with police in response to Israeli police tactics during Ramadan and the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinian families by Jewish settlers. A focus of the clashes was al-Aqsa mosque, a frequent flashpoint located on a hilltop compound revered by both Muslims and Jews.<\/p>\n

Hamas began firing rockets toward Jerusalem on Monday, triggering the Israeli assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n

At least 188 Palestinians have been killed in hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza, including 55 children and 33 women, with 1,230 people wounded. Ten people in Israel have been killed in some of the 3,100 rocket attacks launched from Gaza, including a five-year-old boy and a soldier.<\/p>\n

Hamas and the Islamic Jihad militant group have acknowledged 20 fighters killed in the fighting. Israel says the real number is far higher and has released the names and photos of two dozen alleged operatives it says were \u201celiminated\u201d.<\/p>\n

The assault has displaced about 34,000 Palestinians from their homes, the UN Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, told an emergency meeting of the UN security council, where eight foreign ministers spoke about the conflict.<\/p>\n

Efforts by China, Norway and Tunisia to get the UN body to issue a statement, including a call for the cessation of hostilities, have been blocked by the US, which, according to diplomats, is concerned it could interfere with diplomatic efforts to stop the violence.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, urged the security council to take action to end Israeli attacks. Israel\u2019s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, urged the council to condemn Hamas\u2019s \u201cindiscriminate and unprovoked attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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