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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: You have a lot of thoughts on the current actions of the state of Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza strip and associated areas. What is it?
Rick Rosner: Right before we started taping, you mentioned that we should touch on anti-Zionism isn’t necessarily anti-Semitism because you can be pro-Jewish and not pro- Israeli government though if you’re on Twitter or now called X, maybe it’s changed over the past few weeks when as the war has gone on, but the people who are quickest to be anti-Zionist, if you went to the rest of their feed there were mostly anti-Semitic too; a bunch of fucking assholes. Now we’re more than two months into the war. Israel has killed about 1% of the population of Gaza; about 20,000 people but maybe only about five or six thousand are Hamas and pushing 8,000 of them are kids and the ratio of 8,000 kids killed versus 110-120 Israeli soldiers killed; that’s a terrible ratio. There’s such a thing as softening up the enemy with aerial bombardment before going in with ground forces but this seems punitive, some of the ratios coming out of Gaza. It’s not like Gaza is very big; it’s only 150 square miles. Two thirds of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been obliterated or damaged, more than 90% of the people of Gaza have been displaced, 64% have had a relative injured or killed. There are 300,000 Israeli troops versus maybe 30,000 Hamas.
Jacobsen: Also, does any military presence from Palestine have a command in control an air force, a seafaring Army, a ground force of any substance in any real sense of a traditional military? It seems they don’t and that’s the reason for the resort to Guerilla tactics.
Rosner: Yeah, but I mean it also works to their advantage because they can pull the bullshit where they hide. Every place they are is full of civilians. So, you do have to work around or blast through the civilians to get Hamas. Meanwhile, I’ve been told that the leaders aren’t even in the area; they’re in Qatar where they’re billionaires and I don’t know how true that is but I’m sure it’s not entirely untrue. All American Jews and I think the vast majority of Americans are pulling for Israel. Remember that meme, honey badger don’t give a fuck?
Jacobsen: No.
Rosner: Honey badger is apparently this savage little wolverine like creature that’ll just chew your face off. So, there was a meme from a few that it’s savage and Israel don’t give a fuck about international opinion. They’re going to go in there, they’re going to finish doing what they’re doing and it’ll only take about another month because there’s only so much that you can blow up. Then well, Gaza is going to have to rebuild. And as we talked about before we were taping, since 1948 since Israel became a nation, Gaza hasn’t had competent non-corrupt leadership. They’ve always had a shitty agenda and they’ve always stolen billions of bucks from the people they’re supposed to be governing and there’s never been an effective occupation. The last time Israel occupied Gaza; they used 9,000 Israelis which is nowhere near enough to do a proper occupation. To have a chance of Gaza working as a country or a territory or whatever, they’re going to need competent some kind of neutral leadership.
After World War II, 1.6 million Allied troops occupied Germany for four years. I’m sure they drew down the troops over time but they were there doing denazification and it wasn’t that you got the old Nazis to decide not being a Nazi, I’m sure a lot of them still believed in Hitler but they learned to shut the fuck up. There were laws against swastikas and Nazi stuff and the younger generation came in and you’re going to need something like that if you want Gaza to work. After the war which is all stick, you’re going to need a ton of carrot. You’re going to need to dump billions in for rebuilding. When one person says we got to bring Hamas back; they killed my sister, my mom is missing a leg now, we got to fuck up Israel, then you want everybody around him to say “Shut up. That was then, this is a new time and we’ve all got jobs and the money is pouring in. We’re going to live in fancy places, so just shut the fuck up with that.” I don’t know if that can work at all but I mean it worked in Germany, Germany is our friend now. You could argue that Germany works better now than the US does. Japan’s our friend; Japan got occupied by a million Americans after the war for years.
So, Israel being assholes now; any chance of a solution that doesn’t lead to more waves of this requires some kind of neutral, non-corrupt occupation with tens of billions of dollars being thrown at Gaza to rebuild. The money is available. Nobody wants the Gazans but there are a lot of countries that are pretty rich and willing to kick in quite a bit of money to rebuild the country and because it’s so small with only two million people. It takes fewer billions than it does to help Ukraine fight the Russians. The end.
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