oatmeal<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICC</span></a> Wanted Gallant claims divine backing for Gaza genocide 🙄 … a master class in denial and megalomania </p><p>Speaking at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chabad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chabad</span></a> (a heretical Jewish sect whose members follow a Messianic tradition centered around their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) headquarters in Brooklyn, Gallant, once viewed as the secular, pragmatic voice in Israel's war cabinet attributed military "achievements" in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> to both <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> soldiers and "God's miracle." </p><p>[…] "This could not have happened without the faith of the Jewish people, without the support of millions of Jews around the world, without the prayers and thanks to the tremendous actions and great sacrifice of IDF soldiers. Our soldiers deserve every compliment. I too, who led this campaign, knew that I was doing this in the name of the State of Israel and also as a messenger of God, the Lord of Hosts. We are Jews, we have a land, we have a people."</p><p>In response to October 7th, the U.S. has funneled an historic $22.76 billion into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>'s military campaign - more than any previous year since aid began in 1959 - effectively underwriting a humanitarian catastrophe while the true total of American financial backing remains deliberately obscured. <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pa</span><span class="invisible">pers/2024/USspendingIsrael</span></a> </p><p>For a secular official who oversaw the October 7th unprecedented failure to now cast himself as "God's messenger" while celebrating the systematic destruction of Gaza and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians, transforms what was already a humanitarian catastrophe into something far more disturbing. </p><p>See also: The new IDF: When military discipline meets messianic vision <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/113522527429861161" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1135</span><span class="invisible">22527429861161</span></a></p><p># Edit: corrected typo</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelWarCrimes</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a></p>