{"id":15054,"date":"2011-01-03T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2011-01-03T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T21:31:19","slug":"juan-cole-wikileaks-israel-plans-total-war-on-lebanon-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15054","title":{"rendered":"Juan Cole: Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Juan Cole<br \/>\n2 January 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new, major war will be a total war on civilians, Ashkenazi  boasted:  \u201cIn the next war Israel cannot accept any restrictions on  warfare in urban areas.\u201d   (<em>I den neste krigen kan Israel ikke godta noen restriksjoner p\u00e5 krigf\u00f8ring i byomr\u00e5der <\/em> in Norwegian, or let us just translate it into the original German:   \u201cIm n\u00e4chsten Krieg kann Israel keine Beschr\u00e4nkungen der Kriegsf\u00fchrung in  st\u00e4dtischen Gebieten akzeptieren.\u201d.)   Mind you, the civilian deaths  deriving from this massive and unrestricted bombing campaign on targets  in the midst of civilian urban populations will be \u201cunintentional.\u201d    Planning to bomb civilian areas with foreknowledge that you will thereby  kill large numbers of civilians is a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>Ashkenazi also admitted to then Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) that  Hamas is not in control of even more radical groups, which had  infiltrated cells into Hamas itself, and which had rocket-making  capabilities.   In public, Israeli officials routinely demonize Hamas  for every rocket fired from the lawless, besieged territory of Gaza, but  here in private Ashkenazi was admitting the opposite.  He even admitted  that Israeli intelligence had no means to distinguish the  even-more-radical from the merely Hamas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2011\/01\/wikileaks-israel-plans-total-war-on-lebanon-gaza.html\">Click here to read &#8220;Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza&#8221; by Juan Cole<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Cole 2 January 2011 The new, major war will be a total war on civilians, Ashkenazi boasted: \u201cIn the next war Israel cannot accept any restrictions on warfare in urban areas.\u201d (I den neste krigen kan Israel ikke godta &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15054\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3UO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15056,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}