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1. not exactly 'celebrating' - - - here is what NPR reports ....

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 05:34 PM

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NPR - All Things Considered - Aug. 18, 2025
TEL AVIV, Israel — Leaked audio recordings broadcast Friday reveal remarks by Israel's former chief of military intelligence about the price he believed Palestinians should pay for Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

The tape recordings, aired by Israel's Channel 12 TV, captured former Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva saying in Hebrew, "The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations."

He went further, saying that for every Israeli killed on Oct. 7, 50 Palestinians should die.

"It doesn't matter if they're children. I'm not speaking out of revenge. I'm talking about a message for future generations. From time to time, they need a Nakba to feel the cost," Haliva said.
This image made from video provided in December 2023 by Israeli Defense Forces shows Aharon Haliva, then the head of Israel’s military intelligence in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.

The term Nakba — or "catastrophe" — refers to the mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the war that accompanied Israel's creation in 1948.

It is the first time a former senior Israeli military figure has been heard endorsing a high Palestinian death toll in Israel's nearly two-year-long offensive in Gaza, saying it was "necessary." The date the remarks were made was not broadcast.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5506097/ex-israel-military-intelligence-chief-said-50-000-gaza-deaths-necessary

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not exactly 'celebrating' - - - here is what NPR reports .... stopdiggin Tuesday #1

Perhaps, but I see this as a distinction without a difference. n/t Uncle Joe Tuesday #2

and I see no 'celebration' - (unless one chooses to embellish ..) stopdiggin Tuesday #3

I find it irrelevant if someone "celebrates" the murdering of children en masse or if their warped view of the world Uncle Joe Tuesday #5

OK. But then you chose to layer (and prefer?) your own 'interpretation' stopdiggin Tuesday #8

Everyone uses their own interpretation as to what reality is. Uncle Joe Tuesday #12

It's the celebration of having achieved a goal. AloeVera Tuesday #7

I agree with all that you say here stopdiggin Tuesday #10

Sometimes one needs to stopdiggin ... cliffside Tuesday #9

And - the hyperbolic title, is exactly what I am pointing to stopdiggin Tuesday #11

Exaggeration is needed sometimes to wake people up, pay attention and stop making excuses for all the killing ... cliffside Tuesday #13

Irony doesn't seem to exist for these genocide favoring a-holes. I mean how... brush Tuesday #4

OK, you humiliated, you slaughtered, you murdered, everything is true," said the former military chief. AloeVera Tuesday #6