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Hello, and welcome to Cutting Through. I'm Mitchell Putnick, the president of Rethinking Foreign Policy and the author of the Cutting Through newsletter on Substack. I want to speak today about an incident that happened in Gaza yesterday. The Israeli military dropped leaflets written in Arabic all through the Gaza Strip. These leaflets, which I will read to you,
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a translation of in just a moment. These leaflets are only the latest proof of genocidal intent on the part of Israel. This is not something that people can deny anymore. the willful commission of war crimes. Israel's not making any secrets. Israel never did make a secret of it.
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Only their advocates have been trying to make the case somehow that Israel's not committing war crimes. But Israel itself is saying and has been saying all along from the very beginning, since the attacks of October 7th, 2023, Israel has been saying all along, we will commit war crimes. They have been explicit.

VIDEO: Genocidal Leaflets in Gaza

Israel has once again threatened the people of Gaza, quite explicitly, with mass slaughter. Are we ever going to listen to Israel when they tell us exactly who they are?

Although the ceasefire in Gaza has been repeatedly violated by Israel, leading to multiple deaths (including an Israeli contractor killed by Israeli soldiers who mistook him for having committed the grave crime of breathing while Palestinian), it is still a relief for the besieged people of Gaza after more than 15 months of relentless, genocidal bombardment.

It was never intended to last, as both Israel and the Trump administration have made clear in all of their proclamations and, more importantly, their actions. On Thursday, Israel made it clear once again by dropping leaflets in Gaza threatening the people there with death if they chose to remain in Gaza.

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