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Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.

It was unclear whether the talks had broken down or simply paused, but the failure to reach an agreement on this week’s round of meetings raised apprehension of an imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

If those old oral traditions turn out to be prophetic, I wonder if that makes Russia an analogical Jormungandr, eating the remnants of the former USSR and growing ever larger.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Whose Thor in that analogy? Is it Ukraine?

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the hypothetical that an oral Scandinavian tradition told of the world's actual end, some or all of the story could be lost in translation or hallucinations.

Thor fought for the Norse against the great serpents, so maybe it could be symbolic of the EU in a proxy war with China. Idk. We're all just making stuff up, feel free to fill in the blanks, I'm not your prophet.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Then I shall embrace madness and say that Thor equals Mexico.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

¡Viva La México!

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