Blinken: Attack on Rafah would provoke 'anarchy' | BBC News
US secretary of state Antony Blinken is warning that an all out Israeli attack on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza would provoke "anarchy" without eliminating Hamas.
It is his latest attempt at preventing Israel from carrying out a ground assault.
An Israeli bombardment in the eastern parts of Rafah has already displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Speaking to CBS News Mr Blinken said, "As we look at Rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at a very high cost."
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FREE AMERICANS FROM AIPAC
@peterland2824
15 күн бұрын
Hear, hear!
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
Putlers fabulous brown underwear is fantastic 😬
@mohamedali2858
15 күн бұрын
@@user-ib4ut6vy2g The Guardian: AIPAC spends $100 million to defeat non-pro-Israel candidates in 2024 The Guardian website reports that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has been funding $100 million for efforts to defeat progressive candidates, whom it considers insufficiently supportive of Israel in 2024.
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
@@user-ib4ut6vy2g That literally means his from moscova komrade 😂 😂 😂
@peterland2824
15 күн бұрын
@@user-ib4ut6vy2g AIPAC and the Christian Zionist Lobby enacts policy which harms US American self interest. It destabilizes the middle east and endangers the lives of both Jewish people living in Israel and outside. Other than facilitating profit for the arms industry, it archives only destruction.
Why are these people saying "would"? The attack has been going for days now ... They seriously must not think we know this 🙄
@SiobhanIreland
15 күн бұрын
Trying to gaslight people with eyes
@elvangulley3210
15 күн бұрын
Maybe hamas should stop hiding behind the refugees then
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
humus are vegetables yes they are 😅
@roystonmarshall5027
15 күн бұрын
It's the BBC...they have no credibility left...🤨
@merked1980
15 күн бұрын
Right! The same with the "imminent famine" two weeks ago which seems to have just disappeared into thin air somehow...
They say they care about Palestinians, but will let the IDF do what they wish!
@peterland2824
15 күн бұрын
Indeed, hypocrisy.
@brendandolan7763
15 күн бұрын
So palestine can be free but not Ukraine. You hypocrite
@mrman8388
15 күн бұрын
@@brendandolan7763 when did they mention ukraine liar
@roystonmarshall5027
15 күн бұрын
If Hamas cared about the people of Gaza they would release the hostages and the fighting would stop..🤔
@niageo876
15 күн бұрын
@@usalove6290 People say this like the greatest goal of humanity is to defeat H... at what cost? or you don't considered thousands of innocent life a high cost?
Blinken and the US credibility has long gone .
@user-zm9gc1kt8b
15 күн бұрын
US guilty as hell for supporting GENOCIDE
@andrewjones-productions
15 күн бұрын
Yes, you are right. The sad part of that sentence though is that Blinken was likely the most reasonable of the official American voices from the outset, but he isn't the ultimate decision maker and his reputation and credibility has suffered with it.
@BelialTnTn
15 күн бұрын
@@andrewjones-productions there's a video of a younger Biden saying if Israel didn't exist they would have created it, something like that. There's nothing reasonable with that degenerate creature who likes to express his weird love for children on public.
@aeonsbeyond
15 күн бұрын
What credibility do you have. Are you a licensed federal official for some international government who the fuck are you and what the fuck do you know
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
he will forget about it next week 😂
Blinken does not speak for regular Americans.
@rahimdeishinie3697
15 күн бұрын
Sure but he does send billions of dollars, bombs and weapons in the name of the "regular americans". I wish you could say he doesn't do that too😊
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
No surprise. He is working for AIPAC and is just speaking what AIPAC wants him to.
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
No surprise. He works for AIPAC.
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
humus that you again 🤣
@deeznutz8320
14 күн бұрын
@@rahimdeishinie3697He is Jewish so no hè doesn't send it in the name of Americans
Liars
Israel: “america is also hamas”
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
💯
@breakingbadheisenberg9703
14 күн бұрын
Except for congress & Senate.
#Free America from AIPAC
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
👍
@JohnCox-ut3cv
15 күн бұрын
Free the BBC from the Israeli lobby.
@danielmartin7838
15 күн бұрын
Get bent
@smungek
14 күн бұрын
Free America from CAIR.
@deeznutz8320
14 күн бұрын
@@smungekNot gonna happen rabbi
Calling IDF as animals is an insult for animals.
@AodhanBeag
15 күн бұрын
Even the term Feral is an understatement
@worstknightmayor4439
15 күн бұрын
No cease fire.
@WALTERJAHBLAZE
15 күн бұрын
You deserve any award for yuh words . Sent yuh bank acc so l cn send u smthng. Yu are a Wiseman. God bless yu
Seems like they created a monster and lost control of it.
Free world from Israel
@beatrizfernandes4695
15 күн бұрын
And leave inhumane leaders to rule the world 😂🤣
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
Everyone knows today that Israel is a terrorist entity. And US is accountable for supporting a terrorist entity.
@JordanMcCarthy-bh9tu
15 күн бұрын
@@beatrizfernandes4695better than a sabatean frankist
Blinken, you are one of the culprits.
As if the American government had any credibility on this.
Blinken - foreign secretary of Israel.
The international journalist are not allowed to enter, the local ones are being targeted and eliminated, it is not difficult to imagine how horrible is the situation.
Talk like they care but veto against Palestine to be Un member.
@canitbethat
15 күн бұрын
There's a difference between wanting Palestine to be a state and claiming that it already is one. UN membership has to reflect reality -- the UN can't just vote states into existence. When they tried that before (1947), the result was war. The US position on this is correct -- there should be a Palestinian state, but a deal with Israel has to be negotiated first to make it real.
@markcynic808
15 күн бұрын
There should never be a palestinian state. The very thought of another cult of death country joining the UN is disgusting.
@danielmartin7838
15 күн бұрын
They have no place in the UN
@markcynic808
15 күн бұрын
@@danielmartin7838 None at all.
Israel has been bombing rafah for a week now. Why do they keep saying if and when?
"high cost" little over 36k innocent lives later. Unbelievable
@janbrown9195
15 күн бұрын
BS on your Hamas numbers
@verbalkint4258
15 күн бұрын
@@janbrown9195Gaza is visibly leveled, and Israel is not allowing countries to supply the palestinians with humanitarian aid. Those figures are almost certainly accurate, in fact 36k is probably a low ball estimate. These people are literally being bombed and starved to death, you’re sick in the head for trying to justify that.
@deeznutz8320
14 күн бұрын
@@janbrown9195Those are international numbers boomer
@obiwanshinobi76
14 күн бұрын
@@janbrown9195 Damn right - they believe anything from terrorists and the biased bbc
@mattharvey515
14 күн бұрын
Even the U.N. has now downgraded the Hamas "casualty figures".
“Would”?…. Like it’s not happening already
I dont understand why civilian lives arent kept a priority for any discussion
Save U.S. from AIPAC
@smungek
14 күн бұрын
Save US from CAIR.
A devil in disguise .....
@janbrown9195
15 күн бұрын
Hasn’t noticed Hamas disguising themselves??????
Unregistered foreign agent
Bl00dy Blinken racking up frequent flier miles to see his superiors in Izzy
Free the U.S. from AIPAC!
“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it, but using it to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” - Norman Finkelstein
@Indonesiansurftravel
15 күн бұрын
Six million jews died in the holocaust, 35,000 Palestinians have so far died and 13,000 to 15,000 of those are Hamas fighters, it's a ridiculous complete nonsense comparison.
@Thichaou
15 күн бұрын
I guess from now on, we will be spared with that kind of crappy holocock movies, right?
@roystonmarshall5027
15 күн бұрын
Listened to Norman speak last on triggernomity podcast,...what a disingenuous person he is..🤔
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
constipated 😅
@user-br9fc5ni5b
15 күн бұрын
貴方は正しい
Like leaving billions of dollars of weapons in Afghanistan?
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
🇮🇱 is only after the humus vegetables 😅
@jdocean1
15 күн бұрын
Pennies.
@aeonsbeyond
15 күн бұрын
They're going to have to defend themselves from Russia again. Afghanistan is going to need Lend lease for self-defense like Ukraine too
@bobbykiefer4306
15 күн бұрын
The US left worn out equipment in Afghanistan. Like they did in Vietnam. The Russians left equipment in Afghanistan. Cheaper to leave it.
@ragingmonk6080
15 күн бұрын
We armed the Afghan military. It was millions, not billions and it was theirs at that point, Trumptard.
The devil in action for 7 months , 10000 hostages in prisons
@cestlextase
15 күн бұрын
since 1948
@FirstOrigamiUnicorn
15 күн бұрын
@@cestlextase your vegetables must be fine with it 😅
@cestlextase
15 күн бұрын
@@FirstOrigamiUnicorn drink some water. Thats if no ones tried to pour concrete in yours like the settlers do
@FirstOrigamiUnicorn
15 күн бұрын
@@cestlextase Concrete makes you regular and very good manure spreader
All these comments are a waste of words . Israel will do whatever it wants period.everyone can have there say,means zero
@zuitacontador7447
15 күн бұрын
Devil is the boss now. 😢😢😢😢😢
@oakwoodfarm2478
14 күн бұрын
I do hope you are right and that israel ignore all this anti semetic crap.
Land, Land, Land.
@Indonesiansurftravel
15 күн бұрын
Oh please go learn some history in 2005 Israel gave Gaza to Palestine in a peace deal, if Israel wanted Gaza they would have just kept it, and if they wanted land they would have also kept The sinai peninsula instead of giving it back to Egypt in the 80s and the Sinai peninsula is three times the size of Israel and rich in oil and gas. On the other hand the West Bank(Samaria & Judea) is a totally different kettle of fish, it's has the strongest historical and cultural significance to the Jews.
@mikeleader9594
15 күн бұрын
Your clueless David above comment just recent actions regarding land wake up
@bobbykiefer4306
15 күн бұрын
Israel- Palestine isn't the only land dispute in the Middle East. Kurds say their land is occupied.
@ALIKN1-1
15 күн бұрын
@@Indonesiansurftravel lier
@sueyourself5413
15 күн бұрын
@@Indonesiansurftravel Who cares? Rome has a strong historical cultural significance to me, do I get to steal someone's home there?
DON'T FORGET In 2019 netenyahu told his Likud colleagues that funding hamas is his strategy Source "Israeli newspaper Haaretz "
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
Humus vegetables are a palistine delicacie 😮
@jdocean1
15 күн бұрын
So Hamas isn’t responsible for itself? I’ve heard it all now.
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
humus best at eliminating their own vegetables 😂
@roystonmarshall5027
15 күн бұрын
For 1400 years,.. islam has called on muslims to kill all jews....its clear that the muslim hatred for jews,is behind this war,started by Hamas muslims..🤔
@aeonsbeyond
15 күн бұрын
Racist Arabs will do anything to make it be everyone else's fault
The difference is I don't believe Israel has any plans of fully leaving, Palestine and Isreal were never meant to be separated by a clear line on a map, they were always integrated, an Israelite next door to a Palestinian, that's how it should be for peace. That's how they see that each-other are far more alike than different. By dividing them with a wall you stop communication and with that only negativity can thrive.
They are surrounded by lovely neighbours 😂😂😂.
it has become so disgusting.
They are already attacking.
Finally we are admitting world is under anarchy
"dont take tips on how to exit a war from USA" sincerely Afghanistan
if only netanyahu is listening
The US is like a nosy neighbor who feels they are entitled to know what is going on in your backyard.
Yes, with the Chicago DNC convention just three months away, it's time for the administration to act like it cares.
Humans must learn to live in peace and avoid unnecessary misery for other humans. This is the good God's world.
And you're to blame for it. You gave weapons to an out of control rogue state and now you can't stop them form ransacking the village.
@hizzlemobizzle
15 күн бұрын
Yeah maybe forming a militaristic religious ethnostate was a bad idea.
He needs to wake up and smell the coffee. As Prof. Mearsheimer said, we ARE living in an anarchy system already!
Antony Blinken is not a diplomat. He’s an arms dealer
We must not be silent while witnessing injustice. More than 35,000 Palestinians have lost their lives, mostly women and children
@bobbykiefer4306
15 күн бұрын
Hamas should surrender immediately. They are still firing rockets at the IDF. What injustice is going on?
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
constipated again
@leon327
15 күн бұрын
Nobody knows the exact number of people who have died since the war started. When these numbers are added up, they will include members of Hamas and people who have died from natural causes.
@johnnygebeyehu9400
15 күн бұрын
go to hell
@NoWindNoSunNoPower
15 күн бұрын
No hummus? Why is that?
The experts have said that it would take over 40 years to rebuild Gaza. Where will the Palestinians people live in the meantime?
@elvangulley3210
15 күн бұрын
Who cares don't start wars you can't win they should have thought about it before Oct 7th
@everettbr
15 күн бұрын
@@holzy1979 and what about all of those europeans? let me guess, they get to stay?
@RelaxedKiller
15 күн бұрын
Everything Israel did before oct 7th led to that day @@elvangulley3210
@penzorphallos3199
15 күн бұрын
Biden wants to import them. Probably putting them in Minnesota or Wisconsin with the Somalis. 😂
@jdocean1
15 күн бұрын
@@everettbryou sure are a good guesser.
Like Israel cares!
Israeli military official said on channel 12 that hamas isn't just in Rafah hamas still operating in the north
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
Humus have vegetables like different patches 😅
@Bob-bx2vk
15 күн бұрын
I'd think they get more recruits now Considering what's going on It's only making it worse and it's not getting the hostages back
@Acolis
15 күн бұрын
@@NOT.MI5.MI6. this is like the third time youve made this comment. you must be very proud. did you come up with it all by yourself?
@hizzlemobizzle
15 күн бұрын
@@Acolis don't reply to them. They are Israeli troll accounts.
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
@@Acolis I'm here for the comical pro humus vegetables 😅
“If they leave, they leave a vacuum” yes that line of thinking worked incredibly well for America when it came to Iraq and Afghanistan let’s repeat that same useless talking point!
He is responsible for every thing just spraying fake dialogs
"Anarchy" As opposed to 'order', in the Hamas government controled Gaza?
@Andrew19ao
15 күн бұрын
Hamas controlled Gaza because it is a prison full of millions of oppressed people.
I am ashamed of America and I do not say that lightly. I am a decorated US Army 95B Military Police Vet. and isrl is not being held to the same standard that I and my Brothers and Sisters in arms are. They use our weapons and rely on the reputation / support of America. Yet they do things I would have arrested American troops for. Many in the military do not like M.P.'s and that is fine. But I took an oath to "Assist, Protect and Defend". America has thrown my Brothers and Sisters in arms under the bus for a lot less. Yes, I'm a Vet. but my oath is not like milk. It had no expiration date. So isrl is a dependent and should be held to a higher standard for the use of our weapons, greater than our own forces. This is not political! In the military our blood pumps O.D. Green. We kind of live in our country, with different rules, regulations and laws. But we are the reason America sleeps in peace every night. Do not give our kit to countries like this and hold them to a lesser standard. That is an insult to us.
@JeffEbe-te2xs
14 күн бұрын
Your why we got our asses kicked in Afghanistan and iraq And now in the straights
@ragingmonk6080
14 күн бұрын
@@JeffEbe-te2xs Waddle away and tell your mom that she wants you. It will be a lie but she will play along... maybe.
Funny Blinken knew this from the start yet he let 30000+ die before he could say this. What a joke
Blinken should remove his 'blinkers' (and rose-tinted spectacles), before opening his mouth !
These people talk as though the attack has not started already. They really think we are stupid
The US administration is starting to come back to its senses
Anarchy? You mean the Palestinians would reject the Hamas government? Sounds like win win for everyone.
Just seen a video about a family who lost their dad they said he turned around while he was cooking them dinner and waved to them and then he got blown up (murdered). The family are traumatised I find it DISGUSTING that these world leader are just watching this happen and not even bothering with sanctions and saying what it is. It's a war crime.
NEEDS TO STOP NOW,,HELP THESE POOR PEOPLE,
He is justifying their next move: stay in Gaza to avoid anarchy
I'm confused? Rafah is being attacked and has been for the past week. Why is this not being reported?
all good and well for the US to disavow Isreal's plan in a show of support for the Palestinian people, yet the US voted against Palestine statehood in the UN security council and again in the general assembly
Was never about hostages. Always about land.
Blinken, your days are numbered...for the rest of your life, you and your family will have to have security 24/7 and will never be able around freely...
By now Blinken knows very well about what is wrong - he know's nothing more to be said
Anyone else feel like blinken is the new Kissinger?
@canitbethat
15 күн бұрын
Yes, the current situation is looking a lot like the 1973 Battle of Suez, with Blinken = Kissinger, Biden = Nixon, Bibi = Golda, Hamas Rafah battalions = Egyptian 3rd Army. Once again an Israeli counterattack has placed an enemy at their mercy, and once again US is trying to hold them back in the interest of a broader geopolitical vision. It looks like it's coming out differently this time, though, because neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia can really fill the shoes of the Soviet Union. :-)
WTH is he smoking over there? Rafa is being obliterated with US Weapons as he’s speaking!
@SadaK-tr6dm
15 күн бұрын
This conflict has all these dirty hypocrite politicians.
Go home Blinken and fix your own Country.
@nakinaki7991
15 күн бұрын
His Master (Netanyahu) wont let him do that
Anarchy? Mother anarchy loves her sons.
Sounds like Blinken would say the same thing about the Nazis in 45-46
O almighty World 🙏 Please free us from USA and Zionist
There is so many voices calling for Blinken to be jailed for genocide he is now pretending to do something good.
More hot air.
Provoke anarchy? Tell that to Hamas ..
Biden made the right move in holding back.
Blinken talks out of both sides of his mouth.
I don’t think the U.S. really knows how bad the situation is for Israel. I’d be surprised if Israeli statehood survives the decade.
@jamessudek2125
15 күн бұрын
They understand completely. They are running the show.
And he was the first to encourage the invasion of gaza
If they dig their own tunnel along the border, it almost seems like they could nip the tunnel problem in the metaphorical bud. But then they would have to answer the awkward question of why they didn’t just do that twenty years ago.
*79 years later; and they have become no different than who did their own people so wrongly.* They are so blind to the amount of stereotypes they have just perfected met and gladly matched since this started…. It really is astounding how overrated Israel has been stated since I was born
Didn’t Netanyahu and the US fund and support Hamas when they wanted PLO gone???
@jaegybomb
15 күн бұрын
Nope, they chose not to blockade Qatar funds.
Blinken is the mouthpiece of the American Military Industrial Complex NOT the American people!
*The world of Politics is Different in Front of the Public, it is Different behind Them!
I mean anarchy in the Sinai not in Gaza.. which is probably not as scary a prospect to Israel.
@denkendannhandeln
15 күн бұрын
Well said!
@NOT.MI5.MI6.
15 күн бұрын
Humus like manure especially 😅
The first little bit of sense this man has spoken in months.
@sihr07
15 күн бұрын
You’ve missed all his declarations that they will still support Israel no matter what. This speech was only to appease demonstrators in the US
The far left BBC needs to state the obvious - FREE THE HOSTAGES.
1:07 “We have the same objective as Israel.”
He needs a vacation, he looks stressed, and needs a few days off. The Job sucks!
Blinken is a joke
Why is this guy Blinken talking? It's always the same nonsense, time after time. All to give his friend Yahoo time to ravage Gaza.
Anarchy is the obligatory step to have a democracy . Iranian theocracy is the same step backwards.
This man is dangerous ! He panics and does huge errors !
"It's a strategy for continuing this war forever". Damning criticism of Netanyahu from military top brass.
Hey ANTO - but you knew that they could never defeat Hamas - bit late now.
Hypocrites
This whole war is stupid. It shows how stupid the world is now. Especially with those who back hamas.
We must not be silent while witnessing injustice. Israel is committing war crimes and US is complicit in those crimes.
@jdocean1
15 күн бұрын
Seems to me that Israel is fighting a war in real life. They don’t care about the war in the media. This situation is past that now. They’re handing their business.
@JeffEbe-te2xs
14 күн бұрын
From the river to the sea All you see is Israeli flags 🇮🇱
We don't care what Blinken and the Biden administration say.
Where's the hostages
Oh Blinken. Your narrative is very wrong.