Hamas Just Made it Harder for Blinken to Cover for Israel in Ceasefire Talks
Group wanted a permanent ceasefire because it knows Israel will continue the ethnic cleansing once the last hostage is released
The Biden administration and its media whores have tried their best to spin the genocide in Gaza and have tried to stress two key points: It is Hamas that has refused ceasefire deals and Hezbollah and Houthi fighters are terrorists posing a significant threat to Israel.
Both are complete lies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected ceasefire deals because he wants the war to continue. Few Americans understand that Netanyahu faces corruption charges that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. The only way he can avoid these charges is by staying in power; the only way he stays in power is by keeping his extremist coalition happy; the only way he can keep his messianic coalition happy is by continuing the Gaza genocide and then attempting to expand the “Greater Israel,” which would include the West Bank, Gaza, and other regions.
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Hamas has been blamed by the media for being the roadblock to the ceasefire, but that is not true. Hamas wants a permanent end to the fighting before it agrees to hand over the remaining hostages from the 7 October attack. Israel wants to be able to continue the ethnic cleansing whenever it wants — ideally, after the hostages are released, but that's not too important for Netanyahu, according to critics.
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(It should be noted that Benny Gantz, the National Unity chair who resigned from Netanyahu’s government last month, said in an interview that Israel should accept a ceasefire deal — even a permanent one — because it would not be difficult to pick up where it left off in a year.)
Now, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will have an even more difficult time covering for Israel because Hamas has dropped its key demand of a permanent ceasefire to end hostilities inside the enclave.
A senior Hamas source told Reuters on Saturday that the group agreed to a temporary deal that would release some hostages after a 16-day halt to the fighting.
A Hamas source told the outlet that the “proposal ensures that mediators would guarantee a temporary ceasefire, aid delivery, and withdrawal of Israeli troops as long as indirect talks continue to implement the second phase of the agreement,” The Times of Israel noted.
The report noted:
Israel has sought to keep the wording on the transition between phase one and two of a deal vague enough to allow it to resume fighting against Hamas in Gaza if it chooses, while Hamas has sought to ensure that Israel will not be able to resume fighting once the sides agree to the initial six-week phase of the deal.
Israel killed 15 Palestinians huddled inside a Gaza school on Saturday and on Thursday approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the West Bank, according to the Associated Press.
Israel has used the Hamas attack to justify its effort to steal more land in the West Bank — all in the name of security, of course.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s extremist finance minister who lives in a West Bank settlement, announced an earlier project and said, “Let every terrorist pled to harm us know that any raising of a hand against Israeli citizens will be met with a blow of death and destruction and the deepening of our eternal grip on the entire Land of Israel.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Smotrich called for Palestinians to be removed completely from Gaza.
“We knew what that would bring and we tried to prevent it,” Smotrich has said. “Without settlements, there is no security.”
Ben-Gvir said there is no way to win the war “without the rebuild[ing] of Gush Katif and the Gaza Strip. It should be flourished with Jewish villages and Jewish cities.”
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