“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were set to resume in Cairo.
To sum up right now. Israel’s pre condition is the release of all hostages. Which is also all of Hamas’ leverage. Hamas’ pre condition is to feed civilians. Terrorist stuff isn’t great but the white house and Israel are letting Hamas dunk on them in PR.
It’s very interesting that the white house is practically admitting here that israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. And just casually includes it as “part of negotiations”.
“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands…”
Well we know that’s never going to happen.
Unless Joe Biden starts pressuring israel of course.
See, that’s the key difference between us… I don’t believe Bibi gives two shits what the US or Biden says. :)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/18/netanyahu-biden-feud-israel-ally/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/netanyahu-rebuffs-bidens-call-to-walk-away-from-judicial-overhaul
https://asiatimes.com/2023/12/why-netanyahu-is-ignoring-bidens-calls-and-pleas/
I don’t care what Biden says. You don’t care what he says. Nobody cares what Biden says.
Biden’s words mean nothing. Only his actions matter.
So far Biden has done nothing but grovel for Netanyahu and try to give him as many bombs as possible. Biden has bypassed congress because israel needed those tank shells to commit Genocide with. Just a few days ago Biden once against used his UN veto’s for israel.
Biden has all the power in the world to shut israel down. Netanyahu is powerless without Biden enabling his Genocide. Netanyahu is but a convenient scapegoat everyone points to blame.
Biden biden biden. Never blame toward congress, ANY other figure, always Biden Biden Biden. It’s like you have an agenda
Because Biden is in charge.
Biden vetoes the ceasefires.
Biden bypasses congress to help israel commit Genocide.
Biden is the one who is responsible.
If it was Trump in charge it would be Trump Trump Trump. Tell me is Trump president right now?
Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.
There’s only one side Genociding civilians right now and that’s israel. There is no “both sides”.
Israel is a Nazi state.
Well… I guess those Israelis that were butchered at that concert don’t count, then?
Hamas is a terrorist organisation that has killed and kidnapped civilians. Israel killing more civilians doesn’t make Hamas any less of a despicable bunch of fucks.
Even including all the IDF kills Hamas has a 2:1 civilian casualty rate. The word Genocide is impossible to use there.
And who is currently killing civilians right now. Is the date 7 october 2023?
Hamas is terrible, Palestine is not. Hamas and Israel are in a symbiotic relationship to keep each other in power ruining the lives of all Palestinians. Hamas is in control because of work Israel did against the Palestinian Authority. That’s an important distinction you need to make. While also stating that Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide.
The big problem is that both the PA and Hamas lead to the same result: israel commits Genocide and annexes land.
Hamas is a convenient fear mongering tool but they are reliable for peace deals. Israel is the party that keeps breaking those.
Whats a ceasefire worth if Hamas keeps breaking ceasefires?
The only thing a ceasefire is getting Hamas off scott free after killing thousands of Isarelis, and letting Hamas regroup and launch another Oct 7th.
How many dead children is a good trade for 600 Israeli military? Just wondering :)
Are you not familar with Oct 7th, the whole reason theyre fighting this time?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel
The word ceasefire does not mean israel can bomb children in Gaza and Hamas does not retaliate. Because that is what was happening on Oct6.
Thousands does not mean hundreds. Counting is difficult.
Do you have an independent source saying Israel was bombing Hamas on Oct 6th? Not Al Jeezera.
I looked for the Al Jazeera article you mentioned and found that the 19-year-old who was killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on October 6 was named Labib Dmaidi. Then I made a Google search for Labib Dmaidi, filtered to remove aljazeera.com. I hope this helps!
That did help. No major news source reported on it. All the searches were Twitter or some blog posts, likely just repeating AJ without thought.
The person I responded to specifically wanted independent news outlets, so the fact that none of these pages are “major news sources” is I think exactly what they are looking for. I’m not sure though, goalposts have a tendency to move when it comes to this kind of conversation
You’re right, they phrased it poorly. Can you provide a link to some credible news sources? Not just random people’s blogs
I’m sorry, but I don’t think you’re asking this question in good faith because I already did link credible news sources. If you think the sources I’ve linked are not credible, provide credible sources of your own to prove that point.
If you can’t do that, that’s OK and that doesn’t prove either of us right or wrong about this! But if you can’t do that, you’re just some random person with bias on the internet, exactly like the sources that you yourself claim are non-credible.
Can you first make a list of dependable sources? Is it the IDF website?