You know what's really pathetic, beside your support of the genocide of Palestinians, of course?
That the US gave Israel everything it asked for in to create a UNSC ceasefire resolution and still Israel won't agree to it.
The US ceasefire plan allows Israel to continue the 'siege' or the genocide through starvation, along with allowing Israel to resume the genocide of Gaza once Hamas returns hostages.
A reminder, Israel negotiated with Hamas and 105 hostages were returned peacefully. Israel has returned 4 but killed about 50 hostages through violence.
Blinken, the ‘ultimate spinner’
This is what’s so infuriating about Secretary Blinken: He is so well-mannered, soft-spoken, very diplomatic. But when it comes to the content of what he says, he is the ultimate spinner – half facts, half truths.
He said the two proposals are virtually the same. But I will name you two important differences: One is that the Hamas proposal calls for the end of Israel’s siege; the proposal outlined by the US does not. What’s the point of this war or the past 20 years of four wars against Gaza if we’re going to go back to square one where Israel imposes a siege on Gaza? So the Hamas proposal suggested ending the Israeli siege on Gaza. This new proposal does not.
Two, there’s the key difference between a permanent and temporary ceasefire. This proposal speaks of a temporary ceasefire. Hamas presented a permanent ceasefire. The difference lies in phase two, which says that Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip upon the agreement of the parties – which means Israel will have to agree. And there’s every proof and demonstration that Israel does not want to end the war, and it keeps saying that this resolution will allow it to achieve its war objectives.
Blinken assures us that Israel said “Yes” to the proposal. I am not convinced. Why hasn’t Netanyahu come out and said, “I support and embrace the new Security Council resolution”? That’s the question that needs to be posed to Secretary Blinken.
