Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a tweet where he said he was “encouraging” efforts to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Blinken made the post on X after he spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday. “I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately,” Blinken wrote in the now-deleted tweet.
The State Department’s readout of the call did not mention a ceasefire but said Blinken “encouraged Türkiye’s continued engagement and highlighted the United States’ unwavering focus on halting the attacks by Hamas and securing the release of all hostages.”
The State Department’s US Office of Palestinian Affairs also deleted a tweet calling for restraint and de-escalation. “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred. We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing,” the office wrote on X.
The Biden administration has come under criticism for the deleted tweets despite the fact that it’s strongly backing Israel. Instead of pushing for an end to the bloodshed, the administration has sent new military aid and deployed warships as Israel has ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza and is bombarding the enclave, one of the most densely populated places in the world.
The very thing that Blinken and the Biden administration should be doing – trying to de-escalate the situation, and ant-brain Antony walks away from it.
Figures, the first thing from Blinken that I agree with and he has to go and delete it.
He was told to delete it. AIPAC is watching. There is an election next year. Mr. Biden is sending Mr. Lew(who is Jewish) to Israel as an ambassador, perhaps to get Israel to end the occupation, have peace, tranquility with the Palestinians. /s
I’ll see your /s and add a //s
can’t have a real cease-fire now, can we
It would be bad for business…
Wel, thank goodness we have such a brave and steadfast Sec of State, no?
Somebody walked in and slapped his wrist. “Bad Boy!”
Bottom line: They don’t want the Israeli prisoners back… They’d rather exterminate Gaza.
Agreed. Funny how history generates its own ironies.
I think they probably want them back but not if it stands in the way of leveling Gaza.
They intentionally bombed their own troops last time they raided Gaza to prevent their capture.
Amerikkkan “politicians” are falling all over themselves to see who can present themselves as the most pro-IsraHell. Lady G, Icky Haley are but some of the most vitriolic.
If this doesn’t give one an indication of who runs this godforsaken country, I truly don’t know what does.
The Zionazi States of Amerikkka! USA! USA!
In my view, it’s not so much an indication of foreigners running the country. It’s more an indication of some countries like Israel making sure their interests and our elite (weapons, mining/energy, banking corporations) interests are fully aligned and thus they are supported to the hilt.
The United States of (for) Israel…!
Damn straight, Net!
we are approaching an anniversary of the Rabin murder.
Why retract the tweet Blinken? It’s the right call. First stop the bloodlust and killing. Get the innocent hostages back. Then look to go after those responsible. Whether it be individuals, groups, or state actors. However, that’s not what Netanyahu wants is it? He wants to eradicate the Palestinians form the West Bank and Gaza. Make those areas a greater Israel. Don’t sugar coat it Blinken tell it like it is.
He got the memo a little too late.
“The Biden administration has come under criticism for the deleted tweets despite the fact that it’s strongly backing Israel.”
I actually thought the criticism was because that is what the state department should advocate. But reality set in, and the actual criticism was for the state department even suggesting a cease fire before Israel can retaliate the way Israel retaliates. The body count will have to be much higher on the Gaza side before any talk of a cease fire can be brought up again.
Blinken is a pimple on the ass of a real diplomat.
And the real diplomat is Vladimir Putin.
Blinken just keeps jumping into the hot water lately. Now this. I guess in Wash. any mention of negotiations is verboten. Negotiations could stop hostilities and bring peace; peace is bad for war industry business and all those MIC, goodies coming into Wash.
There will be no cease fire. The equivalent of ten 9/11s has just been visited upon innocent Israeli children, women, elderly and men. Israelis literally view this as a war of survival. And the odds are that it will spread to the north and perhaps Iran. It will be costly to both sides but Israel will prevail. And a Palestinian state is now out of the question. It is clearly and existential threat to Israel. Even those in the peace camp on the left in Israel can see that. To those who did not see before, the enemy has shown himself to be a murderous ghoul who revels in the blood of Jewish children. It’s a very sad day.
And the equivalent of apartheid South Africa has just been visited upon the Palestinians. And by “just”, I mean it has finally been acknowledged by those who steadfastly refused to do so previously. In reality, it’s been going on for years.
He had a brief moment of sanity that he had to overcome.
A phone call from Benjamin Netanyahu?