Secretary of State Antony Blinken is headed to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the war in Gaza and what will come afterwards if Israel is successful in rooting out Hamas.
US officials told Axios that Blinken will discuss the idea of “temporary pauses” in Israel’s operations to facilitate aid deliveries and potentially more hostage releases. The Biden administration is carefully avoiding the word “ceasefire” as it’s determined to continue supporting the war.
Israel’s Kan News reported that Netanyahu is considering US requests for temporary pauses, but nothing is confirmed. Publicly, Israeli officials have said there will be no ceasefire of any kind.
Before leaving for Israel on Thursday, Blinken told reporters he will focus on steps that need to be taken to protect civilians “who are in a crossfire of Hamas’s making.” But there’s no sign the US is pressuring Israel to change its indiscriminate tactics. When asked about the massive child casualties this week, the Pentagon said there were “no limits” on how Israel uses US-provided weapons.
Blinken also stressed discussions about a post-war Gaza. “We’re focused on the day of; we also need to be focused on the day after,” he said. “So in conversations that we’ll be having through the course of this weekend, I expect you’ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get, over time, to two states for two peoples.”
A leaked document prepared by Israel’s Intelligence Ministry revealed that Netanyahu’s government is considering a plan to cleanse Gaza by pushing all of its residents into the Sinai Peninsula. A major impediment to the Israeli proposal is Egypt’s vehement opposition.
Israel needs to pause and consider the potential for war crimes and potential crimes against humanity… Think, very carefully, our friends, to the alternatives available to you… Further escalation? Or PEACE?…
Judging from their actions since 1948 it is apparent no one can bring this criminal regime to heel. Basically Israel does not give a damn about anything they do.
The true criminals are the Iranian theocrats who urge others to go to war.
The Iranians have invaded no one for at least 50 years.
That does not mean that they can not stirred “the pot of trouble”.
Israel’s response- “OOOO I’m sooo scared!” The USA would protect Israel if it attacked the Vatican!
I have a clue which way Israel will go and it will not be pretty.
“Discussing temporary pauses” in genocide is itself complicity in genocide.
Sometimes, after wars, we can get a bit confused about which direction we should go in… I appeal, to the US and Israel, to stop this thing before it gets going…..
It will take many divisions and air power to bring Israel to the peace table.
Are you willing to sign up for this duty?
My guess is that this direction was what Zionism wanted all along. Remember, Greater Israel extends from the Nile to the Euphrates. That’s why Israel has no real borders. Just a little bit more, a little bit more…
“Just a little bit more, a little bit more…” I feel sorry for them. Did you ever read “The Paradox of Choice?” If Blinken cries again, I would feel an urge to cry too.
That looks like an excellent account of why more is less. Zionism is driven by overreaching greed which is ultimately the seed of its own destruction.
Yeah… I like the metaphor. It works as good as drinking poison and hoping the other people die. I mean it from a moral standpoint of course.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
What about them?
Alleged fiction and fraud. Kinda like the Torah, Bible, and Koran.
The Protocols was written to instill hate. People can use the various holy books for evil or for good-its up to each person.
Some of the Talmud was written to instill hate too. Does that mean the whole thing is evil?
No guesswork needed. There was never any place for Arabs in the Zionist plan. Check out this letter from David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, to his son in 1937. That was the plan. To eventually eliminate the Arabs and take all the land. The two state solution was a lie from the beginning.
https://www.palestineremembered.com/download/B-G%20LetterTranslation.pdf
Craig Moniker, a top UN Human Right official resigned because he believes that whatis happening in Gaza is a “textbook example of genocide.” that the UN is ignoring.
Here is an interview with Moniker the day after his resolution.
125 years and still going strong.
tThere is no such thing as ‘greater Israel”.
The concept of a “Greater Israel”, according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”
It’s always “what Israel wants or needs”! If someone would just listen to the Palestinians now and then this type of conflict wouldn’t happen, but I’m sure Israel would make sure there WOULD be “terrorists” by stepping all over people’s human rights! Israel doesn’t want peace it wants its neighbor’s land! Just because Israel and the USA are bed partners doesn’t make them right.
Donna, do you not think that Hamas has something to do with this war?
Why don’t you appeal to Hezbollah,Hamas, and Iran?
“. . . Blinken told reporters he will focus on steps that need to be taken to protect civilians ‘who are in a crossfire of Hamas’s making.’”
I guess I need a new dictionary. The definition of “crossfire” in the one I’ve been using doesn’t cover this.
Peace.
Not in our time Donna.Ain’t going to happen.
A two state solution. Does that mean that Israel will give over its illegal settlements on the land it had stolen by force and force the settlers back to pre war boundaries? And pay reparations. Not in a thousand years. As well as the right of return.l
Of course not. If Palestinians insist on a right of return and reparations there will be no two state solution. If Palestinians want their own nation they need to be realistic. And there is still the Gaza problem, they are physically isolate from the West Bank. Maybe a three state solution is a better idea.
We’ll just all have to sit back and watch while Israel destroys itself and the rest of the world!
I don’t care what Israel does to itselves and its fanatics. In do care about the rest of the planet with the exceptions of Jake and Don Julio.
Will the Arab nations pay reparations to the descendants of the Jews they evicted? Can Egypts Jews go back home? NO NO NO
Can you bring back the Canaanites? The land was stolen by the Israelites.
The Israelites may very well be of Cananitic extraction.
The Palestinians may very well be of Israelite extraction.
The genetics are very similar,if not identical-Mizrachi Jewish men and Palestinian men are very close.
Let’s all get in the act and pay reparations to those populations with the most Neanderthal genes.
Which are?
I hope he brings his own Kleenex this time. He’s likely to make another mess, while crying in front of Satanyahu again. But, I could be wrong. He maybe pleasantly surprised to see more Palestinians killed. Like they say, “You never know.”
What a wonderful time for a drone strike !
This is going on your record, Vic. How are you going to respond? Are you going to say, “I don’t remember that I said, ‘Why can’t we just drone this guy?'” That’s never gonna work. Oh wait? That actually worked?
Karma will get these warmongers one way or another. I really have nothing to do with it.
Yea, that is great idea!!!! Kill the US Secretary of State. What could go wrong with that? Even attempting such an idea is beyond stupid.
You certainly know a lot about stupid..
Real reason for this trip is panic in the White House.
Blinken should stay in Israel permanently and not return to US…!
Americans who strongly support Israel should set up a go-fund-me page and leave the taxpayers out of it.
Same with all government giveaways.
Stated in plain english, Blinken is going to discuss managing the PR of the Final Solution.
Is he going there as the US Secretary of State this time or as a member of the same predominant religion of Israel, as he stated in an earlier visit?
It damn sure does not have my support.
There wouldn’t even been any talk of a “pause” if public opinion wasn’t turning against Israel’s brutality. A recent headline in our MSM said:
U.S. WARNS ISRAEL AMID GAZA CARNAGE IT DOESN’T HAVE LONG BEFORE SUPPORT ERODES
So, spare us the sudden concern for “protecting” civilians.
The support for Zionism in Congress and the Executive branch does not reflect the views of the American people.
Hamas would give us what we want, but get nothing in return? Why? That is a fantasy that is nuts.
This is about power. Blinken does not have it. He’s pretending he does.
Meanwhile, he thinks he can return Gaza to what it was, under new occupiers who will keep it otherwise the same. Nobody is interested in doing that for Israel.
Instead, the Arabs who might “help” feel they can finally insist on a real Palestinian state. Maybe they are wrong, but this is the first time in a long while it has been remotely possible, so we could hope.
Liar Blinken: “I expect you’ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get, over time, to two states for two peoples.”
Israel’s position on borders was determined by UNSC 242 on November 22, 1967. . .Israel supported the resolution because it called on the Arab states to accept Israel’s right “to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.” So Israel’s recognized boundaries are the ‘Mandatory Palestine’ borders from the past. Palestine was not mentioned in 242. . . .On March 25, 2019, the United States officially recognized the Golan Heights (in Syria) as being under the sovereignty of Israel.
Not an honest broker as he indicated he previously visited as a Jew, like he stated.
“Blinken Heads to Israel to Discuss War With Netanyahu
US officials say he will discuss the idea of ‘temporary pauses'”
“No pressure, mind you! Heh-heh – heck, we know you gotta do what you gotta do to! ‘t’s just these Hamas-lovin’ Jews back home…Jeeze, what’m I sayin’ – ‘Over there,’ I meant…heh-heh…We good?”
It’s not working. The Zionist hardliners are confident that they aren’t in real danger of losing US support, so they feel free to tell the world, including the US, to buzz off.
Blinken’ idiot.