President Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to pause Israel’s assault on Gaza for three days to allow progress in Hamas releasing hostages, Axios reported on Tuesday.
The request was made in a Monday phone call, but Israel continues to rebuff US calls for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza. On Tuesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with Vice President Kamala Harris and said there would be no type of ceasefire without Hamas releasing all of its hostages.
According to Axios, the US, Israel, and Qatar have discussed a proposal that would involve Hamas releasing 10-15 hostages and then using the three-day pause in fighting to verify the names of the remaining captives and deliver the list.
Israel has said a total of 240 people were captured during the October 7 attack, although Hamas has claimed over 60 are missing due to Israeli airstrikes. So far, Hamas has released four hostages and says it’s ready to release 12 more foreign nationals but can’t because of the Israeli bombardment.
In the call on Monday, Netanyahu told Biden that he didn’t trust Hamas’s intentions and that he didn’t believe they would agree to a deal regarding hostages. He also is worried that if Israel pauses its brutal assault for three days, it will lose international support for the onslaught.
In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Netanyahu said he’s open to “little” pauses but not a ceasefire without the release of hostages first. “Well, there’ll be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” he said. “As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there. We’ve had them before, I suppose, will check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods to come in, or our hostages, individual hostages to leave. But I don’t think there’s going to be a general ceasefire.”
The Biden administration has refused to use the term “ceasefire” as it maintains full-throated support for the Israeli campaign in Gaza despite the massive civilian death toll.
“President Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to pause Israel’s assault on Gaza for three days…”
PM Netanyahu would love to. The three days he will agree to are May 3rd – 5th. 2029.
Three-day pause for Israeli hostage negotiations only without any humanitarian aid to devastated Gaza people….!
If US and Israel think Hamas releasing hostages without their hostages in Israeli prisons freed and any guarantees of not being attacked afterwards, they’re day dreaming…!
Correct. Hamas released hostages. Israel does not comply with their end of the deal, just like when they broke the cease fire years ago, then resumes shelling the civilians. The Zionist Fascists in Israel want all Palestinians dead or exiled to the Sinai desert.
A “pause” is not a cease fire. F*ck the Biden administration
They have been banned from saying the word ‘ceasefire’
Alex Christoforou made a great point about that with Justin Turder example.
If Biden wants a ceasefire, he can announce no aid until a ceasefire. It’s that simple.
I see the end game. Israel will eventually take the north half ofGaza. Accept a ceasefire for a prisoner/hostage swap. Force/evacuate any Gazans captured into the south and keep the north as a security zone.Then start clearing all of north Gaza of rubble with plans to make it part of Israel in the future. Meanwhile, there is nothing to agree to as
the “ceasefire” continues for years as negotiations go on forever.
The IDF even published a map of this plan and ordered all Gazans out of the north.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YDn5ivnTSGe3uP.981XE5A%E2%80%93/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0yNTIwO2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bbc_us_articles_995/de83ef70e7d0459d80faf1b3c29a29cd
Why doesn’t the US put its bloody foot down? Who answers to whom?!
STOP FUNDING ISRAEL.
The money we give them can be put to better uses, here at home…………………………………………………………………………
Sorry, You are in the vacant room reserved for people like you and I. Our voices just bounce around that room,without effect.
The “master-supplicant” configuration could not be clearer. Israel rules the US.
Genocide Joe’s argument, “why use up your bombs if you can starve them to death?” Satanyahu: “You’re brilliant, Genocide Joe!” …Sorry, he was not finished… Satanyahu: “So you’re suggesting that I starve them for 3 more days, then bomb them?” Genocide Joe: “This is why I like you, Satan. You and I are on the same page.” …I don’t know what happened afterwards. I woke up with a fever and couldn’t stop throwing up.
Biden worrying about elections
“In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Netanyahu said he’s open to ‘little’ pauses.”
Assuming he lasts, count on B to mumble that as a big diplomatic win in election season: ‘I supported Israel’s right to defend itself, and at the same time got N to accept humanitarian pauses to help suffering succotashes!……suhvilians!’ And then – voice rising in a peevish, berating, nasally whine: ‘He woulna’ done that if I hadn’t said so!’
Peter Lavelle
@PLCROSSTALK
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One insidious side of western culture is messianic tendencies – the irrational lust for totality and purity. Of course the west has rejected Christianity, but it has maintained its instrumentized depiction of reality – good vs evil. The west has become the Nazis.
The contempt Netanyahu has for Biden is truly amazing. A completely dominant position, with Biden as a weak, pleading supplicant. Netanyahu controls what Biden is allowed to say, tells Biden what he must do, and takes every opportunity to demean and embarrass him.
There’s no “discussion” going on here at all. Biden pleads, and offers bribes, and Netanyahu just laughs at him and makes more demands.
He has said that on video:
September 26, 2017: Israeli P. M. Netanyahu speech at the UN General Assemble: “Israel’s policy regarding the nuclear deal with Iran is very simple, change it or cancle it. Fix it, or nix it.” President Trump nix it.
Israel stated goal is to destroy Hamas. Why on earth would Hamas agree to release the hostages during any “pause” knowing full well that the bombing will resume immediately following their release?
Your argument is correct. That is why Israel sees no reason to pause their attack. And than there is the practical problem of pausing the fighting in such close quarters. It is not a war where there are well defined front lines.
An admission that the hostages don’t mean a pinch of shit. To Israel.
I don’t see how that is an admission. It was you who said that a pause would not result in the release of the hostages.
I said that because Israel knows Hamas isn’t going to release them. And I said that because Israel has said Hamas must be destroyed. So, you expect Hamas to cooperate when the bombing will resume immediately upon the hostage’s release? Israel doesn’t and they don’t really care. Adding to the 1400 sacrificial lambs isn’t a bug for Israel’s vicious far right government, it’s a feature.
No, I don’t expect Hamas to cooperate and neither do you. So there is no reason for Israel to have a pause unless there is some unlikely deal to release a significant number of hostages. Which I don’t see happening.
I agree. Even if Hamas agrees to free some of the Israeli hostages it’s holding, it’s unlikely that the Israeli will agree to release any of the Palestinian hostages it’s holding in exchange.
Like Hamas, the Israeli regime considers “its” people getting killed a propaganda feature, not a humanitarian bug.
And I don’t expect Hamas to cooperate because they know Israel will resume the bombing immediately upon release of the hostages. So, you’re right, there is no reason for Israel to pause since their stated goal is destroy Hamas and they too know they will start bombing immediately upon the hostage’s release. So, my point stands. They don’t really give a pinch of shit about the hostages.
Because they’re as stupid as Putin, whose only option is to surrender since he keeps forgetting he has more nuclear weapons than we do.
Our population grows by about 0.5% annually. Israel’s population grows about three times faster. Israel’s population density is about 425 per square kilometer.
Our population density is about 40 per square kilometer.
That is why our nation is not attempting to throw native nations out of their lands.
Eventually Israel will have to snatch land from Jordan or Lebanon to build more kibbutzes and towns.
And the Palestinian Arab population grows half again as fast as Israel’s.
So what?
Those living permanently in Israel are Israeli citizens which have permanent resident right. They need living space too.
Is Israel population growing because of people moving to Israel?
Allow a nice photo op for Biden, before killing them.
Zionist answerer to no one; they just takes USA tax dollars.
February 2, 1957: UN General Assembly resolution demanded Israel’s withdrawal; David Ben-Gurion refused.
February 11, 1957: USA President Eisenhower wrote a strong note to Ben-Gurion demanding Israel’s withdrawal, only to have Ben-Gurion refuse once again. (The Pasionate Attachment, P-47)
Sure, like asking Hitler to pause gas chambers for a day or two. Sorry, but if the shoe fits. The operation is to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians or complete genocide. Yahoo doesn’t give a rat’s ass about hostages. If, as he claims, Hamas is hiding behind infants, children and up every woman’s skirt, and that’s why he has to “mow the lawn”, then why wouldn’t Hamas be shielding themselves with the most valuable lives of hostages?
You have to have some seriously deranged suspension of disbelief to buy into his tale of defense.
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities“~Voltaire
Never say you are sorry when you’re saying the truth. Even Voltaire would call it an atrocity.
Bibi’s worried he’ll lose international support if he pauses the Israel’s assault for 3 days? Beyond the west what international support does Israel’s barbaric war have?