Biden administration officials told The Times of Israel that they don’t believe Israel can live up to its commitment to allow 200 aid trucks to enter Gaza per day during the pause that’s part of the hostage deal with Hamas.
The officials said Israel is refusing to open its Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza during the four-day pause or at any time after. With only Egypt’s Rafah crossing available, 200 aid trucks will unlikely be able to enter per day.
When Israel unleashed its bombing campaign after the October 7 Hamas attack, it initially refused to allow any aid to enter Gaza. After agreeing to let some in, Israel required aid trucks first to be inspected in Egypt, then inspected at an Israeli crossing before being sent to Rafah to enter Gaza.
The extra steps have slowed down the limited aid that’s entering Gaza, and only a few times since deliveries resumed have aid groups reached their goal of getting 100 trucks into the enclave in a day. US officials have said there’s no indication Israel will open its Kerem Shalom crossing during the truce, putting the hostage deal in peril.
The Biden administration officials said Israel’s stance is “really problematic because the level of aid going into Gaza now is totally unsustainable.” They said Israel’s reasoning for not opening the crossing is “completely political” since there are no security concerns about aid entering Gaza.
Israeli officials have frequently pointed to the limited aid they’ve let enter Gaza to justify their continued onslaught, which the UN’s relief chief has called the worst humanitarian crisis he’s ever seen, even worse than the Killing Fields in Cambodia.
Qatar said on Thursday that the pause in fighting is scheduled to begin at 7 am local time on Friday, with hostage releases expected to start later that day.
Israel officials have said many times that the border between Gaza and Israel is closed and will remain closed. No more goods will come to Gaza via Israel. No electric or water service will come from Israel. No one from Gaza will be allowed into Israel for work. Somehow the world, including some in the USA, seem to think that things will just return to the way they were before Oct 7. They will not.
Please, tell us more of changes you think will occur….!!!
Tim is perfectly comfortable with the ongoing genocide. He’s an apologist for it. He’s complicit.
Yes. It seems some people misinterpreted what he was saying there. I suppose him not saying “all deaths are on Hamas” threw them off a bit.
All deaths after Oct 7 in Gaza is on Hamas. No Oct attack and no counter attack.
LOL, As previously stated, you are a foul apologist for war crimes and genocide.
The ongoing blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
This war did not start on 10-7 and Israel killed thousands of Gazans in the 15 years before 10-7.
You truly are a lying pig.
There you go. Now put that into your other comment so it won’t be so distorted.
And you are perfectly comfortable labelling Israel counter attack as genocide. Killing terrorist who are embedded with civilians will result in the lost of civilians. That is fact that you are not willing to deal with. Instead of facing the fact that this war was started by Hamas on Oct 7 you want to label the counter attack as genocide. That way you don’t have to deal with loss of life cause by Hamas. Was the killing of civilians on Oct 7 by Hamas genocide?
UN agencies and several human rights organizations have labeled Israel’s attack as genocide.
Only filthy liars trying to deny Israel’s mass murder of civilians spew the filth that you regurgitate on a regular basis.
“Was the killing of civilians on Oct 7 by Hamas genocide?”
Let’s say both sides are attempting genocide. Which side has come closest to accomplishing that? And which side has the means to even attempt?
Genocide of the people of Donbass.. Just like Bibi will swing for what he’s doing.
These changes that I have outline common from multiple officials of the Israel.
International Law requires the occupying power to provide protection for civilians be they friend or foe.
While the battle in Gaza is on going – Israel is required to harbor these civilians
FFC means Fat fucking chance of anything good being done by those noted humanitarians Israel.
International Law isn’t part of the unwritten Rules Based Order.
True – but given the change in the constellation of forces happening in real time – I sure wouldn’t want to be a 30 something unindicted war criminal right now. War Crimes have no statute of limitations
War Crimes are only prosecuted by the Victors.
True – and since Hamas and Hezbollah appear to be prevailing militarily, one might be eventually surprised at the eventual outcome
… and not only, its indisensible province, the USA, is sinking fast.
So if Hamas is winning, what is the problem? If they are winning why would there be a problem in getting in aid?
Let us try the Hamas murderers,kidnappers, and rapists of war crimes.
Jake – even the gov‘t in Tel Aviv admits that the IDF massacred Israeli civilians on 7.Oct.
It’s funny how you never defend Israel by denying what they do but instead just demand the same for the other side.
Your inane oinking is very tiresome.
Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are 2o times worse than the attacks on civilians that occurred on 10-7, and many if not most of those were committed by the IDF.
Guess Russia doesn’t give a flying fck about your international law.
Is the worst said of Putin the standard for Israel? Seems so, by this comment.
On the contrary. Russia has an iron clad case for it’s actions as we will see at Zelenski s war crimes trial.
Bring your own popcorn!
So guess you think the ICC should also issue a arrest warrant for the arrest of the Likud cabinet ?
Thank you for bringing that up.
Israel has killed more civilians since 10-7 than Russia has killed in the entire Ukraine war.
Spain is considering recognizing Palestine – if they do, others countries may do also – Boy, will the Zionists howl – their total investment in crooked US Congressmen would go for naught.
Spanish recognition of the state of Palestine has been in the works (supported by parliament) since 2011. And 139 countries already recognize it.
1. No they are not, because at the point Israel is not the occupying power.
2. Israel is not required by any law to allow trade across their boarder.
Under international law, Israel is the occupying power.
Denying food, power, water and medical supplies is therefore a violation of international law.
You are a slimy apologist for genocide.
The ICJ and UN define Israel as the occupying power. You might want to read this ICJ opinion closely – the ICJ also determined that Israel should pay reparations for damages they cause to Palestian property.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-178825/
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2cf3ce75ffa0f1a356aaf6d97628e2ad5106805c4c9485d70b80d7c87dc3a12e.jpg
Israel‘s border is defined in UNR 181
That describes the moral depth of the zionist entity very well.
IOW, Israel is committing massive war crimes, but you present that as just the way things are.
Every move they make, every step they take is an intent of genocide.
US Doesn’t Think
Stop right there.
100%. The US Media is hypnotizing us to think the genocide is over, while it is still ongoing, a well known Jedi trick. https://youtu.be/bJiqrVWLfdw?si=K0tGd3_hdWKgkwIS
Remember this if you remember nothing else: The Zionist settler colonialists of Israel reek of treachery. Just pure meanness. Remembering that clears everything up.
The “American “ spoke.
The aid will go to Gaza when Arabs make a safe corridor by their military force.
There are online stories of Turkish military forces fighting in Hamas garb. No doubt “aid” will have numerous weapons and foreign fighters.
If foreign fighters can prevent the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, they are welcome.
So far, there are only evidences that Lebanon and Yemen are helping Palestinians but their help is very modest.
The online stories of Turkish military forces fighting in Palestine are most likely fakes. There are a lot of Zionist fakes online. Zionist militaries are trying to explain and excuse their own miserable failure.
Sure there are.
Two Hundred trucks aid and relief for 75 years of murder and butchery. Two thousand is what is needed for the population to survive until military power forces Israel to abdicate from their slave colony.If indeed that happens it will be a case of too little too late.This is nothing less then a enormous tragedy perpetuated by Israel with the conniving and permission of the US.
” until military power forces Israel to abdicate” What force will that be?
Oink oink
The Biden administration officials said Israel’s stance is “really problematic because the level of aid going into Gaza now is totally unsustainable.” They said Israel’s reasoning for not opening the crossing is “completely political” since there are no security concerns about aid entering Gaza.
You’d think Israel was providing the US with the annual $4 billion taxpayer donation and they were on the verge of okaying $14.3 billion in further military aid to continue the onslaught. If it’s “really problematic”, cut them off.
Yes sir that will happen when Hell freezes over.
I know. But saying it is therapeutic.
It is providing many millions to US politicians, and threatens to shift that to primary challenges of anyone who does not obey.
We allow them to do this, when the mere suggestion of Russia or China doing it was an outrage.
Fifth column Zionists are a direct threat to the US.
In some countries uttering the words, “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free”, could land you in legal trouble and might cost you your job.
Israel and the US would prefer people use the more politically correct,
“From the river to the sea not one Palestinian will you see”.
Very frigging creative and not pleasant to contemplate.
https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-24-23
Oh no, MSM posted this. Must be false.
Gee, it’s a shame with all of the money and support we give Israel we have no control over them. Oh wait, we could cut them off.
One phone call from Biden. If there was resistance from Tel Aviv, the phone call could include a warning that other nations in the region could be told that the US won’t be standing behind Israel on this one.
There will be no aid to cut Israel. It is just not going to happen.
Oink some more pig.
Of course not, how do you think our politicians get wealthy? It’s a nice set-up if you can benefit from it.
That Israel isn’t keeping up its end of the deal should be front and center each and every day. If Hamas decides to throw down before the deal expires it will be because Israel has once again shirked its responsibilities. (In the larger scheme of things, it will be the fault of the Israeli citizens themselves, as- in the parlance of ex-Pres Herzog, “…they could have risen up, they could fought against that evil regime which took over Tel Aviv.” Way to go Herzie-boy, making your people accomplices to official crimes and misdeeds.)
That is was not even expected, and is not even hoped for. They get a pass for cheating, from Genocide Joe and his Team.
Wrong verb! “… Will Make Good …” It’s a choice.
Has every decision maker in this administration decapitated a baby & burned it in an oven or murdered a rabbi and the Israel lobby has video proof? I mean seriously, for the “world power” financing this war it has about as much influence as a backwater backbencher.
Don’t kid yourself. This genocide could not be continuing if the US really didn’t want it to.
The war against the global south (Russia/China) has simply been moved to the ME, Its a globalist war on humanity.
Part of the US, unfortunately it’s the part controlling the reins of power. The polls show Gen Z overwhelmingly support the Palestinians and the largest activist groups organizing the US pro-Palestinian Ceasefire protests are a couple of Jewish groups.
Yup.
Gilens & Page:
Israel’s MO is to infiltrate all parts of the upper echelons of power.
Death to AIPAC!
Death to the Zionist billionaires!
From the Couldn’t Make it Up department:
Biden: ‘This is the beginning of a long journey of healing’
It takes one to know one.
Who were the prisoners released on Friday?
Of the 39 Palestinians released by Israel, 17 are minors.
They are:
Yousef Mohammad Mustafa Ata from Ramallah
Qusai Hani Ali Ahmad from Bethlehem
Jibreel Ghassan Ismail Jibreel from Qalqilya
Mohammad Ahmad Suleiman Abu Rajab from al-Khalil
Ahmad Nu’man Ahmad Abu Na’im from Ramallah
Baraa Bilal Mahmoud Rabee from al-Khalil
Aban Iyad Mohammad Said Hammad from Qalqilya
Moataz Hatem Moussa Abu Aram from al-Khalil
Iyad Abdul Qader Mohammad Khateeb from Jerusalem
Hazma Laith Khalil Othman Othman from Ramallah
Mohammad Mahmoud Ayoub Dar Darwish from Ramallah
Jamal Khalil Jamal Barahmeh from Areeha
Jamal Yousef Jamal Abu Hamdan from Nablus
Mohammad Anis Saleem Tarabi from Nablus
Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman Suleiman Rizq from Jerusalem
Zeina Raed Abdou from Jerusalem
Noor Mohammad Hafez al-Tahir from Nablus
Zeina and Noor are girls, the others are boys.
The remaining 22 of the Palestinians released on Friday are women. They are:
Rawan Nafez Mohammad Abu Matar from Ramallah
Marah Joudat Moussa Bakeer from Jerusalem
Malak Mohammad Yousef Suleiman from Jerusalem
Amani Khaled Nu’man Hasheem from Jerusalem
Nihaya Khader Hussein Sawan from Jerusalem
Fayrouz Fayez Mahmoud al-Baw from Jerusalem
Tahreer Adnan Mohammad Abu Suriya from Nablus
Falasteen Fareed Abdul Latif Najm from Nablus
Walaa Khaled Fawzi Tanja from Tulkarem
Maryam Khaled Abdul Majid Arafat from Nablus
Asil Muneer Ibrahim al-Tayti from Nablus
Azhar Thaer Bakr Assaf from Jerusalem
Raghd Nashat Salah al-Fanni from Tulkarem
Fatima Nu’man Ali Badr from Jerusalem
Rawda Moussa Abdul Qader Abu Ujaima from Bethlehem
Sara Ayman Abdul Aziz Abdullah al-Suweisa from Nablus
Fatima Ismail Abdul Rahman Shahin from Bethlehem
Samira Abdul Harbawi from Jerusalem
Samah Bilal Abdul Rahman Souf from Qalqilya
Fatima Bakr Moussa Abu Shalal from Nablus
Hanan Saleh Abdullah al-Barghouthi from Ramallah
Fatima Nasr Mohammad Amarnah from Jenin
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/24/who-were-the-palestinian-prisoners-israel-released-on-friday
How many have blood on their hands?
None.
English occupation troops in Ulster didn’t shoot children throwing rocks and bottles.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgjlkrTkH6A&pp=ygUdSWYgeW91IGhhdGUgdGhyIGJyaXRpc2ggYXJteSA%3D
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Israel is a monster and must be slain.
If we want peace in those lands, Israel definitely must be de-nazified.
Peace and Israel are mutually exclusive states.
Disagree – Israelis can have peace amd security within a Jewish states defined in UNR 181
UNR 181 was obviously unfair to Palestinians. It gave Ashkenazi colonizers the right to own Arab land. It forced Palestinian Arabs to live with a Frankenstein’s monster.
On the other hand: what else can be done? The monster is created and armed with nukes. If, at least, US government would try to find a solution to the problem instead of arming Zionists and encouraging the genocide.
Maybe this problem should be handed over to BRICS.
Interesting article regarding a Kibibtz built on stolen land.
https://www.plands.org/en/articles-speeches/articles/2019/when-the-denial-bubble-bursts-an-israeli-kibbutz-faces-the-nakba
What convinces a monster to stop being horrible?
Yes, we have the right to defend ourselves.
End US aid to Israel!
The Israel Lobby is profoundly anti-democratic, but it can be defeated by a mass movement.
Israel is a racist apartheid nation whose very existence requires regular mass murder of Palestinians
Israel is a leader in totalitarian surveillance and policing. No doubt Israeli tech is used to spy on the current protests and on BLM uprising against police brutality.
Israel is a direct threat to free speech and assembly in the US, Europe and Australia.
The World sees Uncle Sammy and the NATO hypocrites for what they are and that realization won’t be easily forgotten.
No US War for Israel! Stop the genocide.
The mass movement is well under way and under no auspises of any one group.
It’s a spontaneous movement of ordinary people from all walks of life but mostly, and this is important, the young.
Theirs is the future.
Free Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
They fired plastic bullets at close range into the faces of children. I’ve seen what they can do.. Not pretty.
Like this ? Real rounds
https://cufpa.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/israelis-sniping-palestinian-children/
https://www.anphoblacht.com/files/images/orig/2016/pg16-6.jpg
Not as graphic but just as lethal.
Agreed the Emglish are brutal
No surprise they midwifed Israel.
How would you know that?
Most of them by tending to the wounds inflicted on them and others by Goliath.
Everyone in the current Israeli government.
And you for trying to excuse genocide.
Interesting. How many were from Gaza? Should not all of them be from Gaza?
The Most American Video Ever
No, it doesn’t…. US doesn’t know the meaning of Good because they don’t care…!
Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko were ordered to ethnically cleanse, mass murder and collectively punish the Donbass. We were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russian’s so much, but not racist at all.
In the Donbass we see what an appropriate response to ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, mass murder and genocide is…..ARMED RESISTANCE. The resistance against NATO in Ukraine has destroyed; 537 Aircraft, 255 helicopters, 9165 UAV’s, 442 Anti Aircraft systems, 13586 tanks inc. APC’s, 1185 multiple rocket launchers, 7166 field artillery and 15572 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in Ukraine in 2014 according to Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General. The combined Western NATO nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
The United States of Atrocities will choke on Moscow’s terms for peace in Ukraine. Make no mistake its a huge defeat for Nazism the US and NATO.
“Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today.”
No it didn’t. Not even close.
Kiev caused horrible destruction and inflicted many casualties, but nothing like Gaza today.
Like i said we were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russian’s so much, but not racist at all.
Exactly like Gaza, why would you run interference for Nazi’s, ethnic cleansing and mass murder?
“Exactly like Gaza,”
If you want your messaging to be more effective than masturbation, you should stop spewing bullshit.
You want me to post the pictures of Donetsk Airport in 2014, where Motorola and Givi were taking up arms against the Nazi’s who were there to ethnically cleansing them for Barrack Obama? The Nazi’s had been shelling Donetsk a major city for months. Killing tens of thousands of locals. Their crime was to reject the Nazi occupation that Barrack Obama had imposed through a violent bloody coup.
Your problem is your racism and bigotry wont let you see it. My messaging is consistent and honest. WTF is yours? Selective at best. Racist to the core.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elite wage war against the global south. For Profit.
Good news Dissident51 we agree on something.
Once again, you bring up Ukraine which has nothing to do with this Israel Hamas war.
As Afghanistan is ended, we see Ukraine begin, and as Ukraine is ending we see the ME restart. Its one big global war.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elite wage war against the global south. For Profit.
Not only against the global south. The war in Ukraine is against Russia. It is more important geopolitically and potentially much more dangerous. The situation is not that simple. For example, in Ukrainian war, Turkey was on the side of US and UK but in Palestinian war, Turkey can’t stay together with US because Turkey is also pretending to the leadership in Muslim world. NATO is not so united in it’s support of Kiev regime. First it was Hungary. Now Netherlands and Slovakia are siding with Hungary. Israel became toxic. It is difficult for Europeans to side with Israeli far-right regime. With Kiev regime it was much more cozy.
I never expected Israel to honor the deal.
They have also continued to shoot civilians. 15 in the “protected” area of the south in the first hours.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Most major media outlets are now reporting that GOP’s big donors and their bundlers — the Wall St. bankers, the hedge fund managers, the billionaire heirs, even “Obama’s banker,” JP Morgan Chair Jamie Dimon — are pouring their cash into Nikki Haley.
https://nytimes.com/2023/11/24/us/politics/nikki-haley-trump-2024.html
The credible candidates for the presidency in next year’s election are an incredibly disturbing and deplorable bunch. All of them.
Nikki Haley calls for name verification in social media profiles: “This is a national security threat”
Nikki Haley, in first debate, said Tik Tok biggest threat to America.
Of course – the female version of Bonkers Bolton is sure to get the backing of the Deep State/Idiocracy. The majority of the State-affiliated/controlled media doing their part too. Especially the #1 warmonger network, Fox News, going above and beyond in pushing for the biggest neocon/liberal interventionist in the herd.
Zionism, Terrorism and Nazism is the means by which the western global elite wage war against the global south. For Profit.
As Afghanistan is ended, we see Ukraine begin, and as Ukraine is ending we see the ME restart.
In other news Zelensky is moving imaginary troops around a factious map like Hitler in 1945. FJB
What does that have to do with this war? Nothing. Are you just mad that this war is now the war of the most interests>
It’s not a war; it’s a massacre.
The second day of hostage/prisoner release was delayed by Hamas because Israel refuses to let all the aid trucks in…!
That did not take long.
Then again what else should one expect…..
It did not take long for Hamas to want more. No one is surprised.
LOL. Your porcine nature knows no bounds.
It’s Israel reneging on the deal, as usual. No one is surprised.
The West is not agreement capable. Our democracies are a lie,
True. Se also the Minsk accords.
The Zionists have broken the truce. The IDF is shooting at Palestinians seeking to return to their homes in North Gaza. Just like they broke the truce in 2014. YOU CANNOT TRUST THEM. EVER.
Oct 7th Israeli poster child was killed and burned by IDF tank; eyewitnesses reveal
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/25/israels-october-7-propaganda-tank-eyewitnesses/
They’re only delaying the return of their own people.. Hamas holds all the cards in this deal.
That might be the case if Israel really did give a shit about their own people. The revelations about October 7th proved they don’t.
Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko were ordered to ethnically cleanse, mass murder and collectively punish the Donbass. We were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russian’s so much, but not racist at all.
In the Donbass we see what an appropriate response to ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, mass murder and genocide is…..ARMED RESISTANCE. The resistance against NATO in Ukraine has destroyed; 539 Aircraft, 255 helicopters, 9183 UAV’s, 442 Anti Aircraft systems, 13611 tanks inc. APC’s, 1185 multiple rocket launchers, 7175 field artillery and 15602 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in Ukraine in 2014 according to Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General. The combined Western NATO nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
The United States of Atrocities will choke on Moscow’s terms for peace in Ukraine. Make no mistake its a huge defeat for Nazism the US and NATO.
We hear the officials say they think Israelis can’t make good to increase aid, what does the baby killer in the WH have to say?
“”what does the baby killer in the WH have to say?””
i will hazard a guess = the very same things that the previous and the next baby killers in the WH have always and forever had to say ?
That territory was stable under Turks.
Someone should have told Sharif Hussein and his sons. 😏
Contrary to historical reference, Mecca and Medina would welcome the Turks occupying that territory today.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6f9671da702f7282af0fbd0f5f1ff8ae64143b5c18f06a461f7dda9ee07d7d6.jpg
TRUST?
To do the right thing?
Israel’s genicide war in Gaza is very similar to Pol Pot’s killing fields in Cambodia fifty years ago. This time in Gaza Pol Pot has found strong support from a Joe Biden who likes the killing fields in Ukraine and now Gaza more than anything else.
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Wow, this is quite rare! 18 former French ambassadors wrote an op-ed in Le Monde on Gaza: https://lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/11/25/guerre-israel-hamas-il-convient-de-tout-faire-pour-prolonger-la-treve-de-facon-qu-elle-se-transforme-en-un-veritable-cessez-le-feu_6202263_3232.html
Here’s a translation of their main points:
“The summary of six weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip is overwhelming: more than 13,000 deaths, mainly civilians, including 5,300 children; half of the enclave’s real estate destroyed. Israel, under the term ‘total war’, is developing a punitive strategy that is as brutal as it is futile, and increasingly contested. ‘Eradicating Hamas’ is more of a slogan than a realistic objective. In 2006, Israel had already proclaimed its desire to ‘eradicate Hezbollah’, with the known results…
Such a strategy is illusory. Hamas, which has already been targeted by five deadly military campaigns, will inevitably rise again. The army will not be able to defeat a movement supported by a large part of the Palestinian population, in Gaza as well as in the West Bank, in the face of a disqualified Palestinian Authority. As an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, with rear bases in the Arab-Muslim world, will have no trouble recruiting new fighters from among hopeless youths and rebuilding its arsenal of weapons. It will remain an indispensable actor.
The two-state solution has become increasingly difficult to build. Its possible foundation has shrunk like a shrinking skin due to the annexation of greater Jerusalem and the encouragement of the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which now house nearly 500,000 inhabitants. This solution is still worth attempting.
The solution of a single binational state, mentioned even before October 7, is regaining relevance. But the dilemma remains the same. Either Israel, essentially a democratic state, accepts the principle of equality of rights, with the risk of losing the majority for the Jewish population, currently equal to the Arab population on the territory of historic Palestine; or Israel refuses such a principle, loses an essential part of its soul, and exposes itself to an accusation of apartheid.
A strong warning should be expressed against any temptation to transfer populations to neighboring countries, which can only be seen as unacceptable ethnic cleansing and, in any case, cannot solve the problem of Israel’s security. The intention to ‘destroy’ the State of Israel is also unacceptable. It is clear that after this traumatic shock experienced by both sides, and this ‘total war’ doomed to fail, Israel’s security can only be assured through the fair resolution of the Palestinian issue and the affirmation of equal rights between two populations that must coexist.
A renewal of the political classes will occur on both sides, as those currently in place have lost much of their legitimacy. On the Palestinian side, elections should be organized as soon as possible and involve all the political forces present. A strong commitment from the international community, particularly the permanent members of the UN Security Council and the Arab countries, is essential. France, which has lost much of its credibility in the Middle East and has seen its image deteriorate significantly in the Arab-Muslim world, must take part in this. However, it would require it to change its diplomacy towards a balanced and coherent policy that is independent from external pressures. Despite some rebalancing, this is not how it is perceived by many countries and public opinion. Such a policy requires courage and clarity, beyond the emotional reactions that this ‘total war’ provokes.”