CIA Director William Burns will travel to Europe in the coming days to hold talks about the hostage negotiations between Israel and Gaza, multiple media outlets reported on Thursday.
Burns is expected to hold a meeting with Israeli Mossad chief David Barnea, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and Egypt’s intelligence chief Abbas Kamel.
Egypt and Qatar have been mediating the latest negotiations between Israel and Hamas. There have been conflicting reports on whether or not progress is being made in the talks.
Israel is said to have offered a 2-month truce in exchange for the release of all remaining Israeli hostages being held in Gaza, which is believed to be just over 100 people. But Hamas is calling for a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops in exchange for the release of the remaining hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly rejected Hamas’s offer to free the hostages if Israel ends its onslaught and has said the campaign in Gaza could continue into 2025. But he is under increasing pressure to secure a deal, and senior Israeli military officials have said diplomacy is the only way to get the hostages home safely.
Some reports indicate the two sides are considering a deal for a month-long truce and the release of some, but not all, of the Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Yep, that is the go-to person, the CIA director. Absurdity has taken on a life of its own these days.
Independant of all this Hamas should give them white flags and turn them loose.
Hostage talks is non of CIA and Mossad’s business…!
According to Ray McGovern, William Burns is not a raging asshole. By the degraded standards of the Yankee Empire, that makes him a distinguished statesman. So, maybe it’s not such a bad thing that Burns is involved.
Utilize Peace In The Middle East and the whole world will want to come and see you! Think about it, you know it is true. The streets are practically paved in gold!….
I AM absolutely right.
Nothing says fair and unbiased arbitrator than the Director of the CIA.
once upon a time George Herbert Walker Bush was the CIA “chief”.
wasn’t he prominent when JFK and RFK were assassinated?
then he magically became the VP of the Reagan admin.
and then wasn’t Reagan almost assassinated?
oh sh*t, Iran/Contra … ?
wait, what?
at some point you have to say what!?
CIA = what
who is uncle sam ?
what
hey you stupid bastards, figure it out.
what
why is it always my job to point the fingers?
WHAT
“then he magically became the VP of the Reagan admin.”
Nothing magical about it. He was from a powerful political family (son of a US Senator), and in addition to CIA director he was also US ambassador to the United Nations, de facto ambassador to the People’s Republic of China (before there were formal US-PRC relations), and chairman of the RNC. He won six states in the 1980 GOP presidential primaries and was a fairly natural pick for the veep slot.
they would be purchased using US-provided aid.!
I hope Hamas means the Palestinians imprisoned in Israel who haven’t even been charged with a crime.
“CIA Director William Burns will travel to Europe in the coming days to hold talks about the hostage negotiations between Israel and Gaza”
Despite the CIA’s record, especially that of its recent directors, I’m going to give Burns the benefit of the doubt.
Never any mention of the 5,000+ in Israeli jails, mostly detainees, including children, gathered up by Israel. The purpose of the breakout was to collect hostages for an exchange. In the battle between the IDF, higher ups in the military triggered the Hannibal Directive, killing a bunch of the hostages with tank shells into homes where they were, and by Apache helicopters. And so, using the breakout as the excuse, the final solution began against the Palestinians. It will continue. The ICJ suggestions of genocide by Israel, may be carried to the Security Council, where the U.S. , the Biden administration, will veto. If one pays attention to media, Israeli parties are going full bore on propaganda to justify the ethnic cleansing. It will be done. The only things left in Gaza when the “operation” is done, will be rubble. I predict that the Palestinians will be forced into the Sinai desert, despite the objections by Egypt, because there is no way Sisi would allow any Palestinians to Egypt, to die, and Sisi does not want war with nuclear armed Israel. We, Israeli’s sugar daddy will pick up the tab for cleaning up the rubble. Our reward? Another base from which to threaten Russia. The Biden administration and subsequent administrations will have to explain to the American citizens why picking up the tab is in their best interests. I figure it will be over 2025-2027, long enough for collective amnesia, buttressed by media omitting the savage story, to kick in. As Gore Vidal referred to America: The United States of Amnesia. It will be forgotten, save for a few books on library shelves, of libraries that do not censure them. So it goes.
Detainees = PRISONERS , detainee is a term used by the Americans to deny PRISONERS OF WAR IN GITMO their HUMAN RIGHTS TO JUSTICE .