Israel is withdrawing its negotiators from Qatar and is blaming the lack of a hostage deal with Hamas on a UN Security Council resolution that called for a Ramadan ceasefire in Gaza.
Hamas officials said on Monday that the Palestinian group was still seeking a hostage deal that included a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, a position Israel has repeatedly rejected.
“Hamas’s stance clearly demonstrates its utter disinterest in a negotiated deal and attests to the damage done by the UN Security Council’s resolution,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
“Hamas has once again rejected an American compromise proposal and has repeated its extreme demands: An immediate halt to the war, the complete withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip and leaving in place its administration so that it can repeat, time and again, the massacre of October 7, as it has promised to do,” the statement added.
The US rejected the claim that the Security Council resolution was to blame. State Department spokesman Matt Miller said Netanyahu’s position was “inaccurate in almost every respect, and it is unfair to the hostages and their families.” He said Hamas prepared the statement before the Security Council resolution was passed.
Netanyahu and other Israeli officials are fuming at the US for not preventing the Security Council resolution from passing. The US abstained from voting but had previously vetoed three resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The US has downplayed the resolution, saying it’s “non-binding” and won’t impact Israeli military operations. The UN and other member states have disputed the US claim, saying the resolution is binding and must be followed.
In response to the US not vetoing the resolution, Netanyahu canceled a delegation to the US that was meant to discuss Israeli plans to attack Rafah. Despite the spat, there’s no indication the US will alter its policy of unconditional military support for the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
Yes, Israel is a victim. Heard that one before. So, cut off supplying the materials insuring the genocide from Tel Aviv if Bibi keeps crying, or, ‘due to complaints about the free weapons, there will no longer be any free weapons.’ But, that won’t happen.
Who attacked who on Oct 7?
Who cares?
And who has been conducting a genocide on who since Oct 7th? Wanna compare victims?
Recovering your people in captivity is no genocide.
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Even if Israel cared about their people in captivity.
I wonder if he finished the high school…!
Who occupied Gaza and the West Bank for 75 years? Who instituted the brutal blockade (with the help of the indispensable nation) that limits travel of the Palestinians even for medical treatment, food, medicines, potable water, fuel that has lasted 16 years? jake, Tim Burns, Don Julio, you do know the answer.
Only Gaza was not occupied.
There is also the popular trope that Israel benevolently ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 only to come under repeated attack by Hamas. But while Israel withdrew military forces and settlers from Gaza, it has remained an Occupying Power by virtue of its continued control of the strip. Nothing and nobody go into or out of Gaza without Israel’s permission. Gaza remains, as it was described in 2004 by Head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland, “a huge concentration camp.”
IDF attacked Israel on Oct 7
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/another-israeli-witness-confirms-israeli-tanks-killed-own-citizens-on-oct-7/3079514
Killing perhaps 400 Israelis, including the poster girl (killed by IDF tank shells).
Looks like they killed more Israelis than Hamas did, they had the weapons to do it. Hamas only accomplished to make the Israelis kill Israelis, who would have thought? How many Palestinians were killed?
Are the Zionist Israelis investigating?
Of course not…! The narrative has already been set…!
believe what you want.
likewise
My heart is breaking for the poor suffering Israelis, Hamas makes the Israelis kill the Palestinian women and children and then they blame it all on the innocently suffering Israelis. Hamas bombs and amputates and kills the children, they use their children as human shields and blame the Israelis. They do it all to themselves. They are bad, Israelis are the real victims.
Yes,Hamas did it.
I know, that is what the settlers also say, even their children know it why they hate the Palestinians.
I knew it all the time, Hamas did it, how could it be otherwise?
“Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblin of small minds.” –Emerson
Examine the cause first, to understand the effect. Oct 7 was the effect. You keep parroting the same question which has been answered dozens of times on these boards. Bye!
Gaza attacked Israel and Israel attacked its own people. A collective psychosis is spreading around the world, what happened then is just another incidence of the critical mass ready to explode.
If the ceasefire were non-binding, then why have they been vetoing it all along?
Plan B. Veto being Plan A.
Losing too many votes … need propaganda points … words matter not, watch actions …
UNSC resolutions are legally “binding” Why have they been vetoing? For the UNSC to take action on Israel’s violation requires a yes/abstain of all perm members. They accomplished the same result with better optics 🙂
Israel needs to see its ass down at the damn table and make some damn peace, on Earth. It is the big count down, as it were. And the US needs to figure out the best course of action for peaceful resolution.
As does Hamas.
Fine, the Zionists were never interested in the hostages in yhe first place.
Hamas and the hostages were the excuse. Bibi sacrificed the Israeli hostages to start the “war” against Hamas, which is really the “final solution”, and, to keep him out of prison. The propaganda has been good enough to get more than 68% of the population of Israel to be all in on the genocide, the killing of women and children, the maiming of thousands more.
the “final solution”,
And like his forbearers, he’s overplaying his hand.
did or did not Oct 7 pogrom happen?
Your beef is with the Likud and IDF
400+ Israelis massacred by the IDF on 7.Oct
Hannibal Directive
These pulling and blaming is not gonna help Israel, rather wearing out its image and resulting in their self defeat…!
Means: It rejected Israeli demands. Uncompromising one-sided demands.
The US humiliates itself. This is embarrassing. Genocide Joe must go.
It does not matter now who might replace him. He just must go.
It’s not just Biden. It’s the imperialist system. That, not our disgust at one low grade servant of the MIC, is why it does not matter who replaces him.
Both Parties must also go…!
What does Trump have to say about all of this?
Hamas did it, they attacked poor defenseless Israelis, who else would do such a bad thing? Poor suffering Israelis never did anything against the hateful Palestinians, never, everyone picks on the Israelis, they are the real victims, the genocide of Palestinians is just Israeli’s self-defense. Hamas did it, Oct. 7, that is when Hamas started the war against poor Israel.