President Biden said in an interview with Univision that aired on Tuesday that Israel should call a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza and appeared not to condition a truce on a hostage deal with Hamas.
“So what I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country,” Biden said in the interview, which was recorded last Wednesday, two days after Israel killed seven World Central Kitchen workers, including an American citizen.
“I’ve spoken with everyone from the Saudis to the Jordanians to the Egyptians. They’re prepared to move in. They’re prepared to move this food in. And I think there’s no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people. It should be done now,” he added.
It’s unclear if the comments mean a shift in policy since on the same day the interview aired, Biden’s top aides were pinning the blame for the lack of a ceasefire on Hamas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas “has an opportunity now to agree to the proposal on a ceasefire and hostages. The ball is in Hamas’s court. The world is watching to see what it does.”
Hamas has rejected Israel’s latest proposal since it didn’t address the Palestinian group’s main demands, which include a permanent ceasefire and the free movement of displaced Palestinians to travel to northern Gaza.
It’s also unclear if Biden will use the significant leverage he has to pressure Israel to declare a unilateral ceasefire. The day after the interview aired, Biden spoke with Netanyahu and told him to take steps to allow more aid into Gaza. Israel has claimed more trucks are entering the Strip, but the UN is disputing the numbers, and a border crossing into northern Gaza that Israel vowed to open remains closed.
In the interview with Univision, Biden also called Netanyahu’s approach to Gaza a “mistake” and said he didn’t “agree with his approach.” But Biden has been Netanyahu’s biggest backer as his administration has approved over 100 arms deals for Israel, increased intelligence sharing, and has provided political cover by vetoing several UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire and rejecting the International Court of Justice’s ruling that it’s “plausible” Israel is committing genocide.
So that we can replenish Israel’s Baby-Buster Bombs.
Precisely. Just like Misk I&II were stalls to allow Kiev to stock up on weapons, kill more in Donbas.
As if Hamas won’t rearm during the truce.
My persistent and repeated question: At whose cue/direction was Biden actually speaking. We know only that his words and the ideas behind them came from someone(s)/somewhere else. Can we finally agree that JB is not in control of anything at all?
The same people who write all his lines.
and who are they, any names?
Posted in wrong spot:
Nuland, Clinton, Blinken and the usual CIA neocons.
Nuland is out now. It’s Blinken primarily.
Clinton is also out. But evil doesn’t rust and fade away.
Evil, like rust, never sleeps!
Power does.
No, not really.
Why not? Power must be exerted, and with some wisdom even, to endure. Nuland lacks the wisdom and has got the USA embroiled in way too many dead ends that could be avoided. She was probably fired for organizing/authorizing the Crocus City Hall massacre in Moscow but it’s not her only misdeed: everything surrounding Ukraine has her fingertips on it and has been a total disaster. I don’t know all the details but Blinken does.
Since when is disaster a fireable offense in US government in the state department? Plausible deniability, yes.
There’s some big issue going on re. Nuland. My guess is that she just went too far with the Crocus City Hall massacre, which has her fingerprints all over it, but it can be much more. Almost certainly Blinken lost trust on his ally.
I don’t think she is so far “out” that she doesn’t wield some influence.
They are of the same school or faction (Straussians) but they’re not the same person. If Nuland were so powerful, she’d be the Secretary of State, as was Hillary Clinton back in the day and not a mere former under-secretary.
It’s always Blinken.
Maybe, but Blinken is more likely to be a follower.
Maybe some whistleblower will come out and tell.
Did you watch him and Netanyahu when the Gaza “war” (genocide) began? Bibi was treating him lightly and for a split second Blinken looked at him with eyes that could kill, almost a demonic transformation. He may be a “follower” of someone else in the shadows, I can’t tell that much, but otherwise he’s the one in charge.
Some random said Blinken runs things.
Biden is corrupt; there’d be a lot of dirt to control him with.
He is willing and well rewarded, blackmail is not needed.
The same powers control Blinken and the Biden cabal.
Precisely.
Nonsense.
Strategy sessions. I don’t think he has an original thought.
Maybe. Clearly, his soulfullness here is all pose and gas if he truly has the power to cut aid and stop the genocide; which technically he does. So what is stopping him? (1) I don’t believe he actually has any further political ambitions; so The Lobby has no power over him. (2) He and his family don’t need the money. (3) He’s not helping the Party. The pressure there is against him. (4) The Deep State wants him replaced. (5) The .oo1% who own the State want someone more competent. (6)
Neither, at 80 does he fear for his life.
Therefore, the only thing I can come up with is “shame”. While he’s apparently albeit painfully willing to accept history record him a genocide, the shame of “pedo-Peter” is paralizing. And he knows MOSSAD has the videos.
interesting theory.
BTW, did you read about Diddy having cameras everywhere? Suge Knight claimed he was a government asset. That the raid might have been a way to destroy evidence. Not of “pedo peter”, but other important guests.
Yes, now that barbarian Western culture has normalized almost everything up to and including torture and genocide, kiddie sex, while commercially
very popular and profitable, is strangely the last ditch for shame.
Yep.
All it took was a famous chef the DC pigs eat out and bunch of slain European help to take this seriously. Astonishing.
It may weight but it has more to do with the Israel-Iran standoff. Iran may have offered to skip retaliation if this ceasefire is achieved. The USA definitely wants to avoid that type of escalation but Israel wants to avoid peace at any cost.
Iran and Hezbollah have been really, really patient.
Hizbollah and the Iraqi Resistance have been hitting Israel very seriously these days, while Yemen has been very active in three seas. We just don’t hear much about it unless you tune to pro-Palestinian channels and even then. But that’s not the Iranian retaliation, which is expected to be at least as strong as it was when Soleimani was murdered by Trump and directly by the Iranian Armed Forces, not any “proxy”, that’s only the “normal war”.
This could of course escalate very easily and that’s why the USA is very nervous: such escalation with the current extremely bad PR would essentially put Uncle Sam between a rock (supporting Israeli madness no matter what) and a hard place (dumping Israel altogether and just watch how it’s ravaged by Iran). Let’s not forget that China and Russia signaled again (with military drills and a free navigation treaty with Yemen-Houthis, that a US attack agains Iran is not permissible)
The US does NOT want to avoid a wider war. This has been planned out for months or years before the Al-Aqsa Mosque was invaded BEFORE October 7. Don’t be fooled.
The USA can’t even force little Yemen to stop their naval blockade of Israel (plus now also Britain and the USA themselves), they had to pull out from Afghanistan and are losing the Ukraine War as we speak. The US Empire is collapsing before our eyes; this may lead US leaders to seek even more war but it is a war they can’t win.
IF the, now unavoidable, Iran-Israel war remains contained to these two regional powers (and everything between them: Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon will no doubt be involved one way or another), then Israel will be utterly destroyed (Iran will also be injured probably but Israel is too small to survive even conventional attacks by the massive rocketry Iran has). IF the USA dares to take sides with Israel and attacks Iran directly, then two other things will happen for sure: (1) the Hormuz Strait will be blocked, massively rising the price of oil overnight, (2) China and Russia will step in, what surely means global nuclear armaggedon, something that only Christian-Zionists may want in their madness.
The Al Aqsa Flood operation was allowed because Israel (and surely also the USA) planned to do a genocide in Gaza Strip, pushing everyone surviving the massacre to Egypt. This doesn’t seem to have worked because Israel is weaker than it pretends and the USA is also relatively weak. The Yemen intervention but in general the various “resistance” interventions, as well as the global outcry against the genocide, have made that plan impossible to carry to its last consequences: the situation has become so extremely complex and untenable for Washington that they’re in damage control mode, quite clearly so. However for the Israeli leadership there’s no way to step back without facing the worst consequences, and thus they’re pushing for wider war by all means.
Israel is trying to coerce the USA to back them unconditionally but there’s a sliver of hope that the USA won’t dare to go that far, because there’s one reason why M.A.D. is called that way. Russia survived the defeat at the First Cold War, it would have never survived a victory at Third World War. Same for the USA now.
Makes no sense for a nation outnumbered ten to one ,facing an enemy armed to the teeth with vast numbers of missiles,so strike out unless they are really threatened.
Israel is not a nation but a colonial-genocidal project led and manned by crazy fanatics.
So they say. But knowing Iran and Israel, I don’t see either side sticking to their promise.
Both the UNSC 2728 and ICJ judgement of 26.Jan 24 already codified in the international law that the IDF immediately stop killing people.
There is no need for negotiations. What’s needed are sanctions to enforce existing laws.
Release the hostages,no more games,and the war will end. If not, who cares about the UN?
Those 10.000 Arab Hostages or the 70 Israeli POWs ?
surprised he didn’t request a time period that ran through the election.
Minsk 3.
The man is a dangerous crackpot.
Allegedly, following Sahrawi media (ECSaharaui), Iran would have promised not to retaliate for the Damascus attack if Israel accepts this kind of ceasefire. However I imagine that there’s a deadline and that is probably this friday, when Eid festivities end.
The USA clearly wants to avoid the regional escalation: they can’t afford it. However Israel wants the escalation because they can’t afford peace.
Our MIC certainly wants it.
Why can’t they afford peace?How many people want to see their children sent off to war with a good chance of being killed,captured or maimed, and see their economy in ruins? It is Israel’s enemies who want war,to take people’s minds away from their own corrupt governments.
Peace implies Justice and Justice would be the undoing of Israel, which is a genocidal racist colony in a country that belongs to other people, who outnumber the settlers 2:1.
Also Christian-Zionists, who are very powerful in the USA especially, seem to truly believe that destroying the world with Israel as tool would somehow “save them”. Those are the most dangerous of all.
But in any case the USA is fighting Cold War II (and broadly losing) against the collapse of its own Empire and are way too used to do that with endless wars and provocations. By comparison the collapse of the USSR was much more peaceful, because those commies were, in spite of many errors and abuses, much more the peacenik type. The USA is a gun-toting war machine, a mediocre, rusty and corrupt war machine but a war machine nonetheless. They like to play “chicken” and you know what happens when that dangerous game leads to miscalculations.
White House “aides [are] pinning…blame for the lack of a ceasefire on Hamas…Blinken said Hamas ‘has an opportunity now to agree to the proposal on a ceasefire and hostages. The ball is in Hamas’s court.'”
The “‘world is watching'”! Will Hamas return all hostages in return for 6 weeks of ceasefire and un-blocked food delivery…
…after which Israel indefinitely resumes its indiscriminate bombing and choking off of humanitarian aid – with no ‘hostage return’ for the government to bargain over, and no Israeli hostage protests for Netanyahu to worry about?
Or will Hamas reject the very generous offer?
I believe you are on to something. Clever.
We all write what makes sense based on limited info – this extremely well-worth-listening-to specialist says opposite of my idea re hostages – says it’s not in N’s interest to get them, because ‘hostages’ are a major justification for war…without which, N is voted out and jailed.
Democracy Now, April 10:
“Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani”
Who put the leading Western democracies in the hands of pathologically insane people?
We need sane, competent common sense and morally decent leadership to stop the crimes against humanity. This nightmare has to end.
Biden has to go, he is responsible for Ukraine and Gaza. Biden is insane and he is surrounded by by insane characterless people.
We need another Eisenhower, strong enough to pick up the phone and say “enough!”.
JFK had the potential, maybe that is why he was assassinated by the powers that be.
Oh,you must mean the oil men who feared loosing their oil depletion allowances.
Who else?
And you think Trump will be better?
^^^ “Everyone commits genocide so why are you complaining”
At no time did I say Trump will be better. He is not qualified to be president. I do think Trump “may have” allowed Zelensky to implement the Minsk agreements and accept neutrality. We will never know, Russophobes were and still are in charge in state.
What a great plan!! Stop the war, leave Hamas in charge and allow Hamas to keep Israel citizens in prison in Gaza for as long as Hamas wants.. What can go wrong with that plan? I’m slowly but surely coming to the conclusion that Biden is indeed senile. And Trump is just nuts. Great choices in November.
This is an ultimatum. “Give me your wallet and your house” and in exchange I will wait 6-8 weeks to blow up your family.
More Biden CYA BS to placate his vanishing Democratic support. Biden lies on one side, Netanyahu lies on the other side to keep up the pretense that “US policy is changing.” It’s not. This is just “rope-a-dope” to buy time until the US and Israel can widen the war to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
It’s unclear if the comments mean a shift in policy since on the same day the interview aired, Biden’s top aides were pinning the blame for the lack of a ceasefire on Hamas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas “has an opportunity now to agree to the proposal on a ceasefire and hostages. The ball is in Hamas’s court. The world is watching to see what it does.”
What an asshole. That works both ways slick. Israel has an opportunity now to agree to the proposal on a ceasefire and hostages. The ball is in Israel’s court. The world is watching to see what it does. See how easy that is? Hamas has their own proposals. And the world has been watching what Israel has already done.
Hello mothers all over Gaza-land. I’m Tony Blinken with a Q fer U – What would YOU say if I said YOUR baby could stop dying of hunger RIGHT NOW!
Sound too good to be true? Nope – you heard right, folks! Act now and your starving children get six weeks of free food before we blow them up!
Think about it! Think about their thin flopping arms! (Awww!) Think about their INCESSANT crying! (Chuckle! Complain, complain – kids these days!)
Think about it! Wouldn’t you REALLY rather be blasted out of life screaming and clutching your loved ones with a full belly?
With the comforting thought your baby got one complete meal in her short life before being crushed and suffocated under concrete rubble?
But act now! This generous one-time offer won’t last long! (Oooh! Hear that? To0 bad yr neighbors sheltering in the school next door didn’t act sooner!) Call 1-800-USA-ZION now! Tell ’em Tony sent ya!
Jonathan Swift lives!
Just stop sending them bunker busters, quit shipping artillery shells, and desist Iron Dome resupply and you’ll get your ceasefire, sleepy Joe
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah. After a strategy session with the numbnuts in his administration, this is what he comes up with. (All politics are strategy sessions, not truth, not morality.) Permanent ceasefire, UN forces to protect humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and rein in the settlers (thugs with curly hairlocks and automatic weapons) in the West Bank .
Israel will not allow the UN to put forces in the West Bank.
What do you have against people with curly hairlocks? What are you really saying?
What a jackass.