Israeli officials are worried that recent comments from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could sabotage the chances of the Gaza ceasefire proposal put forward by President Biden, Axios reported on Monday.
The Israeli officials said there was “constructive ambiguity” in the proposal that could allow Israel and Hamas to enter the first phase of the deal, which involves a six-week truce and initial hostage and prisoner exchange, without Israel committing to a permanent ceasefire.
A permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza has been Hamas’s main demand for a hostage deal. But since Biden outlined the potential agreement, Netanyahu and his close aides have said Israel would not agree to a permanent ceasefire until it achieves its goals, which include “destroying” Hamas’s capabilities.
Under the potential deal, the two sides would negotiate the terms for a permanent ceasefire during the first phase. A senior Israeli official told Axios that Netanyahu was “killing” the ambiguity by ruling out a permanent truce.
“Instead of keeping things ambiguous, his statements are pushing Hamas to ask for more clarification, making it harder to get a deal,” a second Israeli official said. The official added that it appeared Netanyahu was trying to placate Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, who are threatening to resign and bring down the coalition government if the war cabinet agrees to the deal.
Netanyahu also has his own reasons for not wanting to pause the genocidal war in Gaza. Amid increasing international pressure, it would be hard for him to restart military operations in Gaza after a six-week ceasefire, and with no war, there would be more domestic pressure on him to resign.
The old, biased, senile president of the United States is not helpful in finding a reasonable fair solution to the current situation and conflict.
In a letter in 1948 after the Deir Yassin massacre, Einstein warned the Israelites that if they continue in this path then they were heading towards catastrophe. Since that time and during the following decades the Israelites and their army became increasingly militaristic, chauvinistic, and arrogant, committing many atrocities, deceitful actions, misdeeds and wrongdoings. Now they are completely following the path leading to catastrophe, which will be very likely and unfortunately a catastrophe and disaster they have never seen nor witnessed in their entire long history.
When the time is right everyone without exception will be held accountable fittingly and appropriately.
Biden announcing his "plan" when he did shows how it was totally for domestic consumption in trying to placate the growing dissatisfaction with him in the party rank and file. A statesman would have shored up the deal quietly (if serious, which I don't believe he is) and pressed on with a UN Security resolution that the US doesn't actually veto.
Biden's goal is a regime change in Moscow and a weakened Russia. Putin is a great statesman with a competent team and Biden is a fool surrounded by fools.
Gaza and Ukraine are catastrophes. Biden handed Zelensky the matches to play with fire in the barn and Gaza takes the attention away from that. Election year and demented Biden people would blow up the planet to win.
One thing is certain: they are capable of destroying much of the life on Earth. The fools are playing with matches in Washington, not in Kiev.
Jesus, is Netanyahu as senile as Biden? The deal is a joke and he can resume the carnage with any bullshit accusation that he can think of to end it.
Of course he is, the Western leading governments are ruled by fools without exceptions. There is not one with an iota of common sense.
Biden send Zelensky in the barn with matches, the gate to WW III could open any moment with fools like that at the gate.
Gaza is taking the nations attention away from Ukraine the real powder keg.
Dog and pony show. There is nothing substantive going on here. Biden's people are running around trying to figure out a dodge and hustle that will pull Mr Mumbles out of the popularity toilet.
It's all part of the theater designed to shadow Israel's ongoing pogrom.
Personally, I don't see the point of all this activity. After all, the American people are brain dead sheep when it comes to anything beyond what's on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and social media.
Holy shit, I've attracted the spy software running on this site with the word toilet. I feel a bond developing with Scott Ritter.
Fucking Kindergarten.
Worse than the brain dead Americans, are the Christian Zionists who are actually cheering on the slaughter.
Christian Zionists is an oxymoron. Often Americans are looking brain dead exactly because their knowledge about the world is based upon oxymorons. It doesn't allow them to think logically about politics, religion and many other important things.
Got that right.
Ball's in your court Biden, come on you old codger put a boot up his ass!
Was that your play? Why you went out with a 2-mo old Hamas plan and announced to the world it was Israel's plan?
You ancient con man you, did you tap into your Henry Gondorff? Well shoot, if this is it I'm rooting for you – and the Palestinians!
I understand your points yet have not observed one iota of team building ability within the Green party.
Biden is a classic of the corrupt Irish politician, a very small man, affecting the common-man lip (but so much Botox he can't pronounce his dentals), the soul of venalality, abjectley aspiring to be accepted "in the club", just a ridiculous superannuated narcissist. The US is being run by a Neocon Mafia who are determined on a final solution to the Palestinian problem. The talk is all temporizing obfuscation. And Yoav Gallant tells us to expect 7 more months of it.
Genocide Joe better be working harder to bring Nutandyahoo and the rest of his facist Israeli posse to the table. Genocide Joe must remember come November, no ceasefire, no vote.
…………….and that includes ceasefire in the Ukraine.
If anyone thinks that Apartheid Israel will stick to any terms of any deal, I have a bridge to sell you.
The old, biased, senile president of the United States is not helpful in finding a reasonable fair solution to the current situation and conflict.
In a letter in 1948 after the Deir Yassin massacre, Einstein warned the Israelites that if they continue in this path then they were heading towards catastrophe. Since that time and during the following decades the Israelites and their army became increasingly militaristic, chauvinistic, and arrogant, committing many atrocities, deceitful actions, misdeeds and wrongdoings. Now they are completely following the path leading to catastrophe, which will be very likely and unfortunately a catastrophe and disaster they have never seen nor witnessed in their entire long history. Maybe they ought to remember and listen more to the advice and admonitions of someone like Einstein.
In any event, when the time is right everyone without exception will be held accountable fittingly and appropriately.
People who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
How long will Joe Biden let the United States be insulted by genocidal Netanyahu?
Haaretz | Israel News
Analysis | Israel Is in Flames, Israelis Are Dying, While Netanyahu Polishes a Speech for Sycophants in Congress
Analysts of Benjamin Netanyahu keep attributing grand plans to the Israeli prime minister. But there is no plan – just a desperate, incompetent leader, manipulating a once-thriving country, who couldn't care less about the hostages or their families
"Israeli officials said there was 'constructive ambiguity' in the proposal…which involves a…truce and initial hostage and prisoner exchange, without Israel committing to a permanent ceasefire…..[Whereas, an] Israeli official [said,] Netanyahu was 'killing' the ambiguity by ruling out a permanent truce."
"Ambiguity"? No, as a poster here pointed out, the US explicitly inscribed into the proposal Israel's right to back out of the agreement – and go back to mass murdering – any time it 'determined' conditions are not being met.
So what "constructive ambiguity" really means is Israel can enter the proposed agreement with a pretense of good faith – then make any 'Hamas violation' claim it wants, and go back to mass slaughter without technically violating the agreement…
…and Biden can claim he brokered a 'genuine peace agreement' that our ally 'determined' Hamas broke.
Police on Monday detained pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate. An Associated Press journalist saw police zip-tie the hands of at least 20 people. Officers then put them in a police van and drove them away. https://apnews.com/article/israeli-consulate-protest-san-francisco-arrests-8cba40158143f9b521fbeb7656614500
Sigh. All bullshit. We're quoting unnamed "Israeli officials" now? "Officials" who are part of the ongoing internal political battle between factions in the Zionist regime?
Get the fuck out of here. Zionists are "agreement-incapable."