On Monday, the UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted ceasefire resolution for Gaza based on a proposal recently outlined by President Biden. Fourteen members of the 15-member body voted in favor, and Russia abstained.
The US claims Israel has accepted the proposal, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly rejected it and continues to rule out the idea of a permanent ceasefire. Russia said it couldn’t support the resolution because it wasn’t clear what Israel had agreed on and that the language was too “vague.”
While Hamas hasn’t formally responded to President Biden’s proposal, it welcomed the ceasefire resolution and released a statement showing strong support. The Palestinian group said it was ready to “enter into indirect negotiations on the implementation of these principles.”
The resolution outlines a three-phase deal. The first phase includes an “immediate, full, and complete ceasefire with the release of hostages including women, the elderly, and the wounded, the return of the remains of some hostages who have been killed, and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners.”
The first phase would also involve an Israeli withdrawal from densely populated areas of Gaza, the return of displaced Palestinians, and a significant increase in humanitarian aid.
The two sides are supposed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire during the first phase, and the second phase would see a permanent end to hostilities “in exchange for the release of all other hostages still in Gaza, and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.” The third phase would start “a major multi-year reconstruction plan for Gaza, and the remains of any Israelis in Gaza would be returned to Israel.
The resolution calls on Israel and Hamas to implement the deal “without delay and without condition.” US officials are claiming Hamas is the only thing standing in the way of a deal despite Netanyahu reaffirming his opposition to a permanent ceasefire.
“My message to governments throughout the region, to people throughout the region, is – if you want a ceasefire, press Hamas to say ‘yes,'” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters during a visit in Cairo.
US officials told NBC News that the Israeli operation in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians and freed four Israeli hostages makes a ceasefire deal less likely since it has emboldened Netanyahu. While claiming it has been pushing for a ceasefire, the US supported the massacre by providing intelligence.
The “intelligence” was boots on the ground.
It was American drones helping the IDF massacre of the camp. For 4 hostages. While perhaps killing three hostages. That pier was used for what it was intended to do; facilitate the "operation". Bidette & Company are full of more sh*t than a Christmas goose.
Witnesses claimed Americans on the ground.
Patti Mohr W @MohrMedia1
From November… U.S. Special forces have been there.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-special-forces-said-deployed-to-help-israel-track-down-hostages-held-in-gaza/
US special forces said deployed to help Israel track down hostages held in Gaza
Senior Pentagon official says commandos on ground aiding efforts to 'identify hostages, including Americans,'
https://www.threads.net/@sfarcoast/post/C8FC4g_RnFf
I don’t know if this is true, but he’s not the only witness who claimed US forces on the ground.
It was American drones that facilitated the hostage rescue.
That killed over 100 women and children (at least). Something you'd be calling a genocide if Hamas did it.
That's a little hard to believe given we have so little intelligence, but then on second thought what little we do have is almost all in boots 🙂
What Bibi wants to see is more decapitated Palestinian children.
Once again, putting a band aid on an open wound. And the best part, UN will watch helplessly as Israel will violate this cease fire and there is not a damn thing UN can do anything about it.
First, Israel will use Biden's "out" and declare Hamas broke the agreement. And then with blame fully in place on Hamas, Israel can then resume their military operations as Biden's plan specifies. And the Israel's are the ones that get to decide if Hamas has broken the agreement. Gee, I wonder what the odds are that they will use that "out" if this is ever agreed upon.
Sounds wonderful … at first blush … only there's the nagging problem of The Broker, … in the same breath declaring Hamas the rejectionist. The slime on these folks is so thick one has to believe it just a piece of another PR strategy.
This resolution was pre-planned from Day One to help Biden re-elected…!
Hamas offered the same plan two weeks ago which was rejected by Israel and US… Now, US is taking the credit…!
Hamas rejected Oslo,which has led to this mess.
And yet Bibi takes credit for destroying Oslo. He also takes credit for bringing Hamas to power so there wouldn't be a two-state solution.
Hamas reject many things, including "The following are considered null and void: the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate Document, the UN Palestine Partition Resolution" It is interesting that Hamas rejects the UN plan and yet claim that Israel should revert back to the borders set up by the plan.
If Bill Clinton had the guts to force Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and Barak to implement Israel's commitments under Oslo to dismantle the settlements and transfer sovereignty to the PA there would be no Hamas today.
More bullshit. The Russians have it right. Hamas isn't going to go for this either, since they know Israel has broken every previous agreement and is "agreement-incapable."
Remember the Minsk. The Zionazis need a rest & re-arm break.
The only Nazis are Hamas,which is an offshoot of the Moslem Brotherhood,which had Nazi ideation.
Hamas IS going for it, if for nothing other than proving it's Iz that is continuing the war.
But also because the people are starving, desperate, and at the end of their rope. Rejecting a chance at peace would be (literally) mass murder.
Hamas knows Israel won't accept it. So it costs them nothing to accept it. Hamas survives regardless of how many civilians Israel kills. And by surviving, Hamas insures that Israel can't win. In addition, Hamas and the rest of the Axis of Resistance are depleting Israel and the US of their military capability.
Hamas is prepared to accept the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians IF the end result is Israel is forced to accept a Palestinian state so that the remaining millions of Palestinians can be free – or Israel is actually destroyed.
It's a rational strategy. And it will work. It just may take a much wider Mid-East war to achieve it. As Macgregor told Judge Nap yesterday, it may require a wider war with hundreds of thousands or even millions of casualties before the situation is resolved.
So it's smart politics as well as moral policy for Hamas to accept the deal, we agree.
As for millions dead to achieve the promised land, while that is the way it may indeed work out, I would mourn the deaths rather than celebrate the triumph.
Really good analysis of the situation via Crooke’s essay.
Reality with Crooke; Delusion in West…a Palestinian state can only come into sovereign ‘being’ through force – through military force.
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/reality-with-crooke-delusion-in-west
For days all we heard is that Hamas needs to agree, but agree to WHAT? The USA still thinks that lying about something makes it true, that Israel has agreed, when War Criminal Netanyahu says "NO DEAL". Just a waste of time, except if Nations see the trend here, which is admitting a Genocide is taking place and that they can NO longer do business or protect the Zionist State of Israel. The simple solution would be for the USA to vote YES, on Statehood of Palestine.
The ICJ has already ruled THREE times starting in Feb. 2024 that the IDF needs to ceasefire. UNSC 2728 (March 2024) also required the IDF to immediately ceasefire.
No need for any more resolutions or rulings to stop the (plausible) genocide – what’s needed are enforcement mechanisms – asset freezes, travel bans, no fly zones, and other sanctions.
Lets not forget a few Billion dollars of food and aid.
Hamas needs to release the hostages;otherwise these innocents will go the way of the US MIA's from Vietnam.
Netanyahu doesn't want to negotiate. So, as you people who blame Hamas for Israeli actions say, it's on him. But this time it actually applies
It’s extraordinary to see our resident Likudniks arguing IDF war crimes is a deliberate and studied strategy.
A reason WSJ report shows that Hamas is happy with the situation and feels the lost of 30,000 + is a "good investment".
What's funny is that when you trolls try to put the blame on Hamas for Israel being the MONSTER it is, you forget that it took a MONSTER to do those things regardless of what their reason was.
John McCain denied there were any MIA left in Vietnam.
It takes two sides to have a ceasefire.
The ICJ genocide rulings applied to the IDF.
So Hamas is allowed to fire at and kill Israel citizens while the IDF holds its fire. "Yea, that will work".
True.The Palestinian group said it was ready to “enter into indirect negotiations on the implementation of these principles.”
but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly rejected it
They had a de facto cease fire in October. But Hamas decided to start a war. A war which Hamas knew would cost a significant amount of losses.
When in doubt send it back to Oct 7th. Nothing has happened since then. Now you can go over the litany of things that made Israel do all those nasty things.
While Hamas hasn’t formally responded to President Biden’s proposal, it welcomed the ceasefire resolution and released a statement showing strong support. The Palestinian group said it was ready to “enter into indirect negotiations on the implementation of these principles.”
The US claims Israel has accepted the proposal, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly rejected it and continues to rule out the idea of a permanent ceasefire.
“My message to governments throughout the region, to people throughout the region, is – if you want a ceasefire, press Hamas to say ‘yes,'” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters during a visit in Cairo.
Am I missing something here?
Nope, it's exactly that illogical and nonsensical.
That is what demented people call rational.
What a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees.
The Russians could have vetoed the resolution. Putin /Lavrov are real honorable statesmen, they explained what their rational reservations are and abstained instead of using their veto power.
Compare that with Biden/Blinken. Blinken wants Arab nations to press Hamas for an agreement they already made while the US supported the massacre. That is what one can expect from demented, irrational people, not from mature rational and honorable statesmen.
"Putin /Lavrov are real honorable statesmen" Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin ghost will disagree.
I am not in contact with ghosts, but looks like you are.
This Resolution is totally void just based on a fact that US is a party to the genocide of Palestinians…!
How about Pressing the Crime Minister to say Yes….?!
"The two sides are supposed to negotiate a permanent ceasefire during the first phase…" I wonder how long this will take. Sounds to me like someone wants to kick the can down the road some more after getting their hostages back.
It will now be necessary for Israel to control the entire Gaza borders,to prevent arms shipments from the tunnels from Egypt.
Here is the text of the actual resolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2735#Text_of_the_resolution
And here is the Russian explanation for abstaining:
https://russiaun.ru/en/news..
And here's a pretty good rundown of what all the SC members' reps. said:
https://press.un.org/en/202…