Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a list of demands for a potential hostage deal ahead of more indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, a move seen by mediators and Israeli officials as an attempt to sabotage the chances of an agreement.
Netanyahu’s list of demands, which he called “non-negotiable,” included a condition that Israel would be allowed to resume military operations “until all of the objectives of the war have been achieved.” Netanyahu’s objectives include the “eradication” of Hamas, a goal the Israeli military has said is not realistic.
Hamas’s primary condition for a deal is a permanent ceasefire, and Netanyahu’s insistence on having the ability to resume his genocidal war appears to be the main obstacle. The Israeli leader’s repeated public comments about the issue led Hamas to ask for stronger guarantees during previous negotiations.
According to media reports, Hamas has softened its stance a bit by not asking for Israel to commit to a permanent ceasefire right away. However, the Palestinian group is asking mediators to provide written guarantees that negotiations for a permanent truce will continue once the first phase of the deal goes into effect.
An Israeli security official told Channel 12 that by issuing his list of demands, Netanyahu is “emphasizing the gaps” between Israel and Hamas just before an Israeli delegation heads to a fresh round of negotiations.
Netanyahu’s full list of demands includes:
- Any deal will allow Israel to resume fighting until all of objectives of the war have been achieved.
- There will be no smuggling of weapons to Hamas from Egypt to the Gaza border.
- There will be no return of thousands of armed terrorists to the northern Gaza Strip.
- Israel will maximize the number of living hostages who will be released from Hamas captivity.
Another Israeli security official slammed Netanyahu, saying he “pretends that he wants a deal, but is working to torpedo it.” The official added that Netanyahu was “dragging out the process, trying to stretch time until his speech in Congress and then the [Knesset] recess.”
A senior official from one of the countries mediating the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Netanyahu’s non-negotiable demand about the resumption of fighting hits at the most sensitive issue in the negotiations.
The report said mediators have convinced Hamas to keep in place the ambiguous language “that allows both Israel to feel comfortable enough that it has the ability to resume fighting if Hamas ceases to negotiate in good faith and Hamas to feel comfortable enough that the mediators will prevent Israel from resuming the war instead of implementing the permanent ceasefire that is stage two of the deal.”
The senior official said statements “made by the prime minister severely harm efforts to maintain that ambiguity” and added that it’s likely been done “purely for political purposes.”
Netanyahu’s demands are seen as an effort to appease National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has threatened to quit the government if a deal with Hamas is reached.
How is this even a deal? You give up everything and we’ll continue to kill everyone.
Blinken: Hamas is unreasonable and doesn’t want peace.
That is a tried and true method congress uses all the time when they want to kill a bill.
Netanyahu wants unconditional surrender, the American way.
Nevertheless the narrative, casting Hamas as the obstructionist, will continue without a hint of all this.
Exactly Robert.
Bingo!
We still wasting time talking about "deals"? What did I say about the JCPOA? Same thing here… "That ain't gonna happen."
Or a return to the INF treaty, or the ABM treaty, or Open Skies.
Eretz Yisrael, the ≈130 yo Zionist project recorded in the diaries of it’s Political founding father Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish state stretching “From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” Having gained actualization through the British Empire vis-a-vis Balfour, Sykes–Pico and the British Mandate it migrated with the wax and wane of the US and British empires.
Publicly articulated in the 80s Yinon Plan it became the US's 90s Wolfowitz Doctrine, renamed the Bush Doctrine, renamed the Obama Doctrine with a wave at “moral multilateralism," renamed the Trump Doctrine abandoning the wave and the Biden Doctrine adding Genocide.
The Palestinians aren’t Zionists sole target, merely an image priority, every Arab state between the Nile & Euphrates will be direct targets sooner or later. With Gaza virtually destroyed and West Bank annexation successfully accelerating, Lebanon is simply the next.
Netanyahu is a multitasker.
Chaim Weizmann didn't want any Jews in Palestine, he wanted the best, most intelligent. He did not want to see Jewish ghettos made up of the undermenchen of the Jews. Went so far as to measure the head sizes of thousands of Jews. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
Just think how long did it take Satan to design such a perfect plague on the Human Race?
If it were any national leader but Netanyahu doing this we would have found multiple human rights violations, human trafficking, terrorist activity and a host of other sordid crimes going on in his country that would require his immediate removal an/or 'having an accident'. Oh, and we'd find kiddie porn on his laptop. Anything to get rid of him. But it's Netanyahu, so he gets a pass for whatever he wants to do- why? Why is this one man such a sacred cow he can't be touched?
Meanwhile, half a million Israelis marched peacefully to rid themselves of Netty,and Hamas empowered him to stay
And? Are you saying if Netanyahu wasn't in power that Israel would have responded differently to Oct 7th? Or that Hamas only did their attack to keep Netanyahu in power? In other words, not a damn thing would be different. Your repeated tripe doesn't hold water this time or any of the other dozen or so times you have said the same thing. You blame Hamas for Israel moving to the extreme right politically too which is also a load of tripe. Israel is a rabid dog that needs to be put down. Like my pal NA says, in Israel there is always another Netanyahu to replace the present Netanyahu.
Zionism in Israel IS a movement to the far right. If need by, the Zionists in control in Israel (and our congress) would kill U.S. citizens if they are in the way of there plans. The first example was the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. Knowing it was an American ship, flying the American flag, Israel ordered it sunk. Our Coward in Chief, Johnson, called back the American jet fighters that were on the way to intercept the attackers.
The King David Hotel terrorist attack was committed by whom?
Were United States citizens murdered in that terrorist attack?
What was the United States' response to that Terrorist attack?
dennis hanna
How can you sleep at night?
All the protests haven't been peaceful. And, maybe violence is needed to wake up Tel Aviv to the demands of the Israeli people.
It seems there is no patriotic Israeli citizen to get rid of this guy…!
Well, the USA is not alone with a demented leadership and idiots in the congress. The Israeli leadership in Tel Aviv is at least as deranged, insane and even controls American policies.
Netanyahu demands unconditional surrender from Hamas and a crazy, spineless congress will applaud. It will be insanity on display in Washington when Netanyahu comes to visit and present Tel Aviv's demands accompanied with standing ovations by the spineless and unpatriotic congress.
It is alleged that every congressman/woman has a AIPAC "pal" that keeps tabs on them. A constant reminder to toe the mark or else.
Looks like easy work for the “pal”since the MPs are spineless and brainless little creatures waiting for their paychecks and to hell with the country.
Hamas is a resistance movement and as long as there is brutal occupation there will be resistance. Normal people know that.
But deranged megalomaniacs are just that, they don't get it and keep up the non stop killing of nations, including women and children and turning their own young men/women into brutal killing monsters.
The author and son of a former Israeli General said the hate starts when Israeli Jews are young, so that as adults, they can support horrendous things done by their government.
If you haven't seen it "Israelism" is a documentary released last year exposing the systemic indoctrination Miko is referring to, and how young American Jews are trained from Jewish Day Schools on to be advocates for Israel in the US. Experienced through the stories of two young Jews, "we were told the only way Jews can be safe is if Palestinians are not safe," who's lives were changed seeing the reality of how Israel treats Palestinians.
Israel will never allow an outside force, such as a consortium of UN nations to secure the peace after the massacre. New estimates of the dead in Palestine are now nearly in line with what Ralph Nader said months ago – 100,000 +. That is nowhere proportional to the dead on 7Oct (many killed by the IDF executing the Hannibal Directive). Hamas' attack on 7Oct may be qualified as an atrocity, but the true nature of the Zionists regime in Israel has been revealed. Brutal, cowardly, without moral compass. Just very mean people.
Why would they get rid of him, just because they despise him? No, not reason enough, they are doing exactly what he wants them to want him to do — Kill Arabs. Never forgot 80 years of indoctrination; or what Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, using his uncle's theories of human behavior, developed in the late 1910s/early 20s and called ’Engineering Consent':
Goebbels was an avid admirer of Bernays.
The report said mediators have convinced Hamas to keep in place the ambiguous language “that allows both Israel to feel comfortable enough that it has the ability to resume fighting if Hamas ceases to negotiate in good faith and Hamas to feel comfortable enough that the mediators will prevent Israel from resuming the war instead of implementing the permanent ceasefire that is stage two of the deal.”
Right. And soon as last hostage (if they can wait that long) is released Hamas will immediately be in violation and it will be based solely on Israel's say so. Hamas must be crazy to assume otherwise. But I think Israel will make it look more convincing and say Hamas was in violation at a certain time regardless of if all of the hostages have been released. They do have a schedule to keep, after all, and they really think the hostages are a nuisance at this point. So many wars, so little time.
Previous agreements between Hamas and Israel have had little "triggers" that Israel imposed so that there would be an excuse for Israel resuming the attacks.
When Hamas rejects this dupe's deal, they will be accused of having missed an opportunity.
your values are non-negotiable. no matter how hard somebody pushes or bullies you, you will not back down on what you believe and what you stand for.
grr WHAT grr
any time a weirdo messes with you, you make a fist with both of your hands and you holler at the top of your lungs GRRR!.
…….. my wife
wut
Great image.
This war will go on for another hundred years, assuming a nuclear holocaust doesn't short circuit that process.
When Israel attacks Lebanon, it will pull in the US and UK, which will pull in Russia, China, Iran and maybe other countries in the region also. The end game can only be nuclear devastation if and when Israel and henchmen start to lose.
The whole ME is a powder cake and the Israeli megalomaniacs don't get it, they are as deranged as the politicians in Washington.
Maybe they do get it and are going to have a Masada ending if things don't go their way.
If we only had one adult in the room, a leader like Victor Orban, we could sleep better. Europeans used to have leaders, not perfect but better than what they have now in London, Paris , and Berlin. Once upon a time we had JFK, a long time ago.
That will depend on how long the nuclear Israel will last. As long as there is an armed Israel in the ME there will be no peace, the genocide in Gaza of Palestinians alone will not be the end of it.
The Lancet study estimates death toll in Gaza 186,000 or even more.
Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death reported in Gaza, a new study published respected medical journal The Lancet said it is “not implausible” to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the genocidal war in Gaza.
The paper titled ‘Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential’, published on 05 July, stated that using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, the estimated death toll would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the besieged enclave.
On Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said that at least 38,153 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 07 while more than 87,828 have been wounded in the besieged enclave. 15,983 of them are children.
https://maktoobmedia.com/gaza-genocide/the-lancet-study-estimates-death-toll-in-gaza-186000-or-even-more/
The Hamas facilities which did keep records when possible have been destroyed. That is why the figures are relative stable, no one can do the counting and keep records.
Records in all of the hospitals, schools have been destroyed.
Bibi isn't finished 'mowing the lawn', which shows how much Zionists consider the people they're slaughtering when they compare human lives with grass. Obviously Wash. thinks the same since they are providing most of the weapons to destroy what's left of Palestinian lives and land.
Bibi is really deranged, insane like the people around him. I wonder how they can sleep at night. Western democracies are controlled by a bunch of insane, irrational establishment people, it is like an insanity pandemic, surreal.
"Western democracies are controlled by a bunch of insane, irrational establishment people, it is like an insanity pandemic, surreal."
Hey, you can't say that about the Great God, Democracy!
That is a deal only deranged people could come up with. It is not meant to be a deal and Hamas are not stupid people they know with whom they are dealing and the deal is just a joke and nothing else. There is no trust and no willingness to compromise, the insanity is palpable.
In other news, the grip of AIPAC costs members of the administration of Columbia University their jobs. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/3-columbia-university-officials-lose-posts-over-texts-that-touched-on-ancient-antisemitic-tropes/ar-BB1pCsOz?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=1cf1063e87a743c7a93add7d6228fdd1&ei=31
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520249899/beyond-chutzpah
They've following this playbook for a very long time
we Americans are so frikkin stupid that we will allow the Trump to be our POTUS
you can not make this shit up! OMG!
what
i did say "what"
Well, as they say misery loves company, and after all, we do have our brethren, the European electorate, so there's that…
This is truly shocking news. Netanyahu? What is the world coming to???