Israel has postponed the planned departure of a delegation to Qatar for negotiations on a potential ceasefire deal with Hamas, angering family members of Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza. The delegation was set to travel on Thursday but now won’t be sent until next week.
An Israeli official told Haaretz that a delegation would not be sent until at least after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with President Biden at the White House on Thursday.
Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, slammed Netanyahu for the delay. “Instead of proclaiming before Congress that he accepts the deal on the table, Netanyahu is stopping the deal from going ahead for personal reasons,” she said.
In his address to Congress, Netanyahu claimed he was working toward a hostage deal, but it’s been widely acknowledged by Israeli officials and media reports that he’s been the one standing in the way of an agreement. Zangauker said Netanyahu was afraid of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has threatened to quit the coalition government if a deal is reached with Hamas.
“It is unimaginable that even today, nine months after the failure, the life of his coalition is more important than the lives of Matan and the other hostages abandoned by him,” she said.
Once they do head to Qatar, the Israeli negotiators are expected to present a proposal that includes new demands from Netanyahu, which he has made public in recent weeks. After Hamas made a significant concession by agreeing to language Israel didn’t think would commit it to a permanent ceasefire, Netanyahu demanded Israel maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border and screen Palestinians returning to north Gaza.
Another PR stunt to falsify decision making on Gaza ceasefire…!
To continue this: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697
Seeing the damage is1 step, but the next, HONESTLY looking at how it has come about, is NEVER taken by the left. Remember, Gazans voted for Hamas, and would do so again, by a margin of 3-1! This is what they CHOSE.
"Gazans voted for Hamas"
By that line of reasoning, the Israelis are all responsible for the generations of ethnic cleansing, mass murdering leaders that has culminated in Netanyahu.
Nonsense! There's no correlation whatever there. Gazans made their own choice to have Hamas rule them. Israel had NO part in it! Hamas are the mass murdering leaders!
“Gazans made their own choice to have Hamas rule them.”
If we are going to support the dubious notion of collective responsibility, the Gazans can be held responsible for a vote made two generations ago. Likewise, the Israelis can be held responsible for their seemingly endless votes in favor of candidates that implement apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and mass murder.
No, that vote was a mere 18yrs ago, and affirmed 3-1 just last December. There is no "apartheid" in Israel, no ethnic cleansing, except by factions of the MB, AGAINST Israelis, and no "mass murder"! Stop listening to Hamas and find other sources, like Arab Muslim Israeli citizens, for example. You might learn something honest fora change!
After Hamas made a significant concession by agreeing to language Israel didn’t think would commit it to a permanent ceasefire, Netanyahu demanded Israel maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border and screen Palestinians returning to north Gaza.
Waiting for Blinken to tell us "all Hamas has to do is say yes". Again.
Israel cannnot seem to get out of its own way.