After meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement backing the new Gaza hostage and ceasefire proposal from the US, which includes the Israeli leader’s demands and doesn’t include a permanent truce.
“The Prime Minister reiterated Israel’s commitment to the current American proposal on the release of our hostages, which takes into account Israel’s security needs, which he strongly insists on,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
According to The Times of Israel, the statement was the first time Netanyahu publicly backed the US proposal even though it included his demands. Hamas rejected the proposal a day earlier due to the added conditions. Israeli officials later told Axios that Netanyahu only said he accepted the US proposal because he knew Hamas wouldn’t accept it.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Hamas said the US proposal lacked a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The group also said that the US proposal would ensure Israel maintains control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, and the Netzarim Corridor, a piece of land that separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
Netanyahu began demanding these conditions during previous negotiations after Hamas agreed to the language in the ceasefire proposal unveiled by President Biden back in May. Israeli officials and media outlets have acknowledged that by inserting the new demands, Netanyahu was trying to sabotage the chances of a deal with Hamas.
Hamas has said it wants to implement the Biden ceasefire proposal, but Netanyahu has vowed he’s not backing down on his new demands. Blinken called for both sides to agree to a deal, but there’s no sign the US is willing to use its significant leverage over Israel to get Netanyahu to make concessions.
“It’s time for it to get done. It’s also time to make sure that no one takes any steps that could derail this process. So we’re looking to make sure that there is no escalation, that there are no provocations, that there are no actions that in any way could move us away from getting this deal over the line, or for that matter, escalating the conflict to other places and to greater intensity,” Blinken said after meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The US has not condemned the Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, which derailed previous ceasefire negotiations. Instead, the US has vowed to defend Israel from any Iranian reprisal attack that may come in response and has deployed additional military assets to the region for that purpose.
No ceasefire….! Expect the Resistance Attacks soon Mr crime minister…! Don't hide in your swimming pool…!
This is a giant crock of sh-t!!!
Netanyoyo can kiss my backside!
He needs to learn vocabulary!
Peace!
Permanent!
Profitability!
" Israeli officials later told Axios that Netanyahu only said he accepted the US proposal because he knew Hamas wouldn’t accept it."
DUH! And it would have been vice versa if the roles were reversed. Neither side wants a ceasefire because each side believes they're winning – Hamas because it's undefeated and wearing down the IDF and expects the Axis of Resistance to destroy Israel, and Netanyahu because he thinks he can get the US to start a wider war and thus make Gaza genocide get "bombed off the front page" and save his political career.
It's another "perfect storm" which makes a general Middle East war inevitable.
There will never be peace as long as there are fanatic Zionist Israelis like the settlers, they will not give an inch. They are willing to risk a nuclear WW even if there would be nothing but radioactive rubble left.
This is how Bernhard at MoA describes it:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/hamas-rejects-.html
"The US has not condemned the Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh" Of course not. Haniyeh was one of the master minds who started this war. Thousands are dead because him and a few others. Anyway 4 of big 5 terrorists leaders behind this war are gone. One more to go.
"One more to go." They've been saying that for how many decades now? Of course they're always replaced by another willing "master mind". How has that worked out so far?
2 million more to go, before millions more are to go, before…
Um, he didn’t have anything to do with Israel’s response. Hundreds are dead because of him, which is very bad nonetheless.
Criminal minds have wondrous, ruthless, deceptive ways to get what they want with blood on their hands up to their elbows.
What about assassinations of US/ISRAELI leaders in Tel Aviv and DC? They have more blood on their hands than Haniyeh could ever have. That would be many more than 4 or five.
Haniyeh died fighting for the human rights of his people, his family, and his people know it. They know Israeli killers are killing their children and the parents and siblings.
"Anyway 4 of big 5 terrorists leaders behind this war are gone."
Really? And I just heard Netanyahu speak. And I believe Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are still alive. Hamas doesn't have anyone comparable. I have yet to hear of a hostage sodomized with an electrified steel rod while the population gives its approval. So, not only are the Israel leaders' terrorists without peers, but their sick society is also on board with them.
The roots are much deeper and there will always be men and women ready to die for the human rights of their people. The Irgun terrorists started this war long before Haniyeh was born.
Mr Netanyahoo agrees with the "ceasefire" plan (that does not result in a reliable ceasefire) that was dictated by his office to his secretary Mr Blinken.
Well, don't know about you but I'm shocked at this amazing display of American diplomacy …
Yes, to be sure, a Virtuoso, … recalls Bush, Chaney, Tenant & Powell, the greats of Western history … an "Heifetz" of "the noble lie". … even, to modestly modestly passing over the composer's silent codicil guaranteeing "the right to enhanced interrogation by electrified rectal penetration".
He's the new Kissinger, to be sure …
Is that all you need to deceive the entire world? Sprinkle around a few articles that our friend, Mr. War Criminal, backs FAKE "Ceasefire" "Peace Process" and allow him to continue genociding the locals? …Yeah? …WOW. We make it look easy.
The usual trick to blame the other side by making unreasonable demands.
Well let's see if Egypt and Qatar now join Israel in torturing the Palestinians to surrender, or, barring that, if the US will coup Bibi and set off a civil war between the Askenazim and the Smotrinazis. The US will, of course, support the Ashkenazim because they always support white people over brown people.
Behind closed doors, Blinkey and Netanyahu laugh their *sses off, high five. Then Miller (the smirk) does his usual "press release", lying as he speaks. It will serve the democratic party their justice if the young voters as well as key voters in important states, like Michigan, don't show up, securing the win for Trump. Basically, it matters not who wins. Palestinians lose.
Not one more dime for Israel!!!………
Boy! What a concession for peace: “Netanyahu Backs US Gaza Proposal That Includes His Demands“. A genuine example of failed diplomacy.
Netanyahu, Biden, Blinken, three Zionist jokers who think that they fool everyone.
And think they are smart!
Just plain English: Netanyahu/Biden demand unconditional surrender and call it a ceasefire agreement.
In the UN Biden vetoed an honest ceasefire agreement at least twice. Since then there has not been a single in good faith offer of a ceasefire agreement. Biden and his war criminals have yet to make an honest effort to end the genocide of the Palestinian people, not one.