Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments about Gaza ceasefire talks this week sentenced the negotiations to death, Middle East Eye reported Thursday, citing Israeli media.
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Blinken said the Israeli leader agreed to a new US proposal and that it was now up to Hamas to agree to the deal. However, the US proposal included new demands from Netanyahu that Hamas considers unacceptable. Israeli, US, and Arab sources have all said Netanyahu’s demands are too hardline and will prevent a deal.
Sources speaking to Ynet slammed Blinken for making the comments that portrayed Hamas as the obstacle to a deal. “Blinken made a very serious foul here that indicates innocence, amateurism, naivety, and lack of understanding,” a source said.
They added that Blinken’s positive spin on the ceasefire negotiations was likely an effort to prevent the situation from overshadowing the Democratic National Convention.
“He broadcast optimism from intra-American political considerations, so that the Democratic convention in Chicago would go smoothly, but senior officials of the Israeli negotiating team who listened to his press conference wanted to dispel the speculations,” the source said.
The sources called Blinken’s comments a “gift” to Netanyahu and said the Israeli leader’s continued insistence that Israel must maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, will prevent a deal.
“There is no deal and there is no summit if the Israeli insistence on deploying forces along the Philadelphi axis continues,” the source said. “What was implied in Blinken’s words is that the US is giving Netanyahu support for IDF forces to remain in Philadelphi, while both the Egyptians refuse and Hamas refuses.”
US and Israeli officials are due to meet again in Cairo this week to discuss the ceasefire, but Arab mediators have said there’s no point in holding talks unless the US puts significant pressure on Netanyahu to back down from his demands and agree to a deal.
Blinken reminds me of the UK character Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers. However although being a total joke the end result of his failures is anything but.
Not sure Blinken (and nodding) has the same comedic potential as good old Basil!
No need for negotiations, it’s time for enforcement of the international community’s decisions. First step is to declare the Likud and IDF Joint Criminal Enterprises with appropriate sanctions, travels bans, and asset freezes.
UNSC 2728 and the 3 iCJ rulings on the (plausible) genocide are binding international law.
The recent ICJ advisory opinion is not yet binding international law. However this AO is hard hitting;
1) Likud runs a n Apartheid State
2) Israeli’s must leave all areas occupied since “pre-1949”
3) Israeli’s owe reparations.
The Likud is Israeli’s worst enemy.
At the root of the problem is self-righteous intolerance. I get the impression that not much has changed in the last 2,000 years.
When a group labels themselves as "chosen", any level of brutality is possible. Even a society approving of gang rape of Palestinians, the killing of children by snipers, starving a population, perhaps even introducing polio.
I don’t think chosen is always bad. It just depends on how the meaning is applied. India has some crazy religious groups that do things that at least to my understanding couldn’t harm others. I don’t know that they call themselves chosen, but Jains probably are benign.
Lack of belief in an afterlife and dual morality might be the correct criticisms of what you’re talking about.
So far only Houthis are trying to sanction them. Houthis do it quite successfully, one should say.
A handful of countries are sanctioning the Likud. The list of anti-genocide countries grows slowly , steadily.
Israel's cease fire demand: "accept ethnic cleansing and being genocided"
"Blinken made a very serious foul here that indicates innocence, amateurism, naivety, and lack of understanding,” a source said."
The source is an idiot. Blinken did exactly what he intended to do: scuttle any chance for a ceasefire until all the Palestinians are dead or expelled.
Unfortunately for Blinken, the Axis doesn't care about a ceasefire. They intend to destroy Israel and drive the US from the Middle East. And they will succeed in that.
Even Scott Ritter is getting it wrong. Yesterday he told Judge Nap that Iran and Hezbollah have been stymied by Netanyahu because they haven't retaliated yet. That's nonsense. The delay is partly for psychological warfare purposes, partly for planning and coordination purposes, and I suspect it may well be because the Axis realizes that this next retaliation could likely start the full-scale war they've been interested in avoiding – "interested" but not absolutely willing to avoid.
The Axis has been using an attrition strategy along with escalation dominance so far, hoping to drain both Israel and the US of missile capability. It's possible Netanyahu has escalated too far for that to have been accomplished yet, so the Axis is considering whether to only escalate a bit more or go for broke under the assumption that Israel's next escalation would force the war anyway.
In other word, we may be on the cusp of the war where both parties are not sure whether the next escalation will tip the scales to full-out war. Thus the issue of who gets the blame comes up, with neither side wanting to be the one shouldering the blame.
But as Professor Marandi has said, both Iran and Hezbollah MUST retaliate. So it's either now or later. The hardliners will saying "might as well be now."
So they will escalate but possibly try to keep the escalation at a level where it is only the Israel and US next escalation that triggers the war. Once this escalation is done, the same problem will be presented to the US and Israel: do we want to take the blame?
It's a "chicken and egg" problem that is ultimately insolvable. Only the history books will decide.
Blinken knew exactly what he was doing. He knew we only read titles and sound bites on our cellphones. He blamed everything on Hamas and the Palestinians. He knew very few of us would realize the truth–probably just the Anti-War supporters reading these articles right here.
Some of my family members refer to the Palestinians as being "terrorists". I cannot talk to them. I just get yelled at.
Same here 😞
If you want people to quit calling Palestinians terrorists have them quit committing acts of terror.
Terrorism is a political term because there is no one in the middle east that inflicts more terror than Israel.
“Palestinians” are people from Palestine.
Very few of them commit acts of terror.
I’ve seen some dangerous toddlers who throw their food.
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No, you just call them Palestinians. Fellow humans or if they bravely resist the Israeli terrorists and the Israeli Occupying Forces with counterviolence, you call them freedom fighters. Because that is what they are, they are fighting for their liberation from an Apartheid regime that dwarfs the one that once terrorized South Africa. Racist supremacists should just fuck off.
An illegal occupier has no right, absolutely no legal right, to a defense.
Zionist entity, Israel, is an illegal occupier.
Israel has no right, no legal right, to a defense.
Why is Israel an illegal occupier?
“The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
1st edition (January 1, 1973)
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.
The population of Palestine at the time numbered 92 per cent Arab.
“The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams brings to life
the forgotten pages of history back to passionate life. Doreen Ingrams has sieved through secret British cabinet documents, Foreign and War office memoranda and their cryptic annotations, to observe the creation of a Zionist homeland out of the Palestine Protectorate.
Read Curzon, Churchill, Weizmann, Balfour, T.E. Lawrence, and others in their own words.
First, but not the earliest, documents, official government documents, of "Great Britain" show in the "first person words of Prime Ministers," that it was clear intention of "Great Britain" to take Palestine from Turkey (Ottoman Empire) and the Palestinians and give Palestine to "Zionists." To steal and occupy Palestine by the British Empire was 10s of years before the first Zionist Conference in 1897.
(Please see; also, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi)
Second, even before the British Empire's intention to steal and illegally occupy Palestine the French Empire invaded and illegally occupied Palestine for France and Zionists to create a homeland for Zionists, Israel. Israel, however, was to be a free and independent country, but under the political and diplomatic control of the French Empire.
(Please see; Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole)
Third, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 through the British Mandate of 1922-1948, working largely from British Government archives, the action, words and records show a Zionist elite determined from the beginning to turn all of Palestine into a Jewish state in which the local non-Jewish Arab population would be either subjugated or expelled. The Zionists were quite willing to use violence and terrorism to achieve their aim.
The Zionist policy is made clear in this quote from Menachem Begin, the former leader of the Zionist terrorists gang Irgun and later a Prime Minister of Israel:
“We intend to attack, conquer and keep until we have the whole of Palestine and Transjordan in a Greater Jewish State”.
(Please see; State of Terror: How terrorism created modern Israel, by Thomas Suárez)
Lastly, What did David Ben-Gurion say?
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Simply, if an individual or group of people were to invade and illegally occupy your home rape, sodomize and murder your wife, murder and mutilate some of your children and chase off the rest of your children and family members, then would the illegal occupier or occupiers have the no legal right, absolutely no legal right, to a self defense?
dennis hanna
You mean like creating a man made famine? Dropping 2,000 lb bombs on tent cities? Bombing shelters with ordinances so powerful that the only way you can determine the number of dead is by weighing body parts and counting every pile that weighs 70 kgs as one? How about an electrified steel rod shoved up someone's anus? I could go on, but I'll give you a chance to give me some examples of Palestinian terrorism that even remotely compares to that of Israel's.
I sometimes speak well of Muslim kids wearing Muslim garb. I don’t like Islam, but my interactions with Muslims have all been positive. Life is what it is. Some people hate that, also hate my criticism of Israel.
My politics is extreme, but I at least tell myself I’m not a sociopath. So, I don’t actually hate anyone, or I tell myself that. Maybe if given power I’d reveal some inner psychopath. It seems the way of humanity…
I don’t like Islam, but…
The question is why?
It has values I dislike. However, I don’t wish to harm Muslims. I don’t wish to interfere at all.
I do not dislike any faith as most faiths indeed hold peace, including Islam but, indeed, faith requires us to explore, in our efforts, to understand and that is how we will find Peace.
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Well, faith can be in anything. Some people have faith in the US empire, which has religious elements for some. Some people have faith in the market and liberty.
A weird Satanic faith arose among Latin gangs.
Understood. I would just say.
1. Classical, neo liberalism and the post modern world we have erected in the west has schewed our values over emphasizing individualism, materialism and equality.
2. Islamic civilization historically and today has demonstrably exhibited superior values than the west.
3. The perceived values that we think we don’t like about the faith are either misunderstood or simply not known.
4. If one is Christian , one is conditioned by clergy and Christian religious leaders to fear Islam, in part because it threatens the foundation of Christian theology.
5. Finally, if one is atheist or agnostic I would say since religion is believed to be man-made, why would one believe his or her man made values are better or superior to the values of religious folk?
I’m not a liberal.
Liberalism as I meant it is not in the context of liberal and conservative. I am talking about the philosophy of the enlightenment that produced secularism, individualism and nationalism.
I replied, but it doesn’t show up.
Nationalism shouldn’t be associated with the Enlightenment. Nationalism is as old as humanity.
I like pre-Enlightenment and, ah, counter-Enlightenment ideas.
I have trouble posting on disqus sometimes due to ads. I didn’t mean to offend you.
I’ve never had an issue with Muslims. I just don’t like the religion. Actually, in recent times anyway, whites who are somewhat Christian have been the only ones to bother me.
Islam tends to hate other traditions. It often seems to reject nationalism. I know Arab nationalism is a thing which I like.
Islamic finance is interesting. I appreciate aspects of the religion. I somewhat respect how women hide their beauty. I appreciate how Aristotle was preserved.
I am not offended. This is a discussion. Yes Islam rejects nationalism in the modern nation state context. Among other things, it stokes racism and false patriotism. We are all human beings. The more we know each others' cultural, customs and traditions the less fear and hatred of the other. However, there is nothing wrong in identifying with one's national origin, language and heritage as long as it does not stoke notions of superiority.
This is why Muslims are dismissive of other traditions because anyone can become a Muslim tomorrow. Its not based on race, ethnicity, language or gender. One who accepts Islam inherits a historical tradition that is still relevant today.
Islamic finance is the absolute most solid way to conduct business and run an economy. It totally prohibits interest and rejects fiat money.
In a free society that allows women to freely choose their clothing Muslims wearing hijab have absolutely shown that they can excel in society while dressing modestly. I personally tend to respect a woman who is dressed modestly because it forces me to engage with her other qualities rather than being distracted by her physical features. Men for the most part are designed to be attracted to women by just looking. That's why we are encouraged to lower the gaze. its not a shameful thing to discipline our desires.
One thing that has to be said about the Muslim conquests is that Muslims were incredibly humble in pursuit of knowledge. They did not burn and destroy libraries, houses of worship or cities. For the most part they kicked out the ruling elite and appointed their own officials to run the bureaucracy and the empire. And they humbly accepted the knowledge they inherited and built on it to incredible degrees. That is why Aristotle and the Greek philosophers' works have been preserved till this day. The truth is the west never fully acknowledged these facts. Anyway its interesting that when we all study western civ, it doesn't start in Greek and Rome. It starts in ancient Egypt and Sumer who gave us political systems and language respectively. West is east and east is west.
Islam might reject genetic engineering, which I’d appreciate. I’ve talked, in the past, with Muslims who say the religion doesn’t reject it. I got the impression they wanted to embrace “progress” and didn’t want Islam to be “backwards.”
Everything in creation is from God. So there is nothing that's off limits. Its not whether we can genetically engineer or not but rather adhering to moral guidelines.
Well, if man were the engineer, man would replace God somewhat. There’d be no concept of a soul.
Title Correction: Blinken ‘Sentenced GAZA to Death’
And, the WEST BANK.
Blinken is the agent of an enterprise which claims to be the attorney general and prosecutor for the entire world. With a MIC to back it up.
Blinken agenda, STALL, KILL, lay in bed with Netanyahu. Why does anyone talk to this Zionist Mouthpiece? Why do Arab Nations allow this war criminal to set foot on their soil? When he goes to Egypt next time, they should arrest him, for calling himself a human being.
Israel has the bomb. Kennedy tried to stop Israel developing the bomb. It is a general threat to others.
Considering how many people want Israel destroyed they had no choice but to build nuclear weapons. If Ukraine and Taiwan had nuclear weapons, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine and China would not be threatening Taiwan.
That bomb is the greatest danger to Israel. When they get hit, it will be a massive nuclear hit, precisely because of the danger of their own bombs. Glassed over, total Holocaust.
It wouldn’t explode, I think. It doesn’t work that way, I think. I don’t really know, of course.
You're correct. Nukes don't explode unless the inward detonation is perfectly spherical.
Your argument also gives reason to why Iran should have those weapons as well, as the U.S. and Israel have been talking of waging war on Iran for decades. Fortunately, Russia and China have strong interests in protecting Iran so the trigger happy U.S. may be forced to give pause although its Israel that controls the U.S. bought and sold politicians and therefore the little state of Israel with hugh ambitions will decide what support the U.S. military gives to Israel in the likelihood of escalation.
If Vietnam, Serbia, Grenada, Iraq, Libya,Syria, Afghanistan had nuclear weapons we wouldn't have bombed/invaded them.
Blinken is as guilty of genocide as anyone in Israel.
The International Court must come for him one day.
The Biden administration has said that the ICJ ruling is wrong, ridiculous, not of merit, etc. The U.S. wrote the charter for the UN, which included the ICC and the ICJ!
When are you going to google who wrote the UN charter and find out that there were other nations involved in the charter writing?
The U.S. was the major power standing after WW2 so who do you think made the rules? No coincidence that the U.N. was situated in the U.S. and good old J.D. Rockefeller of the Rockefeller cabal donated some of the property that the U.N. sits on. You keep reading some of the posts by informed people on here and you might learn something.
Right on good Bill!!!
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LOL. That will not happen. Sorry, the USA is too powerful to let a Secretary of State get arrested by the ICJ.
You're living in the past. Keep thinking like a troglodyte. This isn't 1990 and the U.S. is not the end all be all power that you believe it is.
Caveman alright…!
You're living in the past. Keep thinking like a troglodyte. This isn't 1990 and the U.S. is not the end all be all power that you believe it is.
Good Morning Tim!
Ya know something?! My daddy’s name was Tim, as in Timothy. 🙂
I always think of Peace with his name, though, he died in the Air Force, in service but specifically due to a hospital accident.
Last night, I watched and listened to part of Harris' speech.It was all typical kumbaya. Of course she had to interject " Israel has a right to defend itself, yada, yada". She briefly touched on the plight of the Palestinians, but harped about bringing the hostages home. It was all about the fault of Hamas that 200,000 Palestinians are dead.
There will be no "deal". There will be no "ceasefire". Not if her husband's background means anything. "Emhoff was part of the White House team that launched the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, the country's first combating antisemitism strategy, on May 25, 2023", according to Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, 70 protesters were arrested by police, and, the DNC denied an opportunity for a Palestinian-American to speak, even with a vetted speech.
F*ck Kamala Harris and the horse she road in on. Kumbaya for whom?
A another unhappy Trump supporter complaining about the way Democrats operate. Did the RNC allow a Palestinians to get up and complain about Trump moving the embassy? As for the protesters, they breach the police barrier and thus were arrested.
The infrastructure/leadership of both “major” parties seems to be fully in thrall to the Israel lobby.
Both “major” parties have a few dissidents on the subject of Palestine in e.g. Congress (“the Squad,” Thomas Massie, et al.).
The main difference seems to be that when it comes to the activist parts of their respective bases, there are far more Democrats than Republicans who are both 1) against giving a foreign power control of US foreign policy AND 2) willing to raise a ruckus about it.
But Dems like “international” orgs which might serve Israel, might. I don’t have any in mind, just mentioning a potentiality.
If you paid attention to his comments, you'd know he says the same thing about republicans. But instead, your auto-reply to anyone who criticizes the democrats is that they must be Trump loyalists.
How many 'gifts' to Netanyahu the Biden administration has provided?
Not as many as Trump did. Here is the difference Trump gifts changed the landscape. The Embassy move and the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem.
Why should the US have any control or say so on the annexation of the Heights and E Jerusalem?
Only because the US funds everything. If the US exits, then it no longer matters.
Hmm….. Indeed.
Like his boss, Blinken does not want to solve the problem. His job is to convince American voters that he is 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 to solve the problem.
We all know that Biden could end the siege with a phone call; that he is a morally bankrupt "end justifies the means" person; and that he doesn't actually care about the suffering he inflicts unless there are political ramifications.
That is indeed my estimation. If only it were just that Blinken was "innocent, amateurist, naive, and didn't understand" or in other words is an incompetent fool, that could eventually be fixed, if necessary by replacing him, but simply that is not US policy. Of neither party. They are all bought and paid for by the Zionist Lobby. And this is never going to change as long as the system is broken.
According to Max Blumenthal, nearly all of our "representatives" in D.C. have an AIPAC "babysitter" who carefully monitors each of them.
Says rep Thomas Massie via Tucker Carlson, reported by Max.
Political system which promotes monsters to the top isn't good.
That is indeed my estimation. If only it were just that Blinken was "innocent, amateurist, naive, and didn't understand" or in other words is an incompetent fool, that could eventually be fixed, if necessary by replacing him, but simply that is not US policy. Of neither party. They are all bought and paid for by the Zionist Lobby. And this is never going to change as long as the system is broken.
"We all know that Biden could end the siege with a phone call" Your lack of understanding of the politics of the Middle East is showing. Did the USA arms embargo of 1948 stop the war between Israel and the Arabs? Nope, it did not.
Israel isn’t as strong now as then, relatively.
The embargo was just ink on paper. The US governmet allowed arms to be shipped to Israel by other means. The US was supposed to stop nuclear materials from going to Israel but turned a blind eye to shipments from the US. A stated or declared policy doesn't stop working around secertly around such policy. US laws has not congress and administration from ig orange them.
The phone call doesn't necessarily have to be limited to cutting them off militarily. The US has plenty of military assets in the region that could be turned on Israel in a heartbeat. A phone call telling them to cease and desist with language that doesn't contain "pretty please" would do the trick. But that would mean Israel no longer controls our congress and our president can be elected without promising "ironclad" and "unwavering" support.
Blinken is just plain stupid. Netanyahu is just playing with him for enjoyment purposes. Israel has just launched a major slaughter for the thrill of it. Any deal needs bargaining chips on the table. The Americans don't put any on.
Why are people wasting time with these pretend ceasefire negotiations? Ceasefire, and eventual peace can only come when Genocide Joe, Nutandyahoo, and posse are gone.
Their contempt for all things true and decent is astounding. Should a state like this be allowed to exist?
This is our Secretary of State.:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/bb2c818b-af8b-4985-9773-d2a72f2e3831
The words useful idiot come to mind… The man is a stain on the character of any human with a conscience. He is revolting in the extreme.
Contrary to the new trope that the US has "dissuaded Iran from retaliation" – including Scott Ritter's overly-analytical take – I agree with the Professor:
So, the Israeli PR minister Blinken is dictating foreign policy?
Surprise?!………………………………..?!………….……………………?,
It’s not Biden in charge.
The US makes its usual pledge to baby Israel, who has us by the cajones! Ouch!
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Blinken, Biden and now Harris, the thugs of zionist Israel, are in conspiracy to advance Israeli agenda more than the US agenda serving the US citizens…!
"Blinken Has 'Sentenced Ceasefire Talks to Death'"
high officials 'sentenced' for crimes against humanity at nuremberg…
In his interview with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern yesterday, Judge Napolitano said that Benjamin Netanyahu has been in an underground bunker for two weeks.
I'm unsure if that's true. Does that speak to Hezbollah's missiles and their intimidation or does he fear Russian hypersonic missiles are being delivered to Hezbollah?
Is his defensive posture relevant to avoiding the increasingly angry and desperate Israeli population and not an enemy missile fusillade?
I'm considering the parallels and ironies with Adolph Hitler.
I don’t know if he was in some bunker, it is true he had not been seen in public for at least 12 days.
Who is closer to God, the average Jew or the tens of Israeli radical rabbis advocating Palestinian genocide?
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken
And Kamala will save us? LOL