Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement on Thursday that the Gaza ceasefire deal will allow “Israel to return to fighting under American guarantee.”
The statement was a response to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, who has threatened to quit the coalition government if the ceasefire deal is approved.
The three-phase ceasefire deal does not commit Israel to a permanent truce, and the statement from Likud signals the US has assured Israel it could resume its genocidal war after the first phase, which involves a 42-day ceasefire and initial hostage exchange.
According to Israeli sources speaking to Ynet, Netanyahu has reached an understanding with the incoming Trump administration that he could restart military operations if he deems Hamas is violating the deal.
The Likud statement also signaled that Israel got some kind of guarantee about getting additional military aid from the US for agreeing to the ceasefire deal.
The statement said the deal allows Israel to “receive the weapons and means of warfare it needs, maximize the number of live hostages released, maintain full control of the Philadelphi Corridor and the security buffer that surrounds the entire Gaza Strip, and achieve dramatic security achievements that will ensure Israel’s security for generations.”
According to Israel Hayom, the US and Israel have reached an understanding that the deal includes “the unfreezing of previously delayed US military aid, with IDF and Defense Ministry officials now cleared to submit comprehensive rearmament requests for both immediate and long-term needs.”
In response to the Likud statement, Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power said it still opposed the deal. “This deal is a violation of all of the prime minister’s public commitments to his partners and the Israeli public. It includes stopping the war, leaving the Philadelphia Corridor, abandoning the Netzarim Corridor, returning the terrorists to the northern Gaza Strip without inspection, and releasing hundreds of murderers with Jewish blood on their hands,” the party said.
If the Jewish Power party quits the coalition, the Netanyahu government would still have 61 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, meaning it would still have a majority. But Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has also threatened that his Religious Zionism party could quit, which would bring the government under 60 seats, a scenario that could lead to elections, although the opposition has said it would bail Netanyahu out if he agrees to the ceasefire deal.
Smotrich said that his party would quit unless it got a guarantee that the genocidal war would resume after the first phase of the deal, and he called for military operations to be intensified and humanitarian aid to be further cut.
Knowing the Israelis they will find any loophole to crawl through. When they made a deal with the Party of God in Lebanon, they kept bombing. In every negotiation with Hamas in 2024 they just upped the demands to ruin the attempts. And now they have increased the bombing of civilians to satisfy their bloodlust before the ceasefire takes effect.
When Israeli fanatics in the military keep killing Palestinians they won't be punished, and government members will applaud them.
Nearly the entirety of society in Israel supports genocide. It is very very sick.
Zionist is the operable word, not sick. Although you have to be a sicko to be a Zionist.
"Knowing the Israelis they will find any loophole to crawl through."
When your nation has the best lawyers on Earth, I'd (sadly) expect nothing less.
What nation is that? Are you implying that certain ethnics are prone to litigation?
Their lawyers will make sure there will be loopholes to slip through, Netanyahu depends on them, he even talks about it.
They are masters of obfuscation and manipulation of the public.
Trump & Witkoff, if these are "tough NY real estate developers" the breed is in deep trouble. "Ceasefire deal", what an absurd mash!
You failed to cite a single thing about the deal, no sale.
The thing-about-the-deal is the absence of the "OR", as in, either you honor this or …. I'm pretty sure the ZioNazis aren't afraid of either Doha nor Egypt. So it comes down to the honor code of 2 ZioNazis. Good luck with that.
Zionism is a proud ,just, and free political liberation movement.
Yep, just like national socialism and the Ku Klux Klan.
"Zionism is a proud…liberation movement."
Ya' gutted yer first dirty Araboosh, son – be proud!
You're so obvious you suck.
Israelis are very bad people.
No.
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Misguided.
Misguided is a very mild term for unspeakable crimes against humanity and peace.
Thanks for music, I play sounds of silence on my recorder.
So if I am victimized by a member of a particular ethnic or national group,is it corect to say that they are all bad people?
When a majority of people don't think their soldiers should be punished for shoving electrified steel rods up other human's rectums, then maybe it's hard not to generalize.
Do you feel victimized because you're ignorant, because you're racist, or because you're an idiot, Joke ?
Sapient? sapient? go look in a mirror. I oppose prejudice against anyone.
Okay, I'll clarify; Antisemitic Israelis are committing genocide against a Semitic people known as Palestinians. Antisemitic Israelis committing genocide of Semitic Palestinians are very bad people.
When majority of the Israelis support very bad people than it is justifiably correct to generalize the whole group.
The majority of people in Israel are tired of being raped ,bombed shot ,raped, mutilated ,and threatened by their neighbors.
Oh for G-d's sake!
This: The Gray Zone: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/06/21/israeli-army-friendly-fire-october-7/
Also, from the year 2000 to 7Oct the IDF killed 2300 Palestinian children.
In 2015, Israeli Jewish poet, Michael Rosen, read this poem: Don't Mention the Dead Children
As compared to REALLY being raped, bombed, mutilated and threatened by Israel. Tell me when the killing wasn't one sided heavily in favor of Israel? You can't.
You are listing what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians, and there are tons of evidence, much produced by the IDF animals. They are the product of Israelis the teaching their children to hate in homes and schools. They were born innocent babies like other babies, but the adults shaped them to become wild beasts.
"The majority of people in Israel are tired of being raped ,bombed shot ,raped, mutilated ,and threatened by their neighbors."
Hell, yea! An' thas what them n-lovin' northerners nevah did git' 'bout our proud lynchin' tradition…
…it was pure self-defense from them white woman rapin' negroes and theys dangerous 'rights-demanding' ways.
Why would Hamas give their leverage away while the Semites casually keep killing even under the prospect of a truce is indeed killing me, why would they think that Israel would stop afterwards? They probably don't even know why October 7th happened in the first place, as in not oppress they neighbors
Duh-Palestinians are semites.
Only semi-Semite. Israelis are fully-Semite, or Fullite it you prefer.
Queen: Under Pressure
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According to Israeli sources speaking to Ynet, Netanyahu has reached an understanding with the incoming Trump administration that he could restart military operations if he deems Hamas is violating the deal.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'm going to predict that Netanyahu will claim Hamas is violating the cease fire deal before the 42 days of the initial phase expires (/s). Is Vegas taking odds? Probably not.
Odds are 1:1.
Over/Under is a matter of hours.
It's obvious (as if it wasn't already clear enough) that Israel is looking for (or planning) an excuse to start killing Palestinians again, and invoking 'US guarantees' as political cover whether those guarantees exist or not. History has shown Israel cannot be trusted, ever. We would do well to rid ourselves of this troublesome millstone around our necks.
They will look for any excuse.
"It's obvious…Israel is looking for (or planning) an excuse to start killing Palestinians again, and invoking 'US guarantees' as political cover whether those guarantees exist or not."
In the face of report-after-report, the US has flat-out denied Israel's war crimes of indiscriminate mass murder, destruction of hospitals, and cutting off humanitarian aid…
…so what appears "guaranteed" is that the US government will 'give cover' to any Israeli pretext for violating the ceasefire.
" . . . reached an understanding with the incoming Trump administration that he could restart military operations if he deems Hamas is violating the deal."
That will be child's play, once again "false flagging" Hamas! American "leaders" are all a bunch of COWARDLY Israeli enablers!
You believe the Israeli source??? Isn't that contradictory?
And why wouldn't he? The only question is what day of the 42 days Israel will claim Hamas is breaking the deal. And whose word will the Trump administration believe? Hamas or Israel (even with Netanyahu)?
unbelievable
how do humans form such horrible feelings to other fellow humans?
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil – that takes religion."
– Steven Weinberg
Good post Uncle S.!
Amen (pun intended).
Who actually believes this???
Israel truly operates in a surreal world, completely condoned by the US government. Well past time for a harsh reality check.
The US wants what Israel wants.
There is an argument that Israel is our attack poodle.
Herzl's comment on the Balfour Declaration and answer to much critique among his followers: "we will take the half-leaf now and the rest later". That is still the essence of Netanyahu's fooling of Biden and Trump. They will take Gaza later.
I'm inclined to believe that neither Biden nor Trump need "fooling". I'm more inclined to believe that our political class is infested with racists.
Sounds just like Arafat.
Jake, where have you been these months?
It appears that you have formed other personages, all speaking the same junk.
So it’s a relatively small exchange of hostages and back to genocide. Trump will “grant” the West Bank, and Northern Gaza. Hamas will strike after being attacked (Israel will claim terrorism, the parrots of msm and govt will say the same) and Israel will claim all of Gaza. Is this the writing on the wall?
There is nothing about Israel that is honorable, sane and not filled with bloodthirsty greed.
I think you've called it. Yet again….!
I desperately want to be proven wrong. I would happily eat crow. For one minute when a cease fire was announced that knot in my stomach was released, but not for long.
I’m with you on that. I am hopeful both sides want it to hold and neither seeks the first slightest excuse to resume.
Re "it’s a relatively small exchange of hostages and back to genocide," and "I desperately want to be proven wrong."
Israel is split between 'liberal' genociders – who want hostages back in return for a permanent ceasefire – vs the genociders who want an endless campaign of ethnic cleansing by genocide.
Feel dumb suggesting anything remotely hopeful outa' Israel – but the 'liberal' genociders have gotta be as aware as on these pages that N will likely fabricate a pretext…and be warning of it…and tryna' act in advance… somehow move opinion toward 'keep the ceasefire' to head-off that pretext?
Short of that, in the US, it's a long and uncertain political haul to communicate to the Democratic Party that it will lose again on a Zionist ticket – a surprisingly big reason for not voting Democrat in Responsible Statecraft's poll (reported in Antiwar).
We know Trump doesn’t gaf about Democrat’s future prospects. I don’t think Democrats care all that much either, as long as the money rolls in. When not in power, they get to play the role of big heroes fighting economic injustice etc., until they get in power, where they play victims who “tried”. It’s patently absurd that the word “oligarchy” came out of Biden’s mouth, when he has been a 50 year company man for it.
From what I’ve read, it has been a while, maybe it changed, but there was a tiny minority in Israel against the genocide. Being for a ceasefire to collect hostages doesn’t mean interest in stopping the carnage altogether. I saw video yesterday or day before where there were Israelis protesting against the ceasefire.
I didn’t watch because my patience has worn thin for moronic rationalizations, but supposedly Biden basically confessed to Laurence O’Donnell that he was convinced that sending massive bombs, killing hundreds at a time, to get one or two members of Hamas was justified. Maybe one day, his war crime confession can be used in an international court, but I won’t hold my breath.
https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1880112553021378626
I’m sorry, I am so incredibly angry at our government, maybe I’m not seeing straight.
Atomized Left-of-Liberal Lesser-of-Two-Evilists
"[A]bout Democrats' future prospects…don’t think Democrats care…much…as long as the money rolls in."
I think they might IF the near 50% left-of-libs who voted for Sanders in 2016 primaries demanded binding Democratic commitments in congressional and presidential primaries to get their vote.
Faced with 'compromise or dead certain loss,' I hopefully imagine the Democratic Party would negotiate – 'parliament-style' – w/its left flank.
Prob is the 'if': in an atomized electorate, in absence of large, unifying economic-union-type structures…what could unify post-industrial left-of-lib's into a bloc that would not degenerate into lesser-of-two-evilists?
The Democratic Party is dead. Bury it with its mascot Liz Cheney.
"The Democratic Party is dead."
I do not vote Democrat – except on a candidate-by-candidate, situation-by-situation local basis.
Likely, even if I lived in a swing state, I would not vote Democrat in national elections – though it would be a dreadful choice.
But – even in the complete absence of any realistic possibility of realizing 'my plan' – I think the idea of unified, parliamentary-style left-of-lib demands is useful:
because it points up the antidemocratic features of the existing Democratic Party;
and because it suggests the view of insurrectionary politics a great American had in mind when he wrote, "Power concedes nothing without a demand."
It’s a ruse, like all Israeli deals beforehand. This goes back to the 1940s. Does the Israeli government want peace? Not if they can’t have all of Eretz Israel. It’s always been about the land. Always. Israel needs any Palestinians remaining to be miserable and angry. That creates the inevitable response which Israel will use to say “see, they don’t want peace!” I’ll wait for “jake” or “Tim Burns” to pipe in and regurgitate the hasbara “But Israel gave Gaza back, and all they got was violence in return!” In 2005 Israel deemed Gaza wasn’t worth the cost of defending the few settlements that were there at the time. They moved them out and into the West Bank. Within a year, three times as many new settlements were started in the WB than what was pulled out of Gaza. So big net gain. And pulling out of Gaza “put the peace process on formaldehyde”, according to one Israeli minister, which was the intent. And of course Gaza was subsequently blockaded, making life even more miserable for its inhabitants, and hence the inevitable rocket fire from the Strip. This is by design. They will always provoke to get a response so they can try to justify to the world their ethnic cleansing, which currently is taking a genocidal form. The fact that this continues to take place, under the watch of an awakening world, is a sad testament to the power/corruption of the ruling class.
The illegal occupation only changed in style when the Israelis moved out, it was too expensive to maintain, they simply turned Gaza into one huge concentration camp, the Palestinians did not build the 8m tall wall around Gaza, the Israelis did it and included sanctions gratis and the prison guards.
Ignoramus people believe the Israelis did all that out of kindness for the Palestinian refugees in Gaza.
And the western world, democracies, approved of it.
The Western world, democracies, do not know the real story that began with the Nakbha of 1948.
All many of my friends (and some family) know is that all Palestinians are terrorists, threatening poor Israel.
I cannot have any discussions with them.
The Western world, democracies, do not know the real story that began with the Nakbha of 1948.
All many of my friends (and some family) know is that all Palestinians are terrorists, threatening poor Israel.
I cannot have any discussions with them.
Now it's up to Trump. Or maybe Vance. We may soon find out who is really calling the shots: Israel or the US?
We are using Israel.
Lindsay Graham let the cat out of the litter box when he said that were Israel not doing what it is doing in Lebanon and Syria, we, our armed forces, would be doing it.
Israel is our "aircraft carrier" in Israel, our attack poodle. To stop Israel is to stop the U.S. in the ME.
That is also my thinking. What is strange about the Zealots (aka Zionists) is that although they turn to scripture to justify their genocide, none ever claim their leaders to be the long awaited Messiah. Presumable even they cannot stomach Netanyahu or Ben Gurion or whoever to be their Messiah.
Anyone who trusts Israel is a fool.
I see this "ceasefire" as nothing more than a strategic repositioning of Israel's hopeless military forces, in advance of a suicidal US/Zionist attack on Iran.
https://sonar21.com/netanyahu-ignores-zionist-extremists-and-moves-forward-with-ceasefire-but/
America should know with certainty by January 22 where Trump stands on Israel's Palestinian genocide through policy changes.
I hope he's willing to fire newly-minted cabinet officers.
The same could be said with his policies toward Russia, and by extension, Ukraine.
Next week could be a make-or-break week for global financial markets.
How will America be turned around on a dime–if possible?
Trump's ALWAYS willing to fire people. NBC gave him a TV show on that premise !!!
The only possibility for peace in the ME, as far as I'm concerned, is the complete dissolution of the state of Israel. I would have no problem with Jewish people living there, but the government presiding over the entire area from the river to the sea needs to be an international body operating under the strict supervision of the UN (after the UN headquarters is removed from the US – another obscenity).
Correct. There is nothing neutral about the U.S.
Just noticed that the paranoid AI Bot has picked up my use of a forbidden "J" word – used in the comment as a generic adjective (at least at most academic institutes). The stupidity of the algorithm protecting the State of International Upheaval and Violence is breathtaking. It reminds me of the admirable humor of young Black men at an earlier time who decided that only other blacks were allowed to call one another the "N" word. But then Black isn't actually a religion or an academically recognized ethnic qualifier, is it.
I'm getting fed up with the obvious continuing attempts to protect a people whose government promotes war crimes including genocide as a regular part of its foreign and domestic policy.
Shame on you.
Not a paranoid AI bot. A simple filter. And it’s intended to protect the site from Stormfront type comment flooding, not to protect Israel. Once a human moderator has looked at a comment that does not violate the guidelines, it gets approved.
Thanks Thomas. I'll wait. Is Stormfront still a thing?
Had to go check — yes, it is. But even if it was out of business, that was just an example of the groups/platforms that occasionally do a “swarm a site and see if we can post racist crap more quickly than it can be deleted” bit.
These days, I seldom for more than a comment or two of that type in moderation — it used to be dozens on a normal day and hundreds when the “swarm” thing happened.
Never heard of this before. Awful.
Thanks for the info, and thanks for the good work you do for us, even if a few of us are troublemakers!
It's been a personal struggle for me to have known the country when this government was populated with politicians and professionals who were not only more aware and respectful of the oath of office and the instrument they swore to protect and defend, but also more aware of what was going on in the world beyond the border.
I know that history is replete with examples of negative acts by the US towards other people and places during my 81 years, but what I have witnessed since the "end" of the cold war has left me completely disgusted with the inhabitants inside the beltway. I guess I was hoping for a happier end to my sojourn on planet Earth.
Thanks for the compliment — I try, anyway.
I’m only 58 years old, but that means I do remember the final years of the “Cold War,” and the all-too-brief interregnum between the end of that and the post-9/11 return to full “national security state” form.
It’s just sad that the US threw away the opportunity to move away from “national security” statism.
I am 81 and I remember Vietnam '65-'68. Crystal clear.
I remember the "Axis of Evil", "War on Terror", plus all of the boogeymen created to fill the voids of the grandest oxymoron, aka, our military intelligence.
Boring. So boring.
As expected, all will come down roses until the end of the inauguration.
After that it will be back to square one and reboot back to the old program.
Only one part, enough to protect the inaugural ceremonies was signed. The other two parts may never see the light of day.
The one good thing that Biden did was prevent the use of Pegasus by the FBI, and, in fact, presenting an embargo against it.
Trump has said that he will reverse that embargo, which means it will be available to quinch free speech.
Not good for anyone including US…!
US could become a hostage to Israel not to expose its secrets…! Let's say more secrets…!
Making the anti international rules as you go…!
This is hogwash. As I've said before, once Israel has their POWs they will go back to committing genocide, backed by the US. Personally, I hope the Resistance has a plan with Iran to counter Israeli aggression and mass murder.