On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the growing pressure for him to reach a hostage deal with Hamas, saying he won’t let anyone “preach” to him.
The Israeli leader also reiterated his demand that Israel must maintain control of the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, as part of any hostage deal. His insistence on keeping the corridor has been the main obstacle to reaching an agreement.
“The axis of evil needs the Philadelphi corridor, and for that reason we must control the Philadelphi corridor,” Netanyahu said at a press conference. “Hamas insists for that reason that we not be there, and for that reason, I insist that we be there.”
Tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting for a deal since the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages in Gaza. The Israeli military said that they were shot by Hamas shortly before they were discovered.
Hamas said Monday that it issued new guidelines for its guards on how to “deal with” Israeli captives if Israeli forces are approaching where they’re being held, signaling more hostages may be killed as long as there is no ceasefire agreement.
“It was made clear that Netanyahu’s insistence on freeing the prisoners through military pressure, rather than negotiating a deal, could result in their (captives) return to their families in coffins, leaving the families to choose between receiving them dead or alive,” a Hamas spokesman said.
Also on Monday, President Biden was asked if he thought Netanyahu was doing enough to reach a hostage deal and replied, “No.” It was the first time during the negotiations that the president put the blame for the lack of an agreement on the Israeli side instead of exclusively blaming Hamas.
Biden also said the US was getting “very close” to putting a final ceasefire proposal on the table, signaling this round of talks could be the last if no deal is reached. The US’s latest proposal included demands from Netanyahu, and mediating officials said the US’s deference toward Israeli conditions put the negotiations at an impasse.
Israel and Zionist financial elite of U.S. are essential parts of Axis of Evil.
They are unequivocally united…! And that's the exact reason the US zionist elite support Israel even to the scarification of the people of Gaza, West Bank and Arab neighbors…!
Because the collapse of state of Israel also equates the collapse of US zionist financial elite assets…!
Yes, they are united by blood and by the ideology. Their ideology is based on their mythology. The mythology is indispensable. German Nazis did the same. They created their own mythology of Aryan race. Ukrainian neo-Nazi ideologues also created their own mythology. Ukrainian one was created in the last 30 years. For the outside world it looks like a joke, but it works.
If the current Zionist regime of Israel collapses, it can't be followed by collapse of the country. Millions of Israelis wouldn't disappear. Their mythology also wouldn't disappear. It is accepted not only by The West but also by official Russia and by other countries too. Governments are not ready to start cleaning up Augean stables of "traditional history", and Zionist mythology is an essential part of it.
bot makes a good point
(only about Israel being bad don't get your hopes up)
Slaughtering and rampaging in the West Bank is a giant “tell” that the genocide has jackshit to do with Hamas or hostages.
Is anyone really "preaching" to Netanyahu? Even Satan gave up.
Hah, Satan would be the only person in the room being honest with Netanyahu.
Cause they're brothers…!
Netanyahu would still try his hardest lets be realistic
ROTFLMAO!
Yet, very sad…
Satanyahu!
So true.
For sure…! They're working night and day to reach a ceasefire…! They're not sleeping at all…!
Is Biden doing enough to convince Nutandyahoo to reach a deal with Hamas? The clear answer is, "No."
Regarding that dead American having dual citizenship with Israel, Hersh Goldberg-Polin; the blood is on Genocide Joe.
No cuz Biden wants you guys to have a 51st state
52nd if it happens after Puerto Rico
Xaxaxaxaxaxxa no
51st: Israel
52nd: Puerto Rico (Pending for 3474AD)
A must read.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/u-s-universities-spent-the-summer-strategizing-to-suppress-student-activism-here-is-their-plan/
October 31, 1956: French, British, and Israel forces attacked Egypt, hoping to capture Port Said. USA President Dwight Eisenhower ordered them to leave the Suez Canal; they didn't. He threaten to cancel all USA financial aids; British and French withdrew. Israel was defiant. Eisenhower threatened! Israel withdrew.
No USA president since Eisenhower pressured Israel.
Bunch of Cowards…!
Errr…JFK did.too
But look what then happened to JFK
Hmmm
" putting a final ceasefire proposal on the table, signaling this round of talks could be the last if no deal is reached"
So the US is going to abandon even the pretense of working for a ceasefire. Is anyone surprised? The "rope-a-dope" continues.
The Uni-polar world is quickly descending into a multipolar world and the losers will be the U.S. and its master Israel. BRICS and the demise of the dollar is well underway, it will happen quicker than most people realize. Just need to open your eyes. NATO got Sweden and Finland, BRICS will soon have Turkey, with the 2nd largest army in NATO.
For a moment, I saw Brie, not BRICS!
Mmmmmm….monetised double-cream brie….
I love Brie! Seeing Brie is the only way i'll ever like BRICS
The unipolar world existed only in imagination of western elites and in western corporate media. The world was always multipolar. Some polars are stronger, others are weaker. In time of so called two-polar world, weaker polars moved closer to stronger polars. Still, for example, China, never was a vassal state, and hardly India could be called a vassal state.
Dollar was the main global currency and still is. Americans created a very good financial system. It was satisfactory for most countries, but because U.S. financial elite thought they got already an unipolar world, they decided to use dollar as weapon. Actually they with their own hands are destroying dollar as the global currency. They are doing this because they still believe in illusion of unipolar world.
The next time there’s a uni-polar world will be the first time. And there’s unlikely to ever be a first time.
Correct. Lenin called it imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. A lot of knuckleheads think the BRICS are the Communist International, which has been dead for 81 years, or COMECON, which has been dead for 33 years.
Polska and Great Britain are pretty strong and so is Germany
The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians As Human
The message is clear: Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way for things to be.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/09/02/the-west-truly-doesnt-see-palestinians-as-human/
I remember an interesting video essay talking about the magnitude of tragedy, and how human awareness and empathy starts to break down as the numbers killed or displaced in anything (hurricane, earthquake, genocide) reach numbers we can't process.
It did an experiment where it put donation boxes for a known real-world tragedy in a variety of shops and stores. The experiment demonstrated that boxes that showed the pictures and names of 2-4 victims specifically out of 35,000 affected drew far more donations than those boxes that said "Please help the 35,000 affected".
We empathise with faces and names; numbers are by default "unreal things" and can therefore be psychologically dismissed.
Every day there are photos: some of adorable kids before they met their end. Some gruesomely horrific after. This is why the PTB want censorship and criminalization of dissent. I just saw a cute little boy who loved his birds, with one on his shoulder. Gone. I saw photos of childrens’ bodies decapitated. Every single day.
But then there are also narcissists who can’t be bothered knowing, don’t care and are only concerned about themselves and what their “daddy” of the state tells them, how righteous they, the US and Israel are.
So there is a lot missing on the front end in empathy even before you get to vast numbers.
So very unfortunately true.
Doesn’t help that social media is quick & happy to censor “gruesome” photos. PC culture has spent 30+ years ruining human society instead of improving it like it pretends to.
I think it goes beyond 30 years and PC culture. The warmongers learned a lesson from photojournalism in Vietnam. After that, it was only imbeds. Now it’s an attempted blackout.
Israel needs to leave Gaza immediately.
October 7th was only an excuse for Netanyahu to start the genocide.
Back in the early 2010's, Netanyahu told a cameraman to stop recording for a second so he could say something private
The cameraman continued recording, and Netanyahu said something like this:
The words of Benjamin Netanyahu:
"We don't want peace [in Palestine] because Palestine is a great excuse to continue growing our territory and get more American aid."
Ukrainians find solidarity with Gaza
We both are resisting our annihilation by foreign power
The negotiations should have nothing to do with hostages. The USA/Israel need to obey the laws and forcefully, if they continue to break laws. Israel is an Illegal Occupier, Biden needs to say that out loud. Biden needs to stop all support to Israel and acknowledge that Israel is committing Genocide. Israel needs to be told by the USA in clear terms, that they need to LEAVE all Occupied Lands ASAP. All this other nonsense is just Stall and Kill delays. There will not be a ceasefire, until Israel leaves Illegally Occupied Lands. The hostages are not the issue, their lives are NOT more important than all the tens of thousands of Palestinians that Israel has murdered in the last decades. The issue is ILLEGAL Occupation and it is time for the world to forcefully remove Israelis OFF Palestinian Land. That is the only way Peace will come about and the violence stopped.