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Israel strikes Gaza as Blinken heads to region to try to help close cease-fire deal
2024-08-19
[NYPOST] Israeli strikes across Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
killed 19 people overnight, including a woman and her six children, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
headed to the region on Sunday to try to seal a cease-fire deal after months of contentious negotiations.

The US and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
appeared to be closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with American and Israeli officials expressing cautious optimism.

But Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
has signaled resistance to what it says are new demands by Israel, and the long-running talks have repeatedly stalled.

The evolving proposal calls for a three-phase process in which Hamas would release all hostages kidnapped during its Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the deadliest war ever fought between Israelis and Paleostinians.

In exchange, Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza and release Paleostinian prisoners.
Posted by:Fred

#2  I think Israel agreed to the 3 phase plan at least partly because they were sure that Hamas would violate it before phase 3 was complete.
Posted by: Lord Garth    2024-08-19 22:54  

#1  The evolving proposal calls for a three-phase process in which Hamas would release all hostages kidnapped during its Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the deadliest war ever fought between Israelis and Paleostinians.

In exchange, Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza and release Paleostinian prisoners.


In short: REWARDING Hamas for Oct 7.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-19 01:21  

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