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2021-05-19 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Biden pressing Israel's Netanyahu for end to military campaign on Palestine; Israel, Hamas reject

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US officials are pressing their Israeli counterparts and Tel Aviv’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expedite willingness to reach a ceasefire, source familiar with Washington’s recent diplomatic efforts said Tuesday.

Despite no such language being publicly released in statements from the White House, State Department or Pentagon, President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
struck an aggressive tone during a phone call with the Israeli premier on Monday, according to the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
The US has blocked three attempts by the UN Security Council to release a statement that calls for an end to the violence between Paleostinian factions and Israeli forces, which spilled over into its second week.

Diplomats said the US ambassador to the UN reiterated previous stances from US officials that a UN statement would not help de-escalate tensions.

Israel, Hamas deny ceasefire expected on Thursday, as US ups pressure

[IsraelTimes] Reports late Tuesday that Israel and Paleostinian terror groups in the 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 Hamaswith 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...
Strip will cease fire on Thursday morning sparked a flurry of denials from all parties involved, while the White House continued applying behind-the-scenes pressure on Jerusalem to wind down the fighting.

Egypt has proposed an Israel-Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, ceasefire through private channels that would take effect on Thursday at 6 a.m., Channel 12 news reported. The report cited Paleostinian sources saying Hamas had agreed to the offer, while there had been no response from Israel.

But it took less than an hour for denials to begin pouring in.

"No agreement or specific timings for the ceasefire were reached," Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the terror group’s leadership, said in a statement.

The efforts to coordinate a ceasefire — led by the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
, Egypt, 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...
and other countries — are ongoing, al-Rishq said. "While emphasizing that the efforts and contacts of the mediators are serious and continuous, the demands of our people are clear and well-known."

Exercising similar caution, a diplomatic source familiar with Egypt’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in the fighting, which began on Monday, May 10 with a Hamas rocket barrage at Jerusalem, told The Times of Israel that negotiations were still ongoing and no such agreement had yet been reached.

Several Hebrew media outlets quoted an "Israeli official" who also poured cold water on the report.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
both Israel and Hamas have vehemently denied reports of ceasefires to end previous rounds of conflict over the years, which nevertheless went into effect shortly thereafter.

The Haaretz daily on Tuesday night quoted another Israeli official who said that barring any last-minute surprises, a ceasefire would indeed likely be reached by Thursday morning.

"There is no decisive [win] and there likely won’t be," the official said. "Everyone is tired."

According to Channel 13, Hamas was seeking reassurances from Israel that it would not attempt to kill the terror group’s leaders during the ceasefire — a demand rejected by Israel — while Jerusalem was demanding the terror group hold its fire for several hours while it weighs the ceasefire offer, a condition rejected by Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier on Tuesday said the military operation, now in its ninth day, would go on "as long as needed to restore calm for the citizens of Israel."

The White House has so far resisted international calls for ramping up public pressure on Netanyahu. It has made the calculation that Israel will not respond to international resolutions or public demands by the US, and that its greatest leverage is behind-the-scenes pressure, according to the person familiar with the administration’s discussions.

Separately, a UN Security Council emergency meeting earlier Tuesday on the situation in Gaza ended without any result, four diplomats involved told The Times of Israel.

The closed-door session was the fourth in nine days held by the top UN body and came a day after the US blocked a joint statement calling for a ceasefire for the third consecutive time.

While the Norwegian, Chinese and Tunisian missions that initiated Tuesday’s meeting did so to increase international pressure for a ceasefire, two Security Council diplomats told The Times of Israel they weren’t really sure why another consultation was held, given that member states knew the US position had not moved in the previous 24 hours.

According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, at least 212 Paleostinians have been killed so far in the nine days of the conflict, including more than 60 children. It was not immediately clear if this ministry tally included all of those killed or if there were Hamas operatives not included in the count. According to the IDF, more than 120 of those killed were members of Hamas and over 25 were members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
as of Monday night.

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File under: Hamas

#1 Hezbollah seems rather quiet or is it just the usual filtering of the news by the Ministry of Truth?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-19 08:00|| 2021-05-19 08:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden tells Israel's Netanyahu he expects 'significant de-escalation' of Gaza conflict

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 11:39|| 2021-05-19 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Rashida Tlaib told Biden on tarmac he 'can't give right-wing Netanyahu billions each year to bomb schools with US-supplied weapons' and said Palestinian human rights are 'not a bargaining chip'

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-19 11:39|| 2021-05-19 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 ^
"Yes yes, my love, absolutely. I'm gonna give 'yahoo a good... tell you what, just leave it to Joe, dear."

[out of earshot, to SS detail]

"You keep that ¢unt away from me, you hear?"

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-19 11:52|| 2021-05-19 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Dear Mr. Biden,

Eff you with a rose stem.

Thank you.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-05-19 11:52|| 2021-05-19 11:52|| Front Page Top

#6 After Biden gives the Paleos money to buy rockets he demands the Israelis cease fire? Well, I guess we know whose side he's on.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-05-19 12:04|| 2021-05-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Netanyahu: I appreciate Biden's support, we will continue the campaign

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-19 12:17|| 2021-05-19 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 actually, on Monday 17 May, the US reached agreement with Israel on selling advanced precision weapons to Israel

the fact is that these weapons reduce civilian deaths and reporters ought to ask the Rashida Tlaibs of the world about that

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-05-19 12:44|| 2021-05-19 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Netanyahu: I appreciate Biden's support, we will continue the campaign

We interpret this to mean "F**k off, you silly twit. We're busy right now."

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-19 13:40|| 2021-05-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

#10 In fact, Bibi just raised the stakes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-19 15:01|| 2021-05-19 15:01|| Front Page Top

#11 See how IDF idiotic high profile actions does prevent Israel defence? The leftist anti semitic/western media could not be more thankful of IDF media dumbness. IDF gave the media 3 days news about a destroyed building. A building that to a common person have no apparent military value.

Posted by Unusing Platypus5935 2021-05-19 15:37|| 2021-05-19 15:37|| Front Page Top

#12 He can raise what he wants, Israel does not have resources for that.

Posted by Unusing Platypus5935 2021-05-19 15:38|| 2021-05-19 15:38|| Front Page Top

#13 any cease fire will merely be used by the seething hordes as a hudna.

when you are burning out a fire ant nest, you don't stop halfway through

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-05-19 18:29|| 2021-05-19 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 F off, thank you very much
- Bibi

Posted by Croth Hupomons4945 2021-05-19 22:34|| 2021-05-19 22:34|| Front Page Top