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“GET ME A DEAL!”
Powerline ^ | 3 Mar 2024 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 03/04/2024 7:55:02 PM PST by Rummyfan

That is what Joe Biden demanded of the Israelis, Hamas and representatives of Qatar and Egypt who are trying to broker a cease-fire agreement. As though he were the party in interest. The Telegraph interprets Biden’s motives:

Mr Biden is under major pressure from voters over the US alliance with Israel, and the president was punished at the ballot box by protesting young Democrats in the primaries last week.

So what would a proposed deal look like?

A potential deal could include a six-week pause in fighting, the release of approximately 400 Palestinian prisoners in return for the freeing of 40 Israeli hostages, as well as preparation for a gradual return of Palestinian citizens to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Why 40 hostages? Why not all of them? Why should Israel even discuss a proposal that does not include a total release of kidnap victims? And how about a Hamas surrender? Normally, when a country starts a war and then loses it, if it wants the fighting to stop it has to surrender. It is bizarre that some people take seriously the idea that Hamas should survive the war it foolishly started.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: ceasefire; corrupticrats; demagogicparty; egypt; fjb; gaza; hamas; israel; putinshisrolemodel; qatar; war

1 posted on 03/04/2024 7:55:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The World is laughing at us.


2 posted on 03/04/2024 7:57:58 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Rummyfan

Why is peace in one war (Israel/Gaza) so much better than peace in another war (Ukraine/Russia). Those people seem to be picking their battles, but peace is peace, and it is usually better than war. If one war should be stopped, they should all be stopped.


3 posted on 03/04/2024 7:58:05 PM PST by Bernard (Tax the Drug Dealers! Balance the Budget!)
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To: Bernard

Excellent post—you nailed it.


4 posted on 03/04/2024 7:59:54 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Bernard

Excellent post—you nailed it.


5 posted on 03/04/2024 7:59:55 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Bernard

It’s all about the Muslim vote - but you knew that …


6 posted on 03/04/2024 8:05:42 PM PST by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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To: Rummyfan
“GET ME A DEAL!”


7 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:16 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Rummyfan

Seems to me we once had the man who literally wrote “The Art of the Deal” in the office you currently occupy, Joe. The only deal you seem to be capable of negotiating is chocolate chip versus cookie dough.


8 posted on 03/04/2024 8:11:21 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: 11th_VA

Yeah, I knew that. Plus it’s about all their stinkin sympathizers.


9 posted on 03/04/2024 8:19:24 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Rummyfan

Holding hostages is a war crime.

They need to be released at once, unconditionally!


10 posted on 03/04/2024 8:25:50 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Rummyfan
Deal ?

How about .....
I got your deal right here !!

Some body gets mud stomped until they cry uncle and tap out.

and if anybodies buddies jump in ... then every body jumps in ...

11 posted on 03/04/2024 8:31:14 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Rummyfan

Satan is in two places at once...The pope and our illegitimate president at the same time....I pray this evil man rots slowly and feels every ounce of pain with never passing out.


12 posted on 03/04/2024 8:32:09 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: Huskrrrr

I don’t think they are laughing. I think they are recognizing that Biden is a headache for everybody, and they don’t know what’s coming next from this guy.


13 posted on 03/04/2024 8:34:16 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Rummyfan

A Handbook for Military Government in Germany was ready in August 1944: it advocated a quick restoration of normal life for the German people and reconstruction of Germany. Henry Morgenthau Jr. brought it to the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who, after reading it, rejected it with the words:

Too many people here and in England hold the view that the German people as a whole are not responsible for what has taken place – that only a few Nazis are responsible. That unfortunately is not based on fact. The German people must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan


14 posted on 03/04/2024 8:39:39 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Rummyfan
Give "ME" a deal!??

It's not about you, you petulant toddler.

15 posted on 03/04/2024 9:12:53 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Brian Griffin

Congratulations!
You have forced me to, for the first time in my life, agree with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
May he continue to rot in hell.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 9:18:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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