Posted on 06/10/2024 6:26:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials have discussed potentially negotiating a unilateral deal with Hamas to secure the release of five Americans being held hostage in Gaza if current cease-fire talks involving Israel fail, according to two current senior U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials.
Such negotiations would not include Israel and would be conducted through Qatari interlocutors, as current talks have been, said the officials, all of whom have been briefed on the discussions.
The officials did not know what the United States might give Hamas in exchange for the release of American hostages. But, the officials said, Hamas could have an incentive to cut a unilateral deal with Washington because doing so would likely further strain relations between the U.S. and Israel and put additional domestic political pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
One of the former officials said the internal discussions have also taken place in the context of whether the possibility of the U.S. cutting a unilateral deal with Hamas might pressure Netanyahu to agree to a version of the current cease-fire proposal.
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to the region to discuss the latest attempts to secure a cease-fire deal. A senior administration official told NBC News that the Israeli raid to free the four hostages Saturday will likely make Blinken’s efforts to achieve an agreement and release the remaining hostages even more difficult.
Rescuing the Israeli hostages has only strengthened Netanyahu’s determination to continue pursuing military operations in Gaza, rather than committing to a halt in the fighting, the senior administration official said.
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Biden administration officials have discussed another gold shipment of please.
The Biden administration:
Capable of screwing up everything they touch
Incapable of fixing everything they screw up
Sure they are.
IOW, exactly what the Biden junta DID do, other than the "free U.S. hostages", because the BJ doesn't care about that.
Probably for pallets of billions in cash, thousands of weapons, missiles, jets, admission to NATO....
What is happening is that the Black President Barack Obama is exerting extreme pressure on the Biden administration to remove the burned Iranian chestnuts from the fire before they are totally burned up.
All this ancillary garbage misses the primary point. All that is happening in Gaza is the result of Iranian efforts to destroy Israel. Obama/Biden are on the Iranian take and it is now or never. The Black President Obama legacy must be saved at all diplomatic costs. Iran can not be cast out of Gaza and Syria and Lebanon.
Stop negotiating a cease fire.
Start negotiating a hostage release.
NAME THE AMERICAN HOSTAGES, *resident bidet!
Well! Rewarding them with a forklift pallet of gold will certainly discourage them from repeating the act!
There should be no deal with hostage takers unless it’s to get the hostages free and then enact swift justice on the kidnappers.
Jimmy Carter II
Kind of like how Chamberlain and Hitler negotiated the end of Czechoslovakia, without the Czechs even being present.
9 months later. Take your time dickheads.
So they’ve discussed maybe talking about it.
Bully for them.
L
Are the hostages still alive?
What ya gonna do dementia Joe.
Give hamas killers a billion or two?
Ya worthless mookabooker
What happened?
“We will give you whatever you want. You say you want Montana? You got it!”
~Joe Biden, probably
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