Posted on 08/20/2024 7:41:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Representatives of the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas condemned the terms of an alleged “bridging proposal” to move it towards a ceasefire with Israel on Monday.
Hamas representatives told various media outlets that the provisions U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that day were a “coup against” a previous Hamas-friendly proposal Israel rejected.
Blinken was in Israel on Monday to discuss what he called the “last opportunity” for an end to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ongoing self-defense operations in Gaza, Hamas’s stronghold territory used to launch the unprecedented October 7 attack on the Israeli homeland. Reaching a ceasefire agreement this week would grant President Joe Biden and his political party a major diplomatic victory to tout during the ongoing Democratic National Convention (DNC).
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Joy!
Blinken was there to sell out the Israelis in an effort to make Harris look good. Glad he failed.
Unfortunately, Israel’s only path to real peace is to eliminate hamas.
Israel just recovered 5 more corpses from the 115 remaining “hostages”. So we are down to 110, are any even alive at this point? I suspect this is the stumbling block.
Funny how Trump basically had all the powers in the ME getting along and willing to cooperate under the Abraham Accords, but that put a choke hold on the useful commie idiots and military-industrial complex and their revenue stream.
This is the ONLY reason Blinken went over there!
Nobody pays any attention to Blinken.
I can’t wait until this barrel of snakes packs there shit and GTFO.
I don’t think that Netanyahu wants to give the Democrats/Biden a victory. I think he prefers Trump in the White House.
True. A complete waste of time just to say they tried. Blinken is as slimy as they come.
Blinken was there to sell out the Israelis in an effort to make Harris look good. Glad he failed.
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Imagine how much of our tax money was put on the table to buy a quick deal to make Harris look good? That was the sole purpose of this whole trip.
Ain’t giving up those hostages, if any are alive.
Face it. There can never be a true peace in the area as long as Palestine or Israel remain distinctive political entities. Americans have no insights or ability to negotiate or impose a solution. American involvement in the Mideast is a quagmire. Even if America needed the oil, it would always find a way to our shores because the Arabs either sell it or starve. How much more American blood must be shed and treasure squandered in this pit?
Hamas/Palestinian leaders have been playing that game for decades.
Recall that BJ Clinton thought he had brokered a deal between Israelis and Arafat. Just before signing to finalize the document, Arafat walked out.
As long as foreign money keeps rolling in, H/P have no desire for ceasefires or peace treaties.
Blaming Trump in “three, two, one,......”
The IDF believes 35 more are dead. Could be even more. The only way to get them back, dead or alive, is to keep the pressure up, eliminate terrorists, weapon depots, assassinate leaders and search and destroy tunnels.
OK English majors, who is empty handed, Blinken or Israel?
In the mean time, Israel recovered about six hostage bodies in a surprise raid on a Hamas tunnel.
The dead were mostly elderly, but their cause of death was not revealed.
The deal should be this: Proof of life of each hostage will get Ham-Ass 2 days of cease fire per living hostage.
Hamas, or any other variation of Islamic zealots have no interest whatsoever in something the west calls, "Peace".
Islam is only satiated when blood and guts fly. It's what they do. It's what they have been doing for a thousand years. What they call peace, is really the constant slaughter of anything they decide they don't like.
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