The US secretary of state has arrived in Israel for 11th-hour talks aimed at shoring up a deal for a lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, amid signals from Israeli and Hamas officials that a breakthrough may not be as close as international mediators had suggested.
Antony Blinken flew into Tel Aviv on Sunday as part of Washington’s renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 10-month-old conflict, negotiations seen as even more urgentafter last month’s back-to-back assassinations of a top Hezbollah commander and the Hamas political chief, Ismail Haniyeh.
It is hoped a ceasefire would lower the temperature in the Middle East and dissuade Iran and Hezbollah from retaliatory action that could cause the war in Gaza to slide quickly into a region-wide conflict.
I don’t think the Israeli right is interested. If you have the stomach, go listen to Gadi Taub’s analysis on the Quillette YouTube channel (I’m not going to link it, but if you go searching, content warning). They see this as the first episode of a multi year war with Iran. I would be honestly very surprised if Blinken gets what he wants.
If they strike first, they’re on their own, right? Right?
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Wikipedia about this sourceNothing against Blinken but has he even settled some type of war or skirmish for other nations?
He doesn’t want to end it. He is a dual citizen.
He works for Netanyahoo. Not the US president.
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It is hoped a ceasefire would lower the temperature in the Middle East and dissuade Iran and Hezbollah from retaliatory action that could cause the war in Gaza to slide quickly into a region-wide conflict.
I mean, I feel.like if Israel stopped launching missiles at them and stopped committing a genocide in Gaza, the chances would improve…
This is like Russia complaining they’re being invaded.
Fuck a cry bully.
The whole thing feels farcical. How are we struggling to get negotiators to agree to a proposal they originally suggested while they are entirely reliant on us to do the thing that we’re asking them to stop doing?
I feel like one must have a humiliation kink to do Anthony Blinken’s job.
What a useless person.
How many times he visited Tel Aviv?
He achieved nothing.Maybe he just like a travel, financed by the public.
Biden pretty much picked this guy for his stance on Israel.
It’s why I think a ceasefire will be signed before Biden leaves office.
Literally no one besides Biden would support Israel this hard and this unconditionally, so there’s no way any other US president would get Israel as much as they want in any ceasefire.
They’ll probably run it all the way to December tho, it’s not happening soon.
Literally no one besides Biden would support Israel this hard and this unconditionally
Oh come on.
Name one other past president or someone you think could hypothetically be president that would support Israel more.
Biden spent 50 fucking years in politics saying nothing would ever make him lessen let alone cease aid to Israel.
It’s a blank check and that’s what they’ve been acting like, while constantly insulting Biden for any delays.
Hell, he went around congress to give them weapons for genocide? Did you forget already?
It was going to pass anyway, but Biden didn’t want to wait.
He’s not even out of office yet, don’t start the revisions it shit already
Dubbya, Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Trump…if you go further you have Nixon…
All of them would support Israel more without a second thought. The only guys that I can imagine having a softer Israel position would be Obama and Carter.
All of them would support Israel more without a second thought
All of them at one point or another cut off weapons/aid to Israel so they’d back off and not commit a full blown genocide…
Biden hasn’t, and he won’t.
That’s where he’s different. And I don’t know why people won’t listen to him when he says this.
Do you think he’s lying?
I added some links to look at in case you are trying to argue in good faith, there is no point in continuing this exchange.
A bunch of YouTube links and an accusation that I’m somehow arguing in bad faith…
For what reason I have zero idea.
Yeah, there’s no point in seeing any of your comments again.
All of those videos except Trump seem to be critical of Israel, not supportive.
Dude is racking up some serious frequent flier miles.
Israel squashed any remaining chances at a ceasefire when they assassinated one of Hamas negotiators in a 3rd country.
Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire because otherwise why would they give up their only leverage for a temporary one?
Israel won’t agree to a permanent ceasefire because they just want the gaza problems to be “”“solved”“” once and for all and they do t care if they have to kill the hostages to do that.
