The US is continuing to push for an agreement, as Israel is gripped by protests over hostage deaths.

Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he’s preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be “final”.

They’ve hewn very close to the whole “unconditional support” thing, so I’m curious what that means exactly.

  • MisterScruffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    If only Biden had some kind of leverage he could use on Bibi like putting conditions on arms exports oh wait he completely refuses to do that so this is just bs rhetoric

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, I’m not sure what the plan is if they turn down the “final” offer. The last time the US bluffed, that I know of, was the red line in Syria, and that involved a place Americans don’t care about, and would have involved another American war in the Middle East to respond to.

      I find “China’s final warning” and actual consequences for Israel equally unlikely. Is there a third option?

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Yeah, I’m not sure what the plan is if they turn down the “final” offer.

        You’re not? The plan is to enable genocide no matter what.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Biden probably means that Netanyahu hasn’t murdered enough children, and will follow up by sending more weapons.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I’m honestly seeing parallels to how there Milosevic had a limit for how long he could delay a cease fire

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Just a historical comparison I’m making based on the Wikipedia articles for the Kosovo War.

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

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

        A NATO-facilitated ceasefire between the KLA and Yugoslav forces was signed on 15 October 1998, but both sides broke it two months later and fighting resumed. When the killing of 45 Kosovar Albanians in the Račak massacre was reported in January 1999, NATO decided that the conflict could only be settled by introducing a military peacekeeping force to forcibly restrain the two sides.[50] Yugoslavia refused to sign the Rambouillet Accords, which among other things called for 30,000 NATO peacekeeping troops in Kosovo; an unhindered right of passage for NATO troops on Yugoslav territory; immunity for NATO and its agents to Yugoslav law; and the right to use local roads, ports, railways, and airports without payment and requisition public facilities for its use free of cost.[51][35] NATO then prepared to install the peacekeepers by force, using this refusal to justify the bombings.

        It took years of fighting, but eventually both sides’ refusal to sign a ceasefire was used as justification for NATO to neutralize the military forces in the region.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Oh, I see. I thought you meant they gave Milosevic a specific 6-month deadline or something.

          If this was a conflict pretty much anywhere else, I think it would have gotten the standard UN ethnic spat protocol from the get-go. Instead, we’re at least back to the 90’s in international law.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    He added that the US would not give up, and would “push as hard as we can” for a deal.

    If denying future arms shipments isn’t on the table then this statement is a lie

  • NeuronautML@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Oh it’s final this time. 5 more years of this and Israel will see their supply drying up, you know, maybe, possibly.

    Oh, oh, now you done it, that’s another 10000 children. You’re very very close to the limit, mister. You better watch out or, you’ll get slighly less aid next time! We’re not kidding this time.

  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Lmao I read that as “Biden not doing enough to secure Gaza hostage deal, says Biden,” and got real confused.

  • Sunforged@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    “You’re not doing enough, so here’s another 10 billion in arms funding. You have to spend that in America though because I am very upset with you Bibi.”