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Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘extraordinarily generous’ ceasefire deal
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I don’t see how this is even particularly generous. It’s a 40 day slowdown in genocide and an agreement for Hamas to release prisoners in exchange for Israel temporarily releasing hostages that historically they just re-abduct within days anyways. And then after 40 days it’s full speed ahead of civilian slaughter again, probably with a freshly regrouped and re-armed IOF.
You're looking at this wrong -- neither Bibi's government or Hamas care about Palestinian deaths.
Hamas very much cares about Palestinian deaths. Which is why a 40 day ceasefire and then more Genocide is pointless.
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If by unhinged, you mean logical and accurate, then yes.
Israel temporarily releasing hostages that historically they just re-abduct within days
Can you explain this or link something? I know Israel imprisoning Palestinians for years without charges is monstrous but I haven't heard of them doing this after prisoner exchanges.
I could have worded it better. I’m not necessarily saying that Israel will re-abduct the exact same Palestinians within a few days, but rather than Israel is constantly taking hostages. Israel could agree to release 100 hostages, but what’s the point when they’ll end up abducting 200 more the following week. It’s why prisoner swaps with Israel heavily favor Israel, they see hostages as a renewable ressource.
Oh I see. I wonder if they increase arrests after prisoner exchanges, I'll have to look up the numbers if they're available. I see your point though Israel is constantly imprisoning more people so the exchanges aren't exactly equivalent. The difference between hostage and prisoner is complicated though, it's basically just the accusation of some crime, Hamas doesn't really claim the people they take have done any specific crime but most of the time Israel doesn't either because they hold people without charges so it is very similar.
An article telling us about the extraordinarily generous offer should include what the terms are in a bullet list....
The idea is to generate anti-Palestinian outrage while hiding details that could allow individuals to understand or make their own considerations.
It's the Washington Examiner. It's just barely not a tabloid.
Apart from anything else, you know this is a bad deal because David Cameron likes it.
A 40 day ceasefire.... The original offer was 6 weeks... That's 42 days....
There is no point for Hamas to engage with any of these fake ceasefire deals. Either a permanent ceasefire is offered or it's pointless.
The Biden Propaganda train is off the charts.
Biden doesn't know his arse from his elbow, he just says what the Neocons in the CIA tell him to
I don't fucking know that 'generous' is the right word, considering both the terms and the fact that this situation is from Israel pursuing genocide.
But I also don't know how much better they can get in their position.
Gods only know what the strategically wise choice is here.
The depressing alliteration of the day: generous genocide
surely leaflets will be dropped of incoming artillery fire and distribution of aid to civilians and helping the ones injured , in a genocide
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Yeah, and I'm sure they're dumb enough to fall for it the eighth time. Israel's definitely done genociding this time, they pinkie promised they won't come back and finish the job in another two decades when everyone forgets again. If only Hamas could be more reasonable and just accept Israel's incredibly generous offer to return to the status quo of Israeli settlers stealing Palestinian land and killing them when they protest!
If only Hamas could be more reasonable and just accept Israel’s incredibly generous offer to return to the status quo of Israeli settlers stealing Palestinian land and killing them when they protest!
As opposed to the current situation of Israeli settlers stealing Palestinian land and killing them even when they don't protest?
Fuck, the solution to being a captive who believes they will be killed isn't to put your captor's gun to your head and tell them to pull the trigger. If you're operating off of the assumption that a ceasefire is unacceptable short of Israeli capitulation to Palestinian demands, regardless of how justified, despite the fact that they have overwhelming superiority at this point in time and are on the cusp of completing their long-awaited genocide... I don't really know what the fuck to tell you.
If you read my comment and seriously came away with the idea that I support what Israel is doing, I don't really know what the fuck to tell you.
That's not what I'm accusing you of. I got that you're pro-Palestinian, very clearly. I'm saying that Hamas is not in a strategically good situation, and if your opinion is that any ceasefire offers should be categorically refused by Hamas unless Hamas's demands are met, despite Hamas currently being in a very bad position relative to Israel forces, and the intensified state of the Israeli genocide, you're not being realistic.
Any ceasefire that is accepted will necessarily favor Israel at this point, because Israel controls half of Gaza completely and is on the cusp of starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to death. Not to mention the damage done to Hamas's material capacities to resist. I don't know that accepting this ceasefire is the right strategic choice, but I am certain that "Continue fighting until Palestinian independence is achieved in this phase of the Israel-Palestinian conflict" rather than accepting that not every battle is won in a decades-long war is just suicide on a national scale.
but right now, Hamas is actually getting what it wants for the first time ever. People are now actually demanding an end to the Israeli apartheid, even though the genocide was happening long before October 7th. They're no longer suffering in silence, there are members of the West that support Palestine now. That is a massive, massive difference compared to conflicts like the 2014 Gazan War or the many Intifadas, where Israel committed many of the same war crimes today but faced zero consequences internationally for them.
At the same time, the West has the memory of a goldfish. If Hamas cedes now, and we do the dance of both sides planning up for a future conflict again, how can Hamas trust that they'll receive Western support again? How can they know they won't be villified, and Israel won't get away with just committing more warcrimes on them? How do they even know there will be a next time, that Israel won't strike first next time and exterminate all that remains of Palestine, after another few years of illegal settlements concentrates the population even further?
Their best bet is to maintain the current conflict for as long as possible, and hope that international support doesn't just require Israel to agree to a mutually beneficial ceasefire, but also that international support adds some guard rails to prevent such force from being used against Palestine again. You're correct that it's unreasonable to think that this conflict will end with a two-state solution, or really any solution at all. That doesn't mean Hamas should accept a spit in the face, which is exactly what the current ceasefire terms are.
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despite Hamas currently being in a very bad position relative to Israel forces
Hamas barely lost any top ranking officers. Meanwhile israel is losing international support at lightning speed.
The only one with their backs against the wall right now is israel. If they aren't going to come through with a Palestinian state then Hamas doesn't have much to lose right now by just dragging israel through the mud further.
If they aren't going to come through with a Palestinian state then Hamas doesn't have much to lose right now by just dragging israel through the mud further.
That's an interesting take. I think more Palestinian deaths would be a pretty significant amount for Hamas to lose. Seems like you're not at concerned about the genocide as you pretend to be.
They think that October 7 was targeted legitimate resistance. They're not exactly the most moral poster on here.
They'd have to be stupid to take this deal lol
If I was in politics or was looking to get into politics in the future, I would be trying to get arrested publicly for this. Look at the people who got arrested during the civil rights movement.
If I was Hamas I would give Israel the finger and laugh at them. This is not an offer in good faith.
Biden is worried about the optics of the genocide he is fully supporting, but he isn’t really doing a damn thing to stop it.
Biden was just barely going to be able to eek out a win under the best of circumstances before this started, now however I don’t think he can win the election, specifically because of his full gung ho support for this genocide.
And the fact that he is calling the protestors anti semites is completely laughable.
Biden isn’t going to take any real concrete discernible action to stop a literal genocide and that is going to cost him this election.
And whoever wins the election is also going to support the genocide. But I guess if Trump wins it will be the biggest genocide, the best genocide. Everyone will be saying it.
(From Hamas’ point of view the only acceptable compromise is a total end of the hostilities on both sides. Any temporary solution will only allow Israel to continue the genocide after the 40 days)