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Blinken says Israel agrees to U.S.-backed proposal for cease-fire and calls on Hamas to do same

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Why is the world number one arm dealer involved in a cease fire deal. It ironically. The USA is the cause why there no cease fire as long as the arm dealer keep supporting the pariah enclave in arms there will not be a cease fire.

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not optimistic hamas will agree to any deal.

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Jews do not want any accountability for Palestinians death,so the world should make them.accountable by any legal

mean necessary,they are only interest in the interest of Jews

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An Israel-Palestine article and GuruMick hasn’t posted yet? Something must be wrong

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The ceasefire scam continues. Blinken goes to Israel with a plan deliberately designed to be unacceptable to Hamas, claims that Netanyahu has accepted it and demands that Hamas accepts it. Hamas rejects it, then a few days later Netanyahu admits he didn't accept anything. Meanwhile the mass murder, starvation, sexual torture, land theft and genocide continues.

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So the world should make them.accountable by any legal mean 

There's thing that currently is on going.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/26/uk-wont-challenge-icc-arrest-warrant-request-for-netanyahu-gallant

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""In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he confirmed to me that Israel supports the bridging proposal," Blinken told reporters. “The next important step is for Hamas to say ‘yes.’"""

This is NOT a negotiation, this is just a discussion, Mr. Blinken is a FAILD negotiator and should just stay away from this matter. He has done this so many time already, a complete FAILURE.

You don't just come out and say Israel has agreed without completing the deal, the only statement that should be made is WE HAVE or DON'T HAVE an AGREEMENT.

Without two signatures you have NO AGREEMENT Bro!!

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J Bone...thanks for thinking of me....

Interview with a former head of Shin Bet {spelling ?} , former Cabinet Minister and former head of Israeli Navy was instructive viewing this morning.

He restated Netanyahu's previous deviousness when Netanyahu supported Hamas as a way to divide and rule Palestinians by driving a wedge between Hamas and Palestinian Authority.

Sort of reminded me of US support for the Mujahidin in Afghanistan {Holy Warriors , POTUS said } , as a proxy force against Russia.

The Israeli interviewee had written an op ed piece early in the war calling for Netanyahu's removal and the creation of a Palestinian State.

He also said had he been born Palestinian, he would have joined the resistance to Israel.

Over the years many ex Military Chiefs in Israel have called for a 2 state solution, including a joint letter signed by many ex Generals .

Sadly, current Israeli opinion polls have 60% of Israelis opposing a 2 state solution.

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You don't just come out and say Israel has agreed without completing the deal, the only statement that should be made is WE HAVE or DON'T HAVE an AGREEMENT.

Why? Announcing that one side has agreed to terms places pressure on the other to agree to terms as well. If they don’t then criticism should rightly be levied their way (assuming the terms are fair)

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Reminds me the song "Here I go again on my own, going down the road I have ever known" by white Snake.

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Bob..."assuming the terms are fair "

The disparity in power from one side to another makes me think of a customer trying to deal with a bank or insurance company.

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The disparity in power from one side to another makes me think of a customer trying to deal with a bank or insurance company.

Well to be fair, Hamas doesn’t have a lot of bargaining power right now. They’re losing and generally the losing side has to concede more when it comes to peace terms.

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@Bob

""Why? Announcing that one side has agreed to terms places pressure on the other to agree to terms as well.""

WRONG, not only once or twice but three time already and it hasn't worked yet.

Hamas and Israel are not ready for Peace, and why should they for as long as their supporters the U.S. and Iran keep supplying them with killing Machines.

This is the 9th and last trip for Mr. Blinken with ZERO accomplishments to end the war only more guns for Israel, and so we have to wait for the next Sec. of state, hopefully a better NEGOTIATOR, but I am not holding my breath.

Goodbye Blinken and have a nice trip back home.

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WRONG, not only once or twice but three time already and it hasn't worked yet.

I disagree. It not working doesn’t mean that it doesn’t place pressure on the party that hasn’t accepted terms.

Hamas and Israel are not ready for Peace,

I agree with this but not for the reasons you listed. Israel has no need for peace. They’re winning and continually making settlement gains in the West Bank. Hamas and the Palestinians have no desire for peace as the international community has wrongfully deceived them into thinking that any resistance to Israeli terms will ultimately land them back at the 67 borders. Right night I’d say the onus is more on the Palestinians to compromise as they’re currently losing

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UK Courts hearing a matter accusing Israel of war crimes and plaintiffs/applicants seeking an end to UK selling arms to Israel.

Small steps in the right direction.

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Great news .Well the situation has change overnight. If the Jew don,t agree to term today then Russia is arming the Houties with long range blastistic missiles. If the Houties get hold of those missile you can say good by to the pariah enclave. Yeah properly start off a world war but one thing will be sure of, there be no jew left in Palestine.

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When Blinken travels outside the country, I don't know if he's going to fix things or make things worse...

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In the next episode...

Israel: "We agree to this proposal"

Hamas: "We don't"

Everyone: bUt IsrAEL geNOCIde boohoo!

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Something for Chair Net to consider which he won,t. Some very interesting figure come out over night that will shed a better light on Palestine. Since 7/10 over 1 million jews have fled into the USA where only 17 Palestinians have entered the USA. There no special restriction place on the Palestinian on entering the USA. This shows that the Palestine are still willing to face the genocide then desert their home land. where the Jew as bolted in the million.

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Blinken is a Jewish Zionist! Fact!

How can he be considered an impartial negotiator?

Hamas already agreed to the UN ratified ceasefire proposal put forward by Biden in June, but Netanyahu the war criminal scuppered that! Now Blinken is trying once again to make the Palestinians look like the bad guy while supplying weapons and unequivocal support for Israel to continue killing babies! He should be removed from Office!

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Blinklen is just your every day arms dealer, he only there to improve sales.

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That's naive and for the garbage can. I personally don't expect that they still have living hostages, so that 'deal' can't be working right from beginning. And that's also why one easily presents it, the next quickly accepts and the third cannot do anything but disagree.

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The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas-led militants broke into Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others. 

War? The usual suspects are still gaslighting us with this false narrative that they continue to use as propaganda to justify the mass-murder of women and children and the abduction and torture of thousands of Gazan males amid the devastation and obliteration of Gaza as a place where human beings can live. Coincidentally, in a sad contrast that gives the lie to these 10 months of brainwashing, the Russians and Ukrainians are showing us what a real war looks with the US and Europe arming the weaker side in ironic contrast to their utter contempt for and abandonment of the helpless Palestinian civilians, victims of a butchery nobody could have imagined being witnesses to in the 21st century. Our "lying eyes" make it impossible to believe that the horrors of Gaza and the West Bank we have been watching for close to one year is "war" when those of us who have read a history book recognize Gaza as rhyming with the "Warsaw Ghetto". Signs are the November election is now putting pressure on the Dems to tack to taking a firmer line with Netanyahu and concentrating his mind to stop the killing because a new Harris administration can't afford to have Biden's Gazan albatross still hanging around its neck.

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John -

Since 7/10 over 1 million jews have fled into the USA where only 17 Palestinians have entered the USA. There no special restriction place on the Palestinian on entering the USA. This shows that the Palestine are still willing to face the genocide then desert their home land. where the Jew as bolted in the million.

You do understand that Palestinians cannot leave Gaza, right? The Egyptian border is closed off. There is no way out. How on earth would they be entering places like the US? It is not a case of being "willing to stay to face the genocide" at all.

Please, think things through before posting.

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IMI systems founded 1933 did not contribute not one bullet to the Allies during the duration of the 2nd world war. So why are the USA in so deep with the Jews???? . Why arm the only entity that refuse to contribute to the war effort, attacks and kill 36 USA marines on the USS Liberty??? These question need to answered. peel back the band aid to expose rotten puss and maggots of blackmail.

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No wrong West Bank via Allenby Bridge. Can also cross the into Egypt by the Rafah Crossing but will not receive refugee status. So wrong again Fighto.

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There is no ceasefire deal! This is Blinken gaslighting the Western so called innocent world that they are close to making the deal. Joke of the year! Netanyahu has already said No! And as is typical it will be all Hamas’s fault.

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So, if the deal basically is that JSIP gets to keep kidnapping civilians in Gaza, murdering them in the rest of Palestine, continue to beseige the world's oldest refugee camp, gets to keep most of the hostages it was holding on October 6th, and has taken since then, gets to declare that the deal has been broken by Palestine whenever it wishes to commit more mass murder, and Palestine refuses to accept it, that's Palestine's fault according to Blinken???

He's not even trying to make the first part of the con to blame everything on Iran plausible to anyone but the people who already blame everything on Iran, is he.

I guess when the Iranian President is someone who bought an American con job and so is going to see through this one, why do more than go through the motions.

On the plus side, cutting the operating costs of the American Navy by a third during an 'intervention' will make the next American government budget a little smaller.

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My observation only....one of the problems with Israel and society is the ever present narcissism and overblown sense of importance and entitlement Israeli citizens possess.

Israel is a very small country, with a small population of Jews , but looking at the hold on the western Governments and press/media, you would think we were dealing with a super state like China, India or the USA.

Australians dont walk around with a "born to rule "mentality, thinking the sun shines out of their butt.

Reading comments by readers in the Israeli press one is struck by the absence of any consideration that Palestinians are equal to Jews in value as human beings.

And obviously no acceptance of even the idea that Palestinians deserve a homeland in the same way Jews say they "deserve " Israel.

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So Blinken has a "discussion" with one side only, asks for no concessions or hard decisions from them, then has the gaul to try and put the onus on the Palestinians to come to the "give us everything and we'll give you more bombs" party...

Who is stupid enough to but this hypocrisy?

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