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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Blinken urges Israel and Hamas to move ahead with cease-fire deal
By MATTHEW LEE, SAMY MAGDY and SAM MEDNICK JERUSALEM©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
33 Comments
GuruMick
Netanyahu should invade Raffa by himself
Yrral
Worst person in the world
sakurasuki
No rush, let's take look first is there any two states solution being written or just another rush to avoid two state solution?
Aly Rustom
Blinken put pressure on Hamas, saying it would bear the blame for any failure to get a deal.
What a joke this guy is.
Neither my friend. Just a desperate attempt to save his boss's job.
Gaijinmunkey
What's the point? Israel has already said they won't honour any ceasefire and go ahead with their plans to continue the invasion regardless. There's only so many times you can wag your finger at someone who keeps doing misdeeds to before everyone loses respect for you, but America wants everything Israel has to offer so we're just gonna let this genocide happen until it's all done and a people and culture are wiped off the map I guess.
Chabbawanga
This makes 0 sense. Netanyahu has said that he will go ahead with a Rafah invasion regardless of a ceasefire deal. How can you agree to ceasefire that your opponent is quite clearly stating they will totally ignore?
Chabbawanga
My guess would be so they can say "LOOK LOOK! Hamas rejected another ceasefire. That means we can invade Rafah"
Chabbawanga
What are you on about?
bass4funk
I think Israel should do everything humanly possible to uproot and dismantle, hobble and destroy Hamas’s ability to sabotage to hurt, harm or kill any Jew, they should follow their own timetable and not adhere to any threat coming from this administration as a sovereign nation.
Chabbawanga
I think Hamas should do everything humanly possible to uproot and dismantle, hobble and destroy Israels ability to sabotage to hurt, harm or kill any Gazan*,
Why is it only ok to say one of these things and not the other?
Sanjinosebleed
Blinken the proud Zionist saying it will be Hamas's fault if there is no cease-fire while his war criminal friend Netanyahu confirms Israel won't honour any ceasefire...yeh this guy has loads of credibility...not!
VoiceOfReason
I think Hamas should do everything humanly possible to uproot and dismantle, hobble and destroy Israels ability to sabotage to hurt, harm or kill any Gazan,*
Why is it only ok to say one of these things and not the other?
It is called war. There are always casualties in war.
Hamas started this. Israel will end it and not move to the beat of anyone's drum but Israel's.
How many times must it be mentioned that the Palestinians support Hamas? How many times must it be mentioned that Hamas uses its supporters as human shields?
Why is it okay? Any loss of life is a tragedy, but consider this. Group A slaughters people on October 7th, kidnaps, rapes women and beheads babies. Group B wants to ensure this never happens again and pledges to eradicate Group A. The person asking why is one thing okay but not the other is Person X who is not in the middle east and is upset because Group B refuses to simply back off to appease Person X.On a side note, America should take a long, hard look at all these anti-Semitic protests on college campuses. These our your future leaders America.
plasticmonkey
Unless you’re a NATO ally. Then you should do as you’re told, or else. ; )
Biden has been too soft on Israel. Defensive weapons are one thing, 2,000 pound bombs are another.
elephant200
Too late Mr.Blinken, you missed the golden opportunity long tome ago.
Again and again you shoot down the calls of ceasefire and your vetos of cease fire resolution in United Nation security council has angered many countries. For six months you have done nothing or making pointless claims. Do you really know what is diplomacy in a world crisis, I doubt you know anything. You will be remembered as the worst secretary of state in America's history and so does Mr.Biden the worst POTUS !
WatanabeBuddha
As if Hamas and the global Muslim lobby will agree to anything that doesn't constitute the self-genocide of the Palestinians. Nevertheless Netenyahu must crush the Muslim revolt with whatever it takes, and India will be fully supportive all the way through.
GuruMick
No "beheaded babies " and this is not a "Muslim revolt " by Hamas.
Details are often lost in a partisan rush.
UChosePoorly
Chabbawanga - many of my countrymen, mostly Republicans, don’t think that a Palestinian is equal to an Israeli, or a Ukrainian to a Russian.
These are the same folks who fought for Jim Crow tooth and nail. They believe in hierarchy, not equality.
plasticmonkey
Oh, nice.
Modi is supportive of the marginalization of Muslims wherever. Thanks for reminding us.
Chabbawanga
Of course they do. Hamas is a resistance movement against Israeli oppression,. the natural response to mass murder of men women and shilcren is to rally around the people who fight back against the oppressor.
How many times must it be mentioned that Israel used human shields, proximal human shields, by building their army bases in civilian areas and moving a festival to a new location between where they knew the Hamas fighters would attack and their known targets. they also have a long history of using Palestinians as coerced human shields in both Gaza and the West bank. Would you criticize the French Revolution for operating out of civilian areas, or would you rather they built a big club house with 'revolutionaries here, please dont bomb us' ?
Chabbawanga
Sad
JboneInTheZone
It doesn’t matter how many times you mention it people here just choose to ignore it. People in this thread are calling for a two state solution when polling of Palestinians themselves indicate they don’t even want it. This comments section is just a way for people to virtue signal
JboneInTheZone
So if Israel was to totally get out of Gaza, and leave the entire management of the area and its resources to the Palestinians you believe they would leave Israel alone? What do you think “from the river to the sea” means?
zibala
israel will continue to do what is best for its country.Hamas terrorists keep using civilians as human shields. The best solution is for the Palestinian Arab occupiers to leave Gaza so that Israel can clean out the territory of the remaining terrorists.
bass4funk
As they should.
wallace
That is what Israel has wanted for decades including the West Bank. It won't happen.
WoodyLee
NO POINT in releasing the hostages if Netanyahu will continue with his Genocide, might as well keep them till he understands what means to have a ceasefire.
Chabbawanga
So make Gaza into a slave state, where Israel get to dictate the exact terms under which Gazans can exist. Or Perhaps kick them out completely. Or maybe even just kill them all. The US wouldnt say a thing.
The right of self-determination for all Palestinians. Freedom to build, freedom to work, freedom to trade, freedom to travel. The same rights all humans deserve. No human should live under the shoe of some other "chosen" race.
WoodyLee
Netanyahu is playing the Rafah card but as usual he is a bad player, 3 times so far he played similar cards in 2 in Gaza city and one in Khan Yunis and what did he accomplish? NOTHING , and now he is playing the Rafah card and he will get NOTHING again.
Netanyahu better start negotiating genuinely or just leave office so others can,
Hamas will not agree to a temp. ceasefire, they are not stupid to fall into Netanyahu traps and have proven it very well so far.
starpunk
A ceasefire deal is great but Nutty Yahoo already said he wants to hit Raffa anyway. You can't depend on him for anything.
Make no mistake, Israel did not start this sick war. Hamas is guilty as hell; they committed the grossest offenses that October weekend. But with Nutty Yahoo as PM, his wild aggressive actions of murdering innocent Gazans with no concern is destroying what credibility Israel had; and the sympathy is evaporating - fast.
In order for any cease-fire to work, if it CAN - Israel has to impeach and toss out that Crazy Clown, now. Israel has every right to defend itself from this unwarranted war but they have the wrong man in charge.
wallace
Netanyahu and his brutal attack and destruction of Gaza with 30,000+ plus dead has turned the world against Israel which is being expressed across the globe, especially in Europe and the US.