Posted on 02/19/2024 8:33:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Talks between Hamas and Israel seem to have reached a breaking point. Hamas is demanding more aid for northern Gaza and Israel is demanding a release of all remaining hostages. Neither side seems to believe progress is possible at this point. But as of Friday, Joe Biden was still talking as if some sort of breakthrough could happen and explicitly warning Israel not to invade the southern city of Rafah.
US President Joe Biden on Friday appeared to caution Israel against launching an operation in Rafah while hostage negotiations were ongoing, in his administration’s latest warning over an Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city.
Asked at the White House whether Israel has presented the US with a plan for how it will protect civilians in the IDF’s planned operation for Rafah, as he again urged on Thursday during a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden responded, “I’ve made the case, and I feel very strongly about it, that there has to be a temporary ceasefire to get the hostages out, and that is underway. I’m still hopeful that can be done.”
But it appears Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't interested in taking Biden's advice. Saturday, Netanyahu announced Israel was still committed to a total victory over Hamas and that meant an invasion of the southern city of Rafah was coming. This afternoon, Biden responded by announcing he would take his plans for a ceasefire to the United Nations.
Joe Biden is pushing for a United Nations vote on a “temporary ceasefire” in a break with the Israeli government as its troops prepare for an assault on the city, in south Gaza.
In a draft resolution, the US warns that a ground offensive into the city, where more than one million Palestinians are sheltering, would have “serious implications for regional peace and security”.
The move comes as Israel has rebuffed efforts by frustrated Western allies to call off its planned invasion of Rafah, the only remaining city controlled by Hamas.
This is quite a reversal for the US and you have to wonder if Biden isn't finally giving in to the progressive activists who've been demanding a ceasefire for months. Many of those people are younger Democrats who Biden needs if he's going to win the election later this year so some kind of moderation of his pro-Israel stance seemed inevitable. Not everyone is happy about it though.
Richard Goldberg, a former NSC official during the Trump administration, told Fox News Digital, "The United States should be vetoing pro-Hamas resolutions, not proposing them. By putting forward a resolution calling for a ceasefire and opposing Israeli military action in Rafah, the White House is effectively pushing for Hamas to survive to massacre another day. This is a complete betrayal of U.S. interests and values."
I'm not sure what Biden thinks the endgame is here. Hamas has already vowed to continue attacking Israel. If Hamas militants and leaders survive in the tunnels under Rafah they will take the first available opportunity to rebuild the organization and start planning the next attack. Meanwhile, the US is expected to veto a rival ceasefire plan put forward at the UN by Algeria.
The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Tuesday on an Algerian push for the 15-member body to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said diplomats, a move the United States signaled it would veto...
"The United States does not support action on this draft resolution. Should it come up for a vote as drafted, it will not be adopted," Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement on Saturday.
Supposedly the US was vetoing the Algerian plan in order to allow time for sensitive negotiations over the release of hostages. But if the US is calling for a ceasefire at the same time, it seems clear we're not actually that optimistic about the negotiations.
Just what Israel and the world really needs, Obama’s sage
leadership with a Biden filter on it.
FJB he is just a kenyan muzzie in disguise.
Kill them all , God will sort them out accordingly.
Preserving Hamas rule is a Biden (Obama) priority.
HAMAS has the duty to release the hostages as soon as it can.
Holding hostages is a war crime.
The release of the hostages is not a matter for negotiation.
Israel has the natural law right to rescue its people.
There were temporary ceasefires in the past.
There was a never-ending, unconditional duty under international law to free the hostages from the very second they were snatched.
Cowardice, like rust, never sleeps. All the tendrils of the two-state fairy tale are poisonous excuses for cowardice
Should be how much ammo do you need.
The Biden administration is reportedly taking its goal of a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war to the U.N. Security Council as early as Tuesday.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-un-security-council-force-230049183.html
According to Reuters, the U.S. text states in part that it “determines that under current circumstances a major ground offensive into Rafah would result in further harm to civilians and their further displacement including potentially into neighboring countries.”
-—Only-— Israel, it seems, is prohibited from causing displacement of others to neighboring countries....
A senior administration official speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity said, “We don’t believe a rush to a vote is necessary or constructive and intend on allowing time for negotiations.”
Biden is right. It will have major implications for peace and security. By flushing out the remaining Hamas terrorists, Israelis will finally have peace and security, and the world can turn its guns on the Houthis and their Iranian masters.
Damn gang of assclowns want toto protect their brothers in their koanic assault of Israel.
Let’s start with the roots of engagement. Who attacked who on the 7th in a carefully prepared attack.
What’s prompted the attacks on Israel? The koranic belief structure.
Whatever happens to Israel happens to the west.
The koranimals need to be shut down. Funding of the UN and it’s Islamic premise needs to be changed.
Fubo, fjb.
Why will they find something there that implicates them in the funding of Hamas by this administration?
Any area made off limits for hostage rescue is where Hamas will keep hostages. Once again, Biden is enabling Hamas.
Is the Democrat Party the Anti-Christ? (only half joking)
Just move the civilians “temporarily” to Egypt until the offensive is over. And then offer them either residence within the Arab world or they can go back to Gaza, with a new government which does not want to kill Jews.
Sounds pretty simple if you ask me.
Captain America to Tony: "We need a plan of attack."
Tony putting on the Iron Man gear: "I have a plan. Attack." and then flew straight out to confront.
I took that from fiction to show how we should be dealing with Jihadist lunatics opposed to the criminal usurper regime's throwing money at them and kitten mewling. Now they've certainly provided Iran the last it needed to achieve nuclear weapon capability and are probably torn between their quasi-religion's command to destroy Israel with them and the reality that they would, in turn, be pounded to atoms themselves if they did that.
Good for Western civilization that courage has never been a dominant quality in the Moslem world. Nearly all of their so-called contributions are a lie and their backward mindset depends on leaching off the more intelligent societies they infect.
Here’s my summary of the Israeli conflict:
Israel: Hamas committed atrocities against us. We’re going to wipe them out.
Pretty much the entire western world: Go for it. We’ll help.
Israel: starts wiping out Hamas.
Pretty much the entire western world: NOT LIKE THAT!!!
Disclaimer: I could not care less about this conflict, one way or the other.
Biden has no endgame past trying to juggle all of the conflicting interests of the various extremist factions that comprise the Left’s base.
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