Ramesh #NotGoingBack
Just went back through some of my old posts from Oct and Nov from last year, and they felt surreal, especially the ones about #Iran repeating #Carter 1979 and #Netanyahu's intransigence — Both were obvious from the very early days of the conflict.
It is still shocking that we knew these 4 months ago
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⬆️There won't be a deal until after #US #Election2024
#Hamas is OK with more #Palestinians killed. Its main demand is that #Israel completely withdraw, failing which, they'd rather see more people in #Gaza killed than give up hostages.
#Netanyahu is OK with keeping fate of hostages in limbo. His main demand is Hamas be completely "destroyed" rather than just disarmed, failing which, he'd rather see more people in #Gaza killed than agree to a #ceaseFire.
He wants to #finishTheJob “a lot faster”
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⬆️ #Hamas clears the way for a possible #ceaseFire after dropping key demand that #Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war..
The phased deal would start with a “full and complete” 6-week cease-fire during which older, sick & female hostages would be released in exchange for 100s of #Palestinian prisoners, while #Israeli forces would withdraw from densely populated areas of #Gaza and allow the return of displaced people to their homes in northern Gaza
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⬆️ #Israeli forces push deeper into #Gaza City as #Hamas warns that escalation threatens #ceaseFire talks
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⬆️ #Israeli military orders the evacuation of #Gaza City
Israeli military urged ALL Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south
Israel says it is pursuing #Hamas fighters regrouping in various parts of Gaza
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Thousands of #Iran-backed fighters offer to join #Hezbollah in its fight against #Israel after Israeli officials threatened a military offensive in #Lebanon if there is no negotiated end to push Hezbollah away from the Israeli border
Over the past decade, #Iran-backed fighters from Lebanon, #Iraq, #Afghanistan and #Pakistan fought together in #Syria’s 13-year conflict. The Iran-backed groups say they could also join together again against Israel
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#Hezbollah has said it will not stop until there is a #ceaseFire in #Gaza.
#Netanyahu has said there will not be a cease-fire until #Hamas has been decimated and Israel has re-occupied all of Gaza.
#Hamas continues to hold hostages it shouldn’t have taken in 1st place
#Iran continues to laugh at the #Hamas-#Hezbollah pincer from its #AxisOfResistance.
#China and #Russia revel in their cunning, timed for #Election2024. #TimingIsNoCoincidence
https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-defence-chief-discuss-gaza-lebanon-us-trip-2024-06-23/
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⬆️ #Netanyahu says #Israel is winding down its #Gaza operations . But he warns a #Lebanon war could be next.
Netanyahu also said there is no end in sight for the war in Gaza.
He said that while the army is close to completing its current ground offensive in #Rafah, that would not mean the war against #Hamas is over. But he said fewer troops would be needed in Gaza, freeing up forces to battle #Hezbollah.
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⬆️ Both #Netanyahu and #Hamas have perverse incentives to keep the #Gaza war going despite the catastrophic toll and mounting anger that Israel has not yet reached its aims of returning the #hostages and defeating Hamas.
The families of hostages have grown increasingly impatient with Netanyahu as tainted by political considerations. A group representing the families condemned Netanyahu’s remarks, which it viewed as an Israeli rejection of the latest #ceaseFire proposal.
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⬆️ update
>> It is still shocking that we knew these 4 months ago
SEVEN months ago
Now voices in #israel are piling on.
We can’t let #Iran and #middleEast use a hostage crisis again and do to #Biden what Iran did to Carter in 1979.
Suggestion that Biden may be impeached for “abandoning American hostages” and withholding MOAB class bombs from Israel is deeply offensive
This #falseEquivalence must be forcefully rejected before it takes a life of its own 😡
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⬆️ The fate of the latest #ceaseFire proposal hinges on #Netanyahu and #Sinwar
In what can only be seen as a symbiotic interdependence, neither seems to be in a rush to make concessions to end the war and free #hostages taken by #Hamas in its #Oct7 attack
#TimingIsNoCoincidence #Election2024
Hamas has accepted the broad outline of the plan but requested “amendments.” Netanyahu has PUBLICLY disputed aspects of it, even though the #US has framed it as an #Israeli plan
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⬆️ #Netanyahu is ‘buying time’
Throughout the war, he has been criticized for letting personal political considerations get in the way of his decision-making.
His government is buoyed by two ultranationalist parties that oppose #ceaseFire deals. Instead, they prefer continuous military pressure to try to defeat #Hamas and free #hostages.
They also talk about “encouraging” #Palestinians to leave and reestablishing Israeli #settlements, which were dismantled when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005
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⬆️ >> #Netanyahu is “buying time”
“I wish that he would be a statesman and do what is right for Israel. We all love #Israel,” former House Speaker Nancy #Pelosi said recently on CNN. “We need to help them and not have him stand in the way of that for such a long time.”
Tensions between Netanyahu and #Biden have been seeping into the public.
As of now, no meeting between the leaders during Netanyahu’s Washington visit has been scheduled.
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