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Blinken says Netanyahu confirmed truce support, presses Hamas
2024-08-20
[ARABNEWS] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured him of support for a US proposal to bridge gaps on reaching a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
ceasefire, and pressed Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
to agree.

Following three hours of talks with the prime minister in Jerusalem, Blinken said that Netanyahu promised Israel would send a team to talks scheduled to resume this week, mediated by Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
''In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he confirmed to me that Israel accepts the bridging proposal. He supports it. It's now incumbent on Hamas to do the same,'' Blinken told news hounds later in Tel Aviv.

''What I would say to Hamas and to its leadership is, if it genuinely cares about the Paleostinian people that it purports to somehow represent, then it will say 'yes' to this agreement, and it will work on clear understandings about how to implement it,'' Blinken said, a day after Hamas accused Netanyahu of obstructing the mediation efforts.

Hamas had called on mediators to implement a framework outlined in late May by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented...
. The movement said the bridging proposal ''responds to Netanyahu's conditions'' and leaves him ''fully responsible for thwarting the efforts of the mediators.''

But Blinken said: ''The single quickest, best, most effective way to relieve the terrible suffering of the Paleostinians that was instigated by Hamas's attack on October 7 and the war that ensued is to complete this agreement.''

Blinken said he would travel Tuesday to both Egypt and Qatar and meet with the leaders of the two Arab nations, which have worked with the United States on a ceasefire plan.

He said he hoped to hear from the Arab partners the latest on Hamas's position and he played down the bully boys' criticism of the bridging proposal.

''We've seen public statements before where they don't fully reflect where Hamas is,'' Blinken said.
Posted by:Fred

#10  There were stories and film of Sinwar escaping with family to Egypt months ago.
Posted by: Xyz   2024-08-20 22:30  

#9  Hamas Rejects Biden DNC Ceasefire Deal

"Those protesters outside have a point."
/Joe Kamala
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-08-20 17:22  

#8  ^ "Israeli intransigence blamed"
Posted by: Frank G   2024-08-20 17:13  

#7  ^ Sad trombone
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-08-20 16:41  

#6  Antony Blinken Leaves Israel Empty-Handed as Hamas Rejects Biden DNC Ceasefire Deal
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-08-20 15:19  

#5  ^And lose.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-20 13:56  

#4  ^ I'd bet against that.
Posted by: Lord Garth    2024-08-20 13:35  

#3  ^Sinwar is in Egypt.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-20 11:44  

#2  probably there are multiple live hostages providing a human shield to Sinwar
Posted by: Lord Garth    2024-08-20 10:20  

#1  The bodies of hostages Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtab, Yoram Metzger, Haim Peri and Avraham Munder were recovered from Gaza.

It's much easier to keep bodies than live hostages.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-20 02:44  

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