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'Very close to ceasefire, hostage deal', says Blinken
2025-01-09
[GEO.TV] 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 on Wednesday that 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 a rusty 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 remained close, but reiterated that it may not happen before President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
hands over to Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
"In the Middle East, we're very close to a ceasefire and hostage deal," Blinken told news hounds in Gay Paree.
There he goes again.

PM’s office denies reported proposal of truce in exchange for list of living hostages

[IsraelTimes] Israel denies a report in Lebanese media that talks for a hostage-ceasefire deal are examining the possibility of a truce lasting six to eight weeks, during which Israel would receive a list of the names of all the living hostages.

In a statement, the Prime Minister’s Office calls the report “a complete lie and another part of the psychological warfare that Hamas is trying to inflict on the hostage families and on the citizens of Israel.”

“Israel will continue to work around the clock and tirelessly to bring all of our hostages home,” it says.
Posted by:Fred

#13  Just waiting on Jimmy Carter to approve.
Posted by: Airandee   2025-01-09 16:36  

#12  Zeno's paradoxes
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-01-09 15:47  

#11  How close? Like, week and a half close?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-01-09 13:59  

#10  I thought that the Iranian funds that the State Department unfroze paid for all this slaughter. I didn’t realize that Tony was the protagonist of this chapter of history. My bad.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-01-09 11:30  

#9  Zeno's paradox comes to mind
Posted by: Sputer McCoy1791   2025-01-09 11:29  

#8  Sure, Lord Garth. But the rumour said Israel would pause that long for just a list of the living.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-09 09:29  

#7  getting all the hostages back in return for 6 weeks ceasefire would probably get a least 70% approval in Israel
Posted by: Lord Garth   2025-01-09 09:23  

#6  I read diplospeak as dildospeak. Dyslexia has its own humor.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2025-01-09 09:19  

#5  ^..having killed the... I Need more caffeine obviously.
Posted by: magpie   2025-01-09 05:34  

#4  Diplospeak for anything short of the parties haven't killed and eaten the negotiators...
Posted by: magpie   2025-01-09 05:32  

#3  The Bidet admin will burn Israel down to get a cease fire. They need to point to something, ANYTHING, as an accomplishment. I thought I couldn't hate these bastards more, but I was wrong.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2025-01-09 05:23  

#2  ^He's just trying to get something for the "Palestinians" before he's gone.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2025-01-09 04:10  

#1  Yea, yea, yea, how many times has he said that over the years?

I'll wait until it actually happens and I'll bet when it does happen, it'll be because of Trump, not Blinkie, Biden or do nothing Harries.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2025-01-09 03:44  

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