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| PM: Cabinet voted for more IDF pressure on Hamas; Israel to run Gaza security when Hamas gone |
| 2025-03-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Netanyahu insists that increased pressure is the only way to free hostages, says Israel is willing to negotiate ‘final stage’ of deal, would allow Hamas leaders to leave the Strip Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said ministers voted overnight to increase military pressure on Hamas, asserting that the methods were "working" to bring about a deal to free hostages held in the 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip. "It works because it acts simultaneously," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. "On the one hand, it crushes Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities, and on the other hand, it creates the conditions for the release of our hostages." The security cabinet last night voted to increase pressure on Hamas, the premier said. The vote was held as massive nationwide protests continued against his government’s policies on the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Elaborating on what he said were three Hamas "false claims" about Israel’s negotiating posture, Netanyahu said, first, that in contrast to Hamas assertions, Israel is continuing to negotiate, but that it this being done "under fire," which he claimed makes it more effective. "We see that there are suddenly cracks," he said, though Hamas has yet to agree to Israel’s demands for a new, extended ceasefire. Media reports on Saturday said Hamas had agreed to an Egyptian proposal to release five living hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire in Gaza. According to multiple media reports, this does not meet the demands of Israel, which is insisting on the return of 10 or 11 living hostages to resume the truce, based on a previous proposal by US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. Israel on Saturday confirmed it had received the proposal from mediating countries and sent a counterproposal "in full coordination with the US." Israel is also willing to talk about "the final stage" of a hostage release-ceasefire deal with Hamas, Netanyahu insisted, countering what he called the second Hamas lie about the negotiations. The prime minister had previously refused to enter talks on the second phase of a ceasefire deal reached in January, which would involve discussing the end to the war. Instead, he pushed for an extension of the first phase of the deal. Hamas refused, and Israel renewed intensive military operations throughout Gaza on March 18. "We are ready," Netanyahu said Sunday. "Hamas will lay down its weapons. Its leaders will be allowed to leave [Gaza]. We will take care of general security in the Gaza Strip, and enable the implementation of the Trump plan, the voluntary immigration plan." "That’s the plan. We’re not hiding it," he went on. Israel "is ready to discuss it at any time," he said, referring to the US president’s contentious plan, which triggered global outrage after Trump suggested the US "take over" Gaza and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East," while forcing its Paleostinian inhabitants to relocate to Egypt, Jordan or other countries. The third Hamas lie, according to Netanyahu, was that he doesn’t care about the hostages: "This is what Hamas puts in its propaganda films in order to create division within us," he argued. He said that Israel is "committed to bringing back the hostages," and claimed that the combination of military and diplomatic pressure is the only thing that has worked, and "not all the empty claims and slogans that I hear in the [TV] studios from the experts." The renewal of military operations in Gaza has sparked fears among hostage families that their loved ones’ lives will be in increased danger, as some captives were killed in captivity by strikes, or by their captors when troops appeared to be approaching their location. Addressing stepped-up attacks in Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... , Netanyahu said that Israel "respects" Lebanon and its armed forces, "therefore, we demand from them things that you demand from someone you respect." "Lebanon is responsible for what comes out of its territory, and it must ensure that... no attacks against Israel come out of its territory," Netanyahu said, apparently referring to recent rocket fire over the past week. He also thanked the US for carrying out strikes against the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , calling it "a big change." The US on March 15 launched a new campaign of ... KABOOM!... s against the rebel group after it threatened to resume attacks on "any Israeli vessel" in nearby maritime routes as a response to Israel stifling the flow of aid into Gaza. Though former US president Joe The Big GuyBiden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... also carried out strikes against the Houthis during his term, the campaign was more limited and targeted mostly at launch sites. Under Trump, American fighter jets and drones began bombing high-ranking Houthi personnel and denser city neighborhoods. "We always value alliances," Netanyahu said. "We have an alliance with the greatest power in the world, and it stands behind us there and in other arenas without reservation, and with the full appreciation of the citizens and the government of Israel." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ^ ACA JOE, everyone. Jooo-hating stupidity on parade |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-03-31 04:37 |
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| Posted by: Getton 2025-03-31 04:34 |