After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
A global diplomatic edifice that keeps the #Palestinians in a permanent holding pattern of misery stemming from defeated #Arab war efforts, where the Palestinians themselves weren’t even always the central actors in the descent to war or the principal combatants who lost them, is unlike anything the international community has attempted in other conflicts.
They [the West] are our enemies. Let’s all create possible difficulties for them in the economy, to stir up public discontent with the ineffective policies of the Western authorities, to develop and promote international solutions that infringe on the interests of the Western world. Let’s do this constantly, systematically and as openly as possible. And also let’s carry out other activities on their territory that are not publicly discussed.
#Hamas, which is still believed to be holding more than 100 #hostages seized in the #Oct7 attack, says it will not free them unless Israel agrees to end the fighting and withdraw from Gaza. Israel says it will not withdraw until Hamas is eradicated.
(But reality check: #MikeJohnson said he doesn’t want to pass #BorderLegislation because he doesn’t want the Biden admin to be able to take credit for it & because he wants to keep the issue alive for the 2024 #election.)
Based on the frequency and cadence of #migrant#caravan stories on our southern border that ebb and flow as political fortunes rise and fall, I'm tempted to coin a new hashtag #PermanentBorderCrisis in a continuation of the theme covered by #PermanentStateOfWar
Arabs have said they will recognize Israel as long as there is a path to an independent #Palestine, where the two exist side-by-side.
For #Bibi to harbor ambitions to get #Palestinians to flee so that Israel can move in permanently would not only be illegitimate, it would be a grievous folly
Opposing #TwoStateSolution, Bibi said #Israel “must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River… That collides with the idea of sovereignty.”
This has gone on for too long and can't be unilateral. This HAS to end with an #InternationalSecurity arrangement
2023-12-23
At a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for a ceasefire, hostage deal, impeachment of the government and equal rights from the river to the sea.
#US SecState #Blinken said it's “important to understand why the #pause came to an end. It came to an end because of #Hamas.
Hamas 'reneged' on commitments it made.
…even before the pause came to an end, it committed an atrocious #terrorist attack in #Jerusalem, killing 3 people, wounding others, including #Americans.
It began firing rockets before the pause had ended.
And…it reneged on commitments it made in terms of releasing certain #hostages”