Our tax dollars and weapons are supplying this never-ending siege/genocidal massacre of Gaza.
Netanyahu’s intentions are clear. He wants to kill as many Palestinian people as possible. Except he, the IDF, and most Israelis who are not protesting him in the streets (many are), don’t seem to see Palestinians as people.
IMO, we need to end all military and monetary aid to the aggressor state of Israel now.
www.washingtonpost.com/…
A Hamas delegation left negotiations in Cairo over the weekend to consult its leadership in Qatar. Israel did not send a delegation to Cairo, an Israeli official said. CIA Director William J. Burns was also in Doha, Qatar’s capital, on Sunday to prevent the talks from collapsing, according to an official briefed on the talks. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.
The latest proposal, submitted to Hamas last week, includes an initial 40-day cease-fire, during which Israeli troops would suspend combat operations and withdraw from populated areas. Hamas would begin releasing hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, at the same time.
Hamas wants a permanent end to the war, a demand that Israel rejects.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for holding onto “extreme positions,” saying said that Israel had shown willingness in negotiations. He accused Hamas of “holding up the release of our hostages.”
Israel’s planned offensive in Rafah is another sticking point. The Biden administration has expressed concerns about such an assault, warning of a “disaster” scenario. On Monday, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for Israel’s army, said approximately 100,000 people were ordered to leave the southern Gazan city and move to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the nearby Mawasi area as part of a “limited scope evacuation operation.”
More than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering in Rafah, many of whom were displaced by fighting in the north earlier in the war. Aid groups have repeatedly warned of increasingly dire humanitarian conditions and said there is nowhere safe to go.
Kind of hard to have talks when one side doesn’t even show up.