This is the best summary I could come up with:
Concern about the captives — two of whom Israel said were found dead — along with the rising number of Palestinian civilian casualties have steadily increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
After initial hesitation, the Biden administration, under its own domestic pressure between advocates of unstinting support for Israel’s war aims and concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, has fully backed a temporary pause in the fighting.
Beginning with President Biden’s trip to Tel Aviv a week after the war began, and followed by multiple visits from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, the administration has pushed hard with Netanyahu to understand that it is losing the narrative high ground as more Palestinians die.
Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council’s top Middle East official, is on an extended trip to the region to try to solidify the hostage release plan, including meetings in Israel and Qatar.
McGurk told the conference that Hamas’s release of a “large number” of the hostages, believed to total 239, “would result in a significant pause in fighting and a massive surge of humanitarian relief.
Those remarks drew an angry response from Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who interpreted them as signaling that a pause allowing humanitarian relief would come only after the hostages were released unconditionally by Hamas.
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That’s such wonderful news.
Of course Joe Biden won’t get a lick of credit for it from “progressives”, Hamas apologists and Israel bashers because he didn’t try to force an immediate ceasefire on Bibi. He knows how diplomacy works and got it done.
Hamas still needs to be obliterated.
You sound like a shithead by the way you put quote around progressives.
they said “hamas apologist” we we know for fact they’re an asshole
Just because someone calls themselves progressive doesn’t make them one. Sometimes they are just trying to sell bad ideas, like you are now.
What Idea did I sell? That people who put quotes around a word to point out something is fake?
You’re the one selling the idea that Hamas is a bunch of tagged enemies in a video game quest that blares out “Mission success” when you kill enough people.
Hamas; like the Taliban, is an idea. Trying to put this flame out with indiscriminate violence is like fanning the coal in a kiln. Fanning with more intensity only going to strengthen the fire.
You and people who don’t get this are calling progressives fake. Whereas the reality is that Israel either doesn’t understand this, or they simply don’t care about collateral because Netanyahu just wants to empty the contents of his closet into the rubble created by the IDF in gaza when everyone is distracted. (I am holding out hope as apparently, bibi’s approval is down).
The only idea that any conservative of any religion is selling around the world right now is that Muslims are procreating faster than any other demographic and this is a cause for others to scrutinize and curtail this.
Be warned: Fear is one of the main things that causes men to commit atrocities.
Centrists found their equivalent of GWB apologists’ “terrorist sympathizer” and they’re gonna keep using it against progressives until it stops working.
Hamas; like the Taliban, is an idea.
FFS. Hamas are terrorist assholes who rape and murder in the most vile ways. They represent no one and especially no ideas.
Of course Joe Biden won’t get a lick of credit for it from “progressives”
I’ll credit him, provided this turns out to be what it says on the tin.
But hey, you’ll keep calling anyone to the left of Joe Manchin a hamas apologist.
Make the cease fire all about you and your dumb opinions.
I’m sorry, is this not a place to express your views?
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Hamas still needs to be obliterated.
Well that’s one way to waste time and human lives.
