After failing to destroy its opponent anywhere in Gaza, and instead murdering art least 100,000 innocents, has Israel been dragged to the negotiating table to deal with Hamas?
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It seems possible that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been presented with a fait accompli.
Hamas operatives have been cropping up in north Gaza – a place Israel has been trying to ethnically cleanse for months – to fire missiles Israel didn’t know they had into Israeli territory, past the so-called “Iron Dome” defence screen that was supposed to have been created specifically to shoot down these weapons.
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Israel’s policy of indiscriminately murdering Gazan men, women and children seems to have backfired badly, creating a huge recruitment pool for Hamas. It’s the cycle of international destruction in microcosm:
First, a group of extremists is targeted by ‘allies’ of western powers.
Civilians die.
Those who are left become angry at the destruction of their friends and relatives’ lives – and their own.
They become radicalised and join the extremist group in order to strike back.
Isn’t that what we’ve seen here?
And now Hamas has called for a ceasefire, putting to the side all the sticking-points that Israel has previously said meant it couldn’t happen.
So now Netanyahu is allegedly scrabbling around for an excuse not to do it, because his government’s supporters have said they will abandon him if he does not continue the attempted purge of the Palestinian territory in order to hand it over to settle-colonial invaders.
This would once again underline the claim that Netanyahu has never intended to rescue any hostages or have them returned via negotiation, which will look bad among the western countries that have backed Israel.
So the optics are terrible, as far as he is concerned.
Sadly, history indicates that this won’t make much difference to the tyrant of Tel Aviv.
Oh, but Donald Trump has said he wants peace in Gaza before he is sworn in as US President on January 20. That should concentrate everybody’s minds wonderfully.
Here’s a video clip by Damo that puts everything in perspective for you:
Amid increasing ceasefire talks, today marks the 466th day of the Israeli genocide against Gaza.
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The Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres against Palestinian families in Gaza, killing 61 Palestinians and injuring 281 others who were transported to hospitals over the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave.
This brings the total number of Palestinians killed by “Israel” in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 46,645 martyrs alongside 110,012 others wounded, the Ministry confirmed.
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