Finally Seeing Movement Toward A Gaza Ceasefire As Biden Moves Out Of The Way by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-01-16 at 04:42:47 )

Finally Seeing Movement Toward A Gaza Ceasefire As Biden Moves Out Of The Way by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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There are still a lot of things that could go wrong at numerous steps along the way, but it is something, which is more than we have seen for the last 15 months.

It looks like we are closer to a Gaza ceasefire deal than ever before. There are still a lot of things that could go wrong at numerous steps along the way, but it is something, which is more than we have seen for the last 15 months.

As Antiwars Dave Decamp has noted, both AP and CBS News are reporting that Hamas and Israel have agreed "in principle" to the terms of a ceasefire, set to be rolled out in multiple tentative phases the details of which have yet to be fully nailed down. According to AP, the current deal would allow Israel the option of resuming its onslaught after a 42-day pause rather than moving on to the second phase of peace deals.

So it is very, very far from perfect. But it is something.

Report: Israel and Hamas Agree "in Principle" to Ceasefire and Hostage Deal

According to media reports, the deal on the table does not commit Israel to a permanent ceasefire by Dave DeCamp-DecampDave #Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #Hamas #GazaCeasefireNow "please see here:" - Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) January 14, 2025

Though Biden and the Democrats are of course trying to take credit for these developments, according to Israeli media this sudden rush of movement after 15 months of stasis has been the result of pressures and negotiations from the incoming Trump administration.

According to the Israeli outlet Haaretz, president-elect Trumps middle east envoy Steven Witkoff called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office on Friday to tell him he was coming to Israel to discuss ceasefire negotiations. Netanyahus people tried to tell Witkoff that it was the middle of the Sabbath so any meeting would need to be postponed, but Witkoff replied that the Sabbath was of no interest to him and demanded the meeting anyway. Haaretz reports that Netanyahus aides were taken aback by the bluntness of Witkoffs response.

According to a report from the Israeli outlet YNet, Trump was able to persuade Netanyahu to agree to the deal by assuring him that he could back out of it at any time, along with pledging to remove sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers and the Israeli spyware firm Pegasus. So it is not as though Trump has taken a strong position against Israel; he is just doing something instead of nothing.

The deal that is in the works is reportedly almost the same as the one Hamas agreed to all the way back in May of last year, which Netanyahu sabotaged with the complicity of the Biden regime. Biden could have ended this nightmare back in May, or indeed at any time since it began in October 2023.

It is not a surprise to anyone honest or clear-eyed, but it will make left-liberals utterly confused and lost:

Israeli media and Netanyahus closest allies are adamant that Trump forced them into a cease-fire deal for Gaza they did not want, something Biden never even tried: "please see here:"
- Glenn Greenwald (ggreenwald) January 14, 2025

Ever since the genocide in Gaza began it has been an open question whether the Biden administrations facilitation of the slaughter has just been standard United States empire depravity, or an evil that would only have occurred under Biden. The fact that we are now closer to a ceasefire than ever before, reportedly due to pressures exerted by Donald Trump, suggests that the latter could be the case. It suggests that these 15 months of human butchery could only have occurred under a dementia-addled lifelong Zionist surrounded by Zionist puppeteers.

Trita Parsi wrote months ago that Bidens completely unconditional facilitation of every Israeli demand is historically the exception rather than the norm under United States presidencies.

If Donald Trump does in fact wind up presiding over a de-escalation in the genocidal atrocities in Gaza, this will have been officially confirmed. It will be a proven fact that a Biden presidency was the worst thing that could possibly have happened for the Palestinian people.

That for 15 months a psychopathic apartheid state was essentially left unsupervised to do what it has always wanted to do to the Palestinians in ways it never could have under any other circumstances, resulting in unfathomable horrors we will still be learning details of for years to come.

I am still not sold on the idea that Donald Trump will bring even a relative amount of peace to Gaza. I will need to see this reflected by the facts on the ground throughout his term. But if those facts prove what it seems they might prove, it means that Biden was an even bigger monster than anyone realized, and that anyone who supported his election was indisputably wrong to do so.

Just something to be aware of.

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