Absolutely insane that the "Peace Agreement" would formally allow a return to war crimes. Wouldn't that be proof in writing that they have been committing genocide?
Israel thinks it has the right to inflict monstrous abuses on anyone who does not support their behaviour. What they are doing to Palestinians is what they will do to anyone who crosses them anywhere. The people of Gaza are unlucky enough to be living on land that those zionists who consider themselves supreme beings, above everyone else on the planet, consider to be theirs. Eventually the zionists will decide that the entire world is theirs for the taking.
could we be more precise than the bullshitters... it helps I assure you, to be surgical, it fends off more of the incoming bullshit from the mofa. Also it gives room to the ones not being 100% guilty. I just think that the old perpetual killing cylces tend to be too easy to keep going when not being careful. I would go for a majority, and a range of responsibilities to be investigated if there was any one with good faith about international jusice and humanitarian moral compass that is not self-blinded by some hierarchical valuation depending on the human group ID. Am I sane. I prefer long form paragraphs.. it makes for less punchy stuff I know. but it might age better.
can you develop on the difference. This is not my native language. I don'T like to always use the same words. I meant propaganda practitinners (that might include all sorts). Let me try. Bullshitter does not have to be anything as long as it is not adressing a question, the gaslighter might be making sure one is stuck in an answer and actually believes it? soemthing like that?
I guess you would be right in this case, the public relation profession is not satisfied with any bullthit. it has to be transmissible once drop onto our minds from the media transmission...
That is not an argument nor rational justification. It is simply an obstinate unwillingness to recognise or even attempt any understanding of a situation that cannot be summarised in the simplistic way you have done.
It is even worse when someone makes statements such as yours but does so under a pseudonym or other form of anonymity.
No, all sane people don't know that for it isn't true. Total or even broad generalisations rarely are. In this case, any real understanding of the history and evidence will show that it is Zionists who are responsible and guilty and probably the majority if not all of them. There may also be Jews who are not Zionists, I don't doubt that likelihood but all Jews - no, that is certainly not the case. Many Jews are on record in opposition to Netanyahu, his cabinet and the actions taken against the Palestinian people.
In any case, rarely is there ever a single culprit and, in this case, the whole history of this conflict is long and complex. That Israel - in the sense of a nation-state, (despite it being a manufactured one because Jews are a religious group, not a nation) - is responsible for genocidal intentions and activity so brutal that it rivals that of the National Socialists in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s cannot reasonably be doubted. However, even then, there will be many Israeli people who do not condone what the nation has done, just as there were Germans who did not agree with National Socialism, particularly after Hitler achieved dictatorial power and things changed from restoration of pride and prosperity to the tragedy and disaster of war, persecution and continuous suffering for most.
yes but Germany in second world war at least did not want the world or its population to know what it was doing during Holocust. Zionist Isreal is boosting about it and the whole world sees what Isreal is dong.
yes the brain wshing of Isreal pop from birth onwards is part of problem 74% of pop in Isreal thought Isreal had not gone far enough. There have been trips to view the genocide songs about killing palestine babies.Isreal is a very sick country.There must eventually be consequences.
I just think at some point Humanity has to discover its moral compass. When it does Isreal must be held to account for what it has done to Palestine Mary. The worlds population particularly the young have seen what Isreal is doing which is blatant genocide. They are the future,
When genocide is occurring right in front of our eyes, in real time, and only a temporary "Ceasefire" is called, after 2 horrific years and is violated just a few days later, and people argue that the people who have been starved, genocided and denied their rights, freedom and land for 77 years and counting are totally at fault, you know we are living in a truly messed up world.
All I can say is that America practices overseas what it later brings ashore here. The fact that no one stepped in to stop genocide practiced by America against Gaza does not bode well for US citizens in the future.
No one? Bernie Sanders has been trying to build a majority to stop shipping arms to Israel (something he first mentioned in 1988) and starting from scratch, his last effort got the majority of 'Democrats to vote on halting weapons shipment. So long as we are blind to those actually working to stop Israel, they will fail for lack of support.
We can write books about the ways in which Sanders has come up short on Israel and US militarism in general. He’s similar to Israel itself, in that his messaging and part-measures are indicative of a larger story being purposely hidden by confusion. On the surface he’s one of the “better” US politicians.
A vote that got most Democrats to vote for stopping arms to Israel is hardly a half-measure; it is the only way that Israel will stop the war. He is acting effectively while you hurt the cause by taking the same line as AIPAC in denouncing him. Shame on you and all who do not support the effort to block US arms to Israel.
Caveat: I'm not in the US and don't have much understanding about their political system. But don't we have to stop pretending there are only two possible parties available, and that they are somehow different in some way?
I am certain that your rage is valid and your sentiments honest but your focus if flawed. You are directing your ire at the wrong people, i.e. those who, in fact, are largely of the same mind as yourself in relation to the gross malignancy and wrongness of Israel's actions and the USA support for them.
Yes and many individuals have protested, written letters, lobbied, posted or commentated in online platforms and such. However, the comment related to the genocide, i.e. what began after 7 October 2023 and was not about "trying" or attempting to bring about change but rather that once it began and throughout its continuance for two years, "no one stepped in to stop genocide..." That is the truth. The reality, whether we like it or not, is that only those with power and influence are able to take grand actions such as is central here. Most of us can stamp our feet, shout in the street or deride the deceit but simply don't have the power, influence, status, position or control to do much more than that.
I and millions of others are not "blind to those working to stop Israel", quite the contrary, however few, if any of us can "stop the genocide." If you wish to criticise then please focus on those who do have the power and don't use it - not least the 'leaders' and/or governments of other nations of the World and most particularly, Donald Trump and the cowardly, self-interested Republican politicians and others who have continuously funded and armed Israel and protected it from sanction for several decades and several times at the UN during the last two years.
Sadly I regard the US (the regime, not the citizens) as an equal participant in this genocide and general racist, superiority over all other nations/groups on the planet. Zio 'Israel' and zio US are one and the same and equally evil, it's just that one is right there, doing the killing while the other is doing the cheering. This is nothing new.
Not really as that suggests Israel and the USA are not the aggressors, are not going for a Greater Israel when the likes of Netanyahu and Smotrich say they are and folks like the American Zionist Adelsons who have financed Trump's political career say they. There is no confusion.
"The world should be aggressively punishing the state that is committing genocide until it stops. That would be true peace. What we are seeing now is just a bad joke."
It is all a bad joke--the genocidaires are sadistic clowns that need to be locked up for life. It is time for the Uniting for Peace resolution that President Petro proposed to be voted on by the United Nations General Assembly. It would allow the UN to form an armed protective force to make sure aid gets into Gaza and elsewhere. The US and Israel cannot be trusted to stop their own insane killing spree in Palestine--the Uniting for Peace resolution is the only solution that will work. Write your UN reps today: https://lifelineforpalestine.com/un-letters
The peace deal is not about peace (an occupied country with a naval blockade (an act of war) is not at peace and everyone but the gullible public knoww Hamas has never agreed to disarm short of stathood, which Israel adamently opposes. So this is a trap door peace agreement, akin to the deal Chamberlin made with Hitler, which was celebrated as "Peace in our time" but was actually an appeasement that allowed Nazi Germany to build up its forces of violence and then attack, without the West being prepared, having fallen for the false fake.
According to international law, genocide committed by one state must be stopped by all other states. A state that vetoes other states from intervening is complicit in genocide. And states that accept a state's veto demonstrate their acceptance of genocide. These are the facts.
No kidding! What a bunch of BS. Genociders need to stop genociding, its victims need food and aid. The war crimes continue, as expected, under this bogus peace agreement.
Sadly the rationale today from our friends, Caitlin and Tim is all too obvious to the readers and commenters on these pages. Doubt if we will see one dissenting voice.
BUT, we are not dealing with rational human beings over there in genocide country and everything that is happening each day is all part of the plan. It was never expected to be any other way. We know that. Well that is my opinion and I for one had absolutely no doubts in my mind that all this 'pausing" is designed to build up a case against Hamas so that they can say "the break is over" so its on with the killing as before.
But the explanation from Caitlin is needed in order for us to reinforce our own thinking on this subject. Its also shows the totally ridiculous explanation by Israel of the Hamas non-compliance with the original document.
All this is not for the likes of us. It is designed to create another variation so that the Western media can say, "well, Israel gave them a chance for peace and they blew it".
Count on it. Next step, next week and off they go again
The majority of American, according to recent polls, disapprove of Israel's war, and of the Democrat, 92% disapprove, with a Majority calling it genocide. Unfortunately, it is the Republicans running the show, but that could change in 2026. The American view is based on the imagry of the destruction in Gaza broadcast by the media.
The problems is, that the 92% Democrat voters against Israel is inversely proportionate among elected Democrats. Rank and file Democrats don't get any of that AIPAC $$ like the greedy, corrupted reps and senators do.
ISRAELI GENOCIDERs and their ALLIES always see their victims as the guilty ones ,because Israel has anointed themselves as the perpetual victims of an all Anti Semitic World, but the fact is, it is the other way around ,and Israel has been very successful in playing the Permanent Victim because of their power, influence Control, and the best propaganda Machine that money can buy along with the 100% Blind faith and full support of the most powerful Nation on Earth America whose leader has now lost their Moral compass ,Empathy and Decency, So the ONUS" NEVER on ISRAEL ,its always on their Helpless Powerless weak Victims who has no power, no Influence, no way to Air their side of the Story because it must ALWAYS be About ISRAEL, So Israel is always the Good guys, and Arabs ,Muslims, Palestinians, Christians and most Gentiles are always the bad guys Fact is Zionist paint themselves as ANGELS,GODS CHILDREN and the CHOSEN ONES, the only thing they are Chosen for is to carry out the the DEVILS work as the world has been seeing non stop around the clock 24/7 in real time for the past 2 plus years.
Remember to "'Beware of those who say they are JEWS and are not ,but are of the SYNAGOGUE of SATAN."
That's exactly right, Caitlin. Just as you say, it is never legitimate... "...to intentionally deprive civilians of humanitarian aid that they need to survive. You have to give them aid. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants because you decided they crossed some sort of line into a forbidden zone. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants at all.
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In the same way, in the context of genocide, and of a criminal occupation of another’s territory by a force of overwhelming power, is using the language of “ceasefire” even appropriate? It seems to me that the language of “ceasefire” is entirely misplaced here.
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A “ceasefire” is something that is agreed upon between two parties of more or less comparable strength, as, for instance, tends to occur the case of actual wars. Which this is not. This is a systematic long-run genocide, in which the genocidal party, for entirely its own purposes, occasionally announces a temporary slow-down in the intensity of the genocide, before then cranking up the intensity of the genocide once more.
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Observably, from the record of Israel, of this genocidal party’s actions, these temporary slowdowns in genocidal intensity never amount to even a brief intermission, never mind the “ceasefire” which they advertise them as.
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There is no more possibility of a genocidal state and the target of genocide arriving at mutually negotiated terms of settlement that there is of an abuser and their victim “negotiating better relations” between them. The abuser, for their own reasons, may defer their abusive actions temporarily – especially if those criminal actions are getting too much attention from authorities who should be intervening – but they will never stop of their own accord. And they never stop due to “negotiations” with their victim.
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The situation here is not greatly different. Just as in many communities, abusers in a position of power are permitted by the local authorities to abuse their victims all they want as long at they don’t make it too obvious while the authorities are around, just so, in the context of Israel and the Palestinians, the genocidal party, Israel, will temporarily crank up the volume, or crank down the volume on the genocide, if there is some momentary threat of intervention by an outside authority. The moment that authority looks away, they will return to abusing their victim.
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Nothing will cause Israel to desist from this conduct other than an intervention by outside forces in some manner or other. To pretend otherwise is entirely magical thinking.
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It’s understandable, of course, that Hamas wishes to think of itself as an autonomous entity with the capacity for self-determination and the capability to fight for its people’s rights. And, therefore, it will never accept the blunt fact that negotiation with its abuser is a meaningless concept that has no actual referent in the real world.
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All that is ever possible for Hamas and for the Palestinians is the political theater of negotiation, with all its supposed ups and downs, and stops and starts, and reboots – that is played out by Israel and the U.S., on the world stage, for all it is worth, as a distraction game – while the real-world program, the actual project, which is genocide, is carried forth relentlessly.
How about Israel looks for its own corpses? They’re the ones who buried them under bombed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals. They know it will be impossible to locate them which is why they demand it. Any excuse will do to resume the assault. You’d have thought they would have taken more than a few days off from killing and starving but no.
Absolutely insane that the "Peace Agreement" would formally allow a return to war crimes. Wouldn't that be proof in writing that they have been committing genocide?
All sane people know that Israeli Jews are 100% guilty of warcrimes and are proud of it.
Israel thinks it has the right to inflict monstrous abuses on anyone who does not support their behaviour. What they are doing to Palestinians is what they will do to anyone who crosses them anywhere. The people of Gaza are unlucky enough to be living on land that those zionists who consider themselves supreme beings, above everyone else on the planet, consider to be theirs. Eventually the zionists will decide that the entire world is theirs for the taking.
That is shockingly true.
could we be more precise than the bullshitters... it helps I assure you, to be surgical, it fends off more of the incoming bullshit from the mofa. Also it gives room to the ones not being 100% guilty. I just think that the old perpetual killing cylces tend to be too easy to keep going when not being careful. I would go for a majority, and a range of responsibilities to be investigated if there was any one with good faith about international jusice and humanitarian moral compass that is not self-blinded by some hierarchical valuation depending on the human group ID. Am I sane. I prefer long form paragraphs.. it makes for less punchy stuff I know. but it might age better.
Not to quibble, but I've always considered them to be more the gaslighters, than the bullshitters.
can you develop on the difference. This is not my native language. I don'T like to always use the same words. I meant propaganda practitinners (that might include all sorts). Let me try. Bullshitter does not have to be anything as long as it is not adressing a question, the gaslighter might be making sure one is stuck in an answer and actually believes it? soemthing like that?
I guess you would be right in this case, the public relation profession is not satisfied with any bullthit. it has to be transmissible once drop onto our minds from the media transmission...
You do it your way and I will do it mine.
That is not an argument nor rational justification. It is simply an obstinate unwillingness to recognise or even attempt any understanding of a situation that cannot be summarised in the simplistic way you have done.
It is even worse when someone makes statements such as yours but does so under a pseudonym or other form of anonymity.
No, all sane people don't know that for it isn't true. Total or even broad generalisations rarely are. In this case, any real understanding of the history and evidence will show that it is Zionists who are responsible and guilty and probably the majority if not all of them. There may also be Jews who are not Zionists, I don't doubt that likelihood but all Jews - no, that is certainly not the case. Many Jews are on record in opposition to Netanyahu, his cabinet and the actions taken against the Palestinian people.
In any case, rarely is there ever a single culprit and, in this case, the whole history of this conflict is long and complex. That Israel - in the sense of a nation-state, (despite it being a manufactured one because Jews are a religious group, not a nation) - is responsible for genocidal intentions and activity so brutal that it rivals that of the National Socialists in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s cannot reasonably be doubted. However, even then, there will be many Israeli people who do not condone what the nation has done, just as there were Germans who did not agree with National Socialism, particularly after Hitler achieved dictatorial power and things changed from restoration of pride and prosperity to the tragedy and disaster of war, persecution and continuous suffering for most.
yes but Germany in second world war at least did not want the world or its population to know what it was doing during Holocust. Zionist Isreal is boosting about it and the whole world sees what Isreal is dong.
'Many Jews are on record in opposition to Netanyahu, his cabinet and the actions taken against the Palestinian people.'
Some, not many.
Quite a few outside of 'Israel'. Very few within it.
yes the brain wshing of Isreal pop from birth onwards is part of problem 74% of pop in Isreal thought Isreal had not gone far enough. There have been trips to view the genocide songs about killing palestine babies.Isreal is a very sick country.There must eventually be consequences.
One would hope...
Unfortunately I doubt.
I just think at some point Humanity has to discover its moral compass. When it does Isreal must be held to account for what it has done to Palestine Mary. The worlds population particularly the young have seen what Isreal is doing which is blatant genocide. They are the future,
*we live in a dystopian mad house *
That dear Caitlin says it all
When genocide is occurring right in front of our eyes, in real time, and only a temporary "Ceasefire" is called, after 2 horrific years and is violated just a few days later, and people argue that the people who have been starved, genocided and denied their rights, freedom and land for 77 years and counting are totally at fault, you know we are living in a truly messed up world.
All I can say is that America practices overseas what it later brings ashore here. The fact that no one stepped in to stop genocide practiced by America against Gaza does not bode well for US citizens in the future.
No one? Bernie Sanders has been trying to build a majority to stop shipping arms to Israel (something he first mentioned in 1988) and starting from scratch, his last effort got the majority of 'Democrats to vote on halting weapons shipment. So long as we are blind to those actually working to stop Israel, they will fail for lack of support.
We can write books about the ways in which Sanders has come up short on Israel and US militarism in general. He’s similar to Israel itself, in that his messaging and part-measures are indicative of a larger story being purposely hidden by confusion. On the surface he’s one of the “better” US politicians.
A vote that got most Democrats to vote for stopping arms to Israel is hardly a half-measure; it is the only way that Israel will stop the war. He is acting effectively while you hurt the cause by taking the same line as AIPAC in denouncing him. Shame on you and all who do not support the effort to block US arms to Israel.
Caveat: I'm not in the US and don't have much understanding about their political system. But don't we have to stop pretending there are only two possible parties available, and that they are somehow different in some way?
I am certain that your rage is valid and your sentiments honest but your focus if flawed. You are directing your ire at the wrong people, i.e. those who, in fact, are largely of the same mind as yourself in relation to the gross malignancy and wrongness of Israel's actions and the USA support for them.
Yes and many individuals have protested, written letters, lobbied, posted or commentated in online platforms and such. However, the comment related to the genocide, i.e. what began after 7 October 2023 and was not about "trying" or attempting to bring about change but rather that once it began and throughout its continuance for two years, "no one stepped in to stop genocide..." That is the truth. The reality, whether we like it or not, is that only those with power and influence are able to take grand actions such as is central here. Most of us can stamp our feet, shout in the street or deride the deceit but simply don't have the power, influence, status, position or control to do much more than that.
I and millions of others are not "blind to those working to stop Israel", quite the contrary, however few, if any of us can "stop the genocide." If you wish to criticise then please focus on those who do have the power and don't use it - not least the 'leaders' and/or governments of other nations of the World and most particularly, Donald Trump and the cowardly, self-interested Republican politicians and others who have continuously funded and armed Israel and protected it from sanction for several decades and several times at the UN during the last two years.
...and Biden, Harris and the other Democrats who were AT LEAST as bad.
If the majority are against genocide and agression why do they keep voting for it?
How many votes did Jill Stein receive in the last election?
Ah yes the famous part where Sanders admitted genocide was happening, like two weeks ago, after two years of genocide.
Karma for Israel is coming soon and was described in their Holy Book; There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. And that is the easy part.
🤞🤞🤞
I can't wait.
Sadly I regard the US (the regime, not the citizens) as an equal participant in this genocide and general racist, superiority over all other nations/groups on the planet. Zio 'Israel' and zio US are one and the same and equally evil, it's just that one is right there, doing the killing while the other is doing the cheering. This is nothing new.
The near present, you mean?
"dystopian madhouse" is a perfect characterization.
Not really as that suggests Israel and the USA are not the aggressors, are not going for a Greater Israel when the likes of Netanyahu and Smotrich say they are and folks like the American Zionist Adelsons who have financed Trump's political career say they. There is no confusion.
No, it doesn't.
With Israelis, the onus is always on someone else. There might be a Protocol about that.
The bully always blames the victim: "He drove me to it."
"The world should be aggressively punishing the state that is committing genocide until it stops. That would be true peace. What we are seeing now is just a bad joke."
It is all a bad joke--the genocidaires are sadistic clowns that need to be locked up for life. It is time for the Uniting for Peace resolution that President Petro proposed to be voted on by the United Nations General Assembly. It would allow the UN to form an armed protective force to make sure aid gets into Gaza and elsewhere. The US and Israel cannot be trusted to stop their own insane killing spree in Palestine--the Uniting for Peace resolution is the only solution that will work. Write your UN reps today: https://lifelineforpalestine.com/un-letters
Here's a Substack that lists all the places you can send those letters to your UN reps along with a good explanation of the Uniting for Peace initiative: https://merijngoeman.substack.com/p/gaza-phase-1-agreement-prospects
Thanks, I wrote the letters.
Thanks. Much appreviated.
Thank you CA, I signed
The peace deal is not about peace (an occupied country with a naval blockade (an act of war) is not at peace and everyone but the gullible public knoww Hamas has never agreed to disarm short of stathood, which Israel adamently opposes. So this is a trap door peace agreement, akin to the deal Chamberlin made with Hitler, which was celebrated as "Peace in our time" but was actually an appeasement that allowed Nazi Germany to build up its forces of violence and then attack, without the West being prepared, having fallen for the false fake.
This is no different.
According to international law, genocide committed by one state must be stopped by all other states. A state that vetoes other states from intervening is complicit in genocide. And states that accept a state's veto demonstrate their acceptance of genocide. These are the facts.
The facts that no body or group seems able or willing to enforce.
But international law does not apply to the big bad USA.
No kidding! What a bunch of BS. Genociders need to stop genociding, its victims need food and aid. The war crimes continue, as expected, under this bogus peace agreement.
Sadly the rationale today from our friends, Caitlin and Tim is all too obvious to the readers and commenters on these pages. Doubt if we will see one dissenting voice.
BUT, we are not dealing with rational human beings over there in genocide country and everything that is happening each day is all part of the plan. It was never expected to be any other way. We know that. Well that is my opinion and I for one had absolutely no doubts in my mind that all this 'pausing" is designed to build up a case against Hamas so that they can say "the break is over" so its on with the killing as before.
But the explanation from Caitlin is needed in order for us to reinforce our own thinking on this subject. Its also shows the totally ridiculous explanation by Israel of the Hamas non-compliance with the original document.
All this is not for the likes of us. It is designed to create another variation so that the Western media can say, "well, Israel gave them a chance for peace and they blew it".
Count on it. Next step, next week and off they go again
The majority of American, according to recent polls, disapprove of Israel's war, and of the Democrat, 92% disapprove, with a Majority calling it genocide. Unfortunately, it is the Republicans running the show, but that could change in 2026. The American view is based on the imagry of the destruction in Gaza broadcast by the media.
The problems is, that the 92% Democrat voters against Israel is inversely proportionate among elected Democrats. Rank and file Democrats don't get any of that AIPAC $$ like the greedy, corrupted reps and senators do.
Exactly and the elected Democrats are self-confessed zionists so there isn't anywhere to go from there
YES !!! 😠😡 🇵🇸🇺🇳🕊️
ISRAELI GENOCIDERs and their ALLIES always see their victims as the guilty ones ,because Israel has anointed themselves as the perpetual victims of an all Anti Semitic World, but the fact is, it is the other way around ,and Israel has been very successful in playing the Permanent Victim because of their power, influence Control, and the best propaganda Machine that money can buy along with the 100% Blind faith and full support of the most powerful Nation on Earth America whose leader has now lost their Moral compass ,Empathy and Decency, So the ONUS" NEVER on ISRAEL ,its always on their Helpless Powerless weak Victims who has no power, no Influence, no way to Air their side of the Story because it must ALWAYS be About ISRAEL, So Israel is always the Good guys, and Arabs ,Muslims, Palestinians, Christians and most Gentiles are always the bad guys Fact is Zionist paint themselves as ANGELS,GODS CHILDREN and the CHOSEN ONES, the only thing they are Chosen for is to carry out the the DEVILS work as the world has been seeing non stop around the clock 24/7 in real time for the past 2 plus years.
Remember to "'Beware of those who say they are JEWS and are not ,but are of the SYNAGOGUE of SATAN."
Trump got his praise and parade. that's all he wanted
No, Trump Gaza Resort and Casino still gleams, and all that natural gas.
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That's exactly right, Caitlin. Just as you say, it is never legitimate... "...to intentionally deprive civilians of humanitarian aid that they need to survive. You have to give them aid. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants because you decided they crossed some sort of line into a forbidden zone. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants at all.
.
In the same way, in the context of genocide, and of a criminal occupation of another’s territory by a force of overwhelming power, is using the language of “ceasefire” even appropriate? It seems to me that the language of “ceasefire” is entirely misplaced here.
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A “ceasefire” is something that is agreed upon between two parties of more or less comparable strength, as, for instance, tends to occur the case of actual wars. Which this is not. This is a systematic long-run genocide, in which the genocidal party, for entirely its own purposes, occasionally announces a temporary slow-down in the intensity of the genocide, before then cranking up the intensity of the genocide once more.
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Observably, from the record of Israel, of this genocidal party’s actions, these temporary slowdowns in genocidal intensity never amount to even a brief intermission, never mind the “ceasefire” which they advertise them as.
.
There is no more possibility of a genocidal state and the target of genocide arriving at mutually negotiated terms of settlement that there is of an abuser and their victim “negotiating better relations” between them. The abuser, for their own reasons, may defer their abusive actions temporarily – especially if those criminal actions are getting too much attention from authorities who should be intervening – but they will never stop of their own accord. And they never stop due to “negotiations” with their victim.
.
The situation here is not greatly different. Just as in many communities, abusers in a position of power are permitted by the local authorities to abuse their victims all they want as long at they don’t make it too obvious while the authorities are around, just so, in the context of Israel and the Palestinians, the genocidal party, Israel, will temporarily crank up the volume, or crank down the volume on the genocide, if there is some momentary threat of intervention by an outside authority. The moment that authority looks away, they will return to abusing their victim.
.
Nothing will cause Israel to desist from this conduct other than an intervention by outside forces in some manner or other. To pretend otherwise is entirely magical thinking.
.
It’s understandable, of course, that Hamas wishes to think of itself as an autonomous entity with the capacity for self-determination and the capability to fight for its people’s rights. And, therefore, it will never accept the blunt fact that negotiation with its abuser is a meaningless concept that has no actual referent in the real world.
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All that is ever possible for Hamas and for the Palestinians is the political theater of negotiation, with all its supposed ups and downs, and stops and starts, and reboots – that is played out by Israel and the U.S., on the world stage, for all it is worth, as a distraction game – while the real-world program, the actual project, which is genocide, is carried forth relentlessly.
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How about Israel looks for its own corpses? They’re the ones who buried them under bombed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals. They know it will be impossible to locate them which is why they demand it. Any excuse will do to resume the assault. You’d have thought they would have taken more than a few days off from killing and starving but no.
Exactement
The onus may well be on Israel and the Empire, but the odds are on Iranian hypersonics.