The Biden administration said it was still reviewing Hamas' cease-fire agreement - and signaled disapproval for Israel's Rafah plans,
  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    967·
    8 months ago

    “Unfortunately the terms of this ceasefire don’t include the death of every Palestinian in the world and also a complementary blowjob for me, so we can’t accept it.”

    -Benjamin Netanyahu, probably.

    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      402·
      8 months ago

      “It’s a shame that Hamas continues to hide behind the lives of Palestinian civilians. Now if they were all dead they couldn’t do that.”

      *Netanyahu taps forehead

      CNN looks puzzled and wonders what that means; they publish an article titled ’Why all the Palestinian suddenly decided to just die’.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Let’s be real. He would only accept a ceasefire if the terms of the ceasefire is he can never go to jail for corruption.

  • athos77@kbin.social
    541·
    8 months ago

    destroy Hamas’s military and governing capabilities

    "scuse us while we move some goalposts here …

    and ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel in the future

    And suddenly it’s not ‘Hamas’ that’s a threat, but ‘Gaza’. More moving goalposts, and revealing Israel’s real aim: the elimination of Gaza itself. Except, like the Republicans, who constantly have to create a new threat to ‘defend’ themselves against, after Gaza it’ll be the West Bank. And after that it’ll be something else …

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    282·
    8 months ago

    Netanyahu doubts any peace will last, so I think he was looking for a more final solution…

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      The USA refused to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia to allow it to defend itself because UK and France didn’t want a Muslim majority nation in Europe, and Clinton shrugged and said “okay”

      Then Pakistan used KSA funds to covertly supply the Bosnians with ATGMs via Turkey air drops which ultimately changed the tide of the war.

      Then suddenly the USA spent years harassing the UN to charge the ISI director with breaking the embargo.

      The fact that they handled an ongoing genocide of which they had zero interest or risk in with such attitude is why no one takes the USA seriously when it complains about literally any foreign issue.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence_activities_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

      Clinton said U.S. allies in Europe blocked proposals to adjust or remove the embargo. They justified their opposition on plausible humanitarian grounds, arguing that more arms would only fuel the bloodshed, but privately, said the president, key allies objected that an independent Bosnia would be “unnatural” as the only Muslim nation in Europe. He said they favored the embargo precisely because it locked in Bosnia’s disadvantage. […] When I expressed shock at such cynicism, reminiscent of the blind-eye diplomacy regarding the plight of Europe’s Jews during World War II, President Clinton only shrugged. He said President François Mitterrand of France had been especially blunt in saying that Bosnia did not belong, and that British officials also spoke of a painful but realistic restoration of Christian Europe. Against Britain and France, he said, German chancellor Helmut Kohl among others had supported moves to reconsider the United Nations arms embargo, failing in part because Germany did not hold a seat on the U.N. Security Council.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        8 months ago

        I don’t think people realize how fucked up that war was. It seems to get lumped in with post-Soviet chaos rather than a separate thing that happened because world leaders made specific choices that we need to learn from.

        I mean, Europe and the U.S. made awful decisions but the diplomacy to end it also required the U.S. and Europe. Almost nothing about that conflict is a simple story of good vs. evil. And it happened before most people had constant access to news so it was often unclear what was happening until later.

        Edit: I’m not defending any country there. I’m just saying it was a fucking mess.

    • doctortofu@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      To jail, for the rest of his life, yes. Not that I’m holding my breath for it though - the international community has demonstrated time and again that genocide is compmetely fine, as long as it’s happening far away and not to “our people”.