Israel’s announcement on Thursday of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza has seemingly fuelled the US with new energy to pursue a stalled ceasefire agreement, but it faces a short window of opportunity and an emboldened ally as it looks to revive a deal.
The Biden administration’s reluctance to use any leverage against Israel for a ceasefire has brought into question the administration’s sincerity in wanting an end to the war on Gaza. It has also dulled perceptions of Washington’s ability to influence events as escalations between Israel and Iran, and Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, bring the region to the brink of an all-out war.
“To a certain extent, the US shares Israel’s interests and objectives and has been using flowery human rights rhetoric and ‘ceasefire talks’ as a way of distracting all parties involved and buying Israel time to carry out its genocide in Gaza, strike heavy blows against its regional adversaries, and re-establish the status quo through brute force.”
Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, said the US is being drawn into a war that imperils its personnel and the region, and stopping it "rests on whether President Biden is finally willing to take the steps necessary – including suspending offensive weapons deliveries – to prevent a horrific conflagration.”
Israel is blatantly turning northern Gaza into a death camp, and has killed the THIRD person they were negotiating with in recent months.
Why the fuck would you negotiate with a bloodthirsty ghoul like that?
Who else should they negotiate with? He was apparently their top dawg regarding both their military as well as the hostages
They’d just replace him with someone worse.
Huh? Revive? I mean it’s Middle Eastern Eye so they’re at least not parroting US propaganda but how the fuck does that make sense?
Edit: I see now (should’ve probably read the article from the start). It’s more the US “trying” for peace talks than any real progress.
IDK man, it doesn’t seem to be about Hamas…
How does more violence help peace talks when the other side still has a war criminal in charge?
Yeah, they literally killed the guy they were directly negotiating with, nobody’s going to want to be the next one.
