Comments on: Hamas: let’s not make a deal

By: steve+walsh

steve+walsh — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:11:52 +0000

Hamas sees that it is winning the propaganda war, and so they are not compelled to agree to this arrangement. If I were negotiating I would read this to mean that they do not believe or accept that Israel can and will continue their actions to the point of defeating Hamas. Hamas is unconcerned, as Neo points out, about the loss of “civilian” Gazan lives. Also, it is obvious that the proposed exchange of hostages is not tilted enough in Hamas’ favor, they want even more. They know that Israel is unable and unwilling to take the most prudent and obvious step, namely killing all the Palestinian hostages Hamas has identified on their exchange list.

Israel, for their part, has no choice but to continue to hunt down and kill all the Hamas fighters and leaders they can find. Doing that while minimizing the killing of “civilians” is the tricky part.

By: Bob from Virginia

Bob from Virginia — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:29:14 +0000

This is the State Department’s version of busy work.

By: Mitchell Strand

Mitchell Strand — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:10:19 +0000

Being Secretary of State is how you get a Nobel Peace Prize, and there’s no better way to get a Nobel Peace Prize than appearing to create progress in the Middle East.

All they need is to nibble at the periphery (and be a Democrat; Pompeo and Trump get nothing for the Abraham Accords). Just get a ceasefire that lasts for six months or so. Long enough for the Nobel committee to give you the award. Then the muslims can start killing Jews again.

Reset. Now the next Secretary of State can get his/her Nobel Peace Prize. I bet they hope the war never ends.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:51:41 +0000

Blinken is an example of the problems with political patronage
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He might be a cautionary tale about hiring people with law degrees who have never practiced. What he really is is an example of how social processes have given us a political class which is extensively credentialed but should not be left in charge of a Chia pet. To some extent it is a deficit of public spirit, to some extent a deficit of sense, to some extent a deficit of actual accomplishment.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:43:50 +0000

Blinken and the Democrats are NOT stupid. They are cynical, evil, and anti-American.
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Embrace the power of ‘and’.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:42:07 +0000

See one of Carolyn Glick’s posts. The most sensible interpretation of Hamas’ behavior on 7 October is that they are addled by magical thinking. They actually are dumb.
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I am hoping Israel finishes them off ‘ere long.

By: neo

neo — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:38:00 +0000

Ira:

Agreed. My question was rhetorical.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:21:05 +0000

Blinken’s walking a fine line (as do most serial prevaricators):
– “‘Biden’ is Israel’s best friend, really truly” (but is actually an ally of the Mullahs and therefore, also its proxies).
– “‘Biden’ has Israel’s best interests at heart, deeply, madly” (but has to find a way to get rid of Netanyahu—under the guise that Netanyahu DOES NOT have Israel’s best interests at heart and is putting Israel in grave “clear and present” danger).
– “Israel has no better ally than ‘Biden’, absolutely, positively” (but in fact a Palestinian State MUST BE CREATED…”for the sake of POLITICAL, MORAL, HISTORICAL and ETHICAL JUSTICE…and—most importantly—to establish a just and lasting peace in the region and the world”).
Just more “Biden” INSANITY, to be sure.
(ROTFLH indeed…)

As—was it Mark Twain?—said, it’s better to tell the truth because then you don’t have to wrack your brains (such as they are) trying to remember which lies you told to which people.
(To be sure, “Biden”—utterly shameless—doesn’t have that problem…because “he” just doesn’t care; and because “he” has the Uber-Corrupt Media and Infotech propping “him” up AT ALL TIMES and AT ALL COSTS.)

The issue in a nutshell: By promoting Iran and the Palestinians—and plying them both with Billions upon Billions of dollars (and equally importantly, MORAL SUPPORT)—“Biden” has resurrected this mess and exacerbated.
BUT “he” has to blame someone…so “he”‘s taking the “easy” way out—holding Israel essentially responsible—while sweet-talking so as to try to appear judicious and even-handed (whatever that might mean in such a situation). The only remaining question is IF Iran and its proxies—and the Palestinians—will CONTINUE to play along TO SUPPORT “BIDEN”‘S carefully calibrated efforts…
…or whether Hezbullah, or perhaps the Houthis will make a mistake and take things a bit too far (even if in reality, there’s almost nothing they can do to “GO TOO FAR”, given the PRIORITIES of “Biden”‘s perverted “POLICIES”.

Still, the potential DOES exist that the whole thing will explode spectacularly, most likely due to the Hezbull’ah threat, which “Biden” and “his” abject, equally shameless media collusionists have been doing their very best to conceal.

By: Ira

Ira — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:36:44 +0000

“And could it be that Blinken is really just this stupid?”

If only.

Blinken and the Democrats are NOT stupid. They are cynical, evil, and anti-American.

By: Imsorrysteve57i hope

Imsorrysteve57i hope — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:16:09 +0000

This a problem that can’t be solved unless you the world is honest and acknowledges Islam is the problem. The good news is Muslims who’ve been enslaved by it know it better than anyone. So it’s not really you against the world