Comments on: The unpromising hostage negotiations

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:31:56 +0000

This time might be different.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:37:25 +0000

Mike and Gadi discuss amongst other things this apparent shift in US State Department stance vis a vis Netanyahu’s refusal to budge on victory and holding ground along the Philadelphi corridor in today’s Israel Update: https://youtu.be/YlsvY2MKGg8?si=n71_7wwG6NefySA9

By: steve+walsh

steve+walsh — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:00:55 +0000

This has more detail than the headline I saw early this morning:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/confirming-netanyahu-accepts-us-deal-proposal-blinken-says-hamas-must-now-do-the-same/

By: neo

neo — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:24:24 +0000

steve walsh: I can't find that - could you give a link? This is the sort of thing I see.

By: steve+walsh

steve+walsh — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:58:08 +0000

Report this morning that Netanyahu has accepted the proposed US-led cease fire proposal shifting the pressure to Hamas. Good move.

By: R2L

R2L — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:11:58 +0000

@ Kate: “I’ll believe Sinwar is gone when I see the crowds carrying his coffin.”
I am not sure that we can even believe that it is him in the coffin, unless there are approved reliable western witnesses taking a DNA sample from the corpse and matching it to his known living relatives [or perhaps from a known dead one?]

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:30:43 +0000

In the video Neo posted a few days ago of Trump addressing the conference of a couple of Jewish organizations supporting his election, he said quite bluntly that he believes the hostages are all dead, and that’s why Hamas won’t settle on a deal, even one beneficial to themselves, that is less than total withdrawal by Israel.

By setting such an unreasonable condition, they never have to produce proof that the hostages are still alive — because they can’t.

I don’t know if Trump is correct or not (I suspect he’s close), but the audience took his bluntness without objection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcBWEcru3_8
At about minute 22.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:59:56 +0000

“And if not just the US but the West made it clear to the terrorists of Palestine, Lebanon, the government of Iran, etc., that they would no longer be enabled in their anti-Israel and anti-Jewish war, things would be very very different.’ – Neo

Yep, and if we had clear-eyed thinking in our leadership, the rest of the democratic world know that it’s not just Israel and the Great Satan that are a risk. They would understand the big picture and be on board,

Unfortunately, too many democratic nations are too busy trying to get to net zero to notice that the entire democratic world is under threat. If not that, then they are marinating in their guilt about being wealthier than most of theocracies and autocracies.

By: neo

neo — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:42:07 +0000

J.J.:

And if not just the US but the West made it clear to the terrorists of Palestine, Lebanon, the government of Iran, etc., that they would no longer be enabled in their anti-Israel and anti-Jewish war, things would be very very different. Unfortunately, though, that won’t be happening. And it won’t even happen in the US if Harris is elected.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:35:02 +0000

J.J., I cannot understand why the Egyptians and Saudis have not worked together to obliterate the Houthis in Yemen, or at least asked the US to do it. Revenue from the Suez is very important to the Egyptian economy.