Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender.
“What is striking to me is that even as, again, we hear many countries urging the end to this conflict, which we would all like to see, I hear virtually no one saying – demanding of Hamas that it stop hiding behind civilians, that it lay down its arms, that it surrender. This is over tomorrow if Hamas does that. This would have been over a month ago, six weeks ago, if Hamas had done that,” Blinken said during a press briefing at the State Department Wednesday.
“How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor and only demands made of the victim,” Blinken went on to say.
The strong comments from Blinken come as the United Nations Security Council continues to negotiate a resolution calling for a suspension in fighting and encouraging more humanitarian aid into the beleaguered Gaza Strip, and as the United States’ support for the resolution remains unresolved.
Yeah because we all know this all started on October 7…
Obviously not but it’s an important part of the discussion, especially with their stated interest in repeating it.
This particular conflict did indeed start then.
So after this one is resolved and Israel violates the ceasefire does that count as starting again?
What planet are you living on? Hamas will violate the cease fire on day one.
Like they did in 2008? Maybe 2012?
Are we pretending they didn’t?
Yes they didn’t. The 2012 one held for more than a year despite Israel never even trying to abide by it.
In the section called Post-ceasefire incidents. source
It doesn’t say who launched these, but given their actions after that (they didn’t launch rockets and prevented other groups from launching them) those are likely not Hamas rockets.
On the other hand, we have Israel who didn’t even try to follow the ceasefire.
Israel’s violations in these two paragraphs alone are in the triple digits.
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Nobody in Gaza. Israel stopped doing so in 2005 in an effort to generate sustainable peace in the region.
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Neither party in this war was illegally occupying or settling the other.
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In the Gaza disengagement of 2005, Israel evicted every Jewish settler and resident in the Gaza strip and pulled back to the 1967 borders.
It was a move by Israel’s left wing parties to prove that such an action, if taken across all of the West Bank, would be successful at providing peace to the region.
Russia clearly invaded Ukraine. Don’t be a doofus.