John, I share your microscopic hope about Massad Boulos, and at the same time, his statements have caused me the deepest sorrow since Trump started picking his people. In the same article in Times of Israel, they refer his words to a French newspaper. Here he says that the negotiations have started again, and that they are very close, and quote: “The war is practically over,” he says. “There is practically no more significant military activity." It is a lie that surpasses even Blinken's "Bibi is onboard" and Colin Powell's "We have proof of Iraqi WMDs"-lies. Isn't that the worst of lies, when military activity is rather going full speed on all 12 cylinders - the local news are reporting that Israel is bombing 24/7 - and also did when Boulos was saying this. I guess you have to be an expert lier to become a billionaire in general and in a Nigerian based business even more so. It scares me to pieces to ponder on what can be behind such outrageous lies. And then Hamas confirmed that the negotiations have started again - but of course not that Israel's bombing of Gaza had slowed down. Not even from 24 to 23 hours a day.
If anyone has anything that can shed some light on this, I'd be most grateful. Especially if it's something that can keep the tiny little half dead and struggling hope breathing for air a little bit longer:)
I think you've hit upon the key point here: the US and Israel do not want peace. Israel is hellbent on realizing what Zionists believe as prophecy. They infested the US government with wackos who think there will be a second coming. The neocons are in on this and profiteering from bombs and mass destruction. The US has almost totalitarian ideological control over much of the world - and the horrifying facts around this are just coming to full light for those who are actually not sleepwalking through life. The only thing we can hope for is that the Republicans that are tired of spending money on wars abroad can challenge the internal forces and force them to yield. I think that it's going to be incredibly hard. The Democrats have already decided that democracy now means "administrative consensus" because the people make bad choices - ie electing Trump. I suspect that any anti-establishment candidate would have faced the same forces, but surely the Democrat's decision to end democracy as we know it in alleged response to Trump is going to bring widespread resistance. I think this situation is going to continue to unfold over the long term. The best we can hope for is some lives to be spared and an awakened, exhausted and nothing-more-to-lose public to figure out how to resist the imperialist, racist, fascist regimes we have in store.
Interesting read! You bring a lot of new information for us western media readers, that did not know a lot of hamas’ politics or peace efforts. It is also interesting to see that the entire Arab world is together in bringing peace to the region, and are not engaging in acts of war, as Israel keeps attacking left and right nations that are proposing peace if they give back illegally obtained land.
The only thing Israel defends is its occupation of all of Palestine. Indeed, since Israel was founded in illegal genocidal slaughter, its legality should be tested in a court of law.
Israel has no declared borders and no nationality. It does not exist in any real sense.
And the UN recommendation of 1947 had no legality because the UN has no right to partition any country on earth and it did not, it made a recommendation which had to be approved by the Security Council and never was. The Zionists and Jews invaded in a genocidal slaughter of ethnic cleansing and set up their fascist State in Palestine in 1948. They then started more wars with the object of taking and holding more of Palestine.
All of Palestine is occupied and if there is to be an Israeli State, it must all be negotiated with the native people. The UN recommendation of 48 suggested 78% of Palestine should go to the Zionists. That was ridiculous since the Palestinians were then and remain a significant majority and the only ones with any right to Palestine.
The options for Israel to continue are, either a small Jewish Vatican entity, or a State which holds 25% of Palestine, with the remaining 75%, for the native people, of whom there are 16 million in the world, half in the Diaspora. Or, the most likely option, one state where the Palestinians share the land as equal citizens with those Israelis who choose to remain and become Palestinians and who can behave peacefully and in a civilized manner. The rest can go back to where they, their parents or grandparents came from.
If anyone thinks that 76 years of Israeli colonial existence counts for anything, remember the Portugese went back to where they came from after 500 years in Angola.
Sickraelis are incapable of peace. They cannot spell the word. The society, state and culture are mentally ill to the point of psychopathic insanity. Peace requires that people have a capacity to reason and a level of sanity capable of influencing their behaviour.
Sickrael was founded in hate, murder, theft, torture, bigotry and destruction and they are incapable of anything else.
I very much agree with you, Roslyn - Israhell - I mean USrahell - is wrapped in a mentally crazy killing spree, but I just can't see a future where that behavior will take the lead in the world. There are so many signs that they are breaking from the inside. The soldiers who brags in the videos go home as basket cases, and I guess the suicide rate is through the roof. They have been instructed to make these videos. Now they are fleeing the country to never go back. And even settlers are leaving. How can a nation survive financially if the private military sector is the only one making money? That goes for both USrahell and the US. And Germany. Something has gotta break - and soon!
The one I'm not as optimistic about is, "Hamas has expressed hope that incoming President Trump will be positive for peace efforts in the region."
Netanyahu and the Likud party will use Trump. The American Evangelical Fascists/Zionists want to see the rapture, and then there are the millionaire/billionaire Jewish Zionists, while his cabinet is mostly pro-Israeli. The only hope the Middle East has is the appointment of Massad Boulos, who is Lebanese-born and the father-in-law of Tiffany Trump. But I've been wrong before.
Thanks for the background on the illusive peace that the Muslim world and Hamas have been seeking for generations. The world knows that the US does not want peace “under the wet blanket of Blinken’s lie”- as Trump said paraphrasing the USA wants unfettered access to Islamic resources. The ICJ ruled illegal occupying power since ‘67 in Palestine is An Apartheid State that seeks to lord Jewish white European power over the heathen Muslim powers decreed by pope Nicholas the V in 1452. Ta-Nehisi Costes writes in The Message, “Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow South and segregated not just the pools and fountains but the water itself. And more, it occurred to me that there was still one place on the planet—under American patronage—that resembled the world that my parents were born into.” Only BDS will humanize the apartheid state and save millions.
John, I share your microscopic hope about Massad Boulos, and at the same time, his statements have caused me the deepest sorrow since Trump started picking his people. In the same article in Times of Israel, they refer his words to a French newspaper. Here he says that the negotiations have started again, and that they are very close, and quote: “The war is practically over,” he says. “There is practically no more significant military activity." It is a lie that surpasses even Blinken's "Bibi is onboard" and Colin Powell's "We have proof of Iraqi WMDs"-lies. Isn't that the worst of lies, when military activity is rather going full speed on all 12 cylinders - the local news are reporting that Israel is bombing 24/7 - and also did when Boulos was saying this. I guess you have to be an expert lier to become a billionaire in general and in a Nigerian based business even more so. It scares me to pieces to ponder on what can be behind such outrageous lies. And then Hamas confirmed that the negotiations have started again - but of course not that Israel's bombing of Gaza had slowed down. Not even from 24 to 23 hours a day.
If anyone has anything that can shed some light on this, I'd be most grateful. Especially if it's something that can keep the tiny little half dead and struggling hope breathing for air a little bit longer:)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-israel-submitted-updated-hostage-deal-proposal-to-hamas/
I think you've hit upon the key point here: the US and Israel do not want peace. Israel is hellbent on realizing what Zionists believe as prophecy. They infested the US government with wackos who think there will be a second coming. The neocons are in on this and profiteering from bombs and mass destruction. The US has almost totalitarian ideological control over much of the world - and the horrifying facts around this are just coming to full light for those who are actually not sleepwalking through life. The only thing we can hope for is that the Republicans that are tired of spending money on wars abroad can challenge the internal forces and force them to yield. I think that it's going to be incredibly hard. The Democrats have already decided that democracy now means "administrative consensus" because the people make bad choices - ie electing Trump. I suspect that any anti-establishment candidate would have faced the same forces, but surely the Democrat's decision to end democracy as we know it in alleged response to Trump is going to bring widespread resistance. I think this situation is going to continue to unfold over the long term. The best we can hope for is some lives to be spared and an awakened, exhausted and nothing-more-to-lose public to figure out how to resist the imperialist, racist, fascist regimes we have in store.
Interesting read! You bring a lot of new information for us western media readers, that did not know a lot of hamas’ politics or peace efforts. It is also interesting to see that the entire Arab world is together in bringing peace to the region, and are not engaging in acts of war, as Israel keeps attacking left and right nations that are proposing peace if they give back illegally obtained land.
The only thing Israel defends is its occupation of all of Palestine. Indeed, since Israel was founded in illegal genocidal slaughter, its legality should be tested in a court of law.
Israel has no declared borders and no nationality. It does not exist in any real sense.
And the UN recommendation of 1947 had no legality because the UN has no right to partition any country on earth and it did not, it made a recommendation which had to be approved by the Security Council and never was. The Zionists and Jews invaded in a genocidal slaughter of ethnic cleansing and set up their fascist State in Palestine in 1948. They then started more wars with the object of taking and holding more of Palestine.
All of Palestine is occupied and if there is to be an Israeli State, it must all be negotiated with the native people. The UN recommendation of 48 suggested 78% of Palestine should go to the Zionists. That was ridiculous since the Palestinians were then and remain a significant majority and the only ones with any right to Palestine.
The options for Israel to continue are, either a small Jewish Vatican entity, or a State which holds 25% of Palestine, with the remaining 75%, for the native people, of whom there are 16 million in the world, half in the Diaspora. Or, the most likely option, one state where the Palestinians share the land as equal citizens with those Israelis who choose to remain and become Palestinians and who can behave peacefully and in a civilized manner. The rest can go back to where they, their parents or grandparents came from.
If anyone thinks that 76 years of Israeli colonial existence counts for anything, remember the Portugese went back to where they came from after 500 years in Angola.
MAKING PEACE with WORSE-THAN-NAZI GENOCIDERS would be a A HUGE MISTAKE!!!
Sickraelis are incapable of peace. They cannot spell the word. The society, state and culture are mentally ill to the point of psychopathic insanity. Peace requires that people have a capacity to reason and a level of sanity capable of influencing their behaviour.
Sickrael was founded in hate, murder, theft, torture, bigotry and destruction and they are incapable of anything else.
I very much agree with you, Roslyn - Israhell - I mean USrahell - is wrapped in a mentally crazy killing spree, but I just can't see a future where that behavior will take the lead in the world. There are so many signs that they are breaking from the inside. The soldiers who brags in the videos go home as basket cases, and I guess the suicide rate is through the roof. They have been instructed to make these videos. Now they are fleeing the country to never go back. And even settlers are leaving. How can a nation survive financially if the private military sector is the only one making money? That goes for both USrahell and the US. And Germany. Something has gotta break - and soon!
The one I'm not as optimistic about is, "Hamas has expressed hope that incoming President Trump will be positive for peace efforts in the region."
Netanyahu and the Likud party will use Trump. The American Evangelical Fascists/Zionists want to see the rapture, and then there are the millionaire/billionaire Jewish Zionists, while his cabinet is mostly pro-Israeli. The only hope the Middle East has is the appointment of Massad Boulos, who is Lebanese-born and the father-in-law of Tiffany Trump. But I've been wrong before.
The U.S. is wading in deep shit.
As per your post on July 15th, would a new voice like me count? https://open.substack.com/pub/adamcheklat/p/my-stance-on-palestine?r=4m50jk&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for the background on the illusive peace that the Muslim world and Hamas have been seeking for generations. The world knows that the US does not want peace “under the wet blanket of Blinken’s lie”- as Trump said paraphrasing the USA wants unfettered access to Islamic resources. The ICJ ruled illegal occupying power since ‘67 in Palestine is An Apartheid State that seeks to lord Jewish white European power over the heathen Muslim powers decreed by pope Nicholas the V in 1452. Ta-Nehisi Costes writes in The Message, “Israel had advanced beyond the Jim Crow South and segregated not just the pools and fountains but the water itself. And more, it occurred to me that there was still one place on the planet—under American patronage—that resembled the world that my parents were born into.” Only BDS will humanize the apartheid state and save millions.