“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were set to resume in Cairo.
Hamas has offered Israel multiple very tenable peace deals that include the immediate release of all Israeli prisoners and absolutely no demand for reparations for rebuilding the strip that is now thought to be uninhabitable for 70 years. Israel has denied every single one.
They have always wanted palestinians to be exterminated. This is Israel’s dream scenario.
I think the word you’re looking for is “uninhabitable”
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Source on previous offers from Hamas?
Here’s a history of ceasefire proposals and rejections
Thank you for providing some sources. I haven’t read it all yet and most of the links don’t mention offers from Hamas. But I did see on Feb 20 Hamas offered to release some hostages in return for a temporary ceasefire and return of Hamas prisoners. This was rejected by Netanyahu.
I remember hearing one that was basically surrender and leave Israel
There were no such propositions and they have refused to give number of alive hostages since that was a condition for continued talks.
Here’s a link to proposed cease-fires, courtesy of user Keeponstalin.
I’ve heard similar things in the opposite direction, that early when Israel was being split up, they offered Palestinians reasonable deals to have part of the land, including Jerusalem, that they refused because they wanted the whole thing, and therefore Israel got it all. No sources of course, just interesting that both sides say similar things.
That’s a revisionist version of the peace process and what happened
Partition has always been used as a way to take more Palestinian land, while Palestinians were repeatedly advocating for a Unitary / Binational State
If someone entered my house and was trying to illegally force me out I also wouldn’t want to settle for only losing half my home.
What do you mean? They didn’t own it beforehand, Britain did.
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I’m not saying Britain rightfully owned the land beforehand, but they did own it, and both Jews and Muslims have historical claims to the land, neither more valid than the other.
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Okay, if someone convicted me to fight the ones that took my home in exchange for getting my home back and then giving away half my home to someone that is slowly taking more and more of my home…
If i lived in a country where rich settlers were displacing my communities for decades, I too would reject “offers” to forever split my homeland in half based on the whims of guilty white supremacists on another continent.
The answer is right there. The Israelis drove them out and then required a deal to let people try to come home after the violence.
Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.
There’s only one side Genociding civilians right now and that’s israel. There is no “both sides”.
Israel is a Nazi state.
Hamas is terrible, Palestine is not. Hamas and Israel are in a symbiotic relationship to keep each other in power ruining the lives of all Palestinians. Hamas is in control because of work Israel did against the Palestinian Authority. That’s an important distinction you need to make. While also stating that Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide.
The big problem is that both the PA and Hamas lead to the same result: israel commits Genocide and annexes land.
Hamas is a convenient fear mongering tool but they are reliable for peace deals. Israel is the party that keeps breaking those.
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If the terms don’t include “kill all Palestinians” Israel isn’t going to accept them.
“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands…”
Well we know that’s never going to happen.
Unless Joe Biden starts pressuring israel of course.
See, that’s the key difference between us… I don’t believe Bibi gives two shits what the US or Biden says. :)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/18/netanyahu-biden-feud-israel-ally/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/netanyahu-rebuffs-bidens-call-to-walk-away-from-judicial-overhaul
https://asiatimes.com/2023/12/why-netanyahu-is-ignoring-bidens-calls-and-pleas/
I honestly think that Bibi knows if he tanks Biden then Trump will probably be better for his government. He has basically no incentive to be reasonable since nobody is willing to hold them accountable and he knows it’s very unlikely Biden will be able to.
Bibi wants genocide and the land. Trump hates Muslims and would gladly join in the bombing.
I mean of course, trump is one of the ones that helped prop up Netanyahu during his declining popularity.
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We should have cut them loose ages ago.
I saw one estimate that cumulative, since 1948, we’ve sent them $300 Billion.
I don’t care what Biden says. You don’t care what he says. Nobody cares what Biden says.
Biden’s words mean nothing. Only his actions matter.
So far Biden has done nothing but grovel for Netanyahu and try to give him as many bombs as possible. Biden has bypassed congress because israel needed those tank shells to commit Genocide with. Just a few days ago Biden once against used his UN veto’s for israel.
Biden has all the power in the world to shut israel down. Netanyahu is powerless without Biden enabling his Genocide. Netanyahu is but a convenient scapegoat everyone points to blame.
Biden biden biden. Never blame toward congress, ANY other figure, always Biden Biden Biden. It’s like you have an agenda
Because Biden is in charge.
Biden vetoes the ceasefires.
Biden bypasses congress to help israel commit Genocide.
Biden is the one who is responsible.
If it was Trump in charge it would be Trump Trump Trump. Tell me is Trump president right now?
I don’t think the Israeli government has any interest in a truce, and especially not one with those terms.
To sum up right now. Israel’s pre condition is the release of all hostages. Which is also all of Hamas’ leverage. Hamas’ pre condition is to feed civilians. Terrorist stuff isn’t great but the white house and Israel are letting Hamas dunk on them in PR.
It’s very interesting that the white house is practically admitting here that israel is using starvation as a weapon of war. And just casually includes it as “part of negotiations”.
Yeah. It is a pretty tacit admission.
The thing throwing Israel off is that this isn’t new. The only difference is that the world is now paying (half hearted) attention. This was the goal of the attacks. Get the world to pay attention to what Israel has been doing.
Narrator: They didn’t.
The only ‘terms’ the Israeli government will accept is the complete removal of every trace of Palestine.
This would be great. The Palestinian people need real aid, right now. I hope Israel figures their shit out and pulls their troops out of Gaza.
I have a feeling they won’t do that. They’ll call the demands unreasonable, say Hamas refused to negotiate in good faith, and keep killing indiscriminately.
Israel (Zionism) has an explicit goal to ethnically cleanse the “lesser people” and establish a fascist state who has a holy duty and right to enslave all lesser people
So yeah, this has been going on for 75 years directly because of Zionist ideology, it’s not going to stop now. History didn’t start on Oct 7th.
Hopefully Israel will. Not the most likely though.
Why dont the surrender? That’s what you do when you are utterly defeated and don’t want more people to die.
To die in resistance is better than to live as a slave. The israelis long term plan is to remove the Palestinians anyways by either “relocating” or killing Palestinians. Resistance has to come at some point otherwise its just a matter of time before they cease to exist or be in their land.
