Middle East Crisis: Blinken Calls Some Hamas Changes to Cease-Fire Proposal Unacceptable
www.nytimes.com
The secretary of state said the U.S. would keep pushing Israel and Hamas ‘on an urgent basis’ to reach a deal.

Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, alongside Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Mr. Blinken said that “a deal was on the table that was virtually identical” to one that Hamas put forward on May 6.

At some point, he said, “you have to question whether they’re proceeding in good faith or not.”

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      5 months ago

      Really?

      You know the human rights abuses and land grabbing happened prior to 10/7, right?

      And they want the permanent ceasefire so that it finally stops.

      If it’s not an internationally recognized permanent ceasefire, Israel is going right back to what they were doing prior to 10/7.

      Anything else is just Hamas giving up every bargaining chip they have for no gain…

          • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            Did you read the article? We are here talking about the most promising permanent ceasefire, supported by Egypt, Qatar, USA, and the UN, which Israel has not ruled out. Hamas is now drastically changing the terms to sabotage the ceasefire. It makes no sense to me. They seem to have the most to gain by ending this conflict.

            • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
              1·
              5 months ago

              Did you read it?

              But Hamas officials rejected his claim that they had made any changes to their previous stance in May and reiterated their accusation that Israel was blocking a deal. Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, accused the top U.S. diplomat of seeing “things through an Israel lens.”

              The cease-fire proposal would halt the fighting in Gaza immediately, and, after the release of some Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, begin talks that could lead to a much longer or even permanent cease-fire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Qatar and Egypt have acted as intermediaries between Israel and Hamas, which do not communicate directly with each other.

              Basem Naim, a Hamas spokesman, said on Wednesday that Hamas’s position remains that the deal must include guarantees of a permanent cease-fire and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, among other demands.

              “This new offer includes no changes to our previous response to the offer submitted last May,” he said.

    • blahsay@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      They literally told us the other day. Palestinian deaths help hamas. The leader was all for it

    • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 months ago

      The answer is that the more death and suffering they can cause to civilian Palestinians, the more they can drive a cultural wedge between Israel and the Arab nations. Their end goal here is to get a friendly government in, say, Egypt and then win a war to conquer Israel with that foreign support.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
        7·
        5 months ago

        Riiight. I think your hat is on way too tight.

        Might want to crawl up from that nationalist hole and take a breath of fresh air.

        • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
          6·
          5 months ago

          I think your hat is on way too tight.

          Thank you, I have been looking for this phrasing for a long time. As someone who rejects violence it’s very difficult to find the words to tell someone that the reason they incorrectly think something is a certain way is because they are stupid. Just mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, shit-slinging dolts.

          It seems to me there has recently been an influx of users who have their hats on way too tight.

            • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
              2·
              5 months ago

              Okie dokie I guess

              That’s still what Hamas says their goals are lol

              It’s why they started this war. They wanted to head off Saudi normalization of relations with Israel

      • Anas@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        The wedge is already there, has been since the start. Our leaders are puppets, however, so it doesn’t matter.

        • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
          2·
          5 months ago

          Arab leaders are smart enough to know that attacking Israel would either lead to defeat or nuclear annihilation, and so, seek peace. Regardless of the wishes of the populace.