Iran offers no response to Damascus strike if US secures Gaza ceasefire - report
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The report comes as negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal resume between Israel and Hamas in Cairo.
  • queermunist she/her
    104•9 months ago

    It’s incredible how every Islamic faction that’s involved has been way more cautious and careful for this entire conflict than Israel. I really admire their restraint! Israel is trying to escalate things left and right, but every other faction is trying to keep things from blowing up.

    If Biden doesn’t jump on this then he wants Trump to win.

            • @Bernie_Sandals
              5•9 months ago

              Fuck, can we ban this? I normally hate passing laws that don’t really do anything, but it’s so hard to figure out what a program is from the name when every single government agency insists on shoving an acronym in the name.

  • @[email protected]OP
    62•9 months ago

    Watch as the US still doesn’t press Israel into a ceasefire. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that conflict in the Middle East isn’t an unfortunate circumstance but a goal of American foreign policy.

    • @MrVilliamEnglish
      41•9 months ago

      America? Wanting instability in an oil-rich region? That’s pretty much as optimally equidistant from the most major first-world economies as is possible?

      No. Way.

  • livus
    59•9 months ago

    Well that’s just threatening them with a good time.

    Netanyahu doesn’t want a ceasefire and he does want Iran to attack and draw the US into the conflict.

      • livus
        6•9 months ago

        I think you’re right. I hope some of that message gets through to those Israeli people who actually do want a ceasefire.

        • @[email protected]
          25•9 months ago

          The polling I’ve seen suggests the Israeli people are bloodthirsty as fuck.

          1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower.

          Support for peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority among Israeli Jews fell from 47.6% in favor in September to just 24.5% in favor in the survey conducted between Oct. 23 and Oct. 28.

          Note that the Palestinian Authority is the comprador gov’t of the west bank. These people don’t even want Israel to negotiate with their own puppets.

          • NoneOfUrBusiness
            14•9 months ago

            I mean to be fair this data is from October. Not expecting much, but the data is probably different now.

          • NoIWontPickAName
            6•9 months ago

            That survey was less than a month after it happened.

            It wouldn’t have surprised me if it had been higher.

      • @Cuttlefish1111
        -1•9 months ago

        Checkers and chess. I hope a cloud hangs over the land for a thousand years

        Edit: spelling

    • YTG123
      22•9 months ago

      Netanyahu only wants one thing, and it’s to stay in power for as long as possible. If a regional war gives that to him (via Ben-Gvir), he won’t mind.

      Edit: He currently holds a parliamentary majority. If he agrees to a ceasefire, the more extreme members of his coalition will no-confidence him together with the opposition. And, as it stands right now, he has no chance of participating in the next government.

      • livus
        5•9 months ago

        Pretty sure he needs conflict to stay in power and he needs power to shield him.