Ceasefire Deal Reportedly Reached in Gaza, as Both Biden and Trump Take Credit
The big news of the day: Israel has officially announced a ceasefire and potential end to the Gaza war. Hamas will be releasing 33 hostages—interesting numerology, as always—and Israel will reportedly withdraw its military forces from Gaza.
It will be done in three phases, with the first beginning on January 19th, just a day before Trump’s inauguration as if in tribute:
The announcement was met with rousing cheers throughout northern Gaza where Hamas fighters reportedly came out of their tunnels to openly celebrate in the streets—make no mistake, this is being viewed as a monumental victory by the resistance:
Hamas declared the ceasefire with Israel a victory
According to the agreement, in the second phase of the ceasefire, the Israeli army must leave Gaza.
Hamas must return the surviving hostages, and in exchange they will receive their comrades held in Israeli prisons. This was Hamas' demand; Israel insisted on the release of its citizens without any conditions.
In the third stage of the settlement, the remains of the murdered hostages will be returned to the families in Israel, and large-scale post-war reconstruction will begin in Gaza.
In Israel itself, they are already calling the deal "bad" and claiming that it was imposed by the United States.
Listen to Blinken’s admission below:
“Indeed Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost.”
Don’t be surprised if the real number is much more than it has lost—and if not yet, it will be in the future.
After much more than a year of fighting, the “pound for pound greatest military force on the planet” was unable to defeat Hamas even after being given a blank cheque for total indiscriminate slaughter and genocide of the civilian population with zero repercussions, a leeway not afforded to any other military force in recent history.
The fact is, the IDF performed dismally and the reason the deal even came about was because the last several weeks saw a significant spike in IDF soldiers’ deaths:
Recently news came that 4% of all IDF troop deaths have been suicides:
And reports of 20,000 wounded IDF from just the Gaza conflict:
In a humorous nod to American politics, both Biden and Trump separately took credit for the ceasefire deal, though CNN contends that both sides did work together on it. Keep in mind Netanyahu recently suspended plans to attend Trump’s inauguration reportedly after the latter’s snub—Trump posted a Jeffrey Sachs video calling Netanyahu a “deep, dark son of a bitch”.
In fact, Haaretz even made claims that Trump’s recent ‘aggressiveness’—which likely includes the jab above—led to the ceasefire presumably because Netanyahu read the change in the wind and could see that it would be now or never, as Trump’s coming administration is perceived as having a harsher, no-nonsense approach on reaching a deal:
Israeli “patriots” feel betrayed by a Trump who had claimed to want to give Hamas “hell” yet immediately strong-armed Bibi into a deal:
Zimri: "So all his people have been lying – it's a big disappointment."
Magal: "He talks about hell and in the meantime sends his envoy to sign a deal. It's a deal whose impact will be very difficult. That's the truth." He added that the last remaining hope is that Hamas will reject a deal: "A cabinet minister told me we need to pray again that God will harden Pharaoh's heart."
But of course, this is just the latest chapter in the endless cyclical nightmare of Israeli racist colonialism:
We can’t have particularly high confidence of it succeeding, particularly given that top Israeli officials like Ben-Gvir have already expressed their hopes that the deal will fail, and will undoubtedly give their most earnest try in undermining it in any way possible.
It also has little bearing on Israel’s continued strikes on various other surrounding countries, from Lebanon and Syria to Yemen. Israel even stepped up strikes on Gaza today, killing a reported dozen or so—one supposes they needed to sate their fill of bloodlust as consolation for the coming cessation of hostilities.
In fact, a report just earlier claimed that Israel even unleashed its first direct strike on Jolani’s troops:
The Israeli Air Force has carried out its first strike on the forces of the terrorist group HTS, which has seized power in Syria.
The attack targeted a convoy of militants in the province of Quneitra to prevent them from getting closer to IDF forces on the ground.
This was right around the time that Erdogan issued a loud rebuke toward Netanyahu, calling on him to stop striking Syria as tensions continue rising between Turkey and its Syrian proxies and Israel.
Erdogan:
“The aggressive actions of the forces attacking Syrian territory, Israel, in particular, must come to an end as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will cause unfavorable outcomes for everyone.”
We’re left to speculate whether this rising new threat is chief amongst reasons for Netanyahu finally acquiescing to a ceasefire he rejected many times before. With the IDF’s continued dismal performance—in particular its major failure in incurring into Lebanese territory—Netanyahu may have chosen to reduce the burden of the multi-fronted war in order to free up resources to concentrate on the potential new threat from the Turkish-Syria axis.
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The fetid stink of it all will follow Biden administration ghouls around for many years to come:
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DJT thinks of himself as a boss, and he expects those he appoints to Cabinet positions to carry out *his* agenda, not theirs. The person who’s going to make the Big Decisions about foreign policy, for instance is DJT not somebody else.
Marco Rubio, DJT’s appointee for Secretary of State, has been a severe neocon hawk throughout his entire political career. He has been an outspoken cheerleader for Ukraine, and for our supporting Ukraine, ever since the SMO commenced. What’s interesting today is that Rubio has moderated this view; in fact, he has neutered that view to align better w/ DJT’s too. He delivered a gut-check of the highest order on Project Ukraine before a senate confirmation panel in Washington.
“It should be the official position of the U.S.,” according to Rubio, “that this war must be brought to an end.” Note how transformative a statement like this is in the hallowed halls of power where for the past three years few elected officials had the nerve, let lone the political will, to interrogate the U.S.’s interests in supporting a proxy like Ukraine against a nuclear-armed super power. Washington-speak would not allow it.
Today, however, Rubio sat before an august body and uttered the utterable: the official position of the U.S. should not be to destroy Russia or to weaken Russia or to make sure that Ukraine can retake Crimea—but to bring the war to an end. This is not Rubio speaking. This is *DJT* speaking.
I don't believe anything the Zionists say or write because they have a long history to not honor anything that would jeapordize their ultimate objective. And it's not only "greater Israel" but ultimately the dominance of the entire world. The History of Jews tells a clear tale and it will not change.