Israeli media-leaked reality shows ‘deal’ is at best temporary reprieve
Israeli news channel ynet has published details of what incoming US president Donald Trump has promised Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in return for agreeing a so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and the details expose the ‘deal’ as a sham and a scam designed to con the world into thinking Trump is acting for peace and that the end of the suffering of the Palestinian people is in sight.
Ynet reports that Trump will not only allow Israel to break the ceasefire whenever it wishes – as it has already begun to do – but will actively support Israel even more than the Biden administration already has:
President Trump, according to a source familiar with the details, has already promised Netanyahu and Minister Ron Dermer that if they agree to a ceasefire and the withdrawal of IDF forces from the Gaza Strip, he will support Israel retroactively if it decides to return to fighting and violate the ceasefire.
ynet (emphasis added)
Trump has also sweetened the pot for Netanyahu and the Israeli ultra-right financially:
Trump’s ‘gift bag’ also includes the cancellation of the sanctions lists imposed by the Biden administration on settlers and far-right elements, who suffered greatly from this move, after the outgoing President became convinced that Israel had no intention of enforcing the law against them.
And Trump has promised to lift US sanctions on the deadly Israeli ‘Pegasus’ spyware that has been used to hack politicians, peace and human rights activists, international lawyers and more – and which is said to have played a key role in Saudi Arabia’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump and the Netanyahu regime are habitual, self-serving liars. They are trying to con the world – and most inexcusably, the desperate and wronged Palestinians – now.
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The ynet link apparently showing Trump’s promise of a free hand to Netanyahu… is in Hebrew. Give us a link in English please. Ynet has articles on English…
Use a ‘translate this page’ facility in your web-browser. (‘Simple Translate’ is a translation add-on for Firefox). Works every time Brian.
I’m reading the page translated to English, but sadly the page once translated is not transferable. You have to add the ‘add-on’ to your own web browser.
PARTS of the 13-Jan ynet report:
The draft agreement that is being formed is awaiting Hamas’ approval, and the next 24 hours are critical. The president-elect and his people are using the “toffee and crackers” method, offering promises to all sides. “This time Bibi sounds more in the right direction,” explained a senior official. The incoming president’s “gift bag,” also for Smotrich – and its connection to the Israeli rogue software.
The agreement being cooked up in Doha for a phased deal to release some of the hostages, a ceasefire for a period of several weeks, a partial withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza, and the release of at least many hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is taking shape. This is according to several sources, both in Israel and in the mediating countries, and various publications emerging from within Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Now, the ball is truly in Hamas’s hands. Not to pass on a list of live hostages, since this issue has not been the main concern all these days, but to respond positively to the draft that was passed on to it, which, if it agrees to it, will likely be the framework agreement for the deal.
The pressures of the incoming Donald Trump administration also have this echo. “He said the agreement is close,” emphasized a source considered very close to the president-elect last night in Miami regarding the emerging agreement. Despite the difficulty of tracking the information that reaches the president or is conveyed by him, the same source, considered dominant in Trump’s circle, has previously promised that he is working to achieve the agreement, and is now declaring that the goal is closer than ever.
There is still no agreement. Hamas has not yet provided a clear and final answer regarding the overall framework of the deal. The next 24 hours are truly critical, and not just as an attempt to create empty drama for news-hungry viewers, to understand whether Hamas is willing to be flexible or whether they will create difficulties at the last minute. It is important to note that even if an agreement is reached, this is a deal in stages: the deployment of the humanitarian agreement that was planned as a whole into a number of separate stages. The agreement includes the release of hostages that Israel defines as “humanitarian” (Hamas does not see all of them as such, more on that later) in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, a ceasefire that lasts longer than the 42 days originally planned, and a partial withdrawal.
Even if the deal is completed, and this is still an open question since it is only a general framework and not the details of the agreement, it will focus on certain groups: women, older men over the age of 50, and apparently 11 men whom Israel defines as being in serious health condition, even though Hamas considers them soldiers because they are under the age of 50. The deal, even if carried out in its entirety, does not include the other civilian men under the age of 50 who were not defined in April, when the list was prepared, as being in serious condition, nor the soldiers in uniform who were captured on October 7. In fact, after a year and three months in Hamas prison dungeons and tunnels, trauma medicine experts warn that all are in immediate danger of death…
My thought after reading the ynet report
Trump is ‘using the “toffee and crackers” method, offering promises to all sides’ but offering absolutely nothing to the Palestinians. Interrupting /shelving/ temporarily suspending a genocide is not what Palestine or global justice need from the US.
Interesting that Biden made a final valedictory speech today (13/1/24) in which he warned about the threat to democracy from a small group of American oligarchs.
True but the Democrats had support from more billionaires than the Republicans in the last election and most US politicians depend on US big business for donations so it could be argued they serve them first instead of US citizens.
And arms companies donate to both Democrats & Republicans and thus War to politicians is pay back time.
Politics is simple really, what drives the Right, Centrists & Liberals is profit & this applies to Palestine & The Middle East eg in Gaza land, arms sales, gas, oil & a possible new canal.
But the good news is that the USA & West has lost its moral & intellectual leadership of the world & the oppressed of the world has woken up over Palestine.
We have also seen Western Lightweight careerist politicians as they really are & we will never forgive them nor forget.
The US itself needs democratic reform:
* Presidents elected on the popular vote &
scrap the electoral college.
* scrap the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allows US big business to fund political campaigns & have state funding of election candidates instead so they serve Citizens First!
* Have political parties with actual members who meet as branches & make policies with annual policy making conferences, not glorified rallies.
* Have an independent judiciary & not judges who are politically appointed.
But fundamentally the US also needs a new Left Wing Democratic Socialist Party for the diverse US working class.
Biden was 3/4 right when he mentioned dangerous oligarchs but he failed to mention his own sides, and for all failed to add “Politically Lumpen.”
And with fruitcakes like Trump & Musk, whose only talent is perhaps “legally nicking” the surplus labour of their workers, these are still dangerous times for Palestinians and others.
But as I have said in other posts re Gaza, capital has not had its own way & is being hurt in a number of ways economically.
So we need to keep supporting the Palestinians etc with vigour.