With the Biden administration essentially pausing work on ceasefire negotiations to end the war in Gaza, Israel’s fresh assaults on Hezbollah in Lebanon this week are adding another layer of complication, making prospects for a near-term deal all the more difficult – if not impossible – at least while the bombs are falling.

In recent days, senior US officials had largely stopped making a vigorous push on the ceasefire negotiations, sources told CNN, having determined there is currently no political will on either side – Hamas or Israel’s – to end the conflict.

Even as President Joe Biden and top aides refuse to abandon the effort entirely, a senior Democrat close to the White House summed up the sentiment among some officials involved in those deliberations this way: “We can’t want this more than they want it.”

  • @[email protected]M
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    Less to do with Biden and more to do with Bibi, who is banking on a Trump win. He’s not an honest broker and he knows the Biden administration is a lame duck.

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      Let’s punish Biden anyway by voting for Jill Stein! Then, when President Trump gives Netanyahu the go ahead to “finish the job”, we will know we voted our conscience!

    • abff08f4813c
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      22 months ago

      To be fair I feel that it’s less about Biden being a lame duck. In a way he’s not, due to the potential impact of his actions pre-election day on the Harris campaign as well as downstream Senate races.

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    Netanyahu is a fucking piece of shit.

    I mean, like, goddamn.

    I don’t know what’s keeping Iran out of this conflict but I’m thankful they aren’t all in. This would be a fucking disaster beyond the current nightmare clusterfuck.

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      102 months ago

      The US is keeping Iran out. If the US even suggests it won’t invade Iran in response, Iran would eliminate Israel within an hour of that statement being made. They proved they can defeat the iron dome, cheaply even.

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        Bombing campaigns are surprisingly ineffective at winning wars. Iran could possibly kill some people but it would be very far from winning that way. Not in an hour, not in a decade

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    192 months ago

    THEN STOP RUNNING COVER FOR THEM

    Jesus christ “we’ve tried nothing and were all out of ideas!”

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    32 months ago

    Because, just like Putin, netanyahu is waiting for the results of the Amerian election. If it falls to Trump they’ll be better off.