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“Every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head.”

Several months after Hamas’ 2006 election victory, Haniyeh sent a letter to U.S. President Georg W. Bush, in which he called on the “American government to have direct negotiations with the elected government”, offered a long-term truce with Israel, while accepting a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and urged an end to the international boycott, claiming that it would “encourage violence and chaos”.'. The U.S. government did not respond and maintained its boycott.

The US is considering a legal bid to question the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) authority in seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister over alleged war crimes in Gaza, Middle East Eye can reveal.

A US official briefed on the matter told MEE that the Biden administration is considering submitting an amicus curiae to the ICC, voicing its staunch opposition to the decision of the court’s chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for the Israeli officials, despite the US not being a signatory to the treaty that created the court.

Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi

For so many years Palestinians and many authentic Arab leaders tried to tell the world how pivotal, historic, defining, the year 1948 was. But hardly anyone listened, certainly in the West.

Now I'm thinking that it may not be exaggerated to say that in 1945 WW2 ended, and three years later the groundwork for WW3 began.

If you block out the propaganda relating to the US-USSR conflict, you realize it was always, always about colonialism; and communists understood it, but almost no one in the West did. It was so extremely fringe to even get it. Today so many people get this.

It would be safe to assume everybody will see today's mega-massacre as a call to escalation. From Hezbollah to the Houthies to Jihadi fighters from all over, Israel is telling all of them, today, clearly and loudly: we are not stopping before we murder or subjugate all of you.

So this is it: this is a fight between people who want, respect, and understand freedom, and a civilization that only respects its own brute force. No one is backing down. Coexistence is dead.