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This week’s “breakthrough” in ceasefire negotiations to end the genocidal campaign against Gaza came, according to regional sources, after a single intervention by US president-elect Trump’s designated envoy Steve Witkoff in which he ordered Netanyahu's government to capitulate.

While we might be skeptical of Trump’s habit of claiming credit for any progress, it was corroborated by the far-right members of the Netanyahu government erupting into the kind of tantrum for which they are now world-famous, framing the deal as a disaster imposed on "Israel" by the incoming administration.

In the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Biden, while parroting "Israel’s" atrocity propaganda about beheaded infants in ovens, gave Netanyahu a carte blanche to declare total war on the people of Gaza. As the unique scale of the atrocities in the Strip became clear, Biden proceeded, through his spineless UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, to provide diplomatic cover for the genocide at the Security Council.

In June, Biden lied that a ceasefire deal had finally been reached, that it was at the initiative of the Netanyahu government, and that the Israeli leadership had accepted it. Secretary of State Antony Blinken clownishly trumpeted this falsehood, along with the claim that the only impediment to the ceasefire was Hamas’ refusal of its terms. It was well known at the time to be a lie, but the breakthrough of the last week confirms it beyond all doubt.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. You did.

But I'm done indulging your willful playing dumb. For a year now, blueMaga liberals like you have insisted that just because you refuse to acknowledge obvious facts, the rest of us can't either. Clearly it costing them an election has only caused them to double down.

[–] BrokenGlepnir -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I implied that? I didn't mean to. Where did I say that. But the conspiracy theory you are referring to isn't that it forced joe Biden to send weapons (and yes he's a piece of shit for doing it, it's immoral). At least I don't know where I said that specifically (if trump calls someone I don't know how that forced joe Biden to do anything)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Was I not clear that I'm not going to indulge your willful playing dumb anymore?