STOP!

1. The problem with the US position on Gaza and it’s various peace proposal initiatives, is that the US position does not call for an unequivocal call to both Israel and Hamas to STOP the war in Gaza.

Peace proposals are made subject to certain unilateral and multilateral positions such as daytime ceasefire in return for allowing humanitarian aid to pass through border crossings.

This is an invitation to bring baggage to the negotiating table. It contextualises history, add in psychopathology of Netanyahu, it renders solution impossible.

For example, it’s announced today IDF have proposed daytime cessation of hostilities to allow humanitarian aid to get through to Gaza. There is some ambiguity about this announcement as it’s also been made known Netanyahu is opposed to this temporary ceasefire. Previously, Netanyahu has said the mission to occupy Gaza is expected to last at least 7 months.

The proposed humanitarian window will not apply to Rafah. 8 Israeli soldiers were killed on Saturday in an alleged Hamas ambush of an Israeli armed vehicle. Following the attack and losses Netanyahu reaffirmed his intention to continue to prosecute his war in Gaza.

There are precedents for this madness in Gaza. One recalls the hollow victory of Bush’s war in Iraq when it’s capital Baghdad was taken. This was not the end of that war only the beginning.

Iraq was subsequently torn apart in  civil war that took large casualties from all sides in the conflict.

Lessons also learned in Ireland until it’s Good Friday agreement brought an and to decades of urban warfare also leading to mass casualties on all sides.

Netanyahu is the embodiment of a destructive and malignant cancer that those Israeli casualties are merely the beginning of untold carnage in this region if this war cannot be stopped.

A long protracted drawn out war fought by urban guerrilla warfare is not in the interest of Israel or Palestine.

Netanyahu clearly wants to occupy and annex all of Gaza, driving out it’s native Palestinian population and enact settlers reoccupation of Gaza including it’s West Bank by Israeli occupiers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722r0p31x7o

Netanyahu clearly has demonstrated his lack of good faith in regard to any peace talks that might offer relief to Palestinians living in Gaza.

So where does this leave peace talks with proposals from any interested parties in the conflict? It leaves them nowhere.

We need to focus on where pressure can most be brought to bear to end the conflict.

This brings us to the role of the US in particular it’s role in proposing Peace Initiatives. It’s not good for US policy agenda to be clearly aligned with Israeli genocide in Gaza with upwards of 37000 dead, most of whom innocent men, women and children, untold number of casualties and the rest of the population of Gaza living under siege and famine.

The moral support of Israel under Netanyahu is unconscionable. Today Netanyahu dissolved his powerful war cabinet https://bit.ly/3xllhOj This is after key members have quit:

“…The Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the change with the media, said Netanyahu will now hold smaller forums with some government members for sensitive issues surrounding the war. 

That includes his security Cabinet, where far-right governing partners who oppose cease-fire deals and have voiced support for reoccupying Gaza, are members….”

To what extent US lame duck proposals for Peace Initiatives that include ceasefire that will constantly be ignored and shot down by Netanyahu, are in fact empty window dressings on what the real US position on the war in Gaza is namely, nominal support for Netanyahu that is primary to any secondary doubts about his genocidal tactics and intentions! Hopefully, this is not true, but the longer time passes with Netanyahu allowed to prosecute his war in Gaza, the more this appears to be true.

Make your own mind up but bear in mind its common knowledge that Netanyahu’s tactics at home and abroad make it clear Netanyahu intends to occupy GAZA and prosecute his war with remorseless cruelty at least for the medium to long term.

Forget Peace Negotiations under Netanyahu. They’ve run their course and failed. 

The US needs to say STOP! to Netanyahu.

If he fails to stop immediately, the US should introduce sanctions and join other countries blocking military and financial aid to him.

If that fails to STOP the genocide, then the UN should intervene to force the opening of humanitarian aid corridors into GAZA. If that should fail, serious thought and action should be put into the military defense of the people of GAZA to protect them against ongoing genocidal operations mounted against them by Israel.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/11/politics/antony-blinken-gaza-aid-humanitarian/index.html 

Its time for Antony Blinken to seriously give up his nonsense that it is only Hamas that opposes ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu ignores Blinken’s calls for ceasefire they go on deaf ears.

”  There was an “ecosystem” for humanitarian aid work in Rafah – some non-governmental organizations and UN agencies provide logistical facilities, others provide transportation, “everybody works together to make that possible,” he described to CNN. But with the Israeli military operation happening since the beginning of May, “it could not function anymore, it just ground to a halt.”

International officials and humanitarian workers have described the situation in Gaza as unprecedented in its complexity and scope. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the conference Tuesday that “the speed and scale of the carnage and killing in Gaza is beyond anything in my years as Secretary-General.”

If a parent finds 2 siblings fighting, the parent cries STOP! and stops the fighting by whatever means is required. Its time to forget about historical contextualising consent predicated on futile analysis of cause and effect with blame and accountability ceaselessly allowed to sabotage action that will save children, mothers, parents and families from genocide. 

Antony, Netanyahu is a psychopath and psycho, no amount of appeal to a rational voice exists for this sociopath.

Its time to wake up and grow up. Do what needs to be done. Have your negotiations after the fighting and genocide stops. 

STOP! the genocidal war in GAZA, or be seen as a willing accomplice to genocide!

 

till again,

 

Colm