ceasefire
noun/ˈsisˌfaɪər/ a time when enemies agree to stop fighting, usually while a way is found to end the fighting permanently synonym truce a call for an immediate cease-fire a permanent/a temporary/an interim cease-fire
-Oxford Dictionary
Since the Israeli retaliation against the October 7th atrocities committed by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, there have been numerous calls for a ceasefire from humanitarians around the world.
However, as the initial ceasefire calls intensified due to the alarming number of Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, being indiscriminately slaughtered, the United States resorted to blocking these appeals in the United Nations Security Council by vetoing all the resolutions bar one. However, even after that last proposal, in which US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield abstained from voting, she sabotaged the passing of the resolution by declaring it non-binding.
Is it any wonder that Linda Thomas-Greenfield and her alternate, Robert A. Wood, became mockingly known as the black faces of American imperialism?
Subsequently, since March this year, US President Joe Biden has been broadcasting to the world that Israel has proposed a ceasefire deal that Hamas continually rejects. This, of course, is a blatant lie, one which is often repeated by US spokespersons and, unsurprisingly, the Western mainstream media. Recently, ratified presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been repeating the same lie ad museum to boost her chances of winning the elections while simultaneously proclaiming unambiguously that she will continue to send bombs and funding to Israel.
Harris’s improved standing in the election polls reflects a critical shallowness in political thought within Democratic circles. This observation is entrenched by the refrain “Vote Blue, No Matter Who,” which is doing the rounds on social media and elsewhere. It’s no coincidence that the newly resurrected ceasefire rhetoric started gaining traction just before the National Democratic Convention, at which Harris was confirmed as the Democratic candidate. This ceasefire rhetoric has been considerably amplified ever since.
For its part, Israel has no intention of agreeing to a ceasefire. Another giveaway is its inflammatory posturing, which is closely matched by military aggression on the ground. Needless to say, the war crimes being committed by the IDF in both Gaza and the West Bank continue amassing at an obscene rate.
Further, Prime Minister Netanyahu confirms his singular lack of intent by repeatedly sabotaging any efforts at peace. It’s become common knowledge that his political and personal future is tied innately to war and maintaining an unstable Middle East. Recently, political analyst Marwan Bishara commented on Al Jazeera that Netanyahu “wants a ceasefire where Hamas ceases and Israel fires.”
While Western media has been complicit in spreading the ceasefire lies, Israeli publication The Times Of Israel not only let slip that Netanyahu is an obstacle to a ceasefire deal but that Hamas had, as early as October 9th, offered to release all civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Gaza Strip. However, the ongoing ten-month-old carnage being perpetrated in Gaza confirms that Netanyahu is determined to continue the ethnic cleansing project that started in 1948.
On another front, it’s uncanny how every time US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to the ME on the pretext of diplomatic and peace efforts, there’s a new atrocity committed by Israel – school or refugee camp bombing, dismembering of children and babies, military strikes on neighbouring countries, assassinations, etc. It’s almost like he jets to the ME to personally sign those death warrants. It’s certainly not to accumulate frequent flyer miles or mediate in peace deals because his success rate is zero percent.
A final but straightforward indicator that the US does NOT, in fact, want a ceasefire was verbalized by Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar recently when she said, “If you really wanted a ceasefire, you just stop sending the weapons.”
It’s really that simple.
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