Failed Attempts to Continue the Occupation Through Fraudulent Negotiations
The ongoing U.S./Zionist sabotage of negotiations for a ceasefire to end the fighting in Gaza and for an exchange of prisoners is making their attempt to commit fraud increasingly evident. The brutal Zionist assassination of the Chief Negotiator for the Palestinian Resistance, Ismail Haniyeh, failed miserably to defeat the Palestinian Resistance which came back even stronger in its resolve to rid Palestine of the Zionist plague. Thanks to the steadfastness which continues to characterize the principled positions of the Palestinian Resistance, the real motivation behind each Zionist proposal is revealed. Since the start of the war, the Resistance Movement Hamas has held fast to the terms of all the Resistance organizations for a permanent ceasefire and full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
What the U.S. is
putting forward for discussion is a three-phase process
beginning with
a prisoner exchange, an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a
lasting
ceasefire. U.S. President "Genocide Joe" Biden gave support for
the
proposal in a May 31 speech and the UN Security Council approved
it
shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, Israeli President Benjamin
Netanyahu has
repeatedly stated he will continue the genocidal war in Gaza
until the
Palestinian Resistance is destroyed. His refusal to negotiate
the
release of Israeli captives has caused an uproar in Israel,
adding to
the political and existential crisis in which Israel is mired.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to support Netanyahu’s efforts to ensure the genocide in Gaza continues. On September 1, in response to news of the bodies of six Israeli captives being found, he tweeted his own imperious conditions: “Hamas must release all hostages, lay down its arms, and have no future in the governance of Gaza. Leaders must reach a deal to bring the rest of the hostages home and end the violence.”
The U.S. is working with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on what is said to be a final "take it or leave it" deal which it will present to the parties involved in the coming weeks, the Washington Post reported on September 1.
If both sides refuse the proposal, this could mark the end of the U.S.-led negotiations, "an unnamed senior U.S. official" told the Post. "You can't keep negotiating this. This process has to be called at some point," the official is quoted as saying. Regarding the discovery of six dead Israeli captives on August 31, the official told the Post, "Does it derail the deal? No. If anything, it should add additional urgency in this closing phase, which we were already in."
According to commentators, the implication of this ultimatum is that losing the U.S. in the negotiations would be a bad thing and the Palestinian people should abandon their resistance because they can expect nothing better. In this way, everything is focused on keeping the U.S. in the driver's seat when everything shows the U.S. drive to keep Israel as its proxy in west Asia is the problem in the first place.
Basing its calculations on such ultimatums succeeding is one obvious miscalculation when dealing with the Palestinian Resistance whose fighters are not in this for personal gain. This is something the politicians of the rich clearly cannot understand because they always have a price. This will not pass and it is clear that the Palestinian Resistance will continue its actions on the battlefield until a proper ceasefire deal is negotiated. Meanwhile, the crisis Israel faces due to its war on Gaza will continue to deepen.
In August, the U.S. negotiated a "bridging proposal" which it claimed was to find common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance. While the U.S. has sought to paint a rosy picture of the negotiations, Hamas has indicated the deal is unacceptable because it departs from previous iterations that it had largely accepted. Hamas opted out due to the inclusion of several of Prime Minister Netanyahu's conditions, namely continued troop presence along the Gaza-Egypt border and Netzarim corridor and a screening mechanism to inspect displaced Gazans returning to north Gaza. This "bridging proposal" also included a right for Israel to resume fighting the war once captives were swapped. Such a condition is an obvious non-starter for the Palestinian side and Hamas has demanded the return to the proposal which it accepted on July 2, based on the outline announced by Biden in May.
"The conditions proposed by Israel do not even meet the scenario supported by the UN Security Council on June 10, nor the conditions that Hamas agreed to on July 2. Israel wants Hamas to accept the Israeli presence in the Philadelphi axis," sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry told Anadolu Agency on August 19.
"It wants to impose surveillance on Gazans who pass from south to north through checkpoints at the Netzarim Junction [separating the north and south of the Strip]. Israel also wants to be able to object to 100 names from a list of about 300 prisoners that Hamas wants to release," the sources added.
The sources went on to say that there is an additional Israeli demand relating to around 200 Palestinians that Israel wishes to deport from Gaza and Ramallah. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's "ultimate goal is to buy time to continue military action," they said.
But this is precisely what has run out for Netanyahu -- time.
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 47 - September 7, 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/MS54475.HTM
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