the irrelevant pinkwashing as Israel murders tens of thousands is one of the stupidest strategies I've seen Israel apologists deploy. "it doesn't matter that there was no yellow cake, 1 million Iraqis had to die because they hate the gays.. herp derp" yes, the gang is called Israeli settlers. you think Palestinians have power in the west bank? Why do only Israeli settlers get guns?
With over 80% of the Jewish citizens of Israel demanding the total elimination of the Hamas leadership and militants in Gaza, Netanyahu quite rightfully rejects the demands of the terror group. Netanyahu rejects Hamas’ conditions for deal to release hostages and end war as pressure mounts to free remaining captives https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/middleeast/netanyahu-rejects-hamas-hostage-offer-mime-intl/index.html Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Hamas’ conditions for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the release of hostages held there as he faces increasing public pressure to bring the captives home. In order to release the remaining hostages, Netanyahu said Hamas was demanding an end to the war, the release of Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. “I work on this around the clock. But to be clear: I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas,” he said in a statement on Sunday, adding that agreeing to the terms goes against Israel’s security. “If we agree to this, our soldiers fell in vain. If we agree to this, we will not be able to guarantee the security of our citizens,” the Prime Minister said. Out of the 253 hostages Israel says Hamas seized on October 7, Israel believes that 132 are still in Gaza, of whom 104 are thought to be alive. Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas’ conditions comes after a Wall Street Journal report said that the US, Egypt and Qatar want Israel to join a new phase of talks with Hamas that would start with the release of hostages and lead to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. It also comes amid deepening divisions within Israel’s war cabinet about whether to prioritize bringing hostages home over defeating Hamas, and as thousands protested over the weekend in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu’s handling of the war. War cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot last week suggested that the key war aim of defeating Hamas is unrealistic and called for elections within months. Eisenkot also said the government had failed to achieve what he says should be its highest priority: securing the release of the hostages. Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from the Israeli public to secure the release of captives in Gaza. On Monday, more than a dozen people, including families of the hostages, forced their way into a meeting held by the Israeli parliament’s finance committee. The protesters held placards that read: “You will not sit here while they die there.” Video of the scene showed security officers trying to remove the protesters amid shouting and jostling. “It can’t go on like this. You’d better know. It can’t go on like this. You will not sit here while our children die there,” shouted one protester. There were no reports of arrests inside the parliament, known as the Knesset. Israeli police said that in a separate demonstration dozens of protesters had blocked the entrance to the Knesset, “violating public order.” That protest called for an immediate election, and included some of the families of those killed on October 7. After some refused to leave, a police officer announced a dispersal order, according to an Israeli police statement. Netanyahu later told families of the hostages that Israel has an “initiative” to secure the release of those abducted, but there is “no real proposal” from Hamas that would advance their freedom. “Contrary to what is being said, there is no real proposal from Hamas - this is not true,” Netanyahu told representatives of the families of the hostages, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office. “I say this as clearly as I can because there are so many untrue things that must be tormenting you.” “In contrast, there is an initiative of ours, and I will not elaborate,” he added. A poll released on Monday by CNN’s Israeli affiliate Channel 13 found that 35% of Israelis would support a deal involving the release of all hostages from Gaza in exchange for stopping the war and freeing all Hamas detainees in Israel. Nearly half (46%) said they would oppose such a deal. A slim majority (53%) said Netanyahu’s personal interests were the main consideration driving his conduct of the war and a third (33%) said the national interest was his main consideration. It has been more than three months since Israel launched its war against Hamas, which came in response to the group’s brutal October 7 attack that killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli authorities. Meanwhile, the death toll in Gaza on Sunday surpassed 25,000, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the enclave. CNN cannot independently verify the figures. Netanyahu reiterated his rejection of future Palestinian sovereignty over the occupied territories on Saturday after talks with US President Joe Biden about Gaza’s future. The White House has been pushing Israel to recognize the need for the Palestinians to establish an independent state in areas Israel captured in the 1967 war. “I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan - and this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a post Saturday on X. The Prime Minister’s public rejection of a Palestinian state has placed him at odds with Israel’s staunchest ally, which has long advocated for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several European foreign ministers have also joined the chorus of criticism directed at Netanyahu over Israel’s opposition to a two-state solution. Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday that Israel’s opposition to a two-state solution is “unacceptable” and Israel cannot expect countries to drop the issue.
The follow-up from the terrorist group... Hamas official says ‘no chance’ hostages will return to Israel after Netanyahu rejects deal The prime minister said he rejected the terms of a deal which included Israel’s complete withdrawal from Gaza https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tages-release-benjamin-netanyahu-rejects-deal
I expect to see the pro-Hamas crowd on here to be hawking this nonsense shortly. According to Hamas they did not murder and rape any Jewish civilians on October 7th plus all sorts of other nonsense. Hamas releases propaganda doc denying atrocities, blaming Israel for civilian deaths on Oct 7 In a 16-page document, the terror group seeks to justify the October 7 massacre, denies its atrocities committed against civilians, and brand itself as a “national liberation” group. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-783233
It appears that any clown with a smart phone in Gaza can claim to be a "journalist". A majority of these "journalists" in Gaza are nothing more than terrorist sympathizers spreading Hamas propaganda. More Than Half of Palestinian Arab ‘Journalists’ in Gaza Are Terrorist Sympathizers, a Report Claims It takes a special kind of naïveté to suggest that those who delight in the slaughter of civilians will suddenly become respecters of journalistic objectivity. https://www.nysun.com/article/more-...za-are-terrorist-sympathizers-a-report-claims The deaths of two Palestinian Arab reporters traveling with a Hamas attack drone operator in Gaza highlight the blurriness of the line between journalism and terrorism in the current conflict. Were Mustafa Thuria and Hamza Wael al-Dadouh simply documenting the story of a Hamas terrorist who was flying a suicide drone at Israeli troops? Or were they active participants in Hamas combat operations against the IDF? Questions about the role of the Palestinian Arab press in the Gaza conflict first arose in November, when concerns were raised about the role played by some freelance photojournalists working for major news outlets covering the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7. One such cameraman, Hassan Esliah, was sacked by AP and CNN after photos showed him celebrating at a knocked-out Israeli tank. He also posted video footage on social media of himself riding into Israel on the back of a Hamas motorcycle behind a rider grasping a hand grenade. IDF intelligence sources cited captured enemy documents proving that Mustafa Thuria was a deputy squad leader in the Hamas Gaza City Brigade and Hamza Wael al-Dadouh commanded a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket detachment. Quelle surprise. The Committee for Protecting Journalists, a non-governmental organization, has been critical of Israel over what it alleges are unjustified deaths of innocent reporters just going about their journalistic business. Yet British investigative journalist David Collier has done a deep dive into such allegations by CJP. “I went looking for the social media accounts of the 107 journalists who had been named,” Mr. Collier writes. “I successfully found 100 of them.” In a 54-page report , Mr. Collier documents how more than half of those “journalists” were moonlighting as Hamas or Palestinian Jihad activists. He also found that almost three-quarters of those activists published social media posts lauding terrorist attacks against Israel and Jews. For example, a Hamas-affiliated radio presenter, Duaa Sharaf, wrote the following after a 2022 terrorist attack in which three Israeli Jews were shot by Palestinian ISIS supporters: “Kill them, may Allah punish them with your hands and humiliate them.” Ms. Sharaf was included in CPJ’s list of journalist casualties. As was Ahmed Shehab, who spent 23 years in an Israeli prison for terrorist activity and was described in his Palestinian Islamic Jihad death notice as holding the military rank of “commander.” The double life of a Palestinian journo-terrorist like Shehab runs contrary both to the laws of armed conflict and the canon of journalistic ethics. More broadly, it takes a special type of naïveté — or cynical fabrication — to argue that those who delight in the slaughter of civilians will suddenly become respecters of journalistic objectivity.