⬆️ @lukevanin @TruthSandwich
Oh, I agree 100% with you.
#Israel should NOT tolerate any deal with #Hamas left in place.
But this convo is in the context of #IsolateIran, which #Bibi could have accomplished by piling whatever onerous terms re Hamas he wanted while accepting #US offer.
That Bibi did not even deign to do that, and that he repeatedly rebuffed #Biden makes it clear that #Likud and Hamas BOTH want the blame imputed to Biden so that #Trump may return in #Election2024
⬆️ @lukevanin @TruthSandwich
If #Netanyahu had played along with #Arabs and #US, he would have marginalized #Iran and #Hamas, and potentially extracted a better deal in a compromise.
Now it is clear he doesn't want a deal and is biding his time with #Biden
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>> Hamas is … doing it simply so they can show the pretence of being open to peace
Actually, Hamas never agreed to it. The Arabs did. Even #Iran was positive. That's why I believe Israel completely #missedOpportunity to #IsolateIran
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Really, NOW is the time for #Netanyahu to put the albatross around #Iran's neck and completely #IsolateIran by agreeing to the #US offer ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111750458528907844
#Saudis just signaled that they are ready to accept the US offer for peace if #Palestinian issue is resolved 🔥🔥🔥
"We agree that regional peace includes peace for #Israel, but that could only happen through peace for the Palestinians through a Palestinian state," Prince Faisal bin #Farhan said.
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Now, all #Netanyahu has to do to put the albatross around #Iran's neck and completely #IsolateIran is to agree to the #US offer ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111750458528907844
Under the US offer, #Arab leaders would support #regionalIntegration, including normalized relations with #Israel, in exchange for end to the War, & #Israel's acceptance of a "clear path" to #Palestinian political rights & unified Palestinian state, comprising #WestBank & #Gaza.
⬆️ Why is #China interested in stopping the #MiddleEast conflict?
#US pressed China 🔥 to rein Iran in and help prevent conflict between #Israel & Iran-backed #Hamas from spreading.
The 3 US efforts to #IsolateIran are linked ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111757666014700319
Beijing is under pressure to prove that the #rapprochement it brokered between rivals #Iran & #SaudiArabia was sincere.
Now, China's FM #WangYi said it wants to play a #constructiveRole in handling global "#hotspotIssues"
⬆️ Completely suppressing any mention of the public US letter to #Israel asking it to end the war ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111750458528907844, #Iran spurned the #privateUSMessage it received, incorrectly saying that #US can't call for restraint while backing Israel's war in #Gaza ➡️ https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-us-delivered-private-message-iran-about-houthi-attacks-2024-01-13/
Even #China's message ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111757651494033655 seems to have fallen on deaf ears.
#China has entered the room with carefully crafted words from FM #WangYi.
#Yi said conflict in #Gaza "is causing massive casualties among innocent civilians, leading to serious humanitarian disasters and accelerating the spread of negative spillover effects" without saying who is at fault & without using the word #genocide.
"Influential countries, in particular, need to play an objective, impartial and #constructiveRole," said Yi & #Gheit of #ArabLeague.
⬆️ Here is the #US offer
#Arab leaders would support #regionalIntegration, including normalized relations with #Israel, in exchange for end to the War, & #Israel's acceptance of a "clear path" to #Palestinian political rights & unified Palestinian state, comprising #WestBank & #Gaza.
The plan would #IsolateIran and reduce #Iran's malign efforts to destablize the region through proxy actors like #Hezbollah, #Hamas and #Houthi
#permanentStateOfWar #inTheirName
The 2 messages together make sense
Ramesh #NotGoingBack