TheAltWorld Thoughts On The Ceasefire News
Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
Israel always does this. When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing.” Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect.”
But it does appear that the killing and abuse will at least diminish for a time, which is an objectively good thing no matter how you slice it.
The first stages of the agreement reportedly entail a partial withdrawal of IDF troops, Israel’s starvation blockade officially ending, humanitarian aid being allowed into the enclave, and both Israel and Hamas releasing captives and stopping the fighting.
Drop Site News reports that according to Hamas sources, subsequent ceasefire phases will entail “No surrender, no disarming, no mass exile, but most of all a permanent end to the war.”
It remains to be seen if there will be any movement toward a lasting ceasefire beyond the first stage. When an agreement was reached late last year it never made it beyond the first phase and then the Trumpanyahu administration declared a siege and resumed the killing.
The far right members of the Netanyahu regime certainly seem like they don’t expect the ceasefire to hold.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a statement that Israel has a “tremendous responsibility to ensure that this is not, God forbid, a deal of ‘hostages in exchange for stopping the war,’ as Hamas thinks and boasts,” and that “immediately after the hostages return home, the State of Israel will continue to strive with all its might for the true eradication of Hamas and the genuine disarmament of Gaza.”
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir issued similar remarks, saying that he and his Jewish Power party will use their leverage to dismantle the Netanyahu government if it “allows the continued existence of Hamas rule in Gaza.”
Netanyahu himself has been studiously avoiding any talk of commitment to a lasting ceasefire, mostly limiting his public statements to the significance of freeing Israeli hostages.
So there’s not a whole lot to feel optimistic about here. If the killing does stop on a lasting basis, it will be a pleasant surprise.
If it does, we can only surmise that the US and Israel calculated that the worldwide PR crisis created by the genocide was getting too severe to sustain, which would be a win for all of us. Trump has gone on record to say that “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back.”
Either that, or they calculated that they’re going to need all their firepower for a planned war with Iran. Which would of course be terrible for everyone.
We shall see. For now at least it will be nice for everyone to have a breather. If things really do calm down I’m going to do something I’ve never done in my entire writing career and try to take a full weekend off work to decompress. Focusing on a live-streamed genocide for two years takes a toll on the mind and body.
Here’s hoping for a better future.
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-on-the-ceasefire-news
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I think this man explains accurately what this BS “ceasefire” is about:
https://thealtworld.com/finian_cunningham/trumps-gaza-peace-plan-wont-work-its-an-ultimatum-under-genocide
We just have to look at the last one brokered by war criminal Trump and his butcher netanyahu last year and see how it was “applied” by the Jews as soon as they got most hostages back —> non stop genocide.
Sure, as they might plan to attack Iran and as they have lost the last support they had (even the most MAGA dickhead are now seeing clearly into the traitor Trump who serves “israel’ first with their taxes).
Something else made them pause, the not very important killing of one or two jews in a synagogue in the UK might have signaled that the world was now ready to make them pay for the crimes they have been perpetrating against humanity for too long (and not only in Gaza but everywhere, this is why I mean Jews and not only zionist jews).
Trump also, very bizarrely, wanted a Nobel prize… This is so ridiculous that we must pause thinking about it, how can such a mass murderer, a warmonger could even claim such a prize? Well, because it has no value as they give it only to mass murderers or globalist stooges (Obama got one), and second it shows that Trump has no hold on reality and is a complete psychopath.
In any case, this ceasefire is as fake as anything the jews and their lackeys ever agreed to.
Palestinians should use this respite to rest, grieve, regroup, replenish their arsenals, organize, bring as much aid and food as they can, start to rebuild and be fully ready for the next aggression.
Question: why are there no international brigades joining Palestinian groups to fight the invaders?