The strategy by Israel to pretend to accept a peace deal to get back the hostages, and then return to fighting is not a new one.
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Philip Giraldi, the former CIA analyst, said U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday was “devoid” of why Washington is still complicit in Ukraine’s war against Russia and the ongoing Israeli war crimes against “nearly all its neighbors on a daily basis.”
Israel banned all humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday after Hamas refused to agree to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vague plan to extend Phase 1 of the ceasefire instead of beginning Phase 2—as Israel tries to work out a way to get back the hostages while maintaining their troop presence inside the bombed out enclave.
Netanyahu does not want Phase 2 of the ceasefire deal to begin because it calls for the IDF to pull troops from Gaza.
Netanyahu said Sunday: “We have decided to block all entry of goods and supplies into Gaza. If Hamas continues to stand firm in its position and does not release our hostages, there will be further consequences.”
Israel showed no interest in starting Phase 2 and has not held meetings with Hamas leadership about the second phase of the deal. The Israelis were supposed to begin negotiations about Phase 2 last month but never sent any delegations.
“Now that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has decided to come up with some false assertions to break the [ceasefire] agreement, allowing him to continue his extermination of the Palestinian people, Trump as peacemaker seems to have disappeared without a trace even though the U.S. was in a sense a guarantor of the phased disengagement,” he posted on X. “Instead, Trump has doubled down on the side of Israel, issuing a ‘last warning’ to Hamas during direct negotiations with the group to release all of the hostages in Gaza immediately.”
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