Anthony Blinken knows that the dream of a pure supremacist Jewish colony in the Middle East living in peace is unachievable. His proposals to the Israeli terrorist government are, however, met with a response straight from 19th century vintage colonial mindset.
On his umpteen trip to the Middle East in three months, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is offering Israel security and acceptance by the Arab regimes in the region on condition that it accepts the existence of a sovereign Palestinian state.
Blinken qualified this offer of normalizing relations between the native countries of the region and the Anglo-Saxon colony of Israel as “transformative”, with the understanding that this regional approach to a solution does include “a pathway to a Palestinian state,” adding, “These goals are attainable, but only if they’re pursued together. This crisis has clarified you can’t have one without the other.''
But Blinken could not answer the question whether Israel has been receptive to the idea of a Palestinian state, a sign of Netanyahu’s persistent opposition to that idea. The Jewish terrorist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confirmed in a social media post, "Mr. Secretary Blinken, it’s not the time to speak softly with Hamas, it’s time to use that big stick."
Blinken’s posture, and behind him US President Joe Biden whose chances of winning the elections next November are fast dwindling because of his subservient stance to Israel, appears to walk a dangerous tightrope: he said he and Israeli leaders agreed to a plan for the U.N. to conduct an “assessment mission’’ to determine what will be required for Palestinians to return safely to their homes in northern Gaza. “In today’s meetings I was also crystal clear: Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow,'' Blinken said. "They must not be pressed to leave Gaza.''
This is in sharp contrast to Israeli terrorist ministers’ statements advocating expelling the indigenous Palestinian population and replacing it with foreign Jewish settlers. In addition, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Blinken that Israel will “intensify” military efforts in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza until Hamas leaders are captured or killed and the Israeli hostages are freed, objectives that the US has made clear are not achievable by wanton violence.
Saudi Arabia meanwhile has repeated its eagerness to normalize relations with Israel after the war in Gaza, but on condition that the creation of a Palestinian state must materialize as part of the deal. According to Prince Khalid bin Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, a pact was "close" when U.S.-brokered talks ceased after the attack by Hamas on Israel. Saudi Arabia, which has never recognized Israel's right to exist, still seeks ties with Israel despite the "deplorable" casualty figures in Gaza, the prince said. He also said the West must treat Israel the same as it treats other nations. "The blind spot toward Israel is a real problem because it provides a blind spot to peace," he said.
Business Insider headlined its report on January 8, 2024, as follows: "Israel is hinting at a wider war in the Middle East — one that the US thinks it will lose".
With Israel's war in Gaza still raging, tensions have also been flaring between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah — and Israel is hinting that a wider war may be on the horizon, according to a report from the Washington Post. But the US has privately warned Israel that it might not stand a chance against the Iran-backed militants, the Post reported.
That's because the US thinks Israel's resources will be spread too thin in a
broader conflict, the Post reported, citing two people familiar with a secret
assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency. "A strategic defeat" is how US Defense Seceretary Lloyd James Austin called Israel's suicidal bellgerence.
"We prefer the path of an agreed-upon diplomatic settlement," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Friday, according to the Washington Post. "But we are getting close to the point where the hourglass will turn over." In his latest address on Friday, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, said that while he would respond to Israeli attacks, he is open to negotiations. It is clear from Nasrallah’s speeches that any conflagration with Israel would be so devastating to Lebanon that it would mean the end of Hezbollah itself, as more than two-thirds of the Lebanese people and political leadership rejects Iran’s holding Lebanon hostage to a violent resolution of the Palestinian problem. The problem for Hezbollah is that it is trapped in its violent posture: If Hezbollah does not wage an all-out war in support of Gaza, it would lose the little support it has left among the Shiite community in Lebanon and with it its raison d’être. If on the other hand Hezbollah does wage that war, it would mean the end of its existence as a “resistance” and possibly an irreversible change in Lebanon’s existence as we know it.
Therefore, while it is clear that Hezbollah is not interested in escalating the conflict, the Israeli terrorist government itself is also cornered in its radical posture of eliminating Palestine altogether and thus finds an exit with a major war against Hezbollah despite the extensive damage Israel might sustain.
The fact that Blinken's spokesman Matthew Miller felt it necessary to say, "It is in no one's interest — not Israel's, not the region's, not the world's — for this conflict to spread beyond Gaza," suggests that Israel and the US are having a fundamental disagreement over what to do after the war in Gaza. A reminder that the Biden administration has been at odds with Israel’s Netanyahu long before Biden became President. The relationship between President Obama, whose vice-president was none else than Biden himself, was icy and visibly antagonistic over the Palestinian issue. But Netanyahu was encouraged by the dumb idiot Donald Trump to trample over the Palestinian issue, which in retrospect appears to have been an abject failure.
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