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| Netanyahu will not concede to a ceasefire. British officials halt some of the weapons. |
The apartheid ethnostate of Israel will not ceasefire. It will continue to invade Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and drag the United States into its regional conflicts.
Israel continues to push the goal line in this nearly a year of conflict.
Hamas is about close to ending talks and is willing to start burying bodies. See they know guerilla warfare. They have the opportunity to eliminate the incompetent Israeli Defense Forces.
Iran has not launched its full scale war against Israel. The U.S. is working behind the scenes to ease tensions but still threatening Iran to not attack Israel.
Israel has cause so much chaos and the world is tired of it.
President Joe Biden has told the junk food media that Israel isn't doing enough to stop the fighting and rescuing the settlers.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has complained about it and pivoted to blaming Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. He has went as far to saying that Israel should drop nuclear weapons on Gaza and Iran. Ignorantly not realizing that radioactivity spreads and it could trigger long lasting effects on the region.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an incompetent racist gasbag. He is not listening to American and British leaders. The U.S. and Great Britain are the leading providers of weapons to Israel. They have not stopped providing ammunition to this country.
In his first public address since Sunday’s mass protests showed many Israelis’ furious response to the discovery of six more dead settlers, Netanyahu said he will continue to insist on a demand that has emerged as a major sticking point in talks — continued Israeli control of the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow band along Gaza’s border with Egypt where Israel contends Hamas smuggles weapons into Gaza. Egypt and Hamas deny it.
Netanyahu called the corridor vital to ensuring Hamas cannot rearm via tunnels. “This is the oxygen of Hamas,” he said.
Key ally the United States is showing impatience. Biden spoke to reporters as he arrived at the White House for a Situation Room meeting with the U.S. mediation team in the negotiations. Asked if Netanyahu was doing enough, Biden responded, “No.”
He insisted that negotiators remain “very close” to a deal, adding, “Hope springs eternal.”
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| Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing pressure to cut Israel loose. |
Hamas has accused Israel of dragging out months of negotiations by issuing new demands, including for lasting Israeli control over the Philadelphi corridor and a second corridor running across Gaza. Hamas has offered to release all hostages in return for an end to the war, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants — broadly the terms called for under an outline for a deal put forward by Biden in July.
Netanyahu has pledged “total victory” over Hamas and blames it for the failure of the negotiations. On Monday, he said he is ready to carry out the first phase of the cease-fire — a plan that would include the release of some hostages, a partial pullout of Israeli troops and the release of some prisoners held by Israel. But he rejected a full withdrawal
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The ICC warned that the U.S. should stay out of its way and not issue threats to interfere in its investigation.
Israel has put a hit on ICC officials and chief prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan.
The British government under its new leadership has officially put a block on some weapons.
British and American far right agitators are outraged. Israel is outraged and claiming that the leaders of British Labour are siding with the terrorists.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government said Monday that it’s suspending exports of some weapons to Israel because they could be used to break international law — a move with limited military impact intended to increase pressure by Israel’s frustrated allies for an end to the war in Gaza.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the U.K. government had concluded there is a “clear risk” some items could be used to “commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
He told lawmakers the decision related to about 30 of 350 existing export licenses for equipment “that we assess is for use in the current conflict in Gaza,” including parts for military planes, helicopters and drones, along with items used for ground targeting.
The decision wasn’t “a determination of innocence or guilt” about whether Israel had broken international law, and wasn’t an arms embargo, he said.
Israeli Defense Minister Gallant said on X: “Deeply disheartened to learn of the sanctions placed by the U.K. Government on export licenses to Israel’s defense establishment.
The United Kingdom is among a number of Israel’s longstanding allies whose governments are under growing pressure to halt weapons exports because of the toll of the nearly 11-month-old conflict in Gaza. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, which doesn’t distinguish between militants and civilians in its toll.
The war broke out on Oct. 7 after Hamas militants and others stormed into Israel and killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 250 settlers. Roughly 100 settlers remain in Gaza, a third of whom are believed to be dead.
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| Lindsey Graham is a racist. He doesn't care about the collateral damage. He wants Israel to nuke Gaza, Iran and Lebanon. |
British firms sell a relatively small amount of weapons and components to Israel compared to major suppliers such as the U.S. and Germany. Earlier this year, the government said military exports to Israel amounted to 42 million pounds ($53 million) in 2022.
But the U.K. is one of Israel’s closest allies, so the decision carries some symbolic significance. The military affairs correspondent for Israel’s Channel 13 TV said that the move could become more serious if other allies follow suit.
Sam Perlo-Freeman, research coordinator for the group Campaign Against Arms Trade, said that the announcement was “a belated, but welcome move.” But he said that it was “outrageous and unjustifiable” that parts for F-35 fighter jets weren’t among the exports being suspended.
The government move comes after two groups, Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq and the U.K.-based Global Legal Action Network, filed a legal challenge aimed at forcing the U.K. to stop granting any licenses for arms exports to Israel. The case has yet to go to a full court hearing.
Dearbhla Minogue, senior lawyer for the Global Legal Action Network, said the government’s “momentous decision vindicates everything Palestinians have been saying for months.”
The U.K.’s center-left Labour government under Starmer, elected in July, has faced pressure from some of its own members and lawmakers to apply more pressure on Israel to stop the violence. In the election, the party lost several seats it had been expected to win to pro-Palestinian independents after Starmer initially refused to call for a cease-fire following Israel’s retaliation after Oct. 7.
In a departure from the stance of its Conservative predecessor, Starmer’s government said in July that the U.K. will not intervene in the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Starmer also restored funding for U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, which had been suspended by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government in January.
Lammy, who has visited Israel twice in the past two months as part of Western efforts to push for a cease-fire, said that he was a Zionist and “friend of Israel,” but called the violence in Gaza “horrifying.”
“Israel’s actions in Gaza continue to lead to immense loss of civilian life, widespread destruction to civilian infrastructure, and immense suffering,” he said.
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