The Cabinet unanimously approved the ceasefire unanimously; Time designated for the start of the ceasefire: 02:00 at night – subject to understandings between Hamas and Egypt. https://t.co/gyZ3k4nGwG
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) May 20, 2021
This will give Hamas some time to regroup.
CogitoErgoSum says
Unless they agree to pay the Jizya with humble submission this will go on and on. Of course, they could always fight to win.
mgoldberg says
but…. we won’t let them. And that is a sad chronic situation. We had a lovely brief four yrs when that was not so. Now, that is erased.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
gregbeetham says
The satanic cult leaders of Hamas are probably buried in one of their tunnels, hopefully dead, but that’s probably why they want a ceasefire, they want to dig them out.
Israel should drop a bomb on the varmints where they are digging because if the shoe was on the other foot they would do exactly that. Anyway, who cares, Israel already gets blamed for everything now because of their lies so why not get blamed for a real one, what difference would it make? Israel could say it wasn’t us, they must have set off an unexploded bomb.
wpm says
Old slow Joe bribe them Biden gave the Jizya to Iran which help supply the missiles to Hamas ,he has alot more Jizya to pay from our tax rolls to keep the horror story going.
Dude says
USA funds the wars, but who actually manufactures/sells the rockets. These are the real criminals. God made the jihadis stupid for a reason – so such evil would have to terrorize with sticks and stones, and be vanquished in a heartbeat.
wpm says
Arms come from many sources and are made by many nations including Iran ,China ,America, Russia Slow Joe has given them the money to buy weapons above sticks and stones grade. Also slow Joe and the “squad” have given political support on America,s home front to attack Israel and have given anti-Semitic protest here in America with the red green alliance to start rioting this summer here in America mark my words.
Dude says
We all know that fheir scriptures tell them to make treaties where it is advantageous, but there is no need to follow them. In black and white: the THUG lifestyle made divine.
When they feel powerful, after enough akbhars and whining about being punished for being such ‘holy-sanctioned monsters’ they will go crazy again.
However, Netanyahu has seen this so often; they can’t con him. And soon they won’t be able to con the world, except of course for those who are in on the con.
Frank Scarn says
This is the sort of thing that I don’t understand about Israel and the GOP.
Don’t they want to win?
CogitoErgoSum says
I guess they don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.
Infidel says
Israel needs their own Trump, and Bibi ain’t it!
gravenimage says
Netanyahu is actually the best leader Israel has had in decades. I doubt that anyone could have done more–especially with the appalling Biden administratiion in Washington.
gravenimage says
The GOP is not in power in the US right now.
Jim says
The West no longer dares to fight to win, that would be racist and bigoted and white supremacist.So it is sort of the situation that Sartre described in one of his plays. Several people are in Hell in a room together, and they are condemned to repeat the same futile and dysfunctional interactions forever.
CogitoErgoSum says
I sometimes wonder if we are not already in Hell … or at least in Purgatory.
Wellington says
My Polish-born grandmother, CES, herself a devout Catholic, said that what Hell really is is life on earth. Hey, who am I to contradict Bushie (colloquial in Polish for grandma, having no relationship, thank God I might add, to the RINO Bush family).
Then there is Sartre’s concept of Hell. Though I disagree with Sartre on sundry matters, I think his definition of Hell is worthy of consideration too. He said, “Hell? You want to know what Hell is? Hell is other people.”
My Polish grandma and Sartre. Two sides of a very unusual metaphorical coin.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, I like that about Hell being other people. I think maybe the reason we have not discovered signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is because that as soon as intelligent creatures perfect artificial reality they soon stop interacting with each other and disappear into their own separate versions of reality where everything is perfectly suited to their wants and desires.
But maybe I will be proven wrong when the anticipated report on the recent UFO (or UAP) sightings by the military is revealed. We may just end up being hosts for parasitic creatures who can only experience the world themselves by occupying our bodies. I guess things can always be worse and instead of Hell being other people it just might be creatures in flying saucers … and life is but a dream.
Eva says
Your grandmother was right. I’ve thought that for decades. I said it to a friend of mine, years ago, and she was quite freaked out by it, as it had never occurred to her, but she agreed.
I heartily agree with Sartre’s definition too.
Wellington says
Thanks for your responses, Eva and CES.
Wellington says
Just another hudna because Buttlims need a respite from their killing and maiming because they are losing.
Tired of hudnas. Were there no more Buttlims because the dead-enders are all dead (a beautiful sentiment), and the rest of the Buttlim world will have given up on Mo’s foul creed, there would be no more temporary pauses in Muslim slaughterings. A beautiful sentiment indeed.
gravenimage says
Yep.
jewdog says
This may be a very clever move. It helps burnish Israel’s image, and you can bet that the jihadi lunatics will be launching rockets again soon, allowing Israel to play the reluctant warrior as they resume bombing.
Infidel says
But public opinion won’t shift in their favor as a result: those who supported Hamas will continue to support Hamas even if Hamas breaks a ceasefire, and those who supported Israel will continue to support Israel. Netanyahu should have simply cut all lines of communications w/ everyone – Biden, al Sisi, and anyone else in b/w
jewdog says
No, it’s a diplomatic move.
don vito says
So do you think this hudna has a short life span?
jewdog says
yes
don vito says
me too
gravenimage says
Israel approves ceasefire, to begin at 2AM
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Yes–this will just give Hamas time to regroup.
Wellington says
Yep.
Eva says
Absolutely.
commonsense says
We’ve all witnessed this scenario many times before, with ceasefires and hudnas. It’s Ground Hog Day again in Israel. But it seems the only way for Israel to prevent a recurrence of attacks from Gaza is to expel everyone there. A quick glance at a regional map shows how near-impossible that would be, as the only other country contiguous with the Strip is Egypt, and the Egyptians will not accept a million-plus new arrivals, and with justification. For Israel to forcibly relocate hundreds of thousands of hostile, resistive Arabs would be a logistical nightmare. Another alternative, of course, would be for the Israelis to set up a semi-autonomous government in the strip, but that, too, is fraught with serious problems. It appears to be a dilemma without a clear-cut solution. .
Andrew Blackadder says
Methinks that Hamas would like Israel to invade Gaza and that way they can claim victim status to the World at large, the whole scene is a set up to make Israel out to be the bad guy, even though it was Hamas that fired the first rocket, but no doubt those silly wee lassies sitting in the US Congress will tell the world otherwise, and many will blindly follow along.
The headlines in the MSM make it out that Israel attacked Gaza, when in FACT it is the other way around.
Herr Goebbels would b so proud of the USA MSM today.
OLD GUY says
Used to be when your country was attached and you were at war you defended yourself and fought until one side or the other WON. Now it seems that your enemy can attack you and when they know they can not win they take the pause of a ceasefire until they can regroup and begin again. If you kicked Hamas and the other islamic hate groups back to the Stone Age this would come to an end. But when you don’t this will continue forever. Only one gaining from this is the BULLET manufactures, and maybe that explains it all, MONEY!