speak to soon…
The Biden administration unusually let Steven Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, lead the process - Trump scored this one Gratis
They were saying this morning that they have been stalling so that Netanyahu can approve it just as Trump comes into office as his gift to the orange shitlord.
That way when the shooting starts again (given the region’s history, I fear it’s ‘when’ rather than ‘if’) Trump will be left holding the bouquet as it turns to shit.
Yeah enough rope etc, sadly this type of ploy applies to voters interested in fact. - If he can get a pass on ‘grabbing em by the pussy’ and being a convicted fraudster, few will blame him for what those: ‘double crossin’ A-rabs’ do.
Netanyaloon will get a few hostages back and then find some excuse to go back in with bombs and bulldozers.
Prime seafront real estate is worth much more than hostages (and while there’s fighting nobody will look at him)
He’ll claim peace and there will be war. He’ll either be a knave (he was smart enough to know war was coming, but it suited him to lie) or a fool (fool enough not to tie the A-rabs down hard enough). As you say, his base is detached from reality. But at least he won’t be able to blame the Democrats for the mess, which he sure as hell would have done if he’d inherited ‘their’ deal.
Sure, sadly for now he’s a ‘winner’. The ‘optics’ reinforce the ‘strong, dynamic and capable’ twaddle he’s been pumping all along (Shot in the ear - Hero, peace in the midle east - Hero, freeing hostages - Hero…). On the upside no one in the UK will need a hairdryer with the amount of hot air blasting across the pond for the next x4 years.
Just as well because we won’t be able to afford to manufacture, buy or run it
hahahahahaha
And just as the news conference ended, the president was asked who should take credit for the deal – him or Trump. Biden turned back and said “is that a joke?” before walking away.
Trump, meanwhile, said on Truth Social that the “epic” agreement was only possible because he won November’s presidential election.
Fucking BBC, earlier it was saying 73 killed but now the story has gone and it’s been changed to something more palatable
BBC News have been doing that throughout, most often saying people have been killed but rarely making it clear who actually did the killing.
Yes, the persistent inconsistency of passive vs active voice and the language they use to describe children is quite jarring.
Had a small expectation this was going to be shut down by the right wing nutters.
Get the ceasefire in and they can start rebuilding the hospitals, Israel had better be paying for the work, if they go out to the rest of the world expecting the rest of us to pick up the bill for all the destruction they have done I hope there is a collective threat of sanctions until they cough up.
Alas, like fuck any of that is going to happen.
So ceasefire in Gaza, hmm I know we can just kill more people in the west bank
“Jonathan Turner, the chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, said [The Lancet letter about civilian deaths in Gaza] also ignored factors that may increase average life expectancy there, bearing in mind that one of the biggest health issues in Gaza prior to the current war was obesity.”
What bunch of cunts!