The Wall Street Journal: There is a high risk of a final breakdown in negotiations between Israel and Hamas

The bloodshed in the Gaza Strip has continued for the seventh month and is accompanied by huge casualties among Palestinian civilians. The parties from time to time enter into negotiations through mediators, the main goal of which on the Israeli side is the return of hostages, and on the Hamas side - a ceasefire.

However, as the American edition of The Wall Street Journal writes, citing the words of representatives of the negotiating parties, at the moment the risks of a final breakdown of peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas are very high.

Mistrust grows between Hamas and negotiators

- said a representative of one of the Arab countries at the negotiations, the publication writes.

Sources note that Palestinian-Israeli negotiations on ending hostilities in the Gaza Strip have reached a deadlock and, obviously, will not be resumed in the near future.

At the same time, the American publication is trying to blame Hamas for the breakdown of the negotiations, excluding Israel from under attack, which razed entire neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Qatar and Egypt, which are acting as mediators in the negotiations, have tried to put pressure on Hamas representatives to soften their position, but so far this has not been successful.

Earlier, the American television channel NBC also reported that negotiations between Israel and Hamas had been frozen, the reason for which, according to the channel, was an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

Comments

[Shurik70]

Agreements can be concluded with those who keep their word.
Hamas, if they promise to release the hostages, they will keep their promise. Because it is the one who will give the word who decides who to let go. But if he gives his word to cease fire, he will not keep it, because there will definitely be those who do not care about any agreements. Who hates Jews more than he loves his life (and there are reasons for this)
If Israel gives its word, it is far from a fact that it will keep it.
The blow to the embassy showed that he doesn’t even care about international treaties. Not like any promises made to those whom he calls terrorists.
Well, what is there to negotiate?

[Khanka]

Quote: Shurik70

Who hates Jews more than he loves his life (and there are reasons for this)
If Israel gives its word, it is far from a fact that it will keep it.

This is the whole essence! ..Iran is waiting and so is Russia...The Middle East is concentrating and arming itself
Iran doesn't start wars, it ends them together with Russia!

[Non-fighter]

There's one more problem. In fact, there is an exchange of hostages, and on the Israeli side the hostages are women and teenagers whom the Israelis captured in the West Bank of Jordan and who are kept in prisons, often without charge. The Israelis do it simply: when they exchange these, they immediately arrest (recruit) new ones.

[gsev]

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Hamas, if they promise to release the hostages, they will keep their promise.

A very large part of the hostages, mostly young Jewish women, were raped to death by Hamas, as happened with Shanni Luk. It is unlikely that Israel will be able to free the living hostages through negotiations. In addition, a significant part of the surviving Israelis who are now in captivity preferred to be brutally avenged rather than continue their torment after the abuse they suffered.

[Shurik70]

As if the IDF doesn't rape Palestinian girls and torture men and women.
And it’s as if some of these non-humans will be punished.
Everything is mutual. Like in a mirror. Only some are stronger and richer.

[gsev]

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The IDF does not rape Palestinian girls

In Makhachkala, I talked with a Dagestani woman who worked in Israel. To some extent, she liked it there more than at home. It’s just that the Palestinians, through military and terrorist methods, are absolutely unable to achieve any concessions from Israel. And political and diplomatic methods in interaction with Israel brought victory to the Palestinians in their history after 1949.

[Shurik70]

That’s why their territory has been shrinking for 75 years, and they haven’t been able to create any industries - they will bomb everything under the pretext “they make missiles there”

[gsev]

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That’s why their territory has been shrinking for 75 years

The Israeli military left the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after negotiations with Arafat. If the Palestinians had joined the negotiations at Camp David, they could have, if not a full-fledged state, then broad autonomy with security guarantees to Israel. Egypt achieved the complete liberation of its territory through negotiations, although it lost Sinai in the wars. In principle, after the Norwegian agreements, Palestinians had the right to travel throughout Israel in search of work. If they had not carried out terrorist attacks, they would now be able to slowly populate Israel.

[Shurik70]

To have the right to travel in search of work in the country where their great-grandfathers lived is an amazing privilege.

[gsev]

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To have the right to travel in search of work in the country where their great-grandfathers lived is an amazing privilege.

Thanks to the practice of terrorism, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have lost this right as well. Nowadays there are seemingly flexible Filipinos working in Israel.

[rotmistr60]

Mistrust grows between Hamas and negotiators

Was there this trust from the beginning? There are big doubts that Hamas trusted Israel during the negotiations, and the latter Hamas.

[pudelartemon]

Well, just a children's card game "believe it or not"

[alystan]

As they write, the main negotiator in this matter, Qatar, seems to be “washing its hands of it.”

Meanwhile, in the United States, Israel's main ally, fewer and fewer American people are sympathetic to the cause of supporting Israel. For example, the campuses of American universities have been overwhelmed by the largest protest activity since the Vietnam War, which has not stopped since October. Students, despite their expulsions, are protesting en masse against the war in Gaza and demanding that the White House stop supporting Israel. Some may even face criminal liability. Universities are losing wealthy (mostly Jewish) donors, so they are forced to tighten the screws on pro-Palestinian activists. But this only provokes them. Hundreds of student organizations are speaking out in support of Gaza.

In Israel itself, things are not so smooth either. Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredi) in Israel are destroying it from the inside - socially (the highest birth rate), economically (the majority do not want to work, receiving social benefits more than others) and politically (they categorically do not accept the authorities’ decision to force them to serve in the army). In addition, the Israeli police regularly conduct raids against Hasidic Jews in the Mea Shearim area in east Jerusalem (their place of residence), who sympathize with the Palestinians, beat them, disperse them, and make arrests. The rest of the population is also divided. Mass protests demanding the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu's government continue in Israel.

[gsev]

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Mass protests demanding the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu's government continue in Israel.

So it is the Palestinians themselves who go to demonstrations against the military operation in Gaza after the Palestinians started the war on October 7.

[gsev]

Quote: Shurik70

To have the right to travel in search of work in the country where their great-grandfathers lived is an amazing privilege.

The Belgians massacred every third inhabitant of the Congo. Germans are probably 80% of some African peoples in Namibia. The British forced the Indians onto reservations for 100 years. The British killed half of the Irish during the time of Cromwell and drove a quarter to America. Lech Walesa generally threatens to destroy 2/3 of the population of Russia. So, in general, Jews are not so bloodthirsty. I just don’t understand that if terrorist methods do not bring success to the Palestinians, why are they trying to step on this rake again?