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not dealing with the hostage issue when in fact the article gives the reading as dealing with both a ceasefire and an unconditional and immediate release of all hostages. In other words "No we do not agree and we do so because you are trying to make us take what we've been asking for."
The reason the resolution has to be worded this way and be inclusive is because Netanyahu has said that even if all of the hostages are released he is not going to stop military actions. It couldn't be more plain and no matter how the US tries to "word weasel" the matter the resolution links both. I can assure you if two separate resolutions were passed the US would approve the one for release of the hostages and once the hostages were released the US would veto any measure to enforce the ceasefire resolution when Netanyahu failed to comply.
The US has made tiny gestures towards the idea that it holds the radical right wing government in Israel to compliance and accountability. Whether it is mealy mouthed words about settlement activity, disingenuous "demands" about aid and on and on. The US has stood by and used hollow words, equivalent of saying "naughty,naughty", about settlers openly attacking Palestinians in the West Bank while the IDF stands close by and does nothing. If the Palestinians fought back it would be guaranteed the IDF would spring into action. Their whole purpose for being nearby in the first place. Cover. The US has stood by and issued hollow words about the radicals in the settler movement attacking aid trucks bound for Gaza and once again with the IDF nearby doing nothing. The list goes on and on through the decades of hollow words from the US.
We can be sure that we will hear more hollow words from the US at some point about bombing and death tolls all while the evidence that there is absolute blood lust and a smile of satisfaction on the face of Netanyahu with every picture of a dead Palestinian child. While the US issues hollow words and gives disingenuous justifications for official failure after failure for decade after decade to enforce existing resolutions, block new resolutions for enforcement of previously approved resolutions etc. the slaughter continues all while claiming to be "even handed and wanting a 2 state solution". Bullshit. We stood by and for decades blocked action while successive governments in Israel changed the facts on the ground so dramatically in the West Bank that any withdrawal of Israeli settlers, huge amounts of infrastructure etc. make that an impossible situation.
Now comes the annexation in the West Bank which the government in Israel has already put in motion. I'm sure we will hear more words from the US. Make no mistake that it must be recognized that radical, blood thirsty people gained control of government in Gaza and in Israel. It also must be recognized that radical, blood thirsty people also took control of areas of Lebanon. But make no mistake that it also must be recognized that the US is also directly responsible for a part of why it all happened and as the bodies of the dead children pile up the US is directly responsible for part of that also and maybe the US trying to act as though it doesn't have responsibility for a part of it is nearly as sickening as looking at the pictures of dead children from 10/7 and of the dead bodies of children in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon since then.
The enablers of horror, whether the US or Iran, follow other enablers throughout history who claim more or less to have not been a part of the cause of the chaos and then the horror of conflict that followed. The enablers all share some similar traits. Greed, indifference to suffering, complicity and most of all cowardice. Cowardice most of all because that is the description for how enablers always fail to own up to what their part has been and continues to be.
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