Why is Israel demanding control over 2 Gaza corridors in the cease-fire talks?

[moniss]

16. Once again your report you reference is behind the times

and your Netanyahu statement is from his spokesman on Thursday the 22nd. The controversy is what went down on Friday the 23rd.

Hamas has said they are listening but not attending and they are not attending because their stance is they said yes on July 2nd to the proposed Biden deal and since that time there has simply been more things added by Netanyahu. Anybody can parse Bibi saying his "clarifications" are not new items but all of the sourcing from the Western negotiators etc. refutes that. Even his own advisers say it. Even his intelligence say it.

The fact is that the radical right of his coalition does not want any agreement and has so stated. They want an entire taking of Gaza and have said so. So Netanyahu says things to appease Blinken. Blinken comes out and makes statements about "agreed proposals" and then Netanyahu gets an earful from the radical right like Ben-Gvir and then Netanyahu leaks out statements downplaying anything he said to Blinken in order to try and reassure the radical right that he is not going to make an agreement for a ceasefire. Even if he did agree to the first 6 week phase of ceasefire the entire 2nd phase is conditioned on further negotiations during the 1st phase. He will never seriously negotiate the 2nd phase during the 1st phase as called for.

The predictable end of this is Israel takes control of Gaza and expands settlements on a very large portion of the West Bank. Period. There is never going to be an actual 2 state solution. It is dogma for Netanyahu and the radical right. The world is going to do nothing to stop it other than pass resolutions and issue statements. Eventually the entirety of the Occupied Territories will be absorbed. Most of the Palestinian population will be driven out or end up living in an apartheid condition.

It doesn't matter whether someone wants to regurgitate the dead history of supposed "agreements" or "opportunities". My opinion has always been that all parties in the Middle East have never been sincere and honest about their intentions or adherence to any agreement or their role in bringing them about or supporting their application. The past is gone. It no longer matters to what remains when the bombing finally stops. All of the parties to this disgust me to my core as I have stated many times.

I believe little that comes from Hamas but I use other Middle Eastern sources like newspapers because believe it or not there are events that take place that aren't reported in the Western or Israeli media. There are stories about economic issues/development in those countries that are informative about what is going on. Believe it or not the Israeli/US view of the world and statements of fact are not always whole and complete and inclusive of facts known to others. Believe it or not people other than Israelis and Western citizens can have opinions that can be considered by a reader and may encourage more thought and fact finding for forming the opinion of the reader. Believe it or not I'm capable of discerning agenda driven BS as just that. But I am not so narrow in my thinking that I cannot read the name of an event or person mentioned in that opinion article and realize I had not known it before and then find it informative to go and further research the event or name.