Short statement from Netanyahu regarding negotiations.

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1. He lies. With a straight face.

Hamas did not refuse the May 31 Biden Framework. They accepted it in early July. President Biden himself said the framework was accepted by both sides.

It was Netanyahu who refused his own proposal on which the May 31 Framework was based. He refused it by adding two new demands that amounted to no full withdrawal - in essence permanent occupation on the south border and in the middle of Gaza, cutting it in two. He was warned by his own defense and Intel people, and the negotiators that thdemands would kill the deal, and further, were not even necessary from a security perspective. He ignored the advice and apparently convinced Blinken to include them in the U.S. "bridging proposal" which, as foretold, was rejected as it bore little resemblance to the May 31 Framework already agreed to.

So Netanyahu poison-pilled the deal and now blames the other side. Shocking (not really). But it is to despair. He wants the war on Gaza to continue and it seems no one can convince him to drop his poison-pill demands or to stop sabotaging a ceasefire.