for originality. And your response is woefully inadequate to address those lies.
The only two demands, which your source claims amount to a "raft" of them, are, as per the cited second-hand report apparently translated from Hebrew:
Among the 11th-hour demands, according to the newspaper, was that Israel retain control of the Egypt-Gaza border area – a condition Netanyahu has since portrayed as non-negotiable, including at a press conference on Wednesday.
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...among the new demands was that Israeli forces continue to occupy the Egypt-Gaza border area, known as the Philadelphi Corridor, and maintain a 1.4-kilometer perimeter in Gaza along the Israeli border. The newspaper posted maps reportedly from the late-July Israeli response. The original May 27 proposal, according to Yedioth Ahronoth, offered an eventual full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
These are neither new nor do they contradict anything Biden proposed in May. Biden's proposal never stipulated that demilitarization of the Philadelphi corridor is to be accomplished during the first stage of the cease fire, and Netanyahu, as well as his team of negotiators, only insist on the demilitarization is to take place after all the hostages are returned, i.e. at the very end of the first stage. And, I already pointed out that control of the Philadelphi corridor, according to israeli negotiators, does not have to include the presence of IDF. Once again, fully consistent with Biden's May proposal.
Furthermore, the Israeli negotiating team is in Egypt trying to work out the different (and evidently false) interpretations of the Biden proposal, and Hamas is conspicuously absent. So you will have to explain how it is possible for the party ready to negotiate to be obstructing negotiations, and the party absent from the negotiating table to not obstruct them.
Quite a challenge, I am sure. Good luck searching for sources more reliable than hearsay translated from a foreign language.
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