President Biden spoke with Netanyahu before Christmas. There were no talks of deescalation or a ceasefire. There will not be any.
The US does not want a ceasefire in Gaza. Nothing Biden has done supports that action. He is ride or die for Israel and there is nothing that will change that. The US helped create the state of Israel and will always fund and arm them. It does not matter who is in office, this is the way of the US. This is why they all must be voted out and we need a systemic change in the US government as a whole.
That does not mean the war in Gaza cannot be stopped. It can, but it will take bravery from world leaders to stand up to the US. Malaysia has been one of the few to take action.
Netanyahu has stated today that he is “expanding” the war. In other words, this war is escalating. Israel is increasing their deadly siege on Gaza. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians have been attacked and killed over Christmas. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians are rounded up and striped of their clothing, forced into detention camps.
While Netanyahu annihilates Gaza completely, the families of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas are terrified that their relatives will perish in these assaults if they have not already. There is no care or consideration for their well-being. That was the result when the three Israeli hostages were able to free themselves from Hamas and the IDF then shot their own people who sought rescue.
Israel demands the hostages, yet Israel does nothing to ensure their safety.
When the family of the hostages ask for the Israeli government to not decimate Gaza because their family member is held in Gaza, the Israeli government increases their bombardments.
Netanyahu wrote a whole article about what he wants in order for the war to end:
Hamas must be destroyed.
Gaza must be demilitarized.
Palestinian society must be deradicalized.
This, coming from a leader who has such a distorted sense of reality on par with Adolf Hitler, that he regularly sympathizes with and admires. He is setting the stage to take complete control of Gaza. The US will allow this and state that Israel feeling safe is the number one priority of the world so they will have control. The US has already said that Israel will control the policing of Gaza weeks ago. That last point Netanyahu makes for the war in Gaza to end through the deradicalization of Palestinians is absolutely unachievable due to his genocide of innocent Palestinians and the complete destruction of Gaza. He knows this and he knows he is pushing more people toward radicalization, just like he knew that funding Hamas would escalate to a war at some point. He does not want this war to ever end, and he will use it as justification for control and annexation.
Who are they to say who will control Gaza?
Why do other leaders defy these domineering tactics of the US and Israel?
How do they have the right or authority to define who runs Gaza?
How are no world leaders not condemning this grab for land and power?
Do they not realize that every minute they are silent, that their authority and their role as a world leader is jeopardized when they do not check the power play being made? This undermines the authority of all leaders who cannot denounce the destructive imperialism from the US and Israel.
If Netanyahu wants Hamas destroyed, he must answer to the world why he has funded them. He even said at an event in 2019, “Anyone who wants to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support the strengthening of Hamas.” He said the money was for humanitarian purposes, but then why are the humanitarian needs of Palestinians suddenly not important?
There is a UN Security Council Resolution that enforces humanitarian aid into Gaza, and aid is not entering. The bombings are increasing. Detention camps are being created. Hospitals are bombed. Reporters are targeted. Doctors are targeted. There is no respect or adherence to humanitarian law or human rights. Yet Israel demands the respect and sympathy of the world?
Where are the world leaders demanding for aid to enter Gaza?
Why are we not seeing more aid shipments pass?
Why would any world leader interact with Israel?
Demand your country embargoes Israel and the US.
Demand a ceasefire.
This war continues and little is being done to stop it. We all have to do out part to break this oppressive system. It can be done. Have hope and keep on fighting for freedom.
Vote them all out. We have to start anew.
From the river to the sea, may Palestine by free. May the whole world be free.
Demand an embargo. Boycott. Protest. Contact your elected officials. Vote 3rd party. BE UNGOVERNABLE. Share the stories from Gaza. Share the news from Gaza. Share the history of Gaza. Please extend the same energy to other areas and people facing genocide and atrocities- Sudan, Congo, West Papua, the Rohingyas, Armenians, and the Uyghurs.
Articles:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-delays-vote-gaza-aid-until-friday-2023-12-22/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/26/hostages-families-heckle-netanyahu-as-he-warns-israel-expanding-gaza-fight
https://www.politico.eu/article/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-qatar-money-war-israel-gaza-palestine/