Things seem to have moved after the Cabinet meeting this morning, but there are some pretty big caveats:
[The announcement] will stipulate the need for the release of all the hostages still held by Hamas and be based on a guarantee the terror group no longer rules Gaza, sources say.
Also made me wonder how Starmer’s conversation with Trump went yesterday. Not good?
* In a couple months, contingent on some weird conditions
IDK, man, it’s a fucking emergency. To me, what would make more sense is “Israel will start to allow food trucks into Gaza without restriction by the end of the week, or else we’ll be recognizing Palestine as a state and submitting to the ICC for an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.” Even that would be pretty weak compared to what they should be doing. I mean what they did is a start, it’s good I guess, but it’s still playing into letting Netanyahu run out the clock on the Gazans staying alive.
I also like how they demand of the Palestinians the end of Hamas leadership in Gaza, as if that hasn’t been an Israeli project this entire time which a decent number of Palestinians are miserable about for semi-obvious reasons.