Netanyahu Is Willing To Make A Deal But Not Willing To Surrender
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The Philadelphi Route separates Egyptian Sinai from the Gaza Strip, stretching north-northwest from Kerem Shalom to the Mediterranean Sea, Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphi_Corridor#/media/File:Gaza_Strip_map2.svg, Attribution: Gringer (talk) 14:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC), Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en, Presented at: WindermereSun.com
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On September 4, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that while he is open to certain negotiations regarding the conflict with Hamas, there will be no compromise on key security matters. Netanyahu has rejected calls from both domestic and international actors for a ceasefire that would end the war, emphasizing that his priority remains eliminating Hamas as a threat to Israel. He specifically mentioned the strategic importance of the Philadelphi corridor, a vital area for security between Gaza and Egypt, as non-negotiable.
While Netanyahu has faced increasing pressure from the Israeli public, with mass protests demanding a deal to free hostages and end the conflict, he reiterated that certain conditions, including Israeli control over key territories, are crucial for the country’s security. His stance has been criticized as potentially prolonging the war, as he refuses to agree to a ceasefire unless it fully addresses Israel’s long-term security concerns(The Jerusalem Post)(The Times of Israel)(The Times of Israel).
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s “willing to make a deal” but will not compromise to free the remaining 101 hostages held by Hamas. In a press conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu defended military pressure as being instrumental to previous hostage releases. “I’m telling you that if we relieve the pressure, if we get out of the Philadelphi corridor, we are not going to get the hostages back,” Netanyahu said, in the video published on Sep 4, 2024, by ABC News, as “Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on hostage negotiations: “willing to make a deal”“, below:
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press briefing on Wednesday on the death of hostages in Gaza, in the video published on Sep 4, 2024, by Forbes Breaking News, as “JUST IN: Benjamin Netanyahu Grilled By Reporters At Press Briefing After Hostages Killed By Hamas“, below:
Netanyahu warned, “…I’m willing to make a deal. I made one already, one that brought back 150 hostages, 117 alive, and I’m committed to return the remaining 101. I’ll do everything I can to get them in. But leaving Philadelphi Corridor does not advance the release of the hostages because the deal cannot be advanced. They’ll keep give you a minor part if they give you anything and keep the rest. Go and argue. You know when they started giving us hostages when we went into Philadelphi, when we went into Rafah, when we controlled Rafah Crossing, that’s when they felt the pressure. As long as they didn’t feel the pressure, they wouldn’t do it. The first batch, the first deal that we got was a result of our invasion, the military pressure we put in, they gave us the hostages. After that they thought, “Well, you know, we’ll have the international pressure turned on Israel so we won’t have to do. We won’t have to make any concessions. But after Rafah, their tune changed and they began to change. If we leave Rafah, if we leave the Philadelphi Corridor, there won’t be any pressure. We won’t get hostages. I said I’m willing to make a deal. The real obstacle to making a deal is not Israel. And it’s not me. It’s Hamas. It’s Senior. On April 27th, I put forward a proposal by Israel which Secretary Blinkin called extremely generous. On May 31st, having met Blinking again, I said we agreed to the U.S.-backed proposal. And Hamas refused. On August 16th, the U.S. brought forth what they called the final bridging proposal. Again, we accept it and Hamas refused. On August 19th, Secretary Blinkin said,”Israel accepted the U.S. proposal. Now Hamas has to do the same. On August 28th, that’s a week ago, the deputy CIA director said, “Israel showed seriousness in the negotiations. Now Hamas must make the deal. This was last week. So, I ask you, “What is changed? What is changed in this week? What’s changed is that they murdered six of our hostages in cold blood. Now the world will seriously demand that Israel make concessions after this massacre? What message does this send to Hamas? I’ll tell you what the message is: murder more hostages you’ll get more concessions. That’s not only illogical. It’s not only immoral. It’s down right insane! So, it’s not going to happen. We have red lines before the murders. They haven’t changed. We’ll hold to them, but we’ve also had flexibility. And I’ll tell you one thing: Hamas will pay for this. That you can be assured. We’ll. make sure that we extract that price from them. But we are firm on our red lines, including Philadelphi Corridor, for the reasons I described. I’m flexible where I can be. I’m firm when I have to be. I think there is the possibility of getting this deal if we stick to this strategy. I said this before: we got 150 hostages out because we combined a firm stance with military pressure. I said that relied on international pressure but it had weakened and then we went into Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor, so it got strengthened and they were beginning to bulk a condition that they said they’d never accept a red line is that we must commit to getting out of Gaza and enabling Hamas basically to take over Gaza again, end the war, get out, let them retake Gaza. That’ obviously something we wouldn’t do…”
I am perplexed, not being an Israeli nor a Jewish person, I am simply an American. As an American, I wonder back in the days of WWII, if we Americans were under international pressure to surrender to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor attack or surrender to the German after sinking of the U.S. merchant ships, what kind of world would we had been living in and what kind of world would we be living in now?
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