There's a contingent of folks out there who are pissed that Genovide Joe is not being given credit for brokering the humanitarian pause deal. And this is true - the US is absolutely not getting credit for anything except from RAH RAH USA #1 people. But you know what? This is actually better treatment than Biden deserves.
What did the US do here? Other than unconditionally support Israel in all of its depravities? Consider the following story about the negotiations for a hostage deal. There were talks where Hamas would agree to release 50 hostages - the same deal that we got. The one hang up that Israel would not allow? Fuel and humanitarian aid into northern Gaza. An item they gave up on in the actual deal that was made - and then did not honor, resulting in the delay in hostage release on Day 2. Did you note the date on that article? October 24.
Four fucking weeks. Biden's genocide supporting asswipes stalled and delayed a truce for four weels and managed to get sweet fuck all out of it. IOW - all they did was allow Israel more time to slaughter Palestinians. The actual efforts by Genocide Joe's team in securing this truce was in delaying it so that Israel could genocide longer.
It's part of the pattern. UN Security Council Resolution 2712 was passed on November 15. Here is the text of that resolution: http://www.undocs.org/en/S/RES/2712(2023)
On October 25, three weeks earlier, the US vetoed the Brazilian drafted resolution. The text of which is here: https://undocs.org/en/S/2023/773
Did you notice the difference? Well the resolution that the US vetoed had a condemnation of the Hamas attack of October 7. The resolution they were forced to take did not. And what did they get out of making that concession? Three weeks of bombing that wasn't in contravention of the Security Council. All they got was a longer period of bombing that wasn't expressly condemned by the UNSC.
Because that's where we are at. The role of the US is to give Israel cover while Palestinians are mass slaughtered. The "negotiations" were just a stalling tactic to hold off global condemnation of Israel's continued campaign of genocide.
But here is the good news (fingers crossed and knocking on wood) - the pressure which forced the US and Israel to accept the truce are still very strong. Obviously the "truce" was so insufficient that Gaza is still in a state of humanitarian disaster. Did the needle move at all? Maybe - Gazans have now had three nights in a row where they could be moderately sure they weren't going to die in an airstrike. Some Palestinians may have had t heir first few nights of sleep in seven weeks. Word is now that an additional two days is being forced on Israel, although they are resisting this tooth and nail. We'll see how this goes.
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