U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi hold a joint press conference at the conclusion of their discussions. The video and transcript are below.
Overall, the Egyptians and Jordanians want a cessation of hostilities, an end to the bombing and Israeli war response against Hamas. In part, they appear motivated by concerns of regional instability; in part, they seem driven toward resolution because they do not want life-long radical Palestinian jihadists crossing into Egypt and Jordan; and in part it’s because their country was not attacked.
I find it interesting that none of the remarks in the group mention the influence of Iran at all. The U.S. and Israel talk about the influence of Iran when speaking individually and together, but add an Arab country into the discussion and Iran is never brought up.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Good evening to you all. I’ll start in Arabic and then I’ll switch to English if you don’t mind. So —
(Via interpreter) In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Gracious, I welcome Their Excellencies Sameh, Tony and the other colleagues, the foreign ministers of United Arab Emirates and Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and the secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, at this hardship – at this extremely difficult time, a time that reflects that – reflect our interest to protect our peoples from the destruction of war and to work together continuously to stop this disaster that erupted on the 7th of October and actually evolved into the war that Israel is waging against Gaza.
And our speech today was honest, was direct, was comprehensive and in-depth, and with all transparency. It has reflected the Arab and the U.S. stances in what is – should be done immediately to end this catastrophe. But it ascertained also the mutual keenness to our involvement actually to stop what we can describe as a catastrophe that will haunt the region for generations. And we all want just and comprehensive peace on the basis of the two-state solution as a path for ensuring the security of the region, of the Palestinians, of the Israelis, and the peoples of the region.
And also, there were points of meeting and these points of agreement between the U.S. and the stances that the Arab foreign ministers have actually expressed, and these points included the necessity to – the importance of delivering humanitarian assistance, enough humanitarian assistance, to Gaza, and protecting civilians; the importance of abidance to the – our international humanitarian law and the international law, and the rejection of the displacement of Palestinians, of their land.
And as we said before at the Arab League – and we in Jordan and all the Arab countries – we consider that this is a war crime that we will stop with all our strengths. The Arab countries, the Arab world demand an immediate ceasefire that will end this war and end the killing of the innocent and the destruction it is causing. And we don’t accept that it is a self-defense; it is a ranging war that is killing civilians, destroying their homes, their hospitals, their schools, their mosques, and their churches. It cannot be justified under any pretext, and it will not bring Israel security; it will not bring the region peace.
The killing must stop, and also Israel immune from committing war crimes must stop. And please allow me now to switch to English and speak.
(In English) We cannot allow this war to undermine all that has been done to bring about just peace to the region. With every missile unleashed on Gaza, with every killing of a Palestinian child – and Israel has killed in this war more children than all global conflicts did since 2019 – the whole region is sinking in a sea of hatred that will define generations to come. That is already starting to manifest itself in expressions and acts of hatred in the region and, to be honest, in the deplorable acts and expressions of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism. And that’s something that we all stand against unequivocally on principle and in accordance with our human values.
This is not a religious war. It’s not a war between Muslims and Jews. This is defined in its context and all our values – Muslim, Christian, Jewish, all other human values dictate that we work for peace and we stop this madness and we do not allow for the very dangerous dehumanization that we see.
Rage cannot and should not be allowed to destroy the lives of millions of people. We understand that there is pain. Nobody in their right mind will belittle the pain that was felt by Israelis on October 7th and that’s being felt by Palestinians – all of us – it doesn’t matter who we are – Arab, Muslims, Christian, Jews, human beings – and that pain cannot be belittled. But again, we cannot allow rage to determine where we go forward. We condemn the killing of all civilians. We condemn the killing of Palestinian civilians, we condemn the killing of Israeli civilians – on October 7th and before and after regardless of nationality, as I said.
We are extremely worried on this – our situation in – on the West Bank – again, killing and violation of international law cannot continue there. Settlers should not be allowed to rampage Palestinian communities and kill innocents in the West Bank. Israeli soldiers who brought despicable humiliation to Palestinians after illegally detaining them should be held accountable.
Palestinians and Israelis deserve to live in peace with dignity, with security and freedom from occupation and freedom from fear. Only a just and lasting peace that fulfills the right of the Palestinian people to freedom, their sovereign state with East Jerusalem as their capital and (inaudible) 1967 lines, living side by side. A secure Israel will bring security to all.
The priority now is to ending this war, to saving innocent lives, to preventing further destruction, restoring hope, and to stopping the very dangerous dehumanization. All lives matter to all of us.
And Mr. Secretary, dear Tony, the U.S. has a leading role to play in these efforts. And on it and on all of us fall the very heavy responsibility of ending this catastrophe, achieving the just peace that is the right of every Palestinian, every Israeli – mother, child, father – and that will ensure that none of them or any other in the region will ever have to live the horrors that this vicious cycle of violence and war is bringing.
We will continue to work with you and with all of our partners to fulfill this responsibility to make sure that our common human values prevail, international law prevails, and peace for all prevails. Thank you so much. If I now may give to floor to you, Tony?
USA – SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and let me first say that I’m grateful to His Majesty King Abdullah, to Foreign Minister Safadi, Ayman, and his entire team for their hospitality, and for the opportunity to be with Foreign Minister Shoukry and also with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, Prime Minister Al Thani, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed, and Secretary General Hussein Al-Sheikh.
We appreciate the engagement of every country, and we’re particularly grateful to Jordan and to Egypt, two partners who have long worked to advance a two-state solution, for their dedication to a more stable and to a more peaceful Middle East.
We’ve come together here today sharing the same fundamental interest and objective: to end this conflict in a way that ensures lasting peace and security in the region. We may have different views and positions on certain necessary steps to achieve that objective, but today we reaffirmed our individual commitments to continuing to work toward that end, an end that we share.
Throughout this conflict, countries across the Middle East – and beyond – have played an essential role in preventing its spread. Today, we all agreed on the importance of using our respective influence and capabilities to deter any state or non-state actor from opening another front in this conflict or taking other destabilizing actions. All of us have a direct interest in this.
Our joint efforts have also been critical in increasing the flow of humanitarian assistance to Gaza. I am particularly grateful to Egypt for its significant efforts to facilitate a mechanism with Israel and with the United Nations to do just that. Each day, more than a hundred trucks are moving to Rafah, up from zero just a little over a week ago. But that is not nearly enough.
Today, we spoke about ways to accelerate and expand the sustained delivery of aid. This morning, I had an opportunity to meet with Commissioner General Lazzarini of UNRWA and I spoke with UNRWA staff that is located in Gaza. I heard firsthand about the extraordinary lifesaving work that they are doing in Gaza in the face of extremely difficult conditions, and how we can expedite efforts to get assistance to them so that they can get it to the Palestinian people.
We’re also working to continue the progress we’ve made in getting our citizens, other foreign nationals, critically wounded people out of Gaza. But even as we welcome their safe exit, we remain resolutely committed and focused on securing the release of hostages held by Hamas. I had the opportunity to discuss this, the status of our ongoing efforts, with Prime Minister Al Thani this morning.
We all spoke today about the clear need to protect Palestinian civilians. The United States supports Israel’s right to defense against Hamas, a terrorist organization that attacked it brutally and that cares not a whit about the Palestinian people or their futures. This is the same right that each of our countries has. But as Israel conducts its campaign, how it does it matters.
Israel must take every possible measure to prevent civilian casualties. In my meetings with Israeli officials yesterday, I conveyed additional steps that they can and should take to do just that. Protecting civilians will help prevent Hamas from further exploiting the situation. But most important, it’s simply the right and moral thing to do. When I see a Palestinian boy or girl pulled from the wreckage of a building, it hits me in the gut just as it hits everyone’s gut, and I see my own children in their faces. And as human beings, how can any of us not feel the same way?
This morning, I heard from the UNRWA staff in Gaza, many of whom are displaced themselves, about the immense human toll this conflict has taken – for UNRWA itself, they’ve lost 77 of their colleagues who were there simply trying to provide people with their basic needs – the trauma of being under constant bombardment and in constant danger, the inability to assure their own children that nothing will happen to them.
What we have to do more than anything else – all of us, everyone concerned – is to prevent the dehumanization of each other. If we don’t do that, then we do exactly Hamas’s work for it. So we have to look out for each other. We have to look out for every innocent life.
Now, the United States believes that all of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. We believe pauses can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians, for getting aid in, for getting foreign nationals out, while still enabling Israel to achieve its objective: defeat Hamas. Yesterday, I spoke in depth with Israeli leaders about how, when, and where such arrangements could be implemented, and what needs to be done to make them possible. Today, regional partners discussed many of these same questions.
We’re all deeply concerned about escalating extremist violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. This has been a serious problem that’s only worsened since the conflict. I updated ministers today on my discussions with- throughout the Israeli Government yesterday, where I underscored that incitement and extremist violence must be stopped – and perpetrators must be held accountable.
As we work together to address each of these immediate challenges, we also have to concurrently work to build a secure and lasting peace. And for that to happen, we have to create the conditions to ensure that we do not find ourselves in the same place just weeks or months from now.
We had substantial discussions today about our shared interest in creating the foundation for durable security and for enduring peace. The United States continues to believe that the sole viable path is a two-state solution, with Israelis and Palestinians each exercising their legitimate right to live in a state of their own, with equal measures of security, freedom, of opportunity and dignity. And we discussed some of the meaningful and practical steps we might take to help advance that proposition to get us there.
The United States and our partners will have different views on how best to advance or achieve these steps, but we all recognize that we cannot go back to the status quo. And we all understand that we not only have an interest, but a responsibility, to do everything we can to chart a better path forward together.
Now, none of us are under the illusion that this will be easy, particularly our partners from Egypt and Jordan, who have for decades worked to facilitate a real peace. But it’s precisely now – when the stakes are highest, and even when the outlook seems darkest – that we have to intensify our work to meet this moment.
EGYPT – FOREIGN MINISTER SHOUKRY: Thank you so much. (Inaudible)
(Via interpreter) My brother Ayman, my friend Tony, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank His Excellency Mr. Ayman Safadi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs.
Ladies and gentlemen, our meeting you is to discuss the developments of the crisis in Gaza and give room for the Arab countries involved to express their positions toward this crisis. I was keen through this meeting to explain the vision or the position of Egypt that is consistent with our Arab brothers, and I stressed that we need to take time into consideration and look at the development.
The unfortunate killing events in Gaza cannot be justified. We would not accept to go into an argument or accept the justification of these practices as considered against the – our right to self-defense. The collective punishment – Israel targeting innocent civilians and facilities, medical facilities, paramedics, in addition to trying to force migration for Palestinians to leave their lands – this cannot be a legitimate self-defense at all.
Egypt is exerting it all efforts to guarantee that delivering aid to the Gaza Strip and help treating the civilians wounded, and we will continue our efforts in spite of all the obstacles we are facing.
In this regard, I would like to ask for an immediate and intensive ceasefire in Gaza without any condition, and that Israel would stop what its – its violations of the international law and the laws of war. And we need to double our work to deliver humanitarian aid as soon as possible with quantities that would meet the needs of the Palestinians, and with open space to talk later on how to come out of this crisis before it gets broader and the conflict would inflict all the peoples of the region and go through a dark tunnel.
I also reiterated that we should not deal with this crisis of international peace and security in a double standard where, while some are condemning targeting civilians and describing this as a gross violations of humanitarian law and to adhere to the demands of a ceasefire, while we find that they are opposed the same principles for the same people when things are related to the Palestinian cause, as if the Arab blood is lesser than the bloods of other people, although that the numbers of people who were killed from civilians in Gaza over the last few weeks, including working in relief and journalists, cannot be justified any way.
And in this regard we are still asking for an immediate ceasefire and that Israel would stop hindering the delivery of humanitarian aid. And we also all demand an international investigation for these violations of the international law in this war.
And finally, what we are witnessing of an escalation and the human tragedy and suffering of civilians as a result of not addressing the deep root of the problem and to address the rights, of the Palestinian rights. I reject any attempts to (inaudible) the Palestinian cause, and I ask that we need to work as soon as possible to revive the peace process based on the two-state solution and end the Israeli occupation and establish a Palestinian state based on the lines of the fall of July 19 – and its capital East Jerusalem.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Thank you, Tony. Thank you, Sameh. I’m sure the three of us would love to stay and answer all your questions, but we really have a very, very tight schedule still ahead of us, so we’ll take just a very, very limited number of questions, and I’d appreciate it if all our colleagues could just limit their intervention to one question and one question only.
(Inaudible), can you please —
MODERATOR: “Shukran”, (inaudible). (Inaudible) Khaled Issawi of AlSharq AlAwsat.
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) My question to Mr. Sameh Shoukry: Perhaps today’s meeting was at a very important time and attended by the ministries of foreign affairs of important countries that are very influencing the Palestinian cause. Do you feel that American – the American administration is able to stop the aggressions against civilians in the Gaza Strip, or did the American side during this meeting has offered any roadmap or any map to resume the peace process or to – or end the current crisis? Thank you.
EGYPT – FOREIGN MINISTER SHOUKRY: (Via interpreter) Thank you very much. I think it’s inappropriate for me to talk about the U.S. position in the presence of the U.S. Secretary of State. I believe we had a very comprehensive and transparent conversation and with countries that share the desire to work effectively to contain this crisis and to put down the foundations and solutions that would spare the region from these conflicts that allows us also to talk about and deal with all issues using the same measures, and to protect civilians and to ensure the flow of humanitarian assistance, and also to deal with the root causes of the crisis, which is the failure to implement decades later the agreement to establish a two-state solution given that this would put an end to the conflict and end the enmity between the two parties and would mitigate all the threats related to that.
We always look forward to work closely with the U.S. We have a strategic relationship with the U.S. and we appreciate the capabilities available to the U.S. There was interest and very clear interest that we reached, and we will work in the future to translate these ideas and visions into a reality on the ground to contain this severe crisis and humanitarian crisis. All efforts should be – should come together and to work positively and end this conflict, not just even end this crisis but also the root causes of the conflict.
MODERATOR: (Inaudible.) Simon Lewis of Reuters.
QUESTION: Hi, thank you. One question, but I’d appreciate an answer from all of you, if possible.
To the Egyptian and Jordanian ministers specifically: Are you engaging in talks about the future of Gaza, a future of Gaza without Hamas, and what role you can play in that future?
And to Secretary Blinken: How do you respond to the calls from your allies here for a ceasefire, and are you hearing – are you finding receptive ears for your calls to talk about Gaza after Hamas?
USA – SECRETARY BLINKEN: Simon, thanks very much for the question. It’s our view that a ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on October 7th. And you don’t have to take my word for it – just a few days ago, a senior Hamas official said that it was their intent to do October 7th again and again and again. No nation – none of us – can accept that. No one would find that palatable.
And so it is important to reaffirm Israel’s right to defend itself, indeed its obligation to do so, and to take necessary steps so that October 7th can never happen again. But it’s also very important the way Israel does that – and that’s what we’ve talked to the Israeli Government about – with taking every possible measure to protect human life, to prevent civilian casualty, as well as to ensure that those who are in need have the assistance that they need.
To that end, I think we all share deep concern about the plight of civilians in Gaza – men, women, and children who need the most essential things to get by. We’ve worked very hard to make sure that that assistance can flow to them. But it’s also one of the reasons why a humanitarian pause would be so important to make sure that we can maximize the assistance getting to the Palestinians, that we can make sure that people can move about safely, that they can get to places where they’re safe, and that, again, we can make sure that not only is aid flowing in but those who are responsible for distributing it get in, the right structures can be built to make sure that people can benefit from it.
So we’re focused on this and we’ll continue the work that we’re doing together with our partners to make sure that that assistance can get there.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Thank you, Tony. Sameh?
EGYPT – FOREIGN MINISTER SHOUKRY: As related to the issue of a ceasefire, it is our position that the ceasefire is imperative to deal with the consequences, the humanitarian consequences of this conflict. And we believe that dealing with the various components of this crisis should be dealt with as well in an appropriate manner.
It is the international community’s responsibility always to seek the cessation of hostilities, not to promote the continuance of violence, military activity that has a very dire impact on the well-being of the civilian population in a very restricted area and which has specific and special characteristics like Gaza.
As for the issue of the future of Gaza, we believe this is premature at this time. We have to concentrate on the subject at hand, whether it be the cessation of hostilities, addressing the humanitarian needs of the people of Gaza, addressing the issues of displacement and the provision of safety for the civilians, and addressing the overall context of the conflict. We believe that at this stage, those are the issues that we need to concentrate on. Thank you.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Thank you, sir. We are focused right now on stopping this war, stopping the destruction it’s causing, stopping the killing that it’s caused.
What happens next? How can we even entertain what will happen in Gaza when we do not know what kind of Gaza will be left after this war is done? Are we going to be talking about a wasteland? Are we going to be talking about a whole population reduced to refugees? Simply we do not know – we do not have all the variables to even start thinking about that.
I think we need to focus now on stopping this war so at least we have a – we start even to begin to imagine the kind of miserable reality that will exist there. And after that, let me just be very, very clear: Gaza alone would just not cut it. We’ve been through security treatment of the conflict before. Where did it lead us? The only way going forward to achieve what we all want, which is a just and lasting peace that protect the rights of all, is to look at the comprehensive conflict, look about bringing the two-state solution back and realize it as soon as possible, convincing the Palestinians that they have a future, and – and again, creating conditions different from the miserable conditions of despair and anger and hatred and occupation in which the – this just – a cycle of violence erupted.
So I think we need to get our priorities straight. Right now we have to make sure the war stops. Right now, we have to make sure that we bring in sufficient – enough food and water and medicine and fuel to Gazans, because with every minute of delay, a child or a woman or (inaudible) is dying because they don’t have access to these basic services. So after that, again, we have to look at the comprehensive picture. We have to make sure that we do not contribute to creating the same conditions that – in which this violence erupted, and I think we are all committed to working together on that. As we always say, the United States has a leading role. We need that role. The rest of us will have to do our part as well. Everybody will have to do their part, again, to make sure that we bring security and peace to the Palestinians and to the Israelis.
(Inaudible.)
MODERATOR: “Shukran. “Iyad AlFodouli, Al Mamlaka.
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) Your Excellency, Mr. Blinken, why don’t – doesn’t Washington exert pressure on Tel Aviv to cease the war and stop it and allow for – and allow for delivery of humanitarian aid after all what happened?
USA – SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. We are intensely focused on the delivery of humanitarian assistance. On my last trip to the region, I spent considerable time with the Israeli Government and then in consultation with the Egyptian Government, the United Nations on establishing a channel to make sure that we could get assistance into people who needed it in Gaza. And as I mentioned a short while ago, whereas just a little over a week ago nothing was getting in, we had zero trucks moving in, today I think we had 105 trucks move into Gaza with essential needs for people.
But as I also say, and as we all agree, that is not nearly enough. So what we’re working on now is expanding that access, making sure that more is getting to people who need it, and that we have the structure in place to be able to absorb it, to use it, to distribute it effectively. This is exactly what we’re doing. When I was in Israel yesterday, this was a big focus of my conversations with the Israeli Government. And it’s also, as I mentioned, one of the reasons why we think it would be important to have humanitarian pauses. That would further facilitate the ability to deliver aid, and not only to deliver aid – again, to expand the aid that we’re delivering.
So we’re looking to that. We agreed with the Government of Israel yesterday to look at how that might happen. There are a lot of questions that have to be answered about how to make that work, so we’re focused on doing that. But again, we have been intensely focused on getting humanitarian assistance to people who need it in Gaza.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Last question.
MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Tamer Smadi from Al Jazeera channel.
[NOTE: Al Jazeera = Muslim Brotherhood]
QUESTION: (Via interpreter) Tamer Smadi, Al Jazeera. My question to Mr. Blinken: After around one month of the Israeli war on Gaza, what are the results that Israel has achieved except killing around 10,000 civilians, most of them children and women? What are the results that Israel has achieved, and what is the number of victims exactly, of civilians, that would make the United State to stop and think and look at this most open massacre and to ask Israel decisively to stop this bloodshed in the Gaza Strip?
USA – SECRETARY BLINKEN: What took place on October 7th defies almost the human ability to digest or describe. And I think for many that day has receded in their minds and in their consciousness, but I can say this and I’ll say it again: Not a single one of the countries represented here or that met together today, or for that matter pretty much any country in the world, would simply accept the slaughter of its citizens and do nothing about it.
So we maintain again that Israel has a right and indeed an obligation to defend itself and to try to take the steps necessary to ensure that what happened on October 7th never happens again. But equally, it is very important how Israel does it, and in particular it’s important to take every possible measure to protect civilians and prevent harm to them, as well as to ensure that those who need assistance get it. And in our conversations with the Israeli Government, including just yesterday, we have pointed to steps that they could and should take to minimize harm to civilians, to prevent civilian casualties.
Now, this is also an extraordinary challenge. Hamas cynically, monstrously embeds itself in the midst of civilians; puts its fighters, its commanders, its weapons, its ammunition, command and control in residential buildings, under schools and in schools, under hospitals and in hospitals, under mosques and in mosques – monstrous.
But nonetheless, Israel has an obligation to abide by the laws of war, humanitarian law, and to do everything possible to prevent civilian casualties. And this is very much part of what we’re saying to the Israeli Government and what I said again yesterday.
At the same time, providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, making sure that men, women, and children in Gaza are cared for – this is also an intense focus of our actions, including with the Israeli Government.
JORDAN – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAFADI: Thank you, and before I close I just want to reaffirm once again that we are going to continue to work together, bridge whatever gaps we have in our position, because ultimately we want the same thing.
But again, I just want to say one thing: Imagine you are a Palestinian father, mother. You have to leave your home and your already miserable existence of a refugee camp in Gaza. You take your kids to the south. You take shelter in a hospital, and you’re looking at your eye – at the eyes of your children, and you know you cannot protect them. You know that you cannot find a place where they can escape the bombing. How do you explain to these that this is (inaudible)? How do you explain to a father whom we saw (inaudible) yesterday in the rubble looking for four children of his that are still buried in the rubble and he cannot – he cannot find them?
I think we need to remind each other of our humanity, and I think we need to accept that killing more people will not bring those who are lost on both sides, as tragic as the loss is. I think we need to all emphasize that everything we can do to save one more life is imperative upon all of us.
I don’t want to go into characterization of what the international law so says about that or what the international law says about this, but I would say what we all, as human beings – as you said, that Sameh said – as we all say: As human beings, we just cannot accept to see all that killing unfolding, to see all that reduction of life to a complete loss. How is – how can we justify to anybody that killing 9,000 people, killing 3,700 children, destroying 150,000 house, killing – destroying hospitals – how can we justify that this is self-defense?
I think let’s get back to the basic. Let’s step back and take a pause. And again, we all understand the pain, but we are – this war is just going to produce more pain for Palestinians, for Israelis, and this is going to push us all, again, into the abyss of hatred and dehumanization that will make killing even more acceptable.
So that needs to stop. That’s our priority. It has to stop now; it has to end. And we should all work for a future when a Palestinian child sees an Israeli child, they see in each other a potential friend, not a future enemy. I think that’s what we need to do, and I look forward to working with all of our colleagues and here to create that reality, and just once and for all end the need for war and the need for violence and end conditions in which only misery and an environment that enables the kind of extremism that produces (inaudible) also on the side of Israel, that would also end.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
drill baby drill.
Stop buying conflict oil. Drill our own.
The US is exceedingly well represented. I trust Blinken to manage anything – to what end I’ve no idea, but he’ll manage something.
You can trust Blinken and Biden and nod, to run the U.S. off a cliff.
To FUND Iran, to facillitate the Mullahs as the primary destabilising influence in the ME.
Right. It’s the funding of Iran that is at the root cause of this war.
I also believe this is intentional. No way did the 5 eyes, including the US and Israel not know what Hamas was plotting. They knew and let it happen… deliberately.
Well Jonathan Pollard sure thinks they knew and allowed it.
You have got to be kidding trust Blinken,,,
appeasing IRAN is what he is doing
You forgot the /s bro
You should put (sac) at the end of your comment since you couldn’t possibly be serious that Blinken is capable of managing anything.
He’s a useful idiot. Nothing more
Definitely, Blinklin managed a perfect withdrawal from Afghanistan. What could possibly go wrong with him involved in this Hamas attack
Blinken is scary on many levels.
It’s his eyes and his body English. He is not well or to be trusted to have our. (treepers) best interests at heart.
He does have the perfect last name. Blinkin, all he does is blink in the presence of our enemies. He never accomplishes anything.
The world is a scarier place with Blinken, Sullivan and Newland empowered to affect US policy.
Oops. Victoria Nuland.
Leavemygunsalone: He is weak, sycophantic, appeasing and belongs on the faculty of a small, third-rate private college that no one cares about.
GD.
Blinken projects a feeble and untrustworthy nature. He has held his position as chief emissary of the world’s greatest power during a period of remarkably swift decline, all the while seeming weak and shifty. The West is clearly doomed if he plays any part in the making of important decisions. Hopefully he won’t hold onto the job for a day more than the next fourteen months and maybe there will still be a recoverable position by then. It was obvious from the beginning that he would be a disaster.
>>Hopefully he won’t hold onto the job for a day more than the next fourteen months and maybe there will still be a recoverable position by then. It was obvious from the beginning that he would be a disaster.
If you believe, as I do, that Obama has been running FJB’s administration from the background and undermining the Trump administration from before it ever got started, then you should appreciate that Obama has made much more progress at ‘transforming” America than he did during his eight years as President officially. FJB’s –aka FBHO’s — whole objective is to render our country in such a mess as to make it as unsalvageable as possible in the remaining fourteen months from now.
Not to mention all infidels—in other words, us.
That would indeed be their next step, why, because the koran tells them to.
I’m saddened that you don’t mention UN Resolution 181. Nobody does. THAT’S the problem.
That’s the biggest problem is the U.N. Has not had the spotlight shifted onto itself for years.
That is the number one entity that should be disbanded and removed from this country.
The u.n. is a too-big-to-fail U$D money laundering operation for the grift that benefits tptb across the world.
An incredibly corrupt organization.
It appears to me that letting in an invasion of foreigners here in our own country puts the USA in the same predicament as Israel. Gaza has become an enclave of death and destruction with just under 2 million people living there, basically inside Israel.
Biden’s open borders are creating our own Gaza as these foreigners move into their enclaves within the US states they settle in. Has the Minnesota Somali assimilated? Have the Dearborn Muslims assimilated? The El Cajon CA, Muslims? The drug cartels in Phoenix?Wherever the new illegals go there will be very little assimilation. How many of the unknowns will have fealty to our country, its constitution and what is left of our laws?
As I read what the Islamists from Jordan and Egypt say, it doesn’t take an advanced degree to see their CYA bottom line. They have to appear to save the Palestinians who are part of the Ummah. It is the worldwide community of Islam meant to advance Islamic causes. Which is so hypocritical because Egypt killed 200,000 Hamas supporters because they terrorized Egypt.
As for Rip Van Blinken Wormtongue. Gag, Barf, Spit.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
Well Bibi has a ‘set’….Bribem not so much….we the people will be on our own.
Mexican agitators want ‘Reconquista’…Gazans/Hamas/Hezbollah…just want the infidels, dead.
Just wait until Americans are fighting both islam and their own government. What a war that will be.
its significantly more likely we will abdicate to a false sense of “unity” while we fight the foreigners… which is by design from this illegitimate government.
Or the gov declares martial law to fight the activated muslim terror calls.
That’s what our government will say, but it has enabled them so far, why do you think that will change?
When are they required to save the Uyghurs from genocide?
Exactly. Won’t be long the southern states bordering the border will be under attack to create “the free state of” whatever faction is represented.
They are already distributed throughout our nation
I remember Pat Buchanan saying some variant of “what did you think would happen when you settle a tribe of Zulus in Charleston, South Carolina?”
Enough of them are Already inside the border
sand dwellers are not our friends
We used to call them something else…..
Still do.
The Jordanian and the Egyptian fellows do not talk about Hamas. Blinken talks about Hamas. Why is that? Is it possible that the Arab street knows that what Hamas is doing is what all good Muslims should be doing according to the Hadith, destroying the Jewish infidel invader?
These diplomats see the solution as a two-state Holy Land. I do not see that working, because it does not address the real issue here. An infidel nation cannot exist among a Muslim population. But diplomats say it is not a religious war. That is exactly what it is.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2023/11/the-muslim-underground-surfaces-part-ii/
Thanks for posting. We need to know and understand how this ideology has always worked .
Our fear of the basics and the brutality is how they push submission — watch Europe.
They can only be destroyed.
Gaza has governed itself for 18 years. Essentially there was a 2 state solution.
It failed. Miserably.
Maybe Trump could fix Gaza, it probably would be a harder than the ice rink in NYC, however he could get it done.
You think an Islamic people who worship Muhammed ( a blood thirsty pedophile) would abide by any agreement with Trump? They have never adhered to any agreement with Israel. Trump is anointed but only Jesus could bring peace between the Sunnis and Shia; between Islam and all others.
They tried 2-state thing. It didn’t work!
Yes, it most definitely is a holy war.
Nothing else.
Agreed.
All those nations walk a tightrope and they just can’t seem to come to grips that their enemy is the same as Israel’s enemy because that is the one rail they can’t just seem to cross, to confront the inherent teaching of war and forced submission at the heart of the only thing that has held all those ancient rival tribes together, the cherry-picked stanzas of their religious book.
About 2 decades ago there was a scholarly book written that the author had gone to painstaking lengths to uncover the actual interpretation into Arabic and then English of their holy book (purposely not using words to name it because bots) and the publishing of it was going to turn the practitioners of that religion upside down because of key errors from the first translations of that work (such as it isn’t 7 2 virgins, but that number of goats! which, given those were tribal lifestyles at the time, goats were the lifeblood of success) – and remember waiting patiently to get a copy when it was going to first be available, only to learn that after heavy threats, not a single publishing company would publish it. That was in the era when rushdie’s book came out and before the cartoon that got French newspapers in trouble.
One of these days the actual text will come out, but don’t think that will happen until the leaders of these tribal nations which were arbitrarily created by the British and French upon the defeat of the Ottoman Empire decide they don’t want to be known as the religion of decapitating babies.
We need President Trump back in the White House before these people get us into another world war.
Samizdat, anyone?
Had to look that word up, Samizdat – ” the clandestine copying or distribution of literature banned by the state. . .”
Yep.
my bad, it was 72 white grapes, not goats (been a few years). The author of the book that painstakingly interpreted the original writing of that book had to use a pseudonym of Christoph Luxenberg because of the threats to his, or her, life.
https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/islamic-scholar-punctures-72-virgins-theory-says-martyrs-will-only-get-raisins-in-heaven-340579.html
Usama Dakdok is a Christian brother who “was born in Egypt and grew up in a Christian home. While in government schools in Egypt, he learned about Islam just as every other student does in a Muslim country. Usama also studied for a university degree in Egypt which included the study of Sharia, Islamic law. He first came to America in 1992. With all of his knowledge about Islam, he felt he could reach out to Muslim people in America with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thus he began The Straight Way of Grace Ministry.” Link below
https://www.thestraightway.org/
You can get a copy of the truthful interpretation of satan’s book by going here —
https://www.thestraightway.org/programs/books-dvds
Usama has a short video there talking about the book. He is also has a half hour show on VCY America Radio every weekday that I believe is called The Straight Way. That show is on at 12:30 pm Central Time, and can be heard online, too.
Pray for Usama. He is doing a mighty work for the Lord.
There are also the mystic studies of that middle eastern religion, the Sufis, who are in an interesting situation; hated by their own religion’s aggressive followers, considered lunatics by many, while establishing practices here in the west under the idea of dances for universal peace.
An offshoot of the whirling dervish tradition using sound and dance as forerunners to their invasion forces not unlike how the Scots with their bagpipes would use sound and music as a foretaste of what their warriors would be coming to do.
It will be interesting to see what the various Sufi communities in the US, and other western nations do. That will be interesting to see. Did I mention that will be interesting? 🙂
I’m still waiting to get my hands on the ‘Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran’, that’s the title of Christoph Luxenberg’s book. It was officially published but there’s no way to actually purchase it. Always listed as ‘Unavailable’. To have every outlet for distribution not being willing to actually distribute it says ‘over the target’ for me.
Hopefully Mr. Dakdok makes good headway, adding his name to the prayer list.
In all of this talk about a peaceful resolution and cease fire, nowhere do I see these Great Nations discuss how they propose to punish Hamas for starting this mess and the crimes they committed in Israel , not even counting the initial military attack on the border itself.
Nowut: The “Great Nations” are ultimately concernced about their own internal politics and their own geopolitical interests. The “Great Nations” are not concerned about Israel’s security needs and are not concerned about the “Palestinians.”
The “Great Nations” dont want trouble from their internal muslim populations and don’t want to lose access to oil and Arab wealth.
Did I miss the part where they said they were taking Palestinian refugees?
How many did they say they would take and when does that start?
I must have missed that part..
Feral dogs, fighting over a bone. Are best left caged to fight it out. Maybe the world will get lucky and both will be destroyed.
Jenevive: Isn’t is amazing? The great “humanitarian nations” of the West have made exactly zero effort to “force” (or cajole, or bribe, Arab countries to open their borders and societies to allow entry to their dear Arab “brothers and sisters” from Gaza and the West Bank (for me, Judea and Samaria).
Why isn’t anyone telling Hamas and the Palestinians to give up the hostages and move their civilians out of the areas the IDF warns them to vacate? Why aren’t these men blasting Hamas for saying it is good when a Palestinian children and women are killed because it fires up their martyrs to kill more Jews? This IS absolutely a war of Islam against the God of Israel.
Prolonging this war as long as possible is what the globalists want. The diversion, refugee resettlement, depopulation and billions of dollar’s for the MIC are just a few reasons. In the closet meeting Blinken offered bribes to all the participants.
Blinkin is a joke, and all this talk is a waste of time.
The US is financing all the war machinery for the terrorist group known as hamas.
Rearming the enemy is now called foreign aid.
You missed the fundamental purpose of “foreign aid”. That would be the cash kickbacks to DC trash, globalist supporters, military vendors and contractors. Wars are profitable for everyone but citizens in the war torn countries and US taxpayers
I think the stage is set for Israel to crank it up a notch.
There is no mention of the fate of the Israeli hostages. That is a big mistake. That action shows these clowns talking past those that value common sense. If you can’t make the correct little decisions, you won’t make the correct big decisions.
That silence on the fate of the hostages shows the contempt Egypt and Jordan have for the Israeli people. No decent culture can condone the barbaric savage actions the Palestinians inflicted on the Israelis. Egypt and Jordan have presented a low IQ message to their people that today’s cycle of violence should stop so the Palestinians can regroup and take another shot at Israel at some later date. Play stupid games… win stupid prizes.
God has abandoned the Muslim world. God does not condone what the Palestinians have done to the Israeli people. For Egypt and Jordan to whitewash Palestinian affairs is an affront to God. “Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.”
Israel should continue down the path laid out before it. Global jealousy of Israel is not an attribute that should be pandered to.
https://fathomjournal.org/separation-is-not-the-answer-gershon-hacohen-on-israels-security/
https://fathomjournal.org/opinion-a-ceasefire-would-normalise-the-pogrom/
Larry: Thank you for the Gershon Hacohen link. He is my favorite Israeli commentator on Israeli defense and security issues. He has enormous knowledge about Israel’s defense, the IDF, the Middle East, Arabs and also, Judaism.
…Republicans (84 – 12 percent), Democrats (76 – 17 percent), and independents (74 – 19 percent) think supporting Israel is in the national interest of the United States…
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3880
What percentage of them can explain why?
God blesses nations that support Israel.
I suspect both Jordan and Egypt expect to be squeezed in global financial markets.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/egypt-cut-deeper-into-junk-with-fitch-s-second-downgrade-of-2023-1.1993858
Problem is, the probability is high that Biden will (1) cut off Israel access to ammunition of all kinds, and (2) not accept any support bill passed by Congress, in the unlikely event Congress actually passes a bill.
Israel needs the munitions, support not so much.
Not only was Iran not mentioned, no one asked why the leader of Hamas is allowed to live safely in Qatar.
And Turkey
Does anyone suppose Trump’s SoS would be a wing man at such an event? Newman?
Just more doublespeak with an arabic accent.
War crimes carried out by Hamas were not addresses, Rejecting the displacement of Palestinians from their land does not address the displacement of the Jews from Judah before the time of Mohammed.
If sincere, the Arab League would endorse the obliteration of Hamas, the Islamic Brotherhood and the Wahabi schools.
But, it is in their blood. They can’t and they won’t.
Also displacement of Jews from Arab nations in hundreds oftousands since 1948
Do you think anyone would be up for a “Fast for Palestine”?
How confusing that the Sunni nations do not welcome their Sunni brethren the Palestinian citizens into their countries. Could it possibly be that they know their Shi’ite cousins, Iran, are behind the massacre of innocent Israelis? Their faux humanitarian concerns are for their own selves. Wonder how they would react if attacked in the same way as Israel was.
A trifecta of absolute idiocy. That they want a 2 state solution doesn’t matter & doesn’t take into account that gaza has governed itself for the last 18 years. Essentially there was already a 2 state solution.
With unprecedented savagery & virtually instantaneous evidence of it blasted around the globe, fake “Palestinians” showed the world what they themselves want on 10-7.
The enemy of humanity defined the rules of this war. They will reap what they sowed. Facts don’t care about what this insane 🤡 posse wants.
Act like Nazis, wind up like Nazis.
The before and after pictures are back from the drug store.
ITEM 1: Al Jazeera whined, “Israel-Hamas war live: Jabalia hit again a day after deadly Israeli attack.”
Berlin got hit several times as well. Group punishment and disproportionate reaction are how you win a war.
Palestinians called for a cease-fire. They should have kept the one they had.
Highlights of the week – Don Surber (substack.com)
Amen
Bomb baby, bomb …
Keep up the good fight, Israeli’s! God is on your side …
If you only knew what Jews think of your pro Jewish Protestants, especially southerners. The Jews are on a rampage against the new speaker of the house because he’s a church going Protestant like you.
God can still be on the side of the Israeli’s even if they hate us Southern Protestants and attack the new SOH, Mike Johnson, who is largely still untested.
Egypt and Jordan don’t mention Iran because they don’t want Iran stirring up shit up in their countries; and deep down, support Palestinians against Israel.
They only want ‘peace’ (ceasefire) because not only do they not want refugees in their country, they want to placate the US’s position so the foreign aid pig trough to their countries from the US taxpayers doesn’t get shut off.
That’s it in a nutshell.
And they don’t want the radioactive dust pouring down on them.
We also don’t hear much from our politicians about Turkey. Turkey has been voicing their strong opinions. For me the quiet big issue is where Turkey lands in all of this. If Turkey really starts getting involved in a way that is more than words, this could spiral real fast. They are a NATO “member.” What would happen if Israel was forced to do something against Turkey? Is then NATO required to enter on the side against Israel?
I don’t even want to think about it. The only reason Turkey is in NATO is their geography in regards to the former Soviet Union. I hope Turkey’s involvement never goes past words.
Turkey is harboring the terrorists who hate us
Slow roll while the cleaners sweep out all the dirt. We didn’t start the fire………
Sending Blinken to meet world leaders is like sending me to lecture at an astrophysics convention.
That’s okay, he slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
So, basically, it is the Arab nations against Israel…
A friend once said to me something derogatory about Israel. My response, “Look at a map. Look how tiny Israel is. Now look around her and see who her neighbors are – Arabs who want her dead.” My friend shut up. I feel the same way today.
I stand with Israel. I pray for peace for her. I pray our insane government does the right things. I pray that God shows his glorious power in protecting Israel. I pray the Lord protects the innocent whether they be Gazans/Palestinians or Americans or any innocent person.
I am confident God will protect His Chosen People. He can eliminate Israel’s enemies with one Almighty breath. God keeps his promises and He promised to protect the people of Israel.
We have “Politicians” speaking (Even the elites must have some political skills+. … The Palestinians Arabs are more honest about their goals: The Militant Jihadist Muslims want to kill all the Jews in Israel as quickly as possible. … The phrase from ‘The river to the sea’ is a call for genocide of the Jews; we can now hear that ‘call for genocide of the Jews’ here in America.
We are all a target, and facing a violent death.
Islam means ‘Submission to God.’ = The Militant Jihadists enforce the understanding of the Will of >their God. … We are facing devout Militant Jihadists serving their God.
Many of our (USA) politicians serve only >their Religion, which is putting more money in >their own pocket.
“For the love of money is the root of all of evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” [The Good Book]
How about sending any refugees from Gaza to Iran?
Let them live with the mess they created.
More historical context with religious layers explained here:
https://jeffreyprather.com/historical-sabotage-scripture-nuclear-armageddon/
A simple analysis.
The Palestinians who have power want one thing. Kill every Jewish man, woman, and child.
The Jews who have power want one thing. Kill every Palestinian man, woman, and child.
Demographics are not on the side of the Jews.
Now add to this massive deposits of oil and gas under the area – with people in the US establishment having bought into this now for years – and these people are getting older by the day.
Demographics are meaningless when Almighty God has pledged to protect Israel. God gave power to young David to kill the Philistine giant, Goliath. using only a slingshot. Nobody can “outnumber” the will of the God of Abraham.
Iran is not an Arab country. It is Persian.
according to someone I know who visited Iran about 10 years ago. His impression was that they didn’t want to talk about anti-Israel sentiment as much as they wanted to talk about Saudi Arabia.
I had some Persian neighbors in the late 80s/early 90s in San Diego. Fantastic people, all 3 daughters highly educated, college plus.
If all the Jews were killed in the ME, then the Muslims, directed by the satanic words of satanic people, would start killing Americans.
Once they have all their “enemies” slaughtered they’ll go back to killing one another.
As Americans we supposedly believe in fairness. Why would any fair arbiter of public opinion accept, with no inquiry, the Muslim Arab claim that “Jewish Settlers” behave violently towards Arab Muslims gratuitously?
One would think that a public forum, in which articulate members of both sides to the disagreement can each present evidence and testimony should follow.
Why the rush to judgement?
Considering that the Arab side employs deceit regularly, as in the case of the hospital in Gaza that THEY bombed with their own missile, and then shamelessly tried to blame Israel, one would expect a closer examination of their every wild claim.
Sus picious Dog found something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Canal_Project
So to anyone not wanting to read, I’ll summarize for you.
“Our joint efforts have also been critical in increasing the flow of humanitarian assistance to Gaza.”
Egypt and Jordan could not resist the cash.
The dichotomy is very simple; if the Hamas stop fighting there will be peace; if the Jews stop fighting they will be eliminated. Can’t get much simpler than that.
Always makes me feel so confident when the US is meeting with other nations to decide on the procedure of one not represented. Its like a judge getting instructions by notes from his clerk. Nothing good will come of it. Its understandable that other countries have a say considering it will affect them but its a poor substitute instead of an Israel representative.
drip, drip: Well stated.
Doesn’t sound like Blinken moved the ball an inch.
I stopped reading after this losers first paragraph when he said “In the name of Allah the most merciful and gracious” Tell that to all of the people killed in his name!
Biden funds Iran so that Iran can fund Hamas, so there is noway Biden will allow Hamas to be destroyed.
The IDF stood down for seven hours, allowing the attack to take place. Killing a bunch of Palestinian civilians doesn’t fix that. Those who gave the order need to hang.
Hopefully, the binding Order of provisional measures by the International Court of Justice, located in the Peace Palace, The Hague (Netherlands), will hasten cessation of hostilities & productive conversations between the people involved in the Gaza/Israeli conflict: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel), Press Release: https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-pre-01-00-en.pdf
Heaven forbid any one stands up to Iran sarc
All I can say is read Joel chapter 3. .
Talk now of the PA governing Gaza when the dust settles. That is huge. The alternative to Hamas is then the PA, not Israel. A choice for Gazans: Hamas and destruction, or point out the Hamas fighters and choose peace with the PA.
Trapper: Gazans made their “choice” when the “voted” for Hamas, rather than the PA, years ago.
I get that. But now they have a new choice: die with Hamas, or live with the PA. The dynamic gets real interesting real quick.
Until the Israeli’s project that choice, I don’t think its a real option. I don’t think the Israeli’s are even talking any kind of cease fire or any kind of settlement at this point. Maybe later.
How to win a war
strap a kid to your chest
They weren’t born to walk on water
They weren’t born to sack and slaughter
But on their soul, they weren’t born
To stoop and knuckle under
They can again learn to steal some thunder
They can again learn to work some wonder
And now that the gauntlet’s down,
It’s time to rise and climb the sky
And soon the moon will smoulder
And the winds will drive
Yes, Israel grows older but it’s soul remains alive
All those tremulous stars still glitter, they will survive
Let their hearts now grow colder and as bitter as a falcon in the dive