This weekā€™s ā€œbreakthroughā€ in ceasefire negotiations to end the genocidal campaign against Gaza came, according to regional sources, after a single intervention by US president-elect Trumpā€™s designated envoy Steve Witkoff in which he ordered Netanyahuā€™s government to capitulate.

While we might be skeptical of Trumpā€™s habit of claiming credit for any progress, it was corroborated by the far-right members of the Netanyahu government erupting into the kind of tantrum for which they are now world-famous, framing the deal as a disaster imposed on ā€œIsraelā€ by the incoming administration.

In the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Biden, while parroting ā€œIsraelā€™sā€ atrocity propaganda about beheaded infants in ovens, gave Netanyahu a carte blanche to declare total war on the people of Gaza. As the unique scale of the atrocities in the Strip became clear, Biden proceeded, through his spineless UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, to provide diplomatic cover for the genocide at the Security Council.

In June, Biden lied that a ceasefire deal had finally been reached, that it was at the initiative of the Netanyahu government, and that the Israeli leadership had accepted it. Secretary of State Antony Blinken clownishly trumpeted this falsehood, along with the claim that the only impediment to the ceasefire was Hamasā€™ refusal of its terms. It was well known at the time to be a lie, but the breakthrough of the last week confirms it beyond all doubt.

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    No, it couldnā€™t. Because Biden made no effort to secure a ceasefire. It took one phone call, but Biden was not willing to make that phone call. The idea that Trump was somehow forcing Biden to keep sending Israel billions in arms for the past fifteen months is absolute brain-dead conspiracy on par with qanon.

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      I didnā€™t say that Donald Trump forced the weapon shipments. I said he could have told Israel to not negotiate until now. Iā€™d say itā€™s a brain dead idea that Biden never said ā€œstop itā€ once. Those weapon shipments will continue now regardless, and now the genocide will just be moved back to a cold phase until something happens,or it is complete.

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        The POTUS doesnā€™t need to ā€œnegotiateā€ with Israel: Israel relies on the USA for its existence. If Biden told them ā€œstop itā€ and they refused, he would have cut support and forced them to stop it.

        But he didnā€™t, because he is a fanatical supporter of Israel.

        But of course youā€™ve already had this explained to you multiple times, your brain just refuses to accept it because itā€™s been completed fucking broken by your team losing the election and itā€™s in full on cope mode.

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          Israel couldnā€™t have gone until the election without him? I donā€™t know how much they have in store, but I assumed it was significant. Maybe Iā€™m wrong there. They probably wouldnā€™t have gone as hard, but there was no guarantee they would stop. There is certainly something different about trump saying stop it and Biden saying it. Are you assuming itā€™s that Trump attached it to shipments? I donā€™t know what is different myself. It could be several things. Iā€™m not discounting the possibilities. He says itā€™s his manly voice, and while that drips with sarcasm, I mean it could be? Maybe bidens a wimp and that was the difference. Butā€¦ Iā€™m also not discounting possibilities that disagree with that.

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            No, they could not. TRUMP COULD NOT FORCE THE BIDEN ADMIN TO KEEP SUPPORTING ISRAEL.

            Youā€™re being deliberately stubborn now, Iā€™ve explained this multiple times to you. Clearly there is no helping people like you who have fully practiced Qanon style conspiracy theory.

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              I didnā€™t say that again. The all capital thing, I did not say that. I didnā€™t say that Trump forced Biden to support anyone.

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                Yes. You did.

                But Iā€™m done indulging your willful playing dumb. For a year now, blueMaga liberals like you have insisted that just because you refuse to acknowledge obvious facts, the rest of us canā€™t either. Clearly it costing them an election has only caused them to double down.

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                  Maybe I implied that? I didnā€™t mean to. Where did I say that. But the conspiracy theory you are referring to isnā€™t that it forced joe Biden to send weapons (and yes heā€™s a piece of shit for doing it, itā€™s immoral). At least I donā€™t know where I said that specifically (if trump calls someone I donā€™t know how that forced joe Biden to do anything)

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                    Was I not clear that Iā€™m not going to indulge your willful playing dumb anymore?