Ceasefire

Understanding Biden’s Proposal For A Gaza Ceasefire

June 2, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Gaza, Genocide, Hamas, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Peace Negotiations

As U.S. President Joe Biden stepped up to the microphone on Friday, he checked his watch before beginning his speech, joking that he wanted to make sure it was afternoon. Given that he was almost an hour late to the speech, someone might have told him behind the scenes to wait until it was close to the beginning of Shabbat in Israel. That way, far-right, and Sabbath-observant, ministers such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir would have to wait a day to respond to a speech they certainly did not want to hear. Nor was Biden’s speech one that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have been very pleased with, although he must have known it was coming well in advance.

‘Uniting For Peace’ Is Next Step In Invoking Genocide Convention Process

June 2, 2024 Sam Husseini, Substack. Strategize! Ceasefire, Genocide Convention, Palestine, Sanctions, United Nations

Following the latest orders from the International Court of Justice that Israel halt its military offensive in Rafah, some claimed that while the orders of the Court are of course binding, there’s “no enforcement mechanism.” The Court’s orders were of course the result of South Africa’s invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel and its repeated requests for additional orders from the ICJ. In fact, there is such an enforcement mechanism — it’s the UN Security Council. The ICJ is a court that issues orders. The UNSC should act like a sheriff which implements those orders. The problem of course is that the US government has misused its veto power to prevent the UNSC from actually ensuring security, vetoing numerous resolutions on Palestine since October.

Johns Hopkins Justice Collective Update On Negotiations With University

May 6, 2024 Johns Hopkins Justice Collective, Popular Resistance. Resist! Campus Movement, Ceasefire, Divestment, Gaza, Johns Hopkins University, Negotiations, Palestine, Student Activism

Baltimore, MD - Over the past few days, the University has sent emails to the JHU student body and faculty attempting to paint the encampment as unwilling to enter negotiations. This framing by the University is incredibly dishonest: an hours long, closed-door meeting is not the only way to negotiate. Since the beginning of the encampment, we have repeatedly asked that the University send us negotiation offers by email, which they have consistently refused to do. To say we refuse to negotiate until Tuesday is plainly untrue. Our request to begin via email is for a variety of reasons.

Gaza Truce Deal Falters As Israel Insists On More War

May 5, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Ceasefire, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Truce

Efforts to reach an agreement for a truce and prisoner exchange in the Gaza Strip have been faltering, as Israel is refusing to accept a permanent ceasefire and end to the war. Sources told Al-Mayadeen on 5 May that “negotiations face a major obstacle due to the Israeli refusal to adhere to a permanent ceasefire.” They added that Hamas is insisting on written guarantees that a deal will include a permanent ceasefire. Despite this, Egyptian outlet Cairo TV said on Sunday that there is a “positive” atmosphere regarding the talks. A Hamas official told CBS on the same day that the talks made no progress.

Israel-US Gaza Plan Stares Us In The Face

May 2, 2024 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Ceasefire, Israel, Palestine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Zionism

One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-U.S. game plan for Gaza runs something like this: In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah and pressuring him to allow more “humanitarian aid” into Gaza. But already the White House is preparing the ground to subvert its own messaging. It insists that Israel has offered an “extraordinarily generous” deal to Hamas – one that, Washington suggests, amounts to a ceasefire. It doesn’t. According to reports, the best Israel has offered is an undefined “period of sustained calm”. Even that promise can’t be trusted.

Revolt In Northern England: No Ceasefire, No Vote

April 16, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Resist! Britain, Ceasefire, Elections, England, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

There is a rebellion brewing in England, particularly in the north, where voters are fed up with the similar, repressive policies of both Labour and Conservative Parties, in particular when it comes to Gaza. This movement is being spearheaded by a surge of independent candidates for local council elections slated for May 2, and by George Galloway’s new Workers’ Party of Britain. Galloway became the first member of the party to be elected to Parliament in February representing Rochdale, outside Manchester.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 186: Hamas Calls For Permanent Ceasefire

April 10, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Benjamin Netanyahu, Ceasefire, Genocide, Hamas, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Palestine, Rafah, Wars and Militarism

The Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry announced that 153 Palestinians were killed and 60 wounded by Israeli forces’ ongoing strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, local media sources reported that Israeli forces continued to conduct airstrikes on different parts of Khan Younis, after having withdrawn from the city. In the town of al-Qarara, north of the city, an Israeli airstrike reportedly wounded several Palestinians. In Rafah, medical sources reported recovering two Palestinians killed in the al-Tanour neighborhood by an Israeli airstrike.

Colombia President Threatens To Break Relations With Israel

April 1, 2024 Middle East Monitor. Resist! Ceasefire, Colombia, Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, warned on Tuesday that Colombia will break diplomatic relations with Israel if it does not comply with the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council, which demands a ceasefire in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports. “If Israel does not comply with the United Nations ceasefire resolution, we will break diplomatic relations with Israel,” Petro published on his X account. Israel’s response to the Colombian President’s statement did not take long. The country’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, responded on X that Petro´s “support” of Hamas is a “disgrace to the Colombian people.”

The People’s Ceasefire

March 30, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Ceasefire, Gaza, Genocide Joe, Joe Biden, Palestine, United Nations

The Biden administration deserves no praise for abstaining from a United Nations Security Council resolution which demands that Israel observe a two week long ceasefire in Gaza. The U.S. vetoed numerous resolutions already, and was forced into doing the barest of minimums because of domestic and international political pressure. In recent weeks, Joe Biden made an odd and obviously staged public statement on the floor of congress, claiming to have been angry with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Leaked stories to the media made the same assertion, that Biden referred to Netanyahu as an “asshole” even as he continued to pour military aid into Israel.

Protests In Support Of Gaza Ceasefire Continue For Fourth Day

March 29, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Ceasefire, Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Mass Action, Morocco, Palestine

Large-scale protests in solidarity with Palestine continued for the fourth day in Morocco, Jordan, and several other countries in the Arab world on Thursday, March 28. The protesters continued to demand a complete boycott of Israel and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In Morocco, protesters flocked the streets of Casablanca, Meknes, and other cities early on Thursday, waving Palestinian flags and calling for an immediate ceasefire as per the UN Security Council resolution adopted earlier this week. They also denounced Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza and reiterated the demand to terminate all normalization processes with it.

City Councils Change Public Comment Rules As Ceasefire Debates Dominate

March 28, 2024 Barry Greene, Jr, Next City. Educate! Ceasefire, City Council, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Public Comments

In the six months since Hamas’s deadly attack and Israel’s subsequent bombardment of Gaza, more than 100 municipalities across the country have passed resolutions calling for a ceasefire. With more than 30,000 Palestinians dead, major cities including San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Detroit have formally declared their support for an end to Israel’s siege, often following dramatic showdowns and disruptions in their city council chambers. With anti-war activists in Virginia’s capital city demanding that Richmond join the list, finding a seat in Richmond’s City Council meetings has been difficult.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 172: Israel Continues Raids On Hospitals

March 26, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Gaza, Genocide, Hospitals, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, United Nations

The UN Security Council passed a resolution on Monday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, almost six months after Israel’s assault on the Strip began. The resolution was adopted after the U.S. abstained, in a marked shift from its previous positions, where it had vetoed three ceasefire resolution attempts in the past months. Last week, Russia and China vetoed a proposed ceasefire resolution presented by the U.S. The resolution called for the unconditional release of the remaining Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip as a precondition for the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Russia And China Veto US Resolution On Gaza

March 24, 2024 Tanupriya Singh, People's Dispatch. Resist! Ceasefire, China, Gaza, Genocide, Rafah, Russia, United Nations, Wars and Militarism

Russia and China vetoed a US-authored resolution in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on March 22 on the situation in Gaza. The text “determines the imperative for an immediate and sustained ceasefire” stopping short of an explicit call for a halt to Israel’s six-month long attack on besieged Gaza that has killed almost 32,000 Palestinians. The US authored the resolution after vetoing three successive UNSC resolutions on Gaza, including a February 20 resolution presented by Algeria that had called for an immediate ceasefire.

UE Demand For Ceasefire Built On Decades Of Education And Debate

March 24, 2024 Carl Rosen, Labor Notes. Organize! Ceasefire, Gaza, Labor Movement, Palestine, Solidarity, UE Union, Worker Rights

Unions representing more than half of the U.S. labor movement have now called for a ceasefire in Gaza, as has the AFL-CIO and some 70 city councils—the result of actions by many local and international unions and rank-and-file activists. Our union, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), was able to mobilize quickly on this critical issue because we have a strong tradition of international solidarity and taking a critical view of U.S. foreign policy. When Israel launched its brutal assault on the people of Palestine in the wake of the unconscionable Hamas attack of October 7, the UE leadership recognized that this was an issue that the labor movement had to take action on.

Ansar Allah Announces Expansion Of Attacks On Israel-Bound Ships

March 16, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Ansarallah, Ceasefire, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Red Sea, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah, said on Thursday, March 14 that his country’s armed forces will expand their attacks against ships moving to Israel from the Red Sea region to the whole of Indian ocean. Stating that attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb will continue until there is a in Gaza, al-Houthi declared that “we [now] aim to prevent ships associated with the Israeli enemy from crossing [Indian] Ocean towards South Africa and the Cape of the Good Hope” as well. He warned that international shipping companies should take Ansar Allah’s declaration seriously and avoid any links with Israel as “any ship linked to Israel is vulnerable to Yemeni missiles.”

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