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Palestinian prisoners cheer after being released in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas
Gaza • November 24, 2023
Israel has been unable to achieve any meaningful victories against the Palestinian militants...
After repeatedly rejecting a truce with Hamas and labeling the idea "ridiculous", Israel agreed to a four-day cessation of hostilities in Gaza and a prisoner exchange.
Six weeks of death and destruction, which Israeli and Western leaders declared should have led to the destruction of Hamas, have now bolstered the Palestinian movement's image throughout the Arab world and beyond.
The four-day truce that was implemented this Friday provided a sigh of relief for those most affected by the war in the Gaza Strip, but has in many ways
spelled disaster for the Israeli government. As
women and children, held captive by both Hamas and Israel, are being reunited with their families,
the threat of further warfare looms. Although the loved ones of those released are now celebrating, the
next steps will be crucial in determining the final outcomes of the 46-day battle that has now been placed on pause. At this time, it appears that the idea that
"Hamas must go" is no more than
a pipe dream.
On October 27, the United Nations General Assembly
passed a resolution to the sound of overwhelming applause, calling for a truce to stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Although the non-binding resolution passed with a majority of 120 votes in favour, Israel and the United States
outright rejected it. Tabled by Arab nations,
the call for a truce was labeled as a "defense of Nazi terrorists" by Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN. This came after
Hamas released four Israeli civilian hostages without conditions, for what the group said were humanitarian reasons.
Comment: What 'cease fire'? Although, to be fair to the pathocrats in Israel, they never did say they would desist with their war crimes elsewhere, and Israel never has properly observed any ceasefire it has agreed to, and for a few years now they attacked Syria with impunity. And, since Israel's escalation of their genocide in Gaza, they're now regularly attacking Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine - and sometimes launching airstrikes on each country in the same day. Moreover, this is just part and parcel of the Western-backed campaign to destabilise the Middle East.
However, whilst just a year or so ago these attacks mostly when unnoticed by the general public, with Israel's crimes against humanity galvanising an ever increasing number of people on the planet, and with Israel coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism from international bodies, and even the mainstream media, Russia's condemnation of their airstrikes in Syria may, now, receive the attention that it deserves, as well as highlighting just which nations are on the right side of history.
The time is coming where attacks like these may also provide the multipolar alliance with the exposure it needs to ultimately hold Israel to account: