Resistance in the US against a permanent ceasefire
US senator wants to know what Biden’s plan means for Israel’s offensive against Hamas
Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, has called on Biden to clarify if his ceasefire deal for Gaza would allow the Israeli military to continue its operations against Hamas.
The “enduring defeat” of the Palestinian armed group “is not only in the region’s interests, it is in America’s interests”, Graham said in a post on X.
“President Biden needs to be crystal clear that this ceasefire proposal does not prevent Israel from continuing military operations to destroy Hamas and to ensure they have no role in the future,” he said.
Military operations will never defeat resistance to occupation and military raids. It's not just Hamas.
With Al-Qassam and Al-Quds Brigades, four other armed Palestinian factions are fighting Israel in Gaza
https://www.newarab.com/news/four-other-armed-palestinian-groups-fighting-israel-gaza
To support Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and despite any ideological or political differences, thousands of fighters from four other Palestinian factions have been fighting against the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza since last October.
As well as al-Qassam Brigades — the armed wing of Hamas — and al-Quds Brigades — the armed wing of the PIJ and second-strongest armed faction in Gaza — these other armed factions fighters are actively participating in attacks on invading Israeli ground troops, launching rockets at the Israeli towns and even holding some of the Israelis that were captured last October, according to a senior Palestinian official, who preferred to remain anonymous.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Despite being the main political rival to Hamas, fighters in Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza have joined "to confront the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip and carry out qualitative military operations in support of both Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters", noted senior Palestinian officials.
Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades is the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. This Islamic-oriented group believes that only armed struggle is capable of liberating Palestine and preventing Israel from succeeding in its colonial ambitions in the Palestinian territories.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was formed as part of the Popular Resistance Forces in 2000. It was named after the party's former Secretary-General, Abu Ali Mustafa, whom Israel assassinated in 2001.
The Palestinian National Resistance Brigades The Palestinian National Resistance Brigades is the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). Like others, it was formed during the Second Intifada in 2000 and has an armed presence in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem and has been able to carry out repeated raids on illegal Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
"Although the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades are the strongest on the ground, fighters from other factions joining the fight has created a balance not only on the field but also politically, especially since Israel has always bragged since the beginning of its war that it is only fighting Hamas, which it described as similar to ISIS, to justify its crimes against all the Palestinian people," Wasef Erekat, a Ramallah-based Palestinian military expert, told TNA.
Only more resistance will spring up with no shortage of people, who lost everything already, to recruit. The only way to 'defeat' the resistance is take away the reason for the resistance and give people a better alternative.
The longer Israel stalls for a ceasefire, the more groups will join in, arising from local warlords for example. It will only get more difficult to get a general ceasefire, yet that's exactly what the war cabinet wants... International peacekeeping forces are needed. Indonesia is on the right track.
https://www.reuters.com/world/prabowo-says-indonesia-willing-send-peacekeeping-troops-gaza-2024-06-01/
