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SvennoJ on 02 December 2024
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US senator: Biden’s Gaza legacy will ‘haunt’ him

US Senator Chris Van Hollen calls President Joe Biden’s Gaza policy “ineffective” and an “unprecedented deterioration in [US] efforts to secure a two-state solution and address the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, warned that “nothing will haunt President Joe Biden’s foreign policy legacy as much as his failed policies in the Middle East.”

Van Hollen stressed that Biden still has time to “correct” some of the mistakes he has made.

Since October 7, 2023, he added, Biden “has failed to effectively exercise American leadership to achieve his own stated goals: ending the war, securing the release of the hostages, and implementing his ‘day after‘ plan to create a path toward sustainable peace in the region”.

He called on Biden to sanction “ultraright” members of Netanyahu’s government and to pause offensive military assistance to Israel.

“Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, the Biden administration should recognize a state of Palestine,” Van Hollen added.

Biden can rot in hell, he's had enough chances.

Trump threatens ‘HELL’ if Israeli captives are not released

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened unspecified harsh consequences for the Middle East and Hamas if captives taken from Israel and still held in Gaza are not released by the time he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025.

“Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action!” Trump wrote.

Israel has killed more than 45,000 people in Gaza since Hamas fighters took the captives there more than a year ago.

It's already hell in Gaza.


Hamas says 33 captives killed in Gaza since war started

Hamas says 33 captives held by the group in Gaza have been killed since the start of Israel’s nearly 14-month-old war there.

The group issued a video statement on Monday saying the captives were killed “because of the stubbornness of the war criminal” Netanyahu and “his ongoing aggression”.

Hamas’s video lists and dates the incidents in which the group said captives were killed. Most of them were air strikes. However, some were rescue attempts by the Israeli military gone wrong.

Hamas made the announcement as key mediators, including Egypt, Qatar and the United States, launch another effort to reach a ceasefire that would see the release of Israeli captives.

“By continuing your mad war, you may lose your captives forever,” the video concluded. “Do what needs to be done before it’s too late.”


US Senator Sanders says Israel carrying out ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza

US Senator Bernie Sanders says Netanyahu’s government is committing “war crimes” and “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza. “You don’t fight terrorism by starving people & killing tens of thousands of civilians,” the 82-year-old leftist and two-time presidential candidate said in a post on X.

Sanders voiced his agreement with Moshe Yaalon, Netanyahu’s defence minister from 2013 to 2016, who on Sunday accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Yaalon told Israeli media that hardliners in Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet are looking to remove Palestinians from northern Gaza and re-establish settlements there.