Israel wants to force Palestinians ‘to bend the knee’
Jeremy Scahill, cofounder of Drop Site News, says the attack in Doha is “yet another sign” that “neither the United States nor Israel are interested in actually having a negotiated end” to the war on Gaza.
Scahill underscored that Hamas made major concessions in accepting a ceasefire proposal last month, dropping demands for a timetable for Israeli withdrawal from the border area with Egypt and lowering the number of Palestinian captives it is requesting in exchange for Israelis held in Gaza.
The veteran journalist said Israel did not even respond to the Hamas-approved proposal, and instead pushed on with the assault on Gaza City in a plan to forcibly displace more than one million Palestinians.
“They want to try to force the Palestinians to bend the knee, liberate the Israeli captives and continue on with their war of annihilation,” Scahill told AJ+.
Israel bombed Qatar, attempting to assassinate senior Hamas leadership. How involved is the US in this major escalation? And what’s next? Mehdi Hasan sat down with foreign policy analyst Rula Jebreal and Gaza political analyst Muhammad Shehada to break everything down.
Watch the full video to hear Rula explain why Donald Trump likely knew about the strikes, hear Muhammad break down the way Israel targets peace negotiators over and over, and find out why this latest news could impact “every other country in the world.”
‘It is clear they have no interest in a ceasefire’: Rashida Tlaib
The Palestinian American congresswoman has renewed calls for ending US funding and the sending of weapons to Israel after the Doha attack. “The Israeli government is again attempting to murder ceasefire negotiators, now bombing the capital of a US ally with total impunity,” she wrote in a social media post.
“It is clear they have no interest in a ceasefire to end their genocide of Palestinians.”
