“Hamas’s requests would ultimately undermine the phased nature of the proposal on which agreement rests,” the senior administration official said Wednesday. “It will be difficult to get Israel to agree to automaticity that the ceasefire will become permanent.”
they are making the deal for permanent ceasefire hard by asking for details on how and when it becomes a ceasefire
What that says is that they're trying to ramp down engagements not stop them immediately, you know... Like a ceasefire.
Hamas has good reason to be hesitant about that shit because literally every single time Israel right before the clock runs out just goes goddamn gangbusters dropping bombs and killing kids.
The only reason anyone would reject that condition is because they want to resume the genocide.
I think the US aim is to get fighting to stop as quick as possible using a temporary ceasefire with easily acceptable conditions by both sides. So then people stop dieing and they can spend more time on a permanent ceasefire.
The last few months do not paint the US as the peacemakers here. It's hard to tell what motivation they have here beyond saving face before election time.
I don't understand why Hamas would reject the deal that was essentially the same as one they agreed to in the past, that was deemed reasonable by Qatar, Egypt, and the UN. It doesn't make sense.
They didn't reject it though?
That's true. There is still hope that Hamas could walk back some of their demands. It just seemed like a done deal. Israel has yet to agree to the terms as well.
The demands are essentially just Israel stop killing Palestinians while we do the rest of the negotiations
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