Since Matthew Miller admitted that Netanyahu sabotaged a ceasefire, here’s a 🧵 on Biden officials lying about it.
Blinken June 11, 2024: Israel has agreed, the only party—
Reporter pushes back
Blinken: No, that’s the official position of the 🇮🇱 govt
Netanyahu stated publicly and Israeli media reported immediately after Biden’s announcement on May 31, 2024, that Israel would not agree to permanent ceasefire.
July 31 2024, after Israel assassinated Haniyeh in Iran.
Said: Does killing chief negotiator send message that they don’t want these negotiations?
Patel: I’m not gonna speculate
Miller June 13, 2024
Prem: Israeli officials said they’d rather not stop til they complete their aims of the war, any response
Miller: Israel put forward this proposal…yes there was going to have to be negotiations on how you end the war
September 9, 2024
Reporter: Is White House prepared to increase pressure on Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire deal, similar to UK withholding more weapons?
Kirby: Hamas is the main obstacle
July 15, 2024
Said: Do you think attack on Mawasi that killed close to 100 is Israeli attempt to scuttle talks…We’ve seen a pattern from Israel that every time we get close we see something like this
Miller: Israel is committed to the proposal
Blinken, August 19, 2024
Blinken May 2024: Only reason [deal] wouldn’t be achieved is Hamas
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I usually don’t share long, emotional posts. But as I sit helplessly watching more family and friends evacuate and lose everything, wondering how far the fires will spread, I feel compelled to say something.
This is not a Republican or Democrat issue, this is a failed system.
A system that prioritizes profit over people impacts every part of our society and how we live.
A system that prioritizes the power of a few over the needs of a community ensures that the community—the masses—will suffer.
We live in a country that, regardless of which party holds office, is always prepared to kill people, bomb and invade other nations, continue forever wars and never asks “how will we pay for it”
All while our elected officials personally gain from companies that profit from war.
Thread: As I’ve been talking to #Iranians in #Iran over the last couple weeks, some family & others friends I came to know over course of my yrs of field research in Iran, I’ve collected some of the more illuminating, interesting & at times heartbreaking comments 👇🏽
“After the nuclear deal we should’ve been flying in new Boeing planes, not shooting them down. How far we have fallen is truly sorrowful. From the hope of a different future, a moment of change, to not only broken promises, but what feels like darker days from the past”
“More than anything I’m scared. I believed in nuclear deal, it gave me hope for a better future & #Iran abided by it. It seems like we were punished for that. Now I’m scared of war & what might become of us. Iraq, Libya, Syria? The examples around us are grim”