Daily Sabah Discovers Hamas Wants a Mediator, Not Continued Bombing
The Daily Sabah dutifully reports Hamas's request for Türkiye (Turkey, for those not up on NATO-member rebrands) to mediate the 'second phase' of Gaza ceasefire talks. This, we're told, is because 'Israeli attacks continue... despite a cease-fire.' One might wonder why a ceasefire isn't, you know, a ceasefire . Perhaps it's because the 'ceasefire' for Gaza often means a brief pause before the next
round of what international bodies increasingly call 'disproportionate force.' Remember when Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested a 'humanitarian pause' but refused to call for a full ceasefire? It's almost as if the U.S. and its allies prefer managing a humanitarian catastrophe over actually ending it. The underlying assumption here, carefully avoided by mainstream outlets, is that Hamas,
like any party under siege, might actually prefer stopping the bombing to being bombed. A shocking insight, surely. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress, with many members like Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) – who received $114,357 from pro-Israel groups in 2022, according to OpenSecrets.org – continues to rubber-stamp unconditional aid to the primary aggressor. How many mediators does it take to get a
cease-fire when one side is funded by the world's most powerful military to keep fighting?