"But the ambassador was blunt about what won’t happen: Israel will not withdraw prematurely, not without hostages, not with Hamas in power. “We cannot move on,” he said. “We’re a peaceful country. But we still have the hostages.' ”
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"It was a brisk Tuesday afternoon when Danny Danon, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, stepped into a Washington, D.C. conference room and fielded questions from reporters ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming third trip to the United States, scheduled for Monday. Danon’s tone? Resolute and impatient with diplomatic euphemism, yet optimistic for the region. His target? Iran — plus the U.N., Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, European trade bureaucrats, and, occasionally, the complacency of the West.
"To a question about Israeli intelligence’s assessments of the U.S. strategic bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, Danon said: “We pushed them back. It’s too early to say by how much — whether a year or more — but we pushed them back.” He then added that the media tends to fixate on the nuclear aspect, suggesting that there is a point to be made about how Iran’s aim to ready “thousands of ballistic missiles” was comparable to a nuclear threat. In destroying sites relevant to these missiles, he assures the operation was incredibly successful.
"When asked how closely Israel cooperated with the U.S. leading up to the recent strikes, Danon replied: “We speak to our colleagues in DC all the time — before the attack, during the attack, and after the attack. I don’t think we got any commitments that they would join the effort [before Israel’s surprise strike earlier last month]. After we cleaned the area, it made it easier for the U.S. to send the B-2s and finish the job.” Note here that Danon suggests that the U.S. had not made commitments to join the military effort preceding Israel’s first attack, casting doubt on the claims that President Donald Trump’s administration’s initial calls for constraint were just a deception effort." . . .
Palestinians’ ‘Allies’ Need to Abolish Hamas, Not Israel
"Every last Jew could vanish into the sea, yet until Hamas has been decimated, the Palestinian people will remain oppressed."
In truth, although countless self-styled ‘Palestinian allies’ throughout North America continue to regurgitate the tattered narrative that ‘the state of Israel must be abolished in order for the Palestinian people to be free,’ it is readily apparent that anyone who earnestly seeks to help or liberate the Palestinian people must unequivocally strive to confront Hamas and expel its extremist blight from the Palestinian Territories, not abort the state of Israel or exterminate the Jewish people.
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