Netanyahu is already screwing up the ceasefire deal announced yesterday.
An Israeli cabinet meeting to approve a ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas was delayed Thursday morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the militant group of “reneging” on parts of the agreement.
Netanyahu’s office said the cabinet would not convene until Hamas accepted all elements of the deal. A Hamas official said on social media that the group is committed to the agreement announced Wednesday. Neither provided any further details.
Discussions are ongoing about how prisoners will be exchanged, so the deal is not dead. And as expected, Trump is claiming credit for the deal. It will be a real joke on Trump if it falls apart after he’s inaugurated.
If you missed President Biden’s farewell address, here it is:
The part about the oligarchs is getting some attention.
I have no doubt that America is in a position to continue to succeed. That’s why my farewell address tonight — I want to warn the country of country of some things that give me great concern. This is a dangerous concern and that’s a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked.
Today, an oligarchy is taking democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America, and we’ve seen it before more than a century ago. But the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts. They didn’t punish the wealthy; they just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had to. Workers want rights there and it helped put us on a path to building the largest middle class, the most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen. We’ve got to do that again.
As I said yesterday, I’m not following the confirmation hearings. They’re all corrupt; they’re all going to be confirmed. There’s nothing that can be done about it.
Update: Rudy Giuliani was a no show in court today. A trial was supposed to begin in NYC that would determine if he can keep his Palm Beach condo and collection of World Series rings. Now it’s postponed. Someone might want to find him.
Update update: Giuliani has announced all parties have reached some kind of settlement, and he can keep his condo. It sounds screwy to me.
"It will be a real joke on Trump if it falls apart after he’s inaugurated"
If they even get a deal which I think is doubtful it will almost certainly fall apart soon after. Bibi and his wing-nut coalition are not interested in peace, they want that ocean front land back! Israel has spent the last year and a half bombing a civilian population to smithereens, they have created more terrorists than could have possibly killed. The people of Gaza are going to want revenge, which will be deemed as terrorism and will draw a disproportional response from Bibi and his right-wing goons.
You should have taken the under for Trump taking the credit for the Gaza deal. Under as in under five minutes. On truth social. According to my confidential informant. I cannot touch truth social with a ten foot pole.
I did catch highlights of some of the confirmation hearings, That sucking sound was my essence being drained from my being.
Well stated. It was like watching leading role tryouts for parts in a remake of Dumb and Dumber. A soul-sucking experience.
Gee, big money in politics may have a corrupting effect on democracy. I wonder why nobody thought of that before?
Rachael and team will report next week on the first 100 days of the rule of the new oligarchy. The oligarchy headed by the felon will be in play for the implementation of the United States role in the "peace" process a.k.a. "genocide" abatement process. He is not the only felon, nor emperor of chaos involved in this deal. We will see what Sunday brings if the hostilities abate. the genocide abates, hostages and other prisoners are swapped, and people show up in the mop and bucket mode. The mess is huge. For many the hierarchy of needs codified by Maslow has been inverted for too long. All I know is that what they must think is "self-actualization" is more rightly called horror by most relatively objective observers. Maslow may not have thought this all out well too and quit while he was on solid ground at the lower levels of the need hierarchy notion.
As we transition to an oligarchy, we need to understand that oligarchs are free of most of the constraints of the common man. The common man has a constant struggle to provide health, food, shelter, and Maslow's other needs. Oligarchs get to take these needs for granted by and large. They are free in a weird way, and what makes sense for the common man (please, do not confuse with common sense which is by and large an illusion) does not make sense for them.
Professor Galloway says it well. At a certain point in being rich, huge amounts of money cease to have much meaning. What most would view a windfall they waste in an hour with no buyer's remorse. These are our new leaders. They are in power and gaining power. The gospel of greed (of which there is no apparent hard copy) is in force. Biden is old but mentally intact and relatively honest for a politician. By the apparent standards of the new oligarchy, he is not nearly mentally disabled enough to rule or to even be an ambassador or cabinet member. This is going to take some adjustment. Biden warned us. He knows politics. He can see the transition and what is coming. I can too, but I am not of the oligarchy class. I must tend to need while they force their "self-actualization" upon those of lower class. It is the new way.
In other news, Biden has handed off Tic-Toc to the oligarchy. The oligarchy will decide how much dirt China gets to collect on our youth. OH, THE HORROR!!!