As a ceasefire is declared in Gaza, due to begin on Sunday, and we will see about that,

not least as the Israeli state continues its genocidal onslaught on Gaza, it's time to take stock.

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, who will rightly go down in history, as a monster, said this.

This is the ceasefire agreement I introduced last spring.

One caveat here.

How sentient this man is, open to debate, but what were he and his advisors thinking

when they decided he should say that?

Did they think it would reflect well on him that this would mean he would get some credit?

Does he not realize how incriminating this is?

Indeed, what has been underlined by latest developments

is that the United States, which provides Israel with the overwhelming majority of its weapons,

as well as aid and diplomatic support, we could go on. The US has almost total leverage over

what Israel does in these circumstances. That Netanyahu signed up to a deal that was on the

table last spring is because,

let's say it, Donald Trump used some sort of leverage, which Biden refused. There's going to be some

heavy caveats here. Don't worry, I've got onto them. Now, according to the Washington Post,

a diplomat briefed on the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, credited progress in the

talks in part to the influence of President-elect Donald Trump,

saying it was the first time there had been real pressure on the Israeli side to accept a deal.

According to the Times of Israel, a tense weekend meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

an incoming mid-east envoy Steve Whitkokoff led to a breakthrough in the hostage negotiations

with the top aid to the US President-elects of Donald Trump, doing more to square the

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