{"id":48979,"date":"2024-08-20T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=48979"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:27:54","slug":"blinken-wants-to-sell-us-a-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/20\/blinken-wants-to-sell-us-a-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Wants To Sell Us a Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blinken is selling<\/a> a bridge to nowhere:<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Antony\u00a0Blinken\u00a0said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge gaps in ceasefire negotiations and the next step is for Hamas to accept ahead of further negotiations expected to take place later this week.<\/em><\/p>\n

The so-called bridging proposal is not a serious effort to secure a ceasefire. The only gap<\/a> that it closes<\/a> is between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government, and it does this by including even more conditions from the Israeli side that Hamas won\u2019t accept. Netanyahu agreed to the new proposal only because he knew<\/a> that Hamas wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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In fact, according to some<\/a> Israeli officials, \u201cNetanyahu’s hard lines are actually making a deal much harder to reach.\u201d That\u2019s no accident. It is obvious that the prime minister doesn\u2019t want<\/a> a real, lasting ceasefire, and he never has. The prime minister has every incentive to keep the war going, and he has been trying to expand the war with attacks in Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. Letting Netanyahu dictate the terms is a recipe for unending conflict.<\/p>\n

The theater of Blinken\u2019s bridge is meant to give Netanyahu political cover and to delay Iranian retaliation for the attack in Tehran. The administration keeps running the same play so that it can claim to be working to end the war while doing nothing to pressure the Israeli government to end it. Meanwhile, U.S. arms transfers continue without interruption while Washington pretends that Netanyahu isn\u2019t the chief obstacle to peace.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Eunomia<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia<\/a>. He is former senior editor at<\/i> The American Conservative. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and<\/i> Culture11, and was a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blinken is selling a bridge to nowhere: US Secretary of State Antony\u00a0Blinken\u00a0said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge gaps in ceasefire negotiations and the next step is for Hamas to accept ahead of further negotiations expected to take place later this week. The so-called bridging proposal is not a serious effort to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"The so-called bridging proposal is not a serious effort to secure a ceasefire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48983,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions\/48983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}