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This. What @NZedAUS said.

It’s important to recognize — and please take a moment to let this sink in — that if the hostages all return home and the war ends, that is a •disaster• for Netanyahu.

The hostages and the war are the only thing keeping him afloat right now. Without them, he’s sunk. His back is to the wall. He •needs• this ongoing disaster to survive. And he’s willing to sacrifice anyone and anything — except himself — to prolong it. mastodon.nz/@NZedAUS/113065656

Mastodon NZDrD (@NZedAUS@mastodon.nz)#Netanyahu must go. He does not represent the majority of Israelis and is protracting the war in Gaza and now the West Bank to avoid jail. He's holding his entire country and the #ceasefire process hostage.

This is why — and I’m going to catch some hate in the replies for this, but so be it — this is why it really rankles me when people feel the need to center •US• politicians in every single damned post about Netanyahu’s ongoing campaign of genocide.

Yes, yes, the Biden admin have up to this point grossly underutilized what leverage they have. I just think you all grossly overestimate how much leverage that really is.

@inthehands Israel’s economy has contracted by 1/3 and they have mass protests going on daily as well as IDF officers saying they can’t keep up the campaign, some soldiers defecting….and it’s not enough to end the bloodshed and chaos because of how desperate Netanyahu is.

Cutting off weapons shipments to him would not end all this as soon as people think, and he might just go get weapons from China or Russia or something. I’m sure they’d be eager suppliers.

Paul Cantrell

@MisuseCase
Exactly. What external levers we have are not about pressuring Netanyahu himself, but about ramping up anti-Netanyahu pressure within Israel.

@inthehands @MisuseCase

I think people should remember some facts before blaming Netanyahu for the lack of a deal:

Israel agreed to the Biden-UN proposal.
Hamas rejected the Biden-UN proposal.
Israel agreed to the August bridging proposal.
Hamas rejected the August bridging proposal.

@bd_sint @inthehands Israel always rejects deals once Hamas is on board with them, and it keeps killing the Hamas leaders who are actively negotiating and who accept ceasefire deals. This is consistent with a pattern that goes back well before 10/7.

So…nope!