• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    two senior Israeli officials and two U.S. officials tell Axios.

    In other words, no they’re not on the cusp of a ceasefire deal.

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      1 month ago

      At this point it is more like gaslighting than anything serious. And the USA mainstream press, and a big chunk of the press in the EU eats it up, again and again.

      A quick look at any Arabic based press quickly restores a sense of reality. As different in perspective as night and day

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        1 month ago

        I saw this reply, went to see what Al Jazeera has to say on it and found this from two weeks ago:

        Israel’s maximalist demands unlikely to lead to ceasefire with Hezbollah Israel says it is open to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, but analysts say no truce is on the horizon.

        So… Yeah, no ceasefires happening anytime soon.