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Secretary Blinken and Israeli negotiators leave amid a breakdown, commitments made but skepticism lingers, and U.S. diplomacy persists despite frustrations, signaling a pause with an uncertain timeline for returning to negotiations.
Diplomatic observers
Details on the specific commitments made by the Israeli government and potential next steps for diplomatic efforts.
#Negotiations #Diplomacy #InternationalRelations #USForeignPolicy #Israel #Hamas
Well, howdy there, internet people.
Let's bow again.
So today we are going to talk about the negotiations,
how they are going, and where it goes from here.
Short version, it's not good.
Secretary of State Blinken is either already back
or is on his way back.
The negotiating teams are
packing up and leaving. That doesn't mean that it's
over for good. It is the modern era.
They don't have to sit around a table. They can
call each other. But Blinken is headed home.
The Israeli negotiating team is headed home.
The negotiations have hit a wall. Blinken indicated
that the reason the negotiations failed was that Hamas violated already agreed upon stuff
and didn't seem willing to move along further with it.
Blinken also indicated that he was able to secure some commitments from the Israeli government
as far as civilian protection measures and that there were things that they had agreed
to do to enhance the preservation of life.
There seemed to be a little bit of skepticism as to whether or not those commitments would
be followed through on.
Indicated that he had reviewed them and that they looked good, but there was, there's still
the question of whether or not they will be applied in the manner that they should.
He was asked about the recent events and he said that he hadn't caught up on them yet
as to how things are moving because it does appear that Israel is moving south.
And that's where things are at right now.
Now, regardless of this outcome, U.S. diplomacy is set to try to continue the course of action
that it's been on.
Generally speaking, once something like this is broke, it's broke for a bit.
It's normally not, you know, a day or two before people return to the table.
It's normally a pretty decent amount of time.
Now something could change and it does appear that the United States is still going to work
with other partners to try to get more of the captives out.
But right now, we don't know much other than it took a turn and at the moment the frustrations
hit the point where everybody walked away.
They're going to have to go back to the table eventually.
How long that's going to take, we don't know.
There's no real way to guess other than historically, it isn't just a couple of days.
It could be a week, it could be much longer.
So I'll try to keep you updated as I get more information.
Anyway, it's just a thought, y'all have a good day.
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