Hamas responds to ceasefire proposal, reiterates demands

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2. Netanyahu has

reiterated many times he will not stop attacking no matter what, he will never withdraw troops no matter what and aid will flow at his discretion on a permanent basis. As I said long ago that because of his stance on those three things there is little reason for any group to think this is anything but a demand for unconditional surrender. They should all just stop this BS dance about "deals" that's gone on for nearly 2 years this time and say it for what it is.

The world has largely sat back and given soft condemnation to the slaughter and will not really take any meaningful steps. They are too afraid of political blow-back and being called names. A meaningful step would be for several EU countries to expel the Israeli ambassadors and withdraw theirs from Israel while at the same time putting an immediate freeze on funds transfers from support groups in their countries that raise money for any of the combatant groups including Israel. But even this fairly tepid step is too much for them to consider and so we just get words, words, words and more words.