Macron tells Netanyahu that 'durable ceasefire' needed in Gaza

[ucrdem]

Source: The Times of Israel

Macron tells Netanyahu that ‘durable ceasefire’ needed in Gaza
By REUTERS

Today, 11:23 pm (WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2023)

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call this evening of the need to work toward a durable ceasefire “with the help of all regional and international partners,” the French Presidency says in a statement.

France will also work with Jordan in days ahead on humanitarian operations in Gaza, it adds.

Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/macron-tells-netanyahu-that-durable-ceasefire-needed-in-gaza/

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We'll see what happens.

[The Magistrate]

1. A 'Durable Cease-Fire', Sir, Requires Hamas Foreswearing Violence

People are free to desire, even to propose, whatever they damned well please: it's just bean-breeze without prospect of that in hand.

[ucrdem]

3. Some element of political kabuki going on here, no doubt.

Still, Macron put this out there in a way that I don't think other major players have yet, meaning US and UK. So if nothing else it shows that international pressure on Israel getting harder to ignore.

[The Magistrate]

4. Given The Recent Egyptian Proposal

One could make a fair argument international pressure on regional powers to rein in Hamas is beginning to have some effect.

Israel is not going to stop. The reason the state of Israel was brought into being was so there would be some patch of earth where Jews don't have to wonder when they'll be killed for being Jews. It will vindicate its purpose, and have scant concern with what anyone thinks of how they go about it. There's little doubt Hamas intended to provoke a heavy-handed response; there is great doubt whether they correctly gauged how terrible it would be.

[ucrdem]

2. More from another source (Barron's)

Macron, an ally of Netanyahu since the start of the war triggered by the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, told the Israeli premier of his "deepest concern" about civilian deaths and the humanitarian emergency in Gaza.

He also insisted on the importance of measures to end violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank and prevent new planned settlements.

Netanyahu's office said during the call the prime minister thanked Macron for "France's involvement in defending freedom of navigation and its willingness to help restore security along Israel's border with Lebanon".

https://www.barrons.com/news/macron-asks-netanyahu-for-lasting-ceasefire-in-gaza-french-presidency-83cc4af1

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5. Hamas flat out rejects a permanent ceasefire.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. Last ceasefire lasted less than the week and Hamas broke it with a terrorist attack at a bus stop

Appeasement didn't work in 1938. It won't work now.