Watch: Anthony L. Fisher Discussing End of Gaza Ceasefire on Huffpost Live

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I will be on HuffPost Live today at 430p ET to talk about the latest broken ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

We'll tackle the future of Egypt as a potential peacemaker and whether a two-state solution remains a viable solution to ending the cycle of violence in the Holy Land.

Tune in live or watch the full segment, which will be posted later today.

UPDATE: Full segment available below.

Comments

[Pro Libertate]

I'm having real trouble keeping up. Is it cease or is it fire? I mean, right this instant.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Who broke the ceasefire. Just out of curiosity.

[Pro Libertate]

The People's Front of Judea?

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Not those splitters, it was the Popular Front of Judea!

[Pro Libertate]

I thought we were the Popular Front.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

No! We are the Judean People's Front!

[Pro Libertate]

Fuck off! "Judean People's Front." We're the People's Front of Judea! "Judean People's Front."

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Roman sympathizer!!!

[Pro Libertate]

Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.

Dissenter: Uh, well, one.

Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The Ceasefire That Broke Itself

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/20.....ke-itself/

(trigger warning: Elliot Abrams writing on the blog of the Council of Foreign Relations, tinfoil-hatters beware)

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Ooh, this time the NYT is a bit more fair:

"Another Gaza cease-fire collapsed on Tuesday when Palestinian militants fired rockets into southern Israel, drawing retaliatory airstrikes from Israel and prompting the Israeli government to withdraw its delegation from Egyptian-brokered talks in Cairo for an agreement to end the latest conflict."

[Slammer]

That damn ceasefire! Always starting shit up!

[Pro Libertate]

Maybe we should pull a Captain Kirk and invoke General Order 24.

[Heroic Mulatto]

The reporting on the region is so poor that it approaches criminal fraud. Take an article from CNN published today. Let's examine the first few paragraphs.

An Israeli delegation has been ordered home from talks in Cairo aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday, shortly after the Israeli military blamed militants in Gaza for breaking a truce.

Palestinian negotiators placed the blame for the lack of progress in the talks on the Israelis.

"The Israeli delegation is still trying to impose (upon us) what they want, and this would be impossible for us to accept as Palestinians," said Azzam Al Ahmad, head of the Palestinian negotiators.

Now let's ignore the fact that at no point in the article does the journalist quote an Israeli source; we have bigger fish to fry. The three journalists who cooperated to produce this farce deemed it unnecessary to inform the reader of al-Ahamd's affiliation. As if being a member of the West Bank-based Fateh party has no bearing on the context of his words.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Now let's look at another person quoted in the article, Izzat Risheq, only cited as "Another Palestinian leader". Again, the journalists deemed it unnecessary for the reader to know that Risheq is a senior member of Hamas. You see, the ideological differences between Fatah and Hamas are academic and not suited to the sixth-grade reading level CNN obviously writes at.
Let's look further into the article:

In the talks, Israel was calling for Gaza to be demilitarized, demanding that Hamas, which controls the territory, and other militant groups lay down their arms.

Risheq said Monday that the group's weapons were "for self-defense" against Israel.

"But when we have our own Palestinian state with its own national army to protect its citizens, there will be no need for any party to carry any kind of weapons," he said.

[Heroic Mulatto]

See, without the context one would think that Risheq is merely making a justified call for a sovereign Gaza Strip; however, if Risheq was correctly identified in the article as a senior member of Hamas, there would be a chance that an astute reader might possess enough knowledge of Hamas's ideology to know that when Risheq states there would be no need for anyone to carry weapons in a independent Palestinian state, that's because Hamas's vision of an independent Palestinian state is one that will have been Judenrein, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea through force of arms.

Or in three syllables, genocide.

And CNN couldn't bear having the reader understand that. It's a 'balanced' news source, you see.

[Ted S.]

The Ferguson PD.

Or maybe the millennials.

[GILMORE]

" the latest broken ceasefire between Israel and Hamas."

aw. Again?

I try to sustain myself by remembering the *good times we all had together*

[Ted S.]

Better times

[GILMORE]

That's (@*#$) depressing. Vietnam is always doing that! Stop trying to depress me. I'm thinking of the Good Times gaza and israel had, running down the beach, holding hands, playing frisbee with their dog, 'Arafat'...

[Notorious G.K.C.]

WAR DIMES HOPES FOR PEACE

[Notorious G.K.C.]

DIMS

[Pro Libertate]

Is that a new brand for the March of Dimes?

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

nah, War was dropping a dime on peace, and its hope was consequently lowered.

[Pro Libertate]

Are you sure? I thought "War Dimes" was a Sabbath tune.

[GILMORE]

I got some dimes, yo

[jmomls]

"Cycle of violence" is such a meaningless, idiotic phrase.

I guess there'd be no "cycle" if the Jews just laid down and took all the rocket fire the Arabs had to offer.

[userve32]

Sometimes man you just ahve to roll with it.

http://www.Anon-Surf.tk

[Mickey Rat]

"We'll tackle the future of Egypt as a potential peacemaker and whether a two-state solution remains a viable solution to ending the cycle of violence in the Holy Land."

That sentence assumes it ever was a viable solution.