added further down on May 2
Hamas makes major concessions, proposes disarmament conditions
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After confirming that Iran will not retaliate again, the main Israeli army that previously left Gaza is returning to Gaza. Hamas is well aware of the gap in military strength between itself and the Israeli army. If it continues to fight, it will not get any advantages, and it may even be completely annihilated. It chose to make concessions in order to protect itself.
According to Taiwan Strait Network, on Wednesday, Hamas senior political official Khalil Haya said in an interview that Hamas is willing to follow the pre-1967 borders in accordance with the "two-state solution" recognized by the international community. Establish a sovereign Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital and accept refugees in accordance with international resolutions.
If this comes true, Hamas is willing to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel for five years or even longer, disarm, turn into a political party, and form a unified government. This is seen by the outside world as a major concession made by Hamas. However, it seems unlikely that Israel will accept this condition. After all, in their eyes, only the complete destruction of Hamas is the real victory, and senior officials of the Israeli government firmly oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders and clearly reject the two-state solution.
以色列敢这么狂妄，拒不执行安理会决议，公然站在国际社会的对立面，说白了就是因为美国的默许和纵容。
Israel dares to be so arrogant, refuses to implement Security Council resolutions, and openly stands on the opposite side of the international community. To put it bluntly, it is because of the tacit consent and encouragement of the United States.
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According to The Paper, White House spokesman Kirby said that Hamas is a "terrorist organization" and must be "eradicated." As long as Hamas remains in power, it will be impossible to implement the "two-state solution" and there will be no Palestinian state. If they want to temporarily change the rules and really want to build a state for the Palestinian people, they can end the war now, just lay down their weapons and release the hostages.
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Hamas does not trust the United States and Israel at all, because they often say one thing and do another, and do not play their cards according to routines. After Hamas disarms, the United States may still veto Palestine's application to join the UN with one vote and prevent Palestine from becoming an independent country.
Israel may also continue to attack Hamas and annex Palestinian territories step by step. By then, the unarmed Hamas will be unable to change anything.
However, when Kirby said these words, wasn't he afraid of domestic chaos? As we all know, not long ago, Palestine's application to join the United Nations was vetoed by the United States, arousing the anger of the international community. Large-scale pro-Palestinian protests and marches broke out in many colleges and universities in the United States.
According to Red Star News, according to statistics, nearly 550 people in American universities have been arrested for related protests in the past week. Protests and demonstrations in American universities have even spread to the southern hemisphere. Demonstrators also broke out at the University of Sydney. They set up tents on campus and wrote slogans saying "Liberate Gaza".
[Excerpts quoted from a comment written by 立伟视界 (Li Wei's gobal view),
'nom de guerre' for a Chinese military commentator from Jiangxi province,
and published by 腾讯网 on May 1st 2024]
Hamas senior official:
Blinken is 'Israel's foreign minister', not the US secretary of state
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According to reports, Blinken met with Israeli leaders to discuss how to provide more aid to Gaza. He repeatedly urged Hamas to accept Israel's proposal to release detained personnel and achieve a ceasefire, calling it "extremely generous."
这名哈马斯官员对路透社记者说：“布林肯的言论与现实相矛盾。布林肯发表这样的言论并不奇怪。他被称为以色列外长，而不是美国国务卿。”
The Hamas official told Reuters: "Blinken's remarks contradict reality. It is not surprising that Blinken would make such remarks. He is called the Israeli foreign minister, not the U.S. secretary of state."
He added: "Even the Israeli negotiating team admitted that Netanyahu was the one who was blocking the ceasefire agreement."
According to reports, Hamas is seeking a permanent ceasefire and Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that regardless of whether it reaches an agreement with Hamas or not, Israel must destroy the remaining Hamas organization in Rafah, southern Gaza, to ensure your own safety.
[Excerpts from a news report published in Beijing by 搜狐 on May 1st 2024]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that both Hamas and Fatah
have come to Beijing. Will the two factions join forces to fight Israel?
外交部宣布，哈马斯法塔赫都来了北京，两派要合力大战以色列？
The conflict in Gaza continues, with people dying from air strikes or starvation every day, and a ceasefire is imminent. As a responsible major country committed to achieving peace in the Middle East, China announced another blockbuster news today (30th): the two main Palestinian factions are negotiating in Beijing!
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a regular press conference on April 30, a reporter asked about the talks between Fatah and Hamas in Beijing. Spokesperson Lin Jian confirmed this and stated that both parties fully expressed their reconciliation will to discuss many specific matters and make progress, and agreed to continue the dialogue.
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But starting the reconciliation process does not mean that reconciliation will be completed automatically. To achieve real reconciliation, we must agree on the most urgent struggle strategies at the moment. Hamas has sacrificed a lot of manpower and material resources. If Abbas and Fatah are sincere in reconciling, they must learn the lessons of the Moscow Conference and not have the idea of "picking the fruit." It should be noted that "if peace is sought through struggle, peace will survive; if peace is sought through compromise, peace will perish." Only when the Palestinian people share the same hatred can they defeat powerful enemies and the dawn of peace can come.
[Excerpts from a news report published in Beijing by 腾讯 on May 2, 2024]
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Obituary for Paul Auster For years, Paul Auster has been my favorite author. Today I heard about his death. Here is a collection of some important works I read and would like to recommend. Some lines from 'Moon Palace' I even read occasionally in a nearby public library. Paul Auster caught my interest because of his ability to combine the development of his characters simultaneously with the development of historic events, some of which I experienced myself. He therefore became the chronicler of my generation, even though some thousand miles separated the author from his reader. After having passed some months in the French capital of Paris, Auster even excelled in the translation of French poetry. The following lines are taken from his 'Report from the Interior', seen as a chronicle of post-war America. They describe his busy activity as a translator and writer of novels, as well as his difficulties to get his works typed for publishing. A letter from Nov. 23, 1967, has it that he rents a typewriter: " About the scenario. I have just gotten hold of a typewriter, a huge machine, rented at the price of $6 a month and have not yet begun the rewriting, only mental revision, addition.The biggest task is the physical work - the typing - there are so many pages. So I won't send it in the mail right away - rather, bring a copy with me at X-mas ... I'll also bring the Dupin translations, and translations of 2 other French poets: Jaccottet and du Bouchet. I'm doing a little book of the three poets for my French course - translations (about 20 poems of each), a general introductory essay, an article on each poet, and commentaries. How academic ! But it is much better than doing an ordinary paper. I have a novel that I am about to begin. Have also written some poems, which I will send to you in the next letter. They still need a bit of work. " Paul Auster was, as well, a notorious smoker of small cigars. In the cultic and obviously autobiographic film 'Smoke', Auster's protagonist, some NY author suffering from a writing blockade, receives the ideas for his X-mas essay just from the worldwise tobacco vendor where he would usually buy his Schimmelpenning cigars (same brand I used to smoke in the 1980s). Unlike me, he smoked until he was grabbed by a lung cancer from which he now died at the age of 77. His last work 'Baumgartner', a novel about age and the fragility of life, I held in my hands but refrained from buying it. It seemed to me too depressing ... Wolfgang Wiesner "Ulysses" on May 1st, 2024 |
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