Biden Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in Netanyahu Call

Sunday, January 12, 2025

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, as U.S. officials race to reach a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal before Biden leaves office on Jan. 20. Biden and Netanyahu discussed efforts underway to reach a deal to halt the fighting in the Palestinian enclave and free the remaining hostages there, the White House said in a statement after the two leaders spoke by telephone.

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... Biden "stressed the immediate need for a ceasefire in Gaza and return of the hostages with a surge in humanitarian aid enabled by a stoppage in the fighting under the deal," it said.

Netanyahu updated Biden on progress in the talks and on the mandate he has given his top-level security delegation now in Doha in order to advance a hostage deal, Netanyahu said in a statement.

The two leaders also discussed "the fundamentally changed regional circumstances following the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and the weakening of Iran's power in the region," the White House said.

Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN's "State of the Union" program earlier on Sunday that the parties were "very, very close" to reaching a deal, but still had to get it across the finish line.

He said Biden was getting daily updates on the talks in Doha, where Israeli and Palestinian officials have said since Thursday that some progress has been made in the indirect talks between Israel and militant group Hamas. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-12 02:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sure, Bibi will get right on that. Just before Trump and the GOP take complete control and give Israel the go ahead to unleash the dogs on Hamas.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-12 09:14 PM | Reply

Actions speak louder than words.

Jan 4, 2025 2:25 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department has informed Congress of a planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel, U.S. officials say, as the American ally presses forward with its war against Hamas in Gaza.

www.pbs.org

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 09:21 PM | Reply

Trump and the GOP take complete control and give Israel the go ahead to unleash the dogs on Hamas.
#2 | POSTED BY CENSORED

If 15 months of nonstop bombing and killing Palestinians in Gaza hasn't eliminated Hamas, nothing will until the last Palestinian is dead

Which, has been the plan all along.

Hell awaits you for all the death and misery you cheer for.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 09:24 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Actions speak louder than words. ...

Yup.

I am surprised that the US has given as much support to Israel to this point as it has done.

A carrot and stick approach?

I wish i knew.

All I do know is that the Middle East is a mess (has been for decades [centuries?]), and I doubt if it will become any less of a mess in the foreseeable future.

So, anything the US can do to bring down the temperature of that region is ~a move in the right direction~ for me.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-12 09:26 PM | Reply

America supporting Israel isn't really surprising.

Britain and America helped found Israel.

Israeli lobbyists dump millions into our federal government buying votes and politicians.

It would be more surprising for America to sit back and allow a war in the Middle East to occur without contributing to it.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 09:31 PM | Reply

Censored beat me to it.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-12 10:02 PM | Reply

Hell awaits you for all the death and misery you cheer for.

Is hell awaiting for those who started this? Is it waiting for the ones who raped and murdered their way through a peace festival?

Is hell waiting for those who routinely chant and yell at pro Palestinian rallies?

Genuinely interested in your response.

#8 | Posted by boaz at 2025-01-12 10:07 PM | Reply

The answer to your first two questions is, yes.

The answer to your third question I can't provide. It's too vague.

Censored has stated he takes pleasure in the death of Palestinians.

So I judge him based on his statement.

I don't view the conflict between Palestine and Israel as a war between two nations. Palestine isn't a nation. It's a territory occupied by Palestine. The reaction to October 7th is unprecedented and has been on going for 15 months.

Israel didn't negotiate for its hostages. It didn't target Hamas in Gaza but instead has been indiscriminately killing everyone. It has made bigger advances by strategically killing the heads of Hamas in Qatar and the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon that all the mass casualties it's created since October 7th.

Had Israel approached this differently it would have been better.

But I do believe the end game for all of this is no more territories, Gaza or the West Bank. And just a unified nation of Israel.

History booos won't mention the Palestinians. Much in the same way they don't mention the native Americans.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 11:19 PM | Reply

@#4 ... If 15 months of nonstop bombing and killing Palestinians in Gaza hasn't eliminated Hamas, nothing will until the last Palestinian is dead ..

This is not a year or two or three or four thing.

It is a decades, and possibly centuries, thing that needs to be resolved.

Unless, and until, you understand that, you will not understand the needs that have to be met to resolve this current Mid-East war.

Many people look at this as a religious thing.

I look at it as a water thing.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-12 11:36 PM | Reply

Trust me.

I've repeatedly stated this didn't start on October 7, 2023.

The conflict mostly resumes because the Palestinians have never been handed their own nation and have always been under the occupation of the Israelis.

There can never be peace in such a situation.

But. I don't believe that was ever considered.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-12 11:55 PM | Reply

@#11 ... Trust me. ...

Why?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-13 12:29 AM | Reply