: Trump sent a peace deal to Hamas, Hamas met to discuss it in Doha, where the U.S. is mediating talks and has a base,and Israel bombed them, presumably with US support.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1965427601046118479
This is becoming a Trump signature move - the same modus operandi he used with Iran, now deployed against Hamas: pretending he wanted to engage in diplomacy as a trap to facilitate bombing them.
Which reinforces the precedent: engaging in diplomacy with the US is now worse than useless, it's fatal.
Which is a precedent that's bad for everyone, the US first and foremost. Not exactly in its interests to teach the lesson: "never negotiate with America"...
Even in medieval Europe, in the darkest days of the so-called "Dark Ages", rulers were honor-bound not to violate diplomatic immunity. And common-sense bound too, as they understood it wasn't in their interests to be known as oath-breakers.
Heck even the Mongols, not exactly known as sentimental humanitarians, understood that killing envoys was idiotic.
When the US is failing a moral test that the Mongol Empire passed, it's time to ask ourselves a few questions...
posted by Satish Sharma at
01:39
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