“This demand for a full withdrawal is not new. It is in the paper, it is in the proposal, it is even in the UN resolution. This is part of any deal. The question being posed is what kind of commitment that you as a mediator - namely the US - are you making to your own plan in all its phases. Because what has prevented a breakthrough is whether this is an actual ceasefire or is this a temporary pause followed by more deaths, horror and destruction. Israel's answer has been unequivocal: the war would continue - even as the US said otherwise. That is the question that not just Hamas and Islamic Jihad are asking, but the whole world is asking.”
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