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Thomas Keith @iwasnevrhere_ on x 45.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-23 23:41:40 UTC
So let’s be clear. After nearly a year of siege, starvation, mass displacement, and the systematic targeting of civilians and hospitals, it’s not Israel being blamed for prolonging the war, it’s Hamas. The same Hamas that has endured the full weight of Western-backed firepower, lost commanders, families, and entire neighborhoods, is now being scolded for submitting “unacceptable” ceasefire terms. This is what colonial arrogance looks like in diplomatic drag.
Egypt and Qatar, posing as mediators, are in truth managing the optics of Palestinian capitulation. Hamas dared to demand actual structural guarantees: a withdrawal of Israeli forces to the Gaza border, binding protections to prevent Tel Aviv from using the ceasefire as a tactical reload window, the dismantling of a corrupt humanitarian laundering front, and prisoner ratios that restore even a semblance of dignity to Palestinian lives. And for this, they’re vilified.
Bishara Bahbah, a Trump surrogate dressed up as a negotiator, has taken to social media to publicly scold the resistance like a colonial schoolmaster frustrated that the native child won’t recite the lesson. His anger is performative. It’s meant to pressure Hamas into folding under the weight of manufactured urgency. But Hamas didn’t fold, it calibrated, bought time, and exposed the asymmetry.
Let’s stop pretending these mediators are neutral. They are functionaries of Western order, tasked not with ending violence, but with resuming it under more polite terms. When Israel stalls talks, drops bombs on refugee camps, or demands lopsided exchanges, it’s called pragmatism. When Hamas insists on conditions to protect a bleeding population, it’s called intransigence. The double standard is systemic, and the resistance is calling it out.
Hamas moved with intent, not error. You want your hostages? Then come correct. There will be no 60-day grace period for Israel to restock its F-35s and lubricate its propaganda machine. Either this truce means something permanent, or it means nothing at all.
If Israel truly wanted this war to end, it would have ended months ago. Instead, it weaponized diplomacy to buy time for deeper war. Hamas, in turn, is weaponizing time to force the region into moral clarity. The only party showing discipline under fire, is the one still under the rubble.
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