the empire is refusing to consider the realities that surround it as it attempts to install its illusions, but wait, no one's buying it;

After vetoing multiple demands for a ceasefire at the UN Security Council, and then abstaining from others, Washington saw on Monday the adoption of its call for a three-phase deal to end hostilities between Israel and Hamas and see an exchange of captives.

Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was back in the region this week to try to push Hamas and Israel to accept the deal. Washington’s top diplomat pointed to the former as the intransigent party, even though Benjamin Netanyahu still insists on seeing through the war until “the elimination of Hamas.”

Hamas, by contrast, welcomed the proposal laid out by US President Joe Biden in a 31 May speech in which he warned Israel against an “indefinite war in pursuit of an unidentified notion of total victory.”

He said this “will only bog down Israel in Gaza, drain the economic, military and human and human resources and further Israel’s isolation in the world.”

On Wednesday, Blinken demonstrated his utter deficiency in the art of diplomacy by singularly blaming Hamas for not immediately accepting the Biden plan, which the US has described as an Israeli proposal, despite all evidence to the contrary.......more.......