by Jeff Childers
Yesterday, the Washington Post gave us another chance to learn critical reading skills. The paper’s own David Ignatius, who is up to his neck in deep-state contacts, ran an astonishingly detailed op-ed headlined “An eerie quiet as Biden races to silence the guns in Gaza. The ‘eerie quiet’ was the ostrich-like corporate media ignoring the story of Biden’s continuing failure to broker a peace deal with Hamas, despite holding the leverage of half the U.S. Navy and the full weight of the Central Intelligence Agency, which keeps showing up everywhere these days.
The article was remarkable in that it disclosed so many fresh details. For example, it off-handedly mentioned where a top Hamas leader was sitting yesterday, an underhanded threat (it said Hamas chief Yehiya Sinwar was “trapped underground in Gaza and running out of ammunition and supplies”). It also described fresh intel suggesting that Iran was standing down for the foreseeable future, following the “the biggest American military effort to aid Israel since the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.”
These are details we’ve never heard before. Literally no other corporate media platform is reporting anything like this level of granularity, not even about the record-setting scope of U.S. military involvement. It seems more likely than not that Ignatius was carrying water for the negotiating team.
In other words, the article was intended to be a sneaky message to Hamas. Consider who’s negotiating for the U.S.:
Ignatius didn’t point this out, although he should have, but the CIA, leading the negotiating team, isn’t a diplomatic agency. It’s utterly remarkable, a violation of every diplomatic protocol there is. Where is the State Department? Why isn’t State leading the mediating team, with CIA support?
Let’s try to guess.
The CIA has three missions: information gathering, analysis, and covert operations. Negotiating with Hamas is unlikely to be an ‘information gathering’ mission. Nor is it ‘analysis.’ But it could easily be a covert operation. In other words, Burns isn’t there to negotiate. He’s not trained in that. He’s there running an operation.
If they wanted peace, they’d have real negotiators there. So we can assume the CIA has different goals. Maybe they’re using the conference to find Hamas and root them out. Maybe that’s why Hamas stayed away.
The bottom line is that recognizing the “peace talks” as a CIA covert operation offers much more explanatory power for what we’re observing than does the official narrative. For example, it would explain the CIA chief’s ‘leadership,’ the absence of the State Department, and all the opaqueness around the ‘peace process,’ which looks more like covert ops than traditional diplomacy.
So it’s perhaps unsurprising they haven’t signed a deal; peace might not be the goal. The Biden Administration has never made peace with anyone.
There will be no peace deal until Iran agrees and they are not going to agree as long as they have plenty of money in revenues coming in, thanks to Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden. Or, until Hamas it totally wiped out.