{"id":29799,"date":"2023-11-10T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29799"},"modified":"2023-11-10T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:43:35","slug":"no-possibility-of-gaza-cease-fire-biden-says-as-500-former-staffers-demand-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/no-possibility-of-gaza-cease-fire-biden-says-as-500-former-staffers-demand-one\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No Possibility’ of Gaza Cease-Fire, Biden Says as 500+ Former Staffers Demand One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media before departing from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on November 9, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JAKE JOHNSON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 09, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday that there is “no possibility” of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a remark that came as hundreds of his former 2020 campaign staffers released an open letter<\/a> urging him to support a cease-fire or be complicit in genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the chances of a cease-fire in Gaza as he left the White House for a trip to Illinois, the president responded, “None.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0he has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a “pause” of longer than three days, but Netanyahu has thus far\u00a0refused<\/a>. Earlier Thursday, the White House announced that Israel has agreed to allow\u00a0daily four-hour pauses<\/a>\u00a0in parts of northern Gaza, which is currently encircled by Israeli troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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