Biden to deploy CIA director to help broker major Gaza deal (www.washingtonpost.com)

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President Biden plans to dispatch CIA Director William J. Burns in the coming days to help broker an ambitious deal between Hamas and Israel that would involve the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza and the longest cessation of hostilities since the war began last year, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Burns is expected to travel to Europe for the talks and meet with the Israeli and Egyptian intelligence chiefs, David Barnea and Abbas Kamel, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. The planned gathering has not been previously reported.

Egypt and Qatar have been key interlocutors between Israel and Hamas, the militant group whose deadly cross-border attack on Oct. 7 set off the war in Gaza. The two countries helped secure an initial pause in hostilities and hostage release in November. But tensions between the Israelis and Qataris are on a razor’s edge after leaked audio of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu captured the Israeli leader disparaging Qatar in a conversation with Israeli hostage families.

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[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Wait the CIA can help broker peace deals?! I thought they only assassinated leaders and funded rebels. Cool.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you had the top people in Netanyahu's government whacked, as well as a few upper-echelon Hamas leaders, it's probably sort out a lot of the issue.

So maybe this is up the CIA's alley?

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

*Israel laughs in Mossad.

Did you miss the news about how a bunch of worldwide CIA operatives were getting killed mysteriously after a certain former President seemed to be hoarding classified files?

Pretty fucksure Mossad has the upper hand here considering the CIA has been hacked a few times in the last few years, has abysmal recruitment levels, and literally just lost a bunch of their good agents.

USA is falling apart and it shows.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

First good deed in CIA history

It'll never happen.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

For those who don't know who Bill Burns is, the choice to send him probably has little to do with his position as director of the CIA, and more to do with his experience as an accomplished diplomat. The following is from his Wikipedia article.

In 1994, Burns was named to Time's lists of "50 Most Promising American Leaders Under Age 40" and "100 Most Promising Global Leaders Under Age 40".[49] He was named Foreign Policy's "Diplomat of the Year" in 2013.[50] He is the recipient of Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Statesman Award (2014),[51] the Middle East Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), and the American Academy of Diplomacy's Annenberg Award for Diplomatic Excellence (2015).[52] Burns received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2022).[53][54]

I'm not going to speculate on his odds of success, but his selection for this role is an indication of the seriousness of the Biden Administration in trying to make it work.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

It's all about the implication

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You forgot about all that cocaine and heroin trafficking. And torture. They were really into torture for a long time.

[-] noride@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

were??

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

They still are, probably. But they also were.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used to traffick drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

RIP Mitch

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You know how you can tell the cia wasn’t involved in the Kennedy assaination?

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