Donald Trump, during Zelensky’s first visit to the white house, told him, “You don’t have any cards.” This begs the question, “How many cards does Netanyahu have left?” Because, over the past 24 months, he has burned through an Amazon-sized forest of cards. He didn’t have any goodwill to begin with among world leaders, instead relying on strong-arming and extorting them to support his agenda through the US. And is there a bridge he hasn’t burned to achieve the destruction of Gaza and the displacement of Palestinians?
Yet, he and some of the Western leaders are putting the onus on the Gaza leadership to honor the proposed ceasefire and the plan to end the war in Gaza. The Israeli regime, during the reign of Netanyahu, has many times broken the ceasefire.
The Zionist regime's trail of deceitful acts and bad faith jeopardizes any hope or belief in its ability to honor ceasefire agreements.
The Institute for Middle East Understanding, recounts some of the Zionist regime’s “History of Breaking Ceasefires” from 1949 up to 2012:
1956 - Colluding with Britain and France, Israel violates the 1949 Armistice Agreement by invading Egypt and occupying the Sinai Peninsula. Israel only agrees to withdraw following pressure from US President Dwight Eisenhower.
1967 - Israel violates the 1949 Armistice Agreement, launching a surprise attack against Egypt and Syria. Despite claims Israel is acting in self-defense against an impending attack from Egypt, Israeli leaders are well aware that Egypt poses no serious threat. Yitzhak Rabin, Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army during the war, says in a 1968 interview that “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. He knew it and we knew it.”
1973 - Following a ceasefire agreement arranged by the US and the Soviet Union to end the Yom Kippur War, Israel violates the agreement with a “green light” from US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. According to declassified US documents, Kissinger tells the Israelis they can take a “slightly longer” time to adhere to the truce.
1981 - Under war minister Ariel Sharon, Israel repeatedly violates a nine-month-old UN-brokered ceasefire with the PLO in Lebanon in an effort to provoke a response that will justify a large-scale invasion of the country that Sharon has been long planning. When PLO restraint fails to provide Sharon with an adequate pretext, he uses the attempted assassination of Israel’s ambassador to England to justify a massive invasion aimed at destroying the PLO - despite the fact that Israeli intelligence officials believe the PLO has nothing to do with the assassination attempt.
1988 - In April, Israel assassinates senior PLO leader Khalil al-Wazir in Tunisia, even as the Reagan administration was trying to organize an international conference to broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
2001 - On November 23, Israel assassinates senior Hamas member, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud. At the time, Hamas was adhering to an agreement made with PLO head Yasser Arafat not to attack targets inside of occupied Palestine.
2012 - On March 9, Israel violates an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire and assassinates the head of the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees, sparking another round of violence in which at least two dozen Palestinians are killed, including at least four civilians, and scores more wounded.
Israel’s violations of ceasefires since the war in Gaza
Since the start of the Zionist regime’s military campaign in Gaza and Lebanon, it has, on multiple occasions, violated ceasefires brokered between the factions. Often, it began bombing despite having agreed to a truce. Other times, it changed the terms already settled and introduces new demands.
Although a ceasefire was signed on Jan. 15, 2025, the Israeli army has killed and injured dozens of Palestinians through airstrikes, including those carried out by fighter jets and drones, as well as direct shootings and drone strikes.
Just one day after the ceasefire, Israel continued its air strikes in Gaza. The strikes killed 73 people overnight, following the announcement of the deal, Gaza's Hamas-run civil defense agency reported.
Twenty-four days into the ceasefire, Israel violated the terms 265 times, including military incursions, gunfire, air strikes, intensified surveillance, aid obstruction, and abuses of Palestinian detainees’ rights.
Middle East Monitor recounted five major breaches and reported “military violations, delaying the scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners, obstruction of humanitarian aid, blocking access for maintenance equipment, and displacing Gazans.”
350 Israeli violations of ceasefire deal in a month
The head of the government media office in Gaza announced mid-February that over 350 violations of the Jan. 15 ceasefire agreement by Israel have been recorded, according to an Anadolu Agency report released on Feb. 21, 2025.
In a statement, Ismail al-Thawabteh said, "The Israeli occupation has violated the ceasefire agreement more than 350 times since it was signed, clearly demonstrating its continued breach of commitments and its defiance of the international community."
Al Jazeera reported on Feb. 27, 2025, that Israel attended talks with the Palestinian group Hamas on moving to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreed between the two in January, according to Egypt, which hosted the discussions.
But even as the talks got underway, Israeli officials made it clear they were seeking to change the terms of the agreed-upon three-phase deal, jeopardizing its success.
In a letter sent to the UN Security Council in early March 2025, Riyad Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire agreement that was supposed to come into effect on January 19. The Palestinian official reported that Israel violated the terms at least 962 times in just over six weeks, averaging 23 violations per day.
The letter stated that Israel’s attacks killed over 116 people and injured at least another 490, Morocco World News reported.
In an op-ed published on Jul. 3, The American Conservative warned readers “don’t bet on a Gaza Ceasefire.” It argued that Netanyahu must constantly manage his domestic politics, noting that while the war with Iran has been welcomed by extremists in his regime, ultra-nationalist, anti-Arab extremists like Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have a stranglehold over him.
The writer added that but both of these men would rather jump off the Allenby Bridge than be associated with ending the war in Gaza, a territory they hope to occupy with Israeli settlements and annex as part of Israel.
The piece concluded that the end to the war in Gaza likely depends on Trump browbeating the Israeli premier to end the conflict.
Israel's violations of ceasefire with Lebanon
Israel has also been violating its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. Under the initial terms of the agreement that brought about a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in November, Israel was to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon by January 26, according to an article published by Al Jazeera on Feb. 9.
That date came and went, but Israel refused to pull back its military. The deadline was pushed to February 18. Israel also continued to sporadically bomb areas in Lebanon, claiming it was targeting Hezbollah for violations of the ceasefire, while Lebanon denounced the attacks.
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began on October 8, when Hezbollah launched strikes in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, which were under Israeli attack. Israel intensified its attacks on Lebanon in September and assassinated Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.
Israel has killed around 4,000 people across Lebanon since October 2023.
The Israeli regime is still carrying out attacks on Lebanese territories on occasion, some of which are north of the Litani River, where Hezbollah is required to move its forces north of, as per the ceasefire agreement.
Is Israel capable of honoring their words?
In all of the examples mentioned here, Israel always claims the other side failed to meet the terms of the ceasefire. Yet the Zionist regime has not produced any evidence to the contrary.
This is why the Iranian Foreign Ministry aptly put it in a statement released earlier this week that Israel has a “history of bad faith and obstructionism.”
Hamas has been reliable in honoring its part of ceasefire agreements, but who is going to keep Netanyahu in check? The greatest ally of Israel, Donald Trump?
By Alireza Hosseinmardi
Your Comment