Peace negotiations. Cartoon of 10 April in CTXT
Translation of the cartoon: "Donald has asked me to be more discreet in Lebanon"
A second round of negotiations, to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan, later this week, opens in the search for a so-called peace after the failure of the first attempt during which Israel not only failed to stop bombing Lebanon, but intensified its bombing, jeopardising the already fragile two-week-old ceasefire in Iran.
Donald Trump, ensconced in his "good cop" role, which is more fake than a coin with Jeffrey Epstein's face on it, said in early April that he had spoken on the phone to "Bibi", his partner in genocide, to ask him to "tone it down" because he believes that "we need to be a little more discreet".
Donald, aka"Trump says", also assured that Netanyahu agreed to relax the killing thing in Lebanon, but it is enough to take a quick look at the news every day to see that "Bibi" cannot, nor wants to, contain his diarrhoea of missiles neither in Lebanon, nor in Palestine, where by the way, 6 months of false truce in Gaza have been completed, and there they continue to block humanitarian aid. Since 10 October 2025, they have killed 733 people and wounded 1,913.
Far from easing tensions, he is now also at loggerheads with Turkey after the Turkish foreign ministry called Netanyahu the'Hitler of our time' and accused him of undermining peace by blasting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his calls for a ceasefire with Iran.
It is unbearable that both the press and a significant part of public opinion, with honourable exceptions, are swallowing such a toad fattened with subterfuge, metaphors and crude attempts at memes and jokes, which are unceremoniously censored in the US. You know, war stories can't be left in the hands of just anyone.
The restraint (it's a hell of a thing to call for "restraint") that Trump demanded of the butcher in Jerusalem came after he killed more than 300 people and wounded some 1,100 in a single day in his biggest attack on Lebanon.
Meanwhile, here, the right wing either openly supports the killings, remains silent or releases infantile statements about peace in general without mentioning those who are shitting on it, such as Feijoó who dismissed the matter in this way, working less than Abascal, which is saying something.
"In sensitive times, we need wisdom, not brutality. This is not what the West is about.
Feijoó only paid lip service to his indignation when Trump attacked the Pope, because that's not the way to go. But no one saw him get uncomfortable when Netanyahu threatened Spain, saying that "Whoever attacks the State of Israel instead of terrorist regimes, whoever does this, will not be our partner in the future of the region". "I will not allow any country to wage diplomatic war against us without paying an immediate price for it."
Esther Muñoz de la Iglesia, PP spokeswoman in Congress, deserves a separate chapter, with extra embarrassment, on Israel's detention of a soldier from the UN mission in Lebanon, comparing it to a traffic stop.
But don't get carried away by this bunch of geo-political bungling brother-in-laws and simplistic tweet creators. There is a huge number of people who are putting it in writing that they reject the murderous acts of these genocidal twins in bloody coalition and do not want to be associated with them.
A European citizens' initiative calls for the suspension of the association agreement with Israel. The European Commission has validated an official collection of signatures seeking to suspend the trade agreement with Israel. The promoters have surpassed one million signatures, which will force Brussels to take a stand. As I write this there are already 1,070,388 signatures.
It is worth remembering that in August last year, 90,000 people signed the open letter to Ursula von der Leyen against the EU's position on the genocide in Gaza, called by the association Action Against Hate (ACO) and the magazines CTXT and Viento Sur, to demand an end to the EU's agreements with Israel.
The cartoon is a reinterpretation of a sculpture of Netanyahu naked and squatting and pooping in a corner that once existed. It was installed in Tel Aviv's Habima Square in March 2021. The sculpture, entitled 'Israeli Hero', was made of bronze by an unknown artist. It was planted in the square a week before the elections and, unsurprisingly, was removed.
