Bidens failure to secure and Israel-Hamas ceasefire is good news for the entire world: heres why
The good news trickled out quietly, and despite the huge significance, is not getting the attention it deserves.The White House now believes it won’t get a cease-fire deal in Gaza before Joe Biden leaves office.“No deal is imminent,” a US official told The Wall Street Journal.“I’m not sure it ever gets done.”Hold the tears — cue the celebrations.No deal is the best deal available.
Israel and the entire civilized world are saved from the awful consequences of an American bid to appease evil in the name of peace.And politics.For months, Biden and Kamala Harris have tried to force Israel to accept fatally flawed terms with Hamas in Gaza and, by extension, Hezbollah in Lebanon.The Democrats are motivated by fear that anti-Israel voters in the upper Midwest, especially Muslim Americans in Michigan, will abandon the party.The result has been a relentless pressure campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, complete with attempts to undermine him politically at home and hamper Israel’s military by withholding munitions.
Recall that Secretary of State Antony Blinken sat in on cabinet meetings to dictate which targets Israel could attack.The disgraceful effort, which included following the same playbook as anti-Israel mobs at the United Nations, prolonged the war and gave Hamas incentives to hold out for better deals.Although some details remain unknown, the US was pushing for Israel to get back the remaining hostages abducted during the horrors of Oct.7, some of them American citizens.
In exchange, it would release thousands of Palestinians arrested on terrorism charges.Even worse, Hamas would have survived in some capacity, letting its leaders again plunder international aid, gain government control in Gaza and attack Israel again.Even as Hamas kept upping its demands, Washington kept the heat on Israel.Finally, Netanyahu spoke in the only language terrorists understand.He rejected the Biden-Harris demand to halt Israel’s ground operation in Ga...