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The Biden administration has continued rolling out a pressure campaign against Israel in order to save Hamas. The despicable Schumer speech was just one prong of a larger effort that includes political and economic pressure, as well as implicit threats of even worse things to come, even as the administration continues to lie about its goals and agendas.
Here’s Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at a press conference claiming that Hamas can somehow be defeated without defeating it.
Sullivan claimed that Biden had “emphasized his bone-deep commitment to ensuring the long-term security of Israel” and admits that “Israel has made significant progress against Hamas. They’ve broken a significant number of Hamas battalions, killed thousands of Hamas fighters, including senior commanders. Hamas’s number three, Marwan Issa, was killed in an Israeli operation last week. The rest of the top leaders are in hiding, likely deep in the Hamas tunnel network.”
Then Sullivan complained that Israel wasn’t ‘nation-building’ in Gaza and is trying to finish off Hamas.
“Now, instead of pause to reevaluate where things stand in the campaign and what adjustments are needed to achieve long-term success, instead of a focus on stabilizing the areas of Gaza that Israel has cleared so that Hamas does not regenerate and retake terri- — territory that Israel has already cleared, the Israeli government is now talking about launching a major military operation in Rafah.”
That is how wars are won in the real world.
You don’t win wars through nation-building, but by destroying the enemy.
Sullivan acts as if he’s baffled that Israel isn’t focused on nation building, but on moving rapidly to finish off Hamas in its last major enclave.
“Now, the President has rejected — and did again today — the strawman that raising questions about Rafah is the same as raising questions about defeating Hamas. That’s just nonsense,” Sullivan claims.
And then goes on to demonstrate that’s exactly the case.
“Our position is that Hamas should not be allowed a safe haven in Rafah or anywhere else. But a major ground operation there would be a mistake,” Sullivan complains. “The key goals Israel wants to achieve in Rafah can be done by other means.”
The advisor claims that they’ll lay out “an alternative approach that would target key Hamas elements in Rafah and secure the Egypt-Gaza border without a major ground invasion.”
There’s no such means. We already know that Biden’s people are going to pitch targeted strikes against Hamas leaders. Those are not a substitute for taking territory and destroying Hamas as a military entity.
Then Sullivan pivots to admitting that the goal is to indeed end the campaign against Hamas.
“The President and the Prime Minister also discussed the ongoing negotiations for an immediate ceasefire for several weeks in return for releasing hostages currently being held by Hamas and other militants in Gaza. We would look to build on that ceasefire into something more enduring,” Sullivan admits.
So instead of defeating Hamas, the Biden administration has adopted the pro-Hamas position of a “permanent ceasefire” which will last until the next Hamas attack.
The Biden administration is not only opposed to defeating Hamas, it’s proposing a surrender to Hamas. And it’s lying about it.
Sullivan keeps insisting that, “this is not a question of defeating Hamas. And anytime I hear an argument that says, ‘If you don’t smash into Rafah, you can’t defeat Hamas,’ I say, ‘That is a strawman.’ Our view is that there are ways for Israel to prevail in this conflict, to secure its long-term future, to end the terror threat from Gaza, and not smash into Rafah. That’s what we’re going to present in this integrated way when this team comes.”
Prevail is nicely ambiguous. As is end the terror threat. But we already know what the plan is.
A united ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state recognized by the Biden administration which Sullivan will claim will be a peaceful terrorist state. And that’ll be as true as the claim that Hamas can be defeated without going into Rafah.
Algorithmic Analyst says
They are trying to entangle Israel in a never-ending war with Hamas, so that other terrorists can join in, and force Israel to fight wars on multiple fronts.
Domenic Pepe says
You got it right about forcing Israel to be inundated with terrorist attacks on several fronts.
Israel needs to go after Iran, and give major losses to Iran itself and its depraved psychopathic murderous Mullahs.
The terrorist Iranian leadership since 1979 must be removed one way or another.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Nation building is an absurd strategy.
Kasandra says
You would have thought that the U.S. experience in Iraq and Afganistan (I thought I’d use the now official Biden spelling of Afghanistan) would have taught us the futility of nation building, especially in the Middle East. But no, are leaders are delusional. They’re the same people who believe that if we empower Iran it will become a force for stability in the Middle East. BTW, according to Sullivan, the administration has “requested” Israel send a delegation of security officials for them to yell at. I think they forget that most of these are current or former IDF veterans and with combat experience, that Bible was a commando, and they know a lot more about war than the entire Biden administration combined. I would love to be a fly on the wall when one of the Israelis asks Sullivan what the alternatives are to going into Rafah and he answers something like, “Well, have you thought of inviting Hamas to a pool party where you could get to know each other?” or something equally as stupid.
internalexile says
When one reads “Son of Hamas,” by the son of one of Hamas’ founders, you see how the group, like much of Islam itself, is not about compromise.
Dov Jacobs says
The biggest obstacle to the defeat of Hamas is the Joe Biden Administration.
Joe Biden is Crooked Lifelong Pathological Liar.
Any American Jew that supports Biden is a Traitor to Israel.
Jeff Bargholz says
And a traitor to humanity.
Mickorn says
How is Biden the biggest obstacle to the defeat of Hamas? What has the IDF doing for the last six months? The IDF’s utter failure to achieve any of its strategic goals is Joe Biden’s fault?
Daniel Greenfield says
The IDF wiped out much of the Hamas armed forces and isolated most of the remainder to a small area that Biden is now trying to stop Israel from going into.
It’s the equivalent of defeating the Nazis and then banning the Allies from entering Berlin.
Jeff Bargholz says
The IDF has destroyed Hamas and its rat tunnels all the way to the extreme Southernmost end of Israeli Gaza, Rafah, or whatever the toilet district is called by the Psuedostinian vermin. As if any part of Israel’s Gaza Strip isn’t a toilet. It’s even more vermin infested than Judea and Samaria.
Eat it, Mo-ham-mad, along with a ham sandwich and a bag of dicks.
Tedf says
It seems like the Obiden administration is trying to copy the Afghanistan exit.
That seems to be their model.
internalexile says
So, how do you really feel? Cough.
NAVY ET1 says
I don’t think the Biden administration would care at all about this issue if Joe wasn’t upside down in the polls in several key swing states that he “took” last time. I base that on the fact that the administration has NEVER been late in the past 3 1/2 years to do an evil thing until now. They just got caught with their pants down with their lack of Hamas support. Muslims in select states are making it an issue for the administration, and like good little Democrats, they’ll curtsy and do the obligatory vote dance.
But as far as sanctions are concerned, if we learned anything from Tucker Carlson’s trip to Russia to interview Putin, it’s that American sanctions don’t pack the punch they once did. After seeing the contents of a suburban grocery store there and comparing it to my own, I’m beginning to wonder who the sanctions were placed on.
Netanyahu and the Israeli people shouldn’t ignore Biden, but do the exact opposite of whatever administration cronies demand. That way they’ll be sure to be doing the right thing.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Sanctions sometimes have unexpected effects.I was just reading that Napoleon’s sanctions on Britain actually led to a huge increase in British wealth.
TruthLaser says
Napoleon’s Continental System aimed to reduce British trade. It reduced trade of his allies and lost him support.
Chaya says
Hamas doesn’t know where the hostages are, remember? Or they lied again. But that point is invalid. What a mishmash of lies! Israeli delegation, please bring tasters and bodyguards to the US. The US is not your ally.
Jeff Bargholz says
I don’t think there are any hostages. I think they’ve all been dead for quite some time. No proof of life by Hamas? That’s proof of death, in my opinion. I wish they were still alive but I don’t believe they are.
Wipe out Hamas down to the last jihadi terrorist, I say. That means ALL Psuedostinians. Exterminate as many as possible and expel the survivors into Egypt. Let al Sisi Boy deal with them.
Brigitte Goldstein says
Sadly, I am sure you are right. These savages murdered the hostage long ago keeping alive the fiction that they are alive to hold the Israeli government and public hostage as well.
Mickorn says
So… genocide.
Jeff Bargholz says
Killing cockroaches isn’t genocide, it’s vermin extermination and it abets humanity.
gandolf says
Cease with the taqiyya
Noah Andeark says
Without tequila, (p)islam dies.
Chief Mac says
The answer is two from General Grant – Unconditional Surrender
Jeff Bargholz says
Or drive them into the sea like Sherman did.
Algorithmic Analyst says
I have a whole book about Sherman (AKA Uncle Billy) by Liddell-Hart, who thought Sherman was the best general in the Civil War.
Jeff Bargholz says
Send it to me, LOL!
Now, Sherman was a stern looking General. His photos remind me of Wild Bill Hickok, who was a stone cold killer and that was OBVIOUS from his photos.
mj says
Deconstructing the sequence of the administration’s ‘easing’ into what appears to be the total abandonment of Israel, I can only conclude that, for anything to make sense, Obama and his government, posing as the Biden government, were actually in on the October 7th massacre before it happened. Everything’s scripted. The build up of criticism, the illogical demands, the phoney humanitarian concerns, the threats, Obama in Europe -It’s all too smooth to believe otherwise. Sounds crazy, but, my fellow Americans, could this be?
Could it be that this administration figures to get past the initial, but fleeting flack from the SOU address and mouthpiece Schumer’s verbal diarrhea, because they have assessed that most Americans will do nothing substantive about the lies? And the explosive anti-Semitism? And the Israel and Jew haters will be drawn out and encouraged all the more?
So the strategy is that the flack will evaporate, hatred will spread and be strengthened and the plan of annihilation will advance.
Remember Ye’s anti-Semitic rant? It cost him Adidas wealth, but he picked up a few million more followers.
The increasing hostility of this administration to Israel seems to indicate that, unbelievable in scope of cruelty and evil, the purpose of the massacre was to simply get past the annoying fact of the ‘flack’ against the invading, slaughtering terrorists from a completely terrorist state and forge ahead undaunted to a complete massacre of every Israeli.
David says
Obama is going around the world telling world leaders to drop relations with Israel
hal says
The same team that totally botched Afganistan is giving military advice?
john blackman says
just because the u.s. hasnt won any wars of late doesnt mean they can tell israel how to conduct themseles in a campaign that the u.s. has failed to do , [ ie terrorist elimination ] if the u.s. will not supply arms to the jews in the west bank then their only option is to use all the weapons confiscated from hamas in gaza , its a win win . then they can use them to eliminate the vermin around them , hezbollah , west bank terrorists , any hamas wandering around anywhere , terrorist operatives , [ a euphemism for arab children . ] reduce them all to ash and send them on their way to paradise . oops sorry , i meant hell . they love death like the jews love life , so they say . oblige them and we wont shed a tear .
Daniel says
“” A united ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state recognized by the Biden administration which Sullivan will claim will be a peaceful terrorist state. ”
Sullivan is intellectually inferior. He doesn’t know what the terrorists and their supporters are saying in Arabic. They are talking about ” the beginning of the end of the zionist entity ” .
Allowing the establishment of ” a united “palestinian” terrorist state recognized by the Biden adminstration “” is tantamount to laying the groundwork for the next project of Hamas, namely the destruction of Israel .
I am sorry to say that the education system of the United States is very poor. I mean excluding STEM.
Gordon says
In case you haven’t noticed, the goal is never to solve a problem, i.e. win a war, defeat terrorists, secure the border, drug problem, poverty, you name it. These are all incredibly lucrative opportunities for governments and corporations. The government is like the old fire brigades in New York that would go out and start fires and make the building owners pay them to put them out.
Sword of The Spirit says
Zech. 12
[1] The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
[2] Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
[3] And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
[4] In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
[5] And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
[6] In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
[7] The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
[8] In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
[9] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Citizen Cartier says
The IDF are fairies and unicorns, all pink and blue, while Hamas is one big Teddy Bear who has Conversation Hearts candy for ammo. That’s Biden world. And his staff know it.