1. Pressuring Israel behind the scenes into accepting a Hamas “cease-fire” which just means restarting this conflict when the terrorists get more Iranian rockets to shoot off.
2. Accusing Israel of “destabilizing the region” which as everyone knows is very stable.
3. Supporting the UN’s campaign against Israel out of one side of its mouth while promising to support Israel out of the other
4. Bail out Hamas
Here’s the mainstream media workup of this sort of thing.
The Biden administration is increasingly hopeful that the deadly conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants is in its final stages, and U.S. officials are confident their mostly behind-the-scenes intervention helped avert an early Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
This is par for the course.
American officials have privately urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides to wind down his country’s operations against the Gaza Strip… At the start, the person familiar with the situation said, Israel appeared on the verge of pushing forth with a ground invasion, a move that could have led to significantly more bloodshed and possibly a longer conflict. U.S. influence was important in preventing a ground operation, the person said.
Wind down, that is to say, bail out Hamas. Also bail out Hamas, literally.
That being said, the Biden administration and others already are looking at ways to send in humanitarian assistance to Gaza, a densely packed seaside territory of 2 million people.
How much of that “humanitarian assistance” will go to Hamas? Assume that plenty of it will in one way or another.
On Monday, Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, conveyed a sense of urgency when he warned that the longer the conflict drags on, the more it risks destabilizing the region.
“It’s in no one’s interest to continue fighting,” Milley said.
This is a region with multiple civil wars and insurgencies, in which Iran’s proxies are bombing Saudi Arabia out of Yemen, Syria’s Shiite government is bombing the Sunnis, Turkey is in the midst of a prolonged campaign against the Kurds, Iraq is on the verge of another civil war, Libya is in a permanent state of civil war…and I could go on. But it’s the Israelis who are destabilizing the region because of a brief campaign against Hamas terrorists.
And, oh yes, don’t expect the Biden administration to back up Israel on the Hamas building bombing.
Israel’s operations drew heightened criticism in recent days after its armed forces leveled a building that housed several media offices, including that of The Associated Press. Israel – which warned people to evacuate the building about an hour before striking it – has said it has shared information with the United States showing that Hamas based some of its assets in that facility.
The person familiar with the situation confirmed that Israel has shared some classified intelligence with America about the building, but declined to characterize it other than to say it suggested the Hamas presence was significant, including involving operational activity. The United States has told Israel that it should share more information publicly about this intelligence.
Sure. Share that classified information publicly. Don’t expect us to vouch for you.
Infidel says
Israel should simply tell Biden this – ?
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is just mindlessly just continuing in the same old terribly flawed fool and terrible policies of his former boss and chief, Obama, of appeasing favoring that hostile tyrannical cruel and hostile Islamic regime of Iran with its stooge jihad murder /terror group.
In addition. the jihadists who make of Hamas are far too ignorant to be aware of the reality that they are only the useful idiots of the ayatollahs and mullahs as well as the others in power in Iran who site to home safe and let those Hamas jihadist’s do all the hard dirty work for as their tools. They are deluded dangerous fools.
Andrew Blackadder says
It seems like I must have missed the news report where Old Joe called the leader of Hamas and asked him, nicely, to please stop bombing peoples homes as that is just… you know… not a nice thing.. to do.. you know..the thing…
I must have missed that report… c,mon man
OLD GUY says
No excuse Biden is a weak and useless President. Professional politician Joe, cares only about status and financial gain for himself.
Norman Gardner gardner says
Biden is attempting to rescue Hamas which has taken a beating but is continuing to rain rockets into Israel. As long as they are firing rockets Israel has the right to defend itself and eradicate the sources from which the rockets are firing. Israeli aircraft could easily kill 100 people in one attack but with over 1000 flights less than 300 deaths have been announced by Hamas, some of which occurred by their own shells falling short on Gazans. This is a far cry from the Russian and Syrian jets who often killed 100 Syrians with one swooping attack. Obviously this is proof that Israel is avoiding civilian casualties when going after military targets, a far cry from Hamas indiscrimite acts of war by firing at civilians. Biden is gutless in confronting his anti-semitic progressive Democratic bigots who support the terrorists.