Israel's oldest, bitterest, most implacable foe once again demanded that Israel cease its war against the glorious liberation movement of Hamas.

Israel is losing international support due to its "indiscriminate bombing" of Gaza, US President Joe Biden said, issuing his most scathing critique of Israel since the start of the war and calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to switch out his coalition partners.

"Israel's security can rest on the United States," Biden stated during a campaign event Tuesday, as he touted his government's strong support of Israel.

Right now, however, Israel has wider support than just the US, Biden explained, as he pointed to the European Union and the international community which has also backed the Jewish state in the aftermath of Hamas' October 7 attack.

"But they're starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place" in Gaza, Biden said, in a statement that implied Israel was needlessly targeting civilians.

Speculation is high that Biden will ask Israel to constrain its military campaign to oust Hamas from Gaza as attention in Washington is redirected to the 2024 run for the White House within in a geo-political atmosphere of low Democratic support for the Gaza war.

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[Biden] has remained staunch in his support providing military and financial aid. The US will "do everything in our power to hold Hamas accountable -- every single thing in our power. They're animals. They exceeded anything that any other terrorist group has done," Biden said on Tuesday.

If Israel will just stop attempting to hold Hamas accountable, Biden vows the US will do everything within its power to hold Hamas accountable.

What?

Biden also said he chastised Netanyahu about his "indiscriminate" bombing, and Netanyahu pointed out that the US had bombed Nazi Germany and dropped atom bombs on Japan. Biden conceded this but said that we set up "institutions" to stop this from ever happening again.

Biden alluded to a private conversation in which the Israeli leader said: "'You carpet bombed Germany, you dropped the atom bomb, a lot of civilians died.'"
Biden said he responded: "Yeah, that's why all these institutions were set up after World War Two to see to it that it didn't happen again ... don't make the same mistakes we made in 9/11. There's no reason why we had to be in a war in Afghanistan."

It was a mistake to go to war in Afghanistan? And Biden thinks we "carpet bombed" Germany?

What a scholar. He's a doctor like his wife is.

In any event, Israel is not "indiscriminately" bombing. In fact, they're avoiding bombing as much as they can, putting troops in harm's way by going house to house when they could, if they wanted, just level the houses.

Netanyahu responded obliquely to Biden-- with contempt.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hit back at growing international calls for a ceasefire, insisting that "nothing" will stop his country's mission to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

Netanyahu struck the defiant note a day after the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to demand a ceasefire in Gaza, the densely populated and Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave that has been the subject of near-relentless Israeli bombing for more than two months.

More than 150 nations backed the resolution demanding a ceasefire, with 23 abstentions, and only 10 countries, including the U.S., voting against the call.

But Netanyahu on Wednesday appeared unfazed by the vote, saying during a visit to a military detention facility in northern Israel that "we are continuing until the end, until victory, until the elimination of Hamas," according to the Times of Israel.

"Nothing will stop us," he added.

Israel also says the days of the "two-state solution" are over, which again puts them crosswise with Grampa Funnyfingers.

Another significant divide is emerging between the U.S. and Israel, with a senior Israeli diplomat saying the country "absolutely" would not accept a two-state solution following the war. This runs counter to long-standing U.S. policy objectives in the region, as well as recent Biden comments. Yesterday, a State Department spokesperson said "there can be no lasting peace and security" without a Palestinian state.

Israel has begun The Big Flush.

Israel has begun the process of flooding the network of tunnels beneath Gaza in an effort to flush out the impacted Hamas assets lodged there, according to U.S. officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. The Israeli military operation has so far involved the installation of seven massive pumps and testing the process of flooding the Hamas holes with water from the Mediterranean Sea, and now the great enema has begun in earnest.

Supposedly -- and I do not know if this site is trustworthy and if it is, how good this tip is -- Qatar can't guarantee the safety of the Hamas leaders hiding out there in luxury any longer:

Israel War Room
@IsraelWarRoom

#BREAKING: Initial reports suggests that top Hamas brass in Qatar have been told to leave for Algeria, as their security can no longer be guaranteed.

You know how Christiane Amanpour denies that Hamas has terrorist bases inside hospitals? Well somehow Israel forces are fought and defeated Hamas terrorists inside a hospital.

IDF troops from the 460th Combat Brigade of the 162nd Division operated in the Kamal Adwan Hospital area with the Shin Bet, with scores of Hamas terrorists being killed or detained.

During the operation, the IDF troops located a building close to the hospital that was being used by Hamas terrorists. An exchange of fire took place, in which a number of Hamas terrorists were killed.

Some 70 terrorists surrendered and left the building with their weapons and were detained and taken for interrogation by the Shin Bet.

Kamal Adwan Hospital is in the Beit Lahiya area north of Gaza City, near the Israeli border.

And now, with Hamas' terrorists being killed and captured and its ratholes being flushed like the toilets they are, Hamas say -- say, how about we reverse our decades old vow that we would never, ever recognize Israel as legitimate and real nation?

How does that sound to you guys? Oh sure we will immediately repudiate that the recognition the moment you've withdrawn your troops, but we will recognize you as a state for about 35 hours if you just give us a ceasefire to let us regroup and hide the billions we collect from donations from other countries.

The Hamas official had broached this possibility earlier today by the PLO's (also fake) recognition of the state of Israel, and saying that Hamas might consider following the PLO's path, if Israel gives them the ceasefire they crave.

Earlier today, he told Al-Monitor, "You should follow the official stance... that the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization] has recognized the state of Israel."

Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday that he is open to talks for ending the ongoing war and "putting the Palestinian house in order both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," potentially leading to a "political path that secures the right of the Palestinian people to their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital."

I don't think Israel is going to buy that.

And anyway, Hamas is already walking it back.

Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk tries to walk back comments he made earlier, suggesting that his terror group could recognize Israel for the first time as a step toward Palestinian unity.

Abu Marzouk tweets that there was a "misunderstanding of media statements." He asserts that "Hamas does not recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation and does not accept giving up any of the rights of our Palestinian people. We affirm that the resistance will continue until liberation and return."

"Several points and phrases mentioned in my interview with Al-Monitor were distorted and do not express my position and the position of the movement, which has not changed," he adds.