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 “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.