Why is US trying to save Hamas?
The Biden administration’s drift away from full support for Israel will cost more Palestinian and Israeli lives. It will encourage Hamas to keep fighting and to keep rejecting proposals for the return of hostages in exchange for a humanitarian cease-fire. It will persuade Hamas that it can win its war, weaken Israel and create distance between the US and Israel.
As former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it last month after the U.S. refused to veto a one-sided anti-Israel security council resolution:
“Hamas, when they saw the abstention, were thrilled. The Chinese Communist Party? Happier than heck. The Russians? Happier than heck. The Iranians? Absolutely beyond themselves, thrilled that the United States of America refused to stand up for its ally. I think that’s so telling. That’s very risky for every American, when you see the United States walk away from its long-term strategic ally and friend in the Middle East.”
Had the Biden administration maintained the strong support for the destruction of Hamas that it showed in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7, the fighting might already have subsided and all the hostages been returned. But every time the Biden administration weakens its support for Israel, it strengthens the determination of Hamas to raise its demands and threaten Israel, to the point that Israel cannot possibly agree.
Where are the threats and the pressure on Hamas, Qatar or Iran?
The UN Security Council resolution demanded a cease-fire until the end of Ramadan, with the expectation that it would head to a permanent end of hostilities. The Security Council also called for the release of all hostages, but it did not condition any cease-fire on Hamas releasing a single hostage.
Although Hamas praised —indeed celebrated—the resolution, it has no intention of complying with its demand regarding hostages. Yet, it expects Israel to comply unilaterally with what is demanded of it.
Israel should not yield to these demands. It must destroy Hamas and its leadership, or else Hamas will keep its promise of repeating the barbarisms of Oct 7. No democracy should be required to take that risk with its citizens. If Hamas were to lay down its arms and stop using its civilians as human shields, the death toll would decrease. But Hamas, Qatar and Iran do not want this war to end with Hamas’s defeat. They want to see the U.S. and Israel grow further apart, and the Biden administration is playing into its hands and encouraging it to keep doing exactly that.
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It is in the interest of the US and Israel to destroy Hamas. the leaders of Hamas have revealed their genocidal ambitions in attacking Israel. Hamas should be treated like the Nazis and face destruction.
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