The good news has been coming quietly but, despite its enormous significance, it hasn't received the attention it deserves.
The White House now believes a ceasefire in Gaza cannot be reached before Joe Biden leaves office.
“No deal is imminent,” a U.S. official told The Wall Street Journal.
“I don't know if that will ever happen.”
Hold back the tears and celebrate.
No deal is the best deal available.
Israel and the entire civilized world were saved from the terrible consequences of America's attempt to quell evil in the name of peace.
And politics.
For months, Biden and Kamala Harris have been trying to force Israel to accept fatally flawed terms with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and, by extension, Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Democrats are driven by fears that anti-Israel voters in the upper Midwest, particularly Muslim Americans in Michigan, will leave the party.
The result was a relentless pressure campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including attempts at home to weaken him politically and sabotage the Israeli military by withholding arms supplies.
Remember, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in cabinet meetings directing which targets Israel could strike.
This shameful approach, echoing the tactics of anti-Israel thugs at the UN, has prolonged the war and given Hamas an incentive to continue demanding a better deal.
Hamas Gains Momentum
Details are still unclear, but the United States has been urging Israel to return the remaining hostages, some of whom are American citizens, taken in the October 7 massacre.
In exchange, thousands of Palestinians arrested on terrorism charges will be released.
Worse yet, Hamas would somehow survive, allowing its leaders to once again plunder international aid, seize control of Gaza's government, and attack Israel again.
While Hamas continued to step up its demands, Washington continued to increase pressure on Israel.
After all, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke in the only language terrorists can understand.
He rejected Biden-Harris' demands to halt Israel's ground operations in Gaza and approved last week's sensational pager bombing mission in Beirut.
As depicted in a storyline in the popular streaming series “Fauda,” about Israeli secret agents, disrupting Hezbollah's communications not only left scores of its fighters dead and thousands injured, but also took a psychological toll.
Netanyahu followed up with an attack on a Hezbollah rocket launching facility, killing one of the group's top leaders.
The White House should celebrate, given that its leader, Ibrahim Akil, was a U.S.-designated terrorist responsible for the 1983 bombing of Marine barracks and the embassy in Beirut, killing about 400 people, most of them U.S. citizens.
There was a $7 million US bounty on Akil's head, and if Biden has any sense, he will send the cheque to Israel with enormous gratitude.
Instead, look at the expressions of despair on the faces of the Harris campaign as it becomes clear that she won't reap the political benefits of a pre-election truce in Michigan.
Biden's dreams of winning the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching an agreement on a Palestinian state were also dashed.
The weakest point of the proposal pushed by the White House was that Iran's malign role would remain intact.
Israel funds and guides Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, but the talks effectively ignored that funding and pledges to exclude Israel.
The reality of October 7th
No Israeli prime minister would ever accept that, given that Hezbollah artillery fire forced 60,000 Israelis to flee their homes in the north of Israel on October 7.
For the same reasons, an independent Palestinian state is a pipe dream.
The Palestinians have used their right to autonomy to turn Gaza into a terrorist state, and it would be suicidal for Israel to believe that any Arab state, including the much larger West Bank, is a peace-loving neighbor.
Indeed, the significance of Israel's offensive against Hezbollah, including the movement of ground troops north, is that it sends a message that Israel will no longer tolerate daily tit-for-tat firefights.
By one estimate, Hezbollah has fired around 7,500 rockets into Israel since October, leaving much of northern Israel uninhabitable.
Unfortunately, tolerating Iran has become the norm under the Biden-Harris administration.
The White House, mimicking the Obama-Biden administration’s delusions, still harbors the illusion that it can persuade crazy Muslim leaders to play a constructive role on the global stage.
The facts prove otherwise.
In recent years, Iran has helped Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad murder his own people and seized large parts of Lebanon through Hezbollah.
The country supplies Russia with weapons, including short-range ballistic missiles for use against Ukraine.
But Biden still acts as if Iran is not at the center of a coordinated attack on Israel.
Since taking office, Trump and Harris have lifted sanctions on oil sales that have brought Tehran hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue, much of which goes towards funding terrorist organizations.
The White House also paid $6 billion for the release of five American hostages and freed five Iranian prisoners, in a move widely seen as a reward for the hostage-takers.
The FBI said Iran also planned to assassinate Trump and several of his foreign policy aides, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Officials said the Muslim leaders also hacked the Trump campaign's website and sent the contents to the Harris campaign.
This is clear election interference and shows that Iran wants Harris to win.
The reason is clear: Party leaders view the Democrats as weak and believe their goal of wiping Israel off the map would be better served under a Harris administration.
President Trump repeated similar statements in a speech last week, warning, “I believe that if I don't win, Israel will cease to exist.”
It seems like a lifetime ago that his administration countered Iran's export of terrorism with a drone strike on Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani.
He also moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, making him immensely popular in the Jewish state.
President Trump's Hopes for the Middle East
If Trump had been re-elected, the historic Abraham Accords breakthrough would likely have been extended to Saudi Arabia.
But Saudi Arabia now says it wants a Palestinian state before it recognizes Israel, which could pose an obstacle to further normalization.
Meanwhile, Trump has made some embarrassing comments about American Jews and their support for the Democratic Party.
Because of Biden's abysmal Middle East policies, Trump has accused Jewish Democrats of being disloyal to Israel, a strange accusation given that anti-Semites often accuse Jews of being loyal only to Israel.
And last week, after promising to be the best friend to American Jews at the White House, Trump added that if he lost, “Jews will have a big hand in that defeat.”
Ironically, he drew complaints at an event billed as “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” when he said that talk of blame and disloyalty was actually fueling anti-Semitism.
The rude remark suggests a good rule of thumb for voters this year: judge candidates by what they do, not what they say.
