Israel is trying to defeat Hamas and win the war, but it is waiting outside Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold. He has two reasons for that.
One is that the remaining 134 Israeli hostages are likely in Rafah, so Israel should have at least attempted to negotiate their release.
Another reason is that President Joe Biden has publicly warned Israel not to enter Rafah because of the Palestinian civilians sheltering there, which the US says cannot be evacuated.
It is strange that Israel is somehow responsible for the welfare of Palestinian civilians, and not Hamas, which has ruled Gaza for nearly 20 years and started the war on October 7th.
Perhaps life will be better for Palestinian civilians if Hamas is defeated soon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in mid-February that the war would end in “weeks” rather than months once the Rafah operation began. This turmoil further worsened the situation in Gaza.
On Monday, President Biden sided with Russia and China at the United Nations Security Council, appearing to ease Israel’s decision. solution A bill was passed that separated a ceasefire from a hostage release agreement.
Hamas responded by returning to its original demands for an end to the war before any more hostages were released, ending hopes for a deal. That appears to have been a big mistake by Biden, giving the impression that he threw Israel under the bus.
But perhaps the Biden administration is secretly happy about this rift. This would mean Israel attacking Hamas in Rafah, allowing the White House to claim it opposed the operation and avoid criticism from “progressives” at home and Arab allies abroad. .
Arms supplies to Israel would continue covertly, and the United States would reap the benefits of Israel’s victory over Iran-backed Islamic extremist terrorist organizations without incurring diplomatic or political costs.
That’s the best case scenario. (The worst-case scenario is that anti-Israel radicals finally take over U.S. policy, and Biden, fearing defections in key battleground states, is now their puppet.) Israel wins, and Biden avoids blame. He will take credit for the victory. Because of the humanitarian costs.
This is “leading from behind,” a strategy President Barack Obama employed in Libya in 2011. Let others do the fighting. Let our people be taught morals.
This is a very cynical and “postmodern” approach that typifies Biden’s approach to policy in many areas. The tedious work of physical security is either left to others or hidden behind clever jargon.
For example, he won’t close the southern border. Instead, he wants to legalize immigration and call it “border security.” Similarly, in crime-ridden cities, Democrats despise police work and few people are willing to cooperate with them.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said this week that the best way for Israel to defeat Hamas is through “love.” And in a sense he’s right. Israeli mothers and fathers who leave their families and jobs to fight against Hamas do so because they love their children and their country.
It is the deepest kind of love and it must start with those closest to you, not your enemies. (If Hamas loved Palestinian children, this war would never have happened.)
Fighting to protect those you love is the essence of what we once called masculinity, whether it’s a man or a woman fighting.
Complaining about how others are doing things while forcing them to fight for themselves is an adolescent behavior.
Somehow this administration has elevated it into some sort of public virtue.
But it’s an approach that ordinary people reject, and it’s why Donald Trump gets cheered at UFC matches and why Hamas didn’t attack Israel during his term.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He is the author of a recently published e-book.Trumpian Virtues: Lessons and Legacy of the Donald Trump Presidency‘ is now available on Audible. He is also the author of an e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
