Biden’s Last-Ditch Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Effort Fails Spectacularly
Multiple reports on Sunday and Monday indicated, citing unnamed sources, that attempts by the administration of President Joe Biden to end Israel’s self-defense operations against the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza have not yielded any significant progress.
Both Israel and Hamas reportedly rejected the latest attempts at a ceasefire deal from the White House, the Times of Israel reported on Sunday, suggesting that the Israeli government politely raised “reservations” with the proposed agreement, while Hamas terror leaders “flatly rejected” the deal. The proposed deal appears to be the result of a visit to Egypt, a core mediator, by Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week in which he was reportedly working to complete a draft of a “bridging” proposal – an agreement to potentially reach an agreement – between the terrorist organization and its target nation.
Israel declared war on Hamas in October 2023 after the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group orchestrated an unprecedented terrorist siege on the country on the seventh of that month. Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and engaged in door-to-door raids of residential communities, killing entire families and engaging in infanticide, gang rape, and desecration of corpses. The terrorists also took an estimated 250 people hostage, about 100 of whom are believed to still be in captivity in Hamas’s stronghold of Gaza.
Biden administration officials have repeatedly stated that they, and the president, believe that the best way to rescue the remaining hostages is to come to a deal that stops Israel’s war on Hamas. They have offered no enthusiastic support for a battlefield victory against Hamas. Israel has officially adopted four goals in its war: the elimination of Hamas, the return of the hostages, the return of the over 60,000 displaced by Hezbollah in northern Israel to their homes, and ensuring that Gaza, where the terrorists invaded from, could no longer be used for terrorist attacks against Israel.
The Israeli government has listened to American proposals, hashed out with input from neighboring Egypt and Qatar, but has ultimately found that Biden administration potential deals do not allow for the completion of the war goal of eliminating Hamas. Hamas, in turn, has claimed to negotiate in good faith but rejected deals it had previously agreed to and continuously made outrageous demands unappealing to Israel. Hamas has rejected proposals even the Biden administration has admitted originated with Hamas itself. (Read more from “Biden’s Last-Ditch Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Effort Fails Spectacularly” HERE)
