Peloni: The absurdity of this faux ‘Israeli’ proposal which addresses all the needs of the terrorists and none of the needs of the Israelis displays the lack of concern which Washington has with their utter duplicity being on full display for all the world to see. Indeed, there is in fact no better example of the Emperor walking sky-clad while gesturing to the fine quality of the cloth which he is not wearing. To be certain, while nothing was hidden by the Emperor’s lack of veracity, his venal disregard for the care and safety of America’s greatest ally was on full display. It is time for Israel to finally make an end to this war in Gaza and set its sights on the terrorist Hezbollah and Iran whom the US has exposed as those it sees as its true allies in this war. But first, Rafah must be razed to the ground and the forces which Washington would make safe in that terror den must be shown the unkind consequences for there savagery of October 7. There can be no other outlook for Israel, even as the Washington charlatans have now literally tried every trick in the book to change this fact, from the preposterous to the sublime.
White House pushes deal “nearly identical to Hamas’ own proposals.”
Daniel Greenfield | FrontPage | June 5, 2024
After families across Israel had lit their Sabbath candles, returned home from synagogue services and begun their festive meals, President Biden looked at his watch in D.C.
“Just checking it’s afternoon,” he said. And then got started on his speech to save Hamas.
There was nothing accidental about the timing of the speech on Friday afternoon at a time when much of America’s political establishment was heading out for the weekend while Israeli Jews were celebrating the Sabbath and many of them were not even using electronic devices.
After celebrating former President Trump’s conviction, Biden announced a new deal under which Hamas would rule Gaza, get billions in U.S. aid and dozens of its terrorists would be released from prison in exchange for every hostage. Or every hostage’s dead body.
Under the terms of Biden’s proposal, Hamas wins and Israel gets back survivors and corpses.
Finally, American taxpayers will be on the hook for an “extensive three- to five-year reconstruction program for Gaza that’s fully backed by us” that will cost endless billions.
The deal that Biden laid out gives Hamas everything it wanted including staying in power. An end to Israeli attempts to eliminate the terror group. And all the money it could possibly need. Rather than an Israeli proposal, this is almost the exact same ’ceasefire’ deal that Hamas, Qatar and Egypt had assembled and that Hamas then made a show of accepting a few weeks ago.
All Biden did was brush off the Hamas proposal and then declare that it was the Israeli proposal.
Indeed, a follow-up call with a senior White House official had him admit that, “it’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”
Biden described the Hamas proposal as the “Israeli proposal” and urged Israel to accept it. In reality, he had taken an Israeli counter-proposal, changed crucial elements so that it matched Hamas demands at a time when the Israeli government would not be able to respond and unveiled it to the world while daring Israelis to call him a liar. All to save Islamic terrorists.
Netanyahu poured cold water on the proposal, stating that, “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place. The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non-starter.”
Israeli Defense Minister Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the country would “not accept Hamas rule” and was fighting to destroy Hamas and liberate the hostages.
Benny Gantz, the third member of the ‘war cabinet’ whom the Biden administration had been relying on to force acceptance of the deal, made no initial statement at all. An anonymous White House official expressed “disappointment” that he hadn’t endorsed the proposal. When he did issue a statement, it was a confusing word salad that praised Biden but stated “the State of Israel stands united in our wish to return the hostages, it is a superior moral obligation that does not diminish our commitment to achieve the war’s objectives”.
So much for the “Israeli proposal”.
Not a single member of the Israeli government had explicitly gotten behind Biden’s proposal to leave Hamas in power (or with a fig leaf “technocratic” government to handle the foreign aid.) Neither did they explicitly take on the Biden administration by disavowing it. And the Biden administration is doubling down on forcing Israelis to accept the proposal and save Hamas.
Had this really been an Israeli proposal, it would not have been announced on the Sabbath, and would have been featured at a press conference in Israel. Instead it was met with uncomfortable silence and awkward statements in Jerusalem. The pressure campaign out of D.C. on specific Israeli government officials made it all too clear whose “proposal” this really was.
This is a proposal by Hamas and its allies, Egypt and Qatar, along with Hamas allies in the Biden administration who are fighting to keep it alive, that Biden is imposing on Israel.
It’s a proposal to allow Hamas to cash out hostages and their bodies in exchange for victory.
While the Biden administration demanded that the Israeli government endorse his proposal, there were no such expectations of Hamas.
The White House on a follow-up call claimed that Hamas “just got this last night” and that he was “not going to respond to public statements made by some Hamas officials here and there. They know what’s in the deal. They know it’s nearly identical to what they put on the table.”
Hamas, the administration, claimed “know what’s in the deal” but also “just got this” and what Hamas leaders say does not matter because they keep saying that they intend to go on attacking Israel until it is destroyed and that flies in the face of a “permanent ceasefire.”
The White House official announced that the administration will ignore Hamas promises to go on waging terror as part of a cover-up to push the Hamas proposal to save the terror group.
He also explicitly rejected the Israeli expectation Hamas would be destroyed.
Introducing his proposal, Biden claimed that it “would bring about a better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power” and then laid out a deal with Hamas that would keep the Islamic terror group in power. Having begun his speech with a lie, he kept on lying all through the rest of it.
But Biden assured Israelis that they don’t have to worry. “The people of Israel should know they can make this offer without any further risk to their own security because they’ve devastated Hamas form- — forces over the past eight months. At this point, Hamas no longer is capable of carrying out another October 7th.”.
Getting to that “point” took 8 months of fighting and over 600 Israeli soldiers killed in action.
How long will it take Hamas to rearm and rebuild especially once Biden’s proposed “major reconstruction plan for Gaza” moves billions of dollars into the terror zone? Months? Years?
And how many people will die in the next terror attack enabled and financed by Biden?
The Biden administration had assured Israel that it had nothing to worry about from Hamas in the weeks before Oct 7 when a deal was reached. The assurances are just as worthless now.
But Biden promised Israelis that “Egypt and Qatar have assured me and they are continuing to work to ensure that Hamas doesn’t do that.” Qatar is a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups while Egypt was caught red-handed propping up the Egyptian origin terror group which had begun as part of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and began carrying out terrorist attacks under Egyptian sponsorship while Gaza was under Egyptian occupation.
The state sponsors of terrorism will police the terrorists. And Biden will police Israel.
Biden’s deal is “nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals”, it saves the Islamic terrorist group just as it’s on the brink of destruction, and commits America to financing its reconstruction.
It’s not a deal to end a war, but to save and finance Hamas so it can begin the next war.
“Of Men {or women, in this case} and {nifty conversation stoppers}”
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I was talking to an old friend who is still a leftist, though she supports Trump, a black leftist, on the phone last week and she said, “do you want the poor Palestinians to suffer?”
Now, I could have tried to convince her that everything she believed was a lie and that Israel was the most moral army in the history of the world, putting her own soldiers at risk in the effort to minimize enemy casualties in the most difficult terrain in history fighting a terrorist enemy who uses civilians as human shields, civilians, who in most cases, aren’t really civilians but active collaborators and combatants.
But, I didn’t bother as I knew she wouldn’t believe me anyway. She didn’t believe Stalin was guilty of anything either in the same conversation. So, I just said,
“Yes.”
She didn’t know what to say to that and we moved on. 😀
In much the same spirit as the conversation I had relayed to her – and gotten a laugh from her as she has the same politics on this issue – when I told her about the conversation with a former colleague who, outraged at my support for Trump, had, at one time, texted me,
“How can you be anti-immigrant? Your father was an immigrant!”
Now, again, I could have gone through a whole explanation of how that was a straw man argument and I wasn’t anti-immigrant per se, my views were much more nuanced, as were Trump’s, and my father’s situation was completely different, he was a legal immigrant, he was a genuine refugee, he wasn’t any kind of radical, criminal, or extremist, he had to sign an affidavit guaranteed by his two uncles that he wouldn’t seek public assistance, this was the mid 40’s, Jewish immigration had been stonewalled and the quotas left unfilled in the 30’s and 40’s, very little immigration was permitted then anyway, as opposed to the crisis now when they are looking the other way when millions of people many of whom hate Jews or are otherwise a threat to us and the country are flooding in – kind of like the British during the Mandate, come to think of it – and yada, yada, yada, but, again, I knew I would be talking to a wall. So, I decided to go for the laugh, at least my own, anyway, instead. So, I texted back,
“Exactly.” 😀
She predictably exploded on schedule, called me an ass-hole, I replied that the feeling was entirely mutual and blocked her. The rest is “herstory,” as they say. 😀
I’m reminded of the Tom Lehrer introduction to one of his songs in which he said, and I am paraphrasing, “Today, there is a plethora of novels, movies, songs, poetry, essays, sermons, you name it, bemoaning the fact that people can’t communicate with one another. Well, you know, I say, if people can’t communicate, it’s really a tragedy, it is. But, if they really can’t communicate, I mean if they really can’t, the very least they can do is to shut up.” 😀
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRoO6-4oJMg
Those billions will be used for new tunnels and new rocket factories.