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The Assassination of six abducted Israelis by Hamas over the weekend was intended to be provocative. Those provoked were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli army, the so called “friends of Israel,” presumably including the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, silent friends of Israel and, if not in every circumstance, a sizable portion of US reporters and commentators.
Immediately following the assassinations, Time reported, “Abu Obaida, a
spokesperson for Hamas’ Al-Qassem Brigade’, said that the new instructions came
into place after Israel conducted a rescue operation in June that freed four
hostages but resulted in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians, including women
and children.
“‘Netanyahu's insistence to free prisoners through military
pressure, instead of sealing a deal, means they will be returned to their
families in shrouds. Their families must choose whether they want them dead or
alive,’ he said.”
The new instructions, Obaida said, were issued “to the
Mujahideen assigned to guard the prisoners after the ‘Nuseirat incident,’’ a
reference to a June operation in which five Israeli hostages were rescued from
Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. Obaida said in a statement, "We say to everyone clearly
that after the Nuseirat incident,” during which 300 refugees were killed,
according to Hamas figures, “new instructions were issued regarding dealing
with them [the hostages]”
To put the matter in simple terms, Mujahideen guards were
instructed to assassinate their hostages in the future should any attempt be
made to rescue them.
Netanyahu said that if Hamas were serious about a pause in
fighting, it would not have murdered the hostages. He is, of course, right. The
Biden-Harris administration, winking at the slaughter of the innocents, continues
on its fruitless road to a negotiated peace, while Iran laughs behind its hand
at the stupid Americans. Apparently, no indignity will provoke the
anti-Netanyahu crowd to adopt a sane foreign policy, especially those sporting
PHDs in an academic university environment gone to seed whose ill taught
students support a deracinated and murderous Hamas.
As usual, the Biden-Harris administration is playing it coy.
The two figures most responsible for foreign policy for twelve years, counting
the Obama administration’s eight years, have been playing both ends against the
middle. This is more than political confusion. It is a paralysis of the will
occasioned by moral confusion, spiced with an increasing anti-Semitic network
of nitwits.
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has been for some time an anti-nitwit
operation.
“Hamas’ execution of U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin and
five other hostages shouldn’t go unanswered,” the Journal noted. “After
President Biden pressured Israel’s Prime Minister—even though he accepted the
hostage deals and Hamas rejected them—many Americans asked: What about the
killers?”
On Tuesday, the Biden administration “unsealed criminal
charges against six Hamas leaders” very late in the game: “The U.S. move is
minor, and it isn’t even new. The U.S. filed the charges in February, and their
unveiling now looks all too much like a political gesture … As our friends at
the New York Sun note, a criminal court is the wrong venue for the likes of Mr.
Sinwar. Hamas jihadists aren’t committing street crimes, and Israel isn’t
fighting back with police. Israel is fighting a war for survival against
illegal enemy combatants. What matters is winning the war, not arresting suspects.
The criminal charges risk confusing the stakes … If the Biden Administration
had the will, it could follow up these charges with large bounties on Hamas
leaders’ heads and a campaign of charges against Hamas’s material supporters in
America. But it hasn’t.”
Ah – the will – that is the sticking point, is it not?
Hamas leaders are allowed to roam freely without fear of
arrest: “Hamas’s Mr. Meshaal traveled last week from Qatar to Turkey, a NATO
ally, where he called for West Bank suicide bombings. There was no effort to
arrest him. If Mr. Biden wants to squeeze Hamas, he has options other than the
symbolic gesture of U.S. criminal charges for a trial in an American courtroom
that the defendants are never likely to see.”
Thus far in its presidential campaign the Biden-Harris
administration has been full of solemn tears and shouts of the joy to come when
the twelve years of the Obama-Biden administration is stretched to a possible
eight further years under the administration of a secluded, media shrouded and
ambivalent President Kamala Harris.
A dangerous paralysis of the will is what follows political
and moral confusion. This confusion arises from attempts to bestride
irreconcilable goals -- such as an attempt to destroy Israel by Iran directed
terrorist agents and a too placid US arrangement with Iran that is centered on fruitless
negotiations rather than justifiable assertions of force.
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