It’s clearer than ever that President Biden wants Israel to fight its war against the would-be genocidaires of Hamas on his terms, according to his short-term, domestic-political needs.
How else to explain the plan proffered by his administration as March ended, in which Israel would do no ground invasion to take out the final Hamas redoubts in Rafah, but rather a protracted encirclement with targeted strikes?
That’s no more than a triangulation between the Israel-hating left wing of the Democratic Party and the last remnants of its more rational, pro-Israel element (which Biden can’t afford to throw completely under the bus).
But this “solution” serves neither Israel’s security needs nor the people of Gaza.
The Jewish state can’t remain on a war footing a moment longer than necessary: Its population needs to get back to work and to know Hamas has been crushed.
Plus, thanks to the media-enabled success of Hamas’ propaganda, the tide of global public opinion seems to be turning against Israel.
The Biden plan would play directly into the ugly, false and beloved-by-the-left narrative of a cruel and inhuman “siege.”
That’s even though the IDF goes out of its way to treat Palestinians humanely and avoid excess civilian casualties.
Indeed, the deaths of civilians are due to the fact that Hamas uses all of Gaza (including mosques, schools and hospitals) as a fortress.
A hunt-and-peck strategy against the last of the terror forces won’t work; the group is out for blood and energized.
And any encirclement is guaranteed to fail — for starters, entry and exit points for aid would be necessary, which Hamas would ruthlessly exploit.
The terror group follows no law of war in its attacks; for it, every humanitarian concession represents only another opportunity for atrocity.
For Israel to guarantee its own safety, it must decisively defeat Hamas, capture or kill its leaders and destroy all its battalions.
The Bidenites’ plan is tantamount to handing victory to the terrorists — a disaster for both the Jewish state and the Gazans that Hamas preys upon.
