Pressure on Israel emboldens Hamas
H amas murdered, executed these six hostages in cold blood, apparently shot them ahead shortly before they might have been rescued by Israeli Defense Forces. My heart goes out to all the families, especially Herschel Burke Poland’s family, or fellow American.
There are other fellow Americans still to be accounted for, but I think we should note that these hostages were discovered in the tunnels under Rafah that’s where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put pressure on Israel not to enter for months, used an arms embargo to try to keep them from entering. Kamala Harris even said that Israel shouldn’t enter Rafah because she had studied the maps. What the Biden Harris administration should have done from the beginning is not pressure Israel to restrain its response, but let Israel win from the very outset. For 11 months, Joe Biden Kamala Harris, have put more pressure on Israel than they put on Hamas and Iran and Iran’s other terror proxies.
Finish the job against Hamas, which is exactly what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden should have done from the very beginning. Again, if we had backed Israel to the hilt, if we hadn’t continually put pressure on Israel to slow and to moderate its response, Hamas would have been broken, and we would have gotten more of these hatches down alive. The only time Hamas has even come close to releasing hostages is when they are on the ropes.
I believe Hamas bears responsibility for not turning the hostages back over to their families and surrendering at every turn, Benjamin Netanyahu has tried, tried to meet the Biden administration halfway. They continue to move the goal post. They continue to encourage and embolden Hamas consider what happened just a few weeks ago when the Prime Minister was here to speak at the Capitol.
Kamala Harris didn’t even sit behind him in a joint session of her Congress, one of her few duties as vice president. Then she came out after a private meeting with him and stressed that we need a cease fire now, which is the de facto Hamas position. What did you have two days later, you had Israeli children being blown up on playgrounds, because every time Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put more pressure on Israel, it simply emboldens Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran.
Sen. Tom Cotton
