LOS ANGELES.–National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, 45, has been asked by 81-year-oldj President Joe Biden to defuse international pressure, largely from the U.N., to get Israel to move the conflict with Hamas to the next phase of low-intensity fight. Whether that helps Israel achieve its goal of regime change in Gaza, removing Hamas from power, is anyone’s guess. When the U.S. Security Councill voted for an urgent ceasefire, the U.S. vetoed the measure Dec. 8, believing that Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas, a ruthless terrorist group hell-bent on Israel’s destruction. Hamas was founded in 1987 by blind Sheikh Ahmed Nassim to serve as the military wing of the 1964 Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO]. It’s no accident Hamas was formed by Nassim 20 years after the disastrous 1967 Six Day War, where Israel vanquished the PLO and six other Arab countries.
So from its inception, Hamas was founded with one purpose, to destroy the Israeli state and return the Holy Land to Palestinians. Forget about the fact that Palestinians, or Arabs living in the Holy Land, lived under Ottoman and British rule for over 500 years. During Ottoman and British rule up until 1967 during Israel’s war of independence, Palestinians didn’t revolt or go to war against their Ottoman and British rulers. Only when the U.K. turned over in 1947 the British Mandate of Palestine two years after the WW II Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, did Palestinians revolt, because they wanted to return to Islamic rule. Once Israel declared independence in 1948, the Palestinian revolts and wars began. Most Palestinians chose to leave the Holy Land under Jewish rule, told by Yasser Arafat and others that they would eventually re-conquer the British Mandate of Palestine.
When the Oct. 7 massacre took place with drugged Hamas terrorists rampaging at a Negev music festival and local Kibbutzes, some 1,200 were murdered, burned, raped, tortured and otherwise liquidated, with another 260 taken hostages, mostly children and elderly. So, when 74-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu declared war Oct. 8 he meant business. Now the U.N. sees the consequences of the worst atrocity on Israel since the Holocaust. Biden and his national security team, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 61, and Sullivan have a tough balancing act, letting Israel prosecute its war with Hamas and dealing with the international community that sees only destruction to Gaza. Hamas releases its fake daily Ministry of Health death toll, something so fabricated, so artificial and such obvious propaganda, it’s hard to believe it.
When Biden questioned Hamas’s figures Oct. 25 he was condemned by Palestinians and the global community. So, Biden, Blinken and Sullivan cannot question Hamas’s fake death toll because of the global community. “There will be a transition to another phase of this war, one that is focused in more precise ways on targeting the leadership and on intelligence driven operations,” Sullivan said Dec. 15 in Israel. U.S. and foreign press want to show conflict with Israel and the White House, something that’s doesn’t exist. If Biden wanted Israel to stop its war with Hamas, he would have made that clear. Biden believes there cannot be peace or a two-state solution with Hamas ruling Gaza. So, despite pressure from the U.N., Biden continues to let Israel prosecute its war with Hamas. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said yesterday that Hamas must be out of Gaza.
Military experts at Washington-based think tanks like Institute for the Study of War [ISW] don’t believe that Israel can eliminate Hamas from Gaza. ISW believes the Gaza war generates more Hamas fighters than it eliminates. ISW is the same group promoting the hopeless Ukraine War where the U.S. now subsidizes the bankrupt Kiev government and funds the war with the Kremlin, destroying decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Moscow. So, when it comes to following the logic of ISW, it leaves a lot desired in terms of factual accuracy. ISW pretended, using its own maps of Ukraine, that Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky had not lost 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory. ISW doesn’t like to present the bad news happening in Ukraine, including the fact that it’s a “frozen conflict” or stalemate not likely to change.
Sullivan and Biden’s national security team do everything possible to placate the international community that wants Israel to stop its war and leave Hamas in power. How can Gaza ever have a future, if they’re controlled by a bloodthirsty terrorist group? “When exactly that happens and under exactly what conditions will be a continuing intensive discussion between the United States and Israel,” said Sullivan, referring to a transition away from bombing. But Sullivan knows that U.S. and global press have been sold a bill of goods by Hamas about civilian casualties. Actual casualty numbers are more likely under 5,000, if that, not the 18,000 deaths that automatically tick upward daily. White House officials would like nothing more that to get the U.S. and global community off its back about the Israeli-Hamas War. Israel says the war will end when Hamas gets out.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
