I wanted to call attention to just two sentences in the editors’ of the Wall Street Journal’ remarks on Sen. Schumer’s and President Biden’s recent statements on Israel. First is this:
The joke around Jerusalem is that while Mr. Biden once worked to help Israel after Oct. 7, he’s now working on the “two-state solution”: Michigan and Nevada.
That comports pretty closely with my earlier observation: Sen. Schumer and President Biden are doing damage control, trying to avoid losing Jewish votes and Arab votes. I wish them luck. I don’t believe there is any way of threading that needle.
Here are the other two sentence:
To leave Hamas in power in Rafah is to lose the war, and to replace Hamas with Fatah is to lose the peace. That’s an Israeli consensus, not “Bibi.”
which comports with my observation yesterday that Sen. Schumer and President Biden are imagining an Israel that does not exist. That they are also imagining Palestinians who don’t exist doesn’t compensate for that. It actually makes it worse.
Hamas has very high levels of support among all Palestinians, and they are the democratically elected government of Gaza. Fatah is a puppet regime and is despised by Palestinians.
So, Hamas is not going away. You can kill the current leaders, but others will replace them To eliminate Hamas, you have to kill every single Palestinian in both Gaza and the West Bank, and that is what the Israelis are trying to do—genocide.