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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20884/iran-gaza-war-ceasefire
The Gaza War: What Ceasefire?
(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - Ten months after Hamas, along with thousands of "ordinary" Palestinians from Gaza, invaded Israel, the Biden administration is continuing to exert pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas. Bizarrely, the Biden administration is working with Hamas's friends in Qatar and Egypt to force Israel to make concessions, including ending the war and abandoning control over the border between Gaza and Egypt. Qatar is the only Arab country that has long been hosting and supporting most of the Hamas leaders. Egypt, meanwhile, turned a blind eye to the vast network of tunnels dug by Hamas under the border between Gaza and Egypt over the past two decades. Hamas is now in dire need of a ceasefire because its leaders want to hold on to power in Gaza. If the U.S. manages to impose a ceasefire on Israel, it will be viewed by many Arabs and Muslims not only as a reward for the Oct. 7 massacres, but specifically as a lifeline for Hamas. Allowing Hamas to stay in power will facilitate its mission of carrying out more atrocities against Israel. The Biden-Harris administration is, sadly, dead wrong if it believes that a ceasefire will open the door to security and stability in the Middle East. A ceasefire would simply give the Iranian regime and its terrorist allies more confidence, especially when they have nuclear weapons, to pursue their Jihad (holy war) against the Jews and Israel, and then their neighbors in the Gulf.