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After Hamas's Latest Ceasefire Rejection


(Washington Post) Jason Willick - Israel has a political and strategic need to finish off Hamas as a fighting force in Gaza. Hamas has an existential need to survive to fight another day. The Biden administration appears to have been laboring for months on the assumption that this contradiction can be papered over with sufficiently elaborate diplomacy. The result has been a predictably failed cycle of ceasefire back and forths. It's time for President Biden to stop trying to bridge unbridgeable gaps. His anguished diplomatic straddling has reached the end of the line. Biden can make a hostage deal come sooner if he stops dangling the possibility of increasingly favorable terms for the terrorist group.
2024-06-16 00:00:00
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