Biden Administration: Attacking Hamas in Rafah Would Strengthen Them

Breitbart ^ | 05/09/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Biden administration tried to argue Thursday that if Israel launched an ambitious attack on Hamas in Rafah, that would strengthen Hamas, improve Hamas’s leverage in hostage negotiations, and build popular support for Hamas.

Israel launched a limited operation in Rafah this week, near the Egyptian border, as it prepares to take on the final four Hamas battalions in a town that is viewed as the last stronghold of the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that an Israeli military campaign in Rafah would “actually weaken … Israel’s security.” He also said that the U.S. had presented Israel with “a full range of policy choices” that would achieve the same goal of dismantling Hamas without entering Rafah, but did not explain what those choices were.

[Uncle Miltie]

STUPID.

[csn vinnie]

This, from the military genius who supervised the Afghanistan withdrawal and abandonment of military equipment to the Taliban.

[Eleutheria5]

It would only strengthen Hamas if they were all dead. LOL. “Mental gymnastics” indeed.

[shotgun]

Joe trying to keep his record on being worng on foreign policy intact...

[matt04]

Wut? Sure, among leftists it would increase the vicimhood support, however the point of war is to kill the enemy and destroy their ability to fight until they give up.

[TigersEye]

Wrong on every foreign policy decision his entire 50 year career.

[Lean-Right]

Totally agree.
The best time to take
out a yellow jacket nest
is at night....when they’re
all huddled together.

[SunkenCiv]

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• Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon [05/09/2024]
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  :What's Her FR Nick?:

• Brainless Partisan Shill Psaki: Biden Should Have Cut Off Weapons to Israel Earlier [05/09/2024]

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• Bennett: War against Hamas would be 'done in three days' if Israel didn't care about civilian casualties [pallyweid - fake "genocide"] [05/10/2024]
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• Netanyahu says Israel 'will stand alone' if necessary after Biden threatens to withhold weapons [05/09/2024]

[Berosus]

Hamas won’t be strengthened if the Israelis kill them all.