With the November Election Looming, Biden Officials Are Suddenly Condemning Hamas We need a decisive and pro-Israel president with an America First approach to U.S. national security to restore American leadership and global peace and stability. We need Donald Trump. Fred Fleitz
This week, 11 months after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, the Biden administration announced indictments against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other Hamas officials for their “central roles in planning, supporting, and perpetrating the terrorist atrocities that Hamas committed in Israel,” which the Justice Department said represented “the culmination of Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism and violence against Israel and its allies.”
The Biden administration claims this action was a sign that it will ensure Hamas leaders “will pay for their crimes.” But it is absurd to indict Hamas leaders for the worst attack against the Jewish people that occurred 11 months after this attack occurred. Moreover, these indictments are pointless not because the accused are in Gaza and will never be brought to the U.S. for trial but because three of them are dead.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made this look worse when he said in announcing the indictments, “These actions will not be our last,”—indicating that additional indictments are likely against the Hamas killers after more delays.
One might attribute the delayed indictments to the Biden administration’s incompetence. I believe it is likely that Biden officials slow-walked the indictments because they did not want to alienate Hamas leaders while they tried to negotiate a cease-fire agreement that they expected Hamas to support. The cease-fire agreement promoted by the Biden-Harris administration would require Israel to leave Gaza without defeating Hamas. It would leave Hamas intact and able to regain control of Gaza and use this region to stage more deadly attacks against Israel.
The cease-fire talks have been stalemated because although Israel has made significant concessions to get a cease-fire and free hostages held by Hamas, it rightly refuses to agree to such terms.
The indictments suggest that because of the upcoming presidential election and anger over Hamas’s recent execution of six hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Biden-Harris administration is taking a different approach to the Israel/Hamas War. It now wants to be seen as acting tough against Hamas.
White House Press spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre made a related comment this week when she said in response to the killing of the six hostages, “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” Such a remark calling on Hamas leaders to be punished was almost unprecedented by a Biden official who usually only criticizes Israel and calls on it to make more concessions to Hamas to get a cease-fire agreement.
Of course, I believe Hamas leaders should pay for the execution of six innocent people. But the White House is treating these executions as a call to action when they only reaffirm the savagery of this terrorist group of last October when it massacred 1,200 people, tortured, maimed, and injured over 3,000, and took 240 hostages.
The recent murder of an American and five Israelis by Hamas was reprehensible, but Biden officials seem to have forgotten the horror of October 7 and are acting as if these executions represented Hamas crossing some U.S. red line. Sadly, it did not. The executions were just the latest evidence that Hamas cannot be trusted or negotiated with. Biden officials should have been consistently stating after the October 7 terrorist attack that Hamas must be destroyed and can play no part in governing Gaza or any Palestinian areas after the war ends.
Instead, for the last 11 months, almost all U.S. pressure and criticism concerning the Israel-Hamas War has been against Israel. The Biden/Harris administration has feuded with Israel, promoted peace plans Israel has rejected, staged feckless military responses against Iran-backed terrorists in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, and failed to keep the pressure on Hamas.
Now, two months before the presidential election, the Biden/Harris administration has indicted 3 dead Hamas leaders and suddenly vowed to hold Hamas accountable for its atrocities.
Such confused and indecisive U.S. national security policies are why the Middle East and the world are so much more unstable and dangerous than when President Trump left office in January 2021. With Kamala Harris planning to conduct a “review” of U.S-Israel relations and to pursue a “new direction” of this relationship if she wins the 2024 presidential election, I believe a Harris administration would do extreme damage to Israeli, Middle East, and global security. (See my Aug. 16 American Greatness article, “Ominous Signs of What US Middle East Policy Might Be Under a Harris Presidency.”)
We therefore desperately need a decisive and pro-Israel president with a solid America First approach to U.S. national security to restore American leadership and global peace and stability. We need Donald Trump back as America’s President and Commander-in-Chief.
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