Following a request from U.S. President Joe Biden last week for an “immediate ceasefire,” the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF) announced on Sunday that it had withdrawn its forces from southern Gaza. Has won on the news.
The choice, coming on the day Israelis marked six weeks since the October 7 strike, came as a shock, and as Jewish diplomats flew to Cairo for prisoner conversations. Hassan demanded a peace before any fresh agreement.
One brigade will be stationed in Gaza, and their part will be to help Israeli troops to return as needed. Additionally, it will conduct obscene activities, such as the obscene assault at Shifa Hospital next month.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF announced on Sunday that the current effective invasion phase of the conflict was over, leaving the possibility of a new Rafah invasion in deep southern Gaza open.
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The schedule was unmistakable because it happened right after the IDF’s fatal mistaken killing of seven humanitarian aid workers last year, despite a major IDF official’s claim that this change had nothing to do with US force.
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Hamas immediately declared the IDF withdrawal, even partial, a victory for sticking to its position of demanding IDF withdrawals, including of troops in northern Gaza.
In response to the accidental killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers last Tuesday when an IDF drone team mistaken them for Hamas terrorists, Biden demanded an “immediate ceasefire.”
There is proof that the terrorists purposefully misled the IDF about the vehicles, which Hamas ‘ greatest success in the war. Hamas employs human shields and casualties as part of its symmetric war strategy.
Following the United States’s approval of a resolution separating a ceasefire from a deal to return the remaining 130 or so Israeli hostages, Biden’s demand was adopted in accordance with Hamas’s fundamental demand.
The Biden administration also opposed an Israeli operation in Rafah, which was the last stronghold of Hamas and the key to its victory in the war. Biden refrained from supporting Israel, suggesting that the U.S. would restrict its supply of weapons and ammunition if Israel disobeyed. In February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had stated that such an operation would put an end to the conflict in “weeks” rather than “months.”
Biden appeared to be responding to electoral considerations, after Muslim- and Arab- American voters in the key swing state of Michigan threatened not to support him, and young “progressive” voters sided with the Palestinians.
Israel is also concerned about additional threats: Iran has threatened a direct attack for days after using its Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon to pose a threat to Israel’s northern region. Some Gaza-based IDF soldiers are moving north.
Israel may choose to comply with Biden’s position by losing U.S. support and ammunition on the eve of a potential war in the north, which would be much more bloody than the Gaza conflict.
However, the Israeli public may not accept the government’s decision. Israelis want the Gaza mission completed. As domestic pressure mounts against the Netanyahu government, only a successful hostage deal may placate critics.
There is one additional consideration: the U. S. elections in November. Israel may have decided its best chance to defeat its enemies will come with change in the White House, given Biden’s growing, perhaps permanent hostility.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor- at- Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. ET ( 4 p. m. to 7 p. m. PT ). He is the author of the recent e- book,” The Zionist Conspiracy ( and how to join it )”, now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e- book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U. S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
