On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Israel to find out whether Hamas would recognize an Israeli prisoner offer that meets almost all of the criminal organization’s needs.
Blinken called the offer “very good” earlier this year, reflecting the perspective of other eastern nations. In the offer, according to reports, Hamas may relieve 33 Jewish captives in exchange for hundreds of convicted Palestinian terrorists. Israel would consent to Israel’s withdrawal from the only Gazan hall that it already controls, allowing Gazans who had fled from the north to re-enter the area. Additional captives may be exchanged for a protracted peace.
The Biden administration and other eastern countries have been pressing Israel for decades, and this was the time to make the sell.
Under the circumstances on the table, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel may carry out its campaign to end Hamas’s defense and governing capacities.
A Hamas group departed Cairo, Egypt, before this week for Doha, Qatar, to explore the plan with the team’s leadership. However, Netanyahu’s right- aircraft coalition partners threatened to quit the authorities over the offer.
The game is properly in Hamas’s court. It may choose to accept the agreement in the hope that Israel’s continued fighting may be prevented by growing international pressure on Israel. Or it could accept the deal and pressure Israel to accept a humiliating victory over the conflict, which most Israelis had reject, and perhaps also allow Saudi Arabia to resume normal relationships with Israel, which may conflict with Hamas’s wider plan to completely destroy Israel.
Blinken, in contrast, criticized Israelis who said he no longer spoke about halting Hamas or halting violence in general. He also emphasized the need for a peace and for more humanitarian aid to Gaza.
I’m certain what you meant to say was that you and Prime Minister @netanyahu discussed the necessity of Israel’s defeat of the murderous Hamas government, which renders ISIS pale in comparison. You probably even mentioned the need for regional peace and security if Israel were to win.
What, no? https ://t.co/dIGRm2CTex— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick ) May 1, 2024
Blinken traveled to Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the Hamas-affiliated communities, to get a firsthand account of the destruction caused by the criminal attack.
Antony Blinken, the secretary of state for the United States, travels to Kibbutz Nir Oz, the webpage of one of the Hamas terror attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023. Photo taken May 1, 2024. ( Ariel Hermoni / IMoD )
Blinken even took a tour of the Gaza borders at the Erez Crossing, which Hamas attacked on October 7 and reopened on Wednesday to bring aid to cars.
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