Blinken Basically Says Israel Has To Learn To Live With Hamas

Back in December when President Biden claimed Israel was engaging in "indiscriminate bombing", I wrote the following:

You either want Israel to destroy Hamas or you do not. If you genuinely want Israel to destroy Hamas, then you are going to have civilian casualties so long as Hamas uses its general populace as human shields. And if you don't want Israel to destroy Hamas then that means you want Israel to accept Hamas. Those are cold facts. 

It is because evidently clear the Biden Administration does not want Israel to destroy Hamas first as evidenced by Biden's withholding of military aid to Israel overwhelmingly passed by Congress and now with Secretary of State Antony Blinken's appearance today on CBS' Face the Nation:

We believe two things. One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we haven't seen. Second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in Gaza is open- is over. And we still haven't seen that because what are we seeing right now? We're seeing parts of Gaza that Israel has- has cleared of Hamas, where Hamas is coming back, including in the North, including in Khan Younis. As we look at- at Rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but- but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians, but one that is not durable, one that's not sustainable. And they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because a lot of armed Hamas will be left no matter what they do in Rafah. Or if they- if they leave and get out of Gaza as we believe they need to do, then you're going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that's likely to be filled by chaos by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again. So we've been working for many, many weeks on developing credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding. We haven't seen that come from Israel, we've been working with Arab countries and others on that plan. We need to see that too. We have the same objective as Israel. We want to make sure that Hamas cannot govern Gaza again. We want to make sure it's demilitarized. We want to make sure that Israel gets its leaders. That's what we're determining. We have a different way. And we think a more effective, durable way of getting that done. We remain in conversation with Israel about exactly that.

For all intents and purposes, Blinken has said Israel cannot destroy Hamas and must learn to live with it as with the mention of a demilitarized Hamas. But one can no more demilitarize Hamas than one could demilitarize ISIS.  Hamas' aim and objective is to kill Jews and destroy Israel. Nothing Blinken says or does will change Hamas' mission. 

The Biden Administration is putting Israel into an untenable position entirely due to domestic political considerations. Not only will this not mollify those who are occupying campuses, it will increase the chances of defeated, former President Trump returning to the White House. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is so busy publicly admonishing Israel they have forgotten that Hamas continues to hold hostages including Americans.