After the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel last month, the Biden administration claimed they were allowing Israel to make its own decisions on the timing and strategy of its war with Hamas.
“We’re not directing the Israelis, the timeline is theirs – their thinking, their planning,” an administration official insisted to CNN.
Except that’s not really how things have gone done, is it? Immediately after the attack, the Biden Administration called on Israel not to retaliate. Then they forced delays of Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza and began increasing pressure on Israel for more “humanitarian pauses,” something we all know Hamas wants. President Biden even claimed these “humanitarian pauses” were about “giv[ing] time to get the prisoners [sic] out.”
He actually meant to say hostages.
But White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk blew up that lie on Tuesday, when he told MSNBC that the White House supports “humanitarian pauses irrespective of a hostage deal.”
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