The Uncertain Ceasefire in the Middle East

American Thinker.com ^ | May 22, 2021 | Michael Curtis

[Kaslin]

The scorpion wants to cross the river Jordan but cannot swim, so asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid the scorpion might sting, but the scorpion says if it did that, they would both drown. The frog accepts this, lets the scorpion climb on its back and begins to swim. Midway across the river the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung, despite knowing the consequences. The scorpion replied, “I could not help it, it’s in my nature.”

Emulating the scorpion, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, on May 10, 2021, launched attacks on Israel, firing over 4,300 rockets, using an extensive network of tunnels, into the civilian population of Israel from the Gaza Strip and some from Lebanon. The attacks are in Hamas’s nature.

Against the indiscriminate firing of rockets on its population centers, Israel responded with air strikes and artillery bombardment of Gaza, aiming not at innocent civilians, but at the military infrastructure, the rocket sites, the 60 miles of underground tunnels, and Hamas commanders and militants.

After 11 days of fighting, Hamas and Israel on May 21, 2021 agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. Similar agreements have been brokered and broken in the past as Hamas will not end its fanatical irredentism and refusal to accept the legitimacy of the State of Israel.

It was predictable that Osama Hamdan, the senior official of Hamas, declared that Israel had agreed to stop its “aggressive actions.” He is aware that Hamas still has thousands of rockets left, including the advanced short-range rocket Badr-3, based on an Iranian model, and has the expertise to build more rockets, aided by Iran, and Iran’s Quds Force, and can continue “to bomb Israel if it chose to do so.”

[Diogenesis]

pedoBiden has announced the USA will send MORE taxpayer
money to Hamas/PA for new rockets (”infrastructure”).

[Sacajaweau]

More importantly, Biden says he will NOT send money to Israel.

[The Great RJ]

Strange how peaceful the Middle East was when Trump was POTUS, but when his fraudulence Biden took over Hamas goes on a rampage. Perhaps Iran and their puppet Hamas, have noted the political rise of the anti Israel wing of the Democratic Party and their anti Semitic allies BLM and Antifa. They know that despite old Joe’s rhetoric about supporting Israel when push comes to shove Joe will abandon Israel in favor of Hamas and Iran.