Biden Shifts the Goalposts: ‘Degrading,’ Not ‘Defeating,’ Hamas

Breitbart ^ | 03/19/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[ChicagoConservative27]

State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. shares the goal of “degrading” Hamas — avoiding the use of the word “defeating,” in an apparent shift of U.S. policy on the Gaza war. On Monday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that President Joe Biden shared Israel’s goal of “defeating” Hamas, but believed it was not necessary for Israel to attack Hamas in the last stronghold of Rafah to do so: The President told the Prime Minister again today that we share the goal of defeating Hamas, but we just believe you need a coherent and sustainable strategy to make that happen. … Now, the President has rejected — and did again today — the strawman that raising questions about Rafah is the same as raising questions about defeating Hamas. That’s just nonsense. … And from the U.S. perspective, this is not a question of defeating Hamas. And anytime I hear an argument that says, “If you don’t smash into Rafah, you can’t defeat Hamas,” I say, “That is a strawman.” … [T]he President is not focused on what’s popular, what’s not popular, how do you shape public opinion. He’s interested in how do we get to the right result, and the right result is the enduring defeat of Hamas, a two-state solution that has a secure Israel and a Palestinian state that vindicates the aspirations of the Palestinian people, and a broader normalization of relations so that Israel also has peace with all of its Arab neighbors.

[NorthMountain]

0bie is just the front man.

So he's still brainless, incompetent, empty suit merely doing the bidding of his shadowy masters.

Thanks.

I'll keep up with pointing out that fact.

[Jane Long]

😂

👍🏼 👍🏼

Good plan.

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d to be on or off, please FR mail me.

[Candor7]

Biden cannot “shift the goal posts.”

If he could he would have shifted then to eother side of his rectal cavity.

The last bunch who tried to shift tyhe goal posts on the Jews did not fare well at all.

YWHW is involved. Just try shoifting the goal posts on YHWH and see what happens.

All the way from the paharohs to Hitler and Yassar Arafat, every one of them became lewzers.

And so will Biden.

[frank ballenger]

You can picture the long board room table with young woke careerists in expensive suits and custom tailored shirts with suspenders giving exact mincing wording for possible Biden statements.

[Chode]

not your call azzhole...

[TexasFreeper2009]

thank goodness it is the Israelis fighting these thugs and not Pedo Joe!

[Ben Dover]

This is like not completing a full course of antibiotics.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Biden needs Hamas to survive to appease the pro hamas wing of his party..the majority of his party hates Jews and hates Israel so by doing this Hamas lives another day, to regroup and attack again and again

[lurk]

Now we are seeing why ancient armies did total war, ensuring their enemies would not rebound for a very long time.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Degrading enemies is typical of the neocon foreign policy followed by both parties. This allows for forever wars like the one they hope continues in Ukraine and the one they are looking forward to in the China Sea.

However, does anyone really think Hamas will ever be eliminated? Even if every member of Hamas is killed or captured in Gaza, there are still Hamas members outside of Gaza and even outside the Middle East.

Even if Mossad can successfully assassinate every Hamas member throughout the world, there is still Iran that can fund a revival of Hamas or something similar filling the ranks with vengeful Palestinians who are also distributed across the globe.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I could go with degradation of Hamas, in the sense of humiliation, such as having their noses rubbed in pig feces just before their executions.

[TiGuy22]

Winning is bad for business.

[Pox]

The left doing what they do best. Dictating terms to others.

[xkaydet65]

Uhhh... someone tell him the goalposts are not his to shift

[Vaduz]

Indeed

He’s the dumbest guy in the senate
Ted Kennedy

[Eleutheria5]

Everything.

[Eccl 10:2]

[Texan4Life]

Loser: Biden

Winner: Israel and it’s residents - The Elimination of Hamas

It’s going to be a Bloodbath !

[NWFree]

President Retard is trying to save his terrorist buddies so they can cut off more heads and he can get the raghead vote in Michigan