Posted on 03/19/2024 10:34:40 AM PDT by 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.
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He’s playing both sides for votes....ain’t gonna work.
He’d rather defeat Israel
Hamas is already degraded. Just consider their actions on October 7 (not to mention other examples).
“wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
Robert Gates
“Degrading Hamas.” That is pure Obama talk. It means surrender.
"We do not want to wage war with Imperial Japan, we only desire to degrade their capabilities..."
Utterly destroy every member of Hamas.
They are evil.
Defeating —> Degrading —> Helping —> Supporting —> Hugs & Kisses
'Degrading' 'Annihilate', Not ‘Defeating,’ Hamas
Yeah, because that that worked real well in Ukraine with the degradation of Russia’s military & the pipe dream of removing Putin. Let the IDF roll, and stay out of their way.
Definitely being controlled by his 0bie Puppet Master.
A few short years ago, it was an article of faith here that Obama was a brainless, incompetent, empty suit merely doing the bidding of his shadowy masters. How did he get transformed into a corruptocrat mastermind? It makes no sense.
You got me. Any idiot who would have believed Biden’s unequivocal guarantees to Israel in the first place after watching the Uke backstab is smoking something.
Because he’s controlled by the true brains of the operation.
0bie is just the front man. Briben is the stooge/easy mark.
Keep up!
:-)
Hamas still has 4 battalions in Rafah. Hamas is being captured or killed in the hundreds daily
Definitely being controlled by his 0bie Puppet Master
The telepromter king has spoken. Words selected from focus group. Put on screen for him to read. Off script he is as bad as Joey
He’s worried about the muzzie vote. Keeping power and control is the only thing that matters to these evil pricks.
Agree!!
They don’t understand the problem.
They see everything thru the lens of political advantage:
“How can we use this to get more votes or more power?”
That is all that matter to Democrats......................
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