https://aljazeera.com/opinions/it-is-time-the-us-considers-hamas…
Seven weeks of war and a truce have demonstrated Israel is nowhere near its declared goal of eliminating Hamas.
That much was made clear by the Israeli army’s siege and raid of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, which failed to produce conclusive evidence that there was a Hamas-operated command centre there, as it had claimed. Instead, the operation against al-Shifa, which was anticlimactic at best, added to growing scepticism that Israel, with American backing, can uproot Hamas from Gaza.
It is time this reality is recognised in the halls of power in Washington. The Biden administration must abandon unrealistic Israeli rhetoric about “ending Hamas” and embrace a more attainable political solution that factors in the movement’s survival.
If Hamas’s long-term survival strains the imagination, the risks of simply avoiding the thought are even more unimaginable. Although this is clearly not a widely held sentiment in Israel right now, some Israelis, like former government advisor and Bar-Ilan University professor Menachem Klein, are coming around to the idea. Speaking to Al Jazeera after the first Israeli hostages were released, Klein conceded that it is “impossible to totally destroy Hamas by force”. The path forward, he argued, should include the group in renewed negotiations around a Palestinian state.
Given the horrific suffering endured by the people of Gaza, growing international and domestic pressure to end it, and the still-looming prospect of a broader regional conflict, the US can no longer insist that eliminating Hamas is the only path to ending this war.
@ISIDEWITH6mos6MO
Considering the principle of self-determination, do you think the people of Gaza should have the right to be governed by Hamas if they choose to?
@Patriot-#1776Constitution6mos6MO
It's None of America's Business
Time to stop policing the world and involving ourselves in endless wars we can never win – wars that put none of our interests at stake and are thousands of miles from home.
@9H8DXPD6mos6MO
Absolutely not. Hamas is a terrorist organization and they need to be eradicated
@9GVBZ3W 6mos6MO
It's whatever the people of that country believes.
@OcelotNickWomen’s Equality6mos6MO
Most people in America support wiping out Hamas not sure which Americans you are talking about in your poll that don’t support Israel but they do
@PonieAbigail6mos6MO
Hamas will not survive in Gaza.
They parachuted into a music festival to murder 1400+ unarmed young people. With machine guns.
Hamas does not deserve to survive. Not in Gaza and not anywhere else.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution6mos6MO
I hope Israel blasts 'em to h-ll, but the federal government should not be involved.
@HeronTony6mos6MO
Israeli propaganda has been so bad, it has exposed Israel for its murderous war crimes, lies & evil, & made Hamas stronger. As a result, the whole world now stands with Palestine & Israel will never, ever be seen as anything but a murderous, apartheid regime run by war criminals
@Patriot-#1776Constitution6mos6MO
Actually there's a significant chunk of Americans who see Israel as a beacon of freedom in the Middle East and the safe-haven of God's chosen people. I'm one of them.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution6mos6MO
This is why we can't go on funding foreign wars – the drag on forever. We've already flushed hundreds of millions down the toilet in Ukraine. Did we learn anything? No, because political power not only corrupts the morals, it corrupts the judgment. Taiwan's next. Soon we'll be involved in a three-front war. God help us.
@Gr4ssrootPaella6mos6MO
In *2014.* almost 10 years ago during "Operation Protective Edge" when IOF ki!!ed 2,256 Palestinians in Gaza, including 556 children and 1,500 children, were orphaned, but remind me again how this all started on October 7th.
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