White Home Says It Does Not Assist a Stop-Hearth at This Time

Often while you get right into a cease-fire, it’s while you assume you’re on the endgame, and it’s time to barter. Go to the desk and, brass tacks right here, “How are we going to finish this battle?” And we don’t assist that presently. A cease-fire proper now advantages Hamas. It definitely additionally legitimizes what Hamas began on Oct. 7. It will give them a propaganda win. “See? Look, now there’s a cease-fire. And so we’re going to be an equal social gathering to this. And now we have each proper to proceed to remain in governance in Gaza.” They usually don’t. They usually’re not. So a cease-fire not solely provides them time to plan and execute, however it legitimizes what they began on Oct. 7. And that’s unacceptable to President Biden. It’s definitely unacceptable, understandably so, to the Israeli individuals.