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

Often once you get right into a cease-fire, it’s once 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 conflict?” And we don’t assist that right now. A cease-fire proper now advantages Hamas. It definitely additionally legitimizes what Hamas began on Oct. 7. It could give them a propaganda win. “See? Look, now there’s a cease-fire. And so we’re going to be an equal get together to this. And we now have each proper to proceed to remain in governance in Gaza.” And so they don’t. And so they’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 folks.