A Bad Deal About To Be Put Into Effect

As much as anyone would want to see an end to the hostilities in Gaza, the deal as negotiated by Biden and Blinken, as reported in Tuesday's late edition of Newsmax, is so filled with holes, it must have been written by someone with dementia. There is no way that this deal is beneficial to Israel.

 

And it does not comply with President-Elect Trump's demand that it must be resolved before January 20.

As with any “prisoner” exchange, all must be done simultaneously, at the same time, on the same day, with no chance to cheat. This will, undoubtedly, not work in Israel's best interests.

Neither Hamas nor its benefactor, Iran, have ever proven trustworthy. So why should any sane leader trust them now? To get a deal done? A true Biden feck up, for sure.

He doesn’t really give a crap. He thinks this makes every move he made during his four years all part of his plan to settle the peace in the Middle East. And have something good to write about in his memoir.

As for Blinken, he can’t wait to wash his hands of the whole process. He is the modern day Pontius Pilate, dressed in a $1,000 suit rather than a toga.

“I believe we will get a ceasefire,” the soon-to-be-former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a speech Tuesday, asserting it was up to Hamas. “It’s right on the brink. It’s closer than it’s ever been before,” and word could come within hours, or days.

At least Biden and Blinken will no longer be held accountable. But they WILL BE responsible when it goes sideways. Which, as the withdrawal from Afghanistan proved, it surely will. And they will be gone, leaving it up to Trump to fix.

This is a disaster about to explode. Hamas is chomping on the bit, ready to claim it won. And it certainly appears they got the better end of this negotiation.

But in Jerusalem, hundreds of hardliners marched against a deal, some chanting, “You don’t make a deal with the devil,” a reference to Hamas.

And every sane person in the world will agree with that sentiment.