\n\n“The obvious place for refugees to go temporarily is across the border into Egypt, where there are vast empty spaces and infrastructure for the United Nations and Egyptian authorities to provide shelter, aid and medical assistance. But the US draft resolution seems to exclude this possibility altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Egypt is understandably fearful of Hamas terrorists<\/a> and their supporters entering its territory; it already has enough of a threat from like-minded Muslim Brotherhood extremists and the plethora of terrorist gangs that share Hamas\u2019s jihadist ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the terrain in northern Sinai should allow for measures to mitigate dangers such as these, especially given Egypt\u2019s powerful security forces. Surely, if it were truly standing behind Israel, the US would have found a way to encourage Cairo to play a role here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is hard to escape the conclusion that, instead, Joe Biden is no longer committed to Israel finishing Hamas off, largely because of domestic political considerations. And the danger is that what he really wants is not a \u201ctemporary\u201d cessation to the fighting, but to impose a \u201cpeace\u201d deal that would leave Hamas\u2019s terrorist organisation partially intact and end up solving nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What President Biden and his ilk seem incapable of recognising is that the Israeli people can accept no \u201csolution\u201d to the current conflict that leaves the country in a weaker position to the one that it occupied on October 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, the wider West appears to be forgetting how this war started. Israel did not want the conflict<\/a>. It was the necessary response to the shocking crimes of October 7, the slaughter of civilians, and the taking of hostages \u2013 evil terrorist acts that Israel rightly wants to ensure can never happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the IDF does not move forward with its plans, Israel knows that it will only be a matter of time before we see another conflict in Gaza, as well as emboldened terrorists in the West Bank and on its northern border. Worse, the terrorists would know that the United States would never allow Israel to truly defeat them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n