This week, 11 months after the horrific Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, the Biden administration announced indictments against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and five other Hamas officials for their “central roles in planning, supporting, and perpetrating the terrorist atrocities that Hamas committed in Israel,” which the Justice Department said represented “the culmination of Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism and violence against Israel and its allies.” The Biden administration claims this action was a sign that it will ensure Hamas leaders “will pay for their crimes.” But it is absurd to indict Hamas leaders for the worst attack against the Jewish people that occurred 11 months after this attack occurred.
I believe it is likely that Biden officials slow-walked the indictments because they did not want to alienate Hamas leaders while they tried to negotiate a cease-fire agreement that they expected Hamas to support.
The recent murder of an American and five Israelis by Hamas was reprehensible, but Biden officials seem to have forgotten the horror of October 7 and are acting as if these executions represented Hamas crossing some U.S. red line.
Now, two months before the presidential election, the Biden/Harris administration has indicted 3 dead Hamas leaders and suddenly vowed to hold Hamas accountable for its atrocities.
(See my Aug. 16 American Greatness article, “Ominous Signs of What US Middle East Policy Might Be Under a Harris Presidency.”) We therefore desperately need a decisive and pro-Israel president with a solid America First approach to U.S. national security to restore American leadership and global peace and stability.
The cease-fire agreement promoted by the Biden-Harris administration would require Israel to leave Gaza without defeating Hamas.
White House Press spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre made a related comment this week when she said in response to the killing of the six hostages, “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” Such a remark calling on Hamas leaders to be punished was almost unprecedented by a Biden official who usually only criticizes Israel and calls on it to make more concessions to Hamas to get a cease-fire agreement.
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