[GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG] - [The Palestinians] seem confident that if the Biden administration is rewarding them for malign behavior, it is clearly working, so why not keep it up?
- The Palestinians are hoping to scare the Americans and prevent them from cooperating with Israel on the future of the Gaza Strip after the war.
- The Biden administration did not, it seems, even demand that, in return for the humanitarian aid, the hostages be released or that the terrorists stop launching rockets into Israel.
- Apparently, the Biden administration did not even request assurances that the aid would not be seized and diverted by the terrorists.
- Hamas has earned at least $500 million from the aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war in October 2023, according Ehud Yaari, an Israeli expert on Arab and Palestinian affairs.
- [The Palestinians] consider the presence of US troops in the region as another form of "occupation" and an unwelcome intervention in the internal affairs of the Arabs in the Middle East.
- As long as supplies are getting into the Gaza Strip, Hamas will not stop fighting or free the hostages.
- Because of the Gaza pier, the Biden administration has made it immensely harder to free the hostages and end the war.
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