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With friends like us, who needs enemies?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-offering-int...Gaza City, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)
The Biden administration has reportedly offered to give Israel “sensitive intelligence” on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders if it agrees to hold off on a long-promised major military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah.
The Washington Post quoted four unnamed sources as saying that the United States “is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels.”This is the problem of performative politics: your decisions become about the
optics instead of where they should be focused, which is on solving problems.
In this case if the most pressing problem is the " " Israeli-caused famine " " (Air quotes) in Gaza, then the fastest way to end it is to end Hamas. Sharing intel on how to get at these guys along with where the tunnels are would speed things up. Eliminate Hamas, end the military operation, start rebuilding.
But that's NOT the administration's goal. The goal is to appear to wag a finger at Netanyahu so as to appear righteous to a few thousand voters in Michigan. That's not a sustainable approach; if anything, they should be looking at ways to hasten Hamas' demise.
