An article by the Wall Street Journal‘s Editorial Board published on Tuesday slams the Biden administration for pressuring Israel to reach a ceasefire/hostage deal with Hamas.

The article states: President Biden called Hamas�s reply �a little over the top,� perhaps forgetting that he�s dealing with jihadists, not Republicans. He called Hamas �the opposition� before he was corrected. Qatar tried to spin Hamas�s answer as a �positive response,� but it�s a repetition of the standard pattern in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations: Following Palestinian terror, the U.S. pressures Israel into risky concessions, only for the Palestinians to turn down the offer at their own people�s expense.

Hamas says it wants a �comprehensive and complete cease-fire,� but it certainly doesn�t want peace. If there�s one point on which Hamas has been consistent, it is that it will repeat its Oct. 7 massacre �again and again,� as Politburo member Ghazi Hamad said on Oct. 24.

The article then quotes senior Hamas official Ali Baraka, who after the massacre said on Hezbollah�s Al-Manar TV in Lebanon: �We can repeat Oct. 7 many times, because once you storm, they collapse. This is how it works with Israel…They stormed [Southern Israel] and tomorrow, they will storm the Galilee. They will storm in from wherever they can.�

That�s what makes the Americans blocking traffic with �Cease-Fire Now� signs today�s example of people who in the time of the Soviet Union were known as useful idiots. Israel�s best reply is to push forward on the ground,” the article concludes.

(YWN Israel Desk � Jerusalem)