Biden Administration Pushes Ceasefire Proposal in Response to IDF Rescue of Hostages
“The hostage release and ceasefire deal that is now on the table would secure the release of all the remaining hostages together with security assurances for Israel and relief for the innocent civilians in Gaza.”
Unquestionably, the announcement Saturday of the dramatic rescue of four hostages who were held in captivity for eight months by Hamas terrorists was fantastic news for everyone outside of the pro-Hamas Democrat/media contingent.
“Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival,” the IDF said in their statement.
“We will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home,” they also said.
The horrific terrorist attacks of October 7th and the capture of Israeli civilians have been the driving impetus behind Israel’s relentless campaign to crush Hamas, so it’s understandable they are reluctant to get behind any proposed ceasefire deal that would hinder their ability to accomplish those goals, especially at this stage in the war.
And yet a ceasefire is exactly what the Biden administration chose to focus on in response to news of the hostage rescue.
For instance, here was National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s statement, where the emphasis was on the Biden-pushed ceasefire proposal:
The Biden administration responds to Israel's successful operation rescuing four hostages from Hamas in Gaza (being held in civilian homes, no less!) by pushing for a ceasefire, because of course.
How many American hostages have been rescued by Biden's ceasefire harping? pic.twitter.com/R4DFLOj2fG
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) June 8, 2024
In France, Biden himself praised the rescue but called a ceasefire “essential”:
Speaking at a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden said he joined his host in welcoming the return of the hostages and vowed, “We won’t stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached.”
“That’s essential to happen,” he added.
Selecting a different tone, Sec. of State Antony Blinken called the rescue a “welcome” development, and while he promoted the ceasefire proposal, he stated that the onus was on Hamas to make it happen:
We welcome the rescue of four hostages who after eight months of captivity have finally been reunited with their families in Israel. The United States will not rest until every hostage is returned home.
The proposal that President Biden outlined eight days ago would bring relief to both the people of Gaza and the remaining hostages and their families through an immediate ceasefire that could lead to the release of all hostages, a surge of humanitarian assistance, Gaza’s reconstruction, and an enduring end to the war. The only thing standing in the way of achieving this ceasefire is Hamas. It is time for them to accept the deal.
Though it was initially reported last week that Israeli leaders were on board with the proposal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly said there were areas of disagreement:
“The proposal that Biden presented is incomplete,” Netanyahu told Israeli lawmakers during a closed-door meeting of the Israeli parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.
Netanyahu told his country’s lawmakers that Israel would not end the war in Gaza until it achieved its three primary objectives: Destroying Hamas’ military and civil governance capabilities, securing the release of all the hostages, and ensuring that there is no ongoing threat to Israel from Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.
Left out of the Biden White House’s statements on a ceasefire resolution is that it would effectively pull the IDF out of Gaza’s most populous areas, leaving few options when it comes to rescuing the remaining hostages and finding/returning home the remains of any who might have been murdered:
The proposal announced Friday calls for an initial six-week ceasefire with an Israeli military withdrawal from populated areas of Gaza and the release of some hostages while “a permanent end to hostilities” is negotiated through mediators.
What is likely to come next for the Biden administration in response to the hostage rescue are calls from Squad types in Congress and their far-left activist allies to condemn Israel for the alleged civilian casualties that critics say happened as a result of the rescue mission.
In my view, this is how they should respond:
Hamas should release the hostages. And if it doesn’t, and we have to rescue them by force, it shouldn’t SHOOT AT HOSTAGES TRYING TO ESCAPE. https://t.co/oq3mgMAPLv
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) June 9, 2024
Islamist terrorism expert Khaled Hassan to Piers Morgan:
You don’t take pur [sic] people hostage, hold them in one of Gaza’s busiest markets and tell usbhow [sic] we rescue our hostages. If a 1000 Palestinians died in that rescue operation, you have only Hamas to blame.
They particularly hid them in this busy shithole because they wanted to prevent Israel from rescuing them in fear of comments from useful idiots such as yourself. Go talk shit about Harry and Meghan. Warfare and national security are not your thing. You are becoming a mouthpiece for Hamas.
You don’t take pur people hostage, hold them in one of Gaza’s busiest markets and tell usbhow we rescue our hostages. If a 1000 Palestinians died in that rescue operation, you have only Hamas to blame.
They particularly hid them in this busy shithole because they wanted to…
— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) June 9, 2024
Hamas is responsible for every single Palestinian death during yesterday’s brilliant Israeli rescue mission in central Gaza.#LetThemGo#BringThemAllHomeNow
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) June 9, 2024
Wow. @mehdirhasan claims the IDF raid to rescue 4 hostages from Hamas "wouldn't have been necessary" if Israel had agreed a hostage release deal with Hamas.
Fun fact: the hostage rescue "wouldn't have been necessary" if Hamas hadn't taken the hostages in the first fucking place pic.twitter.com/JH7yozaz0V
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 9, 2024
I think that about covers it.
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Of course he wants a ceasefire. If Israel is winning, Biden is losing Muslim votes.
I’ve lived through Presidents since Nixon. I thought Obama was a new low but this is the first time I’ve been truly ashamed of our President.
Biden may be dumb, but he’s stupid.
Biden always been a mean, lying, dumb SOB. Now he’s just a senile mean, lying, dumb SOB,
Biden should show us how important their is to him, by checking out.
Gads. I was born during Truman’s administration.
Me too!
Me 3
Nixon’s was the first presidential election I voted in.
These hostages were in a refugee area. So much for innocent Palastinians.
These hostages were being held in a refugee area smack dab in the middle of an allegedly civilian city. So much for innocent Gazans. (Will not call them Palestinians as they are not.)
In private homes, no less.
In a private home owned by a “Gazan-based reporter and photojournalist” (ie hamas terrorist) by the name of Abdallah Aljamal and members of his family. So much for innocent Gazans.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/06/confirmed-three-rescued-israeli-hostages-were-held-captive-by-gaza-journalist/80% of Gazans support Hamas.. There are mighty few “innocents” but an awful lot of colluders and supporters.
I am largely indifferent to their fate.
Biden, who is doing nothing, said, “We won’t stop working….” in order to give the impression that he’s doing something.
Why do people who are doing nothing always like to take credit for the accomplishments of others?
Who would listen to stumbling mumbling biden? The man has no credibility on the world stage.
Congratulations Joe Biden*, you pathetic retard. Your nearly fifty year streak of being wrong about every major foreign policy issue remains unbroken.
“Your nearly fifty year streak of being wrong about every major foreign policy issue remains unbroken.”
Amazing, isn’t it? And THIS was the asshole who was touting that “the adults are back in charge.”
Anyone know where that pier floated off to?
That pier is in Gaza.
Our POS in Chief is true to form. How about Fuck You Brandon and where are the American hostages still held by those Pali terrorists?
Khaled Hassan pretty much wrecked Piers Morgan, that dummy.
Our feckless administration again doing what it does best… backing the weak horse. Bunch of incompetent clowns.
It’s real easy, Hamas… release the remaining hostages and surrender, and maybe you will have a chance to live.
I’m not trying to be disrespectful — but good heavens Jake Sullivan writes and says things that are so juvenile. So naive.. It’s almost unbelievable.
How about a counter offer from Israel? Just an addendum really, they accept and for every day that passes multiply by the total number of hostages not returned alive and healthy the entire WH staff and absolutely including the cabinet officers draw lots with red and white beads.
The number of red beads = the number of hostages not yet returned both alive and healthy. Whomever draws a red bead must accept a five minute ordeal with an angry MAGA voter and cheese grater.
If the WH is confident in this cease-fire being honored and Hamas returning the hostages they shouldn’t have any issues with it….if they do they could resign today instead but that sort of mass defection would demonstrate a lack of confidence.
As bad as Thad Jarvis & JR?
Innocent Gaza civilians? Talk to the hand, fool!
There are no innocents in Gaza.
Maybe age 3 and under could be saves?
Vile Biden and the Dhimmi-crats are stupid and evil.
While Jews attempt to rescue their citizens taken hostage (including American citizens, no less) and eliminate a genocidal, fanatical, Islamofascist terrorist threat that is as evil as the German National Socialists and Imperial Japanese, Biden obnoxiously states that “the war must end.” Because, the votes of Islamofascists and Muslim supremacists in Michigan, Minnesota and elsewhere in the U.S. are deemed worthy of obsequious pandering and kowtowing.
So, Ukrainians are allowed to defend themselves and their territory from Russian aggression and invasion, but, Israeli Jews are to be denied the same right.
What a manifestly evil prick. The Dhimmi-crats are pure scum.
Blame Jews for resurrecting their ancient homeland of Israel (which pre-dates Islam’s founding, by millennia.
Blame Jews for allegedly provoking ceaseless, genocidal Islamofascist terrorism and Muslim supremacism, by possessing the temerity to live in said resurrected homeland.
Blame Jews for defending themselves against ceaseless Muslim terrorist attacks.
Blame Jews for rescuing hostages taken by Muslim terrorists.
Blame Jews for [insert contrived rationale, here].
Just another day at the office, for the vile, European leftist dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats.
Islamofascists and Muslim supremacists are deemed to be perennial victims, whose ideological predilections and behavior are always beyond reproach. Jews, on the other hand, can and should be blamed for everything under the Sun.
Grotesquely, Jewhaters believe such twisted ideas, such as the “fact” that the Jewish cabal controls all the levers of power in politics and finance all over the world, and that they are planning to make Ukraine the New Israel, that Ashkenazi Jews are not Jews at all, and on and on…
They are firmly convinced that Jews are in fact, responsible for all the evil in the world. It is so beyond rationality that I suspect it is demonic.
What moron would believe in such assurances? A ceasefire with the infidel is always intended to be temporary no matter its written terms, as a truce with the infidel can be tolerated only until it is to the perceived advantage of the Muslims to break it.
The same assurance as UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, which is none at all. This isn’t necessarily Brandon per se, but it is definitely 0bama 3.
When was the last time our pedophile president told A SINGLE TRUTH?
He could say the sky is blue and I’d look out the window to check.
I can’t believe they keep pushing for a release of a few hostages, not immediately, but some vague time in the future and call this a good deal. Fuck Biden and every Hamas enabling POS who supports this.
Always remember; any proposed deal is meant to enhance Dem votes in the Muslim enclaves while haplessly trying to appease the outrage from secular Leftist Jews.
Those hostage are mighty inconvenient for the Biden Administration.
Hey Jake and Tony:
If they don’t renounce their Charter, by what conceivable twisted logic can Hamas offer any “assurances” about the safety of Israel or Israelis?
It makes no sense on its face.
Can you imagine the humiliation to Israel, to the Jewish people, if Israel agrees to stop fighting before hostages are saved? I’ve come to believe that , at bottom, that’s what this is ultimately about: “We invaded, yes, and we murdered youall, and we kidnapped, yes, and in the end we showed the world that we forced you to pick up and go away.
And we still intend to destroy your country.
And our leaders are perfectly safe.
And we’ve never renounced future October 7th’s.”
And Obama continues to live in luxury.
And Blinken continues to live in luxury.
And Sullivan can get a lucrative tv gig.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at those statements by the Biden ministration. Worse, according to an article today in Israel National News, an unnamed official in the Biden administration told NBC News that Israel‘s successful rescue of the four hostages makes it more difficult for Secretary of State Blinken to achieve a deal.
In an absolutely shocking American Jewish Committee poll released just today (but curiously taken from late March to early April), Joe Biden still enjoys a COMMANDING lead over Trump, 61-23. While his 61 is down 7-points from where he finished with Jews in 2020, Trump is also down 7-points. In 2020, it was 68-30.
Honestly, I’m gobsmacked. Black & Latino voters seem to be thinking more clearly about America’s future than Jewish voters are thinking about THEIR OWN future. It’s simply unbelievable.
https://jewishinsider.com/2024/06/ajc-survey-finds-significant-majorities-of-jews-concerned-about-antisemitism-support-israel/
Someone has called them “self-gassing Jews”. That’s harsh but true.
I recommend that the IDF “cease firing” upon the demise of the last member of Hamas, not sooner.
Security assurances? Like the promise to disarm Hezbollah and keep them out of southern Lebanon?
Your promises and assurances aren’t worth one of Joe’s diaper loads.
Here’s the proper ceasefire deal:
Return all hostages and their bodies if they aren’t alive. Israel pulls out of Gaza and no one helps them rebuild a thing.
How about a surrender proposal instead of a cease fire proposal?