|
2025-04-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
|
|
‘Don’t start a war with Israel’: Top Biden aide’s lesson from Oct. 7 and its aftermath
|
[IsraelTimes] Brief reply by Brett McGurk, who helped craft January hostage deal, indicates his rejection of efforts to scrutinize Israel’s Gaza offensive more than the Hamas attack that provoked it
"Don’t start a war with Israel."
That is the lesson of Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s October 7 onslaught and the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
conflict that has ensued, according to former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
’s Mideast czar Brett McGurk.
McGurk gave the succinct response on the sidelines of a conference in Abu Dhabi when asked by The Times of Israel what historical lessons might be drawn from the past 18 months in Gaza.
"Don’t start a war with Israel. It won’t work out well for you. That’s the lesson," the former Middle East and North Africa Coordinator of the White House National Security Council asserted.
Clearly he was not one of the senior aides who held a key to President Biden’s auto-signature machine. “Ask Sinwar, Nasrallah or Khamenei how they’re doing today compared to October 6,” he added, referring to the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah who were killed by Israel last year, along with the supreme leader of Iran, which has sustained significant blows over the 18 months.
McGurk was one of the architects of the ceasefire and hostage release deal that was inked in January between Israel and Hamas. The agreement fell apart after two months, but US President Donald Trump — who helped finalize the accord before entering office — is working to revive it.
While only speaking briefly in between panels at the Middle East-America Dialogue (MEAD) summit, the senior Biden aide’s answer indicated his rejection of efforts to scrutinize Israel’s offensive in Gaza more than the attack that provoked it.
Roughly 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage in the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel. Over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in the IDF counter-offensive,
…or at least that was a recently claimed but unverified number. No way of knowing what the real numbers are, given how many might be buried in the rubble or piled by Hamas in unmarked graves… according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, whose figures have not been verified and don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
US President Joe Biden’s administration did at times break with Israel over the latter’s prosecution of the war in Gaza, speaking out over repeated dips in the amount of humanitarian aid entering the Strip and peaks in the number of civilian casualties.
However, Biden also dispatched aircraft carriers to the Middle East in order to deter Iran and its proxies; sent billions of dollars in military assistance to Israel; helped thwart a pair of Iranian missile attacks; blocked a host of anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations; and refused to single out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the main obstacle in the hostage talks, insisting that Hamas was the main source of blame amid months of stagnation.
McGurk was arguably the most important figure in shaping Biden’s policy in the war, which withstood pressure from US progressives who wanted to take a harder line against Israel.
He was also one of the main hostage negotiators on behalf of the US and joined forces with Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff after last November’s US presidential election in order to bring the January deal over the finish line.
After holding senior national security roles in successive administrations since former president George W. Bush — including a brief stint during Trump’s first term — McGurk left government in January, taking positions at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the Lux venture capital firm.
|
Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-13 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [11148 views ]
Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies
|
|
02:05 Grom the Affective
02:04 Grom the Affective
01:26 49 Pan
00:22 EMS Artifact
00:16 Skidmark
|
