Pundit says Harris-Biden administration failing to hold Hamas accountable

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 September 15, 2024

The administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is failing to hold Hamas accountable. 

This is according to The Jerusalem Post's David Weinberg.

Weinberg published a piece over the weekend, titled, What real White House pressure on Hamas would look like. 

The piece is subtitled President Joe Biden's response to the shooting of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi shows how little he has done to hold Iran and its proxies accountable. 

Background

Weinberg starts off by highlighting the way the Harris-Biden administration has responded to the death of Eygi.

In case you missed what happened, CNN reports:

Eygi, who was born in Turkey and had joint US citizenship, was shot by Israeli forces while taking part in a weekly protest against an Israeli settlement near the Palestinian village of Beita. All Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was “highly likely” that Eygi was “hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire.”

The incident prompted Biden to release a statement saying that he was "outraged" by what happened.

"I am outraged and deeply saddened by the death of Aysenur Eygi . . . The shooting that led to her death is totally unacceptable," Biden said.

Weinberg, however, points out, in his article, that it is a different story when Hamas does something bad - such as, for example, intentionally executing hostages.

Compare and contrast

Weinberg writes:

But of course, the US and all decent people worldwide condemned the Hamas murders. The Biden-Harris administration was “pained” by the murders (not outraged) and toothlessly jabbered that “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” But this was not followed up by any moves against the genocidal terrorist group and its regional backers: anything concrete that would impose “full accountability” on Hamas.

In fact, Weinberg goes on to note that the Harris-Biden administration essentially ignored what Hamas did and proceeded to try to get Israel - not Hamas - to pull back.

"[T]he Hamas execution of Israeli hostages was followed up by pressure on Israel to make concessions to the perpetrators and essentially concede defeat to them. President Biden took to the microphone to accuse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of 'not doing enough' to secure a hostage deal," Weinberg writes.

He goes on to give his opinion of what it would look like if the Biden-Harris administration were to hold Hamas accountable.

We all know, though, that this is never going to happen, for the simple reason that Harris would lose a lot of voters.

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