Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave his farewell speech to the Atlantic Council, where he admitted that Hamas “cannot be defeated by a military campaign alone,” and that according to U.S. assessments, “Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost.”
Blinken said Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has become “a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.” But that was the goal all along. The goal was never to defeat Hamas, and it was always ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
The more Israel bombs Gaza, the more support there is for the resistance, and as long as a resistance exists, Israel has an enemy to continue to fight and an excuse to keep the war going.
The only difference right now seems to be that the U.S. and Israel are moving into the next phase, as they announce a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas, and the incoming Trump administration works to turn the focus to regional normalization.
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15 Jan. 2025 - Gaza ceasefire live updates: A deal to end the war and release hostages is in flux, Israel says
14 Jan. 2025 - Video: Sec. of State Blinken’s farewell address at the Atlantic Council
8 Nov. 2025 - Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead verified by UN are women and children
13 Jan. 2025 - Israel to redirect withheld Palestinian tax funds to pay Israeli electric company
21 Jan. 2024 - Israel's Netanyahu rejects any Palestinian sovereignty post-war, rebuffing Biden
15 Jan. 2025 - Trump: My presidential win led to Israel-Hamas ceasefire
12 Jan. 2025 - CBS News reveals it has footage from Gaza from May 2024… that it waited until the end of the Biden Admin to release
12 Jan. 2025 - Former U.S. diplomat Hala Rharrit said she documented images coming out of Gaza for the State Department
22 Dec. 2024 - Israel's spy agency, Mossad, spent years orchestrating Hezbollah walkie-talkie, pager plots
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