Dem and Foggy Bottom policy since at least Obama, if not during Clinton's MalAdministration, has been the perpetuation of a status quo in which Israel was constantly rocketed and shelled and raided until their chimeric Two-State Solution somehow magically happened. Israel had the temerity to push back against LIEden's efforts to stop Israel from dishing out FAFO to Hamas. Whether Israel believed that Trump or some other R was likely to become President in January 2025 or they simply decided that Hamas had crossed a line and Israel was going to fight back regardless of US pressure, I don't know.
Israel's nearly 2 years of hitting Hamas, September 2024 decapitation of Hezbollah (I think Israel knew by then that LIEden would/could not react negatively and decisively), Israel's hits on Iranian military capacity and leadership (after Trump became President), the USAF's hits on Iran's nuclear program, and Trump's diplomatic efforts in the Arab world (plus Turkey) left Hamas severely damaged and isolated from international military and diplomatic aid.
Mentioned a few weeks ago in one of CC27's threads that I was re-reading Victor Davis Hanson's excellent 2020 book "The Case for Trump". Re-reading it just reinforces all the nasty shit that the Democrat and D.C establishment has been pulling behind the scenes for decades and why any successes by President Trump are undermined and dismissed as amateurish by the "elitists".
Speaking of D.C. establishment douche bags, one of the biggest of all spouted this horse manure today:
Former Obama Official Ben Rhodes Can’t Bring Himself To Give Trump Credit For Israel-Hamas Deal
Former Obama administration official Ben Rhodes brushed off the deal President Donald Trump brokered between Israel and the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas as “just a cease-fire” Monday during a MSNBC appearance.
Hamas released the 20 surviving hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on multiple locations in southern Israel that killed over 1,200 people on Monday. Rhodes, the architect of then-President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran over its nuclear weapons program, was asked by MSNBC host Ana Cabrera if he thought Trump could see it through.
“I give Trump credit for essentially finally applying some leverage on the Israeli government, on Bibi Netanyahu in particular, in a way that, you know, frankly, we didn’t even see President Biden do when he was in office,” Rhodes claimed. “And I think simultaneously, Qatar and Turkey were applying a lot of leverage on Hamas. And then that got us into the ceasefire. That’s terrific. It’s great that the Israeli hostages are reunited with their families, that aid is getting to Gaza. I would not go as far as to say that this kind of validates a certain, you know, theory of diplomacy, because frankly, it’s just a ceasefire. The problem has not been solved.”
“It’s not really a peace deal in the sense that we still don’t know who’s going to govern Gaza. We still don’t know if Hamas is going to disarm,” Rhodes continued. “We’re at phase one, quite literally, of what would be a very long road to some kind of lasting peace. So, look, I think a transactional — and, you know, it’s interesting to reflect on that quote you put up, I mean, a transactional style of diplomacy, it can get you that kind of short-term win, right? You know, you take care of a piece of business, but it’s not necessarily designed for the kind of patient follow-through and painstaking work that is necessary to address something as deep as the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
Trump terminated the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018, calling it “a horrible deal that should never, ever have been made.” The 2015 agreement faced backlash from critics of the deal claiming it “paved the road” for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. (RELATED: Pentagon Reveals Video Of How Massive Bunker Buster Bombs That Wrecked Iranian Nuclear Facility Work)
The Biden administration sought to reinstate the deal as part of a more conciliatory approach toward Iran, which included freeing up $6 billion in money from oil sales that were being held by South Korea in exchange for the release of five Americans being held in Iran. Biden also eased sanctions on Iran, allowing the country to export more oil and also allowed Iraq to purchase electricity from Iran.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/13/ben-rhodes-cant-trump-credit-israel-hamas-deal/Smarmy ****tard. He's one of the former 0bama/Biden clowns I'd like to punch in the *****, because pieces of excrement such as him have zero balls, literally and figuratively.
