President Joe Biden and his senior aides are hailing a ceasefire they brokered in Lebanon last week as a potential breakthrough for Middle East peace. But Israeli leaders see the truce as a way to get through the final days of Biden’s presidency so Israel can finish the war with its genocidal enemies.
In the Rose Garden on Tuesday, Biden announced the 60-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. He said the deal, which went into effect early Wednesday and has so far held, “heralds a new start for Lebanon” and “brings us closer to realizing the affirmative agenda that I’ve been pushing forward during my entire presidency: a vision for the future of the Middle East where it’s at peace and prosperous and integrated across borders.”
“I believe this agenda remains possible,” Biden continued, vowing to use the final 54 days of his presidency to try to end Israel’s war in Gaza, normalize Israel-Saudi relations, and secure a “credible pathway for a Palestinian state.”
According to current and former Israeli officials, however, Israel’s government agreed to the ceasefire largely to appease and move on from the Biden administration. President-elect Donald Trump will be back in the White House when the 60-day deadline for troop withdrawals comes around, and they expect he will support a strong response to any violation of the deal as well as Israeli action against Iran and Hamas, a Hezbollah ally and fellow Iran-backed terrorist group.
“It’s not for no reason that we insisted on 60 days,” Ohad Tal, a member of Israel’s parliamentary defense committee from the governing Religious Zionism party, told the Washington Free Beacon. […]
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