What was your first clue, geniuses?

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their foreign-policy team spent the last eleven months of handcuffing Israel in its war after Hamas' October 7 massacre and atrocities. For the past nine months, the Biden-Harris administration and other Western nations have demanded more and more concessions from Benjamin Netanyahu for a cease-fire and a hostage deal, painting him as the main obstacle to peace. 

Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, it's slowly dawning on the Biden-Harris team that terrorists lie and have no real interest in a "two-state solution." First, however, we have to get through some it's-Israel's-fault excuses:

Officials cited two main reasons for the pessimism. The ratio of Palestinian prisoners that Israel must release to bring Hamas-held hostages home was a major sticking point—even before the U.S.-designated terrorist group killed six hostages, including an American citizen. And the two-day attack on Hezbollah with explosive pagers and walkie-talkies—followed by Israeli airstrikes—has made the possibility of all-out war much more likely, complicating diplomacy with Hamas.

Another problem is that, according to Biden administration officials, Hamas makes demands and then refuses to say “yes” after the U.S. and Israel accept them. The intransigence has severely frustrated negotiators, who increasingly feel the militant group isn’t serious about completing an agreement. 

Emphasis mine. It has been crystal clear since the start of the conflict that Hamas wasn't negotiating in good faith, especially after they began torpedoing the first hostage exchanges. That's what makes this addendum particularly repellent:

Critics have also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging the process, partly in an effort to appease the hard-right flank of his governing coalition.

If Netanyahu accepted the concessions proposed by Hamas only to have Hamas reject them, how does that make Netanyahu the saboteur? How does that appease the "hard-right flank" of his Cabinet? This is nothing more than smearing an ally's political leader that the current administration dislikes by shifting the blame for terrorists onto their victims. 

Hamas' intransigence has not gone unnoticed in Gaza either. The unfortunate residents -- who put and kept Hamas in power -- now realize that the war won't end while Hamas retains power. And now that the Israelis and the rest of the world are shifting their attention to Hezbollah, Gazans are slowly coming to grips with the reality that there won't be any rescue for them:

International attention has been diverted, first by deadly Israeli military raids into Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank this month, and this week by coordinated attacks against the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel’s leaders have increasingly signaled that they intend to shift their focus from the Gaza Strip to their northern border with Lebanon, in what the country’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, described this week as a “new phase of the war.”

But the war it is already waging in Gaza has not gone away. Israel, which says it wants to eradicate the armed group Hamas that led the Oct. 7 attack, has not stopped its airstrikes or ground attacks.

And some Gazans worry that the already sputtering efforts to reach a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas will be sidelined as tensions rise in other areas of the Middle East.

Well, how much good has all the international efforts to brown-nose the genocidal terrorists of Hamas done for ordinary Gazans? The problem isn't whether Western attention gets diverted -- it's that they put genocidal terrorists in charge in the first place. At this point, the best option for Gazans would be to organize and kill off the rest of Hamas' operatives and leadership, capitulate to the IDF, or both in sequence. It's not really up to the rest of the world to rescue them from their own annihilationist folly. 

That appears to be the lesson that Biden, Harris, Tony Blinken, and the rest of the incompetent appeasers of radical Islamist terrorists have belatedly learned. Choices have consequences, and those who start wars had better be prepared to lose them. The world won't save you from your FO if you insist on repeating the same FA often enough.