Progressives Double Down Despite Biden's 'Cease Fire'

For weeks, those lawmakers have denounced the administration’s Israel policy, calling on President Joe Biden to demand a cease-fire and impose conditions on military aid to the U.S. ally. But Biden and his top aides, who agree Israel’s military should uproot Hamas from Gaza, insisted the only way to improve the situation was with a hostage deal. Only then, the administration argued, would there be a pause in fighting that made it safer to bring hostages home and increase life-saving aid to Palestinians.

Now progressives, who remain critical of the U.S. stance in the war, have to navigate pushing Biden their way immediately after he brokered the greatest diplomatic breakthrough of the early 50-day conflict.

[No surprise at all. The Hamas Caucus doesn’t care about the hostages, or even about the Gazans. They want to force Biden to get Israel to surrender to Hamas and allow them to conduct massacres at will. — Ed]