With these demands, the uncommitted bloc has made clear that they aren’t anti-war—they’re anti-peace. A permanent ceasefire in Gaza prior to the dismantling and elimination of the security threat posed by Hamas is merely a call for Israel to accept defeat in its war against the terrorists that attacked its people on October 7. Ordinary Israelis will never agree to this outcome, and America cannot impose it on them. Even more extreme, these same groups also want the U.S. to abandon its military support for Israel at a time when both the United States and Israel face myriad threats from groups backed by Iran including Yemen’s Houthis, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and a collection of militias in Syria and Iraq.

Acceding to these demands would leave Hamas in power with hostages unjustly detained in Gaza and take away Israel’s ability to defend itself, putting the Middle East even further away from peace than it is now. That’s quite a set of demands, one that President Biden should reject outright.

Instead of chasing 100,000 voters in Michigan who want to see Biden and Israel lose, the president ought to go after the hundreds of thousands of proven anti-Trump voters who backed Haley in the state—and critically, support our democratic partner, Israel.