ROBERT SPENCER: It's OK now to say that Joe Biden is in the throes of severe cognitive decline, but the latest news from inside the Beltway suggests that he isn’t the only one.
The Biden-Harris regime’s attempt to end the Israel-Hamas war in time for Kamala Harris to carry Michigan and Minnesota is as naïve as it is craven: the regime seems to be laboring under the illusion that both sides are equivalent and are negotiating in good faith.
Now a new revelation about the regime’s reaction to Hamas’ murder of six Israeli hostages casts even more doubt on the ability of the foreign policy “experts” in the White House and State Department to think straight.
Axios reported Wednesday that “one of the main questions raised during a meeting President Biden and Vice President Harris had with their national security team on Monday was whether there is a hostage-release and ceasefire in Gaza deal Hamas would ever agree to.”
Hey, Joe and Kamala, I can answer that one for you right now, and you’ll be delighted to know that the answer is yes: there is a ceasefire deal that Hamas would accept. It goes like this: Israel withdraws all its forces from Gaza, frees all of its jihadi prisoners, allows Hamas to reassert its control in Gaza, and sends Hamas billions so it can rebuild its terror tunnels and murder more Israeli civilians in the recurrence of the October 7 massacre that it has repeatedly vowed to carry out.
Hamas would also accept Israel voluntarily relinquishing its sovereignty and evacuating its entire population from the regime. But otherwise, no, there is no deal that Hamas would accept, and Old Joe and his would-be successor should know that.
Not only do Biden and Harris not know it, however, but it looks as if the State Department doesn’t, either. Axios adds that “Biden and his top advisers were shocked after Hamas killed six hostages, among them U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and have started to rethink the way forward in the negotiations over the deal.”
Shocked? This has to be a joke, right? What do “Biden and his top advisers” think Hamas is? The Rotary Club? Old Joe and his handlers should know that it doesn’t matter how much they “rethink the way forward in the negotiations over the deal,” for Hamas was founded in August 1988 as an Islamic alternative to the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s secularism and willingness to negotiate.