{"id":593804,"date":"2023-10-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hamas-attack-challenges-bidens-goals-in-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T09:00:00","slug":"hamas-attack-challenges-bidens-goals-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hamas-attack-challenges-bidens-goals-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hamas attack challenges Biden\u2019s goals in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/hamasattack_100823_getty_unprecedented.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel has upended the Biden administration\u2019s goals for peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, who has affirmed rock-solid support for Israel, will be challenged to hold the line in giving Jerusalem the space it requests to retaliate against Hamas in the besieged Gaza S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, pushing back against\u00a0expected\u00a0calls for Israel to exercise restraint or enter into a cease-fire with the Iranian-backed terror group.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A tweet from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday night calling for a \u201cceasefire\u201d was deleted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to see anybody, an innocent civilian or family wrecked by violence, of course not,\u201d White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on a call with reporters Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe share values with Israel when it comes to law of war and, and respect for life. And \u2026 I won\u2019t speak to whatever the Israeli Defense Forces are planning to do in their operations, I think I\u2019ll just leave it there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president is also faced with securing the release of\u00a0any\u00a0American hostages\u00a0who may have been\u00a0taken by Hamas from communities in Israel, and exacting justice for U.S. citizens killed in the\u00a0assault, with people gunned down in their homes and on the street or killed by\u00a0rocket\u00a0fire on population centers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get rid of this regime [Hamas], we need the backup of the Americans because it\u2019s not going to be one day, it will be a very bloody conflict,\u201d said Neomi Neumann, who served as head of research at Israel\u2019s domestic security agency, the Shin Bet, until 2021 and is now a visiting fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people will die, but we cannot let ourselves leave this regime that are radical fanatics.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The scale of the devastation has been staggering over three days since Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, launched a highly sophisticated and coordinated attack from its\u00a0Gaza Strip\u00a0base\u00a0over the border into Israel, with an estimated 900 people killed \u2014 including civilians, soldiers and police \u2014 more than 2,000 injured and more than 100 believed to have been kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed and taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 Americans\u00a0are known killed, Biden said in a statement Monday, and that Americans are likely among those taken hostage by Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials and their advocates are warning the world that they will be carrying out military operations with the goal of exacting a heavy price from Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Neumann added that Israel\u2019s military operations are likely to be carried out over a period of months and will be challenged by what is likely to be a high Palestinian death toll that will increase pressure from the international community on Israel to relent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. and moderate Arab countries will have to\u00a0think about the solution for\u00a0the Gaza Strip the day after the war\u00a0and how we manage to make this area stable with good life for its people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza Ministry of Health on Monday said the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moh.gov.ps\/portal\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-gaza-ministry-of-health-update-300-pm-9-october-2023-gaza-total-of-560-palestinians-killed-since-start-of-escalation-on-morning-of-7-october-and-2900-citizens-were-injure\/\">Palestinian death toll<\/a>\u00a0stands at 560 people and 2,900 people injured, but did not release figures on civilians versus Hamas fighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israeli forces are\u00a0working to expel Hamas fighters\u00a0who\u00a0infiltrated communities in the\u00a0south, even as the Israel Defense Forces are undertaking \u201ca massive attack against Hamas with an unprecedented intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u00a0thanked Biden for his support and the dispatch of a U.S. carrier strike group to the Mediterranean\u00a0Sea, which has been interpreted as a major show of force to deter Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a Tehran-backed military proxy, from opening a separate military front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn American aircraft carrier, one of the largest in the world, is on its way to our region. Our common enemies understand very well the significance of this step,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Neumann said U.S. support to deter Iran and Hezbollah is meaningful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to avoid the infiltration of other players to this campaign; we need to focus on the Gaza Strip right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>And while Israel\u2019s military operations are zeroing in on the Gaza Strip, the diplomatic battle for influence is global.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The U.S. on Monday issued a joint statement with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom backing Israel\u2019s right to defend itself and making a distinction between the depravity of Hamas and support for the aspirations of the Palestinian people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas does not represent those aspirations, and it offers nothing for the Palestinian people other than more terror and bloodshed,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>A key priority for the Biden administration is countering Russian and Chinese efforts to exploit the situation, either to assert their own influence or weaken the position of the U.S.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in a pitched fight for great power influence in the Middle East. It\u2019s the U.S. versus China, and Russia as well,\u201d said Laura Blumenfeld, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and who served as a senior policy adviser on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations during the Obama administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom an interest point of view, the U.S. needs to shove out Russia and China \u2014 and Iran is certainly part of that Russia-China axis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is battling Russian forces that are supplied militarily by Iran and shielded diplomatically by China, warned that Moscow is interested in inciting war in the Middle East to \u201cerode global unity and exacerbate cleavages and controversies, helping Russia in destroying freedom in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who was in Beijing on Monday,\u00a0pushed\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping to issue a stronger statement on the attacks against Israel that condemned violence against civilians, going beyond the Chinese Foreign Ministry\u2019s initial remarks that called for calm, exercise of restraint and a cessation of hostilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The scale of brutality of Hamas\u2019s assault\u00a0is drawing comparisons to the worst atrocities of the Islamic State (ISIS) and allegations of war crimes for the targeted killing of civilians; the kidnapping of women, children, the elderly and infirm; and unconfirmed reports of sexual assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been in contact with our contacts across the [Middle East] region to urge them to acknowledge the horrific terrorism that took place,\u201d said Ted Deutch, a former Democratic congressman from Florida who serves as the CEO of the American Jewish Community, an organization that is focused on deepening relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors as part of its global advocacy for the Jewish people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conversations about integrating Israel fully into not just the Middle East but the world stand in stark contrast to everything Hamas is and wants. Hamas\u2019s goal is to draw Hezbollah and other terror groups into war with Israel because their goal is to destroy Israel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration had been cultivating for months, if not years, negotiations to open ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia that supporters hoped would deliver a new era of stability in the region and present opportunities to advance rights for Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those talks are likely on ice, said Michael Koplow, chief policy adviser at Israel Policy Forum, a nonprofit education and analysis group based in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe statement that the Saudis issued in the aftermath of this was, to my mind, extremely disappointing \u2026 I think that\u2019s a sign of how difficult it\u2019s going to be for the Saudis to keep on moving forward with this, with what we all expect to be coming, which is an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, which is going to result in many, many Palestinian casualties,\u201d he said in a briefing with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>While Israel is shoring up its defense, the country is also grappling with the fallout of how the security establishment was blindsided by such an attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. is doing what I think we expect the U.S. to do, which is really give Israel all the backing it needs and particularly at a time when there\u2019s this outside perception that Israel is in chaos,\u201d said Koplow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to see the United States stepping up and doing what it can to try and back down this notion that Israel is easily overrun or that Israel stands alone, in terms of what it means for a wider regional war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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