The White Home says it doesn’t help a ceasefire at the moment

While you attain a ceasefire, you normally suppose you are on the finish sport and it is time to negotiate. Go to the desk and, brass nails right here: “How are we going to finish this struggle?” And we don’t help that in the meanwhile. A ceasefire now favors Hamas. It actually additionally legitimizes what Hamas began on October 7. It might give them a propaganda victory. “See? Look, now there’s a ceasefire. And so we might be an equal social gathering on this. And we’ve got each proper to stay within the administration of Gaza.” And so they do not. And so they aren’t. So a ceasefire not solely offers them time to make plans and implement them, however it additionally legitimizes what they began on October 7. And that’s unacceptable for President Biden. It’s actually and understandably unacceptable to the Israeli individuals.