Biden's Palestinian Mission is Doomed to Fail

This article is right on target. The introduction of drones to the conflict (war) is very troubling however. This inept administration's attempt to do something not only ignores historical proof that a "two state solution" is not possible nor is it desired by Hamas, but is likely to make things even worse, if that's possible. Throwing money (tax dollars) at the "Palestinians" only results in re-arming Hamas and setting Israel up for another attack. Why Biden insists on siding with a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of Jews and Christians defies explanation. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. This isn't going to turn out well.

Perhaps Biden and Blinken believe that offering hundreds of millions of dollars to the PA and Hamas to split between themselves will motivate them to form a unified govt. That unification would be a prerequisite if Biden is serious about advancing peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
However in my totally unsophisticated opinion I doubt anything honorable could possibly result from such a dishonest venture.

We know it, almost everyone in Israel knows it, so why are the Americans so blind to it and don't see it because the lead is being taken by Kerry and Malley who are stuck in their pro-Palestinian dream-world of ten years ago, and want to be proved right, irrespective of the cost to Israel and the world. In this respect, Blinken is just a "useful idiot".

Trump handed him a shiny pearl necklace and he is crushing each pearl.... one by one.
And there were those claiming that Trump was an idiot.

What makes anyone believe that the Arab "Palestinian" Authority has a different "final solution" in mind for Israel and its Jews?
Is it the fiction that they are "moderate"?
Is it the difficulty of facing honestly the fact that currently the only "solution" that the Arab "Palestinians" will accept is the dissolution of the nation-state of the Jews?
Those who reject Israel's legitimacy must be utterly defeated just as the Nazis were defeated. That will not happen while "the international community"in effect sides with the "Palestinians."

There was a time when the PLO claimed to be the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. It is not so any longer. The Palestinian People has now two legitimate representatives, the PLO/Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Both are legitimate representatives, deriving their legitimacy from the fact of each having the support of a big part of the Palestinian People. It would have been best if the Palestinians could overcome their deep divisions and let these two divergent representatives unite into a single representative which would unite behind it the big majority of the Palestinian People. Failing that, the most sensible course for Biden and the United States would have been to visit both Ramallah and Gaza, meet and deal with both these representatives of the Palestinians.

Biden is doing what Obama and other American presidents have done, virtue signaling to the peace movement. The methods commonly espoused by peace activists are either for both sides to admit partial guilt and agree to mend their ways. Or one side admits to guilt and the other side forgives and agrees to work together for peaceful solutions. But neither of these methods is likely here. The third method is the total defeat of one side and imposing a peace solution, as happened after WW II. Of course a permanent uneasy ceasefire as in Korea is the fourth solution. But there is no ceasefire here, only intermittent attacks on Israel. So, there does not seem to be anything but an endless war. Or perhaps one of the experts on the topic knows a solution that would work.

The iron fist of Hamas controls the entire Gaza population. There is no credible opposition to it in Gaza and it has only gotten stronger in the West Bank and in Israel, proper; in fact world-wide.

Any non-U.S efforts to help in Gaza will likely go through Hamas and not the PA; we really can't control the NGOs or foreign governments on this. There is only a limited number of ways to have help reach Gaza without helping Hamas. What we should be doing is sending our money to the PA for reconstruction of the West Bank infrastructure where we can put our own people in charge. Give them a massive Marshall Plan. Only if the West can get into Gaza to supervise how our money is spent there should any permanent infrastructure projects be undertaken. Less than that just rebuilds the ability of Hamas to again attack Israel. Food, medicine and prefabricated housing can be delivered. Flexible pipes can be used for the transfer of water and generators for electricity can supplement that need. Materials for permanent construction should not be supplied ,for it will just go into building more tunnels. Only then can we minimize the help this will all give to Hamas, yet it will relieve the pressure on the local population. They need help now and it will take far too long if we begin with permanent structures. Is this less than what we want to do? Yes, but the goal is to keep Hamas weak and not strengthen it. To do more makes Hamas a real winner in this mess. It sends the wrong message.

If Hamas does not agree then give Gaza the minimum humanitarian aid and drop leaflets, use radio and TV and let the population know that far more would be done except for the actions of Hamas and that this aid is there for the asking. You must weaken the grip of Hamas otherwise we are being fools, again.

Why doesn't Abbas take his billion dollars and retire?

The idea of violence as the only solution to a problem is endemic to the Arab world. Violence is seen as the only way to deal with Israel. Violence is seen as the only way to deal with Arab disputes. Partly it is cultural, violence has always has been the go to solution for Arab conflicts, most if not all Arab states have their own terrorist groups they use to deal with other Arab states, just look at the Pakistan security services. There is genetic inbreeding and it's tribalism only breeds the lowest common denominator in the Arab world ie, the use of violence. You know that there are television shows in Arab lands which show it's male viewers how to beat and hurt their wives and children, without the injuries being evident? Then there are Western diplomats who assume that because a foreigner speaks English and has a higher education, that person also shares their norms and values. Bashar Assad, is a war criminal and mass murderer, speaks great English and went to university but he still ordered the use of poison gas to murder entire neighborhoods. The West has yet to disabuse itself of these delusions and continues to waste it's time on useless diplomacy.

Is it even conceivable that those recommending "peace" between the Palestinians and Israel -- or the utter impossibility of a two-state solution -- have never heard the phrase "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"? Or perhaps the phrase, in this case, should be "The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

So the folks in Gaza are jubilantly celebrating their being used as a proving ground and as crash dummies for another country's war machine. Like they say, "you can't fix stupid."

Is it not obvious to Biden that Hamas is in control and Abbas is not.
Hamas wants to obliterate Israel. That is not possible!
Therefore, there must be a settlement achieved... Hamas are not animals that want total genocide of Israel?
The situation will turn around and Israel will annihilate Palestine!
Look at her army and her US support
Is this the world we are!
For God's sake, can this situation not be resolved somehow?

I would go further and add the only reason there is a Palestinian Authority leader called Abbas is due to the IDF protecting him, take that away and he will be clearly be in the crosshairs of the Hamas thugs, I don't know whether Biden realises this.

Biden's claim of years of neglect was years of time for Palestinian terrorists & Hamas thugs to rearm. 4000 terror rockets told the tale.
Israel will never agree to give up any more land to these terrorists, even to appease the White House. And forget the so-called 2 state solution & rolling back territory won in the Six Day War. Relinquishing the Gaza terror strip was supposed to bring peace. Instead it is Hamas's terror launching pad.
The facts have been plain to see for at least a generation. Palestinian terrorists & Hamas have no peaceful intentions.

I would like to know just to what extent Hamas is now supported by the Gazans....yes I've seen the tumultuous burials and street celebrations but how indicative is this ? Can i guess that a strong-arm (elected? what was the turnout/ratios?) militia like them that invites often massive blowback cannot be that popular. Perhaps Israel could try some internal subversion or delegitimisation of its own.

It's important to note that President Biden stated that there will be no peace as long as the Palestinians reject the existence of a Jewish state. Maybe Biden's mission is to to convince Palestinians to accept this reality?

Hamas will continue on its own volition regardless of any proposals to ameliorate the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza.
All they are using the ceasefire for is to buy time while they regroup and rearm, playing along will just be counterproductive and futile. All the kings horses and all the kings men won't put the middle east back together again. Although many have tried, again and again and again. Sounds repetitive, that's because it is!

What should be painfully obvious is the Palestinian people and the Palestinian governments are almost two entirely different entities. Abbas has frozen elections for 10 years and Hamas is a terrorist organization by its own charter it exists to kill the Jews and non believers in the caliphate to include Palestinians if they get in the way or are forced to become martyrs as human shields. Abbas is only marginally less overt instead pretending "The Right of Return " does not foresee the end of a Jewish Homeland just one state in which a Jewish Homeland is moot.
And that is the key to all the negotiations it also explains why when the USA finally and rightly moved our embassy to Jerusalem all hell did not break loose as prophesied by liberal and socialist doomsayers for decades, it is why it was not done and why Clinton believed Jerusalem and Right of Return could not be discussed until the time was right or the "peace process" would never have gotten started.
It remains to be seen how much pressure Sanders and his Squaddies will place on Biden with ANTIFA and BLM apparently bleeding over into overt hate attacks on Jews in the USA. What we did not know is that some of the ANTIFA lead insurrection in the USA lasting well over a year had Islamist components. But the dress, manner and tactics in the hate attacks is obviously scripted by Islamists and ANTIFA. Walks like a ....
Opposing the Constitution and attacking the rights of "the People" might be a good place to start for way of explanation. Instead we have been told the Islamo Socialist lie, whites are all racists and should not be allowed speech.

The situation in the Middle East cannot exclude the notion of patriarchy as this underpins the religious motif of Islam. It also underpins several other religions.
It is futile to suppose that somehow bonhomie that exists in western democracies will somehow be automatically be translated into Iran or Iraq or Turkey that easily.
The fundamental that keeps people honest is the breadline. When this becomes suspect people suddenly become honest, for a while, until they think they can get away with it again. Then Muslim-wise they are tempted to activate Taqiyya.
Biden's show has been to deactivate Trump. The latter is a far better judge of character than Joe Biden. Trump is a businessman and knows when you can't cut it. This savvy has yet to penetrate the minds who prefer Democratic politics.

The Jews have returned to repossess their land, the realistic solutions is to attract those Muslims unwilling to coexist to the Gaza on Sea project on 900 SqKm of Sinai once proposed to be gifted by Al Sisi , abutting the 360km of Gaza, and redeveloped into a Gulf state style of self supporting emirate ; The imposition of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa on the Temple mount is abominable, and both should be dismantled and reassembled in Saudi where they belong. That would bury the ghost and lead to peace otherwise, people ought not to forget Jews produced Samson