The Biden administration has begun to waver in its support for Israel’s war against Hamas. President Biden warned this week that Israel was losing global support because of its “indiscriminate bombing.” A few days earlier, Vice President Harris said in Dubai that “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed” and admonished Israel to “do more to protect innocent civilians.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart Lord Cameron have repeatedly warned that Israel must pursue its military campaign “consistently with international law.”
Israel, however, would strike a victory for the West and its values by ignoring these vague demands to follow international law. Jerusalem would strike a victory for the Western democracies not just in defeating Hamas on the battlefield and driving it out of Gaza. It would also achieve success in rejecting the cynical legal and political campaign of terrorist groups, their nation-state backers, and the “useful idiots” who sympathize with them. These groups, aided and abetted by a broad network of non-governmental organizations, seek to turn the West’s moral and legal principles against itself to make effective self-defense impossible.
The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, is now confronting the most difficult challenge in its campaign as it enters Khan Younis, a dense city in the southern Gaza Strip that is home to Hamas’ leadership. After urging Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza and clearing its major cities of terrorists, Israeli units must now root out Hamas in the south, where most of the 2.3 million Gazans have
