There’s how things work in the imaginary world of international diplomacy and how they work in the real world.

The two worlds hardly ever meet.

In the imaginary world of international diplomacy, Israel is always the obstacle to getting a deal done, and the answer is more pressure on Israel.

In the real world, pressuring Israel encourages Islamic terrorists to believe that they can win and they double down.

Here’s the reporting from the Wall Street Journal on how the Hamas leader reacted to pressure on Israel by the Biden-Harris administration.

As Arab mediators tried to speed up cease-fire talks, Sinwar urged his comrades in Hamas’s political leadership based outside of Gaza to refuse concessions. High civilian casualties would create worldwide pressure on Israel, Sinwar said in a message.

In March, Israeli commandos seized another compound connected to Sinwar. They found uniforms, vests, submachine guns, binoculars and a laptop.

Again, Sinwar messaged Hamas officials, urging them to refuse a hostage deal. Hamas had the upper hand in negotiations, Sinwar said, citing internal political divisions within Israel, cracks in Netanyahu’s wartime coalition and mounting U.S. pressure to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.

The objective of the Biden-Harris administration had been to end the war by cracking Netanyahu’s coalition and imposing pressure on Israel.

That is still the objective.

It was also the Hamas objective.

Hamas and the Biden-Harris administration were essentially working toward similar ends. To whatever extent the Biden-Harris administration knew it, understood it or would admit it, its pursuit of a ‘hostage deal’ via a unilateral Israeli ceasefire played into the hands of the terrorists and made that deal impossible.

Weakness never wins, it only loses.