The Israeli citizens at least can claim emotional stress for their lack of full reason. Biden’s backstabbing of Netanyahu, though, is despicable and inexcusable.

Asked if Netanyahu was doing enough to secure the release of some 100 remaining hostages, Biden simply said “no.” He also is saying he expects to give both Hamas and Israel, equally, a “take it or leave it” proposal. But how, pray tell, can Israel negotiate with a terrorist network that refuses actually to accept any limits on its own murderousness? How can Netanyahu negotiate with thugs who have rejected every other ceasefire agreement for 11 months? How can anyone negotiate with monsters who don’t even care about their own people’s lives but whose entire reason for being is to wipe out the Jewish nation by every means foul and fouler?

Every single time a “deal” supposedly is in the offing, Hamas commits another atrocity. In last week’s abomination, Hamas butchered six innocent people, three of whom were specifically being discussed for release in the last round of inane “negotiations.” What possible concession can Israel make to ward off such pure evil, especially without giving Hamas even more incentive to slaughter other hostages to gain even further concessions?

Seriously, can Biden, in his morally smug cocoon, possibly provide even the barest of sensible answers to any of this?

In a “statement” surely drafted by some White House apparatchik, at least Biden finally, after 11 months, talked somewhat tough about Hamas itself rather than spending all his time blaming the Israeli victims. “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes,” he said in the statement. But where, pray tell, have been any similar threats from Biden to Hamas’s leaders since last Oct. 7? More to the point, where has there been any action in line with such threats?

Nowhere. Unforgivably, pusillanimously: Nowhere.

For 11 months, five Americans have been held hostage by the Hamas swine. After this past weekend’s murders, one is now dead. How many times has Biden even said their names in public? Three or four times in 11 months — maybe. I can’t find more records than that. In his almost endlessly repeated denunciations of Netanyahu by name, Biden hasn’t found anywhere near the same level of invective, until this weekend’s anonymous “Hamas leaders will pay” blather, for the criminal refuse who ordered the raping, child-snuffing, demonic invasion of Israel on Oct. 7.

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And yes, these Hamas creatures aren’t human. They are demons. There is nothing human about the savagery and tortures meted out by Hamas during last fall’s attack. Nothing.

Against such demons, there can be no negotiation. There can be only one tactic, one strategy, one answer: Snuff them out. Eliminate them. After so many decades of terrorism, Hamas must not be allowed to exist. Give Netanyahu a green light to destroy the terrorists and use American power, if possible, to save, or else to avenge, the American citizens Hamas has so demonically mistreated. Sometimes the only effective negotiation comes from the hot end of a gun.