This is coming from Barak Ravid at Axios who has spent the entire war pushing White House talking points so I have little confidence that there is any turnaround at the Biden-Harris administration even after the Hamas murder of six hostages. Nor do I have the faintest idea why anyone is shocked that an Islamic terrorist organization that launched this war with the mass murder and rape of civilians would kill hostages if they thought that they were going to lose them. How did they think Hamas got those hostages at all?

But since one of them was an American and his parents showed up at the DNC, perhaps there was a brief spark of human contact there.

One of the main questions raised during a meeting President Biden and Vice President Harris had with their national security team on Monday was whether there is a hostage-release and ceasefire in Gaza deal Hamas would ever agree to, U.S. officials said.

Biden and his top advisers were shocked after Hamas killed six hostages, among them U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and have started to rethink the way forward in the negotiations over the deal.

Somehow this only came up after more than half a year after Biden crumbled to the ‘ceasefire’ calls and spent all of his time demanding that Israel ‘end the war’ while pinning all his hopes on Qatar’s fake negotiations.

Despite all the media propaganda, there hasn’t been a deal on the table that would free all the hostages and any such deal would only be a prelude to Hamas launching another attack and taking more hostages.

Is anyone at the White House figuring this out yet?

A concern raised in the situation room meeting was that the U.S. could press Israel to reduce Israel Defense Forces deployed along the Egypt-Gaza border or on other issues, only to discover that Hamas doesn’t agree to other parts of the deal. That could mean the new offer would only become the foundation for future negotiations that would be more favorable to Hamas, a U.S. official said.

Islamic terrorists negotiate by making maximal demands, and then topping them, circling back and forth, wrecking any normal negotiating process, and then arranging to place blame on the other party. Then they demand to restart the negotiations all over again from the point of the last concession.

They’ve been doing this to Israel for over 30 years now. But they do it to all of us.

Hamas is doing exactly what the PLO did. And it worked out really well for Arafat and Abbas. But the only reason it kept working was the pressure from D.C.

When Trump became the first president to end the peace pressure campaigns, the farce ended until Biden restarted it.

I’m skeptical that Biden internalized any of it. Instead he left blaming Netanyahu rather than Hamas.