The Biden administration has not missed an opportunity to remind Israel of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The President has placed this issue at the top of the American agenda. Of course, this crisis must be dealt with, but several facts cannot be ignored. Painful as it may be, one must not overlook the inconvenient fact that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a consequence of an act of Hamas aggression. It is not the result of a natural disaster, such as a tsunami or an earthquake.

We should follow the advice of Yigal Carmon, the founder of MEMRI, who takes the view that one must begin by listening to one’s adversary. So, let us learn from a small sampling. MEMRI television reported that “Mousa Abu Marzouk of the Hamas Political Bureau was asked in a February 22, 2024 interview on Alghad TV [Egypt] if Hamas’s Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades had any expectations regarding the consequences of the October 7 attack. Abu Marzouk said that “nobody in the whole world” could have expected such a “barbaric” response by Israel. He added that no one could have anticipated that the U.S., Britian and other Western countries would unite to wage war…