“Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children,” US President Joe Biden said recently. Since October 7, Israel has killed 31,000 Palestinians and wounded 70,000, most of them women and children.
The reasonable proposal in Biden’s eyes is a 40-day ceasefire, which would enable Israel to recover its prisoners, give it a short break from fighting in the field, and avoid an expected uprising in the month of Ramadan. However, what America sees as reasonable is very far from what the Palestinian resistance wants, which refuses to grant in negotiations what it is unable to achieve in the battlefield.