Lawmakers and national security experts want Biden to help Israel eradicate Hamas. Here's the what and why.

Blaze News published a statement Thursday from lawmakers, national security experts, and retired military officials urging the Biden administration and the whole of the U.S. government to ensure that Israel has what it needs to "utterly defeat Hamas."

The statement was issued 75 days after the Hamas terror attacks on Israel; 10 days after the U.N. voted 153-10 on a failed resolution in favor of a ceasefire; one week after suspected Hamas terrorists were caught attempting to execute attacks on European soil; and hours after Hamas claimed it would no longer be turning over Israeli hostages.

Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rep. Michael Waltz (Fla.), and Rep. Brian Mast (Fla.), former DNI Director Richard Grenell, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas W. Spoehr, and retired Army Major General Joe Arbuckle were among the 47 signatories who agreed "Israel's victory in its war to eradicate Hamas and other terrorist proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran is critical for Middle East peace and stability."

Convinced that Israel's efforts on this front are in the national security interest of the U.S., the signatories called on the American government to "provide the IDF the time, resources, and diplomatic support necessary to utterly defeat Hamas — dismantle its operational capability, eliminate its leadership, and discredit its ideology."

The statement specifically called on federal lawmakers to ensure that the U.S. keeps arming the IDF; reject calls for a ceasefire of the kind championed by progressive Democrats "without the unconditional surrender of Hamas and the release of every hostage held by Hamas"; and urge President Joe Biden to both restore global deterrence against Iran and refrain from impeding Israeli military operations.

Common victory by doing 'absolutely nothing'

Senior Blaze News editor Daniel Horowitz, host of “Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz," indicated the proposal was a no-brainer, stressing it wasn't a big ask that the Biden administration get out of the way of Israel's counter-terrorism operation and cut off funding for "phantom humanitarian aid."

"Unlike with Ukraine, which requires the American people to constantly underwrite an undefinable mission, the Biden administration can reap the benefits of defeating Hamas simply by doing nothing — absolutely nothing," said Horowitz. "We simply need to leave Israel alone."

The trouble, according to Horowitz, is that the Biden administration has found it difficult not to meddle in the war.

"The State Department has dictated every aspect of this war — from the location of air strikes and rearming Hamas under the guise of humanitarian aid to demanding Israel restore their internet access," continued Horowitz. "Israel is now losing more soldiers in battle than ever before because they are avoiding close air support all because of Biden's micromanaging of their war."

Beyond micromanagement on the battlefield, Horowitz indicated the Biden administration was actively preventing the elimination of Hamas terrorists.

"Biden is ensuring that Hamas is not completely defeated in the south of Gaza. He is also working on a backup plan to create an Arab Palestinian state in the heart of Israel under the leadership of Fatah, which cheered on the attacks and whose military wing – al aqsa martyrs brigade – participated in the October 7 massacre itself," added Horowitz.

Satisfaction of this proposal would mean curbing these counterproductive efforts but also terminating the "special relationship Biden created with Qatar in 2021 unless the terror-harboring country hands over the Hamas leaders."

"Just let the IDF do its work while we focus on our own border," concluded Horowitz.

A worthy cause amidst greater threats

David P. Goldman, a Washington Fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life and the deputy editor of Asia Times, told Blaze News it is worthwhile for the U.S. to support Israel as proposed in the statement, but with the understanding that the existential threat to Israel is ultimately not Hamas but American weakness.

"I strongly agree with the three points in the statement, namely unconditional support for Israel's war goals against Hamas, provision of the resources required to pursue the war, and restoration of global deterrence against Iran, with the caveat noted in my 'American Mind' essay," said Goldman.

In his Dec. 19 essay in American Mind, titled "Israel in the Shadow of American Decline," Goldman noted that "[f]or all the horrors of the October 7 attacks, they did not constitute an existential crisis for a country with the region's most powerful military and an extraordinary capacity for national solidarity in the face of external threat."

Rather, Goldman argued that American decline, greatly accelerated by the Biden administration's strategic blunder in Ukraine, poses the Jewish nation the greater threat. Israel's reliance on U.S. munitions and influence will increasingly prove to be a liability such that it may soon find itself outgunned and strategically encircled in a hostile, multipolar world.

"The Biden Administration stated that it could reduce Russia's economy by half through sanctions and force Putin out. Instead, it finds itself supporting the losing side in the Ukraine war, with the prospect of a Russian-Iran alliance tacitly supported by China," Goldman told Blaze News.

"Our industrial base is so weakened that we can't produce enough munitions to allow Ukraine to make war effectively," continued Goldman. "Meanwhile, we are outgunned by China in its home theater, and have few means to stop China from propping up Iran's economy. Restoration of global deterrence against Iran will require a broader change in defense and industrial policy."

Goldman acknowledged that the defeat of Hamas "will raise America's standing in the world," even among America's adversaries.

In his essay, Goldman noted, "Except for Qatar and possibly some parts of the Turkish political spectrum, the rest of the world is happy to see Israel destroy Hamas. The Sunni jihad to which Hamas declares its allegiance is a persistent security problem for both Russia and China. Iran has armed and funded Hamas, but it does not want a Sunni entity to emerge as the main opposition to Israel."

While on board with the statement, Goldman appears to claim its follow-through will not amount to a defeat of evil but merely a defeat of an evil; meaning the hardest battles for Israel and the U.S. are yet ahead.

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