Joe Biden has invested a lot of political capital in the idea that the terrorist group Hamas was a rational negotiating partner. His administration leaned into the notion that there could be, if not a negotiated settlement to Israel’s defensive war in the Gaza Strip, a brokered end to the hostage crisis Hamas inaugurated on October 7. But there won’t be.
Officials with the terrorist sect revealed this week that it does not have 40 living hostages in its custody, the release of whom had been the primary demand on the organization in cease-fire talks that have sprawled across the last several months. That fact perhaps explains why those prospective cease-fire deals have collapsed — not due to Israeli recalcitrance, which is all the administration seems to want to talk about in public, but the predictable perfidy of a death cult.
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