Just when we thought we’d seen everything in the past few weeks, the Hamas-Israel war throws us a new curveball — a pre-emptive rejection of a proposal that doesn’t exist yet.
Israel continues its military operations in Gaza to destroy Hamas, a goal that Benjamin Netanyahu made clear in his address to a joint session of Congress this week. At the same time, however, Netanyahu pledged to continue diplomatic efforts to get the hostages out of Gaza and perhaps find a cease-fire solution that will allow Israel to achieve its goal of eliminating any further threats from the territory.
To that end, Netanyahu and the cabinet had prepared a new proposal for discussion with mediators and negotiators. Israel’s own team hadn’t seen the terms yet, but Hamas has already rejected it out of hand before knowing its terms:
The Hamas terror group preemptively rejected the terms of an Israeli…
