U.S. Acknowledges Hamas Remains Unbeaten – Implications of Israel’s Defeat
January 17, 2025British independent journalist, Owen Jones, accurately sums up the winners and losers from the war on Gaza pointing to the admissions by US Sec. of State Antony Blinken.
In this video, Blinken unashamedly states that “Hamas has recruited as many new militants as it has lost”.
Are you joking? What was all the slaughter for if you failed in your objective to “eliminate Hamas”?
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English Script:
Owen Jones: Israel has lost in Gaza. That is according to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who has played a pivotal role in facilitating one of the worst crimes of our age. Now, he hasn’t said in those words “Israel has lost in Gaza”. But what he has said means the same thing. Let’s just have a listen, shall we?
Blinken: We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.
Owen Jones: Okay, let’s just take stock. Israel has one of the most sophisticated militaries on the face of the Earth. It is armed to the teeth and aided in multiple ways by the United States, the last superpower on Earth. It has spent 466 days raising Gaza from the face of the Earth, exterminating tens of thousands of people, mostly women, children and the elderly, whilst engaging in multiple war crimes such as deliberate starvation, the destruction of the healthcare system, mass enforced disappearance, rape, torture, you name it.
Israel stated it had two warheads at the beginning of this genocidal frenzy, that was to bring home the Israeli hostages captured on the 7th of October, 2023, by military means. But the absolute overriding key aim that was articulated in public over and over again was to completely eliminate Hamas. On the first count, that’s clearly a total failure. The Israeli side has killed far more of its own hostages than it has rescued by military means, with the only mass hostage rescue taking place because of a previous ceasefire and an exchange of detainees.
And that includes so many Palestinians who are de facto hostages. Now, Anthony Blinken has just said that Israel is not only failed to defeat Hamas, but after 466 days of also carnage and death. He has said that Hamas has “recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost”. So, he just casually says that Hamas’ armed wing is essentially no smaller than it was when Israel’s genocide began. So, the key driving rationale to justify so much slaughter, so much suffering, so much horror. That key driving rationale is a total failure, according to the government, which more than anyone else facilitated this crime. Well, let’s go back to what President Joe Biden, Blinken’s boss, of course, said in October 2023.
Journalist: Do you believe that Hamas must be eliminated entirely?
Biden: Yes, I do.
Owen Jones: So, let’s be clear that was official U.S. policy. They facilitated the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza on the grounds Hamas must be eliminated entirely. And now, after giving Israel $22 billion worth of weapons since October 2022 alone, which have been used to incinerate, slowly, cook and suffocate under rubble. Thousands of Palestinians, including children, including toddlers, including newborn babies. The U.S. just casually comes out and says the so-called key war aim is a total indisputable failure.
