US Envoy 'Plans' Hamas Meet After Months of Avoiding Reality
After months of insisting 'Hamas is not a state player' while simultaneously demanding their surrender, the U.S. is reportedly considering talking to... Hamas. This development (from the New York Times, 2025) follows years of U.S. policy that demonized negotiation and actively undermined Palestinian unity, often to the benefit of far-right Israeli governments. It's a convenient pivot now that the
Gaza Strip is largely rubble and the 'eliminate Hamas' strategy has clearly failed to eliminate Hamas, or frankly, much else. One might wonder if this sudden embrace of diplomacy has any relation to the mounting global pressure, the astronomical civilian death toll, or simply the realization that ignoring a principal party to a conflict just makes the conflict worse. Or perhaps it's just a prelude
to yet another 'last warning' before the next predictable escalation.