Keane on Hamas: They’ve Got More Geo-Political Isolation of Israel than We’ve Seen Before

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KEANE: "I don’t think it necessarily has much to do with the operational campaign itself. I think it has to do with what is happening worldwide. And I mean, we have seen Hamas as a result of what they have done, butching and savage attack on focus on civilian population before and taking 240 casualties something they’ve never done before in wholesale fashion knowing to get a very violent response from Israel out of that. They welcome that response, and they served up their civilian population as casualties and to weaponize them internationally so we have widespread international condemnation of Israel and kublghting its military campaign. That is something that Hamas welcomed and in a way is orchestrating. They’ve also got more go political isolation of Israel than we’ve seen before and they want to weaken Netanyahu government and willingness of Israelis to actually stay in Israel. And live in Israel because they’re no longer being protected — this is — this is what they are about. And I believe that international pressure creates political pressure and I don’t get into politics but I have to at least — see that for what it is. And puts that kind of pressure on this administration. We saw the full throttle support initially very passionate emotional response from the president in terms of the savagery and butchery and existential threat that represented and aftermath of that in terms of hostages and now we see — a month or so later a different kind of approach in dealing with Israel. The implication is without saying it. The implication is if you can go a cease-fire, a permanent sees nier that would probably be a good thing. Not saying that publicly. But I think that is the implication — we know full well, mark, that that ever happen — Hamas stays in power most of its fighting force is still cohesive fighting terrorist organizations. They will declare victory the world will also declare victory for Hamas. And I’ll tell you who is going to be frustrated by that Arab nations in the region. They are beginning to be frustrated because they want Hamas out of there as well. That’s why bahrain Arab country and uae with embassies in Israel have come forward and condemned Hamas. That is why the kingdom of Saudi Arabia still is moving towards Israel when this is over they told principles from our government that they still at appropriate time want to have normalized relations with Israel. They want Hamas gone. And certainly Israel is able to do that, that will be in their national interest as well."