March 13, 2024 (EIRNS)—Seymour Hersh seems to have staked out a position in favor of a long term ceasefire in Gaza that leads to a permanent peace, in an article, headlined, “Biden’s Bibi Problem,” posted on his substack page yesterday. “At this point, with Israel now in its sixth month of bombing and ground assaults in Gaza, with a mounting civilian death toll as America and the world watch in anger, Biden will have difficulty winning re-election unless he retracts his initial justified support for a stricken Israel,” Hersh wrote. “He must stand up to Netanyahu and tell him that the United States cannot continue to supply funding, bombs, and other munitions to Israel until, at minimum, there is a ceasefire that could open the door to substantive talks with what is left of the Hamas leadership. Netanyahu’s avowed goal of destroying all of Hamas, including its leadership, in four to six weeks of continued warfare is incompatible with the constant terror and despair of the population still alive in Gaza.”
Hersh reports that he consulted with an American expert, whom he doesn’t name, who believes that Netanyahu is obligated at this point to offer Hamas reasonable terms for surrender, although there’s very little likelihood that that will happen. The only concession called for on the part of Israel is that it must allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza. Hersh doesn’t even mention the genocide case against Israel brought to the ICJ by South Africa, though he closes with a detailed description of Biden’s Bibi problem.
