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There are good things in the speeches written for Biden. Things like.
Scores of innocents — from infants to elderly grandparents, Israelis and Americans — taken hostage.
Children slaughtered. Babies slaughtered. Entire families massacred.
Rape, beheadings, bodies burned alive.
Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS, unleashing pure unadulterated evil upon the world.
There is no rationalizing it, no excusing it. Period.
But inevitably it defaults to the familiar moral and intellectual failings of liberalism.
Shock, pain, rage — an all-consuming rage. I understand, and many Americans understand.
You can’t look at what has happened here to your mothers, your fathers, your grandparents, sons, daughters, children — even babies — and not scream out for justice. Justice must be done.
But I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it.
After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. And while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.
I’m the first U.S. president to visit Israel in time of war.
I’ve made wartime decisions. I know the choices are never clear or easy for the leadership. There’s always costs.
But it requires being deliberate. It requires asking very hard questions. It requires clarity about the objectives and an honest assessment about whether the path you are on will achieve those objectives.
The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.
Were Americans “consumed “by rage after 9/11? No, we chose the familiar path of liberalism. Instead of flattening Afghanistan or, more relevantly Qatar and Saudi Arabia, we spent endless amounts of money and American lives reconstructing it. We embraced the idea that Al Qaeda and all the other Islamic terror groups didn’t “represent” Islam, but had “hijacked a great religion.”
And how did that work out for us and the rest of the world?
Remember all the slogans about how if we actually go after the terrorists, we “lose who we are” and then the “terrorists have won”. Get ready to enjoy it all over again.
Today, I’m also announcing $100 million in new U.S. funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank. This money will support more than 1 million displaced and conflict-affected Palestinians, including emergency needs in Gaza.
You are a Jewish state. You are a Jewish state, but you’re also a democracy. And like the United States, you don’t live by the rules of terrorists. You live by the rule of law. And when conflicts flare, you live by the ru- — law of wars.
What sets us apart from the terrorists is we believe in the fundamental dignity of every human life — Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, Jew, Muslim, Christian — everyone.
You can’t give up what makes you who you are. If you give that up, then the terrorists win. And we can never let them win.
Hamas isn’t trying to make Israel “give up” who it is, it’s trying to massacre or enslave the entire non-Muslim population in keeping with Islamic laws of war.
Terrorism is not a philosophical debate, it’s a matter of survival. Either you kill them or they kill you.
It’s remarkable how enduring the same failed ideas that we heard from Bush and that we’re now hearing from Biden are. They’ve never produced anything except failure, misery and death. They have failed to grapple with the actual nature of the threat and brought America, Europe, Canada, Australia and much of the free world closer to destruction.
Yet here they are. The same tired language. And you don’t just hear it from Biden. You hear it often from Republicans.
Take Nikki Haley’s suggestion about taking in ‘Palestinian’ refugees.
And so Biden, pivots as he must, as the entire establishment must, to the same failed dead ends, the policies that are inherently unworkable, framed as moral imperatives. As dogs return to their vomit, so do the politicians of the free world hunker down and repeat the same nonsense while savages rape, murder and behead their people.
You inspire hope and light for so many around the world. That’s what the terrorists seek to destroy. That’s what they seek to destroy but — because they live in darkness — but not you, not Israel.
Nations of conscience like the United States and Israel are not measured solely by the example of their power. We’re measured by the power of our example.
That’s why, as hard as it is, we must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace.
For me, that means a two-state solution.
The only way bring light is to give the terrorists a state. The power of our example requires empowering those who will destroy us. Our exceptionalism consists of surrendering to our enemies as long as they aren’t attacking us right now.
Much like the Petraeus article, this is the post 9/11 failure of America’s moral imagination writ large. This is, among other things, where Trump comes from and all the disruptions that the establishment bewails. The establishment cannot see itself from the outside, cannot recognize its failures and mistakes its discredited cliches for vision.
Israel has a chance to break out of this mental prison. America desperately needs to break out of it too.
Our moral authority doesn’t come from aiding evil, but protecting the good. The real darkness isn’t just from the forces of evil, but from the forces of good that aid and abet them. We learned that the hard way in WWII and forgot it just as quickly with the Soviet Union and the onset of the Cold War. May we remember it soon.
RAM says
From Caroline Glick, demonstrating the Biden Administration’s current treachery toward Israel, in gory detail:
THX 1138 says
“The End of Critical Thinking Could Destroy Israel” – Michael J. Hurd
The game the Biden regime is playing about the Israel-Hamas war is SO obvious. Only in an era where critical thinking has almost become extinct could anything like this be happening.
On the surface, the Bidenistas get to have it both ways. “We support and stand by Israel,” they say to the news media, none of whom will ask the Bidenistas why they’re still advancing billions of aid to Iran (the exact same as advancing billions to Hamas).
That way, they appease their anti-Jewish wing of the party while still leading inattentive Jewish Democrats into thinking that they’re as pro-Israel as America has always been. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth, and it’s easily provable by the Bidenistas’ own actions. They count on people not paying attention; and it seems to work! That fact is almost as horrible as the atrocities taking place against the Jews in Israel at this moment. Because without this inattentiveness, Israel would perhaps already have won the war.
If anyone other than Netanyahu were in charge, I would consider Israel relegated to the ash heap of history. However, Netanyahu has shown the moral courage in the past to stand on principle. The only principle the Americans offer — under our viciously anti-Israel, anti-freedom occupation government — is certain defeat, while pretending it’s not a defeat at all.
In its own way, this is even more sickening than the Nazi Germany era. At least the Nazis ultimately lost. And at least America was on the side of the good guys, not the bad guys.
Hamas and Iran face only one opponent: Israel itself.
If Israel prevails, it will be 100 percent Israel’s doing. And it will be in spite of America, not because of it.
Gary Hope says
After 9/11, we should have nuked the middle East off of the face of the map. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.
Una Salus says
This is a great article but maybe a little too painful. Churchill had a commentary on this state of forgetfulness which I wish I could find. I don’t think there’s any flattering way to confront it. Churchill was philosophical in tone. Chamberlain was much more upbeat.
Jeff Bargholz says
Loo like the hadji in the photo above?
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Except much cuter.
truebearing says
“For me, that means a two-state solution.”
Ahh…, the Gordian Knothead solution, where one kind, generous, utterly naive state grants a mob of murderers, rapists, and assorted sociopaths a state where they can work maniacally to destroy the state that gave them their unmerited state. It seems that the end result is always a perpetual mission to destroy the kind, generous state by the utterly dysfunctional, evil extinctionist new state.
People who are too stupid to understand how to run their own nation and are obsessed with raping, torturing, and killing everyone around them deserve death, not a shiny new state. Any idiot that thinks there is wisdom in the two state solution is unqualified to monitor children on a playground, much less attempt diplomacy with psychotic Muslims.
Una Salus says
The reason our fine Brit CNN journo is close to tears here is that she knows what she’s complicit in, She will not have the suggestion. Never mind what she’s suggesting.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Una, good video.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, it still amazes me that lefties defend Hamas after they chopped off baby’s heads.
Leftists are scum.
truebearing says
Lefties murdered tens of millions of people in the recent 20th Century, so they are just as morally reprehensible as the Muslims and reflexively try to cover for extreme evil. They have the same moral/ethical void and the same urge to commit evil.
Jeff Bargholz says
She sure is ugly.
Una Salus says
So now the media will do their he said/she said thing which they’ll eventually drop because anybody of good faith knows what the story is and then they’ll go right back to doing what they do.
Una Salus says
There’s much thumb twiddling in the UK now because we’ve see the thousands and thousands of Hamas supporters on the streets and we really don’t know what to say about it. I know, we’ll do our he said/she said thing. Even Farage is in on the act. I suppose he’s leading by an example that will really show the BBC what it’s about.
Kasandra says
Yeah, giving Gaza (see, Hamas) a hundred million dollars, eh. That’ll show them the wages of their murderous behavior. It is almost beyond belief.
truebearing says
“For me, that means a two-state solution.”
Ahh…, the Gordian Knothead solution, where one kind, generous, utterly naive state grants a mob of murderers, rapists, and assorted sociopaths a state where they can work maniacally to destroy the state that gave them their unmerited state. It seems that the end result is always a perpetual mission to destroy the kind, generous state by the utterly dysfunctional, evil extinctionist new state.
People who are too stupid to understand how to run their own nation and are obsessed with raping, torturing, and killing everyone around them deserve death, not a shiny new state. Any idiot that thinks there is wisdom in the two state solution is unqualified to monitor children on a playground, much less attempt diplomacy with psychotic Muslims.
commonsense says
Biden: “The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.”
What horse manure. After the last Jew withdrew from Gaza in 2005, leaving behind a large number of productive, income- generating greenhouses as a gift to the Gazans, the grateful Muslim hordes elected Hamas to represent them in 2006, enthusiastically endorsing Hamas’s vow to annihilate Israel and, in fact, all Jews everywhere, citing the genocidal (and canonical) hadith of Sahih Muslim (book 41, #6985) in its charter. While some – even many – Gazans may be unhappy with the leaders they elected (no elections have been held there since 2007) because of their corruption, nepotism, and misrule, all share the same Islam- based axiom that Jews are the greatest enemies of Muslims, and that the existence of a territory once part of Islam’s domain but now governed by the hated Jews is an abomination that cannot be tolerated, requiring Muslims to wage annihilatory jihad until the Jews are utterly destroyed. And this belief is shared universally by all believing, serious Muslims throughout the world. Muslim countries willing to tolerate Israel do so only temporarily, out of self- interest, If and when Iran ceases to be perceived as a serious threat to the Saudis, for example, their rapprochement with Israel will likely end. .It’s the religion. One hundred per cent. It’s Islam.
SavetheGOP says
If they’re living in Gaza, they support Hamas. There are many Palestinians and other Arabs living free in Israel. Those in Gaza are Hamas. 90% voted for Hamas.