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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
After families across Israel had lit their Sabbath candles, returned home from synagogue services and begun their festive meals, President Biden looked at his watch in D.C.
“Just checking it’s afternoon,” he said. And then got started on his speech to save Hamas.
There was nothing accidental about the timing of the speech on Friday afternoon at a time when much of America’s political establishment was heading out for the weekend while Israeli Jews were celebrating the Sabbath and many of them were not even using electronic devices.
After celebrating former President Trump’s conviction, Biden announced a new deal under which Hamas would rule Gaza, get billions in U.S. aid and dozens of its terrorists would be released from prison in exchange for every hostage. Or every hostage’s dead body.
Under the terms of Biden’s proposal, Hamas wins and Israel gets back survivors and corpses.
Finally, American taxpayers will be on the hook for an “extensive three- to five-year reconstruction program for Gaza that’s fully backed by us” that will cost endless billions.
The deal that Biden laid out gives Hamas everything it wanted including staying in power. An end to Israeli attempts to eliminate the terror group. And all the money it could possibly need. Rather than an Israeli proposal, this is almost the exact same ’ceasefire’ deal that Hamas, Qatar and Egypt had assembled and that Hamas then made a show of accepting a few weeks ago.
All Biden did was brush off the Hamas proposal and then declare that it was the Israeli proposal.
Indeed, a follow-up call with a senior White House official had him admit that, “it’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”
Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”
Biden described the Hamas proposal as the “Israeli proposal” and urged Israel to accept it. In reality, he had taken an Israeli counter-proposal, changed crucial elements so that it matched Hamas demands at a time when the Israeli government would not be able to respond and unveiled it to the world while daring Israelis to call him a liar. All to save Islamic terrorists.
Netanyahu poured cold water on the proposal, stating that, “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place. The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non-starter.”
Israeli Defense Minister Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the country would “not accept Hamas rule” and was fighting to destroy Hamas and liberate the hostages.
Benny Gantz, the third member of the ‘war cabinet’ whom the Biden administration had been relying on to force acceptance of the deal, made no initial statement at all. An anonymous White House official expressed “disappointment” that he hadn’t endorsed the proposal. When he did issue a statement, it was a confusing word salad that praised Biden but stated “the State of Israel stands united in our wish to return the hostages, it is a superior moral obligation that does not diminish our commitment to achieve the war’s objectives”.
So much for the “Israeli proposal”.
Not a single member of the Israeli government had explicitly gotten behind Biden’s proposal to leave Hamas in power (or with a fig leaf “technocratic” government to handle the foreign aid.) Neither did they explicitly take on the Biden administration by disavowing it. And the Biden administration is doubling down on forcing Israelis to accept the proposal and save Hamas.
Had this really been an Israeli proposal, it would not have been announced on the Sabbath, and would have been featured at a press conference in Israel. Instead it was met with uncomfortable silence and awkward statements in Jerusalem. The pressure campaign out of D.C. on specific Israeli government officials made it all too clear whose “proposal” this really was.
This is a proposal by Hamas and its allies, Egypt and Qatar, along with Hamas allies in the Biden administration who are fighting to keep it alive, that Biden is imposing on Israel.
It’s a proposal to allow Hamas to cash out hostages and their bodies in exchange for victory.
While the Biden administration demanded that the Israeli government endorse his proposal, there were no such expectations of Hamas.
The White House on a follow-up call claimed that Hamas “just got this last night” and that he was “not going to respond to public statements made by some Hamas officials here and there. They know what’s in the deal. They know it’s nearly identical to what they put on the table.”
Hamas, the administration, claimed “know what’s in the deal” but also “just got this” and what Hamas leaders say does not matter because they keep saying that they intend to go on attacking Israel until it is destroyed and that flies in the face of a “permanent ceasefire.”
The White House official announced that the administration will ignore Hamas promises to go on waging terror as part of a cover-up to push the Hamas proposal to save the terror group.
He also explicitly rejected the Israeli expectation Hamas would be destroyed.
Introducing his proposal, Biden claimed that it “would bring about a better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power” and then laid out a deal with Hamas that would keep the Islamic terror group in power. Having begun his speech with a lie, he kept on lying all through the rest of it.
But Biden assured Israelis that they don’t have to worry. “The people of Israel should know they can make this offer without any further risk to their own security because they’ve devastated Hamas form- — forces over the past eight months. At this point, Hamas no longer is capable of carrying out another October 7th.”.
Getting to that “point” took 8 months of fighting and over 600 Israeli soldiers killed in action.
How long will it take Hamas to rearm and rebuild especially once Biden’s proposed “major reconstruction plan for Gaza” moves billions of dollars into the terror zone? Months? Years?
And how many people will die in the next terror attack enabled and financed by Biden?
The Biden administration had assured Israel that it had nothing to worry about from Hamas in the weeks before Oct 7 when a deal was reached. The assurances are just as worthless now.
But Biden promised Israelis that “Egypt and Qatar have assured me and they are continuing to work to ensure that Hamas doesn’t do that.” Qatar is a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups while Egypt was caught red-handed propping up the Egyptian origin terror group which had begun as part of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and began carrying out terrorist attacks under Egyptian sponsorship while Gaza was under Egyptian occupation.
The state sponsors of terrorism will police the terrorists. And Biden will police Israel.
Biden’s deal is “nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals”, it saves the Islamic terrorist group just as it’s on the brink of destruction, and commits America to financing its reconstruction.
It’s not a deal to end a war, but to save and finance Hamas so it can begin the next war.
Biden is just an odious, perfidious, dishonest, narcissist suffering from Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The Israelis should not listen to anything he says. Bad enough he’s destroying our country. Now he’s trying to destroy our ally’s.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
It is sometimes understood in popular culture as the claim that
“stupid people are too stupid to know they are stupid”.
Which applies to ALL those that participate in, support, this current DemonRAT Party. As Ole Forrest perspicaciously said, “Stupid Is As Stupid Does.” The “stupids” are too stupid to understand that this Democrat Party has NO resemblance to the Democrat Party of their parents or grandparents!
In many ways, they DO resemble their ancestors! It was the “demonrat” party that encouraged slavery; it was the “demonrat” party that formed KKK! They’re just worse now, encouraging terrorism and praising hamas. 🙁 You can absolutely KNOW that mr o and schumer are right in there w/this!
it’s also Obama’s old people and even worse new radicals, including Islamists, embedded in the NSC
Yes I agree Biden is is trying to destroy Israel And America !
Daniel, I am sorry to tell you that you are wasting your time ‘analyzing’ the OBVIOUS fact that Obama/Biden are out to DESTROY Israel, to create the next, and final Holocaust. The US of today is Israel’s worst ENEMY, much worse than Hamas!
8 months from today that will change with DJT in the Oval Office once more. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ISRAEL.
One can only hope for a 4 year reprieve. The Lord is in control though. One thing we have to remember is that ALL nations will attack Israel (Armageddon). This, what we’re seeing now is only the very beginning. That war (which is just beginning to form) will usher Christ to come back. I do look forward to Christ returning, but it’s going to be VERY, VERY hard until then. 🙁
Where the heck is congress while Biden is promising billions and doing immense harm? The GOP seems unable to muster even a weak response – weaklings.
It’s good to see that Israel is finally telling America to fuck off and doing what’s in it’s best interests. America has been a fake friend and real enemy to Israel since its founding seventy six years ago or however long ago it was. In my lifetime, and I’m old as fuck, only Reagan and especially Trump were allies of Israel.
It’s too bad the Mossad and IDF don’t kill Biden along with Hamas.
I think there may be plan somewhere for just that.
Let’s hope they take out the rest of the ‘administration’ and the kenyan while they’re at it.
Israel most likely “Kobed” the president of Iran. It can do the same to Biden.
joe bitanic will enter the abyss but with the mascot of obama’s choice.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! DON’T kill biden!!!!! If he does get killed, he’ll become a martyr and people will worship him as a martyr!! :'( We DON’T want that!!!! Just get him out of office ASAP!
So Gantz is a Trojan Horse.
Containing nothing
The Israeli Left hasn’t been able to win elections in a long time.
What it does instead is usually set up third parties fronted by a former general who claims to be apolitical and promises to end the politics and reform the corruption.
then he forms a coalition with the Left, and his party disappears in the next election to be replaced by the next fake third party
somehow no one ever learns anything
That resembles the Arab terror groups of Matryoshka nesting dolls.
Wasn’t he always?
He’s a known traitor to Israel, he’s weak, and he’s obsessed with getting rid of Bibi and getting power into his own hands.
I’d say that makes him a perfect fit for sleazy joe.
top generals in the U.S., Israel or many places tend to be politicians, rather than the best, the brightest or the most courageous.
Where’s George Patton when you need him?
That is the difference between field and palace generals.
Oh yes. Maybe worse.
This is Biden’s reward to Hamas for perpetrating 10/7
Under the corrupt Biden administration- America is now allying with Hamas terrorists. It just incomprehensible that Biden is even close in the polls and with a little fraud, will get 4 more years to ruin both America and Israel.
If Biden should suddenly become brilliant- he’d be a candidate for the predicted Anti-Christ. Other than being brain dead except when his handlers pump him up with Adderall, he has a lot of the qualities the Bible says the AC will have.
it’s not Biden, it’s the Left
they’d be doing the same thing whichever Dem was in office
Biden being so weak, corrupt and senile just makes it easier
‘Havdalah’, the hebrew word meaning ‘separation’, is a ritual that formally concludes the Jewish Sabbath with a series of blessings over wine, fragrant spices and the flame of a two-wicked candle. The ritual‘s blessings thank God for the wine that gladdens the heart, for the beauty of the spices’ fragrance and for the illuminating and reflective light of the flame. The ritual concludes with an additional blessing thanking God who ‘separates’ holy from the profane, light from darkness, Israel from the nations, and the seventh day from the six days of work.
The light of the candle is then extinguished – technically – but remains aflame within us. And then we dance before God and sing to one another, “May it be a good week.”
After a day of 25 hours of Sabbath in Israel, of intense unified prayer and so many blessings to God for the return of hostages, the safety of our soldiers, the healing of the wounded, comfort for the mourners, strength and peace, reality then pierces this wartime superficial Sabbath calm, and bursts forth with the latest venom oozing from the mouth of the hybrid BidenObama monster.
BidenObama has now joined the odious club of ultimate, deliberate Jewish Sabbath desecrators.
They join the predators who attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, the Sabbath of Sabbaths, in 1973, and the Gaza savages who chose the Sabbath of October 7th to massacre, torture and steal away human beings in a frenzy of sadistic hatepleasure.
Every week, the Jewish Sabbath, in Israel and around the world, honors the Creator of the world, the One who took Israel out of slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land.
BidenObama say it’s ‘time’ the war ends. BidenObama’s world-is-flat concept of time is not the Jewish eternal, divine concept of time. The fundamental ‘havdalah‘ between their conception of time and God’s chosen people’s conception of time, I think, is this:
BidenObama think they move through time. They stomp through time.
But the Jewish people know that they don’t move through time. Time moves through them, as an ever burning flame. It’s vertical.
Not horizontal. From generation to generation.
And, speaking of time -Happy Jerusalem Day!
Happy Free Jerusalem Day indeed and thank you for the beautiful thoughts.
Happy Jerusalem Day!
Thank you for your explanation; I appreciate learning more of Judaism and continue to be impressed by it’s depth and meaning. As a Christian, I also appreciate being able to pray for Israel and continuing to visit there. Am Yisreal Chai!
And Eff Jay Bee!
We all need to understand how the system has been corrupted. This libel lawfare is undermining times, laws, and the way a lawful Republic operates. Its political lawfare to remove the people’s choice….this is Global government a total change in the way governments operate. There will not be opportunities to change the system once this plan is fulfilled.
Agenda 21!
GLOBAL government for the 21st century!
Read about it while you still can!
Israel needs to win this war. To win the war, Israel needs to have the correct objective. Currently, Israeli leadership has defined the primary war objective as destroying Hamas. But is this the correct objective? Let’s look at the facts:
On October 07, it wasn’t merely Hamas who attacked Israeli civilians, murdering, raping, mutilating, dismembering, beheading, burning people alive, ripping fetuses from wombs, burning babies in ovens.
It also wasn’t just Fatah, PIJ, and UNRWA. It was thousands of Palestinian civilians.
After October 07 and before Israel’s big response, Hamas enjoyed 70% support in Gaza; much higher in Judaea and Samaria. The reason the terrorist Palestinian Authority won’t hold elections in Judaea and Samaria is that they know they will lose and Hamas will take control.
Hamas and the other Palestinian terror organizations are the natural outgrowth of the Palestinian culture and simultaneously feed into the Palestinian culture, creating a depraved infinity loop.
Furthermore, as Antony Blinken said, even if Hamas is destroyed, and Israel takes military control, there will be a terror insurgency for years.
We learn 3 things from the above:
Israel’s mortal enemies are the Palestinian people.
Israel’s mortal enemies will continue to fight us even after Hamas is destroyed.
As long as Israel’s mortal enemies are in Gaza, people in Israel will continue to live under the threat of terror.
Continued below.
Part 2.
The Israeli government needs to defend Israel, and that includes the fact that Israel can’t be living under the threat of terror. When citizens can’t return home, when citizens need to run to shelters, when citizens know they may be shot, stabbed, raped, beheaded, burned, or blown up by terrorists, that is not protecting Israel.
The goal of this war must be to rid the land of Israel’s mortal enemies. The only way that can be achieved is by totally removing these barbaric enemies. Those who have participated in terror against Israel need to be eliminated. The rest need to be relocated to countries who love them and will take them in. Think Ireland, South Africa, Norway, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the Maldives, and Yemen. I’m sure we can expand the list.
Not only will this be a benefit to Israel, but hopefully the Palestinians, once in other countries, will begin the process of deradicalization.
Israel has lost much blood and treasure. These losses must not be in vain. If Israel doesn’t win, because it doesn’t have the political will to fight, Israel will be worse off because we will have lost the deterrent factor. Moreover, the lives we lost will have been in vain. And Jews worldwide will likewise face more threats.
It may not happen often, but sometimes, sometimes, entire civilizations die in a single day. Victor Davis Hanson: This could happen to Israel.
Israel needs to be strong and proud. Israel’s leaders need to stand up to Biden and the rest of the corrupt world leaders and tell them that they will defend Israelis from terror.
You are correct.
The purpose of a war is victory. And victory has to be defined as an end to the enemy presence inside Israel’s borders.
Or any nation’s borders.
No nation can coexist with an ideology dedicated to its destruction.
And no amount of agonizing over world opinion will accomplish anything. Prolonging the war will increase, not decrease, the amount of condemnation.
Hmmm, Jews have had israel for a while now but have existed long before that. Its 5784. While I see the survival of the Nation Israel as paramount, it is inconceivable that Jews, Judaism, the Jewish people is a civilization that can “die in a day.” Who is Victor Davis Hanson to speak on that? It shows a lack of comprehension of what he is trying to talk about. . For I am here. My descendants are here. And theirs will be. Yes, the Hitlers the, Torquemadas and the Obamas of the world want to kill us all, but they never do.
And we continue on.
Excellent article . You are correct that many of the generals from foreign lands and the U.S. are not the brightest or the best, but are politicians. When you look at the withdrawal from Afghanistan, not one of the American generals wanted to resign their military positions to show President Biden that he was incorrect in
his planned withdrawal which allowed military assets out first and then at the 11th hour the remaining civilian population. This in turn looked like a keystone cop movie which was played out with loss of civilian life and military casualties. Also, this withdrawal displayed American weakness to our enemies (Russia and communist China) and allowed Putin to invade Ukraine and China’s harassment of Taiwan. Israel does not want to operate from a point of weakness. They must operate from a point of strength to continue the destruction of Hamas, Israel understands what America does not, that the enemy has to fear that you can kill them before they can kill you. They might hate you, but they will respect you. Something our generals do not seem to understand since at this time America’s military is not looked at in the same light as it was during the initial invasion of Afghanistan after September 11th. As I stated in an earlier article, you should be teaching at the U.S. Army War College.
Our generals unfortunately are politicians. They’ve been on a career track for some time. When faced with a disaster, they don’t resign, they blame someone else.
May Biden drop dead soon and take his entire Obama’s 3rd Reich with him. Harris, Blinken, Garland, Mayorkas, the works.
In the continuing saga of The Adventures of Pinocchio, the reader learns that Uncle Jepetta’s puppets nose grew every time he told a lie. Considering that Joe is in Washington D.C. …his nose should have reached Gaza by now!
like the Portrait of Dorian Gray, his nose grows on the inside
Oh, please. If Moshe Dayan was still alive, Gaza would have disappeared a long time ago. Israel would have been stacking the bodies of dead Hamas terrorists like cord wood. If Israel needs to go it alone, so be it. Armageddon needs to happen sooner or later.
Dayan did forbid Jews from praying on the Temple Mount and had the Israeli flag removed. The mirage of peace often conceals quicksand. That prudent error 57 years ago conceded Muslim control and makes their worship there an entitlement instead of an exercise requiring their good behavior.
Dayan saved Israels ass in 1967, did he not? Nobody’s perfect.
Israel has also learned from the holocaust the meaning of being a “good Jew’ and being a “bad Jew” ( not that of being observant or going to synagogue).” A good Jew is one who will not stand up for the right to live as a Jew and will accept the world opinion with antisemitism and will just die. While a “bad Jew” is one that will not be led like sheep to the gas chambers, and will stand up and fight (like King David against Goliath) and have chance of defeating the enemy. Again great article.
The Biden-Obama- left alliance are in full support of Hamas. Nobody believes otherwise. Four Israeli hostages were rescued….Kudos to the IDF and their brave soldiers…
It has long been said that when some entity declares they want you ‘dead,’ it’s a good idea to BELIEVE them! What part of “Death To The Little Satan (Israel),” and “Death To The Great Satan (America)” is confusing or ‘hard to understand?’ Unlike Joltin’ demented, corrupt Joe Biden, you do need at least one working brain cell to understand anything.
Remember one other thing. The palestinians/islamists have ONE objective; to occupy and rule the ENTIRE world! In their mind they will destroy Israel (they won’t but they don’t know that). They’ve already infiltrated America. There are at least 2 islamists in congress now!
I agree, that mr o is behind much of this. He is after all, also a terrorist! He belongs to the muslim brotherhood which is a terrorist group.