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Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend.
A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] should remember that.”
Yet the thin-skinned and triggered Biden’s prickliness poorly hid—or perhaps revealed—the truth: This current administration knows that it is responsible for the current explosion of the Middle East and the particular dilemmas of Israel.
Biden further revealed his blame-gaming of the Israeli government when asked another loaded question about purported Netanyahu election interference, saying, “Whether he’s trying to influence the election, I don’t know.”
Biden apparently forgot who just flew Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into swing-state Pennsylvania, just as early and mail-in voting there began, to lobby for more aid even as he trashed candidates Donald Trump and JD Vance to a left-wing magazine.
Recently, Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris refused to say whether the Netanyahu administration is even an ally of the United States.
Her Democratic running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, could not state whether the Democratic ticket would approve of an Israeli response—by either targeting the Iranian nuclear bomb program or its oil fields and exporting facilities—to some 500 Iranian missiles and rockets that hit the Jewish state.
Another Bob Woodward racy and gossipy tell-all book just appeared. It alleges that Biden despised Netanyahu and has reportedly smeared him to aides: “That son of a b—-, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad f–king guy!”
What are we to make of this Biden-Harris-Walz mess?
It is an election year and one of the closest races in modern memory. Biden and his would-be successors, Harris-Walz, know that support for Israel is a bipartisan cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy and critical for Democratic unity.
Yet they feel they must also pander to anti-Israel, Muslim-American voters who may determine the Electoral College votes of critical swing-state Michigan.
Democratic politicos square that circle by claiming they support Israel—despite damning the conservative Netanyahu. That way they seek to blame Netanyahu for alienating Arab and Muslim-American voters, while they do not alienate left-wing Jewish and pro-Israeli Democrats.
For all the invective, a demonized Netanyahu is now regaining public support in Israel. The Israeli public approves of his near-destruction of Hamas, the ongoing brilliant Israeli emasculation of Hezbollah, and Israel’s revelations that the once widely feared terrorist regime in Iran may in fact well prove to be a paper tiger.
Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan admitted just eight days before the Oct. 7 massacres that “the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
His boast was an admission that Biden and Harris had inherited from the prior Trump administration a stable Middle East.
So, what blew up Sullivan’s quietude?
Certainly not Netanyahu or Israel in general.
It was the terrorists of Hamas who surprise-attacked and killed 1,200 Israeli civilians during peace and a Jewish holiday.
Their slaughtering, torturing, raping, and hostage-taking revealed a level of precivilization barbarism rarely seen in the modern era.
Israel was simultaneously targeted by rockets from Hamas and Hezbollah that would eventually number more than 20,000.
It did not respond to the bloodbath with a full-scale invasion of Gaza until Oct. 27, some three weeks after the slaughtering.
During that interim, for most of the Muslim world and both U.S. Muslim communities and on American campuses, there was rejoicing at the news of slaughtered Jews.
For over three years, the Biden administration had signaled Israel’s enemies that it no longer acted like a close ally of the past.
After it all, Biden-Harris lifted sanctions on a hostile Iran, giving it $100 billion in oil windfalls. It begged Iran to reenter the disastrous Iran deal. It abandoned the Abraham Accords. It lifted the terrorist designation from the terrorist Houthis. It restored fungible aid to the Hamas tunnel builders. It gave new aid to Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon.
Israel’s enemies got the Biden message: Attack the Jewish state, and perhaps Americans for the first time in a half-century may not really mind that much.
And so they did, in unison.
Rather than admitting their own role in igniting the Middle East, Biden and Harris now blame the victims of their own incendiary foreign policy.
The final irony?
Israel has concluded that Biden-Harris foolhardiness can be toxic and endanger its very survival—and so, will not agree to its own suicide.
Instead, Israel seeks to finish a multifaceted war it did not seek. And one of whose beneficiaries from Israeli blood and treasure will be the U.S. itself, given Israel is now systematically weakening America’s own existential enemies.
Netanyahu and Israel will continue to ignore the demands from the Hamas Harris and Jihad Joe administration to strengthen Hamas, Hizb’allah and Iran while they simultaneously weaken themselves. Those demands really come from JoeHo’s handlers, of course.
It’s only twenty days to the general election here, which is just one more reason Israel has to blow off the JoeHo administrations demand that it commit national suicide. Knee Pads Harris can’t possibly win without even more extensive vote rigging and cheating than the D-Bags perpetrated in 2020. Pretending to be black isn’t enough to give the Tamil Trollop the win.
Israel should take the next twenty days as an opportunity to go all out, just in case the D-Bags manage another election steal.
“ANOTHER ELECTION STEAL” This should not even be an option! Our feckless Republican betters
in Government have not done much to stop the steal. The governor of California sez you don’t need an
ID TO VOTE. Why do you think Kamala is so smug. She’s been told everything is taken care of!
The incompetent and feckless Sleepy Joe occupying the Oval Office is what’s responsible for this attack on Israeli citizens a year ago.
America’s enemies saw massive election-rigging remove the man they feared & replaced with a comatose husk.
Then America’s enemies saw the stampede out of Afghanistan; abandoning our honor, our allies, military hardware, Bagram Airbase, and even those faithful service dogs (just not “in cages”)
That shameful bug-out (or “Berlin Airlift” according to the press) gave a confirmed Green Light to our enemies that they had a blank-check.
What Xi is scratching his head over is the Taliban didn’t even have to buy a crappy Hunter painting and got everything, where he had to pour millions into Sleepy’s purse to get a single spy-balloon fly over.
Sleepy Joe in Depends™ is Sloppy Joe.
Jews are a moral litmus test for humans.
If you hate Jews, you are a POS.
Israel is a moral litmus test for humans.
If you hate Israel, you are a POS.
There is a simplicity to it as often happens with moral issues.
The Democratic Party has become a globalist war machine.
Israel has a right to defend itself as do all nations.
The collateral damage to civilian property and worse
the death or wounding of people not involved in terrorism
is extremely unfortunate and while those intentionally placing
their weapons in civilian areas are primarily to blame, the
weighing of how to attack and neutralize Hamas and Hezbollah
terrorists sheltering among civilians is difficult moral process.
“All is fair in love and war.” I don’t thinks it’s a difficult moral process for Israel, at all. They are facing a kill or be killed situation. It’s the rest of the world with their faux morals that has generated this dilemma of “innocent civilians”. Now that the shit has hit the fan, if you have rocket launchers in your pantry, you ain’t innocent. Don’t want them there? Move out or pay the price. That’s on you. And Gaza? You can count the number of “innocents” on one hand. Doing what you need to do to keep yourself from being exterminated is not a difficult moral decision. Israel has no obligation to listen to a bunch of limp wristed assholes 2000 miles away with no skin in the game.
Israel should use the time until the election to choose the best time to hit the mullahs, the oil facilities, and the nuclear sites. The ;””Biden”” administration will be quite upset ( need for two sets of Depends that day ) but the Trump administration will be grateful .