Since taking office, the Biden administration has taken numerous steps to relieve pressure on Hamas and its international patrons as a means of restoring U.S. foreign policy to the way it was under Barack Obama, complete with a resurrected Iran nuclear deal. After this weekend, the administration’s Middle East strategy is in tatters.
Eli Lake (Bloomberg View)
In the 60s, I saw Jewish college kids singing “Which Side Are You On?” in solidarity with Blacks, resulting in an America that welcomed immigrants of every race, creed, and color. For four years now, I have watched members of The Squad insult Jews, oppose aid for Israel’s defense, and justify Jihad. It’s time for the President to ask Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, “which side are you on?”
There’s only one side in America: support humanity and innocent Jews, and condemn barbarism and evil Muslims. In one regard, this is worse than the holocaust. Whereas Nazis tried to hide their sins from the world, Hamas broadcast their butchery while praising Allah in real time. That video evidence is what anti-semitism looks like – and shame on Democrats for not expelling Bush, Omar and Tlaib from Congress.
Is this the “normalcy” candidate Biden promised? Not when the President had to admit “at least 14 Americans have been murdered (and) an unknown number of US citizens (were) taken hostage by Hamas” on his watch. Not when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan crowed, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades” a month before the surprise attack of Hamas on Israel.
It’s unbecoming to stoke political fires while disaster unfolds, but global security starts and stops at the White House. Biden was called “complicit” by Tim Scott. Nikki Haley called Antony Blinken “irresponsible” for denying a link between Iran and the Hamas attack. Donald Trump – who kept Americans and Israelis safer than Biden has – was right to acknowledge that “American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks.”
If voters recall Biden’s chain of blunders, they’ll oust him before he destroys the US. In 2021, he opened the Mexican border (252,275 Fentanyl deaths) and botched the Afghanistan withdrawal (13 dead US soldiers). In 2022, he put the US into a proxy war with Russia ($75 billion sent to Ukraine). In 2023, he downplayed a Chinese spy balloon flying over America (more PRC fly-bys of Taiwan) and gifted $6 billion to Iran (Hamas attacks Israel).
It’s been one Biden misstep after another: claim he would “get help from the Taliban” to fight terror, abandon $28 billion in weapons in Afghanistan, and learn in June (Newsweek) the weapons had “found their way to Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip.” Call the Netanyahu government “extreme” in a White House statement, refuse an official state visit from newly re-elected Benjamin Netanyahu, and now hope Netanyahu rescues American hostages.
The China-Iran-Russia alliance sees Biden as a window of opportunity. He relaxed Trump’s trade embargo, allowing Iran’s oil exports to climb from $7.9 billion to $42.6 billion last year. He cut US oil and gas production and passively responded to China’s spy balloon. He hasn’t kept Russian oil and gas exports out of China, saving the PRC $10 billion annually (source: Reuters). With an enemy like Biden, who needs friends?
Biden’s spending is bankrupting the US; annual deficit of $1.94 trillion, national debt of $33.5 trillion, and inflation that has increased the government’s annual interest expense to $716 billion, inviting liberals to seek cuts to our $795 billion defense budget. The “normalcy” he promised has so demoralized and divided Americans, that 73% now say their country is “on the wrong track” (source: NBC News).
Broke, demoralized, and divided is no way to deter war, and Biden’s incompetence invites a 3-front proxy war (Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan). His naiveté speaks volumes, like saying “the US does not – does not, I emphasize – see conflict with Iran” after they tested missiles emblazoned with “Death To America” for all to see, and supplied Russia with 1,700 Shahed-136 drones to rain down on Ukraine (source: CNN).
Like telling Americans $6 billion released to Iran was for “humanitarian purposes and medicine,” while Iran claimed the funds were theirs “to spend wherever we need it.” Nothing like Biden getting dope-slapped in front of Xi and Putin. My words are harsh, because I know what a 3-front war means.
The US is exhausting weapons stockpiles in Ukraine, and would run out of long-range missiles in less than a week in a Taiwan Strait conflict (source: CSIS). Thus, supplying an Israeli war only emboldens Red China. What if the Russia-Ukraine war spills into a NATO country? What if Israel-Hamas spills over into oil-producing Arabia? What if the PRC takes Taiwan’s microchips off the market?
Biden blames Trump for “one of the darkest days in the history of our nation” ad nauseam, but what about now? Look at the video coming out of Israel, Mr. Biden. You are by far the greater threat to our democracy. Resign before you drag the free world into world war – if you love America!
