Isreal-Hamas War

 Timothy Burke, Middle East

-Friday 1st Dec, 2023:

Secretary Blinken

 Biden is really proving former President Trump over referring to him as a coward during the build up of Ukraine's rise towards defending itself against Russia invasion. Biden's administration has finally succumbed to international pressure mounted by antisemitism. November 30th. Leaked remarks from a private meeting between Israel’s war cabinet and the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, shows that Biden and his cohorts have withdrawn their support towards Israel's resolve to eliminate Hamas, both militarily and politically. 

According to reports, during the meeting, Israel’s defense minister expressed resolve to eliminate Hamas as a military and political force. Instead of expressing approval or even understanding, Blinken reportedly responded, “I don’t think you have the credit for that.” In other words, the Biden administration has officially lost its nerve for the elimination of a terrorist government that continues to carry out attacks inside Israel. Imagine if Israel had demanded the United States stop fighting Al Qaeda after less than two months. Would that have made any sense? Keep in mind, this is the same Biden administration that has repeatedly pledged to back Ukraine for “as long as it takes.” I guess Israel, which is in a far better military position to deal with its enemy, doesn’t get that same treatment. Why? Israel is a much more committed ally than Ukraine. So what’s the difference?

The difference is international opinion driven by rank antisemitism within the United Nations, and Biden, Blinken, and the rest of their cohorts do not have the backbone to stand up to that. Instead, they’d rather bend the knee to the street mobs chanting for genocide and raising swastikas. It’s cowardice of the highest level. The United States expected its allies to stand by it for years in the fight against Al Qaeda, but we are abandoning Israel seven weeks into their war with Hamas. Some ally we are. Sen. Tom Cotton responded to the news with the following. Cotton is right. It is outrageous to suggest that Israel doesn’t have the credit to destroy a terrorist group that just killed 1,400 people in the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. He’s also right that the majority of Americans support Israel’s fight, no matter how loud the pro-Hamas mobs get. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t take any of Blinken’s nonsense lying down either. He responded with fire and a promise to keep going. In other words, the Biden administration can go pound sand. It is unworkable for Israel to allow Hamas to survive this war, especially after it carried out yet another attack on Thursday. The terrorist government’s leadership is not hiding the ball. They are pledging to keep killing Jews, calling October 7th just a “dress rehearsal.” That may not be clear enough for Blinken and company, but it’s clear enough for Israel.