By NEWT GINGRICH | REAL CLEAR WIRE
President Joe Biden’s recent foreign policy moves are baffling. By any rational standard, they are undermining Israel and helping Hamas.
When Biden was caught on an open microphone following his State of the Union Address telling Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado that Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were “going to have a come to Jesus meeting,” you have to wonder what he’s thinking.
It was a weird comment for two reasons. First, it is unlikely the leader of the Jewish state will have a “come to Jesus moment.” (Maybe a come to Moses or Abraham moment – but not a come to Jesus moment.) I have known Netanyahu since the 1980s. I am confident he was amused rather than intimidated by Biden’s comment.
Second, the American President cannot dictate to the Prime Minister of Israel. Israel is a sovereign country. Furthermore, its entire history has been a series of heroic victories in which it had to rely on its own courage and ingenuity to provide for its peoples’ security. The United States has historically been an ally of Israel (although in Suez Crisis of 1956, we intervened decisively against an Israeli victory). But the United States can only advise – it cannot dictate.
President Biden grandly announced that an Israeli occupation of the city of Rafah would cross a red line. Of course, we remember President Barack Obama’s famous red line about the Syrian use of chemical weapons, which disappeared the minute Syria used the chemical weapons.
Netanyahu responded clearly to Biden’s threat. He told Politico’s parent company, Axel Springer, “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave… You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again.”
At that point, President Biden’s red line faded just like Obama’s. Biden said on MSNBC, “It is a red line, but I’m never going to leave Israel.”
Even Netanyahu’s political opponents in Israel know invading Rafah is a requirement of lasting peace. Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz explained, “Finishing the war without demilitarizing Rafah is like sending in firefighters to put out 80% of a fire.”
The case for totally destroying Hamas is overwhelming. Hamas’ official founding document calls for the complete destruction of Israel. One of its most important leaders said publicly, “not a single Jew will remain.” Hamas has run a terrorist state which stole enough construction materials from the people of Gaza to build 300 miles of tunnels (the stolen material was reportedly meant to build hospitals and homes).
Hamas has proven its willingness to use the people of Gaza as human shields behind which it protects its key leaders and military assets. The number of dead and wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7 has been a function of Hamas’ willingness to sacrifice its own people to build a humanitarian outcry against Israel.
Tragically, the Biden administration and much of the American news media accept the case set up by Hamas’ ruthlessness and focus their attention on the Israelis. The fact is: This is an urban war that Hamas started. In urban warfare, civilian deaths are unavoidable. The news media’s anti-Israel, antisemitic bias leads it to accept the Hamas propaganda.
As Richard Goldberg wrote, “Biden should draw red lines for Hamas not for Israel.”
Biden’s proposal for Israel to stay out of Rafah would effectively create a sanctuary city for Hamas terrorists. It would be an irrational act which guaranteed the survival of those whose goal is the complete destruction of Israel. The conflict would remain endless.
When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Parliament chant, “Death to America, Death to Israel.” They mean it. We know because the Ayatollah went on national television and pledged to the Iranian people that these words were not a slogan – but a policy.
The seriousness of Hamas’ desire to destroy Israel is captured in its map-making. As Louis Rene Beres wrote in jurist.org on Dec. 23, 2023:
“Unhidden, both the Arab world and Iran still have only a ‘One-State Solution’ for the ‘Israel Problem.’ It is a ‘solution’ that eliminates Israel altogether, a physical solution, a ‘Final Solution.’ Even today, official Arab maps of ‘Palestine’ (PNA and Hamas) show the prospective Arab State comprising all of the West Bank (Judea/Samaria), all of Gaza and all of Israel. They knowingly exclude any references to a Jewish population and list ‘holy sites’ of Christians and Muslims only.”
President Biden should be firmly on the side of Israel and civilization – and against Hamas’ barbarism, terrorism, and genocide.
Sadly, he is failing that test.
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This article was originally published by RealClearPolicy and made available via RealClearWire.
Biden doesn’t care about America or our allies. Simple answer.
He is for the third world.
There are 7 .5 billion in the third world how many can America afford?
FJB is trying to do away with America.
Remember who is helping him and where we can find them when this goes downhill.
Joe Biden is the most well known joke on the planet. A demented, deranged, lying-ass bafoon who never accelerated mentally. A pervert with a long list of foibles and unlawful acts to his credits. The Democrats hero. F Joe Biden.
This administration is obviously anti American, they are taking us down the path of ruin, anybody that doesn’t see that by now will probably not admit it till it’s to late.
Grandpa Bloodstains (or his handlers) are convinced the key to keeping his office is courting progressives.
Progressives don’t like Jews.
Sleepy joe is also helping Hezbolla get into US illegally, through the HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant AIDS Society a NGO) and CCP at the Darien Gap main camp!
US secretary Homeland Security Mayorka was on board of HIAS!
What’s worse, Brandon flip flopping because of UN pressure, or Trump flipping on tik toc?
Leave Trump out of this, he’s the only one who has a shot of saving this country. Otherwise, down the tubes we go.
With war and riots looming, I’m not so sure.
pResident Briben flipping on Israel is a million times worse than Trump doing ANYTHING at all.
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Israel is the sole country in the middle east where freedom, democracy, and tolerance are practiced as a matter of national policy. And the globalists abhor that. Turning it into another muslim run hellhole would serve their purposes nicely.
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Then again, you have repeatedly demonstrated that government is good in your mind, and obeying your masters, no matter how wrong they are proven to be (one more booster please!) is part of your make up. So, I expect nothing less than this type of comment from you.
Actually you are mistaken as usual and expected. I have never voted for anyone that wasn’t a conservative. You backed up yet?
Maybe I missed it.
Where did I make any claim about your voting? You can vote for whomever you want, but your comments here on MRAK pretty well demonstrate that big government is perfectly OK with you. They are trustworthy and always looking out for Greg’s best interests. Or, that is the way most of your comments read.
Can’t blame me for that
Been doing to for 66 years and it served me well. So you done with all that leftist speech?
Still missing it.
What in my original response was talking about your voting habits in any way? Got a quote? Copy/paste works just fine here on MRAK.
“Sleepy Joe” is Sleepy and since he doesn’t actually have the ability to make decent decisions, the “operator”(Kamela or Obama ) are making those decisions for him and since One of them(Obama) does not have the legal right to make those decisions for him. Obama is illegally taking over the Presidential duties.
Correct, we’re on Obama’s 3rd and soon to be 4th term.
No. This stooge Biden is at the end of the road for the Democrats. The Big Wet Dream is going to run dry this fall.
No, it’s the nwo pulling nobamas strings
Israel’s lobbying of our government and 20% of people in control in US are Isreal Zionist!
Judges, politicians, news commentators. And probably CIA doubling as Mossad, even controlling what we are allowed to say about them! And having dual citizenship!
Epstein and his island for example!
And?
If the country is doing well, what is the problem? Seems to me whenever the USA starts on an anti-sematic path, things go off the rails pretty quickly. Perhaps you think the muslim run countries are better?
Wow the anti-Semite thing; didn’t you get the memo? You can be satanist and be a Zionist even a Christian! Lots of Christian Zionist! It is a political ideology!
And, is why we are currently off the rails in the world CBmttek! Because Zionism is Marxism’s!
It is a Marxist ideology!
Has nothing to do with religion!
In fact it is satanic!
You evidently approve of child trafficking and Epstein Island and the satanic agenda! All sponsored by the CCP!
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