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 [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.”
Election interference?
Biden apparently forgot who just flew Ukrainian President Zelensky into swing state Pennsylvania, just as early and mail-in voting there began, to lobby for more aid even as he trashed candidates Trump and 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 Democrat running mate, Governor 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 bitch, 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 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.
Democrat 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.
Two, 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.
Three, Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan admitted just eight days before the October 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 Jack Sullivan’s quietude?
Certainly not Netanyahu or Israel in general.
It was the terrorists of Hamas who surprise attacked and murdered 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 over 20,000.
It did not respond to the bloodbath with a full-scale invasion of Gaza until October 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.
They allowed the same thing to happen in the Ukraine and now virtue signal their support for both the Ukraine and Israel forgetting the adage that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.
As a veterinarian I have a way of determining the state of the economy that is 100% accurate. I visit animal humane and rescue societies and access as to whether the population is increasing or decreasing. Over the past 3 years the populations of drop offs and unwanted pets has exploded. People cannot afford to feed and care for both themselves and their pets. Likewise I look at the world and see dead bodies littering what was peaceful landscapes four years ago because of wars which now seem to have no end in sight. Why was belligerence allowed to evolve into outright war? Because the belligerent saw no negative consequences. The same is true regarding domestic crime. The question that now looms on everyone’s minds is whether there will be consequences at the polls to overcome the cheating and if not will the American emasculated males find some remnants of testicular fortitude and make the point they should have made nearly 4 years ago despite the January 6 warnings of possible consequences from rogue government officials? We live in a time of choosing to stand down or accept what Israel has proven does not have to be.
Given the current regime’s endless attempts to obscure or outright deny its collective failures, it hardly surprising that they are trying to memory hole the Trump administration’s successes in the Middle East and trying to reframe their own disasterous policy decisions as being supportive of Israel. Nobody in their right mind thinks an Iranian state flush with cash is a stabilizing force in the region-- it is why their assets were frozen in the first place- but when you have individuals who can be bought setting foreign policy, they assume everyone can be bought.
You are correct to note the masculinity of Israel’s response to the horrors of October 7th. It is so sad to see the contrast of its culture when compared what appears to be the Feminization of America. Biden is a perfect example of the Beta Male who’s approach to conflict is to look for others to blame and to immediately seek a quick resolution regardless of the long term consequences. His abandonment of our allies in Afghanistan and Bagram Airbase are exhibit 1.
Actually he is a sh**head bully. I grew up in a neighborhood with quite a few characters like him and I was constantly picked on. It was an Irish neighborhood and I was the little skinny dark haired bookworm runt. That is until I grew older and worked out. I never stopped working out till this day. I got along with the Jewish kids but I never knew they were Jewish until I grew older. Now I get along better with the Irish grownups than I do with the Jewish grownups.
An example of feminization is Walz. He is a product of his wife who he tries to please in ways unbecoming to men. His entire socialism agenda is based on DEI which feminists and the LGBTQ crowd have been pushing for decades under a fabricated alt biology incorporating a Christian interpretation of fairness. Better they kill in the name of the Church than stand in a coliseum run by feminists who have been indoctrinated for decades by groomers to believe they are victims of masculinity. And Welz is a product of that philosophy. Biden is about making certain these reprobates hold on to power so his quid pro quo investments remain stable and inheritable. He does what he is told and you can now see he does not like getting it from the woman who he was forced to accept as his substitute. His resistance is exactly what I expected because underneath it all he has nothing but contempt for many women. Most are nothing other than useful pieces of pleasurable objectivity for him that he would discard without a tear. He and Epstein have a lot in common.