The tension between the Biden administration and Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu is growing. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Netanyahu Friday in Israel. He warned against a ground assault in Rafah.
“It risks killing more civilians, it risks wreaking greater havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance, it risks further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing.”
Netanyahu told Blinken and Biden to pound sand. Netanyahu may not be a very popular prime minister but his waging of the war is popular with Israelis. He vows to go ahead with moving into Rafah with or without U.S. support. “We have no way to defeat Hamas without entering Rafah and eliminating the remnant of the battalions there.”
Tension between Biden and Netanyahu has become public knowledge. For example, Biden said after his State of the Union address that he will have a come to Jesus talk with Netanyahu. It was incredibly tone-deaf of Biden and it was made worse by the fact that he said it on a hot mic and pretended to not know he was being heard. Biden was talking big to impress those around him and to send a message to Netanyahu.
It is arrogant and preposterous for Biden and Blinken to act as though they are running the war. This is Bibi’s war and fortunately for the Israelis, he has the steel spine to finish the job. Hamas has to be eliminated and the hostages must be released before the war can end. Israel did not start the war but it will finish it. It has to finish the job for its survival as a country and the survival of the Jews.
Biden, Blinken, and Kamala Harris sound more like the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party than they do pro-Israel Americans. Biden is pandering to the Muslim Arab American voters he has lost over his support of Israel. He is willing to severely damage the long relationship between Israel and the United States to win the battleground state of Michigan in November.
Senior Israeli officials will be in Washington, D.C. soon to discuss the war with the Biden administration. The administration is expected to try to convince the Israelis to forget about pursuing a ground war in Rafah. Biden and Blinken cite the number of Gazans who have sought refuge in Rafah since the war began. It is reported that more than a million Gazans and other refugees are there.
The administration stresses a humanitarian crisis in the works in Rafah. Aid trucks are not getting to the areas that need humanitarian aid. This isn’t Israel’s fault. It is the fault of Hamas who hijack trucks and take the goods. This is business as usual for Hamas. The Biden administration acts as though denying aid to Gazans is something that has only begun by Hamas since the war began. Hamas has allowed Gazans to live without necessities since it came into power in 2007.
Perhaps Blinken should talk to Egypt, a country that shares a border with Gaza. It recently began building more walls at its border to keep Gazans out. Trucks go through Egypt to enter Gaza.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visited Egypt’s border with Gaza on Saturday. The U.N. Security Council failed to pass a resolution on Friday that called for a ceasefire. That resolution was presented by the United States. Russia and China vetoed it. It was the first time the United States called for an immediate ceasefire. The U.S. vetoed earlier resolutions.
In the meantime, Israel has growing criticism coming from countries around the globe and there are calls for Netanyahu to hold elections. Imagine Chuck Schumer, acting as Joe Biden’s mouthpiece, calling on Israel to hold elections during this crucial war. It’s unconscionable. Seizing Rafah is essential, according to experts.
Seizing control of Rafah is vital if Israel is to forestall a Hamas-led insurgency in Gaza, said Danny Orbach, a military historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “An insurgency can intensify only when it has safe havens,” he said.
There can be no safe havens for Hamas. Hamas must be destroyed.
Israel says that Hamas uses Rafah and the Gaza-Egypt border zone to smuggle weapons into Gaza.
The @UN should not give up on making sure it scales up logistics and stops blaming Israel for its failures. https://t.co/xon8gh2Hzp
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 24, 2024
A victory over Hamas now does not mean it is a permanent victory. Hamas will likely come back, so Israel has to remain ever-vigilant, even in victory.
“Dismemberment of the organization provides optical opportunities for Israel to declare victory,” said Sanam Vakil, a Middle East scholar at London-based think tank Chatham House. “But while they might have killed layers of Hamas, it’s like a weed: It will grow back” in the absence of a broader political strategy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she said.
Kamala said she’s “studied the maps” or something.
Kamala studied the maps, so she knows what’s up.
Kamala Harris Says ‘Consequences’ Possible if Israel Raids Rafah; ‘I Have Studied the Maps’
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that the administration had not ruled out “consequences” for Israel if it defied President Joe… pic.twitter.com/bXympT4jAr
— floridanow1 (@floridanow1) March 24, 2024
She is dangerously idiotic.
The Biden administration has been threatening to stop weapons shipments to Israel if the ground war in Rafah happens.
Kamala Harris says the administration has “not made any decision” on conditioning or halting weapons to Israel if they launch a ground offensive in Rafah pic.twitter.com/GKNUuqep6a
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 19, 2024
Unbelievable. It’s like Obama is still in office. Netanyahu needs to be able to conduct the war as he sees fit. Biden, Blinken, and Harris are clueless on waging war. There needs to be a change in American leadership in November. Let’s hope that happens.
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