Harangued by his party’s left wing over the latest war between Hamas and Israel, 78-year-old President Joe Biden showed his weakness, pressuring 71-year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to de-escalate the violence. Biden, and his Israel-bashing left wing of his party, know that Israel didn’t ignite the latest skirmish, now fending off indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas terrorists. Biden lived through four years of a tumultuous relationship with NetanyahU under former President Barack Obama, who’s views of Israel were aligned with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only member of Congress of Palestinian with ancestry. Tlaib routinely calls Israelis “Zionists,” using the same anti-Semitic tropes as 88-year-old Chicago-based National of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan. Rashida likes to call Israel an “Apartheid” state, twisting a term from South Africa’s old extreme segregation days.
Tlaib knows that no Islamic countries runs pluralistic societies, banning multi-ethnic or multi-religious participation in governments and major institutions. Yet Tlaib and her squad including, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) think nothing of bashing Israel, all because they think the country is run by a bunch of rich Jews. Their prejudice toward Jews and Israel knows no bounds, taking the Palestinian side, why, because it’s the right Marxist thing to today. While pressuring Biden, none of the squad comprehends the strategic importance of a strong Israel in the Middle East. Their knee jerk instincts are to cut Israel’s military funding, thinking that’s the way to get leverage over Netanyahu, a totally failed strategy. Now that Israel leveled the Associated Press offices in Gaza, AP has gone on the warpath against Israel.
Truth be told, Biden, most likely a one term president, doesn’t need to placate the squad or anyone else. He gave his friend “Bibi” the latitude to continue military operations against Hamas in Gaza. Media organizations suddenly take the Palestinian side, despite reporting Sept. 11, 2001 Palestinians in Gaza jumping for joy after the World Trade Center and Pentagon were decimated by Osama bin Laden. No matter how much seamless intel or military accessibility Israel provides the U.S., the squad would pour all U.S. military and humanitarian aid into Palestinians. Forget about the fact that Palestinians are divided between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. U.S., U.N. or EU have never negotiated anything with Hamas because they’re branded a terror organization. Yet if you listen to Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar or Pressley, Israel’s the terrorist state.
Israeli doesn’t have much more to do in Gaza even with Biden asking his friend Bibi to de-escalate the current bombing campaign. Netanyahu has no problem de-escalating as long as Hamas agrees to stop shooting rockets into Israel. When it comes to Hamas’s recent demands to (a) suspend evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and (b) keep Israeli police away from Al-Aqsa mosque, Bibi also doesn’t have a problem. So when the squad heaps pressure on Biden, it’s superfluous because, as Secretary of State Tony Blinken said May 18, intense diplomacy has been going on under the radar. “With every passing day we are striking at more of the terrorist operations,’ capabilities, targeting more senior commanders, toppling more terrorist buildings and hitting more weaponry stockpiles,” Netanyahu said. Unlike the squad, Israel takes it obligations to end terrorism seriously.
Unlike what’s reported in the anti-Israel press, Netanyahu has close working relationships with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf States. Israel shares intel and technology with its Arab partners, despite the vitriolic rhetoric heard from 67-year-old Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both whip up old hatred against Israel in the Arab world. But savvy Arab leaders have already made peace, either overtly or covertly, and have long since passed the squad’s anti-Semitic rhetoric. Smart Arab leaders know that trying to beat Israel militarily has been tried-and-failed over the last 70 years and would fail again. Nothing is more ironic than 66-year-old Egyptian President Abel Fattah El-Sisi brokering a ceasefire, when there’s no bigger enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas than El-Sisi.
Whatever the chatter in the media, Biden, Netanyahu and Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh are busy working out a ceasefire. Hamas knows that they’ve already wreaked more havoc on a dilapidated Gaza Strip, where citizens barely live with a few hours a day with electricity and running water. Hamas continues to brainwash Gaza residents into thinking they’re one rocket, one tunnel away from conquering Israel. Haniyeh knows the “big lie” to the Gaza people, that Israel isn’t going anywhere. Biden understands the strategic importance of a strong Israel to the United States, especially in a post-Sep. 11 world where the U.S. has many enemies in radical Islam. Putting some overt pressure on Israel plays well to the press and leftist elements in the Democrat Party but doesn’t deal with the basic facts on the ground. U.S. needs Israel to remain a dutiful U.S. satellite now and into the future.
