President Joe Biden, 78, told ABC News at a White House press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that there is no “shift” in his position of support for Israel. Biden was asked whether he sees a shift in the Democrat Party’s position on Israel, questioning whether or not the U.S. should halt $735 million in arms sales to Israel. Biden was clear that there’s no change in his position toward Israel, letting the Jewish State defend itself against the Hamas rocket war started May 10. Biden faced blistering criticism from his Party’s left wing, led by the squad, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressely (D-Mass.), all of whom back Hamas in their rocket war against Israel. Biden told the Democrat Party that there was no “shift” in his support of the Jewish State, despite pressure inside his Party.
Biden started to find his stride as president realizing, in all likelihood, he’ll be a one-term president. Biden admitted during the campaign he ran primarily because he was the only one in his Party capable of beating former President Donald Trump. His left wing of the Party doesn’t remember that they weren’t elected president, it was Joe Biden that has a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That fact infuriates the squad, looking for Biden to shift toward backing Hamas, a known terrorist group with close ties to Iran. No one in the mainstream press asks where Hams gets all its rocket to fire into Israel. Biden knows that Iran supplies arms-and-cash to Hamas to fight its proxy war against Israel. Yet to Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar and Pressley their loyalty stands not with the U.S. but with oppressed Muslims in foreign lands, ignoring 73-years of history with Israel.
Biden met May 18 in Dearborn, Michigan with Tlaib to celebrate a Ford F-150 electric truck plant promising to be the wave of the future. Tlaib complained about the decimation to the Gaza Strip, close to where he parents live in the West Bank. Biden thanked Tlaib, a Congresswoma of Palestinian ancestry, for her passion but he let Netanyahu process his air war against Hamas, not calling for a cease fire until Israel finished its military operations. Tlaib and other members of the squad demanded that Israel stop its bombing campaign, seeking legislation to stop Israel from receiving its multi-billion dollar defense budget. At some point, the squad caught wind of the fact that Biden backed Netanyahu’s military operations against Hamas, looking to dominate the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority. Biden let Tlaib and the squad talk while Netanyahu prosecuted the war.
Hamas has already claimed victory after watching the Gaza Strip laid to waste by the Israeli Defense Services [IDF]. Biden worked behind the scenes with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to end the Gaza conflict, primarily because Hamas is an offshoot of the deadly Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sisi battled former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi for the control of Egypt when the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt June 30, 2012. El-Sisi closed Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, fearing Hamas infiltration into Egypt, knowing they were out to topple El-Sisi’s government. It’s beyond ironic that El-Sisi helped broker the ceasefire with Egypt, knowing his intolerance of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. If the squad learned anything from the latest Hamas war against Israel, it was that Israel is a stalwart ally of the United States and that Biden aimed to preserve that fact.
Natanyahu thanked “my fried” Joe Biden for his support during the 10-day war with Hamas. Biden’s patience before crafting a ceasefire with El-Sisi gave Netanayahu enough time to accomplish his goals, including destroying Hamas’ elaborate underground tunnel system and terrorist infrastructure spread over the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu told Biden that the IDF has destroyed about 100 kilometers [62-miles] of underground tunnels designed to attack Israel. Yet Hamas claimed victory over Israel after losing billions of dollars in infrastructure and 250 lives in the 10 days. Netanyahu agreed to reconsider the Palestinians evictions in East Jerusalem, something ordered by an Israel court after a protracted real estate dispute. Biden pledged that the U.S. is willing to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after the recent devastation. Hamas launches rockets at Israel to win concessions in ceasefire agreements.
Biden told the press that he wanted to resume peace talks working toward a two-state solution but only if Palestinian factions recognized Israel’s right to exist. U.N. officials worked on peace for years using U.N. Resolution 242 that Palestinians would recognize Israel’s right to exist in exchange for returning to the pre-1967 Six Day War borders. Israel annexed Egypt’s Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Jordan’s East Jerusalem and the West Bank and Syria’s Golan Heights. Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt in 1979 in what’s known as the Camp David Accords, eventually handing back the Gaza Strip in 2005. But Hamas never changed its 1987 charter founded by Shekh Ahmed Nassin to destroy Israel. Biden won’t get any commitment from Hamas to recognize Israel’s right to exist. With Ramallah-based Mahmoud Abbas no longer in charge of Palestinians, the U.S., U.N. and EU lost their peace partner.
