Biden talked tough against Iran with Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid. While his words were encouraging, his consistent reputation is not. Appeasement emboldens enemies such as Iran and mere talk is nothing but appeasement.
He is right, of course. Joe Biden is in way over his head.
Biden has been on a “peace tour” to the Middle East. The Hamas chief recently announced that the US influence is shrinking under Joe Biden, so Hamas must now build alliances with Russia and China. The Russian media has also been mocking Biden.
“Biden, Lapid agree to stop Iran nuke program, differ on how,” by Aamer Madhani, Josh Boak, and Chris Megerian, Associated Press, July 14, 2022:
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid stood side-by-side Thursday and declared they would not allow Iran to become a nuclear power. They parted ways, though, on how to get there.
Biden, in a joint news conference after a one-on-one meeting with the Israeli leader, said he still wants to give diplomacy a chance. Moments earlier, Lapid insisted that words alone won’t thwart Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
While Biden suggested his patience with Iran was running low, he held out hope that Iran can be persuaded to rejoin a dormant deal intended to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon.
“I continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome,” Biden said on the second day of a four-day visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia. He also stressed on his first trip to the Middle East as president the importance of furthering ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
Hours before Biden was set to become the first U.S. leader to fly directly from Israel to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation announced early Friday “the decision to open the Kingdom’s airspace for all air carriers that meet the requirements of the Authority for overflying.”
It signaled the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli airliners overflying its territory — an incremental step toward the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel that builds on the strong but informal ties the erstwhile foes have developed in recent years over their shared concerns about Iran’s growing influence in the region.“President Biden welcomes and commends the historic decision by the leadership of Saudi Arabia to open Saudi airspace to all civilian carriers without discrimination, a decision that includes flights to and from Israel,” U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement early Friday.
Biden’s emphasis on a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program contrasted with Lapid, who said Iran must face a real threat of force before it will agree to give up on its nuclear ambitions.
“Words will not stop them, Mr. President. Diplomacy will not stop them,” Lapid said. “The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program the free world will use force.”…..
Infidel says
Lapid was nice to him. I can’t wait to see what sort of a reception he gets in Riyadh
Pray Hard says
I have some small hopes, you know, being that the Sauds are little but gold-plated savages.
somehistory says
“Words.”
biden should listen to the words from Bogart when he spoke to Edward G. in Key Largo.
Frank; “You don’t like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it.”
“Words.” work on some things, but not on mozlums…not nice words, or asking words, or concession words, nor apology words, or we can all get along words.
Pray Hard says
Good one.
somehistory says
Thank you, Pay Hard
john smith says
Well said Somehistory
somehistory says
Thank you, John
Pray Hard says
Biden doesn’t want to stop Iran.
gravenimage says
Sadly this seems to be the case.
Kenneth J Johnson says
And if Iran doesn’t react to a Credible Military Threat??? KEN
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is a horrendously awful negotiator , he will only make things worse in the Middle East.
Biden is full of empty words and broken promises . Biden is all talk and no action.
With a few exceptions , and then he orders the wrong actions.
gravenimage says
Israel PM tells Biden only ‘credible military threat’ will stop Iran, ‘words will not stop them’
Biden talked tough against Iran with Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid. While his words were encouraging, his consistent reputation is not. Appeasement emboldens enemies such as Iran and mere talk is nothing but appeasement.
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Forking over large amounts of cash is appeasement, as well.
Fitna says
Biden showed the world what a craven little weasel he was when he abandoned Americans and ran away from the Taliban in Afghanistan. All the terrorists and tin-pot dictators sighed with relief and laughed.
This is why Putin invaded Ukraine, it’s why Iran’s doubled it’s efforts to get a bomb, why China, is getting more belligerent with its neighbors, etc. Weakness invites aggression.
Biden and the Leftards are just too stupid to see it. A billion times over it’s been proven in history appeasement never works against tyrants and fascists but these morons keep making the same mistakes over and over.
Chamberlain though he could get Hitler to leave his country alone, he failed, like so many other weaklings. Instead Hitler firebombed his cities. This is the price of cowardice, your people die in horrible ways.
Once Iran has nukes, they will use them. 9/11 should’ve been a heavy lesson on US minds, that Muslims hate them and are serious about destroying the US.
Everyone was so desperate to not believe this, they blamed Bush, Cheney and everyone else. Anybody except the real enemy Islam and Muslims.
Granted Bush did make a lot of stupid mistakes, esp. being a stooge for the Saudis, but with the right leadership advising him, that could’ve been avoided and a crypto-Muslim like Obama could’ve never become president.
Israel itself knows the danger is real and they’re trying to count on “big brother” US, but they can’t see Biden is senile and a feckless Leftist and will do nothing to help them. It is up to Israel to stop Iran before we get a real nuclear holocaust.
Not to mention nobody wins in a nuclear exchange, radiation clouds will poison the world’s atmosphere, everyone loses…it’s not just Israel’s job, but the West is a runaway train with nobody in control.
Walter Sieruk says
Words will not stop those vicious murdering jihadists. One of the many awful things about Joe Biden is that he is only all talk and no action when it comes doing the right thing by ordering the right action to stop the aggressive violent deadly and oppressive jihad
The only times Biden does take action is when it comes to his ordering the wrong actions at the wrong time. As observed in the disaster he created in Afghanistan by his order to have an immediate and hastily withdrawal from that land and likewise abandoning many Americans and our true Afghan friends in Afghanistan leaving them to them to be cruelly slaughtered a by the Taliban and giving them a complete and total takeover of that land.