It used to be a Bidenite mantra: we may disagree with the Israelis on some policies, but we would never make our military aid contingent on Israel submitting to our demands. But that was then, and this is now, when the Bidenites are furiously signaling to voters in Michigan and a few other states with large Arab and Muslim populations, that don’t worry, we hear you, and you can see us getting tougher on Israel by the minute. Confirmation of this came on March 28, when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressing the Defense Writers’ Group, for the first time openly admitted that some weaponry requested by Israel was not being provided. Presumably that was done to pressure Israel not to invade Rafah, or not to go to war with Hezbollah, or possibly both. Biden is now doing what he said he would never do: harm Israel’s capacity to wage war. More on this appalling development can be found here: “US refused to give Israel some weapons for Gaza war, general says,” Reuters, March 28, 2024:
The United States’ top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it had asked for, in part because US President Joe Biden’s administration was not willing to provide at least some of them.
Washington gives $3.8 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, its longtime ally. The United States has been rushing air defenses and munitions to Israel, but some Democrats and Arab American groups have criticized the Biden administration’s steadfast support of Israel, which they say provides it with a sense of impunity.
“Although we’ve been supporting them with capability, they’ve not received everything they’ve asked for,” said General Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Some of that is because they’ve asked for stuff that we either don’t have the capacity to provide or are not willing to provide, not right now,” Brown added while speaking at an event hosted by the Defense Writers Group.
The Israeli offensive prompted opposition from within Biden’s Democratic Party, leading thousands to vote “uncommitted” for him in recent party presidential primaries.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington earlier this week, and the Pentagon said that security assistance for Israel had been discussed.
There are several ways to look at this announcement, none of them good.
One is that the Bidenites are not really withholding anything of importance, but want to give the appearance of doing so, in order to win back support from Muslim and so-called progressive voters. It seems unlikely that that will do the trick; nothing short of the Biden administration demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza is likely to win them back. Even that may not be enough.
Much more likely is that some weapons are indeed being withheld from a loyal ally, just as that ally is in the middle of a war that it did not want and did not cause. This is the fourth war for the Jewish state’s survival, after those of 1948, 1967, and 1973. Withholding of weapons requested by Israel has obvious consequences. Israel now must feel it cannot fully count on Washington’s military support, just as it can no longer count on its diplomatic support — that is, the use of the American veto — at the UN Security Council. This means Israel will not only ramp up its domestic manufacture of weapons that until now it has bought from the Americans, but will also be more willing to consider other weapons it never thought it might have to employ, including tactical nuclear weapons. Imagine, for example, that the IDF is still fighting Hamas in Gaza, and at the same time Hezbollah has attacked the northern Galilee, launching ten thousand missiles every day (Hezbollah has 150,000 rockets and missiles), hitting Tel Aviv, Dimona, ten of Israel’s military airfields, while the Houthis are still firing on ships in the Red Sea to prevent Israel’s shipping of goods to and from Asia. At that point, might the state of Israel decide that it needs, by way of a demonstration meant to frighten Iran and all of Israel’s Iranian-backed enemies — Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and others — to drop a nuclear weapon in the Iranian desert?
Have the Bidenites considered how its other allies must be reconsidering their reliance on American weaponry, if even such a close ally as Israel can be denied weapons that the IDF says it needs? If you were Taiwan, for example, wouldn’t you be wondering whether you can continue to rely on American assurances of military support should China try to invade?
It’s hard to know what weapons the Americans are withholding from Israel’s wish list, but I suspect they might have decided not to resupply the IDF with the bunker-buster bombs that it had delivered early in the conflict. According to reports, the US has supplied 100 BLU-109 penetrating bombs to help the Israeli military destroy the deepest tunnels that have been dug, some 50 meters underground in the 500-mile network of terror tunnels that Hamas built under Gaza. But the destruction of those tunnels also leads to the collapse of many buildings just above. Perhaps the Bidenites want to discourage the IDF’s continued use of bunker-busters. It won’t discourage the Israelis — they are determined to destroy those tunnels, whatever the cost — but it will make that task much more difficult.
SC says
Maybe Israel should have a chat with Putin.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
They should, but the only problem: Putin is already tight w/ Iran, and Hamas. Yeah, Putin would be happy to sell the deadliest of weapons to both sides
Israel should simply reverse-engineer every weapons system it can
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“Israel should simply reverse-engineer every weapons system it can”
I wouldn’t be surprised if it has been done so already.
maria says
Absolutely no connection with Putin who is cooperating with Iran doesn´tcooeprate with Israel
He is as dangerous as Iran and China
Rick Gordon says
A travesty – but should be expected from this White House and the continuing long standing anti-semitic activity from the U.S. State Department.
The U.S. is proving to be an unreliable ally of our friends around the globe.
Kenneth Johnson says
tHE sTATE dEPARTMENT HAS BEENANTI SEMITIDC SINCE 1938 WHEN THEY ORHHESTED THE DENIAL OF TH SHIPLOAD OF REFUGERES.iF TUMP wants
a loyal Stte Department he had beetter quit looking to the Ivy Lelageu collegesd and start l,ooking at the Midwest, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma for instnce. KEN
Walter Sieruk says
As for that picture of those two despicable insidious scoundrels , Joe Biden and Mahmoud, walking together with the sinister wicked scheming are most dangerous.
In all fairness those two fiendish villains make very fitting match . They do truly deserve each other.
So much so that about that photo of them walking right next to other while talking This is a reflection of the rhetorical question posed in the Bible which is “Can two walk together ,unless they are agreed ? ” Amos 3:3. [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, Abbas and Biden have joined together with their evil plots, yet in the very end all their horrendous actions will come back down on them to their own harm. For the Bible informs its reader that “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21.
Ray Jarman says
Excellent Walter Sieruk. Can anyone imagine even FDR, much less Sir Winston Churchill walking down the isle with Tojo or Hitler? Every time I see this photo, I want to scream treason.
somehistory says
OT but news out of Jordan, re; the mb
“Pro-Hamas riots erupt in Jordan causing inner divisions to resurface”
hamas is under the umbrella of the mozlum brotherhood
and arrests have been made of some members
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pro-hamas-riots-erupt-in-jordan-causing-inner-divisions-to-resurface/ar-BB1kO9VU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a8f0ac5b5c674c4d9b91b615c45b17a2&ei=24OT but of interest re: Israel and hamas
Rick Smith says
It’s because of morons like Biden and his cronies that the US has earned the reputation of being an unreliable friend in the Mideast and elsewhere.
There was a story I read ages about Iraqi freedom fighters who wanted to root out all the terrorists in their area, but inexplicably, the US stopped providing arms/support and just abandoned them.
If American leaders genuinely care about spreading freedom/democracy, then they need to stay in the fight and see it till the end.
The trouble is that our weak-kneed leaders are easily manipulated and swayed by public opinion and which pressure groups shout the loudest to get their attention.
This is why some countries like India are wary of relying on US military hardware and backing because they know they can be cut off anytime for no reason.
This is no way to treat friends/allies like Israel who’ve run an ethical war as best as they could. The Republicans need to step up here and put pressure on the Dems to keep their promises to Israel or find a way to remove Biden from power.
rick says
From the above article: “It won’t discourage the Israelis — they are determined to destroy those tunnels, whatever the cost — but it will make that task much more difficult.”
And that means there will be more Israeli soldiers who die rather than fewer. What would any American say to an ally who supplied the US with weapons and then during a War suddenly cut those weapons off from the US thus causing more Americans to die? That is the ultimate RED LINE!
Biden is overdoing his anti-Israel policy to make Muslims voters in the US consider voting for him in November. Jews have always been “expendable” throughout History. And today is no different. Although I am sure Obama lectured Biden while he was VP on the “true” story of Israel and “Palestinians” and those lectures sunk in. Obama was no friend of Israel and Biden apparently has no problem doing an “about face” on what was the Standard American Policy on Israel for the past 70 or so number of years.
The faster Hamas is destroyed in Gaza, the faster the humanitarian concerns of the general population can be addressed. We, the US as well as France and Britain, did not rush humanitarian aid into Germany in 1945 until Hitler was destroyed and Germany formally surrendered. Why hold Israel to a different standard?