Any nation on earth would be insane to ally with the United States, when the president of the U.S. will so readily betray an ally in pursuit of electoral gain. He is forcing Israel to lose the war and protecting Hamas in order to carry Michigan in November.
“Biden to Netanyahu: Protect civilians or else,” by Michael Williams, MJ Lee, Kayla Tausche and Nikki Carvajal, CNN, April 5, 2024:
President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences, a stark statement from Israel’s staunchest ally.
The 30-minute conversation was the two leaders’ first phone call since an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. The killings have set off a furor inside the White House and Biden has been described as reaching a new level of frustration with Israel’s campaign.
“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” the White House said in a statement shortly after the call wrapped. “He made clear that US policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”
Biden also said Israel needed to “announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers.”
In the phone call, Netanyahu admitted to his American counterpart that the Israel Defense Forces were to blame for the deaths of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers this week – and assured Biden that the Israeli government planned to announce measures to prevent such a mistake from happening again, according to a senior administration official.
Netanyahu told Biden that Israel was set on improving the tracking of non-profit workers inside Gaza and Biden affirmed that such steps were necessary, the official said. The prime minister also pledged during the call that Israel will soon announce new openings of humanitarian crossings, as well as procedural changes to limit civilian harm.
CNN reported Thursday afternoon that the Israeli security cabinet has approved the reopening of the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza strip, according to an Israeli official, in order to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.
Speaking in Brussels after the call, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the stakes clear: “If we don’t see the changes that we need to see, there’ll be changes in our own policy,” he said. However, neither Blinken nor National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, speaking later at the White House press briefing, detailed what those potential policy changes could be.
Kirby said the US “would hope to see some announcements of changes here in the coming hours and days – and I’ll leave it at that.”
Biden did not lay out the specifics of how he would consider shifting US policy during the call if Israel doesn’t make changes in its handling of the war in Gaza, speaking instead in the same broad strokes reflected in the White House readout of the call that concrete “changes” needed to be made, the senior administration official said. …
deze MN bee says
Gaza is a war zone. Those worthy Kitchen people just shouldn’t be there. Gazians (except for Hamas) should be out the door into the adjacent arabic countries. The pressure should be on Egypt etc. to act in a human-like manner rather than keeping Gazians like flies in sealed bottle buzzing insanely and going nowhere in a desert sun
Ian says
Not only will Hamas survive, but regroup, grow, declare victory, and then attack again. The IDF is a noble and moral military force. Those who erred (even on the side of caution) will be held accountable – regardless of rank. This is part of Biden’s plan to force Netanyahu out of office. But I think it is a fool’s errand to believe any other Israeli Prime Minister will prosecute this war much differently.
dunk says
Theft, abduction used to be punishable by law in the west.
What the west build over the centuries is gradually being destroyed by half backed academics,once upon a time it was the workers livelihood,to days smart asses do not give damn about the workers which was the problem in the 19th century Read your bloody Marx what timewhat year
John1 says
How can Biden be so stupid to think he needs to cave in to the Muslims in Michigan in order to try to secure that state in the November election? Does he really think that the Muslims will vote for Donald Trump who would really like to kick their jihadi asses out of the country and keep more from coming in, cut off funding to the PA, etc?
James Lincoln says
Good analysis, John1.
OLD GUY says
How strange that there are that many muslim/islamic followers in America to effect the actions of our President over their vote. Why keep allowing these migrants into America? They do not become Americans they are mostly anti-Americans.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible Joe Biden wants an extended “ceasefire” in that Israel- Hamas war.
All any type of “ceasefire” would do is to give time for the jihadists ,who belong to that murderous jihad entity Hamas, to regroup and then viciously attack Israel again and viciously murder her people.
To be even more clear, it should be made known that , Hamas will break any ceasefire agreement and engage in Islamic terror/murder attack against the Jewish people who are the citizens of the State of Israel .
Therefore, in a further extended “ceasefire” the jihadists of Hamas would continue to engage in more murderous jihad terror attacks against Israel and her people.
This reason why this is so is because the jihadists of that demonic and deadly jihad entity have no honor.
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Walter Sieruk says
If those deceitful liars who are jihadists chiefs of Hamas if they would “agree” to a ceasefire, they use the strategy that is the Islamic doctrine of if they actually say that they will “honor” as ceasefire and not engage in direct and insidious jihad terror killing attacks against Israel and her people.
Taqiyya is the Islamic dogma that lying and deception is a good ploy as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. With Hamas , those of that murderous jihad entity view the elimination of all Jew in the world and the destruction of Israel and replacing her with an “Islamic state “ as greatly accomplishing much for the advancement of Islam.
Therefore, about those who engage in deception the Bible informs its readers that “Enemies disguised themselves with their lips. Proverbs 26:24. Further in the same chapter of Proverbs [v.26 ] teaches Their malice may be concealed by deception.” [N.I.V.] For the God of the Bible “condemns those who devise wicked schemes…” Proverbs 12:11. Likewise, Proverbs 12:20 teaches “Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil.”
In conclusion .Let’s not be beguiled to the sly and insidious jihadist methods of Taqiyya.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Israel doesn’t have much of a choice not to ally w/ the US, but anyone who could abandon us has: Saudi Arabia, Uganda, for starters. In Saudi Arabia’s case, they ended the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which was one of the few reasons we ever allied w/ them in the first place
hillel says
I’ve known USMC warriors who have described the plethora of “friendly” fire incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere), and what happened with the food workers in NO WAY equals the horrific incidents attendant upon our (American) invasion of the two afore-mentioned lands.
tgusa says
The idiot and his supporters are between a rock and a hard place. They are rats in a maze. This is the result of long time tradition among the democrat party of accepting anything anytime anywhere, for votes. They are really worried about losing the support of the nazi wing of the democrat party. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
James Lincoln says
There are other countries – besides the United States – that have historically sold weapons to Israel:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-which-countries-companies-arming
jerry glenn says
USA surges in the international Islamopandering derby
Yeshayahu says
Biden best sit down and shut up US doesn’t dictate Israeli policy, coming from a country that for 20 years couldn’t find much less defeat Taliban and then run away in the middle of the night. Old blow Joe best check himself he’s a enemy of Israel not to be trusted.