By having both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Chief of Israel’s General Staff Herzi Halevi apologize for the mistaken killing by the IDF of seven aid workers in Gaza, and following this up with the announcement that Israel would open on April 7 the Erez crossing into northern Gaza, which had been closed since October 7, in order that more humanitarian aid could come in and at a much faster rate, and that the Israeli cabinet also approved using the Port of Ashdod to help transfer more aid to Gaza, the querulous Bidenites appear to have been satisfied for the moment. Joe Biden will now find it easier to reject the shrill cries of the “progressives” in his party, who have taken to demanding that Washington halt the delivery of offensive weapons to Israel. There is now no sign of that happening. No doubt the threat of war with Hezbollah makes a cutoff of weapons unlikely. More on the latest contretemps between the two countries can be found here: “Is Israel Really Alone, When It Counts?,” by Jim Geraghty, National Review,
The Israel Defense Forces strike that killed seven employees of the World Central Kitchen on Monday may cause the Israelis more friction with the U.S. government than all previous military actions combined. A lot of people want you to believe that President Biden has turned his back on the Israelis….
While Biden has taken to unfounded and absurd criticisms of Israel, after two months of war describing its response to Hamas as “over the top,” and then refusing to veto a Security Council resolution that called for an “immediate ceasefire” that was untethered from a call for the release of all the hostages, he has not threatened to hold back military aid to Israel, which is what the Squadroons, and some recent senatorial converts to their anti-Israel campaign, such as Senator Chris Van Hollen, want him to do — to publicly declare exactly what weapons he would withhold if Israel ignores American requests.
But Israel has not been ignoring those requests. As of April 7, it has opened the Erez crossing and the port of Ashdod for the transfer of humanitarian aid. The IDF is pulling all of its troops save for one battalion out of Khan Yunis and from southern Gaza as well. It is pulling back so that nearly a million people who moved to Rafah from the north can now move back to safe enclaves in central Gaza, after which, with most of the civilians gone, the IDF will enter Rafah. It has decided on the date.
As to Rafah, the Bidenites originally had been adamantly opposed to the IDF entering the city, but after Netanyahu made clear that he would not be dissuaded, they softened their tone, and demanded not that Israel refrain from entering Rafah, but that the IDF “not proceed without a credible plan” to protect civilians, which is what the Israelis are apparently still preparing. But it is clear that even if Washington continues to object to an IDF move into Rafah, that mission will go ahead.
Each week and month since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, world opinion has shifted against the Israelis more and more. The victims of Hamas have been quickly forgotten, as have the remaining hostages whom Hamas refuses to release, and whom Hamas men are almost certainly still abusing in the most horrific ways….
I don’t think the victims of Hamas have been forgotten. They are still mentioned in most news broadcasts about the war in Gaza, which begin formulaically with remarks about “the war began after Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7.” The hostages are also mentioned, in interviews with their families, and in coverage of demonstrations in Israel, where tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating nightly to demand that the government do more to obtain their release.
Even Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, whose anti-Israel animus is palpable, observed the six-months of the Gaza War with a speech about the hostages. The major newspapers in the U.S. all devoted long articles at the six-month mark of the war to the courageous testimony of Amit Susannah, who had been held hostage until she was released in November, about her own sexual abuse, including sodomy, at the hands of her Hamas captors. Her bleak assurance that right now, the girls and women still being held in Gaza are being subjected to similar abuse every day, received wide coverage.
Meanwhile, France, Egypt, and Jordan have issued a collective call for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza. Palestinian Students for Justice denounces Israel for “genocide in Gaza.” So do members of The Squad. At the International Court of Justice, Nicaragua is demanding that the ICJ demand that Germany stop selling arms to Israel which, it claims, are used to commit “genocide.” Tens of thousands of protesters show up in London, Paris, Rome, and New York to protest against the apartheid settler-colonial genocidal state of Israel.
And amidst all this venom, animus, double-standards, and plain old-fashioned antisemitism, Israel — the tiny Jewish state scarcely discernible on the world map — keeps on keeping on.
Walter Sieruk says
Prime Minister Benjamin was not only right, for he also spoke the sensible thing to do when he declared, “No force in the world will stop us from elimination Hamas.”
For Hamas is a dangerous and deadly plague for all Jewish people and the State of Israel and as some people don’t seem to realize that vicious and vile jihad entity also dangerous to America and all the other Western countries.
Furthermore, Hamas hates the Jewish people with a spiteful passion, which also carries over to the same detestable and deadly malice for Christians. As is the saying in the Middle East among jihad-minded Muslims, it’s “First comes Saturday then comes Sunday” Meaning “First kill all the Jews and then kill all the Christians”
To think about it , the many Muslims propagandists who live in the United States keep telling the Americans as well as other Westerner that “Islam respects Jews and Christians as “People of the Book. “ The words “Those, of course, mean the Bible.
In reality, many Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere engage in severs persecution Christians and Jews Therefore, those words spoken by the Muslim apologists for Islam are disingenuous and empty words.
The persecution of who aren’t officially “People of the book” would be horrendously cruel and murderous towards Hindus and Buddhists as well as people of other religions who Muslim view a “pagan.”
Prime Minister Benjamin had revealed knowledge and wisdom by his statement about the need to about the very important and necessary need to engage in the “Elimination of Hamas.”
gravenimage says
Fine post, Walter.
Walter Sieruk says
That fiendish villain Joe Biden, had ,indeed, totally abandoned Israel , likewise he betrayed her.
For is so very despicable that in an insidious way providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
We may be sure that either in a direct way or an indirect way will use that money to advance its nuclear weapons program and further its stooge terror/murder jihad organizations which are Hamas, Hezbollah , Islamic Jihad.
Some Westerners might find in a bit interesting that Ayatollah Khamenei as well as the other ayatollahs and mullahs who have so much terrible power in Iran , don’t ever engage in any shootings and bombings , they just have their useful idiots who are the Muslim terrorists those three horrendous jihad entities to the dirty work of murdering of people for them as their tools.
Some of that vast amount of money Biden those in power in Iran to obtain will , without doubt , also be given in support to further found Hamas and also Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Truly, Joe Biden is a treacherous scoundrel.
Walter Sieruk says
There is a great difference between the fool and terrible “advice” of Joe Biden, of “Not hitting Hamas too hard” As if such, a thing is possible and in contrast, the wisdom spoken by a genuine US President, Thomas Jefferson, who had rightly said “With every barbarous people….force is law.”
It should also be added that the jihadists who make up Hamas cannot and will not take heed of reason or logic. The only language that they are capable of understanding is that of the language of the might of a strong brutal military might. Therefore, they should be dealt with that way.
For it’s been wisely said the “Half measures in war is folly and madness.”
Wellington says
Hamas is evil and Joe Biden is rotten. As for Israel, it must do what it must—destroy Hamas and ignore Biden as much as possible.
What a disgrace Joe Biden is. He is an insult to America as well as a traitor. Anyone who would vote for him in 2024 (assuming he’ll be the Democratic Presidential candidate, which to date I still question) is an ignoramus at best, utterly malevolent at worst. The man is so awful and a total eff-up that he is to a large extent responsible for the tragic evil of October 7th in Israel. It was Biden who reinitiated the heinous nuclear deal with Iran that Obama initiated and which Trump terminated. It was Biden who lifted many sanctions against Iran which Trump had placed upon that rogue nation led by Islamic zealots and thus thereafter it had the financial resources to back Hamas as it did not when Trump was President.
Biden has oozed weakness to tyrants and has continued the weaponization of the justice system which Obama began in order to persecute political enemies. He has allowed an invasion on America’s southern border and has done many other wretched things like declaring war upon fossil fuels (N.B., they are less polluting and far more efficient than so-called green energy) and demonizing up to half of all Americans with his many lies about Trump supporters (Biden’s September 1st, 2022 speech in Philadelphia before Independence Hall is the single most despicable speech ever given by an American President).
Traitor Joe also accepted bribes from other countries when Vice-President and by now one knows this or should know it. And on and on with this malignant clown now filling out Obama’s third term, Obama being a fool in his own right but a very slick one. Enough already with the egregious Joe Biden who has now turned his back on Israel as Speaker Mike Johnson very recently said.
Biden has no virtues. None. And Israel, which has many virtues, needs to eradicate Hamas no matter what the disgraceful Biden says or does. Long live Israel.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Expertly stated, and all tragically true.
Brian Osborn says
Thanks Wellington. Spot-on!
S says
Amen.
OLD GUY says
Spot on Wellington.
gravenimage says
+1
FYI says
Full support to the Israelis and Jewish people!
You need to read Biblical prophecy.
“The sovereign Lord never does anything without revealing His plan to his servants His prophets”
Amos 3 v 7
The Book of Joel{Justice for Jews.Note verse 19-21 in Joel 3 “I will not spare the Guilty”}
The Book of Zechariah{Jerusalem shall stand}chapters 12-14
Daniel 7 v v 23-27 This Globalist Empire{the Fourth Empire of the ten kings} shall fall.
S says
Hallelujah!
From The Other Side of Town. says
Dear brave Israel!
Brigitte from Germany says
I love Israel.
I stay with Israel.
You are not alone Israel.
Edmundas Vaišnoras says
God bless Israel!
S says
Amen!
H North says
Only fools expose themselves to death and dismemberment by running around inside of active war zones.
gravenimage says
Israel Keeps On Keeping On
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God bless Israel!
And kudos to Bosch Fawstin for his cartoon–Israel is down but not out.