Joe Biden is now taking a hard line on Israel, holding back delivery of certain weaponry — 500- and 2000-pound bombs, and artillery shells — that he insists will not be delivered if the IDF goes deep into Rafah. But if the IDF does as Biden wants, and does not enter Rafah, it will be unable to rout the four intact battalions of Hamas still in the city, allowing the terror group to claim a victory, as Hamas, albeit with the number of its operatives greatly diminished, would still be standing. Why has Biden chosen to turn his back on Israel at its moment of maximum peril?
It’s domestic politics. He has seen the squalid display of anti-Israel and antisemitic protesters on nearly 100 American campuses, and instead of calling for the moral nitwits, at least half of whom are not even students, to be promptly expelled from the campuses, he; merely criticized the disruption they cause to campus life. who want to see Israel destroyed and replaced by a twenty-third Arab state. But instead of denouncing them and demanding that universities call in the police to close those protests down, Biden has chosen to take their “concerns” seriously. He’s worried, you see, about the Muslim and Arab-American vote, especially in the battleground state of Minnesota, home of Ilhan Omar and a large Somali population. Biden wants to hold onto the state by distancing his administration from Israel. Many Democrats, including Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and Congressman Ritchie Torres of New York, have deplored Biden’s decision. The Republicans have across the board been unstinting in their criticism of Biden’s withholding of weaponry to our closest ally, which they rightly point out “will only help Hamas.”
Now a major donor to Biden’s reelection campaign, the Israeli American billionaire Haim Saban, has come out swinging, declaring that Biden threatening to withhold weapons shipments to Israel is “bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels.” More on Saban’s reaction, that is likely to be shared by many of Biden’s biggest donors, can be found here: “‘Bad, bad, bad,’: Major Israeli-American Biden donor criticizes US threat to halt weapons,” by Yuval Barnea, Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2024:
A major donor to President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has criticized his handling of the weapons shipments to Israel, calling it a “Bad, bad, bad, decision, on all levels” in a text published online on Thursday.
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American billionaire and long-time supporter of Israel and Jewish political causes and has been a consistent donor to the Democratic party since the 1990s.
“This sends a terrible message to our allies in the region, and beyond that, [that] we can flip from doing the right t[h]ing to bending to political pressure.”
He then reminded Biden that “There are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters that care about Hamas.”…
Where appeals to common sense and decency don’t work, a hint from deep-pocketed Democrats that they will no longer be contributing to the care and feeding of candidate Biden might prove persuasive. And Saban is not alone; he’s a harbinger of disaffections to come.
Poetcomic1 says
A foremost expert on modern urban and tunnel warfare has stated that the IDF has done a spectacular job and that by percentages, civilian casualties in Gaza for urban warfare with tunnels and dense local populace used as human shields have been ASTONISHINGLY low.
Wellington says
Indeed Biden has made yet another terrible decision (N.B., Biden never makes a good decision—he is very consistent) but this Haim Saban is also guilty of bad decision making since he has been contributing to the Democratic Party for decades. Hasn’t he seen what has happened to the Democratic Party, especially since Obama got the opportunity to “fundamentally transform” America?
How in the Hell could he have missed all this? Amazing that some people can be brilliant in one area (like making money) and yet so deficient in other areas. What good is brilliance if it isn’t accompanied by common sense, sound street instincts, accurate knowledge and moral intelligence? In fact, brilliance minus these is so very often a menace. George Soros comes foremost to mind.
somehistory says
I agree, Wellington, and I could name a few others knowledgeable in how to get people to give money….in services, products, ideas, etc….and then by some action, such as voting for the likes of bo’biden, show they aren’t as smart as they believe themselves to be.
Wellington says
Again I see, somehistory, that an agnostic and a devout Christian are in accord. This inspires me once more.
Thank you for the wisdom and knowledge you provide here at JW.
somehistory says
And thank you, Wellington. The fact that we agree so often, gives me a warm feeling and encourages the hope in me.
I am humbled by your praise. And, I know I have learned some important things from your many knowledgeable comments.
If not for Mr. Spencer’s desire to make the Truth about islam known, I wouldn’t have had that opportunity.
bagsgroove says
Obuma and Forbidden,the two bad jokes in the history of the US. And we thought Nixon was terrible !
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
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What good is brilliance if it isn’t accompanied by common sense, sound street instincts, accurate knowledge and moral intelligence?”
To your point, take a man like Alan Dershowitz. A brilliant attorney – and US Constitutional scholar – he supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.
Inexplicably, he remains a member of the Democratic Party.
SC says
Pull all jewish funding of the democrats.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Except that too many Jews are insanely Leftist. Bill Maher, Alan Dershowitz, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, & a lot more names that I forget at the moment. So whenever I read these reports of Jews being mobbed, I either denounce them, or hope that the Jews in question are the above type (except Dersh)
WPM says
Has senile Biden made any good decisions in 4 years including running for President in 2020 when he was clearly in sharp decline? His President is like a dead fish laying out in the sun each day it is more filled with more sink and decay.. The question I think should be what Obama wants because I think he and his boot lickers in the alphabet agencies are pulling the strings on this meat puppet walking corpse of a President Biden wants??WE have open borders in America with millions of unvetted people coming across ,.we have the only true allied in the Middle East attacked by terrorist we let Israel hang out to dry and we turn our back on them for the terrorist and terrorist supporting idiotic voters in the incoming election. We have the green new scam causing run away inflation ,and on the edge of world war 3 because of his weak policy with China and Russia. Can someone some where point to something that has gone right or good in his 4 years of appeasing the far left progressive idiots running this freak show ?
Robert_k says
It is of no use. Non Compos Mentis Biden is Muslim Brother Obama’s sock puppet. So Biden will continue to biding of Hamas.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Haim Saban personifies the reason that there is a good number of anti-Semites on the Right. They see Jews like him as being too willing to see the US destroyed by the adaption of woke policies across the board, but suddenly very alarmed when Israel’s survival is threatened. That’s why you see the likes of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who otherwise may not have been opposed to Israel, suddenly taking the Pali side
While I’m supportive of Jews who’re wrongly victimized by the campus jihadists and Leftists, if anyone happens to be like Haim and a Dem, then my reaction changes. In such cases, it couldn’t have happened to nicer people
somehistory says
I see your point, and I understand the feelings. I do my best to see each as an individual, but it can be difficult when there are so very many ‘Individuals” who support evil and they all have the same background/history. Makes me wonder if any with that history are thinking morally.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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