Posted on 02/10/2024 7:12:16 AM PST by Libloather
One of President Biden’s top advisers told fuming Arab and Muslim American community leaders in Michigan this week that the administration has made “missteps” in its support for Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
“We are very well aware that we have missteps in the course of responding to this crisis since Oct. 7,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer said during a Thursday meeting in Dearborn, Mich., with Muslim and Arab Americans, including state and local Democratic elected officials, according to the New York Times.
“We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration and the country values the lives of Palestinians,” Finer added.
“And that began, frankly, pretty early in the conflict.”
Finer was part of a White House delegation dispatched to Michigan ahead of the state’s Feb. 27 Democratic presidential primary, in response to growing hostility toward Biden from Muslim and Arab Americans – a sizable voting bloc in the Great Lake State – over his support of Israel’s war effort in the aftermath of last October’s massacre of 1,200 people in the Jewish state.
Dozens of elected officials and community leaders in Michigan have accused Biden, 81, of disregarding the Palestinian death toll in the conflict and have railed against him for not demanding a cease-fire.
During the meeting, Finer expressed regret that the Biden administration wasn’t stronger in condemning Israeli officials that compared “residents of Gaza to animals.”
“Out of a desire to sort of focus on solving the problem and not engaging in a rhetorical back-and-forth with people who, in many cases, I think we all find somewhat abhorrent, we did not sufficiently indicate that we totally rejected and disagreed with those sorts of sentiments,” Finer said.
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There is no such thing as Arab and Muslim American community only Arab and Muslim community
Chrissy Murphy kissing illegal alien ass and now Biden kissing Muslim ass. America has become the freak show Bidenskyyyyyy, Hunter and “Doctor” Jill wanted it to be.
Ass-kissery at it's finest.
Sheesh...THIS? guy is a Principal National Security advisor? Jewish and out there lying his butt off to make Biden get more Arab-American Votes.
His ‘record’ reads to me like the script from “The Flim Flam Man.” Never served in the military but was ‘embedded’ with U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq. I really hope no Marines had to give up their lives for this PoS.
The Biden handlers had to decide whether to support Jews/Israel or the Nazis, and chose the Nazis. Considering the similarities of the Hamas terror organization and the Deep State/Democrat axis, I see why our Dems loathe Netanyahu for demonstrating an effective strategy.
They only need to be told the hostages must be freed.
I have no sympathy for Palestinian war criminals or their supporters.
We need to decolonize America and sent Muslim invaders back to their homeland
““residents of Gaza to animals”
I have a higher opinion of my Democratic neighbors’ dogs.
The handlers figured out one side really cares about its major issues and will trash the Democratic Party if it does not get its way.
The other side will sit down and shut up and support the Democrats no matter what.
There is a lesson to be learned here.
In politics being polite and fair loses to being mean and vicious.
It is what it is.
"Vote For Potatus"
Did Biden mention he gave Israel munitions and weaponry
to destroy Hamas and Gaza after the attack? On December 9, 2023
the Biden admin bypassed Congress and made another
emergency determination to approve the sale to Israel of
nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106m.
<><>57,000 155mm artillery shells
<><>more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or “dumb” bombs,
<><>more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000 pound warhead bombs,
<><>around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs,
<><>approximately 3,000 JDAMs, which turn unguided bombs into guided “smart” bombs,
<><>BLU-109 bunker busters w/ 2,000 pound warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters.
After the meeting they were all given Brown Shirts promoting the administration.
time.com
Biden Administration Bypasses Congress Once Again On Emergency Weapons Sale to Israel
BY MATTHEW LEE / AP, DECEMBER 30, 2023
WASHINGTON — For the second time this month the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas in Gaza under increasing international criticism.
The State Department said Friday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination covering a $147.5 million sale for equipment, including fuses, charges and primers, that is needed to make the 155 mm shells that Israel has already purchased function.
“Given the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer,” the department said.
“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to U.S. national interests to ensure Israel is able to defend itself against the threats it faces,” it said.
The emergency determination means the purchase will bypass the congressional review requirement for foreign military sales. Such determinations are rare, but not unprecedented, when administrations see an urgent need for weapons to be delivered without waiting for lawmakers’ approval.
Blinken made a similar decision on Dec. 9, to approve the sale to Israel of nearly 14,000 rounds of tank ammunition worth more than $106 million.
Both moves have come as President Joe Biden’s request for a nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other national security needs remains stalled in Congress, caught up in a debate over U.S. immigration policy and border security. Some Democratic lawmakers have spoken of making the proposed $14.3 billion in American assistance to its Mideast ally contingent on concrete steps by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza during the war with Hamas.
The State Department sought to counter potential criticism of the sale on human rights grounds by saying it was in constant touch with Israel to emphasize the importance of minimizing civilian casualties, which have soared since Israel began its response to the Hamas attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.
“We continue to strongly emphasize to the government of Israel that they must not only comply with international humanitarian law, but also take every feasible step to prevent harm to civilians,” it said.
“Hamas hides behind civilians and has embedded itself among the civilian population, but that does not lessen Israel’s responsibility and strategic imperative to distinguish between civilians and Hamas terrorists as it conducts its military operations,” the department said. “This type of campaign can only be won by protecting civilians.”
Bypassing Congress with emergency determinations for arms sales is an unusual step that has in the past met resistance from lawmakers, who normally have a period of time to weigh in on proposed weapons transfers and, in some cases, block them.
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We need to learn that lesson. Too many of us still pay the leftist media to entertain us even as they lie about us, and patronize woke tech companies rather than find alternatives even as they work against us.
the antisemitism in liberals just has a real hard time staying hidden for long-
Finer is a native of Norwich, Vermont, the eldest of four children born to Susan (née Burack) and Chad Finer. His mother was the principal of the Frances C. Richmond School and his father a doctor. He is Jewish.
Biden chose the wrong horse? Should of been a headchopper?
hard to believe that he is condemning Israel basically- and grovelling to muslim hammas supporters
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