Posted on 05/20/2024 7:48:16 AM PDT by SJackson
US President Joe Biden has told his story about his conversation with Golda Meir five weeks ahead of the 1973 Yom Kippur War countless times.
Meir told the young senator from Delaware not to cast doubt on Israel’s future, even in times of great peril for the Jewish state.
“Don’t worry, senator,” she said. “We Jews have a secret weapon in our fight: We have no place else to go.”
But a different conversation with an Israeli prime minister has become more relevant since Biden’s shockingly disturbing announcement to CNN last week that he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel for the first time if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a major invasion of Rafah.
At a closed-door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1982, Biden warned then-prime minister Menachem Begin that military aid for Israel’s war in Lebanon could be cut off. Begin responded furiously.
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles,” Begin said. “I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Biden has always painted himself as pro-Israel, but it should have surprised no one that he merely carried out the threat that he issued to the Jewish state 42 years ago.
The response in Israel has been to blame Netanyahu for harming relations with the US, the IDF for not defeating Hamas fast enough, or decades of Israeli policies of outsourcing making munitions to America, in part because hey, it’s free.
Don’t.
Blame falls on Biden The buck stops with the president of the United States, who has made a strategic decision to abandon his country’s top ally at a time of its greatest need. He has insisted that Israel act only defensively even though wars are always won offensively. He has decided to try to prevent Israel from achieving its important goals of defeating Hamas, preventing further attacks from Gaza, and bringing the hostages home.
Yes, those same hostages whose families have been to the White House. The American citizens Biden spoke about as if they were family.
Biden knew he was betraying them. He knows Israel has enough armaments to defeat the final four Hamas brigades in Rafah without a new shipment, but it has a severe shortage of leverage in hostage talks with Hamas.
Whatever leverage Israel had was taken away in a couple of sentences the Arab world saw Biden utter on CNN. It’s no wonder the negotiations once again ended in failure, following the sabotage.
IMAGINE IF Biden had used that interview to threaten Qatar with becoming an international outcast instead of threatening Israel. He could have announced that if Qatar did not bring the hostages home, America would remove its military base from the country and bar American universities from having campuses in a state that sponsors terror groups like Hamas.
Biden of course would never dare do that. But he apparently could lie to Rachel Goldberg-Polin and condemn her American citizen son Hersh to languish in Gaza until his untimely demise.
Why?
Because like many politicians, Biden’s ultimate loyalty is to himself and his chances of getting reelected. It used to be the Jews who were the key to victory in purple states, so he pandered to them for decades.
Now it’s the Muslims in Minnesota and Michigan, the constituents of Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who Biden mistakenly believes hold the key to his second term, and he is acting accordingly. He will now be able to tell them that while he did provide arms that killed thousands of Gazans, he could have provided even more but did not.
Biden will also allow 100,000 Palestinians to enter the United States and make other controversial decisions to reach out to those Muslim voters. The slippery slope will continue.
The tragedy of Biden’s decision is that it contradicts so many statements and promises he has made for many years and even one the day before he announced the embargo.
“My commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel, and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state is ironclad, even when we disagree,” he said at the US Holocaust Memorial on May 7. “My administration is working around the clock to free remaining hostages, just as we have freed hostages already, and we will not rest until we bring them all home.” The entire audience greeted this message with thunderous applause.
In what may be an international record in speed for breaking promises, that ironclad commitment rusted in just one day.
In 2019, Judy Woodruff asked Biden on PBS NewsHour about left-wing politicians who favored cutting off aid from Israel to protest its construction over the pre-1967 border.
“That would be a tragic mistake,” he said. “The idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally, our only true, true ally in the entire region, is absolutely preposterous. It’s just beyond my comprehension why anyone would do that.”
Preposterous as it may be, Biden was criticizing himself five years later. His actions will be remembered, not his words.
This is a critical juncture in Israel’s existential war to defeat Hamas. Israel will win this war, with or without Biden.
Its people do not have trembling knees. They will remain proud Jews, standing by the principles that Israel and America will continue to share long after Biden has been forgotten.
Other accounts of the Biden-Began meeting include the fact that Biden was yelling and pounding his hand on the table. Understandable, he's a big guy, faced cornpop down. Began is just a little guy worthy of intimidation, verbal and physical. As always, Joe has very poor judgement.
“Biden will also allow 100,000 Palestinians to enter the United States and make other controversial decisions to reach out to those Muslim voters.”
Biden is trying to buy off Muslim congresspeople by making their districts more Muslim and Arab.
I don’t trust Biden on Israel, but I don’t trust Israel, either. Let them wipe out ham-ass, but after that, they can go f themselves. And we have to start making sure they don’t ship the Palestinians here which is the only thing they do better than making money—destroying western civilization through turd world invasion schemes
bkmk
You’d have to be a DNC base supporter (AKAs IQ < 85) to believe anything a pedophile says. His own daughter said he abused her as a child. In court.
He is and always has been a monster. He will be forgotten as easily as Caligula or Hitler.
And, he is still in the White House. What a disgrace.
You mean there aren’t cannibals eating servicemen in New Guinea?
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