Biden does what we knew he’d do and calls for Israel to “just call for a ceasefire”
Biden’s re-election is more important to Biden (and the Democrats) than anything else, to wit:
A day after Hamas indicated that it may have murdered most of the remaining hostages abducted on October 7, President Joe Biden is telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “just call for a ceasefire” — unliterally and without linking it to the release of the captive Israelis.
“What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country,” Biden said in an interview with he Spanish-language TV channel Univision.
Biden also criticized Netanyahu for going ahead with the military operation against Hamas’s remaining terrorist fighting force in Gaza. “I think what he’s doing is a mistake,” he told Univision. “I don’t agree with his approach.”
That last quote should be reassuring to all Israel-supporters, because Biden has been so consistently wrong on every aspect of foreign policy – not just in his presidency but in his long career as senator – that if he disagrees with what Netanyahu is doing, it’s almost certainly a sign that Netanyahu is on the right path.
Here is what Bibi has to say:
We will complete the elimination of Hamas’s battalions, including in Rafah. No force in the world will stop us.
Israel’s very existence depends on it.
By the way, what does Biden (or his speechwriters) mean when he says the Israelis should just call for a ceasefire? Does he think Hamas would abide by it? Does he even know that a ceasefire was in place on October 7 when Hamas committed its massacre of Israelis?
And furthermore, why are the people of Gaza – the vast majority of whom supported that massacre and continue to do so, as well as wishing to see the destruction of Israel – so deserving of this sort of treatment in the middle of a war they started (with widespread warcrimes)?
Also:
A report claims Israeli officials are blaming the pullback of troops from Khan Younis and the surge in humanitarian aid reaching the Strip for the expected failure of hostage-truce talks in Cairo, saying Hamas won’t compromise after getting so much for free.
According to the Ynet news site, officials in Jerusalem think both moves “really hurt negotiations.”
“We gave up our strong bargaining chips for nothing,” and now Hamas’s position is even tougher to crack, Ynet quotes “Israeli sources” saying. “Hamas is digging in with its demands for an end to a war and a troop withdrawal, and is determined to play tricks with the mediators.”
For what its worth, my opinion is that Hamas was going to hold out anyway, until it got everything it wanted: all prisoners freed, a permanent ceasefire, and a guarantee of staying in power.
I hope that Biden’s repulsive behavior hurts his chances of re-election rather than helping him in November. His behavior certainly hurts everyone else – except Hamas and its allies.
Joe Biden may be forcing Israel to finish off Hamas in Tehran instead of Rafah
As it is said, “elections have consequences”. While I personally believe that a sound, fair election was impossible with the mail-in voting of 2020, the sad reality is I know many nice, decent, well-meaning people that voted for this man. For me they fall in the category of “believing what they wish were true”. Reality deals a painful blow when that kind of mindset is the motivator. And the pure HATE (of Donald Trump) and his supporters (again, their perceived reality of who his supporters were/are) was a big influence. And here we are. All the masks are off for the non-deluded. As I listen to people (for instance our wealthy clients) I find myself asking, what lies do they believe? What lies have they embraced to hold the position they hold and make the statements they make? It is enlightening.
the sad reality is I know many nice, decent, well-meaning people that voted for this man.
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I know feckless boobs who voted for him. I know others whose political intelligence is characterized by petty malevolence who voted for him.
Biden doesn’t have any agency. The source of this is either Blinken, who appears to be a terminally fatuous man, or the campaign types, who are making calculations in re the Muslim vote in Michigan.
“I know feckless boobs who voted for him.” Art Deco
While I don’t spend time with feckless boobs, I don’t doubt that many such voted for him. But it is quite sobering how hate & fear can move people in even evil ways. The “Good Germans” are a prime example.
Sharon W:
Agreed.
The people I know who supported Biden and as far as I know still support him (although somewhat more reluctantly) are both good people and well-meaning, and most of them are quite intelligent. They are informed by the MSM, however, and they are surrounded by like-minded people. So I’m the only outlier who ever challenges them, and I don’t do that often because it just doesn’t change anything.
Neo-Exactly!
Art Deco:
I have said over and over – and I will say it again – that although I agree that Biden is very cognitively challenged and that many advisors are guiding him strongly, he DOES continue to have some “agency” and some say in the matter. He was Obama’s VP when he (Biden) had all his marbles (never a huge number, but still). Obama’s policies were just fine with him at the time and they’re just fine with him now.
I have heard Biden speak in interviews many times and he often is fairly coherent. We see clips of his worst moments. But his better moments have made it clear to me that he is still at least somewhat of a player in his own presidency in terms of decision-making, and that he is following in Obama’s footsteps as well as being guided very much by Obama’s people.
Sharon W:
Maybe we know the same people 🙂 .
It’s also a matter of these nice, well-meaning people voting Democrat their entire life and having their identity as smart, good, caring people so tied into that. Very few of them are going to change.
Marisa:
Agreed.
“Who do I call on next? Hang on a second. I got my list here…”
Lord help us.
What good will Michigan do Biden if many other swing states swing against him? Has the general sentiment in the US moved so decisively against Israel that Biden will gain more votes from supporting Hamas than he’ll lose from abandoning Israel?
Until Suburban White Women change their stance, nothing will change.
Keep in mind, when the US military had overwhelming evidence of Iranian involvement in attacks on US military personnel during the Iraq occupation, including capturing IRG officers, Senator Joe Biden threatened to impeach President Bush if he ordered military retaliation.