Biden seems to think that stopping a full-scale operation in Rafah would be something to brag about
Asked in an interview with ABC News whether he thinks Netanyahu is listening to him, Biden responded, “I think he’s listening to me.”
“They were going to go into Rafah full bore — invade all of Rafah, go into the city, take it out, move with full force. They haven’t done that,” Biden said.
Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have insisted that the IDF operate in Rafah to eliminate the remaining Hamas battalions held up in the city, resisting international pressure against such an incursion.
Asked whether he thinks Netanyahu will stick by the hostage deal proposal Israel submitted last week, Biden said, “He’s publicly said he is. Our European friends are in on it. We have to get a ceasefire.”
I doubt this will placate implacable jihadists in Michigan. That’s part of Biden’s goal, although not his only goal (and by the way – yes, I realize there are plenty of people behind Biden urging him on, but I believe he has some agency as well and that ever since being Obama’s VP he has shared Obama’s goals for the Middle East). I believe Biden is carrying on the Obama plan to empower Iran in the region, and also to curry favor with the Israel-hating “international community.”
But even on the face of it, what’s so great about a ceasefire? There was a ceasefire in place on October 7 and the Gazans violated it. A ceasefire only has one meaning, because only one side respects it: to hamstring Israel and stop it from finishing off Hamas.
Does Biden have a clue how many hostages are alive, or who they might be? I highly doubt it. Nor does anyone else except Hamas, and even they might not know where all of them are.
What’s so special about Rafah, and why would Biden want to protect it? See this:
In the lead up to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operation to destroy Hamas and secure the release of over 100 hostages – including 8 Americas – believed to be in and around Rafah, leaders around the world from Joe Biden to the collective leftist leaders of the European Union to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi panicked and ordered Israel to forestall its necessary means to end the war. …
On the IDF’s first day of entry into Rafah in mid-May they discovered hundreds of tunnels with over 50 two-way underground tunnels between Rafah and Egypt. Dozens more cross-border tunnels have been discovered since, along the Rafah-Egypt border. Some tunnels were paved and wide enough for passage of full-sized cargo trucks. …
Egypt built a formidable border wall, something Donald Trump could not even imagine in a fever dream for America. It is impenetrable, militarized, and closely guarded with Egyptian troops and security forces. The way through it for Gazans seeking to get out of Gaza? Baksheesh. Upwards of $5,000 per person. It has also been a gateway for international aid and smuggling into Gaza resulting in over $88 million in profit to the holder of the border keys.
The article goes on to say that the holder of these keys is very tight with Egyptian President al-Sisi’s son.
What is becoming obvious is that there were a lot of reasons for Egypt and America to want Israel to remain outside of Rafah. The secrets that will be revealed through the IDF’s operations may well surprise the civilized world as Israel fights to defeat the barbarians.
Much of the “civilized world,” however, is so civilized that it doesn’t even seem to realize that it has an interest in seeing Hamas defeated by Israel.
“Much of the “civilized world”… doesn’t even seem to realize that it has an interest in seeing Hamas defeated by Israel.”
Too true. As with your post on CLS and Farber and Sherry recommendations (above), I am pessimistic about the two or three decades to come. The far Left destroys, but cannot build anything worthy of us.
Along anti-Joe lines, the Russian Navy will shortly send ships to Cuba. And Venezuela, too?
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What do we talk about when we talk about Biden? Is “Biden” not a portmanteau word for the éminence grise behind him?
It should be ashes in the mouth for Biden!
“Much of the “civilized world,” however, is so civilized that it doesn’t even seem to realize that it has an interest in seeing Hamas defeated by Israel.”
In other words, much of the “civilized world” has a death wish. Which makes perfect sense when one considers that for generations, the left has been promoting the implication that the only way that the first world can atone for its ancestral ‘sins’ is through civilizational and racial suicide.
Arguably, it is the biggest of their Big Lies.
Yes its a hollow shell with zientz and another two players holding the eye
So, pressure on Israel, but Hamas has already rejected the “deal”. Now what? More pressure on Israel to give more and more?
They keep finding more bodies, in small numbers. I have a bad feeling that they will find a large number of bodies in the near future.
Hamas lovers are everywhere in America, and in the White House, even though it is a federally designated terrorist group.
If you cannot recognize your enemies, you are at a loss to help your friends fight them off.
It is part of our national (Leftist) decay.
And apparently george clooney put pressure on one of these nodes to oppose the sanctions on icc because his wife miss alamuddin was one of the advisors
Furthermore
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkacehlbr
How come the Democrats are always urging restraint on Israel but never Iran? I spent 7 years in Japan and I’m here to tell you. We suck. As an ally
As a liaison
Steve:
WE do NOT suck. It is our leadership, in both parties, that suck.
I know. When I was stationed in Japan the Japanese knew they could trust the US armed forces. It was just the politics
When the NORKs attacked and sank the ROKS Cheonan I was never more ashamed
It still burns me
We didn’t do a goddamned thing except invoke the sacred holiness of the non existent international “community.” Those were my friends and we didn’t lift a finger.
It’s something if a custom. After you sink them you fish them out
We’re all just oil covered and helpless once we’re in the water
Speaking of “implacable jihadists”,
Israeli students in U.S. warn peers against studying at American campuses
Israeli students who spent the year on U.S. campuses describe it as toxic, warning future Israeli academic fellows, doctoral and postdoctoral students to stay home
To be precise, U.S. campuses are simply more toxic (some more than others) than in recent years. We need a rating system.
I never agreed with Obama’s opinion on much. But he was tight when he said no one should underestimate Joe’s ability to eff things up. Anyone who thinks this scumbag was the man to restore decency needs to be drawn and quartered
Cicero
We most definitely suck as ally’s. Which is what Steve said. Ask the Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghani’s. The Army should not leave these shores. We are that bad. The Navy should get priority because we are an import export nation. And that is by sea.
“ The Army should not leave these shores.”
“America is the friend of liberty everywhere but defender only of her own”.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the US, author of the Monroe doctrine, and considered America’s greatest diplomat.
Richard F Cook understands. Thank you, Mr Cook. It’d be easy to blame Joe Biden. But Joe Biden practically brags about selling out South Vietnam and now he’s President. When Billy Jeff was President I allowed myself to be fooled as if we didn’t deserve it.
“Anyone who thinks this scumbag was the man to restore decency needs to be drawn and quartered”
Don’t go so easy on him, Steve. Or his supporters, especially in the media.
I feel I left the country down during the first Clinton Presidency. We’re on, what, four or five now? I’ve lost track