There’s a very famous story about Joe Biden when he was a senator in the 1980’s.
In June 1982, Biden was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he got into a clash with Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel.
Biden lectured Begin over Israeli settlements and threatened cutting off military aid for Israel’s offensive campaign in Lebanon, where Israel was fighting against arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Begin, whose father, mother, and brother were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, had moved to Israel, where he became an underground fighter against the British in an attempt to establish the State of Israel. He turned to Biden and said:
Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles. 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.
Now, this story is not about Menachem Begin. This story is about Joe Biden. Biden is a coward. He is an atrocious voice when it comes to foreign policy, and he always has been. There’s a reason that former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Biden had never been correct on foreign policy in his entire life.
That is true. Biden has a unique capacity to screw up when it comes to foreign policy. He is weak-kneed. In fact, he is so weak that he brags about being the only member of the Obama administration to oppose the Osama bin Laden raid. That’s how weak Joe Biden is.
Now, Joe Biden is showing his neck to Hamas.
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On Wednesday, Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett that the United States would deny Israel offensive weaponry if Israel went into the “populated areas” of Rafah. He decided unilaterally that in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, he is simply going to hold up the shipments of weaponry to Israel over disagreements with how Israel is prosecuting the war.
Israel has been attempting to move civilians out of Rafah so they can move in and kill terrorists in Rafah. And Biden has opposed that. Biden’s new math is that the United States will undercut our own democratic allies if terrorists take the most terroristic action, which is to hide behind civilians. He is now creating a full-scale incentive structure for terrorists to hide among civilians because now they are safe from any sort of retaliation.
The weapons he wants to deny to Israel are targeted weapons, the kinds of weapons that minimize civilian casualties, which will force Israel to use non-targeted weapons, meaning more civilian casualties.
That’s an unjustifiable act on every possible level: moral, political, and pragmatic. And none of it makes any sense on the moral level.
Hamas is a terrorist group that is currently holding five Americans. Five Americans are being held in terror tunnels by Yahya Sinwar and his group of barbaric thugs.
Biden doesn’t mention their names very often. He will talk about Brittney Griner until the cows come home, but when it comes to five Americans who happen to be Jewish who are being held by Hamas in terror tunnels, he won’t mention their names: Edan Alexander, 19; Omer Neutra, 22; Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35; and Keith Siegel, 64.
Biden will take the occasional photo op with their relatives and pretend he’s going to stand by them. But he’s not standing by anybody. He does not give two good damns about any one of those people.
Biden attempting to preserve Hamas in Rafah is also political malpractice. The American people do not like Hamas. They would like to see Israel finish this. The American people are tired of watching this war go on. What America likes are wars that are short, wars that are victorious.
And those are things Joe Biden has never been involved in.
What Biden is doing right now is the least pragmatic move I’ve ever seen a politician make with foreign policy. He has created an entire incentive structure for Hamas to walk away from the table. He has created an incentive structure for Hezbollah to get into a war with Israel. He has created an incentive structure where if Israel goes into Rafah, more civilians will die.
Biden is showing daylight between Israel and the United States. The terrorist group Hezbollah might well think, “If we open up on the northern front, the United States won’t resupply Israel.” Iran will get more aggressive. And of course, Hamas will walk away from the negotiating table.
Biden is now playing defense for Hamas. Make no mistake, he has sided with Hamas in this conflict.
There’s only one predictable result of this, and that is the maintenance of Hamas as a political power and military force in Gaza. There are four brigades of commands, about 8,000 Hamas combat soldiers who are still in Rafah, and Biden is keeping them alive.
Joe Biden is ensuring they will walk out of the tunnels, heads held high at some point, release no hostages, and declare victory.
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It’s an insane decision for the United States. It is in the interest of the United States for our allies to wreck terror groups, particularly terror groups who are currently holding Americans hostage. It is in the interest of the United States for Israel to demonstrate strength in a region that only respects strength.
But the most morally disgusting thing Biden did is this: The real reason Biden said nothing until Wednesday night, even though rumors for days had warned he would cut off aid, is that he didn’t want to announce he was cutting off the State of Israel at the knees until after he paid lip service and shed some crocodile tears about the Holocaust at a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On Tuesday night, Biden spoke about how the Holocaust was incredibly important, how it should never happen again, and how he would stand by the State of Israel.
He wanted to get past that speech and then deprive Israel of the capacity to destroy a genocidal, Nazi-like terror group that wants all Jews dead.
Joe Biden is a vile moral coward.
