President Biden had been hinting for weeks that he did not approve of Israel finishing off Hamas in Rafah. Joe is clearly squeamish over violence, especially against America’s enemies and terrorist that commit unspeakable crimes against humanity.
In a clear announcement, Biden declared that he has already withheld one shipment of precision weapons necessary for the Rafah invasion, and would continue to withhold weaponry if Israel moved in. Israel has already made it evident that they would be moving in before Joe did this.
Such a move is unprecedented. To pull the rug out from our ally hours before their most important operation to win the war against Hamas, it is hard to fathom. And to withhold weapons that Congress just greenlit is extraordinarily. So the first and heaviest of three hammers fell quickly on the President.
From Fox News:
“The House has no choice but to impeach President ‘Quid pro Joe’ Biden. As Vice President, Biden was caught threatening to withhold funding and aid to Ukraine unless they fired the attorney general investigating Burisma, a company financially benefiting his son Hunter, not to mention the 10% share for ‘the big guy’ himself,” Mills said in a statement.“Now, Joe Biden is pressuring Israel, our biggest ally in the Middle East, by pausing their funding that has already been approved in the House, if they don’t stop all operations with Hamas. It’s a very clear message, ‘this for that.’
Talk about quid pro quo. Clearly the protests on college campuses and his plummeting polls in swing states like Michigan and Minnesota are affecting Biden. But Joe does already have a track record of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory: see Afghanistan. The second hammer? His move completely failed in the eyes of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video message on Thursday vowing that Israel “will stand alone” to defeat Hamas, if necessary, after President Biden threatened to withhold weapon shipments to the Jewish State should Netanyahu proceed with an invasion of Rafah.
At least one leader fighting this war against terrorism has principles and is committed to finishing the job. Biden may have just pacified a few Hamas-supporting activists and college students, but he may have lost many moderates. And his move entirely failed to stop Israel.
Apparently “don’t” just doesn’t work very well, even when you threaten to withhold needed munitions from your closest ally. Now, you might be thinking, how bad is this really? It’s just some weapons shipments. Well, it’s so bad that an anti-Trumper just dropped the third and final hammer on Joe.
Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney has found common ground with former President Trump, who she previously voted to impeach, as they both oppose President Biden’s latest move in Israel.
On Wednesday, the anti-Trump Republican said withholding aid from America’s closest ally in the Middle East “wrong and dangerous.”
Dangerous is right. Imagine if Israel fails to finish the job because of the United States. Imagine if Joe just did irreparable harm to U.S.-Israel relations. Imagine if Israel does eradicate Hamas from the face of the earth, but there are many more casualties because Joe withheld these weapons.
Biden’s move to abruptly pull out of Afghanistan and abandon our allies remains the greatest foreign policy error of the 21st century, as it has emboldened our enemies in Russia, the Middle East, and in China. But depending on the fallout of this move, this could soon rival Afghanistan as the most boneheaded and dangerous move.
