Biden’s Cowardice Feeds Hamas’ Criminal War Strategy

America is better than this administration.

By Shmuel Klatzkin, AMERICAN SPECTATOR                                        26 March 2024

Ah, the United Nations is finally reacting to the atrocities of Oct. 7! First, the UN cleaned house. Its United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which has educated generations of Arab children to hate Jews and Israel, and whose employees participated in the rape, massacres, and hostage taking, has been completely reorganized and its criminal employees brought before the International Court of Justice for war crimes.

Next, it used the combined power of the world’s nations to gain release of the hostages, who have been imprisoned, raped, and starved since October.

It followed that by persuading the leadership of the ghastly atrocity romp to surrender to save the citizens of Gaza from suffering for their own sins as leaders.

Finally, it exhorted the world to condemn and express with special horror using a religion’s holy days as a time to attack.

Following this united stand of the international organization, Saudi Arabia announced it is signing a peace treaty with Israel and intends the partnership to spread abundance and peace throughout the once troubled region.

Ha ha ha. The ghastly joke is on you.

With Israel, ceasefires are only sought when Israel is defeating those who would exterminate it.

Only non-Jewish holidays must be respected. War on Israel’s holy days are no problem.

UNRWA will continue to teach hatred to children. There is no accountability for its collaboration in the war waged by Hamas against the lives of Israeli civilians and the bodies of Israeli women. It helped to kidnap hostages.

Oh, the hostages. For the UN, should a ceasefire be conditional on releasing the surviving hostages?

And it all has the imprimatur of the Biden administration. Yes, he didn’t vote for the UN resolution, but that was weaseling — the abstention of a duplicitous, amoral leader to mask the enormity of what he chose not to stop, namely, the passage of a resolution as hateful and unbalanced as one issued by the Nazis or the Communists in their heydays. Biden’s goal was to maintain — for the willingly gullible and the acolytes of Obamaism — that we judiciously sit on the fence. He hopes that will not alienate more Jewish voters than he hopes to win in Dearborn by this cynical, duplicitous act.

Biden’s gang — the Obamaites who run the government — really would like to keep Israel unable to defend itself and unable to bring about a real peace, as the resolute Israel–America alliance achieved with the Abraham Accords. The Obama infatuation with the mullahs of Iran would be over. Can’t happen. We really love people who hate America and Israel and plot for their utter destruction. Perhaps they revere them as the prophets of wokeism?

In their policy, Israel should not defeat the perpetrators of the mass rape and murder — even though Hamas is the criminal party for using its citizens as shields, and for causing starvation by taking the food that has been shipped into Gaza for itself and then getting rich by selling what it doesn’t eat on the black market to desperate Gazans. And as the figurehead, Biden spouts out before the world nearly every lie issued by the Hamas mass rapists, from delusional casualty figures to accusations of Israel’s complicity in starving the population that Hamas wants dead as part of its war strategy.

The Bidenites are trying to make sure that that strategy is successful.

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These people do not represent the best of this country and the best of its history — to say the least.

America’s relationship with its Jews began beautifully. President George Washington, replying to inquiries by the congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, about the place of Jews in America, wrote:

All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship[.] It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

America’s second president, John Adams, was a scholar with a deep appreciation of Israel’s contributions to the world and to the ideals to which America dedicated itself. He also had something to say about the possibility of the Jew’s return to Zion. Responding with his thanks to the gift of a book by its Jewish-American author, Mordecai Manuel Noah, an early advocate of the Jews’ speedy return to their historic homeland, Adams wrote, “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.”

But sometimes our leaders have not lived up to these great founders. In the last century, Franklin Roosevelt’s administration included Breckinridge Long in leadership at the State Department. America had a strict quota system even then for those seeking asylum from extermination. As the Nazi violence grabbed more and more of Europe’s Jews into its maw, Long wrote a memo to American consulates, telling them that, even for the very few openings, they were to “postpone and postpone and postpone the issuing of the visas.” In collusion with a British Foreign Office that worried more about Arab violence than the extermination of Europe’s Jews, FDR’s State Department made sure that only a very few Jews could escape the death camps to America.

Dwight Eisenhower was president when Israel responded to continued terrorist attacks from Egypt by taking away the Sinai Peninsula to serve as a buffer for Israel’s civilians. In a decision he regretted much later, Ike sought to appease Egypt’s new dictator, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and, with severe threats, forced Israel to give the Sinai back without a peace treaty and to relinquish its hold there on the Straits of Tiran, which Nasser had used to choke off shipping to Israel’s port of Eilat — an act of war. The UN would put troops on the borders and at the straits. Israel had no choice, in the end.

How did it work? Nasser chose to take what Ike offered but turned to the Soviets for an ally and to supply them with training and weapons to wipe out Israel once and for all.

Nasser set that plan in motion in the spring of 1967, violating all the agreements he had made with Ike. Nasser demanded the UN troops should leave, which they did without delay, and Egypt promptly blockaded the straits in the opening act of war. Lyndon B. Johnson told a desperate Israeli prime minister not to do anything rash and promised nothing specific. No better was offered anywhere else in the world — certainly not by the UN.

In 1973, Egypt showed the principled respect for holy days by launching a surprise attack on Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. Nixon had advance knowledge of Egypt’s plan but warned Israel not to preemptively strike. In the war that followed, it seemed for a week that Israel would be defeated and its citizens slaughtered or expelled. No calls for ceasefire resolution at the UN. But when, in the second week, Israel’s armed forces turned the tables, things changed. Egypt’s Third Army was surrounded, Israel’s army was in Africa, and Cairo lay in front of it when Henry Kissinger threatened Israel with an end to its supplies if it did not let the Egyptians go and so grab defeat from the jaws of victory.

There’s more of this sorry history of American policy appeasing the aggressors and all that inevitably follows from such policies. Biden is only the most egregious of this chain, utterly oblivious to any standard of morality or international law save what might get him elected and what tickles the imagination of the wokists who are hell-bent on smashing American greatness from the inside out.

There is a great difference, though, today. I was celebrating the Purim holiday yesterday and spoke with a mother and son here from Israel. The son is in Israel’s armed forces and studying here in Dayton at the Air Force Institute of Technology for two years. They are politically on the left, people who resolutely held out hope that even a group like Hamas could respond to friendly overtures and the lure of peace and the plenty that peace would bring to Gaza as the prosperity that Israel has gained.

They are no less liberal, but they have no more illusions about the need to destroy Hamas utterly. In this, they realized as FDR did with respect to the Nazis and the militarists of Japan — liberal that he was, he would accept only unconditional surrender of the guilty warmakers.

America is better than Biden’s administration. It doesn’t represent the best of who we are, and it turns away from what we ought to be.

America will turn away from them. We will do what we must to win back as a nation our honor and our sanity.