A comprehensive timeline of the White House’s post-Oct. 7 words and deeds eviscerating the claim it has Israel’s back — let alone America’s
Benjamin Weingarten, Substack Feb 16, 2024
The notion that President Joe Biden is a stalwart supporter of Israel, let alone acting in the best interests of the U.S. in the Middle East, is and has been a complete and total canard.
This Big Lie, propagated by the administration and its mouthpieces, provides cover for what amounts to an anti-American plot to put the screws to Israel, as part and parcel of an effort to make the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, Iran, the regional hegemon.
Since Oct. 7th, a Holocaust-in-a-day perpetrated by Iran’s proxy Hamas, despite initial rhetoric to the contrary and the continued provision of munitions (for now), the Biden administration has shown in word and more importantly deed that it is doing everything it possibly can within political reason to slander, stymie, sabotage, and ultimately imperil the very existence of our chief ally in the Middle East.
What follows is an effort to chronicle the Biden administration’s treachery towards Israel, culminating of late in a press to force the Jewish state to effectively lose the war to Hamas, free hundreds if not thousands of jihadists, and reward a Palestinian Arab population overwhelmingly supportive of the Oct. 7 massacre and Hamas with a state in a bid to “sue for peace” with Iran.
This timeline should serve as the death knell of the false narrative that President Biden supports the Jewish state – and more fundamentally that he is representing the interests of the American people over those of our worst adversaries.
10/7/23: The very day in which Hamas executes the most deadly and barbaric attack on Israel in its modern history – raping, murdering, burning, mutilating, beheading, and taking hostage innocents totaling 1,200 dead and approximately 240 abducted – including among them ~40 Americans – U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs urges “all sides” including Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” It quickly deletes the message, but this reflexive response will prove revealing
10/8/23: Sec. of State Antony Blinken likewise tweets and then quickly deletes post encouraging Turkey’s “advocacy for a cease-fire”
State Dept. would reportedly issue a directive barring such rhetoric in public statements, but within months wholly obliterate that order.
The U.S. announces it is moving a carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean as part of a plan administration officials say aims to “deter[]…other states or non-state actors that might seek to widen this war” – not specifically Iran despite its menacing from the north. Nearly 100,000 Israelis will be displaced from the region. Meanwhile, evidence will suggest this show of force is as much about deterring Israel from striking Hezbollah and Iranian proxies, as those proxies from striking Israel, the U.S., and other allies and partners. Those proxies will launch an endless barrage of attacks undeterred in the coming months.
At the same time, the U.S. will feverishly work to de-link Iran from the Oct. 7 attack, and the aggression of its proxies more broadly
10/10/23: Politico reports U.S. officials call for Israel to respond to Oct. 7 attack in a “proportionate” manner, with Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer stressing “It is our advice that this war be conducted based on principles of international law.” Officials will restate this and similar lines endlessly in the coming weeks. The implication is that Israel, which boasts perhaps the most ethical and humanitarian-focused army in the history of mankind, would violate such standards.
10/11/23: As the Wall Street Journal will later report, with Israeli warplanes awaiting the order to strike Hezbollah as part of a multipronged attack, President Biden tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stand down.” Hezbollah will engage in numerous attacks subsequently, while again nearly 100,000 Israelis from the north will become refugees in their own land.
10/12/23: Five days after Oct. 7, Biden admin emphasizes “it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.”
In a thinly-veiled warning, Sec. Blinken says in remarks after meeting with PM Netanyahu “how Israel does this matters. We democracies distinguish ourselves from terrorists by striving for a different standard – even when it’s difficult – and holding ourselves to account when we fall short… That’s why it’s so important to take every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians.”
During his visit to Israel, where Blinken will become a perpetual presence, he meets with Brothers in Arms, which had served as the military wing of the resistance to PM Netanyahu during the judicial reform fight, as well as opposition leader Yair Lapid.
Blinken also says, in a line the admin will repeat ad nauseum, that “We know Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations to live with equal measures of security, freedom, justice, opportunity, and dignity.”
Beyond the fact Hamas was elected by Gazans, that Gazan civilians gleefully cheered on the Oct. 7 attack, and many were active participants in it, including holding hostages for months on end, polls will also show that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly support the Oct. 7 attack, genocide against the Jews, and favor Hamas over the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority.
10/13/23: Six days after Oct. 7, State Dept. Spokesman Matthew Miller tweets that Sec. Blinken “reiterated that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights” – setting the stage for bolstering the PA to lead a future Palestinian state.
10/14/23: A week after Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stresses that Israel must act within rules of war and protect civilians.
The Washington Post will later report that after Sec. Austin’s visit to Israel, Biden NatSec and foreign policy team would become “increasingly concerned that a ground assault would turn into an open-ended quagmire” and begin to sour on a massive ground invasion.
10/15/23: President Biden starts to set down desired outcomes for Israel-Hamas War, calling it a “big mistake” if Israel were to occupy Gaza, and suggesting “there needs to be a Palestinian Authority. There needs to be a path to a Palestinian state” post-war.
In a tweet, Joe Biden de-links “suffering” Palestinians from Hamas.
Admin officials suggest they will insist that Israel permit humanitarian aid during the course of any coming invasion – de facto resupply for Hamas, while as Israel national security analyst Caroline Glick notes, feeding the Hamas propaganda campaign that Israel rather than the jihadist group is responsible for the destruction in Gaza.
10/16/23: Tablet’s
reports Biden admin calls on Israel not to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah despite its continued attacks on Israelis, in exchange for the U.S. committing assets if Hezbollah attacks first. Sec. Blinken also conveys to Israel that the U.S. “will find it difficult to support a military operation in Gaza that involves widespread harm to civilians” – a virtual impossibility given Hamas’ explicit use of civilians and civilian infrastructure to protect itself.
Biden admin announces the president will visit Israel, further delaying its ground invasion of Gaza.
Sec. Blinken telegraphs Pres. Biden will “receive a comprehensive brief on Israel’s war aims and strategy” and “hear from Israel how it will conduct its operations in a way the minimizes civilian casualties” and allows aid to flow.
10/17/23: In reporting on Biden’s trip to Israel, CNN reveals visit was conditioned on Israel opening Gaza to humanitarian aid.
National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson John Kirby says, on eve of Biden’s visit, that POTUS “wants to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead. And he’ll be asking some tough questions.”
10/18/23: During remarks in Tel Aviv, Biden tells Israelis that “Justice must be done,” but “don’t be consumed by [rage];” emphasizes that Israel “live[s] by the rule of law” and “law of wars;” that war “requires being deliberate…asking very hard questions;” while noting “The Palestinian people are suffering greatly as well,” and calling on the Israeli cabinet “to agree to the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.”
Despite knowledge purported “humanitarian assistance” to Gaza had been used to turn it into a mini-terror state in the first place – underwriting the Oct. 7 massacre – the Biden admin commits $100M in aid to Gaza and the West Bank.
Admin says “If Hamas diverts or steals the assistance…it will end.” The admin will not cease such aid, and will in fact demand ever-greater amounts of aid be surged despite ample evidence over the coming weeks it is being commandeered by the jihadist group.
Biden also says “we must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace.
For me, that means a two-state solution.”
That day the Biden admin lets UN sanctions on Iranian ballistic missile, drone programs lapse.
10/20/23: When asked why Israel permitted aid before Hamas released all hostages, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says, “The Americans insisted and we are not in a place where we can refuse them. We rely on them for planes and military equipment. What are we supposed to do? Tell them no?”
10/21/23: Two weeks after Oct. 7, Joe Biden again signals his ultimate desire to effectively reward Hamas, tweeting, “As hard as it is, we cannot give up on peace. We cannot give up on a two-state solution.”
Israel has GOT to get unstuck from the USA if they want to survive. There are many other potential (non US) sources of munitions, but the problem then becomes money. I submit that Israel could buy munitions elsewhere, and still get American foreign aid dollars, by providing things that Washington needs, such as technology and intelligence, for starters.
@Clive: thanks, we need to be reminded every so often.
Menachem Begin to Senator Joe Biden.
“Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with a 3700 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.”
Why is Israel accepting a 3-state as a 2-state: poor Math?
Why are Christians accepting that Jesus was born in Islamic Bethlehem?
How did Gaza, the city of King David, become Hamas land?
Was King Davis a Muslim Palestinian?
Should Israel warn she will restore the Balfour that Britain corrupted – if tiny Israel’s land is not respected?
The answer is blowing in the winds.
Biden Barak Obama is in the WH shoving loads of money to the Ayatollah. US recession hails.
A very good presentation of the actual reality about this US Administration (or those behind it as I’m of the opinion that Joe Biden is a puppet for the more powerful exactly like Zelenskyy, Trudeau and all other leaders of the Western nations today.)
Joe Biden is an enemy of the US. With the above in mind, ALL leaders of the Western Governments must be investigated along with all those around behind them for Sedition, Treason and Crimes Against Humanity. Those found guilty, and there’s be a lot of them, should immediately be taken out an introduced to the Rosenbergs.
Now to Israel, it is my personal contention that this IS also Israel’s fault. None of this would have happened had Israel stood its ground in 1967 and faced the truthful, factual and historical realities surrounding it, its people and its history over the past 3000+ years.
There should never have been any so-called “Palestinian” People – Islam – in all of Gaza, Judea and Samaria or any place West of the Jordan in the first place!
Israel should have followed the base logic of The Book of Numbers 33:55 by annexing all the lands Liberated and/or Conquered in June of ’67 and finished the population swap by transferring out ALL of its Moslems (and their Communist anti-Jew cohorts). Any “Land For Peace” agreement with the Moslems, especially giving away the entire Sinai, should have been accompanied with an agreement to send all of Israel’s Moslems along with thus making the Sinai an “Egyptian-“Palestinian”” State along side the first failed Judenrein “Two State Solution” from 1921 on 77% of the British Mandate Palestine: Jordan.
Israel would have been a much more productive, Jewish, vibrant and safe place had it performed the above.
I am no fan of Bibi for many reasons.
It is a massive shame that Israel failed to protect itself by not being totally informed on the build up by Hamas and the knowing all about the massive tunnel complex built with both Moslem donations, Israeli and international tax payer money.
Israel’s intelligence failure, its leadership failures, its judicial failures, its massive Socialist/Communist infection aside; Israel should have again followed the base Biblical logic presented by Genesis 34. Israel was violated beyond any recognition on October 7th whereby Israel should have WIPED OUT ALL hominid LIFE in Gaza!
Send in the IDF ground operations with flame throwers to BURN OUT anything hominid left alive. Then send in their D5-D10 bulldozers to push all the rubble into 20′ high wall stretching from into the Mediterranean Sea to the South-Eastern corner of the Gaza-Egyptian border as a warning to all who wish to harm Israel.
Send in Israel’s engineers to remap, replan the entire area into another piece of Israel’s productive nation.
I am so sick of this crap.
When is Israel – and the world – going to wake up to the basic facts that there are NO “Palestinian” People? That Socialism, like Communism and even Globalism have no place for Israel or anything “Judeo-Christian” within? And that Islam since 623 has never had, cannot and will never afford peace to the kafir; especially the Jew only the Hudna: Temporary truce?
Israel needs a combination of an Enoch Powell, Joe McCarthy, Geert Wilders and Meir Kahane running the show not a Bibi or any other piece of lying leftist anti-Jew trash..
So Biden is following Hamas in deciding that Israelis are all legitimate targets while others, Hames, so-called Palestinians, Hezbollah, IRGC in Syria and so on are to be protected.
Once again: what a wonderful friend he is!
Oh, I forgot the neighbors in Judea and Samaria…