Biden’s catastrophe

The title is almost misleading, because there are so many.

Biden catastrophes, that is.

The criminal in the White House is more malevolent than incompetent, in my view, and that’s why his recent trip to Israel is problematic. The entire brief visit was embarrassing for Americans and I’m sure curious and dismaying to the Israelis. To go from Trump to this in so short a time…well, it’s disorienting.

Caroline Glick, as usual the best commentator in the region, wrote about Biden’s interactions with both Israelis and Palestinians.

Writing for the Jewish News Syndicate, Glick warned that Biden’s words don’t match his policies, which of course put Israel in a bind, to say the least. Glick noted the worst moment of the trip:

“Arguably, the moment U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel crashed and burned was on Friday morning during his remarks at Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

“Biden’s visit to the all-Arab hospital was the most controversial stop during Biden’s visit to the Jewish state, because it signaled an about-face on America’s long standing support for an undivided Jerusalem.

“Not only did Biden refuse to permit Israeli officials to accompany him on his visit to the Jerusalem hospital, but his team removed the Israeli flag from Biden’s limousine as he made his way to it, and refused to permit Israeli reporters to participate in the press pool.”

Despite the fact that Biden almost constantly touts his alleged love of Israel, Glick noted it is anything but love:

“In his words: ‘My background and the background of my family is Irish America, and we have a long history of … not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish-Catholics over the years, for 400 years.’

“Whereas the rest of the speech was so incoherent it is hard to imagine it was anything other than off the cuff, Biden’s slander of Israel as a colonialist power was clearly prepared because it was followed by a quote from an Irish poem.

“The idea that Israel is a harsh colonial overlord in someone else’s land is the essence of the anti-Zionist slander. The false claim that Jews have no history in their historic homeland and no national rights as the indigenous people of the land of Israel is inherent to the narrative.”

American politicians for generations have made stupid statements about the Arab-Israeli conflict. “Condi” Rice, the Russian “expert” in George W. Bush’s White House was woefully ignorant of the Middle East and she once likened the Palestinians’ experience RE Israel to the American blacks’ harsh treatment at the hands of Bull Connor.

Such nonsense is not historically true, and it marginalizes Israel in dangerous ways. It also is carefully crafted propaganda from the Left and their Palestinian friends. In other words, a lie can be every bit as dangerous as a bullet.

I watched a video clip this week of Palestinians celebrating Israeli deaths. Men, women, and children cheered as a children’s program featured kids murdering Jews. This horrific display is never mentioned by the Biden Set. Instead, they continue on down the path of folly with the Oslo Accords, rewarding Palestinian violence.

At the same time Biden was in essence attacking Israel on her own territory, he was meddling in the Abraham Accords. This was predictable since he wouldn’t allow a major Trump victory to stand.

This is so because Biden is showing weakness to Iran, at a time when the mullahs are very, very close to having nuclear weapons. Biden has made it clear to caretaker Israeli PM Yair Lapid that the U.S. will not only not support a strike on Iran’s facilities, but they will oppose Israeli efforts to carry out such a strike.

That Israel is in the middle of an existential threat from a state sponsor of terrorism—at the same time Biden puts the Jewish state in a bind—tells you all you need to know about Biden’s true intentions and lies.

The Gulf States that have moved toward Israel in cooperation (a monumental deal put together by Trump and Netanyahu) will now realize that they are alone against Iran and so will move to pander to the thugs in Tehran. This weakens the Abraham Accords, an outcome coveted by Iran.

A stolen election has far-reaching consequences, to the point of endangering people that don’t live in our country. The malicious and devious Joe Biden is still well capable of sabotaging our beloved ally, Israel. While he bumbles through gaffe-filled days and “endures” the heckling and mocking of the public (and even some press), he single-mindedly undermines Israel. Every chance he gets.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

Lapid’s Toughness?

Years ago at a book convention, I met an Israeli publisher. We were chatting about the Peace Process—who wasn’t the past 30 years—and even though I knew him to be liberal, even left-wing, I asked anyway, “So you support Barak; I assume that means you support giving up the Temple Mount?”

“Are you crazy?” he spat. He looked genuinely shocked/annoyed/enraged by my query. Maybe I was a little naïve, but I’d read enough about then-negotiators Yossi Beilin and Martin Indyk to know they were willing to go too far in advancing peace with the Palestinians.

However, my friend taught me a lesson and it is this: I believe the majority of Jews genuinely love their country and would not endanger her. I even think that as time goes on, they identify more and more with their ancient ancestors, even if they don’t say it out loud. I’ve had too many private conversations to think otherwise.

My friend was decidedly NOT for giving away the farm, as it were. Yet, as I said, he was most definitely a member of the Left.

So it was this week that I thought of him upon hearing about the meeting between new Israeli PM Yair Lapid and Joe Biden. The Biden Clownshow Tour of the Middle East had him hobbling around, appearing confused, but advancing the left-wing goals of his handlers. Part of that is restarting the Iran Deal.

Lapid though said to him something that Netanyahu might have said, or even Begin. Lapid told Biden that the best way to deal with Iran is to have a strong military option on the table.

My goodness, Ze’ev Jabotinsky might have said that!

Biden, in also meeting with the murderer, Mahmoud Abbas and his PLO, reiterated something no one in Washington would have said just a few years ago: he supports a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines. Meaning, Israel would return to a shrunken, virtually defenseless state. I’m not convinced Biden is the doddering, dementia-ridden goof he appears to be—it might be an act—but even when he was at full-strength (still mediocre even in his prime), he would not have said that. It’s possible he wouldn’t have privately supported it, although I don’t believe he has any guiding principles.

He read his talking points in Israel.

“Two states along the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, remains the best way to achieve equal measures of security prosperity freedom and democracy for the Palestinians as well as Israelis.

“The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own that is independent, sovereign, viable and continuous.”

Well, no, they don’t. And even Biden understands that in all of history, the Arabs have never had anything resembling democracy. It isn’t their culture, it isn’t their aim.

According to a report in the Jerusalem Post:

“Earlier in the day, Biden made waves when he visited an east Jerusalem hospital in an armored vehicle without an Israeli flag or the accompaniment of any Israeli officials. The visit, the first one by a President to an east Jerusalem location out of the Old City, was seen by the Israeli Right as a nod in the direction of acceptance of east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

“Hours later the White House issued a statement, in which it clarified that Biden in his conversation with Abbas had underscored US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”

Biden’s word isn’t worth anything. He would sell-out Israel in a second, so his assurances about the Old City are false. As false as Bill Clinton’s or Barack Obama’s. These are evil men.

He’s also giving the Palestinians $300 million of our money for “relief.” Abbas, his boss Arafat and their minions have stolen literally billions from the U.S. and Europe in the last 40 years. Even this move by Biden, so unlike Trump’s position of strength, makes America look weak.

Reading Biden’s full comments is nauseating, as he repeats platitudes and falsehoods emanating from American foreign policy for two generations. The same empty, inane talk that goes nowhere.

On another front, there was a fascinating op-ed by Salman al-Ansari:

“However, Riyadh will not entertain any of those options until it is absolutely certain that Washington chooses to remain frustratingly hesitant to deter Iran, its militias and its nuclear ambitions. As has been stated by Saudi officials including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Kingdom would obtain nuclear weapons as soon as it could if Iran acquired it. This may trigger a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race, with regional powers such as Egypt and Turkey following suit.

“If this were to happen, then Washington can disband with the notion that it has any remaining influence in the entire Middle East. The reputation of America as a reliable ally in the region would be eroded beyond repair, as losing the respect of the Arab and Muslim world is a diplomatic blunder so grave and irreversible, it would not be an understatement to call it the mistake of the century.”

This refers of course to the years-long reality that one day, the West will have to deal with Iran’s nuclear threats. My main takeaway from this quote (there are several more!) is that the prospect of America becoming a minor bystander in the Middle East, and elsewhere, perhaps explains in part why we are not mentioned in Bible prophecy. As we advance farther down the road to complete fulfillment of prophecy, America’s superpower status is key.

If the above thoughts are the beginning outlines of an American stand-down, we can see how Gog-Magog could unfold…without American intervention.

(As an aside, history will one day brutally condemn Jimmy Carter’s maddening weakness in losing Iran on his watch. He is responsible for the mullahs taking power, and the result has been 40 years of worldwide murder and terrorism. Now we are faced with a nuclear Islamist regional power.)

All in all, while Biden’s Clownshow is embarrassing and humiliating for every American, perhaps there are still men in charge in the Middle East (Lapid?) that will confront the evil Iranians.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com