Israel is Not the Occupy of the Middle East: Israel Will Not Give Up During the World’s Most Disruptive War
Mr. Netanyahu has instead “brought the Americans into the decision-making process in the security cabinet and the emergency cabinet,” Mr. Barnea wrote. If Israel does anything in Gaza, Biden will be held responsible. That obliges him and obliges us.”
When I wake up at night and the sirens sound again, that moment repeats on a loop in my mind. Since that time, there has only been one time. The rave in the countryside was a place where Hamas men hunted young Israelis down and slaughtered them. Hamas is taking hostages and butchering families. And our army, on which we relied, in disarray, taking three days to regain control of the area bordering Gaza. More than a week later, the counting of bodies and attempts to identify them continues. “How did this happen?” echoes in every conversation. The reflexive answer is that Hamas is barbaric — and that it opposes not the occupation but our very existence here.
Each of the survivors or relatives of the Israelis killed in the Hamas attacks shared their story with the president as he walked around the conference room. One by one, he gave each of them a hug and talked about his own experiences with loss.
“I can understand that,” Biden said. “Many Americans understand. You can’t ignore what has happened, but don’t forget to scream out for justice while you feel that rage. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States, and while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
Mr. Biden warned Israel not to overreach in the region to the benefit of the United States. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken briefed him on Israel’s plans at a war cabinet.
The president got off Air Force One and greeted Netanyahu with a hug after his visit to the Middle East.
The United States stands with Israel. Biden is taking his message to the American people Thursday night in an Oval Office address.
He’s expected to discuss the recent violence in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine, which has only recently been covered by the American media. Biden is attempting to get funding for both conflicts. The power of the purse is held by congress, however it’s more difficult to go through them because the U.S. House is not funziona.
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Republicans failed again Wednesday to pick a speaker. That leaves the U.S. unable to respond in a strong and substantive way.
Biden has to thread a very fine needle that shows support for Israel to maintain influence, looking strong enough domestically for an audience that is questioning his age and facility, and keeping his reliable voting base intact and energized ahead of his re-election bid next year.
Invoking the Holocaust, Biden said, “The world watched then — it knew — and the world did nothing. We won’t do nothing again and we will not stand by and do nothing.
For the first time this year, Gallup found this year that Democrats’ sympathies lie more with Palestinians than Israelis. And that is driven by young voters.
Two-thirds of respondents in the NPR poll — taken days after Hamas’ attack and after Biden’s initial remarks — said the United States should publicly support Israel.
Cracks started showing in the aftermath of the Gaza hospital bombing. The United States weighed in before the two Muslim women elected to congress joined the pro-Palestinian chorus.
“Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes,” Omar tweeted. The Israeli Defence Force blowing up one of the few places that the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrible.
The U.S. intel assessment led to the call for an independent investigation into who was responsible for the war crime.
The National Security Council said, in part, “Our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion.”
The War Between Israel and the World is Coming: What Biden and Fetterman Meant During the September 11 Israeli Hospital Insight into Israel
But a lot of damage had already been done. People weren’t waiting for confirmations, and protests erupted in countries like Jordan, where Biden was originally supposed to meet with Jordanian, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders.
“As an American, not just as a member of the United States Congress, I am ashamed,” she said, per ABC News. I am ashamed that they haven’t said so yet. Maybe next week.’ … How many more have to die?”
She said “To my president, to our president.” I’m a Palestinian American and a Muslim, so I want him to know. And I think a lot of people are not going to forget this.”
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said it was disturbing that Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who would take a group’s word that they killed innocent Israeli civilians?
Now is not the time to talk about a truce. Hamas does not want peace, they want to destroy Israel. We can chat about a ceasefire after Hamas is destroyed.
The president is expected to respond to anything in the world, especially something of this magnitude, and take a position to show leadership.
President often has to balance his view of the world with domestic politics. At first, both seemed to be in line with each other.
Partisanship is entrenched, and foreign policy often ranks very low on the list of priorities for voters — despite it being one of the areas a president has the most control over.
But the reality is, Biden isn’t likely consumed with the domestic politics of this. He spent a lot of his life as a senator involved in the US’s role in the world.
A lot of people have turned inward after two decades of war and are tired of U.S. involvement in international conflicts. Biden acknowledged that Americans relate to the pain Israel is facing. Still, he had some potential lessons from the U.S. response to 9/11 Wednesday.
No, wait, you discover it is wrong when you travel from the left to the right. There you find groups taking the silhouette of a Hamas assassin parachuting into Israel as inspiration in their struggle against imperialist oppression. You find a similarly simplistic narrative: The powerful have been exploiting the powerless, who courageously rose up 12 days ago and valiantly fought back. They didn’t mind that they killed babies. Never mind that they abducted grandmothers. The Marginalized peoples of the world unite. Go to justice!
I wish I lived in a universe that was morally and politically stark, like many Americans do. How clarifying that must be. I am upset that the tribalism of the Middle East has been seen with the dreary tribalism of American politics, which is bad news for the Middle East and bad news for America.
Israeli Consultations on the Status of President Biden’s 2006 General Relativity in the War-Treatment Era
In the wake of a visit by President Biden, Israelis on Thursday praised his courage in coming at a time of war and for his full-throated support, as he pledged “we will not let you ever be alone” after attacks from Hamas killed at least 1,400 Israelis.
This degree of consultation is rare, if not unprecedented, even in a relationship this close, Israeli analysts said. If it has potential benefits for Mr. Netanyahu, it also carries risks. It may give him political cover for an extended war, but it may also constrain how he conducts it.
Satellite images showed that Israel had already deployed hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles north of Gaza as it prepared to send tens of thousands of soldiers into the enclave.
Nadav Eyal wrote in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that the late Ariel Sharon was fond of saying “We will defend ourselves, by ourselves.” These are not the values that Netanyahu has been projecting in recent days. He seems to yearn to be the United States’ 51st state. This comes with a price, symbolic as well as practical.”
This criticism was even more sharply expressed by more right-wing analysts who have supported the government in the past. Nechama Duek, writing in Israel Hayom, said that Mr. Biden has spoken softly and empathically, “but with his words, he has bound and shackled Netanyahu and his government.”