The United States Stands with Israel, and Israel Will Not Give into Abrupt Excessely, As Israel Has a Right (and Should Not) Forget
Biden traveled to Israel on Wednesday to show his respect for Israel and his admiration for the people of Israel. With the hug came a whisper in his ear, reminding him not to allow the “primal feeling” of grief or anger to drive the country to go too far.
“I understand,” Biden said Wednesday. “Many Americans understand. While you feel anger, don’t be consumed by it, because you cannot look at what happened here and not scream out for justice. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States, and while we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
Mr. Biden did not elaborate, but he presumably was referring to the invasion of Iraq, which he voted for as a senator and later came to regret. Nor did he explain what he meant in Israel’s case, but the meaning was clear enough. As Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 people and took nearly 200 hostages, his message was that it should not give into excesses that cause unnecessary loss of innocent life — and in the process, squander the world’s sympathy the way the United States eventually did two decades ago.
President Biden got off Air Force One during his high-stakes trip to the Middle East Wednesday and greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a big hug.
The United States stands with Israel. Biden will give a message to the American people in an Oval Office address.
The war in Ukraine and the attack on Israel by Hamas are expected to be discussed by him. Biden wants to procure a lot of funding for the conflicts. He needs to go through congress in order to get the purse, but it is difficult because the U.S. House is not funziona.
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It was quite the admission of an American president. But it’s also the kind of subtle warning Biden can only deliver if he maintains influence — and part of that is keeping Netanyahu in a close embrace.
Invoking the Holocaust, Biden said, “The world watched then — it knew — and the world did nothing. We will not stand by and do nothing again – not today, not tomorrow, not ever.”
For the first time this year, Gallup found this year that Democrats’ sympathies lie more with Palestinians than Israelis. Young voters drive that.
The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll reflects that. More than half of the people who responded to the survey said they wanted a public show of support for Israel, but those younger than 45 were less likely to say they wanted that. Non-whites were 20 points less likely than whites to say so as well.
Cracks started showing in the aftermath of the Gaza hospital bombing. Democrats of Michigan and Minnesota, the first two Muslim women elected to congress, joined a chorus blaming Israel before the US weighed in.
The grave of war crimes is bombing a hospital. One of the few places injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter in during a war is reportedly blowing up by the IDF.
The U.S. intelligence assessment led to a call for an independent investigation into who was responsible for the war crime.
The Senate Intelligence Committee said it was confident that the explosion was caused by a failed rocket launch by militant terrorists.
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.
“I am ashamed to be an American,” she said, per ABC News. “I am ashamed that they’re saying, ‘not yet. Maybe next week.’ … How many more people have to die?
She said to our president. I am a Muslim and a Palestinian American and I want him to know that. And I think a lot of people are not going to forget this.”
“It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza,” Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, for example, tweeted. “Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?”
He added, “Now is not the appropriate time to talk about a truce.” Hamas does not want peace, they want to destroy Israel. We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.”
When anything happens in the world, especially something of this magnitude, the president is expected to respond, to take a position, to show leadership.
A president has to often balance his own world view with domestic politics. In this case, at least initially, both appeared 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.
Biden isn’t likely to be consumed with domestic politics of this. He spent most of his life involved in the United States’s role in the world, which is why he was a Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and vice president.
Many in this country have taken a turn inward after two decades of war and become weary of U.S. involvement in international conflicts. Biden believes Americans relate to Israel’s pain. Still, he had some potential lessons from the U.S. response to 9/11 Wednesday.