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I think our President has a different definition of “Ironclad” than the rest of us– or maybe that iron has rusted.
Biden has reiterated that America’s support to Israel remains “ironclad”, but has warned Jerusalem against a full-scale land invasion of Rafah, fearing it would lead to a civilian bloodbath. Israel insists that the operation will go ahead and is necessary to find and kill the architects of the October 7 attacks.
It then emerged that the US paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week, consisting of 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs. The reaction from Jerusalem was swift. “If we have to fight with our fingernails, then we’ll do what we have to do,” a senior government official told Reuters.
On Wednesday Biden doubled down in an interview with CNN, saying for the first time that he would halt shipments of American weapons if Netanyahu went ahead with the operation. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah … I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities — that deal with that problem,” he said.
Althouse: “If we have to fight with our fingernails, then we’ll do what we have to do.”
The munitions he is withholding would allow for fewer civilian deaths, as they are precision weapons. AND these weapons have been approved by Congress and he has signed. Some other President was impeached for not providing what Congress had authorized.
Why would Biden want to freeze this conflict in place, rather than let Israel end it?
I hesitate to attempt to answer, but my working theory would be that Joe Biden has prioritized his own reelection. And he’s not even performing well at that. Ironically, his reelection theme seems to be that he — and not Trump — is a man of integrity. I would recommend that the old man step back from the tawdry exercise of getting reelected and actually behave with integrity.
But I suspect he’s too far gone to give us that.
“We’re told the decision to act this way came last week but that Biden wanted to keep it quiet until he delivered his speech commemorating the Holocaust….”
