Israel is the only country on the planet which is constantly told if/how/when/where it can defend itself. Israel is also the only Jewish-majority country on the planet.
I’m sure that those two facts are in no way connected.
Did you protest when America was slaughtering innocent Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan?? What about when Saudi Arabia was slaughtering tens of thousands of Yemeni??
I never protest for anything because I don't identify with any groups I like people on a personal level without judging, but I am against america killing oriole in Iraq and invading afghanistan yes, I am coherent and not a hypocrite. Thanks for asking tho !! Stop defending jews as if they're the attacked ones, your victim card has expired. You are the hateful ones now.
I’m against America invading Iraq but I’m not against America’s initial invasion of Afghanistan to degrade Al Qaida. And just like I supported degrading Al Qaida I support Israel degrading Hamas and Hezbolla.
Ok then I support anyone degrading the terrorist idf. Also, israel isn't degrading anyone but the innocent people in gaza, ramallah, and rafah, they're just using that to lie
VP Harris foolishly echoes woke platitudes that merely offer Israel empty rhetoric instead of actual unequivocal support for the region’s sole democracy. Shame on those who embrace these childlike sentiments…
I don’t accept the veracity of anything Harris says. She’s a blithering idiot. The hypocrisy is stunning.
The Ukraine War mantra has been,”As long as it takes.” You don’t think Ukraine has killed Russians? Not a peep about restraining Ukraine. But when it comes to Israel. It’s supposed to accept genocidal subhumans in its midst. The Democrat Party, Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi and brainless AOC, have empowered Iran with billions. Without that cash cow, Hamas and Hezbollah would have been irrelevant.
Israeli blood is on the hands of the Democrat party.
He, Biden, certainly has Not… all his conditions of support, depend on Israel being hand cuffed with the proverbial “butt” pain. That is painfully obviously not fake news.
Biden is, rather was, Obama’s useful idiot puppet, that he could continue to use to “fundamentally transform America” in an extended 3rd term, living just down the road from the White House, until Biden’s obvious cognitive decline got so bad, they threw him under the bus, for another twit of a numbskull that Obama could control, which is now backfiring in spectacular fashion….. Not if, but when, Trump regains the Presidency, a lot of Jobama treachery will be even more exposed, than is already surfacing by the day. The fruits of the Dems have ripened, and are now visibly going rotten on the tree, where they hang…. Themselves.
Obama and crew, despise Israel, Netanyahu, & are hellbent on destroying the USA, thru their Marxist Communist Agenda…. Forget “who” the players are, Look at their Actions!!Their Fruits!! and then the trunk of the Tree reveals itself. It is rotten thru & thru. It needs to be chopped down, uprooted & disposed of.
That my friends, is exactly what Trump is doing, and will continue to do, by draining the Swamp. That’s why the Dems are going absolutely nuts, because, no matter what they do to try to stop him, they can’t! And they’re all 💩ing themselves, coz their time is just about up, come November 5th.
I think Netanyahu sees this “writing on the wall” as well. That is why he has turned the tables and gone on the offensive, hoping he will regain the support he had during Trump’s 1st term in office.
Netanyahu sees, The tide is turning, and is acting on it, knowing he will no longer be “handcuffed” by all the pain in the “buts” under the current Jobamaharris regime. As originally referred to in the opening article.
Biden’s big concern is that he doesn’t want Netanyahu to make the same mistakes we made after 9/11. People like Lindsey Graham don’t believe we made mistakes after 9/11.
In my opinion Biden is incompetent when it comes to geopolitical military strategy. Handing billions to Iran? The rapid ill-thought out debacle in leaving Afghanistan, killing 13 soldiers and leaving billions in armaments. The obsession with Russia meant there was no chance of obviating the Russia invasion into Eastern Europe. So I don't think Netanyahu can learn much from Biden.
Biden is totally completely incompetent in everything, his use by date expired when his debate with Trump exposed the obvious that could no longer be hid…. that’s why the master puppeteer Obama, threw him under the bus for another useful/useless idiot, one numbskull harris along with her dancing partner in the knucklehead waltz. The whole “fundamental transformation” that Obama said he would do, during his 2 terms in office, then a 3rd term under the covers, a 4th term in the basement, just down the road from the White House overseeing dopey Joe, is now falling apart & unravelling as Americans are realising that He & His swamp team, were all along and still are actually, the enemy from within, they are not incompetent, but rather pro-active treasonous traitors, hellbent on destroying America. Watch for Obama & his infiltrators to be fully exposed and go completely nuts 🤯 when Trump rescues America. Having nothing to lose, they will not give up easy! And Trump will have to continue to Fight Fight Fight with everything at his disposal……
The critical mass moment will eventuate Nov 5!!! With the backing and support of fellow true grit patriots like Mike Flynn, JD Vance, Kari Lake, RJ Kennedy, Dinesh D’sousa, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and others who are waking up to the Big Obama Con Job they’ve been on the receiving end of since 2008!!!!
America’s survival or demise will be decided on Nov 5 but brace yourselves for a violent resistance from the Marxist Dems who will do anything to cling to power, come Inauguration week Jan 2025.
7000 of our best and brightest were KIA in the GWOT and so Bush, Obama, and Trump had more KIA than Biden with Bush averaging 15 a week for 4 years. Were you in a coma most of this century???
While I doubt the truth of the claim, nevertheless VP Harris is being positioned as having been President Biden’s right hand man in every decision on foreign policy, including Gaza.
Her expressed concern over the fate of Gazan civilians, therefore, rises to a level of hypocrisy rarely seen in politicians - and these days, that’s saying something.
If her exaggerated role is to be believed, then she is directly complicit in US acquiescence in Egypt’s decision to seal its borders to any Gazan unable to bribe their way through who wanted to leave the battle zone. In effect, Harris helped turn Gaza into what the anti-Israel crowd had long but falsely claimed it to be, an open air prison.
As an aside, what used to be compared to the Warsaw ghetto is now being bemoaned for having been a beautiful oasis laid low by Israeli bombardment.
It can’t be both, but cognitive dissonance always results when your propaganda is to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks when those things that do stick are mutually inconsistent. In the case of the Arab-Israeli conflict, depending on your audience’s uncritical and limited attention span is critical to your propagandizing success.
So, by assisting in locking Gazans into a battlefield - thereby supporting Hamas’ human sacrifice strategy - it boggles the mind why Harris is not called out on her hypocrisy. She is partly responsible for creating the complicated urban battlefield in which the IDF must now operate.
If you care so much about their wellbeing, let them find the same refuge in neighboring countries as the women, children, aged and infirm of Ukraine did. No one demanded they stay put lest they inadvertently become accomplices to Putin’s plan to ethnically cleanse all anti-Russian Ukrainians from the lands Russia conquers. Yet, that was the excuse given for keeping Gazans in harm’s way.
What strikes me as inconceivable, given the prominence of immigration in this campaign, is the Republicans failure to produce an ad along the lines of, “Border Czar Kamala Harris can close a border when she wants to. She closed Egypt’s border with Gaza.” If that’s not low hanging fruit for the GOP, I don’t know what is.
This administration announced at the very beginning that there will be no displacement of the Palestinians. No country offered to take them except I believe Turkey but Palestinians were not allowed to leave. So what gives?
As to why most of the modern media takes the side of Hamas I recommend reading Matti Friedman’s articles on the subject stretching as far back as 2014. Most of the world’s useful idiots - and there are many - believe Israel is in the wrong.
So the Administration policy needs to be called what it is: a die in place. It never demanded the same of the Ukrainians. While I doubt the different approaches have anything to do with race, as opposed to a knee-jerk antipathy to Israel, the effect is racial.
There is another possible explanation given Obama’s extreme dislike of Netanyahu and the large number of his acolytes throughout the Biden Administration: October 7 was viewed as yet another crisis that should not go to waste in the seemingly never ending saga to oust Netanyahu from power.
My view is that the hypocrisy needs to be highlighted even if (in the view of some/many) it may give an issue to the GOP. But then, lives are actually at stake - whether Palestinian or Israeli.
Netanyahu resigned from his cabinet post after Bush convinced Sharon to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in 2005. Presidents and Israel PMs can have disagreements.
And didn't Hamas do such a great job in Gaza when they were in control after Sharon's Land for Peace initiative. NOT. Money went for weapons, training, tunnels, but nothing to make Gaza a self sufficient civilized entity.
Charles, dems or the undecided voters are too stupid to understand the correlation of a closed border in say Egypt….they’re so wrapped up in their TDS to realize the extreme world threats beyond and within our own country all the while when we Americans are at risk for losing our right to abortion. It’s truly unbelievable times we are witnessing.
"Israel can defend itself, Harris stated, “but how it does matters.” Israel can defend itself, but not if it prevents the achievement of a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages. Israel can exist and preserve its existence, “but we must have a two-state solution…. where the Palestinians have security, self-determination, and the dignity they so rightly deserve.”"
Translation: Let The Islamic Terrorist Win, encourage More Hostage Taking.
Americans should be ashamed at how we reacted after 9/11. I think Netanyahu is clearly incompetent but so far I think he hasn’t made huge mistakes like Bush did after 9/11. But Biden/Harris understand you kill 10 terrorists you create a minimum of 20 terrorists and it’s probably closer to 100.
Thank you for your insightful analysis— how can we average American Jewish Democrats awaken unqualified support for Israel against the axis of terror — ? Despite the “but” rhetoric of politicians and media, here the silent majority of Americans applaud the courage and genius and dedication of the IDF to eradicate evil that threatens the safety of the only multi-cultural, multiethnic and multi-religious democracy in the Middle East !
At least, two things seem to have become obvious since Oct. 7:
1) Nothing has changed in that a fair percentage of people remain anti-semitic, at least to some degree. And, for those who are not, most are not are not willing to stand up to the former. For a period of time, the horror of the Holocaust made these noxious sentiments unpalatable and thus could not be expressed openly. That grace-period appears to be coming to a close.
2) Given the first point, Israel cannot reasonably premise its self-defense on the good-will and assistance of other nations. Its long-term existence seems to hinge on its ability to either manufacture or procure armaments in a manner that cannot be subject to the whims of who gains political power in the U.S. or elsewhere at any given point in time.
What Michael Oren analyses so clearly here is the standard rhetoric from the Biden-Harris administration, beginning with President Biden himself through all his advisers to Vice President Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. In other words, the policy of the Democrats is that Israel has a theoretical right to defend itself BUT may not actually do so. This portends ill for Israel if they are able to hold on to the White House. Contrast the Democrats' rhetoric with former President Trump's: "I will support Israel’s right to win its war on terror... and you have to win fast…You have peace through strength…" The clear choice for supporters of Israel in the upcoming presidential election is the Trump-Vance ticket. https://jerryschwartz.substack.com/p/reexamining-a-century-of-loyalty?r=tb7x6
Israel/Bibi has just told the world they are over being hamstrung by the “others” who have not walked one mile, in Israel’s moccasins…. And is now doing what needs to be done, for it’s very survival, with or without support or approval from the “others” Better late than never!
It would help if we were to examine some fairly recent history. The states of Israel, Jordan and even parts of Syria, were created at about the same time in 1947 or 8 with the withdrawal of the British mandate. The name Palestine was first introduced when the Romans took over Judea and the kingdom of Herod the Great, about year 70 of the current era. When the British Mandate existed (after they defeated the Turks in WW1 in 1917) a large area of the land became Palestine and more that half of the families of present-day Palestinians were there in the places that subsequently became Jordan, leaving only comparatively a narrow strip of land that was west of this river to be claimed for Jewish settlement. All those who want Palestine to be re-established should apply to Jordan as it is today, because much of it was so named and it was only due to Arab greed and politics with the British governments (Earnest Bevin, in particular who was anti-semitic), that what is now being claimed bears such a slight relationship to past history.
This is a very cherry-picked version of history. This argument has good responses to fill in what is left out. I'm not biting. But it's a very old failing case taken out of mothballs every now and then to say the Palestinians who have been there for hundreds if not thousands of years don't belong on this land. You have some truths, leave out other truths and relevant history that is just inconvenient. And in the end you offer some predictable advice concluded from your telling. This argument is way past it's "sell by" date. Those dogs don't hunt.
Where the so called Palestinians belong is in a properly funded and developed Jordan, where the agreements to share water and other resources are done by its Israel neighbor in good faith.
The "so called" Israelis should stick to the internationally accepted boundary for Israel, the green line, the Armistice line of 1949 the result of Israel's War of Independence. Conquering and settling land is a violation of international law. Most of the world agrees where the boundaries of Israel are and where Israelis "belong".
Isn't this what they were doing in 1948? What happened?
The problem (as I see it) is that if Israel does *exactly* what you suggest here, they'll likely still be attacked anyway, except they'll now be in a less defensible position. So why do it?
But David, then it’s not Israel in center of the discussion, but Jordan and then Israel cannot be bedeviled and how on earth are they going to continue their political campaign and gain voters? There’s no votes in “from the river to the sea Jordan will be free” [but of course Jordan has become an ally of the US in general so it IS a part of the evil West. Could that square their circle? 😬
“The Jewish Nation” is a people and will survive. Regarding the land and taking land illegally according to international law Israel the country is in the process of destroying itself because other people, God’s other people, also believe God will save them. When you shout a battle cry you know this.
Here’s the deal—the counter narrative you asked for:
Hamas and the Islamists have less than 100 years to establish the world wide Islamic caliphate. If they fail, the rage of Allah will destroy them. NOT US!
This is the prophecy of Mohammed. They don’t want you to know. This is their secret and their shame. They have been FAILING AND FAKING FOR OVER 1400 YEARS.
Their days are numbered. The world must unite in a barrage of profound ridicule against the ISLAMISTS.
The world has moved on, and most Muslims have moved on. The only way to stop HAMAS and IRAN is by naming their secret fear—THEY HAVE FAILED FOR 1400 YEARS AND THE WORLD MUST MAKE SURE THEY FAIL AT THE FINISH LINE.
The days of the prophet and his 1500 year timetable are numbered. THE WESTERN CRY IS IMMORTALITY, WITH RESPECT, REASON, and RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. This ISLAMIC war is nonsense. We need to see it for the truth behind the barbarism.
They need to be laughed at and ridiculed into suicide. Let’s tell them to take it up with Allah in person and plead to Allah for mercy in death.
We could consider exploding their nuclear facility. For sure some of them will want to; they will blow themselves up when they win anyway. The last war will be between the true believers and the power lusters of IRAN. Move up the timetable and get the job done NOW.
I sure hope allah finds them for destruction in the US too. They're multiplying and Democrats know it. While Jewish Democrats hold abortion atop their idiotic totem pole muslims are turning them out. Europe seems to be conquered and the US seems to want catch up.
Early Christians believed the end of days would come within their lifetimes. Failure of those predictions did little to dissuade later Christians from their millenarian beliefs. I don't doubt Islam will follow the same path. The question is whether Enlightenment thinking will penetrate the Islamic world as it did the Christian. The West needs to help Islam with all the rational criticism and military might it can muster.
During WWII, the Allies fooled Hitler with a “ghost army,” and that ruse did more damage to the morale of the soldiers and the Germany leadership than you can imagine. We DON’T know for sure what is down the road from here. Never forget that the implacable enemy in this war is IRAN, and they are running out of time.
Humiliation is an effective weapon against a population. That’s why the Japanese emperor surrendered the day after Hiroshima. First ridicule, then reason. Humiliation of leadership sows doubt in the minds of millions.
So, after 75 years of humiliation, a few more will do the trick?
The Japanese surrendered 9 days after Hiroshima and 6 days after Nagasaki. The emperor of Japan was a figurehead and surrendered when the generals told him to. I don't see what humiliation had to do with it. Overwhelming might and finally some rationality from the Japanese generals ended the war. The kind of humiliation needed is severe, crushing defeat of Iran and its allies.
The ongoing multifront war against Israel versus terrorism cannot be prefaced with "BUTS", otherwise, it becomes an asymmetrical conflict with one side restrained by immoral considerations on how to conduct warfare and the terrorists acting unrestrained as terrorists. This is what Israel is experiencing from its democratic allies. If this is not a double standard, I don/t know what is. Antisemitism is clearly reaching new peaks.
For those who are still trying to determine who to give their vote, we all know that the Democrats' two state solution will not bring peace becaise a Palestinian state will be dagger seeking to pierce Israel's heart. The contrast between the Trump and Biden/Harris administration is so amazingly obvious and stark. Trump - peace and Abraham Accords in the Middle East, Biden/Harris - war with tens of thousands dead. Trump - peace in Europe, Biden/Harris - Ukraine/Russian war with a hundred thousand dead. Trump - low inflation and mortgage rates, Biden/Harris - record inflation and crushing mortgage rates between 6 and 7%. Trump - low illegal immigration, Biden/Harris - open southern border.
Also remember the Obama administation and the situation in Iraq with ISIS rampant torturing, burning, drowning, and killing that Trump ended with the defeat of ISIS.
What does it matter if Harris said she'd always give Israel help in defending their country while the other side of her mouth aligns w/ Hamas's ceasefire demand. Her allegience is with the Democrat gang of thugs and keeping the muslim vote. Gd willing Democrats took their criminally insane greed too far this time. They can't or should not have the Jewish and muslim vote, Harris's Jewish husband matters not.
I wonder if Kamala Harris, and her fans, are still questioning why Israel would need heavy bombs while fighting Hezbollah and blowing up their ballistic and cruise missiles kept in reinforced underground bunkers.
As an American, I'm so embarrassed that the but in so many situations is VP Butt running for the Presidency. Common sense and logic eludes her and her handlers.
Israel is the only country on the planet which is constantly told if/how/when/where it can defend itself. Israel is also the only Jewish-majority country on the planet.
I’m sure that those two facts are in no way connected.
Lol... they are not defending themselves, they are killing innocent people, but anyway, yeah israhell needs some policing !!!
Did you protest when America was slaughtering innocent Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan?? What about when Saudi Arabia was slaughtering tens of thousands of Yemeni??
also, saudi did well.
I never protest for anything because I don't identify with any groups I like people on a personal level without judging, but I am against america killing oriole in Iraq and invading afghanistan yes, I am coherent and not a hypocrite. Thanks for asking tho !! Stop defending jews as if they're the attacked ones, your victim card has expired. You are the hateful ones now.
I’m against America invading Iraq but I’m not against America’s initial invasion of Afghanistan to degrade Al Qaida. And just like I supported degrading Al Qaida I support Israel degrading Hamas and Hezbolla.
Ok then I support anyone degrading the terrorist idf. Also, israel isn't degrading anyone but the innocent people in gaza, ramallah, and rafah, they're just using that to lie
Yikes! What a comment.
BTW, I am a bird lover, so I do not support the killing orioles in Iraq.
VP Harris foolishly echoes woke platitudes that merely offer Israel empty rhetoric instead of actual unequivocal support for the region’s sole democracy. Shame on those who embrace these childlike sentiments…
I don't think a regime that kills kids is a democracy. whatever it is, it should be dismantled ! I'm saying this as a right-winger
I don’t accept the veracity of anything Harris says. She’s a blithering idiot. The hypocrisy is stunning.
The Ukraine War mantra has been,”As long as it takes.” You don’t think Ukraine has killed Russians? Not a peep about restraining Ukraine. But when it comes to Israel. It’s supposed to accept genocidal subhumans in its midst. The Democrat Party, Obama, Biden, Harris, Pelosi and brainless AOC, have empowered Iran with billions. Without that cash cow, Hamas and Hezbollah would have been irrelevant.
Israeli blood is on the hands of the Democrat party.
Biden has unequivocally supported Israel…don’t believe all of the #fakenews you read. 😉
He, Biden, certainly has Not… all his conditions of support, depend on Israel being hand cuffed with the proverbial “butt” pain. That is painfully obviously not fake news.
Aussie Paul
Biden is, rather was, Obama’s useful idiot puppet, that he could continue to use to “fundamentally transform America” in an extended 3rd term, living just down the road from the White House, until Biden’s obvious cognitive decline got so bad, they threw him under the bus, for another twit of a numbskull that Obama could control, which is now backfiring in spectacular fashion….. Not if, but when, Trump regains the Presidency, a lot of Jobama treachery will be even more exposed, than is already surfacing by the day. The fruits of the Dems have ripened, and are now visibly going rotten on the tree, where they hang…. Themselves.
Obama and crew, despise Israel, Netanyahu, & are hellbent on destroying the USA, thru their Marxist Communist Agenda…. Forget “who” the players are, Look at their Actions!!Their Fruits!! and then the trunk of the Tree reveals itself. It is rotten thru & thru. It needs to be chopped down, uprooted & disposed of.
That my friends, is exactly what Trump is doing, and will continue to do, by draining the Swamp. That’s why the Dems are going absolutely nuts, because, no matter what they do to try to stop him, they can’t! And they’re all 💩ing themselves, coz their time is just about up, come November 5th.
I think Netanyahu sees this “writing on the wall” as well. That is why he has turned the tables and gone on the offensive, hoping he will regain the support he had during Trump’s 1st term in office.
Netanyahu sees, The tide is turning, and is acting on it, knowing he will no longer be “handcuffed” by all the pain in the “buts” under the current Jobamaharris regime. As originally referred to in the opening article.
Nuff Said…
And yet Netanyahu does as he sees fit and Biden stands by him.
It’s what they say, in their own words.
Biden’s big concern is that he doesn’t want Netanyahu to make the same mistakes we made after 9/11. People like Lindsey Graham don’t believe we made mistakes after 9/11.
In my opinion Biden is incompetent when it comes to geopolitical military strategy. Handing billions to Iran? The rapid ill-thought out debacle in leaving Afghanistan, killing 13 soldiers and leaving billions in armaments. The obsession with Russia meant there was no chance of obviating the Russia invasion into Eastern Europe. So I don't think Netanyahu can learn much from Biden.
Biden is totally completely incompetent in everything, his use by date expired when his debate with Trump exposed the obvious that could no longer be hid…. that’s why the master puppeteer Obama, threw him under the bus for another useful/useless idiot, one numbskull harris along with her dancing partner in the knucklehead waltz. The whole “fundamental transformation” that Obama said he would do, during his 2 terms in office, then a 3rd term under the covers, a 4th term in the basement, just down the road from the White House overseeing dopey Joe, is now falling apart & unravelling as Americans are realising that He & His swamp team, were all along and still are actually, the enemy from within, they are not incompetent, but rather pro-active treasonous traitors, hellbent on destroying America. Watch for Obama & his infiltrators to be fully exposed and go completely nuts 🤯 when Trump rescues America. Having nothing to lose, they will not give up easy! And Trump will have to continue to Fight Fight Fight with everything at his disposal……
The critical mass moment will eventuate Nov 5!!! With the backing and support of fellow true grit patriots like Mike Flynn, JD Vance, Kari Lake, RJ Kennedy, Dinesh D’sousa, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and others who are waking up to the Big Obama Con Job they’ve been on the receiving end of since 2008!!!!
America’s survival or demise will be decided on Nov 5 but brace yourselves for a violent resistance from the Marxist Dems who will do anything to cling to power, come Inauguration week Jan 2025.
Nothing would surprise me anymore.
7000 of our best and brightest were KIA in the GWOT and so Bush, Obama, and Trump had more KIA than Biden with Bush averaging 15 a week for 4 years. Were you in a coma most of this century???
While I doubt the truth of the claim, nevertheless VP Harris is being positioned as having been President Biden’s right hand man in every decision on foreign policy, including Gaza.
Her expressed concern over the fate of Gazan civilians, therefore, rises to a level of hypocrisy rarely seen in politicians - and these days, that’s saying something.
If her exaggerated role is to be believed, then she is directly complicit in US acquiescence in Egypt’s decision to seal its borders to any Gazan unable to bribe their way through who wanted to leave the battle zone. In effect, Harris helped turn Gaza into what the anti-Israel crowd had long but falsely claimed it to be, an open air prison.
As an aside, what used to be compared to the Warsaw ghetto is now being bemoaned for having been a beautiful oasis laid low by Israeli bombardment.
It can’t be both, but cognitive dissonance always results when your propaganda is to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks when those things that do stick are mutually inconsistent. In the case of the Arab-Israeli conflict, depending on your audience’s uncritical and limited attention span is critical to your propagandizing success.
So, by assisting in locking Gazans into a battlefield - thereby supporting Hamas’ human sacrifice strategy - it boggles the mind why Harris is not called out on her hypocrisy. She is partly responsible for creating the complicated urban battlefield in which the IDF must now operate.
If you care so much about their wellbeing, let them find the same refuge in neighboring countries as the women, children, aged and infirm of Ukraine did. No one demanded they stay put lest they inadvertently become accomplices to Putin’s plan to ethnically cleanse all anti-Russian Ukrainians from the lands Russia conquers. Yet, that was the excuse given for keeping Gazans in harm’s way.
What strikes me as inconceivable, given the prominence of immigration in this campaign, is the Republicans failure to produce an ad along the lines of, “Border Czar Kamala Harris can close a border when she wants to. She closed Egypt’s border with Gaza.” If that’s not low hanging fruit for the GOP, I don’t know what is.
This administration announced at the very beginning that there will be no displacement of the Palestinians. No country offered to take them except I believe Turkey but Palestinians were not allowed to leave. So what gives?
As to why most of the modern media takes the side of Hamas I recommend reading Matti Friedman’s articles on the subject stretching as far back as 2014. Most of the world’s useful idiots - and there are many - believe Israel is in the wrong.
So the Administration policy needs to be called what it is: a die in place. It never demanded the same of the Ukrainians. While I doubt the different approaches have anything to do with race, as opposed to a knee-jerk antipathy to Israel, the effect is racial.
There is another possible explanation given Obama’s extreme dislike of Netanyahu and the large number of his acolytes throughout the Biden Administration: October 7 was viewed as yet another crisis that should not go to waste in the seemingly never ending saga to oust Netanyahu from power.
My view is that the hypocrisy needs to be highlighted even if (in the view of some/many) it may give an issue to the GOP. But then, lives are actually at stake - whether Palestinian or Israeli.
Netanyahu resigned from his cabinet post after Bush convinced Sharon to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in 2005. Presidents and Israel PMs can have disagreements.
And didn't Hamas do such a great job in Gaza when they were in control after Sharon's Land for Peace initiative. NOT. Money went for weapons, training, tunnels, but nothing to make Gaza a self sufficient civilized entity.
Uh, why didn’t Netanyahu wipe Hamas out when Trump
was president??? Do you think Trump and Kushner told him to wait until the finished they Abraham Accords??
Charles, dems or the undecided voters are too stupid to understand the correlation of a closed border in say Egypt….they’re so wrapped up in their TDS to realize the extreme world threats beyond and within our own country all the while when we Americans are at risk for losing our right to abortion. It’s truly unbelievable times we are witnessing.
The right to abortions?? Freaking, use protection, like the PILL!!
That was sarcasm Daniella...and hopefully you're hammering that home
"Israel can defend itself, Harris stated, “but how it does matters.” Israel can defend itself, but not if it prevents the achievement of a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages. Israel can exist and preserve its existence, “but we must have a two-state solution…. where the Palestinians have security, self-determination, and the dignity they so rightly deserve.”"
Translation: Let The Islamic Terrorist Win, encourage More Hostage Taking.
I cannot stand Harris and her "but how" sh&t.
Americans should be ashamed at how we reacted after 9/11. I think Netanyahu is clearly incompetent but so far I think he hasn’t made huge mistakes like Bush did after 9/11. But Biden/Harris understand you kill 10 terrorists you create a minimum of 20 terrorists and it’s probably closer to 100.
Thank you for your insightful analysis— how can we average American Jewish Democrats awaken unqualified support for Israel against the axis of terror — ? Despite the “but” rhetoric of politicians and media, here the silent majority of Americans applaud the courage and genius and dedication of the IDF to eradicate evil that threatens the safety of the only multi-cultural, multiethnic and multi-religious democracy in the Middle East !
At least, two things seem to have become obvious since Oct. 7:
1) Nothing has changed in that a fair percentage of people remain anti-semitic, at least to some degree. And, for those who are not, most are not are not willing to stand up to the former. For a period of time, the horror of the Holocaust made these noxious sentiments unpalatable and thus could not be expressed openly. That grace-period appears to be coming to a close.
2) Given the first point, Israel cannot reasonably premise its self-defense on the good-will and assistance of other nations. Its long-term existence seems to hinge on its ability to either manufacture or procure armaments in a manner that cannot be subject to the whims of who gains political power in the U.S. or elsewhere at any given point in time.
What Michael Oren analyses so clearly here is the standard rhetoric from the Biden-Harris administration, beginning with President Biden himself through all his advisers to Vice President Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. In other words, the policy of the Democrats is that Israel has a theoretical right to defend itself BUT may not actually do so. This portends ill for Israel if they are able to hold on to the White House. Contrast the Democrats' rhetoric with former President Trump's: "I will support Israel’s right to win its war on terror... and you have to win fast…You have peace through strength…" The clear choice for supporters of Israel in the upcoming presidential election is the Trump-Vance ticket. https://jerryschwartz.substack.com/p/reexamining-a-century-of-loyalty?r=tb7x6
Yes!
And yet current polls have the simpleton Harris with a substantial lead among Jewish voters
It is the strangest paradox…
Israel/Bibi has just told the world they are over being hamstrung by the “others” who have not walked one mile, in Israel’s moccasins…. And is now doing what needs to be done, for it’s very survival, with or without support or approval from the “others” Better late than never!
Aussie Paul
It would help if we were to examine some fairly recent history. The states of Israel, Jordan and even parts of Syria, were created at about the same time in 1947 or 8 with the withdrawal of the British mandate. The name Palestine was first introduced when the Romans took over Judea and the kingdom of Herod the Great, about year 70 of the current era. When the British Mandate existed (after they defeated the Turks in WW1 in 1917) a large area of the land became Palestine and more that half of the families of present-day Palestinians were there in the places that subsequently became Jordan, leaving only comparatively a narrow strip of land that was west of this river to be claimed for Jewish settlement. All those who want Palestine to be re-established should apply to Jordan as it is today, because much of it was so named and it was only due to Arab greed and politics with the British governments (Earnest Bevin, in particular who was anti-semitic), that what is now being claimed bears such a slight relationship to past history.
This is a very cherry-picked version of history. This argument has good responses to fill in what is left out. I'm not biting. But it's a very old failing case taken out of mothballs every now and then to say the Palestinians who have been there for hundreds if not thousands of years don't belong on this land. You have some truths, leave out other truths and relevant history that is just inconvenient. And in the end you offer some predictable advice concluded from your telling. This argument is way past it's "sell by" date. Those dogs don't hunt.
Where the so called Palestinians belong is in a properly funded and developed Jordan, where the agreements to share water and other resources are done by its Israel neighbor in good faith.
The "so called" Israelis should stick to the internationally accepted boundary for Israel, the green line, the Armistice line of 1949 the result of Israel's War of Independence. Conquering and settling land is a violation of international law. Most of the world agrees where the boundaries of Israel are and where Israelis "belong".
Isn't this what they were doing in 1948? What happened?
The problem (as I see it) is that if Israel does *exactly* what you suggest here, they'll likely still be attacked anyway, except they'll now be in a less defensible position. So why do it?
But David, then it’s not Israel in center of the discussion, but Jordan and then Israel cannot be bedeviled and how on earth are they going to continue their political campaign and gain voters? There’s no votes in “from the river to the sea Jordan will be free” [but of course Jordan has become an ally of the US in general so it IS a part of the evil West. Could that square their circle? 😬
I wanted to present the history and not (yet) provide any solutions. However i do favor the 2-state solution.
How is that going to happen?
I don't know how it may happen, but I do know that through God's grace the Jewish nation in Israel will survive and flourish. Am Yisrael Chi!
“The Jewish Nation” is a people and will survive. Regarding the land and taking land illegally according to international law Israel the country is in the process of destroying itself because other people, God’s other people, also believe God will save them. When you shout a battle cry you know this.
Here’s the deal—the counter narrative you asked for:
Hamas and the Islamists have less than 100 years to establish the world wide Islamic caliphate. If they fail, the rage of Allah will destroy them. NOT US!
This is the prophecy of Mohammed. They don’t want you to know. This is their secret and their shame. They have been FAILING AND FAKING FOR OVER 1400 YEARS.
Their days are numbered. The world must unite in a barrage of profound ridicule against the ISLAMISTS.
The world has moved on, and most Muslims have moved on. The only way to stop HAMAS and IRAN is by naming their secret fear—THEY HAVE FAILED FOR 1400 YEARS AND THE WORLD MUST MAKE SURE THEY FAIL AT THE FINISH LINE.
The days of the prophet and his 1500 year timetable are numbered. THE WESTERN CRY IS IMMORTALITY, WITH RESPECT, REASON, and RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. This ISLAMIC war is nonsense. We need to see it for the truth behind the barbarism.
They need to be laughed at and ridiculed into suicide. Let’s tell them to take it up with Allah in person and plead to Allah for mercy in death.
We could consider exploding their nuclear facility. For sure some of them will want to; they will blow themselves up when they win anyway. The last war will be between the true believers and the power lusters of IRAN. Move up the timetable and get the job done NOW.
I sure hope allah finds them for destruction in the US too. They're multiplying and Democrats know it. While Jewish Democrats hold abortion atop their idiotic totem pole muslims are turning them out. Europe seems to be conquered and the US seems to want catch up.
Early Christians believed the end of days would come within their lifetimes. Failure of those predictions did little to dissuade later Christians from their millenarian beliefs. I don't doubt Islam will follow the same path. The question is whether Enlightenment thinking will penetrate the Islamic world as it did the Christian. The West needs to help Islam with all the rational criticism and military might it can muster.
During WWII, the Allies fooled Hitler with a “ghost army,” and that ruse did more damage to the morale of the soldiers and the Germany leadership than you can imagine. We DON’T know for sure what is down the road from here. Never forget that the implacable enemy in this war is IRAN, and they are running out of time.
Humiliation is an effective weapon against a population. That’s why the Japanese emperor surrendered the day after Hiroshima. First ridicule, then reason. Humiliation of leadership sows doubt in the minds of millions.
Iran adopt Hari Kari
So, after 75 years of humiliation, a few more will do the trick?
The Japanese surrendered 9 days after Hiroshima and 6 days after Nagasaki. The emperor of Japan was a figurehead and surrendered when the generals told him to. I don't see what humiliation had to do with it. Overwhelming might and finally some rationality from the Japanese generals ended the war. The kind of humiliation needed is severe, crushing defeat of Iran and its allies.
I like this - simple common sense. The best solutions are the simplistic.
The ongoing multifront war against Israel versus terrorism cannot be prefaced with "BUTS", otherwise, it becomes an asymmetrical conflict with one side restrained by immoral considerations on how to conduct warfare and the terrorists acting unrestrained as terrorists. This is what Israel is experiencing from its democratic allies. If this is not a double standard, I don/t know what is. Antisemitism is clearly reaching new peaks.
For those who are still trying to determine who to give their vote, we all know that the Democrats' two state solution will not bring peace becaise a Palestinian state will be dagger seeking to pierce Israel's heart. The contrast between the Trump and Biden/Harris administration is so amazingly obvious and stark. Trump - peace and Abraham Accords in the Middle East, Biden/Harris - war with tens of thousands dead. Trump - peace in Europe, Biden/Harris - Ukraine/Russian war with a hundred thousand dead. Trump - low inflation and mortgage rates, Biden/Harris - record inflation and crushing mortgage rates between 6 and 7%. Trump - low illegal immigration, Biden/Harris - open southern border.
Also remember the Obama administation and the situation in Iraq with ISIS rampant torturing, burning, drowning, and killing that Trump ended with the defeat of ISIS.
What does it matter if Harris said she'd always give Israel help in defending their country while the other side of her mouth aligns w/ Hamas's ceasefire demand. Her allegience is with the Democrat gang of thugs and keeping the muslim vote. Gd willing Democrats took their criminally insane greed too far this time. They can't or should not have the Jewish and muslim vote, Harris's Jewish husband matters not.
I wonder if Kamala Harris, and her fans, are still questioning why Israel would need heavy bombs while fighting Hezbollah and blowing up their ballistic and cruise missiles kept in reinforced underground bunkers.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-air-force-has-struck-over-1100-hezbollah-targets-in-lebanon-so-far-today-idf/
“Border Czar Kamala Harris can close a border when she wants to. She closed Egypt’s border with Gaza.” Brilliant.
As an American, I'm so embarrassed that the but in so many situations is VP Butt running for the Presidency. Common sense and logic eludes her and her handlers.