Biden Making Hamas-Israel War About “Jewishness” And That Is A Huge Mistake. Result Is Conflict Between Jews And Muslims; Christianity And Islam; White People Versus Dark People; Poor Versus Rich
When President Biden Espoused “No Daylight” Between The Government Of The United States And The Government Of Israel, He Should Have Anticipated Prime Minister Netanyahu Would Embrace Daylight, A Lot Of Daylight- Regardless Of What President Biden Said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu Needing To Be Convinced That 2.3 Million People Are Suffering Might Pretty Much Reflect His Thinking- Jewish Suffering Matters Far More Than Muslim Suffering. Residents Of Gaza Suffering Now Will Be Grateful Later To The State Of Israel- Because Their Lives Will Be Better- Because Other Countries Will Rebuild What The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Has Destroyed.
Standing With Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Biden’s Stature Continues To Be Diminished, Not Enhanced.
US$3.8 Billion Doesn’t Matter. Another US$14.3 Billion Won’t Matter Either. Government Of State Of Israel Will Do What It Wants.
President Biden Said Government Of The United States Has “Back” Of Government Of The State Of Israel. Question Is Does State Of Israel Have “Back” Of Government Of The United States? Answer Is Unequivocally No.
What Did President Biden Think Would Happen When He Fully Supported Prime Minister Netanyahu? He Would Embarrass Him, Humiliate Him, And Ignore Him. The Prime Minister Did The Same To President Biden’s Previous Boss- Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States. Lessons Not Learned.
Biden Would Have Better Luck Capturing A Greased Pig Than Trying To Influence Prime Minster Netanyahu.
Mistake… Biden-Harris Administration Framed Israel-Hamas War As Conflict Between Jews And Muslims, And Christianity And Islam. White People Versus Dark People. Poor People Versus Rich People.
President Biden Made The Hamas-Israel Conflict About “Jewishness” And That Was A Huge Mistake.
Issues Should Have Been Framed As About Hatred, Inequality, And Aspiration.
There Is A Feeling By An Increasing Number Of United States Citizens (And Citizens In Other Countries) That Jews Are A Politically, Financially Protected Class. President Biden Did Nothing To Dissuade From That. To The Contrary, He Fueled It.
Why Did President Biden Ignore Palestinian-Americans Impacted By The Decisions Of IDF While He Was In Tel Aviv? Why Not Meet With Those Families?
When The President Of The United States Is Unable To Convince The Prime Minister Of The State Of Israel And The President Of Egypt To Expedite The Departure Of Individuals Subject To United States Jurisdiction To Depart Gaza, Just How “Special” Are Those Relationships? Just How Influential Is President Biden? Just How Much Of His 50-Plus Years Of Foreign Vaunted Policy Experience Matters?
Prime Minister Netanyahu Does Not Believe US$3.8 Billion In Annual United States Taxpayer Borrowing Gains United States A Quid Pro Quo.
President el-Sisi Does Not Believe US$1.4 Billion In Annual United States Taxpayer Borrowing Gains United States A Quid Pro Quo.
Prime Minister Netanyahu Innately Believes Electricity, Food, Medicine, And Water Are Essential Tradecraft Of Shylock. Give Something, Get Something. Let’s Make A Deal!
“And one more word on this. I continue to be alarmed about extremist settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank. That pouring gasoline on a fire is what it is like. This was a deal. A deal was made and they are attacking Palestinians in places they are entitled to be. It has to stop.” Joseph Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021- ).
“Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends.” 28 March 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
The President Of The United States Is Excited About Fewer Than 100 Tractor Trailers In Three Weeks Crossing The Border From Egypt Into Gaza- When The Need Is For Hundreds Per Day To Support 2.3 Million Residents Whose Square Footage Continues To Be Compressed By The IDF. That’s A Serious Mismatch As To The Definition Of And Distance Between Success And Failure.
When The Israel-Hamas War Has Ended, Will State Of Israel And Jewish Influence, Money, And Power Purchase Redemption And A Clean Slate Absolving Its Destruction Of Gaza And Deaths Of More Than Five Thousand Palestinians?
United States taxpayers borrow nearing US$6 billion annually and deliver those funds for the benefit of the State of Israel (approximately US$3.8 billion) and the Arab Republic of Egypt (approximately US$1.4 billion). Jerusalem and Cairo are the first and second-largest, respectively, destinations for United States taxpayer borrowed “foreign assistance” funding. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a close third, receiving approximately US$1.4 billion.
The State of Israel has an annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of approximately US$522 billion- ranking 29th of 193 countries globally by GDP and has approximately US$200 billion in foreign exchange reserves. Why does the robust economy in the State of Israel need US$3.8 billion from United States taxpayers- which is borrowed?
The Arab Republic of Egypt has an annual GDP of approximately US$476 billion and has approximately US$45 billion in foreign exchange reserves. Media reporting continually identifies substantial misuse of United States taxpayer borrowing relating to The Republic of Egypt.
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has annual GDP of approximately US$47 billion and has approximately US$13 billion in foreign exchange reserves.
On 18 October 2023, Joseph Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021- ) traveled on Air Force One at a cost to United States taxpayers of approximately US$1 million from Washington Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Tel Aviv, Israel, and then departed for Washington DC less than eight hours later.
He met with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel (1996-1999, 2009-2021, 2022- ). He knew in advance that a scheduled meeting with Abdullah Il bin Al-Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (1999- ), Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt (2014- ), and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (2005- ), had been cancelled due to damage and deaths at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital (The Arab People’s Hospital) on 17 October 2023 in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City which was first attributed to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and then attributed to supporters of the non-state actor Hamas, which has since 2006 has controlled (initially through an internationally-supervised election) the government in Gaza.
President Biden could have waited for the four-way head of state gathering to be re-scheduled. He should have waited. He did not. Why? Because believed domestically politically beneficial to demonstrate “solidarity” with the State of Israel could not wait at least seventy-two hours which would coincide with the end of a three-day period of mourning announced by the PA.
There would have been no means of certainty that the four-way head of state gathering would have been re-scheduled had President Biden waited to visit the State of Israel and Jordan. However, that risk would have been preferable to his travel solely to embrace- physically, politically, financially, and militarily the government of the State of Israel. The “comforter-in-chief” became a “flame-thrower-in-chief.”
There are four senior members of the Biden-Harris Administration (2021- ) cabinet who identify as of the Jewish faith: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence. The husband of Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States (2021- ), identifies as of the Jewish faith and is the official global outreach designee to the Jewish community for the Biden-Harris Administration. Their connectivity to the Jewish faith influences their political decision-making- which Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of State, illuminated during statements about his family delivered while in the State of Israel. The Majority Leader of the 100-member United States Senate is Charles Schumer (D- New York), who is Jewish.
Analysts, journalists, and pundits who are Jewish or who are Muslim bring their beliefs, family influence, perspectives, and values to what they say, what they show, and what they write, so too do government officials bring those components of their personalities to the policies they advocate.
The Biden-Harris Administration fostering the narrative that the events impacting the State of Israel and Gaza along with Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon are solely a “Jewish” issue is a mistake.
There are more followers of Islam, more Muslims in in the world than there are individuals identifying as Jewish.
The military decisions since 7 October 2023 by the government of the state of Israel are disproportional to achieving its publicly-stated objectives. Criticism will continue to intensify.
Muslim-led nations appreciate that military equipment sourced from the United States has the responsibility for deaths in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, North Korea, Mali, Niger, Palestine (Gaza and Occupied West Bank), Russian Federation, Syria, and Vietnam among other countries.
Last week a resolution supporting a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza was introduced by the government of Jordan in the 193-member United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)- not in the United Nations Security Council where it would be subject to a veto by one of the five permanent members (China, France, Russia, United States, United Kingdom). The vote was one hundred twenty for, fourteen against (including the United States and State of Israel), and forty-five abstaining. The government of Ukraine abstained.
Sponsors of A/ES-10/L.25 (26 October 2023): “Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Brunei, Darussalam, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Yemen, Zimbabwe and State of Palestine.”
The decision by the UNGA was unpersuasive neither to the Biden-Harris Administration nor to the government of the State of Israel. Previously, resolutions focusing upon decisions by the government of the State of Israel and by Hamas (and its supporters) introduced in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have been vetoed by the Biden-Harris Administration.
NOTE: Annually, the government of the Republic of Cuba submits to the UNGA a resolution condemning United States laws, policies, and regulations that it maintains are detrimental to its selected commercial, economic, financial, humanitarian, and political decisions. On average, the resolution receives a few votes in opposition- and always from at least two members of the UNGA- the United States and the State of Israel. Ironic that the State of Israel would support United States policy toward the Republic of Cuba given its opposition to individual, company, and country boycotts of the State of Israel.
The government of the State of Israel has repeatedly expanded settlements in occupied territories- despite opposition from successive administrations in the United States and governments of other countries. The government of the State of Israel annexed the Golan Heights area within the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, despite opposition by governments, the United Nations (UN), and international judicial bodies. [NOTE: The Trump-Pence Administration (2017-2021) supported the annexation of the Golan Heights].
Residents in Gaza and occupied West Bank have never been treated respectfully- they often believe they are treated in part as those of Jewish faith were treated by the government of Germany in the 1920’s through 1940’s: required to carry documents, requiring authorization to travel, and subject to disproportional discipline (destruction of homes) among other imbalances.
Since 7 October 2023, governments have been mistaken in their efforts to dissuade their citizens from any display of support for residents of Gaza and occupied West Bank, for those who identify as Palestinian, and from any display of condemnation towards the State of Israel. Such efforts only instill further hostility- towards both those governments and towards the State of Israel. By implementing restrictions and prohibitions, the message is there is freedom of speech, just not when involving the State of Israel and individuals identifying as Jewish. During the last weeks, wealthy benefactors to educational institutions in the United States have threatened to withhold (or are withholding) contributions; and some are demanding the names of students who place their names to statements contrary to the positions of the benefactors. So much for encouraging robust debate. Disgraceful.
Equally unhelpful are comments such as those shared by President Biden on 20 October 2023 at a campaign reception in Washington DC: “But here’s the deal: If you think about it, what’s the reason why it’s so important for Israel to be sustained? Because I’m absolutely convinced -- I am convinced with every fiber of my being: If there were no Israel, there’s not a Jew safe in the world -- not in the entire world. I really mean it. (Applause.) In the entire world. (Inaudible), including the United States, it can be counted on. So, that’s why I’m pushing so hard. That’s why I spend so much time. But here’s the other piece of it. The -- I had a -- I’ve had a long talk with -- well, I won’t go into it too much into detail…. I think one of the reasons why they acted like they did, why the folks moved on the -- Hamas moved on Israel as they have -- is they knew I was about to sit down with the Saudis, who are not my -- I wouldn’t call them the greatest democracy in the world. But guess what? The Saudis wanted to recognize Israel, and they wanted -- I got them to agree to overflights, and they were about to recognize Israel. And that would, in fact, unite the Middle East.” [NOTE: Overflights can be substantial revenue sources for countries; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not waiving overflight fees.]
Yes, the President of the United States delivered that statement. Does anyone with performing frontal and peripheral lobes believe that statement? It’s absurd. What is more deeply troubling- the fundamentally flawed belief or that it erupted from the gums and manufactured teeth of an eighty-year-old commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful military and largest economy?
During the 2020 presidential election campaign, then candidate Mr. Biden said of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a United States resident who was employed by The Washington Post newspaper, at the Consulate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkiye: They should “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are. There is very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.”
And then these questions.
· If the relationship between the government of the United States and the government of the State of Israel and the president of the United States and the prime minister of the State of Israel is so close, so intertwined, as an umbilical cord is to a fetus and a mother, then why would the prime minister need a personal visit from the President of the United States to be convinced to permit electricity, food, fuel, medicine, and water to 2.3 million residents of Gaza?
Why would anyone need to be convinced that is just?
What is the character of a person who believes electricity, food, fuel, medicine, and water for 2.3 million residents of Gaza is a favor from a head of government to a head of state- and then deserving of a favor in return?
Why would a president of the United States embrace such a person with such character- or lack of character?
Did the government of the State of Israel announce that it would re-open it border crossings from Gaza into the State of Israel for use by dual nationals? Specifically, by individuals subject to United States jurisdiction? No. Even if Hamas were to prohibit it, the gesture would have been appreciated- and appropriate.
Approximately US$6 billion in annual borrowing by United States taxpayers for use by the government of the State of Israel and government of the Arab Republic of Egypt is not subject to quid pro quo.
However, like the stereotype, the prime minister of the State of Israel is always prepared to make a deal. Shades of the worst of William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) character in The Merchant Of Venice, Shylock. Or, is it Chutzpah?
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