His stunning interference in a routine arms sale that enjoys the support of a wide majority of members of Congress indicates that the radical wing of the Democratic Party controls the party’s discourse on Israel today.īiden himself underlined this point on Tuesday. Meeks, it should be mentioned, was until recently considered a pro-Israel lawmaker. He only relented when House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer placed even greater pressure on him.
Meeks was acting under pressure from the likes of Omar, Cortez, Tlaib and Rep. If that weren’t bad enough, Monday, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks announced his intention to place a hold on a routine sale of $735 million worth of precision-guided missiles to Israel that Biden had approved.
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Bob Menendez both called for a ceasefire on Tuesday, with full knowledge that such a demand harms Israel, not Hamas. Instead, Schumer, along with Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman and longtime Israel supporter Sen. No “responsible adult,” not Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and definitely not Biden, called them out for their bigoted behavior. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and others adopted rank antisemitic language against Israel, referring to Israel as an “apartheid” state and insisting that it is not a democracy because “apartheid states aren’t democracies.” The State Department itself has determined that accusing Israel of being an “apartheid” state is an antisemitic act. From the moment Hamas launched its current offensive against Israel, radical Democrat lawmakers in Congress have escalated their anti-Israel rhetoric and actions to unprecedented levels. Appointments like Amr, and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl, are the sort that one would expect from an anti-Israel president, not from a pro-Israel president.įinally, there is the political climate in Biden’s Democrat Party. When supposedly moderate Secretary of State Antony Blinken decided to send an envoy to the region last week, it was Amr that he dispatched. Amr has a long record of statements hostile to Israel and supportive of Palestinian terrorists, including Hamas. Most of the people that Biden has appointed to these key positions have public records of hostility towards Israel.įor instance, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr was an anti-Israel activist until his appointment. ties with Israel, in his National Security Council, at the State Department, the Defense Department and the U.S. The second indication of Biden’s actual policies were the people he appointed to positions responsible for managing U.S. So too, Hamas was able to use America’s abandonment of Israel as a means to persuade Israeli Arabs that they could safely participate in pogroms against their Jewish neighbors and accept Hamas as their representative. funding and sanctions relief, not only did they realize that the United States had their back, Iran and Hamas gained the economic wherewithal to wage war. funding to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority despite their funding of terrorism were a tailwind for Iran and Hamas plans to attack Israel. Likewise, Biden’s announcement that he is restoring U.S.
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