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Philip Klein @philipaklein
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New poll finds that 75% of Jewish Israelis and 65% of Israelis overall support operation in Rafah, which Biden says is a “red line.” His efforts to portray the Gaza operation as Netanyahu policy will only help Bibi domestically. https://en.idi.org.il/articles/53305
The Hill @thehill
President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping” https://trib.al/67YEzDN
12:02 PM · Mar 10, 2024
Biden is being a duplicitous snake and throwing Israel under the bus, trying to put pressure on Bibi to play both to our left and maybe to theirs. But Joe being Joe, he's wrong again, and he may be actually strengthening Netanyahu in the process.
Great job, Joe!
SLOTown Hoosier
8 hours ago
"can't have 30,000 more Palestinians dead,"- but apparently the number of dead Americans, at the hands of illegal aliens is of no concern //
edhuff SLOTown Hoosier
7 hours ago
Nobody in the Middle East or Ukraine would have had to die if Biden and his team had been even marginally competent in foreign affairs (or anything for that matter). //
houdini1984
8 hours ago
An Israeli expert who frequently consults for US officials is quoted by New York Magazine as saying, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.”
I'm old enough to remember when Trump was impeached for asking Ukraine's leaders to look into Biden's corruption in that country. And here we have a President whose administration is actively looking at options to undermine the government of one of our most important allies.
Add that to Biden's unbroken string of failed foreign policy positions. 50 years of being wrong on every major foreign policy issues. You almost have to admire his consistency. //
Mama Bear
4 hours ago
American Jews have had best friends in 3 US presidents:
1) George Washington.
He wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island, saying, among other things:
“May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.”
Basically, he welcomed the Jewish people to this great country.
2) Thomas Jefferson.
His was one of the few voices in the early republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement of religious toleration.
After the Revolution he wrote a Jewish physician to say:
“Religious freedom is the most effectual anodyne against religious dissension.” Jefferson said he was delighted to see American Jews assuming full social rights and hoped “they will be seen taking their seats on the benches of science as preparatory to their doing the same at the board of government.”
3) Donald Trump.
In his first month in office Trump set about to accomplish the Abraham Accords — specifically taking the Palestinian lynchpin out of the equation and making US aid and support to countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE conditional upon relations with Israel.
In 2019 President Trump signed an executive order that broadened Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to apply to discrimination based on anti-Semitism.
None of the networks carried it. Most Jews don’t even know about it.
In 2017, during his first year in office, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, helping fulfill a 2000 year old dream for world Jewry.
Trump is also the first and only US president to have Jewish children and grandchildren, and the first to have a rabbi do the benediction at his inauguration.
The list of what Trump has done for the Jewish people goes on and on. You would think American Jewry, including the so-called political leaders like Schumer, Schiff, Nadler, and their ilk would recognize this and be grateful.
It’s time for American Jews to wake up and see reality. The Dems no longer are our friends. But Donald Trump has been a very loyal one.
Retlag Mama Bear
3 hours ago
I agree with your assessment, but I think you would also have to include Harry Truman. He recognized Israel within minutes of their announcement of statehood. Without his support, Israel might never have survived 1948/49. //