Biden and Blinken's appeasement of Iran based Hamas and throwing Israel under the bus as to what it can do militarily leaves the Israelis with no choice but to do what is necessary in Rafah on their own terms,.
Israel is trying to win a war against a homicidal death cult; Biden is trying to win Michigan. This is only going to get uglier as the year progresses.
Israel has Hamas on the run and is fighting Hamas in a way which Hamas casualties stay up and Israeli casualties stay down without the need for American war materiel
The irony surrounding the US decision to build a temporary port in Gaza to bring in supplies is straightforward. Israel tried to do something very similar first but was a blocked. When Israel sought to bring in supplies from the sea, having been inspected in Cyprus, it was the PA that torpedoed the initiative out of “fear” that this was a disguised attempt at ethnic cleansing. How one might ask? By providing Gazans with the possibility of boarding the aid ship and head to safety, that’s apparently how. I assume the US has agreed to work to prevent any Gazan from taking advantage of the aid-ships to leave the Strip for safety and force them to remain in place to be available as a Hamas human shield.
I can see visions of the Afghanistan debacle 2.0, when hundreds of Gazans swarm the ships to flee, and are left to drown in the sea or some type of humanitarian disaster which could have been avoided.
No one wants to do the obvious, as was done in Ukraine: keep the men of fighting age in but allow everyone else (women m, children, elderly and infirm) to leave if that’s what they want. The secret Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse is just a cover to keep everyone penned in at the risk of their lives. And even if there were such a plan, shouldn’t the average Gazan be allowed to vote with their feet if they’d rather be alive than die for some abstract principle? Even 75 years on, what does it say about this fear over the fragility of Palestinian identity?
Whatever may happen at the pier, should Gazans try to force their way onto the ships, I can guarantee (almost) that the media coverage will be markedly different from that of the matches to the Gaza fence, a Hamas controlled exercise that we now know allowed for, among other things, the planting of explosive charges that were detonated on October 7.
Any riot on the pier, any casualties incurred, we already know that Israel will be blamed for its heartlessness etc. It’s a pre-written narrative awaiting only an event to go to print.
The Scroll hit it out of the park today with all articles. I only hear sinister stuff about TikTok and Wuhan. And on Gaza-You can’t fake statistics like that! Great correlation makes for great reporting. And the Back Page should be on the front page. Well done!
The real issue is that Democrats have been against the use of military power as a necessary instrument of foreign policy since the Vietnam War and that view is now mainstream in the Democratic Party and certainly within this administration
War is hell and fighting Hamas is the same as fighting Nazism and the Japanese-you kill the ideology by destroying its military and making it impossible to sustain a civilian population not by sending it food in the middle of a war .Lincoln did not feed the Confederacy during the Civil War and FDR did not feed the Nazis or the Japanese during WW2
Biden and Blinken's appeasement of Iran based Hamas and throwing Israel under the bus as to what it can do militarily leaves the Israelis with no choice but to do what is necessary in Rafah on their own terms,.
Israel is trying to win a war against a homicidal death cult; Biden is trying to win Michigan. This is only going to get uglier as the year progresses.
Israel has Hamas on the run and is fighting Hamas in a way which Hamas casualties stay up and Israeli casualties stay down without the need for American war materiel
great news, hope you're right. hamas delenda est
No problem!
The irony surrounding the US decision to build a temporary port in Gaza to bring in supplies is straightforward. Israel tried to do something very similar first but was a blocked. When Israel sought to bring in supplies from the sea, having been inspected in Cyprus, it was the PA that torpedoed the initiative out of “fear” that this was a disguised attempt at ethnic cleansing. How one might ask? By providing Gazans with the possibility of boarding the aid ship and head to safety, that’s apparently how. I assume the US has agreed to work to prevent any Gazan from taking advantage of the aid-ships to leave the Strip for safety and force them to remain in place to be available as a Hamas human shield.
I can see visions of the Afghanistan debacle 2.0, when hundreds of Gazans swarm the ships to flee, and are left to drown in the sea or some type of humanitarian disaster which could have been avoided.
Anyway you paint it, this will be a nightmare.
That’s how Biden rolls.
Whatever could go wrong, will go wrong.
No one wants to do the obvious, as was done in Ukraine: keep the men of fighting age in but allow everyone else (women m, children, elderly and infirm) to leave if that’s what they want. The secret Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse is just a cover to keep everyone penned in at the risk of their lives. And even if there were such a plan, shouldn’t the average Gazan be allowed to vote with their feet if they’d rather be alive than die for some abstract principle? Even 75 years on, what does it say about this fear over the fragility of Palestinian identity?
Whatever may happen at the pier, should Gazans try to force their way onto the ships, I can guarantee (almost) that the media coverage will be markedly different from that of the matches to the Gaza fence, a Hamas controlled exercise that we now know allowed for, among other things, the planting of explosive charges that were detonated on October 7.
Any riot on the pier, any casualties incurred, we already know that Israel will be blamed for its heartlessness etc. It’s a pre-written narrative awaiting only an event to go to print.
The Scroll hit it out of the park today with all articles. I only hear sinister stuff about TikTok and Wuhan. And on Gaza-You can’t fake statistics like that! Great correlation makes for great reporting. And the Back Page should be on the front page. Well done!
It’s Abraham Wyner, not Andrew Wyner
The real issue is that Democrats have been against the use of military power as a necessary instrument of foreign policy since the Vietnam War and that view is now mainstream in the Democratic Party and certainly within this administration
But they were not against the military power when Putin attacked Ukraine, declining to consider a ceasefire categorically.
Great article on Tablet re Biden and Israel! We listen to Mark Levin nightly and own a few of his books!
I am not familiar with Mark Levin's work (and we are not related. My father was Mikhail Levin).
That’s because the Ukraine is doing the fighting without American boots on the ground
There are no American soldiers in Gaza either.
Keep them out !
War is hell and fighting Hamas is the same as fighting Nazism and the Japanese-you kill the ideology by destroying its military and making it impossible to sustain a civilian population not by sending it food in the middle of a war .Lincoln did not feed the Confederacy during the Civil War and FDR did not feed the Nazis or the Japanese during WW2