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I hate to say “I told you so” — well, no, actually I don’t mind saying it at all. On May 8, I wrote:
“Yes, we’re on Hamas’s side now. It’s as official as it can get without Old Joe Biden asking Congress for a declaration of war against Israel: the Biden regime has thrown the weight of the United States government behind the effort to save Hamas.”
If you thought that was hyperbole or hysteria, consider the fact that on Sunday, senior Biden regime apparatchik Antony Blinken made it unmistakable, issuing a demand to Israel that could have been spoken by Hamas top dog Ismail Haniyeh: “Get out of Gaza.”
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Blinken was not content to slam Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and demand that the Israelis “get out of Gaza”; he also accused the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of “violating international humanitarian law.” If you think that this isn’t the kind of language that the U.S. government has used with allies in the past, you’re right.
Blinken did couch his castigation of Israel in terms that made it seem as if it was just a bit of friendly advice about how best to conduct the war effort as if the secretary of state during the U.S.’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 would know anything about that, but it was a castigation nevertheless.
Blinken warned that “an Israeli military operation in Rafah” might have some “initial success,” but he said that the Israelis would not be able to sustain that success and would end up “holding the bag on an enduring insurgency.” The secretary of state in this era of America’s national humiliation explained that this was “because a lot of armed Hamas will be left, no matter what [the Israelis] do in Rafah, or if they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do. Then you’re going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again.”
And so the alternative that the State Department is offering to Israel is to refrain from entering Rafah. This would allow Hamas to regroup there and strike Israeli civilians again, as its leaders have vowed to do. The Israelis reject this because they have declared that their goal is the complete destruction of Hamas. All Blinken is offering in response is defeatism, the claim that the Israelis won’t be able to destroy Hamas completely, so they shouldn’t even try.
There is no reason why this must be so. There were numerous predictions in 1945 that National Socialism (that’s what “Nazism” means, folks) would continue as an insurgency in the ashes of Germany, but no one was saying that the Allies shouldn’t enter Berlin and end the war anyway. There was indeed a small-scale insurgency after the fall of Berlin and the end of the war, but it was overcome. As long as there are believers in Islam in Gaza, there will be jihadis, but the organized and persistent jihad force the Israelis have faced in Gaza since 2005 hasn’t always existed and need not exist forever.
Blinken’s warning is of a kind that is usually issued by one’s foes in a war, not by one’s friends. And the hard-left apparatchik made it even worse: Blinken added that “it was reasonable to assess that, in certain instances, Israel acted in ways that are not consistent with international humanitarian law.”
Blinken’s timing couldn’t have been worse. The UN just cut in half the number of women and children it claims that the Israelis have killed in Gaza — figures that anyone could have seen were unreliable in the first place, since they came from the Gaza Health Ministry, which Hamas runs. There is no serious case that Israel has violated international law; if there were, it would already have been made in the International Criminal Court when Israel had to defend itself against bogus charges of “genocide.”
So why is the Biden regime so anxious to prevent Israeli forces from going into Rafah? Is it afraid of what the IDF might find there? Has U.S. support for Hamas not been confined solely to “humanitarian aid” to Gaza? The immense anxiety in the White House over this military operation is, to use a word that the media likes to use of Israel, “disproportionate.”
It’s too bad we only have leftist propagandists and not journalists in this country anymore. Someone should ask Blinken to explain himself. But no one will.
I gree there is something hidden there. But, Hamas made half a billion dollars selling the aid Biden – and the world- sent them. Biden gave Hamas directly 9 billion in the latest foreign “aid” bill. Prior to that, he gave them 100 million twice. Maybe more. What on earth could they find in Rafah that would make this any worse? It is difficult to imagine.
Some might call it “aiding and abetting” a serious and severe enemy.
Whenever Blinken’s presence is shown, it reminds one that he was behind the lie involving those 51 US intelligence managers lying about the Hunter laptop.
China has had his number for a few years. Witness how they bitch-slapped in at that first meeting in Alaska. Were these people anything but sociopaths, he would have suffered embarrassment. But he was not even close.
Not only is Blinkin a fool, he has ZERO military background. Yet, he portends to instruct Israel. His mom currently is a “cultural Ambassador for UNESCO – another anti Israel organization, Makes one wonder what he learned as a child!
Its prtty obvious. He learned to NOT suck on the hinder teats, they are smaller and have less milk. Chew. punch, shove aside, whatever it takes to get up toward those up front which have a lot more milk. Pay no mind to those you might hurt getting there. His Mommy was a good teacher.. look where SHE is now feeding.
I read recently (forgot where, but it may have been here at frontpagemag.com) that Blinken’s parents have given large amounts of money to at least one of Soros’s organizations.
Makes you wonder how much of a kickback Biden et al are getting for the slush money they’ve given to Iran.
Israel should tell this starry eyed little Simp to Go Pound Sand
Hey Blinken…..shut up and play yer guitar.
Maybe if he asks nicely that other Jew hater Eric Clapton will let Blinky play his guitar with the Fakestinian flag on it!
Looks like I gotta get rid of all of my Cream albums. Doesn’t matter. I got over Cream in 1970 and really never listened to any of his solo stuff any way.
FEC
Plain and simple, according to the Lord the God of Israel, the enemies of Israel will not prosper. The time is coming when the judgment is coming on those who are trying to destroy Israel.
Here, let ME schplain it to you. Biden has Ham-ass as advisors in the white house. There ya go.
Strange, but Israel did EXACTLY that, in 2005! The “gave” GAZA to the “Palestinians”, and all they had to do was change the name of GAZA to “The State of Palestine”, collect the Billions of dollars that the World would have poured into it, and GAZA would have become a Pearl on the Mediterranean, with the finest beaches in the World, to attract vacationers from all over! Well, no, they TOOK the World’s Billions and promised to “wipe out” Israel! The “British Mandate for Palestine” was to be the Jewish State, but the Hashemite Arabs complained, with the “help” of “Lawrence of Arabia” involved in something he should not have been, so the “Mandate” was “cut up” (“I will ‘cut up’ the Nations that cut up Israel”: the Lord) to give those Arabs a State they renamed “Jordan”. JORDAN was to be the “Palestinian State”. Perhaps Blinken should have been playing guitar at the Re’im Music Festival instead of at a bar in Kiev.
Obama stopped Israel from defeating Hamas in 2014, allowing them to rebuild.
His team is in power again, and trying to stop Israel again.
Obama didn’t just “allow” Hamas to rebuild. The US under Obama/Biden/Kerry lead one of the typical “donors conferences” to raise billions for Gaza reconstruction. That took much of the burden off Hamas, who took much of the resources provided for its own purposes.
I suspect they’ll find raising the money this time won’t be so easy. By the time the war ends, Gaza is looking at $50-100 Billion to rebuild. Who’s going to put up the money knowing Hamas is just itching to regroup and attack again, meaning what they rebuild could again be turned to rubble! It would be cheaper to encourage resettlement elsewhere, especially to those countries most supportive of Gaza and Hamas – Turkey, Qatar and Iran. Just don’t send them here, though Biden/Blinken want to.
This twink is so weak and effeminate, he probably takes it up the poop chute from more manly guys like Lindsey Graham and Moochelle Obama..
Blinken should stick to pretending he’s a rock star. The world would be better off.
Blinken and Biden don’t care about Palestinians any more than they care about Jews. Their policy has always been driven by purely political reasons. It’s a war of publicity. As it happens, their view of politics is very distorted. In fact, Biden and Blinken are undercutting their credibility and the credibility of USA. They aren’t gaining any points with Muslim extremists, that’s for sure, whose only agenda and raison d’etre is the destruction of USA and Israel.
Fuck Antony.
DEATH TO HAMAS.
This entire administration is chock-a-block full of unprincipled delusional people and people are policy.
The leftist-islamist US government has caved in to islamic terrorists. What a surprise.
The idiot leftists think if they appease and bribe the criminals and terrorists there won’t be any crime or terrorism.
In reality it only leads to complete take over of the nation by the criminals and terrorists.
The leftists are nothing but gullible fools who are being played by the psychopathic terrorists and criminals.
Has there EVER been an Administration so COMPLETELY CORRUPT and INEMPT as this one? Is it even POSSIBLE that you could make THIS many HORRENDOUS appointments? All this is INTENTIONAL and probably part of an INTERNATIONAL Plan to destroy Our Nation! ALL of the biden bunglers should be tried for TREASON!
On way to show Blinken “first hand” how Hamascan be defeated is to strap him onto a missile during a precision strike on a Hamas target. Another waywould be for Bibi to showBlinken a terror tunnel, close the hatch on Blinken andlet him wander around in the dark terror tunnel for a few days so he would learn to “see the light.” If all else fails,just ignore him, other than to certify him as “treif” and persona non-grata in Israel.
Antony Blinken is an UTTER POS and leftist clown.
Anyone under a Liberal Democrat is not good for anyone period we saw that under Clinton(Bill)and Obama
It’s obvious we’ve got hidden moo slims calling the shots in White House