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Brendan O’Neill has been of the few British journalists not to have joined in the widespread Israel-bashing that characterize the reports on the Gaza War by such major media outlets in the UK as the BBC and The Guardian. He takes a whack at Biden, and the President’s desire to prevent an Israel-Hezbollah war, in order to ensure his re-election, here: “The lethal narcissism of Joe Biden,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, June 21, 2024:
What is more important: Joe Biden winning the votes of America’s entitled coastal elites, or Israel protecting itself from an army called the Party of God that has sworn itself to the eradication of the ‘cancerous’ Jews from the Middle East? This would have been a no-brainer a few years ago. Most people – aside from Israelophobic hotheads on the far right and hard left – would have agreed that defending the Jewish State from fanatics who view Jews as ‘evil’ and ‘blasphemous’ is of greater moral import than a president’s longing to get back in the good books of woke voters. And yet today, such simple moral clarity is in alarmingly short supply.
Right now, nothing fills the Biden set with greater dread than the prospect of war between Israel and Hezbollah. And it’s not because they’re peaceniks. Biden voted in favour of the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003. He was vice-president to the drone-happy Barack Obama, who dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone. In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. If Biden is now of an anti-war bent, it’s been a recent conversion. No, it is self-preservation, not anti-militarism, that underpins Biden’s fear of an Israel-Hezbollah war. It’s the potential death of his presidency, not potential death in the Middle East, that keeps him up at night.
An Israel-Hezbollah war would bring out in even greater, and louder, numbers than to date the monstrous regiment of anti-Israel protesters, who would demand that Biden “stop Israeli aggression in Lebanon” by withholding all American weapons deliveries to the embattled Jewish state. Biden won’t do that; it could end his support among many American Jews, though not, of course, among the small groups of Jewish left-wing Israel-haters, such as those in Jewish Voice For Peace. The numbers of Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, supporting Israel are likely to be even higher in a war against Hezbollah, which is a much more formidable enemy than Hamas, with an armory of 100,000-150,000 rockets and missiles supplied by Iran. Should an Israel-Hezbollah war break out, Biden will lose support no matter what policy he adopts toward Israel. The “woke” young will not vote for Trump, but will either not vote, or will vote “uncommitted.” In battleground states — among them Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — that might spell defeat for Biden So he’s determined to prevent a wider war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah, at least until after the election.
Back to Brendan O’Neill:
Tensions have exploded between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terror group whose name means Party of God. Unsurprisingly, the West’s ‘anti-war’ activist class has had little to say about Hezbollah’s blitz on northern Israel. Hezbollah, which is allied with Hamas, has been firing rockets into Israel almost every day since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October, with the aim of ‘pulling Israeli forces’ away from Gaza. That is, with the aim of aiding the anti-Semites of Hamas in their holy war against the Jewish nation. Entire ‘swathes of northern Israel’ have been engulfed by fire as a result of Hezbollah’s rockets. Tens of thousands have been evacuated….
In northern Israel, Hezbollah’s near-daily barrage of rockets has forced 80,000 Israelis to leave their homes. After eight months, these people still cannot return home, but are displaced persons within their own country. This intolerable state of affairs cannot be allowed to continue, for it shrinks Israel’s habitable area. This is why the IDF is preparing for war with Hezbollah, a war many Israelis now believe is not a question of “if,” but of “when.”
If Biden were not laser-focused on his re-election, he would take a clear position in support of the beleaguered Jewish state, no matter how the anti-Israel youth and “woke” voters would react. He would announce the lifting of the one delivery of weapons he had previously halted in a failed attempt to prevent the IDF from entering Rafah, and order the Pentagon to “speed up as quickly as possible” all of the weapons deliveries that previously had been slowed down as a way to pressure Israel. In addition, Biden would announce that several more aircraft carriers, and battleships with anti-missile defense systems, are now being moved into the eastern Mediterranean, just off the Lebanese coast, thereby semaphoring to Hezbollah that American forces are now in position both to attack Hezbollah weapons depots and to supplement Israel’s anti-missile defenses, given that Israel’s supplies of Iron Dome batteries at this point are running low, and could be overwhelmed by the huge number of rockets and missiles Hezbollah has available to launch at the Jewish state. That’s what Biden should do. But he won’t. At most, he will move one more ship into position off the Lebanese coast, and hope that he can keep the peace on Israel’s northern front until after the election.
In order to earn back the terrorist vote that was firmly in his camp in 2020, such as the terrorists at the terror org CAIR, and the terrorists in several swing states that have threatened him with staying home, Joe needs dead Jews. And lots of them. If he can deliver dead Jews to the Democrats, he’ll earn those votes back.
I can only think of his mentor FDR who is best known for putting Americans into concentration camps and for sending Jews to Europe to be murdered.
Biden or whoever handles him was quoted as saying after reelection (heaven forbid) he will withdraw all support from Israel.
Those supporting Israel and still thinking of voting Democrat beware!.
Can you please give the citation? I would like to send this to some Jewish Democrats but I know that they will want a citation–they will not just believe someone saying it is so.
“… given that Israel’s supplies of Iron Dome batteries at this point are running low, and could be overwhelmed by the huge number of rockets and missiles Hezbollah has available …”
Iron Dome is only capable of taking out projectiles one at a time. To date, it’s been able to handle the thousands of rockets launched from Gaza and Lebanon because, being unguided, most have not threatened population centers or strategic sites, and those are not intercepted (at a cost of $50-100,000 per interception).
That calculus changes when dealing with Hezbullah’s hugely larger arsenal, which includes increasing numbers that are precision guided. The latter fact means that *every one* of those guided rockets must be intercepted, as they will almost certainly reach their intended targets. So taking them out singly – retail- will simply exhaust Israel’s defensive capabilities. They must be taken out wholesale, in large numbers from their warehouses, weapons depots, and launch sites, before they’re ever launched. This will require a 1967-style preemptive strike, taking out the majority of the threat, with ground troops and defense systems to deal with the remaining threat.
Is there any way Israel could confuse what I assume must be a satnav element in the guided missiles, do you know? If it is possible to block mobile phone signals, it must also be possible to block other radio frequencies.
Or a nuke. 2,700 years ago, the prophet Isaiah in chapter 17 described the overnight total and utter destruction of Damascus. Hmmmmm. (The biggest weapon then was a sword (or a trebouchet). Pretty hhard to take out a population of 3 million, overnight, with swords. Wonder how hw knew???
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus.
Rev. Roy……..<
That, not Gaza, is why Biden enlarged 2000 pound bombs that were supposed to be delivered to Israel. Gaza is moving into a mop up operation for which 2000 pound bombs are unnecessary. That and his slow walking seven other weapons systems, and dispatching the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to tell Israel that the U.S. won’t be able to render assistance if Israel moves on Hezbollah, show that out maladministration is desperate to avoid a war breaking out on Israel’s northern border prior to the election. It is more than content to allow Hezbollah keep things on the boil and hinder Israel’s ability to defend itself prior to the U.S. election, as the article ably notes.
Israel is working on Iron Beam, a system to down incoming missiles with a laser beam. I think it will be ready to go in a short time. Report was at Raptor News.
A smoking heap of rubble from the Israeli border to the suburbs of Beirut MAY help, but not much less. No more dropping warning leaflets and making phone calls. Never again will Jewish blood be cheap.
Very vulgar of me, but oh so tempting, to replace the -ah of Hezbollah with -ocks.
Israel is the sign that God spoke of at the End of the age, the policies toward Israel have been destructive. God sees all that is happening. The Left is tearing apart college campuses, promoting hatred of Israel. There is a new level of calling evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20. Hamas is celebrated around the world while Christians and Jews are persecuted like never before. Islam is glorified now, particularly on college campuses. The culture is upside down.
Look how many governmental offices mourned the death of Iran’s President Raisi, who is known as the “Butcher of Tehran.”
Now there is rush to global government. Artificial intelligence is being refined to rule the world. The goal is that it will be smarter than mankind. Technology has went too far. The inanimate is god-like. The aberrant is celebrated as normal and should be the world standard. In the predicted end-time decline of man’s character, we are watching the homosexual and trans movement be hailed, and the lovers of biblical values be persecuted and jailed. The sanctity of life is scoffed at. As predicted mankind lives for money and power at the expense of everyone and everyone. Who can ignore these signs and believe they are normal?