Biden Foreign Policy
August 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It is remarkable how Joe Biden has dropped out of the news since he withdrew from the presidential race. Is he, in fact, still the president? These days, you could get the impression that Kamala is in charge. She is, in any event, the one the press cares about. So probably no reporter will ask Biden about his opposition to Israel’s apparent killing of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh
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August 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Daily Mail reports that President Biden zoned out last night at the homecoming of the American hostages whose freedom he ransomed. Vice President Harris was also on hand to comment and her comments are quoted with some derision in the Daily Mail story. Announcing the deal in this statement yesterday afternoon, Biden concluded with this question and answer: Q President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten
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August 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal organizer of the September 11 attacks that killed around 3,000 Americans. He has been held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades. Yesterday the Biden administration announced that it has reached a “plea deal” with KSM and two high-ranking al Qaeda confederates: “In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty
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July 31, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Obama/Biden team administration is doing its best to protect Hezbollah from retaliation by Israel for its murder of 12 Druze children in the rocket attack on Majdal Shams over the weekend. Obsma/Biden seeks to preserve both Hamas and Hezbollah as Iranian assets. See, for example, this current Reuters story. Israel struck back yesterday with a pinpoint attack that killed Fuad Shukr in a suburb of Beirut (according to FDD’s
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July 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Today Hezbollah launched a rocket attack on the Golan Heights that killed ten Israelis — mostly children — with many more citizens injured in the mostly Druze town of Majdal Shams. Iran is closing the ring on Israel. Missing from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to the joint session of Congress this week is any articulation of a grand strategy to deal with the Iranian threat. Gadi Taub is an Israeli
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July 18, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden claims that no American soldiers have died under his watch. Given his senility, perhaps he can be forgiven for forgetting those who died under his watch in our disgraceful exit from Afghanistan. Jerry Dunleavy wrote the book on the fiasco and tweeted out the devastating video featuring the Gold Star families from last evening’s program at the Republican National Convention. Biden’s senility does not excuse his conduct at
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July 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Both CNN and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the Iranian regime is plotting to kill President Trump. Jewish World Review has posted the Washington Post story in accessible form here. Intelligence concerning the plot derives from a human source and is apparently unrelated to the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend. NRO’s Jimmy Quinn quotes Rich Goldberg’s tweet on the rationale for such an operation: “Donald Trump is
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June 21, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this week Prime Minister Netanyahu called out the Biden administration for withholding the tools of war from Israel. Below is the brief video of Netanyahu’s statement. Netanyahu adds more in an interview yesterday with Jake Sherman. Punchbowl has posted the transcript of Sherman’s interview here. The betrayal of Israel by Biden is as unsurprising as it is disgraceful. Yet it is compounded by the lying about it. According to
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June 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
It is no state secret that Democrats and the Biden Administration are turning on Israel, and Democratic members of Congress are laying the groundwork to boycott Bibi Netanyahu’s speech before Congress next month. Netanyahu has had enough, and in this 45-second video released just this morning calls out the Biden Administration for its two-faced policy:
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June 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden administration spent more than $300 million to construct a pier on the Gaza shore, intended to facilitate provision of supplies to Hamas. Which is itself, of course, a terrible idea. But things have not gone well: NEW Lifespan of Biden’s $320 million pier: May 17: Biden’s pier opens May 21: “No aid from pier has been delivered to broader population” May 28: Pier ops suspended after piece breaks
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June 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden hosted “celebrities and elite social media influencers” a White House reception on April 26 (I’m quoting Ken Bensinger’s June 14 New York Times story). One such “influencer” was Jonathan Katz, who seized the opportunity to ask Biden about his support for Israel in the context of what he believes might “plausibly [be] described as genocide” — committed by Israel, of course. Katz is that kind of a guy.
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June 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Biden administration officials have leaked to NBC News that they are considering making a separate peace with Hamas in exchange for the terrorists’ American hostages: Biden administration officials have discussed potentially negotiating a unilateral deal with Hamas to secure the release of five Americans being held hostage in Gaza if current cease-fire talks involving Israel fail, according to two current senior U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials. Such
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June 10, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“On Oct. 7, Hamas committed a brutal massacre of 1,200 innocent people and abducted 250 hostages,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the Michigan Democratic Party on Saturday. “Thankfully, four of those hostages were reunited with their families tonight. And we mourn all of the innocent lives that have been lost in Gaza, including those tragically killed today.” Harris did not name hostages Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv, and
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June 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
One might detect an ambivalence about Israel’s defense of itself in Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s reticence to comment about Operation Arnon. That would be a mistake. There is no ambivalence Sullivan’s reticence masks Biden’s promotion of Israel’s capitulation to Hamas. NSA Jake Sullivan refused to tell CNN if he feels comfortable with Israel's rescue mission.The answer is, he feels uncomfortable. Every Israeli success reduces the chance we'll surrender
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June 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hezbollah is at war with Israel. Attacking Israel with rockets and other munitions across its northern border, Hezbollah has displaced some 80,000 Israelis from their homes. The depopulation, you might say, is rising. This week northern Israel has been on fire as a result of Hezbollah’s attacks. See, for example, Stuart Winer’s Times of Israel story (and accompanying photos) “‘A nightmare’: North cries out for action amid widespread fires sparked
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June 3, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Caroline Glick is a well-informed Israeli — a former IDF intelligence analyst and now a long-time columnist for outlets such as JNS. In the 53-minute In Focus video below she takes up the question I have been asking (or answering) since President Biden’s statement on the alleged Israeli ceasefire proposal this past Friday: “Whose deal is it anyway?” To answer the question she undertakes a painfully close textual analysis of
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June 3, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Today, President Biden put forward a clear, realistic and just plan to establish an immediate ceasefire and end the war in Gaza a plan that ensures Israel’s security, returns hostages taken on October 7th to their families, increases aid into Gaza and relieves the suffering of Palestinian civilians, and engages Israelis, Palestinians, Arab countries and the broader international community in the process of rebuilding Gaza. That was a May 31
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