As Israel continues its systematic assault on Hamas deep inside Gaza, closing in on high-ranking targets and putting the jihadist outfit’s sprawling subterranean tunnel network squarely in its crosshairs, the conversation has already begun to shift away from the warfare on the ground. True, much painful fighting likely remains; true as well, no one can predict the extent to which Hezbollah or the Iranian regime itself might escalate, thereby risking a full-fledged regional conflagration.
But the war will, at some point, end. And a gap has already emerged between the positions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden when it comes to what happens in Gaza the day after Israel deems that the cancerous Hamas tumor has been sufficiently eradicated.
On the one hand, Netanyahu avowed this week that Israel “will for an indefinite period have security responsibility” in Gaza after the war. On the other hand, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking on behalf of a deeply unpopular president who faces a difficult reelection next year and has endured declining Muslim-American support over the past month, stated this week that “it is clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza” after the war.
Something has to give.
The Biden administration’s specific position on Gaza after the war is downstream of its broader obstinance when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a speech in Tel Aviv on Nov. 3, Blinken reiterated the Biden administration’s continued support for a so-called “two-state solution” to the conflict. “Two states for two peoples,” Blinken intoned — presumably based, as it was for the Obama administration before it, on the absurd “1967 borders,” which would pinch the Jewish state to 9 miles wide at its narrowest point and which former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin once lambasted as “Auschwitz borders.”
The Biden administration, in other words, is of the opinion that the Hamas Holocaust of Oct. 7 was not a paradigm-shifting geopolitical event. Biden, Blinken and the rest of the Democratic foreign policy establishment are of the belief that the single biggest slaughter of Jews since Hitler was not a game-changer — the sort of event that causes one to revise underlying assumptions and reassess a situation from the ground up. They believe that nothing fundamentally has actually changed; after Israel is satisfied with its work in Gaza, it will get right back to more conciliation and territorial concessions.
It is more plausible that the tooth fairy exists than the “two-state solution,” as presently conceived, ever becomes reality. Indeed, the original proposed “two-state solution,” following the European powers’ post-World War I carving up of the Middle East, would have made all of “Mandatory Palestine” — encompassing the entirety of the Land of Israel, “from the river to the sea” as it is now said — a Jewish state, and would have made the Emirate of Transjordan (today, the kingdom of Jordan) a so-called “Palestinian” state. But the modern “two-state solution,” which would have Gaza and the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria form the basis for an independent “Palestinian” state, is a fantasy that should have died after Yasser Arafat’s Second Intifada — and definitely should have died after the pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023.
To continue to believe — after all the unspeakable horrors of Oct. 7, after the reality that “Palestinian self-determination” in Gaza following Israel’s unilateral disengagement in 2005 resulted in the barbaric and genocidal (but democratically elected!) rule of an Islamist reich — in a “two-state solution” is to reveal oneself to be entirely out-of-touch to anything smacking of empirical reality. It is to reveal one’s worldview as so deeply ideological, so wholly based on fanciful academic theorizing, and so completely divorced from facts on the ground, that one will have inadvertently outed himself as a complete and utter fool.
There is an alternative explanation for those still stubbornly peddling a “two-state solution.” It is a darker explanation than mere incompetence or mental deficiency: a desire to simply see more Oct. 7 pogroms and more dead Jews. Indeed, many on university campuses are barely concealing their desire for precisely this.
After Oct. 7, it is clear that the 2005 disengagement from Gaza will go down as one of Israel’s all-time historical mistakes, along with ceding the Temple Mount to the Jordanian waqf after the Six-Day War, the disastrous lack of preemptive action before the Yom Kippur War, and the Oslo Accords with Arafat. The world has seen what leaving Gaza to “Palestinian self-determination” results in: a jihadist entity that indiscriminately fires rockets at Israeli civilians and commits Nazi-like war crimes. The very least Israel must do is reassert operational control of Gaza’s borders and security; ideally, a military occupation or formal re-annexation would be on the table.
Biden is understandably concerned about his reelection prospects next fall. There is only so much in the way of Muslim-American support he can afford to lose. Like a true cynic, he has apparently chosen to shore up that support to the exclusion of our close ally’s existential security.
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History again repeats itself in the middle east, with Democrat party political leadership foolishness again displayed in Biblical proportions. Joe Biden attempts to defeat the thousands of subterranean Gaza Hamas terrorist Palestinians in battle in the same manner he seeks to defeat Trump in election,,, the exact same way that Samson defeated a thousand Gaza Philistines in the valley of Lehi ,,,with the Jawbone of an Arse,,,,the talking of a mindless negotiating obsessed self-neutered Democrat Donkey. Like Obama he attempts to talk his way out of the very evil his policies have created and funded, rather than seek the power of the living God to direct him, choosing rather to cut deals with the Devils of Damascus than militarily destroy the mentally and morally misguided mendacious monsters of Mecca.
Saul has slain his thousands, Biden will slay tens of thousands of Innocent Semite Gaza and Israeli citizens, as well as American middle east military men and women, undefended by a non-responsive military act to slay those sworn to, seek to slay, and exterminate WE THE PEOPLE of Israel and America,, Done in by wisdom-emasculated Biden leadership, himself suffering the self-inflicted mind and morality wounds received unto himself, by the slings and arrows received in obtaining his illegal ill-gotten family fortunes. There is nothing left of him that could be recognized as Judeo/Christian or workable American in his fallen values.
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The LORD DOTH HATE-
A PROUD LOOK,-A LYING TONGUE-AND HANDS THAT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD.”
PROVERS-6-16- 6-19
The criminal traitor Biden, who funds and supports the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, who scream death to America and death to Israel. Joe, who is bought and paid for by communist China and Russia.
Bible reading Christians need to take note and believe;
Malachi 1:2-3 declares, “‘I have loved you,’” says the LORD. But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ ‘Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?’ the LORD says. ‘Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.’” Malachi 1:3 is quoted in;
Romans 9:13-15: “Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” (Who show compassion!)
In case you have not noticed, HAMAS are the Desert Jackals, who create and ride for pleasure, the middle east ESAU SEESAW that bounces between Muslims who love their hate, and hate themselves in embracing the deceptive gods of destruction to the point of strapping bombs upon the backs of their own children to blow them up, if it kills enough of the God imaged sons of Abraham that God chose to love and turn their deserts onto Oasis, while the sons of Esau’s lands just wither and go barren every time HAMAS embracers bear the image of the great consumer himself. No Christian nation should fund them.
From The BOOK BY MARK LEVIN, “THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HATES AMERICA.”
Moreover, Biden always saw himself as Presidential Timber, When most did not. His lies and deceit, including his habitual Plagiarizing, including Stealing Words and PHRASES OF SPEECHES BY ROBERT Kennedy and Neil Kinnock {British Labor Party Leader}, AS Well as his Blatant lies about his Academic Record, helped derail his previous embryonic Presidential Campaigns. TODAY, his lack of character cringeworthy outbursts, and obvious Stage 5 Dementia (Of Which there are Seven Stages) are all but ignored or Dismissed.”
AND yet not one member of the GOP< has even SAID publicly, "maybe this guy needs to be charged with treason".. YET ALONE actively putting forth a bill seeking it.
Book Title by Mark Levin,” Why democrats HATE AMERICA.!
democrat Joe Biden, ”
William Shakespeare > Quotes > Quotable Quote
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William Shakespeare
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
And, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practise
As full of labour as a wise man’s art
For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall’n, quite taint their wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Only in “LA-LA-Land, did the Jewish People Attack Hamas First.
” IT’S NOT MUCH GOOD TO BE WISE AMONG FOOLS AND SANE AMONG LUNATICS.”
ROBERT GREEN
Unfortunately, Biden has no idea what he is saying. Another good reason for Trump to be the next President again!
Trump is getting stronger, while Biden is getting weaker in every sense of his world.
Democrat President, JOE BIDEN,” Somewhere A VILLAGE Is MISSING THEIR VILLAGE IDIOT.”
Linda Howard
DemocratvPresident, Joe Boden…” It’s Better To Appear The FOOL than To Open Your Mouth And Remove All Doughts.
Mark Twain
Occupation (Israeli soldiers camped in Gaza) may not be the best idea. 2016 things were pretty stable. Bush and Obama did most of the heavy lifting during economy crisis and, during Mr. Trumps years the budget cost skyrocketed and don’t mention the seemingly nonstop confusion. We’ would do well with leadership that focus more on reality without the unnecessary drama. These next few years will require a steady hand and a good cohesive team.
AMERICA NEEDS A PRESIDENT LIKE RUSSIA’s PUTIN WHO ONCE SAID OF THE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS,” RUSSIA DOESN’T NEED MUSLIMS, MUSLIMS NEED RUSSIA.”