Horowitz: Biden is about to bear-hug Israel to death

We all thought that 1,400 dead Jews who were tortured and massacred in the most gruesome way imaginable would serve as a cathartic moment for Joe Biden to stop coddling Iran and its allies. We were wrong.

The Biden administration wasted no time using its “friendship” with Israel to prevent the Israeli Defense Forces from stopping the Hamas terror. Joe Biden is bear-hugging Israel with promises of weapons and resources so he can kneecap the war effort and maintain his alliance with Iran and Qatar. How much Jewish blood must be shed before Israel’s right to self-defense is recognized?

In the coming days, you will hear much debate over the cost of funding war efforts in Ukraine and Israel. Never lose sight of the fact that the money is an optical illusion to obscure Biden’s terrible policies toward Israel.

Rather than getting into a bidding war with Biden over who can send more money to Israel, Republicans should defund Biden’s policies that have imperiled Israel into needing more resources in the first place.

Despite nearly 1,400 fatalities so far, the Hamas offensive is still not over. Hamas continues to launch rockets day and night, continues to try to breach the border, and is clearly working with its partner Hezbollah to stoke violence on Israel’s northern border. Hamas continues to hold at least 200 hostages, mainly women and girls, including American citizens.

Yet the singular focus of the Biden administration has been to pressure Israel on “humanitarian aid” to Gaza. It’s as if nothing has changed.

Biden’s visit to Israel on Wednesday is the ultimate political human shield for Hamas. Hamas knows Israel will not launch a full-scale operation with the U.S. president in theater. It comes on the heels of the Biden administration pressuring Israel to allow trucks into Gaza. Let’s just credulously assume that the trucks are indeed full of food and supplies and not weapons. Who do you think will benefit from those supplies?

Hamas is not some private paramilitary organization in a corner of Gaza. It controls all civilian life, including medicine, law, civil engineering, police, and “emergency” personnel. In fact, Hamas headquarters is housed under Shifa Hospital, the main hospital in Gaza, and all its rockets are located exclusively in similarly sensitive areas. You can’t go to war with Hamas while feeding Hamas at the same time. Biden knows this.

Additionally, the Biden administration is refusing to build the diplomatic pressure necessary to force Egypt to accept Gazans, thereby ensuring that Hamas keeps its human shields and accompanying war propaganda of civilian casualties that the White House will later use to pull the plug on Israel’s operation.

Also, Hamas wouldn’t be much of an operational threat without its funding and leadership in Qatar. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Doha on Friday, yet he refused to demand that Qatar hand over the Hamas leadership living there who are currently orchestrating the capture of several dozen American and Western hostages. At the same time, the State Department is allowing more sanctions on Iran, Qatar’s partner in crime, to expire.

So Biden is, on the one hand, advertising U.S. troops and foreign aid as a carrot for Israel’s protection, while he carries a heavy stick to deter Israel from doing anything to change the dynamics of the past 18 years of Hamas control.

In that sense, Republicans would be wise to tell Biden to stick his foreign aid where the sun doesn’t shine and simply leave Israel alone.

Throwing U.S. taxpayer funding at Israel (while we are bankrupt) and then handcuffing it — while providing more money to Hamas — is not “America first,” and it’s not pro-Israel either. In fact, Biden continues to be the most anti-Israel president ever.

Last week, when Blinken visited Israel, he met with “Brothers in Arms,” a left-wing paramilitary organization that almost launched a color revolution against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over modest reforms to Israel’s judicial oligarchy. Blinken took the unprecedented step of siding with left-wing organizations on domestic affairs against a sitting government. Blinken also met with Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid.

As Israel policy expert Caroline Glick observes, “If Netanyahu fails to bow to the administration’s pressure to save Hamas, the administration will turn to the likes of Brothers in Arms and Lapid to undermine the internal stability and cohesion of Israeli society once again, this time at the height of the ground operation in Gaza.”

Thus, one could debate the merits of giving foreign aid to any country, but in the case of Israel, the country would be far better off rejecting Biden’s bear hug, thereby enabling it to destroy Hamas. What is the point of throwing more weapons at Israel – weapons that it will be restricted from using where the rocket launchers are actually stationed? With his bear hug on Israel, Biden’s goal is to delay the Israeli operation for as long as possible so that it both gives Hamas more time to prepare to booby-trap Gaza and allows the memory of the genocide to fade from the news and the focus to turn to “Gaza civilians.”

Biden and Schumer will support giving $10 billion to Israel. But those will be awfully expensive handcuffs smeared with Jewish blood. We need a political Hippocratic Oath to first do no harm in the Middle East. That’s why Biden would be wise to focus more on East Palestine, Ohio, than the mythical Palestinian state controlled by savages.