It appears the Vegetable In Chief has browbeaten Netanyahu into letting Hamas live to rape, burn and mutilate another day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nVery discouraging news out of Israel today that the IDF is pulling its forces out<\/a> of southern Gaza, supposedly to \u201crest, regroup, and re-supply\u201d after four months of hard fighting. Let us hope this is true, but one can\u2019t help but suspect that this move may be in response to demands from the Biden Administration that will inevitably lead to a permanent cease-fire which will amount to a Hamas victory, because Hamas will have survived a hard Israeli punch but will now have time and room to rebuild. (Axios is now reporting that Biden delivered an ultimatum<\/a> to Netanyahu.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Biden appears to be well on his way to making Jimmy Carter look like a foreign policy titan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWhen I heard the news of the IDF strike that killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, my first instinct was that the aid workers were set up by Hamas through false or deceptive intelligence sent to the Israelis. We know Hamas uses civilians as human shields and welcomes civilian casualties as a means of propaganda, and foreign civilian casualties are the best propaganda of all. Maybe an Israeli officer was hasty and had a twitchy trigger, but I doubt it. In any case, it gave the feckless and craven Biden Administration the excuse it needed to break with Israel (as I predicted<\/a> it eventually would), in the biggest betrayal of an ally since Munich in 1938.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I have never been more ashamed to be an American. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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