Joe Biden and the return of the Carter foreign policy

Joe Biden Runs Like a Scared Dog From His Pro-Hamas Position, As His Political Fortunes Sour   "Leave it to Joe Biden, the worst foreign policy mind in American history, to also manage to take the cake domestically. 

"In perhaps the dumbest political move in decades, the president recently pledged to cut off arms shipments to Israel while demanding they not enter Rafah to finish off Hamas. Biden did so in an ill-fated attempt to appease his far-left flank, which is populated by woke "pro-Palestinians" who've never met an Islamist they didn't like. 

"As I wrote recently, that worked about as well as expected. Namely, it didn't work at all and they still hate him." . . . 

One Look at Biden's Top Advisor Explains His Support for Hamas  "After protecting thousands of Hamas terrorists in the southern Gaza City of Rafah last week and kneecapping Israeli's ability to win the war against the Iranian backed group, it's becoming clear who is driving President Joe Biden's betrayal of Israel and rewarding those who carried out the horrific October 7 attacks. 

"National Security Council Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy and Deputy Assistant to the President Maher Bitar is driving this policy." . . . 

The body of an Israeli female hostage in the trunk of a car
Driven around Gaza City with a trail of cheering "innocent civilians"
October 7th 2023 pic.twitter.com/xIspj06YLx

— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) May 12, 2024

BOMBSHELL: Biden Administration Has Been Hiding Intel on Location of Hamas Leaders in Betrayal of Israel – RedState     "Joe Biden has been hiding intelligence on the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and their command tunnels, depriving Israel of vital information that could lead to an end to the war. That revelation came in a report on Saturday and was framed as the administration offering that information now if the ongoing operation in Rafah is canceled." . . . 

"I am shocked and sickened by reports that the U.S. is withholding from Israel vital information on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders in Gaza. Is the administration still our ally?"

Michael Oren

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Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.

So embarrassing for Israel to be coupled with such silly allies as have come from the U.S.

'Would Strengthen Hamas' -- Cameron Says UK Will Continue Arming Israel (breitbart.com)  "In an interview on Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips Show, Foreign Minister David Cameron said that cutting off weapons shipments to Israel is “not a wise path” noting that the last time he faced public pressure to do so “a few days later there was a massive Iranian attack on Israel, including 140 cruise missiles.”

“ 'If I announced that today, it might help me get through this television interview, but actually it would strengthen Hamas. It would weaken Israel,” Lord Cameron said.

“ 'I think it probably makes a hostage deal less likely. So I don’t think some sort of political declaration is the right answer. We should stick with our rigorous process of making sure we act within the law.' ” . . .

Foreign Secretary David Cameron, calls out the BBC “They [Hamas] are terrorists, if you kidnap grandmothers, kidnap babies, you rape people, you shoot children in front of their parents, what more do they need to do for the BBC to say look these are terrorists?”

 

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Alvin, shut it down for the sake of the party! - Silvio Canto, Jr.   "Up to now, there is a winner and a loser out of this Manhattan trial. The winner is President Trump, who keeps getting stronger. The loser is New York, or the perception that the Empire State is a banana republic. Using the legal system to target political opponents is Banana Republic 101.

"This is from Jonathan Turley:

Cohen’s testimony will be the culmination of this travesty of a trial. But Bragg already jumped the shark with Daniels. After three weeks, legal experts are still debating what the crime was that Trump was seeking to conceal by recording payments for a standard non-disclosure agreement as a legal expense. (That is the same characterization used by Hillary Clinton’s campaign for its funding for the infamous Steele dossier.)

It is still unclear that Trump even knew how the payments were characterized, and the alleged false record was not even created until after the election was over. Yet he stands accused of using the “false business records” to somehow steal or rig an election that was already over.

After this circus with Cohen is complete, Trump will be allowed to testify. He would be insane to do so. Merchan has already said that he will allow a broad scope to cross-examination, making any appearance unlikely.

That is when Merchan will face a key test of judicial ethics. He has failed to protect the rights of the defendant from a baseless, politically motivated prosecution.  . . .

Bill Maher has a 2018 video of Stormy Daniels contradicting her trial testimony - American Thinker  . . ."Instead, Bragg and Merchan may have discredited themselves even in front of a New York jury that has obviously been primed to rule against Trump. Every witness has been bad for the prosecution, and Stormy has been the worst of all. She spoke of hating Trump, explained that she’d be a judgment deadbeat, and has now been caught in a seeming lie. And that doesn’t even include her craziness about speaking to dead people.

CNN Host Admits Something We've All Known About the Trump-Stormy Daniels Trial (townhall.com)  . . ."On Sunday, the CNN host laid out the facts, including the increasing number of Americans who see through the charade. They know the former president won’t be able to get a fair trial, which is why political circuses aren’t sought after. "

On Sunday, the CNN host laid out the facts, including the increasing number of Americans who see through the charade. They know the former president won’t be able to get a fair trial, which is why political circuses aren’t sought after.

This may be the week Alvin Bragg's case against Trump falls apart (nypost.com)  . . ."To prevent that, Bragg has to show Merchan that someone claimed to have evidence directly tying Trump to an intentional fraudulent scheme to conceal a crime.  Thus far, Bragg hasn’t come close. Indeed, many of his witnesses helped Trump more than they hurt him." . . .

UK's Winston Marshall Gives Nancy Pelosi a Proper Spanking at Oxford Union - Calls Out Joe Biden's Dementia - Nasty Nancy FINALLY Receives the Public Humiliation She Deserves!

 MUST SEE! VIDEO | The Gateway Pundit

"Nancy Pelosi and her husband took a break from their insider trading to attend a public debate at the Oxford Union in Oxford, England. The Oxford Union is a highly esteemed debating society and is one of Britain’s oldest university unions founded in 1823.

"Nancy and Robert Pelosi attended the Oxford Union debate on April 25 on populism hours after she was interrupted by pro-Gaza protesters from Youth Demand who support Gaza militants and want to put an end to fossil fuels.

"It was during this debate that Pelosi was finally given the proper public thrashing she deserved by one of Britain’s rising stars, Winston Marshall.

"Winston Marshall is a popular writer, musician and podcaster. Marshall was part of the British folk rock group Mumford and Sons where he was lead guitarist and won a Grammy and two Brit Awards. Marshall was forced out of the band after posting a tweet saying journalist Andy Ngo was “brave” for his book which says far-left activists have “radical plans to destroy democracy”.

"Winston Marshall participated in the debate on populism and its perceived threat by the global elites.

"During his speech Pelosi rudely interrupted the brilliant young mind to argue that the violent and costly month-long protests and attacks on the City of Portland were not as devastating as the Jan. 6 protests and riot.

"We now know that Nancy Pelosi was largely responsible for the violence that day. She refused to sign off on President Trump’s order days before the protests to bring in the National Guard to Washington DC. Pelosi and military leaders then refused to bring in the National Guard on January 6th until past 5 PM. Instead, Pelosi bizarrely organized a film crew to come in and follow her around that day.

"Pelosi’s rude interruption did not stop Winston Marshall from giving her a proper public thrashing.

"This will be the best video you watch all week!"  Here is the transcript:  

Bill Maher drops Stormy Daniels bombshell as he airs 2018 interview with porn star that undermines her Trump trial testimony

  Daily Mail Online 

'The Democrats have had four years to put Trump on trial and it is all just going away. They blew it at every turn,' Maher complained.

 "Stormy Daniels may have blown the Democrats' last chance to see Donald Trump jailed before the election by portraying herself as a victim in bombshell testimony to his hush money trial, Bill Maher claimed.

"The HBO host unearthed footage of his 2018 interview with the former porn star in which she laughed off suggestions she was coerced into having sex during the alleged hook-up 12 years earlier.

" 'It is not a 'me-too' case,' she told Maher at the time, 'I wasn't assaulted, I wasn't attacked or raped or coerced or blackmailed.'

"But she told his New York trial this week that her hands were shaking and she 'blacked out' during the encounter, adding: 'There was an imbalance of power, for sure. He was bigger and blocking the way.'

" 'You really think she blacked out?' Maher demanded. 'A porn star is used to having sex with people she does not know. That's the job. She's not a good witness.' " . .  .

Kathy Hochul: The Breaker of Chains

 Diann Russell (substack.com)

As insulting and presumptuous as that remark is, it will be forgotten within a day or two because Mhysa Hochul has a (D) after her name. And that (D) is a political shield so powerful, she could walk into a fire and not get burned.

"Governor Kathy Hochul, the domineering mother of us all, seems to believe that young black kids in the Bronx have never heard of computers.

While speaking at the Milken Institute, brave Kathy — the Breaker of Chains and the Mother of Us All — said this:

Right now, we have young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word “computer” is.

"Yeah, really.

"Now, I don’t live in the Bronx. However, I do live in a Central New York urban area not far from an elementary school, and I can say with absolute certainty that young black kids around here know exactly what computers are. Most of them carry one with them in the form of a smartphone.

"Does Kathy think she’s a seventeenth-century missionary bringing the Gospel According to Microsoft to the natives of Peru?

"How could the governor of New York State be so bloody clueless?

"Mhysa Hochul’s condescension went over about as well as one would expect." . . .

Are these scarf people on campus silly...or sinister? Ignorant or evil?

Are the useful idiots aware of what "intifada" even means?

The voice of warning for today  "Author Douglas Murray has blasted the “disgusting and ignorant kids” participating in pro-Palestine protests at American universities as  “morally lost”.

Mr Murray wrote a piece in the New York Post earlier this month called, ‘College idiots calling for ‘Intifada’ have no idea how many innocents have died from that word’. “I mentioned, in that piece, the 2001 bombing of the Dolphinarium nightclub in Tel Aviv where a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated by a group of young women trying to get into the club,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “These women were the same age as these women chanting for Intifada now at Columbia, and in LA, and in other reprehensible educational institutions in the US. “I wonder if these disgusting and ignorant kids at American universities have any idea that that’s what they’re calling for. “If they do, then they are morally lost to an extent that they probably could never come back from. “If they’re just ignorant, which I really, really hope they are, I hope that – to steal one of the phrases they’re so keen on using themselves – they do the work and realise what the words they chant actually mean.”

Here's What Happened When Pro-Hamas Activists Tried to Block Traffic in FL (townhall.com)  . . ."Leah also wrote in April that Florida drags these people off the roads, as law enforcement should. For months, these clowns have shut down roads and bridges, seized college buildings, took hostages, and tried to shut down airports by launching balloons near runways. At least in Florida, they bulldozer over these little terrorists."

Douglas Murray sees people celebrating Oct 7 in Israel "Proportionality!"

Biden's Betrayal of Israel Is Worse Than We Thought; UPDATE: Israel stands up to Joe.

"I am shocked and sickened by reports that the U.S. is withholding from Israel vital information on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders in Gaza," former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren said in a post on X/Twitter. "Is the administration still our ally?"

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 Matt Margolis – PJ Media   "It looks like Joe Biden's betrayal of Israel is worse than we thought. According to a new report, Joe Biden has been withholding intelligence from Israel regarding the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and their underground command tunnels.

"The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers," reports the Washington Post. 

President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the last several weeks in hopes they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering after fleeing there from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders. Israel has vowed to go into Rafah with “extreme force,” and this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a number of steps that raised fears at the White House that the long-promised invasion could be materializing.

"When you read between the lines, it's quite clear that the Biden administration is protecting Hamas, is actively withholding information that could bring this war to an end, and is now using vital intelligence as leverage to prevent Israel from conducting an operation Biden doesn't want them to conduct.

"Any intelligence that can help pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders or uncover their terror tunnels should have been promptly shared with Israel. Holding back such critical information is unacceptable, puts Israeli lives at risk, and prolongs the war. Why wasn't this information immediately shared with Israel when it was first uncovered? Why would Joe Biden protect Hamas terrorists at the expense of our ally, Israel?"

Israel War Cabinet Votes to Expand Rafah Offensive After Biden Threatens to Hold Up Aid | National Review  . . ."Biden said during a CNN interview on Wednesday that the White House would not supply Israel with some forms of ammunition if Israel pursues a large-scale Rafah invasion. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is prepared to “stand alone” if necessary. Republicans and some Democrats have strongly criticized Biden’s threat and urged him to remain committed to Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas." . . .

"With Friends Like Biden, WHO Needs Enemies?!"

When I am incompetent at a job I know it and am quick to turn it over to someone better. How can this dull-witted man not know how worse-than-useless he is? TD

Joe Biden Runs Like a Scared Dog From His Pro-Hamas Position, As His Political Fortunes Sour

Now what? My general feeling is that it's too late. Biden's political fortunes continue to collapse precisely because he's an indecisive, weak leader whose first instinct is to capitulate to crying Islamists. . .

"Leave it to Joe Biden, the worst foreign policy mind in American history, to also manage to take the cake domestically. 

"In perhaps the dumbest political move in decades, the president recently pledged to cut off arms shipments to Israel while demanding they not enter Rafah to finish off Hamas. Biden did so in an ill-fated attempt to appease his far-left flank, which is populated by woke "pro-Palestinians" who've never met an Islamist they didn't like. 

"As I wrote recently, that worked about as well as expected. Namely, it didn't work at all and they still hate him. " . . .

"The bigger problem for Biden was that in his attempt to suck up to the pro-Hamas faction, he managed to anger a far larger contingent of Americans, of which polling shows the overwhelming majority support Israel in its ongoing conflict. Thus, the desperate walk back has begun." . . . 

Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel  . . ."With rockets pouring into Israel from Lebanon and Gaza after the most murderous barbaric attack of October 7,  “The Biden administration told Congress it would waive sanctions on military sales to several Middle Eastern nations the day before President Biden himself publicly declared that the U.S. would not give Israel offensive aid if it invaded Rafah. (Israel had already begun to invade Rafah.)

"Some of those countries have been accused playing an active role in the proliferation of Hamas and other terror groups intent on wiping Israel off the map." . . .

Democrat Believes Joe Biden’s Israel Threat Took Unnecessary 'Pressure off of Hamas' - Sarah Arnold    "A top House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member is accusing President Joe Biden of taking the pressure off Hamas by withholding weapons from Israel. 

"Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) blamed Biden for letting Hamas terrorists off the hook after he was asked by CNN News Central co-host John Berman if he agreed with the president’s of withholding weapons from Israel should the country invade Rafah." . . . 

With Friends Like Biden, WHO Needs Enemies?! THIS WaPo Biden/Israel BOMBSHELL Should End His Presidency   Raylan Givens posted:

The Washington Post is reporting a BOMBSHELL from the Biden admin. The US is offering Israel a deal as follows: in exchange for Israel ending the Rafah operation and not continuing further, the US will give Israel “specific and high quality” intelligence that will help the IDF locate Sinwar and uncover the remaining tunnels in Gaza. My analysis on this will follow shortly.

Never Trumpers Dump Biden After Israel Betrayal

. . ."Biden’s people bet that they could slap an arms embargo on Israel and still draw in Never Trumpers. That’s proving to be a bad bet. He forgot that most of these folks disliked Obama’s policies and only backed Biden because he was supposed to be a moderate. Now after Afghanistan, Israel is looking like the last straw for a lot of people who, both Jewish and non-Jewish, had been committed Never Trumpers." . . .  Jonah Goldberg:

Fwiw. I’ve heard from a LOT of reliably anti-Trump people - I mean really, really, anti-Trump people - who have had it with Biden tonight. Anecdotal, to be sure. But very telling in my circle.

 Biden Lauds Anti-Israel Congresswoman: ‘More Courage, Chutzpah, Stamina than Anyone’   . . ."Jayapal, whose courage, chutzpah and stamina Biden praised, has a history of anti-Israel statements.

"On May 1, she was one of 55 members of Congress who urged the White House to withhold military aid to the Jewish state.

"In December, the congresswoman twice hedged her condemnations of Hamas terrorists raping Israeli women.

Brave Sir Biden; This Monty Python Administration

Pete McArdle - American Thinker

"In every conflict he runs away, he’s seen only a few hours a day, he’s scared to do interviews or speak off the cuff, his aides all fear that he’ll fall on his duff, he’s bound to fail putting The Donald in jail, he can’t even tell you what constitutes a “male,” there’s no one he can’t beat when it comes to retreat, brave, brave, brave Sir Robinette."

"When brave Sir Biden rode south from Scranton toward the dark, fetid swamp of D.C., he was not afraid to die.

"No, based on his many, many tales of personal bravery, Joe was not at all afraid of being killed in nasty ways.

"Like being mashed to a pulp while driving a 16-wheeler, or getting knifed in the gut in the Puerto Rican neighborhood where he grew up, or having his brains beat out by racist police while bravely standing with a black family on their porch.

"Nor was Biden in the least concerned about being sliced to shreds by Corn Pop’s rusty razor, or being left to rot in a South African jail after being detained while trying to visit Nelson Mandela, or drowning in shark-infested waters during battle after being nominated to the Naval Academy.

"Heck, he wasn’t even the least bit worried about having his legs torn off playing Navy football — it was only because Roger Staubach was already at the academy that valiant Sir Biden retreated to Delaware U.

"Fearless Joe likewise laughed at the prospect of being eaten by cannibals, as his Uncle Bosie was, or coughing up blood from black lung disease like his coal-mining Kinnock forebears, or completely tearing a pectoral muscle during a push-up contest with one of his constituents.

"Sir Joe was so tough that he often fantasized aloud about getting into it with Donald Trump behind the gym, blithely ignoring Trump’s obvious advantage in height, weight, reach, age, accomplishment, intelligence, and real-world experience." . . .

"When danger reared it's ugly head he bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, Brave Sir Robin turned about and gallantly he chickened out"

American appeasement engenders Islamist aggression

A drag on any strong president is the ineffectual chanting of these scarf people in the streets who cannot be more ignorant of what they are doing. TD

"Obama appeased the Muslim world in his June 2009 Cairo speech, and his former vice president is now pandering to and appeasing both the Islamists and the hard left.  Obama and his successor Biden have engendered Islamic contempt for America and various forms of anti-American forms of aggression."

 Joseph Puder - American Thinker   "In November 1979, the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai terrorists, referred to as “students,” stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.  They subsequently held 52 U.S. diplomats as hostages for 444 days.  The following March, Jimmy Carter, the weakest U.S. president in the 20th century, wrote a confidential letter to the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian supreme leader, promising to recognize the Islamic Revolution in a public speech.  Simultaneously, Carter complied with the ayatollah’s wishes to get the Shah of Iran to leave his medical refuge in the U.S. and find shelter in Sadat’s Egypt.  Despite Carter’s appeasement, the Iranians defied calls to release the hostages.

"In April 1980, the Carter administration attempted a halfhearted military effort to rescue the hostages, which ended in total failure.  The Iranians mutilated the bodies of eight U.S. servicemen and dragged them through the streets.  The taking over of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was an act of war, and when the U.S. appeared impotent to act decisively, Iranian contempt, defiance, and aggression grew. 

"Only in January 1981, as President Ronald Reagan was being inaugurated, did the Iranians release the hostages, fearing Reagan’s military action against them.  They perceived Reagan, unlike Carter, as being uncompromisingly strong.

. . . "President Joe Biden’s appeasement, much like that of Jimmy Carter and his former boss, Barack Hussein Obama, is seen, once again, as weakness in the eyes of America’s enemies.  Biden is appeasing his pro-Hamas staffers, the antisemitic pro-Hamas progressive wing of the Democrat party in the U.S. Congress, and the Muslim pro-Hamas public in Michigan, Minnesota, etc.  He is also appeasing the radical mullahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad proxies in Gaza.  And as is obvious, he is afraid to stand with Israel, in recognition of its just cause, lest he lose Arab, Muslim, and leftist voters in the November 2024 elections." . . .

MARK DUBOWITZ explains how Desperate Joe's latest blunder 'endorses' one of the terrorists's most repulsive tactics

Biden's betrayal of Israel only means MORE civilians will die:UK Daily Mail

"He hopes that by betraying Israel, he will win back far-left supporters who threaten to withhold their support for him in November. But this cynical strategy is fated to fail."

"A decade ago, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously declared that Joe Biden, 'has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.'

"Secretary Gates – you'll never believe what Joe's done now.

"President Biden has made, perhaps, his most incompetent policy blunder yet (at least since his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan). 

"In an interview Wednesday, Biden threatened to block the transfer of U.S. weapons to Israel, if the Jewish State launches a military operation against Hamas's last remaining stronghold in southern Gaza.

"His ultimatum comes nearly seven months to the day of the October 7 slaughter – and after the White House admitted they had already secretly halted the delivery of bunker-busting bombs that Israel requires to root out terrorists hiding in deeply buried underground tunnels.

"Indeed, the mastermind of the Hamas massacre, Yahya Sinwar, is believed to be sheltering in these tunnels – cynically dug beneath the feet of about 1.3 million Palestinians.

"It's not only layers of concrete, dirt, and sand that shield these terrorists from the Israeli military. These monsters hide under women and children.  

"But Biden blames Israel." . . .

FLASHBACK Joe Biden in 2019 when asked about cutting off military aid to Israel. "The idea that we would cut off military aid to an ally, our only true, true ally in the entire region, is absolutely preposterous.... - Whatfinger News Summary

Biden's Biggest Donors 'Furious' Over Betraying Israel (Sarah Arnold )

Democratic megadonor and Israeli American Haim Saban contacted senior White House officials asking Biden to reconsider his decision to halt weapons to the Jewish state. 

“Bad, Bad, Bad, decision, on all levels, Pls reconsider,” Saban wrote in the letter obtained by Axios. 

"Let's not forget that there are more Jewish voters, who care about Israel, than Muslim voters that care about Hamas,” he continued. . . .

 Biden's New Low   . . ."This enfeebled man is so desperate to attract these people's votes that he's willing to debase himself by accepting the premise of a despicable smear against him.  If this man had any moral clarity of self-respect, he'd forcefully reject the slander about an Israeli "genocide," in which the pro-Hamas mob insists he is complicit.  He'd defend himself and our ally.  He'd focus the conversation immediately upon the genocidal actions and statements of Hamas (who deliberately embed their terror operations among civilians), including Hamas' attacks and raids on sources of aid for the civilians of Gaza." . . .

Leftist Lunacy Fuels Hamas Atrocity – Issues & Insights

The atrocities that occurred on Oct. 7 in Israel must spur our revulsion, but they must equally spur our reevaluation of the mindset that now defends them.  The anti-Semitic protests and attacks — especially on our college campuses — are not the result of what is happening in Israel; they are the result of America standing silent while the Left has defined reason into oblivion and education into indoctrination.  

Former Israel PM Naftali Bennett calls Joe Biden weapon halt threat ‘deeply misguided’

 Lauren Irwin (thehill.com) 

Bennett continued, saying he doesn’t know why Israel has wavered on entering Rafah, which he said should have been done roughly four months ago. 

 “Certainly, President Biden has always been a great friend to Israel, but I think that this decision is deeply misguided,” Bennett told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday.

“ 'What are we being told here,” he continued. “We have a radical jihadist terror organization on our border that’s telling us it’s going to continue trying to murder as many Jews as possible. Obviously, we have to get rid of it. We have no choice.”

"Bennett said Hamas is hiding behind civilians and that Biden threatening to stop sending weapons to Israel would be a “profound mistake,” because Israel has “really no choice” and they must “do what we got to do.”

"His comments follow a Wednesday declaration from Biden, who said that the U.S. would stop supplying Israel with offensive weapons like bombs or artillery shells if Israeli forces launch an invasion on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have taken refuge.

" 'Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they got after population centers,” Biden told Burnett.

"Biden said he made it clear that if Israel goes into Rafah, he would not supply the weapons.

"The White House has urged Israel to make a plan to evacuate the refugees before entering the city, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been adamant about his plans to destroy Hamas, whom he claims are hiding in Rafah.

"Bennett said Israeli is “absolutely not” using weapons to target civilians in Gaza, but said “all wars” have “collateral damage.”

"Burnett pressed the former prime minister on Israel’s supposed “stockpile” of weapons that could be used without U.S. assistance to enter Rafah, asking if that stockpile contained American weapons.

“ 'I don’t know. I assume that some of them are,” he replied, adding that he’s not in government right now." . . .

UPDATE: Lebanon: Hezbollah Escalates Rocket Fire on Israel After Biden’s Weapons Embargo Threat (legalinsurrection.com) 

 "Emboldened by President Joe Biden’s decision to cut off weapons supply to Israel amid its ongoing war against terrorist group Hamas, Iran-backed Hezbollah terror militia has ramped up rocket attacks from Lebanon into northern Israel.

“Hezbollah fired a barrage of 35 rockets from Lebanon at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona sparking fires in the surrounding areas Friday, while the military responded with a wave of strikes on the terror group’s positions,” The Times of Israel reported Saturday." . . .

. . ."Close to 90,000 Israeli civilians have fled their homes in the north due to relentless Hezbollah rocket fire, figures released in February show. Many of them are “housed in collective shelters in precarious conditions,” the French newspaper Le Monde noted."