Scarred by our history, the people that shall dwell alone, are convinced that it is only a matter of time before President Joe Biden gives us a red card.
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This week, when the US president was quoted as saying that Israel is losing world support because of indiscriminate bombings and added that Netanyahu needs to make tough decisions it seemed the moment of truth had arrived.
However, a careful examination of the president's comments revealed that they were taken completely out of context. Biden conveyed the opposite message from what was attributed to him.
The blame, by the way, lies with one of the White House pool reporters. For while he criticized the composition of the right-wing government, there was nothing new in his remarks. These are the same statements he has made since Netanyahu's victory a year ago. In that sense, the war has not changed a thing. As for international support for Israel, Biden said it was only starting to decline, not as originally quoted.
More importantly, the context of that sentence was exactly the opposite, because the president emphasized that "this time not only the US supports Israel. It has the EU, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting it. But they are starting to lose support for the indiscriminate bombing that is taking place." That was the original sentence, and it sounds completely different from what was initially published.
Above all, the central theme in all of Biden's statements was that US support for Israel and the war's purpose is unequivocal.
Both in the conversation with the donors and in all the Hanukkah celebrations, Biden emphasized this theme: "It's an existential threat to Israel — its very existence. Israel has a tough decision to make. Bibi has got a tough decision to make. There's no question about the need to take on Hamas. There's no question about that. None. Zero. But in the meantime, we do not intend to do anything but defend Israel in the process. Nothing else."
And another statement in that spirit: "So, folks, there's a lot to do — a whole lot to do. First and foremost, do everything in our power to hold Hamas accountable — every single thing in our power. They're animals. They're animals. They exceeded anything that any other terrorist group has done of late that I — in memory…But nobody, nobody, nobody on God's green Earth can justify what Hamas did. They're a brutal, ugly, inhumane people, and they have to be eliminated.
So in that sense, Biden is with us. And not just in words, but in an uninterrupted airlift of ammunition, using various bureaucratic tricks so that the loaded planes keep landing here uninterrupted.
The gap, therefore, is not on the military side but on the humanitarian side. On the latter part, the administration has not relented in demanding the entry of supplies, and especially in pressure regarding fuel.
These means also assist Hamas' military effort and also show the public that it is still in charge of the products coming in; that is, that it has not yet collapsed. If there is a problem with Biden, it is limited to his insistence on supplying humanitarian aid despite this being of help to Hamas.
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