{"id":111867,"date":"2024-03-29T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111867"},"modified":"2024-03-29T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:09:39","slug":"02-05-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111867","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s War Against the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The President\u2019s War Against the Jews<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JULIE STRAUSS LEVIN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Biden claims he is a lifelong friend of the Jewish people and a Zionist, but these empty words are cover for a decades-long antipathy<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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For some American Jews, the months since Oct. 7 have felt like a horror movie, as they watch, with increasing alarm, as our president\u2014for whom many voted, and in whom many placed inviolable trust\u2014seemed to, moment after crucial moment, throw Israel under the bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier this month, a U.N. report from its Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General revealed what Israel has been saying for months, namely that Hamas committed the most vile sexual violence and torture on Oct. 7, and such treatment likely continues to be perpetrated on hostages. Experts from the U.N.\u2014an organization that is routinely hostile to the Jewish state\u2014actually found<\/a> \u201cclear and convincing information that some [hostages] have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence including rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and it also has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In reaction, Joe Biden\u2019s State Department chose to level the charge of sexual abuse\u2014at Israel. Recently, IDF Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi recounted his meeting with a senior State Department official\u2014since identified<\/a> as Jill Hutchings, director of the Office of Israeli and Palestinian Affairs\u2014who proceeded to accuse Israel of \u201csystematically sexually abusing Palestinian women.\u201d The State Department\u2019s claim was based on information from Hamas pushed by Al Jazeera\u2014which ended up deleting the story after it proved to be fabricated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, Biden briefly expressed empathy with Israel after the heinous attack. But since then, along with his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden has been working at breakneck speed to undermine, if not fully impede, Israel in its existential battle against the Iran-funded Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists\u2014a campaign that has now extended to official blood libels about deliberate Israeli campaigns of genocide, famine and starvation, killing babies, and sexual abuse\u2014culminating in the administration\u2019s betrayal of Israel and siding with Hamas at the Security Council on Monday. In the blink of an eye, Biden has gone from framing Hamas as \u201cpure, unadulterated evil\u201d to putting immense pressure on Israel to stand down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That pressure is not of recent origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 40 years ago, Joe Biden prompted one of the most famous phrases ever uttered by an Israeli prime minister. In a private session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1982, Sen. Biden threatened Prime Minister Menachem Begin with cutting off U.S. aid if Israel did not stop its \u201csettlements\u201d in Judea and Samaria.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Begin replied: \u201cDon\u2019t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biden briefly expressed empathy with Israel after the heinous attack. But since then, he has been working at breakneck speed to undermine, if not fully impede, Israel in its existential battle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Biden\u2019s scorn for Israel\u2019s current PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, is significantly more vocal, referring to Netanyahu as a \u201cbad f****ing guy\u201d and an \u201ca**hole\u201d\u2014language that is difficult to imagine him using about any other leader of a friendly foreign state. More recently, as he swaggered his way out of the State of the Union, doing his whispering, leaning-in shtick, Biden told Blinken and others, \u201cI told him, Bibi, and don\u2019t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a \u2018come to Jesus\u2019 meeting.\u201d Biden knew he was on a hot mic and admitted as much. He wanted the world to know what he thinks of Israel\u2019s PM, and to broadcast that he was putting the squeeze on Israel to force it to forgo its ability to defend itself. In fact, this has been Biden\u2019s posture from day one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden has made downgrading Israel and elevating the Palestinians, while also using them as a pressure tool against Israel, central to his policy in the region. Upon taking office and despite the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits the U.S. from sending certain taxpayer dollars to the PA until it stops funding terrorism, Biden rewarded Palestinian terrorism with U.S. taxpayer monies ultimately amounting to almost a billion dollars. America First Legal Foundation (where I am senior counsel), filed suit against Biden and Blinken on behalf of Congressman Ronny Jackson, Stuart and Robbi Force, parents of Taylor Force, the U.S. Army veteran murdered at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist in 2016, and Sarri Singer, herself a victim of Palestinian terrorism in 2003, for violating the TFA. Judge Kacsmaryk recently denied the government\u2019s motion to dismiss, and the case is pending. The court found the plaintiffs have standing to sue Biden and Blinken because each plaintiff has suffered an injury (heightened likelihood of physical harm or death when visiting Israel) that is fairly traceable to the defendants\u2019 conduct (funding the PA which pays terrorists and incentivizes terrorism), and that each plaintiff\u2019s injury is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision by the court (stopping the flow of monies to the PA reduces terrorist acts).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Biden knows that payments to the PA incentivize and reward terrorists and the PA\u2019s terrorist operations; his actions reveal he doesn\u2019t care. The same applies to Secretary of State Blinken. His State Department revealed in a March 2022 fact sheet<\/a> that, \u201csince April 2021, the United States has provided over half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians, including more than $417 million in humanitarian assistance for mainly the descendants of Palestinian refugees through UNRWA.\u201d Is it a coincidence that even prior to Hamas\u2019 heinous Oct. 7 attack, there had been a significant increase in terrorist acts since Biden and Blinken took office? In the first half of 2023 alone, there were more than 3,600<\/a> Palestinian terrorist attacks, surpassing all of 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden has what\u2019s known as a whole-of-government approach in his embrace of the Palestinians at the expense of Israel, mobilizing multiple executive branch agencies to work across individual silos to implement an integrated policy. Just last year, his Department of Homeland Security ceremoniously handed over to the PA a 2,700-year-old spoon dating back to the Assyrian empire describing<\/a> the conveyance as a \u201chistoric repatriation.\u201d The State Department\u2019s George Noll, chief of the Office of Palestinian Affairs, described the spoon as an \u201cexample of Palestinian cultural patrimony\u201d and that the transfer was a \u201chistoric moment between the American and Palestinian people.\u201d This attempt to manufacture an ancient \u201cPalestinian\u201d lineage in the Land of Israel while denying the right of Jews to settle in their ancestral homeland was clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oct. 7 didn\u2019t temper this obscenity. Just one day after the Oct. 7 slaughter, Blinken, in concert with Turkey, called for a cease-fire by an X post\u2014on the evening of Oct. 8. Blinken deleted the post about 12 hours later, but the message was loud and clear: Stand down and remain victims. Two days later, Biden\u2019s National Security Council spokesman called<\/a> on Israel to show restraint and take only \u201cnecessary and proportionate action\u201d to defend itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The inconvenient truth is that there was a cease-fire on Oct. 6. Hamas broke it with financial and military assistance from Iran\u2014a terrorist state that is now flush with billions in sanctions relief as a direct result of Biden\u2019s disastrous policy of gifting the Islamic Republic with cash, some of which he helpfully provided barely a month after the October terror attack. And, on Nov. 14, the administration extended a sanctions waiver allowing Iran to access $10 billion. U.S. spokesmen have been repeatedly unable to deny that monies delivered by Biden to Iran weren\u2019t used in funding the Oct. 7 attack because, of course they were.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As if funding Hamas through Iran weren\u2019t bad enough, Biden made it a top priority to help maintain open supply lines to Gaza while also looking the other way as Hamas intercepts and hijacks 60% or more<\/a> of the humanitarian aid from the many thousands of aid trucks coming into the Strip since the start of the war. Hamas either keeps the aid for its terrorists or sells it to noncombatants at exorbitant prices<\/a>. This is being reported almost daily from multiple sources, with social media videos corroborating the reports of Hamas\u2019 theft of the cargo. Instead of condemning Hamas for the aid crisis, Biden blames Israel for what his secretary of state has claimed is an \u201cacute food insecurity\u201d crisis in Gaza supposedly affecting \u201c100% of the population.\u201d Biden also ignores that Hamas steals the fuel aid to fire rockets and operate its tunnels. When thousands of Gazans swarmed some 30 food delivery trucks in Gaza and a deadly stampede ensued, IDF aerial footage corroborated the IDF\u2019s account, showing that Hamas was directly to blame, and fired on Palestinians\u2014and yet both the media and the Biden administration have continued to blame Israel, in order to further their repulsive, evidence-free narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During his State of the Union address, Biden didn\u2019t demand that aid also be given to the hostages Hamas holds and abuses, nor did he demand their release. He certainly did not laud Israel for its unparalleled efforts to avoid civilian casualties and facilitate aid transports. None of those realities fit Biden\u2019s anti-Israel rhetoric. Instead, Biden boldly lied, accusing Israel of making humanitarian assistance a \u201csecondary consideration or a bargaining chip\u201d and chiding Israel that \u201cprotecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.\u201d As a bonus, Biden also endorsed Hamas\u2019 fake casualty numbers<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not content with false and inflammatory rhetoric libeling Israel, or with displays of U.S. support for Gaza such as using the military to air-drop supplies, Biden used his address to announce an emergency mission to send U.S. military to build a temporary pier on the coast of Gaza to deliver aid to Gaza. A Pentagon spokesman later shared some details about the 1,000 Army and Navy servicemen to be deployed to deliver some 2 million meals a day into Gaza\u2014giving direct support and comfort to Hamas, whose own construction company was put in charge of building the pier, which will be financed and operated by Qatar, at the Biden administration\u2019s request. Under U.S. law, giving money to a Hamas-affiliated construction company would certainly qualify as providing material support to a designated terrorist group\u2014which is apparently fine now, as long as the U.S. government is writing the checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Earlier in February, however, Biden sanctioned<\/a> four Jews in Judea and Samaria, while ignoring Palestinian terrorists and the PA that supports them. These terrorist have been responsible for hundreds of attempted and successful lethal terrorist attacks in the West Bank since Oct. 7. Jews have been responsible for zero such attacks. Days later, three Israeli banks stated they were suspending the bank accounts of these four individuals to comply with the sanctions. This month, Biden\u2019s Department of Treasury announced new sanctions, this time against three Jews and two farms. These sanctions freeze assets, prevent the individuals from getting visas, and block Jews from accessing the U.S. financial system.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If the goal is the appearance of evenhandedness, one might imagine that Biden would also sanction the family of the PA policeman who murdered<\/a> two Jews, a teen and a volunteer medic, at a gas station in Eli in Judea and Samaria end of February. Nope. Instead, Blinken declared Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria as being inconsistent with international law, reversing the \u201cPompeo doctrine,\u201d which asserted that Jews have a historical and legal right to live in this area of their ancestral homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden\u2019s February national security memorandum<\/a> also imposes unprecedented and new conditions on military assistance to Israel. While framed as a means to ensure that a country receiving U.S. military aid comports with international humanitarian law when using U.S. weapons, it clearly sets its sights on Israel, requiring Israel within 45 days to submit a report proving compliance with international law or potentially lose military aid. Not long after the memorandum\u2019s issuance, and in lock step, more than three dozen House Democrats sent a letter to Biden citing the memorandum and arguing that Israel\u2019s entry into Rafah could violate the terms of the memorandum. They know, as does Biden, that Rafah is key to Israel\u2019s offensive to eradicate the remaining Hamas battalions, whose survival will allow Hamas to rule Gaza unopposed once Israel withdraws.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden owns this war imposed on Israel. The president inherited a Middle East marked by a bankrupt Iran and amicable relations between Israel and Arab countries with more in the works, thanks to President Trump\u2019s historic Abraham Accords. Biden reversed course, enriched Tehran, funded terrorists and destabilized the Middle East\u2014setting the stage for Oct. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden shows no sign of reversing even one of his deadly failures. Instead of taking responsibility for his policy mistakes, he blames Israel for not going further and providing Iran with a launching pad on its border by establishing a Palestinian state. Perversely, the attacks of Oct. 7 have only led Biden to kick his effort to establish a Palestinian state into high gear.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biden claims Hamas is different from the Palestinians. But an overwhelming majority of Palestinians, whether in Gaza or Judea and Samaria, cheered the Oct. 7 atrocities. Videos show Palestinians handing out candy in celebration, and a November 2023 research poll<\/a> conducted by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) found, \u201c[a]n overwhelming percentage of Palestinians support the October 7 massacre (75%), reject coexistence with Israel (85.9%), are committed to creation of a Palestinian state \u2018from the river to the sea\u2019 (74.7%) as the end of the Israeli Palestinian conflict \u2026 there is more support for the 10\/7 massacre from the Palestinians resident in Judea and Samaria (83.1%) than those residing in the Gaza Strip (63.6%).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Regardless of Biden\u2019s wishes, the \u201criver to the sea\u201d crowd isn\u2019t interested in living in peace next to a Jewish state: They don\u2019t believe Israel should exist at all. While Israel\u2019s cabinet overwhelmingly rejected Biden\u2019s push for a so-called Palestinian state, with strong backing from 99 of the 120 members of Knesset also voicing their rejection, Biden and his administration continue to push their animus against the Jewish state while fueling rampant antisemitism in America. Biden\u2019s silence, at his State of the Union, about the alarming rise of antisemitism throughout the United States, including the glorification of Hamas terrorism and intimidation and physical violence perpetrated against Jews in America\u2019s towns and cities, was deafening. That\u2019s because his party\u2019s loyal foot soldiers among college and university administrators and professors or their K-12 equivalents, the media, Democratic politicians, or leftist NGOs, include a large number of antisemites, who live openly and happily in the Democratic Party. As Ryan Mauro, Capitol Research Center national security analyst explained<\/a>, \u201cthe disturbing reality is that Hamas\u2019s allies in the U.S. have a significant foothold in the non-profit sector. Major left-wing organizations are funding Hamas\u2019s sympathizers and those who indirectly help Hamas by waging a political war against Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It was 50 years ago in 1973, when then Sen. Biden was in Israel, sitting with PM Meir. Biden recalled her saying<\/a> to him that he \u201clook[ed] so worried.\u201d She assured him not to worry, sharing \u201cwe have a secret weapon in our conflict with the Arabs. You see, we have no place else to go.\u201d Perhaps it took these 50 years for Biden to figure out how to exploit Meir\u2019s words about Israel\u2019s \u201csecret weapon\u201d to effectuate the ouster of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Whether Biden and his party are blinded by ideology, lack moral clarity, or both, the fact remains that the battle that Israel is fighting has existential stakes, not only for the Jewish state but for all Western civilization\u2014regardless of party affiliation. Those who understand what is at stake in this fight must stand with Israel in her battle to achieve total victory\u2014not only against Hamas and its barbaric ideology, but also against those in high places in our own country who support them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Julie Strauss Levin<\/strong> is a Virginia-based attorney who served on the Governor\u2019s Commission to Combat Antisemitism.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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