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Joe Biden's Jekyll and Hyde diplomacy
Biden's diplomacy towards Israel is Jekyll and Hyde diplomacy.
It emboldens Iran and restrains Israel even as the latter fights for its survival.
Israel, the tiny sliver of a democratic nation, remains surrounded by Iran and its surrogates which have dedicated, among themselves, to dominate the entire region while eliminating Israel in the process.
Were it not for Trump's thinking outside the box, which motivated/allowed him to support Israel by recognizing Jerusalem as its capital, which, in turn, fortuitously led to the Abraham Accords, followed by Biden's senseless attempt to do everything he could to undo Trump's accomplishments, the world would not be in the pickle it is in today.
Weakness encourages nothing favorable, yet we elect leaders who seem never to learn.
Meanwhile, incessant rocketing by Hamas into Israel, prior to its 10/7 butchering attack and continuous rocketing post 10/7 commensurate with Hezb'allah rocketing, supported by unprovoked comparable Houthi attacks, gave Israel every right to attack Iran's consulate in Damascus, resulting in the death of several senior RPGC generals. The concept that proportionality must now dictate Israel's response is anathema to all reason and again reflects weakness and ambivalence by Biden.
Did Joe know?
Lamentably, I have now come upon a report, which I am unable to verify, suggesting Biden knew from Turkish sources that Iran was going to attack Israel and his response allegedly was he knew. (In a stunning yet somehow unsurprising turn of events, evidence has now emerged that Joe Biden didn't just know about Iran's attack on Israel, but that he went so far as to green-light it through back channels.)
Israel is at war, yet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu finds himself in the position of a hen-pecked husband in that he must protect his nation only if he conforms according to rules/demands spelled out by so-called friends.
The old expression of "who needs enemies with friends like these?" comes to mind.
Seriously, would any rational American president allow a supposed friend, like Israel, to dictate how America was to act if Canada and/or Mexico began shooting missiles into Maine, New Hampshire, Arizona, Texas etc.? To make matters worse, and more despicable, what if it was revealed that Israel had advance word that Canada and Mexico were going to launch attacks, and Israel not only acquiesced, as long as their attack was within proportional limits but withheld this fact and did not warn our president?
Israel is a sovereign nation, the only one Jews can call their historical and rightful home and yet they are treated as a puppet because the president of the United States is a wimp, and a chameleon.
Yes , Shakespeare was correct when he wrote 'something is rotten...'
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American Thinker posted my second essay today as well:
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No alternative to complete and total victory
By Richard Berkowitz
In my opinion, there are two ways to approach a war: diplomatically and militarily.
Also in my opinion, wars are the result of failed diplomacy. There is no alternative to victory.
We all know Henry Kissinger was a brilliant secretary of state and diplomat. My problem is that he also was under the powerful sway and influence of the Rockefeller family. They were his main sponsor.
Therefore, my problem with Kissinger is that he was German, and Germans are familiar with losing wars. Kissinger, in my opinion, did not understand that Americans are not used to losing. We were always a “wining” society until Kissinger came upon the scene.
Tragically, Kissinger and lawyers were allowed to slowly seep into the diplomatic management of wars. Consequently, America no longer seeks to end wars. We have become willing to walk off the battlefield as “losers.” I submit the Vietnam debacle as my evidence. We succumbed to the commentary of an influential news broadcaster the war was unwinnable when, in fact, we were near victory. This was subsequently verified by the leader of the Viet Cong military.
I find the management of the Vietnam War unacceptable.
Diplomats do not have a flicker of knowledge that is militarily oriented. They are trained in debating, in verbal solutions, and there is a place for debate. Yes, talk first — and then, if the results are undesirable, resort to military power.
To make matters even worse, when you have a president, like Obama or Biden, who is incompetent in both areas, you have where we are today. Telegraph weakness, and you most likely will inspire and receive what you wish to avoid.
Biden’s broadcast of weakness has allowed Iran to operate through surrogates. Why? Because he allowed Iran to be in a position to finance them. His weakness has also allowed Iran to become more bellicose, to develop their nuclear program and place the world on the brink of what he professes he wanted to avoid: a nuclear confrontation and an existential threat to Israel.
Now Biden has allowed himself a single-word retort: “don’t.” Apparently, based on reports, Iran may not be listening, and other reports suggest that Iran may be within three days of making a bomb in its underground Fordor facility, from which U.N. investigators have been barred.
Meanwhile, Biden has allowed Hamas to play Israel and Bibi as a yo-yo while Biden plays the violin.
Israel’s response to the Gaza War has evolved into two narrowed approaches. On the one hand, Ehud Olmert, Israel’s previous P.M., believes that the hostage rescue takes precedence. Any continuance of Bibi’s desire to take out remaining Hamas divisions and their leader, Sinwar, will result in needless Palestinian and IDF deaths, turning the world, even more, against Israel and causing a widening rift between America and Israel.
Bibi’s position is a willingness to make a hostage swap along disproportionate lines and cease the war, for a reasonable period, but he wants to finish the elimination of Hamas’s ability as a terrorist functioning military establishment.
My view is that that Hamas cannot deliver the 40 Israeli hostages supposedly being swapped, and the cessation of the war has already caused tremendous repercussions, and a restart is emotionally, mentally, and physically difficult.
Furthermore, Olmert disregards the impact of allowing Hamas to claim a military victory over Israel and how that claim might impact the Abraham Accord signatories — who, so far, have remained loyal and hung tough — along with the Saudis’ desire to ultimately enlist. Why? Because dependence upon Israel’s status, as the region’s military Goliath, is what unites them, along with potential commercial and scientific advances and interests that initiated their willingness to sign the agreement.
Stay tuned, as Iran’s threat remains a disruptive potential “black swan.” Yesterday’s capture of a ship by Iranians just occurred.
Biden's diplomacy towards Israel is Jekyll and Hyde diplomacy.
It emboldens Iran and restrains Israel even as the latter fights for its survival.
Israel, the tiny sliver of a democratic nation, remains surrounded by Iran and its surrogates which have dedicated, among themselves, to dominate the entire region while eliminating Israel in the process.
Were it not for Trump's thinking outside the box, which motivated/allowed him to support Israel by recognizing Jerusalem as its capital, which, in turn, fortuitously led to the Abraham Accords, followed by Biden's senseless attempt to do everything he could to undo Trump's accomplishments, the world would not be in the pickle it is in today.
Weakness encourages nothing favorable, yet we elect leaders who seem never to learn.
Meanwhile, incessant rocketing by Hamas into Israel, prior to its 10/7 butchering attack and continuous rocketing post 10/7 commensurate with Hezb'allah rocketing, supported by unprovoked comparable Houthi attacks, gave Israel every right to attack Iran's consulate in Damascus, resulting in the death of several senior RPGC generals. The concept that proportionality must now dictate Israel's response is anathema to all reason and again reflects weakness and ambivalence by Biden.
Did Joe know?
Lamentably, I have now come upon a report, which I am unable to verify, suggesting Biden knew from Turkish sources that Iran was going to attack Israel and his response allegedly was he knew. (In a stunning yet somehow unsurprising turn of events, evidence has now emerged that Joe Biden didn't just know about Iran's attack on Israel, but that he went so far as to green-light it through back channels.)
Israel is at war, yet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu finds himself in the position of a hen-pecked husband in that he must protect his nation only if he conforms according to rules/demands spelled out by so-called friends.
The old expression of "who needs enemies with friends like these?" comes to mind.
Seriously, would any rational American president allow a supposed friend, like Israel, to dictate how America was to act if Canada and/or Mexico began shooting missiles into Maine, New Hampshire, Arizona, Texas etc.? To make matters worse, and more despicable, what if it was revealed that Israel had advance word that Canada and Mexico were going to launch attacks, and Israel not only acquiesced, as long as their attack was within proportional limits but withheld this fact and did not warn our president?
Israel is a sovereign nation, the only one Jews can call their historical and rightful home and yet they are treated as a puppet because the president of the United States is a wimp, and a chameleon.
Yes , Shakespeare was correct when he wrote 'something is rotten...'
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American Thinker posted my second essay today as well:
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No alternative to complete and total victory
By Richard Berkowitz
In my opinion, there are two ways to approach a war: diplomatically and militarily.
Also in my opinion, wars are the result of failed diplomacy. There is no alternative to victory.
We all know Henry Kissinger was a brilliant secretary of state and diplomat. My problem is that he also was under the powerful sway and influence of the Rockefeller family. They were his main sponsor.
Therefore, my problem with Kissinger is that he was German, and Germans are familiar with losing wars. Kissinger, in my opinion, did not understand that Americans are not used to losing. We were always a “wining” society until Kissinger came upon the scene.
Tragically, Kissinger and lawyers were allowed to slowly seep into the diplomatic management of wars. Consequently, America no longer seeks to end wars. We have become willing to walk off the battlefield as “losers.” I submit the Vietnam debacle as my evidence. We succumbed to the commentary of an influential news broadcaster the war was unwinnable when, in fact, we were near victory. This was subsequently verified by the leader of the Viet Cong military.
I find the management of the Vietnam War unacceptable.
Diplomats do not have a flicker of knowledge that is militarily oriented. They are trained in debating, in verbal solutions, and there is a place for debate. Yes, talk first — and then, if the results are undesirable, resort to military power.
To make matters even worse, when you have a president, like Obama or Biden, who is incompetent in both areas, you have where we are today. Telegraph weakness, and you most likely will inspire and receive what you wish to avoid.
Biden’s broadcast of weakness has allowed Iran to operate through surrogates. Why? Because he allowed Iran to be in a position to finance them. His weakness has also allowed Iran to become more bellicose, to develop their nuclear program and place the world on the brink of what he professes he wanted to avoid: a nuclear confrontation and an existential threat to Israel.
Now Biden has allowed himself a single-word retort: “don’t.” Apparently, based on reports, Iran may not be listening, and other reports suggest that Iran may be within three days of making a bomb in its underground Fordor facility, from which U.N. investigators have been barred.
Meanwhile, Biden has allowed Hamas to play Israel and Bibi as a yo-yo while Biden plays the violin.
Israel’s response to the Gaza War has evolved into two narrowed approaches. On the one hand, Ehud Olmert, Israel’s previous P.M., believes that the hostage rescue takes precedence. Any continuance of Bibi’s desire to take out remaining Hamas divisions and their leader, Sinwar, will result in needless Palestinian and IDF deaths, turning the world, even more, against Israel and causing a widening rift between America and Israel.
Bibi’s position is a willingness to make a hostage swap along disproportionate lines and cease the war, for a reasonable period, but he wants to finish the elimination of Hamas’s ability as a terrorist functioning military establishment.
My view is that that Hamas cannot deliver the 40 Israeli hostages supposedly being swapped, and the cessation of the war has already caused tremendous repercussions, and a restart is emotionally, mentally, and physically difficult.
Furthermore, Olmert disregards the impact of allowing Hamas to claim a military victory over Israel and how that claim might impact the Abraham Accord signatories — who, so far, have remained loyal and hung tough — along with the Saudis’ desire to ultimately enlist. Why? Because dependence upon Israel’s status, as the region’s military Goliath, is what unites them, along with potential commercial and scientific advances and interests that initiated their willingness to sign the agreement.
Stay tuned, as Iran’s threat remains a disruptive potential “black swan.” Yesterday’s capture of a ship by Iranians just occurred.
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Has America Gone Flat
Essay By Dick Berkowitz
I am quite aware this essay may be rejected for a variety of reasons but mainly because it might not appeal to American Thinker's readership or fails to meet their compositional standards
This is more a series of questions I want to pose to those who remain empathetic to the radicals we have allowed to dominate our society because we have chosen to tolerate both their bellicosity, anti-Semitism as well as their disruptive and dangerous behavior and radical views/philosophies without adequately refuting them. Why? Because, even though I am sure, most American do not agree but feel intimidated, or worse, are just too lazy.to resist.
What is happening is how the free become tyrannized. It might begin as a curable virus but eventually becomes an incurable cancer.
Suppose Hitler warned England he was going to bomb London and Churchill said "Don't." Would that have had an effect on how the Second World War went?
Suppose Obama had chosen not to call his action a policy rather than a treaty which came under the legislative responsibility of The Senate to vote up or down. Would Iran been free to proceed with building a nuclear bomb? Would that have changed the current scene?
Suppose Biden had enforced sanctions on Iran's ability to fund surrogate terrorists? Would Iran not have become emboldened and able?
Suppose FDR, knowing what was happening to European Jews, not chosen to look the other way, as he did, and instead said to Hitler "Don't." Would the Holocaust not occurred?
Suppose Biden, because of his weakness, which encouraged Iran to attack Israel, as they have, and then told Israel not to respond, as he has, Is that the message America's president should send to an ally faced with an existential threat?
Now let's turn away from matters involving the above and let's pose other questions to Trump Haters and to those who seek to destroy our institutions, the America way of life and consequently our republic.
Should we tolerate The FBI arresting and/or threatening parents at City Commission meetings, who thought they had a parental responsibility, yet instead, were told they were domestic terrorists?
Why have surgeons and pediatricians been allowed to become the American equivalent of Dr. Mengele's? Why have they been allowed to ask our children they have the exclusive right to choose whether they want to be mutilated without parental knowledge or permission?
Why have we allowed the elimination of a classical curriculum to be abandoned so our children can be indoctrinated with courses teaching them to hate our nation?
Why have historical statues been destroyed or hidden from public view? Does the phrase: "He who ignores history will repeat their mistakes" remain a rational operative?
Why do we flirt with Socialism, which has failed everywhere it has been tried, in preference to capitalism which has rewarded our nation with freedom of choice and untold wealth?
Why did we allow a president tell us we could keep our doctor and we remained silent, when we instinctively had no rational reason to believe him?
Why have American's allowed our constitutional guarantees to be savaged and in some instances so challenged we have become sheep like and afraid to stand up, be counted and push back.?
Has intimidation become so engrained we fear to respond because we remain a white society and cringe at the prospect of being called racists by radical bigots?
Why have we tolerated politicians to indebt our nation because of their desire to spend for the purpose of their own political self-interests?
Why have we tolerated liberals, who hypocritically express their empathy for those most impacted, to defund police departments?
What has happened to a society that once celebrated law and order and now considers theft and public disorder a misdemeanor?
Why do we allow those with long criminal records to return to the streets without bail, and worse, who are highly likely to commit even greater crimes?
Why have we allowed a president to open our nation's borders, thereby, allowing millions of illegals to gain entry which heightens national security risks, flood our country with drug traffickers, lawless gangs and cartels engaged in sexual exploitation of young girls?
By mow, I hope, if you have read this far , you not only agree I have not overstated the case but also cannot stand before a mirror without feeling some shame for not fighting back.
I certainly have some thoughts why we have allowed the above, and to bring this nation down to third world staus ,in many instances. I do believe we did not heed Ben Franklin who said we have a republic if we can keep it.
Well every once in a while you have to check your tires simply to see whether they are appropriately inflated.
Has America gone flat.
Tomorrow begins the Trump Trial. The District Attorney has a history of letting dangerous lethal criminals go free to commit further heinous crimes. Because he is a hatefully biased, morally corrupt prosecutor with a black chip on his shoulder who is attempting to stretch the law beyond recognition if only to disrupt Trump's ability to campaign.
By Mark Lewis
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Saudi Official: Iran 'Engineered' Gaza War to Blow Up Our Normalization Process With Israel
By Matt Vespa
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Boy am I in total disagreement with Sherwin
My response to his decision and e mail:
I am safe and you are exposed so it is easy for me to tell you I totally disagree with you.
The 192nd Day of War in Israel
No Need to Retaliate Against Iran
By Sherwin Pomerantz
Israel’s War Cabinet on Sunday recommended retaliating to the first-ever direct Iranian attack on the Jewish state, although they were divided on the scope and timing of the response, Reuters reported on Monday, citing Israeli officials. However, no final decision was made, per reports, and ministers were to reconvene at 2 p.m. today to continue deliberations. “We will build a regional coalition and exact the price from Iran in the fashion and timing that is right for us,” Minister Gantz said ahead of the meeting, which lasted over three hours.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Husseini Khamenei, wrote a message in Hebrew saying, "Holy Al-Quds (i.e. Jerusalem) will be in the hands of the Muslims, and the Muslim world will celebrate the liberation of Palestine," on his X account on Sunday. The tweet in Hebrew was written by the supreme leader of Iran above footage of missiles and drones that were intercepted in the sky over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The tweet comes following Iran's historic barrage against Israel, ending a four-decade long shadow war between the two countries. The barrage comprised around 350 drones and missiles.
On Sunday night, US House Majority Leader Steve Scalise spoke to The Jerusalem Post before unveiling a series of bills that express support for Israel and denounced Iran. As US forces intercepted missiles and UAVs Saturday night during Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel, Scalise announced he'd be rearranging the upcoming week's legislative schedule to bring bills and resolutions supporting Israel to the floor.
On Sunday evening, President Biden spoke with House leadership urging Congress to pass the Senate-passed national security supplemental bill which packages Israel aid including funding for Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific. Humanitarian aid for Gaza and Ukraine is also included in the Senate's bill.
As of Sunday night, House Speaker Mike Johnson is still negotiating with the White House on an Israel aid package, Scalise said, but there's a strong desire to get Israel aid passed this week. Johnson overnight agreed to bring the bill to a vote this week.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday issued a reminder that acts of reprisal involving the use of force are barred under international law after Iran’s attack on Israel, while the US warned the Security Council it would work to hold Tehran accountable at the UN. Guterres, speaking to a meeting of the UN Security Council, told member states that the UN charter bars the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state as he condemned Iran's attack on Israel and warned against further escalation. "The Middle East is on the brink. The people of the region are confronting a real danger of a devastating full-scale conflict. Now is the time to defuse and de-escalate," Guterres told the meeting, which was called after Iran’s attack.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to delay the IDF operation in Rafah in southern Gaza, Israel’s Kan News broadcaster reported Sunday night. According to information approved by the military censor, the initial date set by the government was postponed for undisclosed reasons. Kan News said it could not divulge additional details on the issue.
Also on Sunday, the IDF announced the call-up of two reserve brigades to reinforce troops carrying out targeted raids against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Following the IDF’s withdrawal of almost all ground forces from Gaza on April 7, the army has shifted into a new phase in the war against Hamas, which last week saw forces enter the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya as well as Nuseirat in the central Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has told IDF soldiers that the decision to withdraw troops was made in preparation for the looming offensive in Rafah, where Hamas’s final battalions are concentrated and where the senior leadership and remaining hostages are believed to be.
Regarding a retaliatory strike on Iran, my personal opinion is that there is no need to retaliate at all. Israel made a decision two weeks ago to attack a foreign government on its own soil. The fact that it was the Iranian Embassy compound in Damascus does not make it any less the territory of Iran than Tehran itself (Legally, the embassy of a country, wherever it is located, is considered sovereign territory of that country). This was an initiative of our government.
As expected, Iran retaliated in a forceful way by sending 60 tons of explosives towards Israel conveyed by rockets, missiles, UAVs and whatever else they had that could take to the air. We, along with a host of allies who also see Iran as a world disrupter, defended the onslaught and 99% of the rockets, missiles and UAVs that were launched were disabled before they reached us. Clearly a defeat for Iran, a success for us and a sign, for some of us, that the good Lord continues to protect us.
We proved that we could repel their attack, we showed their armaments were technically inferior to ours and successfully embarrassed their leadership and put their boasts to shame. We need do no more at this point in time as any further response runs the risk of escalating the fight into a regional war that none of us need. We have enough yet to do in Gaza and Lebanon without opening another active front.
Let us hope that our leadership will resist the very normal calls for retaliation and that they will take the “high road” at this point in time for the good and welfare of Israel and our still detained hostages.
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