My Essay Published And Received Some Comments From Those I Admire.

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The attached essay I wrote was published in American Thinker today (3/26.) If that was not reward enough, I received e mails from several  nationally known authors, in their own right, and whose courageous writing and thinking I admire and that made my day.

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Biden betraying Israel: Not if, but when

By Richard Berkowitz

I never doubted Biden would eventually stab Israel in the back.  I just never knew the method he would employ.  Failing to veto the U.N ceasefire proposal turned out to be his “thing.”

It is difficult to determine whether Biden truly knows what is happening because he sort of fades in and out and seldom answers questions in a straightforward manner.  He tends to do so over his shoulder as he rambles off the stage or exits the White House helicopter.  Even his eyes are masked by those green shades, which project his “Mister Cool” image.

Certainly, one can rightfully assume, some of Obama’s antipathy for Netanyahu and his Muslim  background rubbed off on Joe, and we know that radicals have gained great influence in the Democrat party, which has forsaken its historical associations with Hispanics, blacks, and even selected unions.  Democrats seem to have given up on these former identity political friends.  They have rebranded their messaging, which proved effective and consistently served them well, because they are masters at “feeling your pain.”  

Democrats even successfully turned urban women into their supporters, convincing them Trump’s locker room talk was more than they could digest while they willingly “swallowed” Bill’s escapades with that girl in the blue dress.

Finally, I believe Obama’s hangovers, who still walk the White House halls, remain influential, dropping their little poisons here and there, like Ben Rhodes, John Brennan, and their ilk.  So what is the next disassociation?  And will support of our closest and dedicated Middle East ally become a faded memory?  

There are several powerful Democrats who would love to see this come about.  Politics is a dirty business, and abandoning your friend, while he is down, is not a new D.C. phenomenon.  The fact that Blinken and Schumer were born Jewish is no great dependable comfort. They have proven to be convenient “switch”-blades, ready to become Obama’s and Biden’s lapdogs. Most particularly so when it comes to pacifying Iran.

Bibi recently fleshed out a sort of post-Gaza policy, which includes Israel’s willingness to expand its own aid to “suffering” Palestinians.  Not one virtuous Western nation seems to be pressing Hamas to do anything. Why?  Because all of them know it is useless, nor do they have the intestinal fortitude to even try, since they can get their pound of flesh from the “easier pickings” — Israel, or so they think.

In essence, the U.N., which has never been a friend of Israel, is demanding Israel allow Hamas its sought-after victory.  This victory remains costly for all who were engaged victims.  Meanwhile, Islamist terrorists seem able to demand and receive what they want because the world’s leadership is feckless and/or evil.

The Saudis have money but can’t be seen to “diss” the Palestinians.  America is bankrupt spiritually and almost financially as government  spending consumes virtually all of our GDP.  Biden loves financing capitalists, and capitalists, particularly at Intel last week, love receiving taxpayer largess because they failed to be innovative.  Will Boeing be next as its airplane doors (metaphorically) become unhinged?

NATO nations cannot even fund their pledges and are debating what to do about Ukraine, which has its , in need, hands out daily.

The picture is dour, and I have yet to discuss Trump’s personal issues, because this essay is about a corrupt president’s abandonment of a loyal friend and its citizenry.

However, my advice: Never count out Israel.  

First, the Israelis have nowhere else to go.  

Second, they are resourceful and have proven they know what it takes to pull rabbits out of yarmulkes.  

They have a historical relationship with a higher being who tests them all the time.  

Finally, they are an intelligent, democratic, technologically adept society, pitted against a corrupt, amoral, tribal lot led by even more corrupt, blood-thirsty heathen leaders.

I will put my shekels on Israel any day, and Lynn and I are doing just that through our exclusive charitable giving until Israel wins.

As for the U.N., Biden, Obama, Blinken, Brennan, Schumer, and the rest of the anti-Semites, I gladly give them the finger.

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Well said. Many thanks. Best wishes, M------ P-------Columnist. You’re right- in every particular. I don’t listen to podcasts- no time - except Dan Senor’s weekly  with Israel’ best journalist Haviv Gur.  Listen to the latest one: https://www.dansenor.com/podcast  You will LOVE it. E+++++A+++++ Thanks - Biden's failure to veto the ceasefire resolution in the  Security Council yesterday was yet another outrage. J--- B----- ++++++++++  Other responses from fellow memo readers: Israel alone Weep for America By MELANIE PHILLIPS Queue for rationed food in Jerusalem under siege, Israel War of Independence 1948 In my article here last week, I wrote that America was abandoning Israel. Today, the Biden  administration wrote its name in the annals of infamy by openly joining the axis of evil against  those defending civilisation. The UN Security Council has passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza  for the remainder of Ramadan, and the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli  hostages. Breaking with its historic policy by vetoing hostile resolutions at the UNSC  to protect Israel  against those working for its destruction and the defeat of the west, the US abstained today  and so the resolution was passed.  And of course the UK, the Biden administration’s poodle whose Foreign Secretary, Lord  Cameron, has been threatening Israel with an end to arms sales unless it does what he and  the US State Department are demanding, abstained alongside the US.  So both the US and UK are now aligned with the west’s foes Russia and China against Israel,  the sole defender of the west in the Middle East. What a disgrace. The resolution is obnoxious because it fails to condition a ceasefire on the release of the  hostages, thus destroying the chances of the latter actually occurring. Last Friday, the US brought forward a draft resolution which said the UNSC “unequivocally  supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts to secure such a ceasefire in connection with  the release of all remaining hostages” (my emphasis). That resolution’s linkage between a  ceasefire and the release of the hostages was the reason it was vetoed by China and Russia.  On that occasion, America’s ambassador to the UN ambassador declared:  We should not move forward with any resolution that jeopardises the ongoing [hostage]  negotiations. What a difference three days make. Today, the US National Security Council spokesman  John Kirby claimed that America’s abstention on today’s UNSC resolution didn’t amount to a  shift in the US requirement that a ceasefire must be obtained through a hostage deal. “We  have been consistent in our support for a ceasefire as part of a hostage deal,” he told  reporters. But today’s resolution does not make a ceasefire dependent on the release of the hostages.  It says instead that the UNSC “demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan  respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the  immediate and unconditional release of all hostages”. Either Kirby doesn’t understand the meaning of language, or he is lying. The US and UK have thus now voted for Israel to lose the war and for the hostages to  remain in captivity. An immediate ceasefire would mean Hamas is able to regroup and fight  on.  America’s now open opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza means that Hamas has zero  incentive to agree to the hostage deal currently under negotiation. As if to underscore the  point, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Ashdod today after a lull of two months. The UN has lost all credibility as a dispassionate world body committed to peace and justice.  It stands revealed instead as a front for Hamas and an enemy of the Jewish people. Its  Secretary-General, António Guterres, blamed the October 7 Hamas pogrom on Israel’s  behaviour. More than five months on, the UN has still failed to condemn those mass atrocities  perpetrated against Israeli civilians. In stark contrast, the UNSC immediately condemned  Friday’s deadly terror attack at a Russian concert hall.  Despite the discovery that every hospital in Gaza has been used as a Hamas base, and  despite the hundreds of Hamas terrorists arrested or killed these past few days in Gaza’s  Shifa hospital — from whose emergency room and burns unit, no less, they were firing at I sraeli troops — the UN has failed to condemn any of these abuses of medical facilities as  the war crimes they indubitably are.   Instead, thousands of its own UNWRA employees have been revealed to be Hamas  members or supporters. And the UN has been parroting as reliable the Hamas death totals  of Gaza civilians, even though these are patently ridiculous. The Biden administration and the UK have not only failed to push back against the UN’s  Hamas ties and lies; they have themselves bought into Hamas propaganda. Refusing to  acknowledge that most of the aid they’ve been pushing into Gaza has been stolen by Hamas  for its own ends, the US and UK have been falsely blaming Israel for blocking aid supplies. On the basis of the ludicrous Gaza death numbers dreamed up by Hamas, the UK and US  have been accusing Israel of causing a humanitarian catastrophe. Yet as Professor John  Spencer of West Point military academy and the former British army commander Richard  Kemp have both observed, with an estimated ratio of 1.5 civilians for every one combatant  killed Israel has achieved a lower total of civilians killed in war than any other army in world  history. By endorsing the demonisation of Israel based on the lies told by genocidal fanatics and their  panders in the UN, Cameron and the Biden administration are not just exhibiting a  malevolence they display towards no other country on earth. They are also fanning the f lames of the antisemitism roaring out of control in their own countries and over which they  so falsely wring their hands.   America has turned against Israel in this way because the Biden administration is determined  that the IDF should not bombard Rafah. The fact that Israel cannot defeat Hamas unless it  destroys the four remaining Hamas battalions hunkered down in the tunnels beneath Rafah  is dismissed. The fact that if Israel doesn’t defeat Hamas more Israelis will face being  butchered and taken hostage as they were on October 7 is of no concern to the Biden a dministration. It doesn’t care if Hamas survives to slaughter more Israelis. What concerns it  is Israel’s refusal to lose this war in the way the US wants it to. America is punishing Israel for a catastrophe that the Biden administration itself facilitated.  The atrocities of October 7 that started the war took place because Hamas’s patron, Iran,  correctly perceived that America would ultimately abandon Israel rather than itself get stuck  in.  If the Biden administration hadn’t shown such weakness in defending the interests of  the free world from Afghanistan to Yemen and Iraq and Ukraine, Hamas would not have  been unleashed on October 7. After the war started, despite the two aircraft carriers the US dispatched to the region, the  Biden administration responded to continued attacks by Iranian proxies — even against its  own interests —  with a mere limp wrist. It has done nothing to deter Iran’s proxy army  Hezbollah from bombarding northern Israel from Lebanon with hundreds of rockets and  anti-tank missiles.  It could have stopped the war in its tracks by telling Hamas’s protector Qatar that, unless it  instructed Hamas to release the hostages and surrender, the US would end its profitable r elationship and treat Qatar instead as a global pariah. Instead, the US is not only feeding I srael to its mortal enemies; by failing to use its muscle to end this war,  it is also facilitating  Hamas’s war crimes against the civilians of Gaza by using snuff movies of their distress to i ncite hysterical hatred of Israel in the west. Biden and Cameron fail to acknowledge that Israel is fighting in this manner because it has  no choice. With Hamas almost entirely underground, Israel cannot get at it in any other way.   If it doesn’t defeat Hamas, Israel will continue to face genocidal attack. Only by defeating  Hamas and killing or capturing its Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar, does Israel have any chance  of getting any of the hostages back. Only by defeating Hamas does Israel have any chance  of avoiding an infinitely more terrible all-out war with Hezbollah.  This is the rupture with America that some of us have seen coming for a very long time. But  the US and UK don’t realise what they have now done. This isn’t just about Israel. It’s also  about them.  The October 7 pogrom was a clear inflection point for the west. Would it support Israel in  the battle for civilisation against barbarism? Now we have the answer.  But there’s a deeper question. The UK is busily destroying itself by making a bonfire of its  historic culture and values. Its public administration has all but collapsed, its indigenous  people are dying out and it has lost control of its borders.  In the US vicious culture wars are raging, there are unbridgeable political and social divisions,  its elites have torn up its historic global mission of exceptionalism — and it has also lost  control of its border. Do the US and UK actually want to survive, or are they now in a death spiral? Throughout centuries of persecution, the Jewish people have survived against impossible  odds — while every civilisation that has tried to destroy them has disappeared. Whatever  horrors lie ahead, Israel will survive. The same certainty cannot apply to Britain and America.  Today has demonstrated that they don’t even know how to do so.  ++++ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/mar/25/netanyahu-recalls-delegation-washington-after-us-l/?utm_ campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_link&utm_source=email ++++ Loser of the UN Resolution: Biden By Seth Mandel  The pauper’s diplomacy of the Biden administration was on display today as it  facilitated the passing of a UN Security Council resolution heavily weighted  against Israel. Every minor concession to moral decency was rejected in favor of “an immediate  ceasefire for the month of Ramadan.” Beggars can’t be choosers, explained Biden’s  ambassador to the UN after abstaining from the vote, thus allowing the resolution  to pass: “We did not agree with everything in the resolution. For that reason we  were unfortunately not able to vote yes. However, as I’ve said before, we fully  support some of the critical  objectives in this non-binding resolution.” Let’s be crystal clear about why this was a bad resolution. Last week the U.S. put forth a version of the resolution that was vetoed by  Russia and China. That version asked for Security Council backing for “diplomatic  efforts to secure such a ceasefire in connection with the release of all remaining  hostages.” [emphasis added] If you don’t connect a long-lasting ceasefire to the release of the hostages, you  are telling Hamas to walk away from the negotiations led by the U.S. to secure  those two aims. After all, that same UN ambassador fumed at the time, “we should not move  forward with any resolution that jeopardizes the ongoing negotiations.” Russia’s deputy UN envoy disagreed, insisting that everyone should be  comfortable with telling the hostages to rot: “At the coordination stage, almost  all Security Council members expressed the view that the demand for an  immediate ceasefire should not be conditional on the release of hostages or  the condemnation of Hamas.” Today, the Biden administration declared Russia to be correct. Let the hostages  rot or else Joe Biden may lose a few thousand votes in Michigan. As for the cynical use of “Ramadan” in the ceasefire, the Biden administration  should be ashamed of itself for enabling it. The language implicitly portrays Israel’s  counteroffensive as a war of religious persecution, or at the very least contempt.  That alone will inflame the violent resistance to the mere survival of the Jewish  nation. Was there a Hanukkah resolution passed by the UNSC that demanded the  release of hostages?  Yesterday was Purim; the holiday came and went without a UNSC demand for  Hamas to at  least return the children it is holding. Next month is the holiday of  Passover, in which we recount our ancestors’ prolonged suffering while they  were held against their will. How does the godforsaken nest of cretinous trolls at  Turtle Bay plan to honor that one? Never mind. The reason the U.S. has, in the past, called for a ceasefire “as soon  as practicable” is that it did not want to privilege Hamas’s strategic positioning over Israel’s, even by accident. This isn’t a game of musical chairs, where the music  stops at random and the players sit where they stand. Once you insist on an  immediate stoppage, you must at least tie the ceasefire to the release of the  hostages or you have recklessly undermined Israel’s standing. Now the U.S.  has abandoned any reasonable requirements for a ceasefire, putting the onus  entirely on Israel and freeing Hamas from even  the pretense of moral responsibility. This will have consequences. Here at home, it will confirm that the president is a doormat not a doorstop. The protesters who follow him around accusing Biden of all manner of crimes against humanity will see this, correctly, as an invitation to kick him some more. In the naïve hopes of appeasing a faction of goosestepping goons, Biden will have instead rewarded their tactics and incentivized more of the same. Diplomatically, countries now know that they can simply wait Biden out. When the president says he believes something with every fiber of his being, they will  interpret that as “wait two months.” The president’s team’s insistence that he is  full of vim and vigor will be replaced by the certainty that this man is tired, so tired. The dwindling voices of moderation in his party will be at risk of demoralization  as well, seeing as the activists they thought were “fringe” are having their message championed successfully by Russia at the UN Security Council, with Biden’s  acquiescence. Not all of them will be demoralized, of course. “It’s appalling the U.S. allowed  passage of a resolution that fails to condemn Hamas,” said the conscience of the  Democratic Party, Sen. John Fetterman. “The UN has always been unwilling to  condemn this group of terrorists, cowards and rapists. We must stand with Israel  and stop pandering to the political fringe or Hamas apologists.” Fetterman isn’t  tired of people yelling at him, but he is in the minority. Finally, today’s gutless performance at the UN proved the administration’s  insistence that there is a way for Israel to win this war without going into Rafah,  where the remaining Hamas battalions are holed up, is just a ruse. Biden & Co. knew that facilitating the passing of this resolution would mean Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu would cancel the delegation he was sending to Washington  to hear some ideas for alternate strategies. Let’s be honest. There are no such  strategies to offer.  The idea is a fantasy. It was a diversion to waste time. Now the administration can  waste Israel’s time with UN resolutions while also blaming Bibi for canceling on  Biden. America’s allies have been put on notice. Taking the easy way out a couple  times can easily lead to a blanket policy of moral laziness, and the coalition of  democracies will have to either pick up the slack or cede the field to Russia,  China, and Iran. ++++ https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387362?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=nl Hamas rejects new proposal for hostage release  deal. Hamas claims "Israel did not respond to any basic demand" and  therefore it was decided to reject the proposal put forward by the  mediators last week. ++++