Netanyahu Tells Biden He is ‘Determined’ to Move Forward with Rafah Operation
‘We see no way to eliminate Hamas militarily without destroying these remaining battalions.’
By Jack Elbaum, 3/20/23 CONTINUE
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A Small Step For President Biden In Gaza, A Big Step Towards Total War
By Yigal Carmon*
I rushed to hope that the U.S. would turn the Gaza port initiative into the first step in the move toward its comprehensive peace vision, in cooperation with the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority.
This was all based on the hope that Qatar, which is Hamas, would be ousted from any role in it, since it is a sponsor of Islamist terrorism worldwide. My hope was indeed consistent with the first reports about the port initiative. I termed it a "port of hope" and considered it a miracle that the Biden administration would take an actual step to implement its peace vision.
I proved to be damned wrong.
This administration betrayed its allies – the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Jordan – by handing the port over to Qatar, namely to Hamas.
By doing so, the U.S. has flipped sides, from Israel to Qatar. In fact, it has been like this for years, thanks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's collaboration with Qatar and Hamas, facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to Hamas-ruled Gaza, which Hamas used to build its military empire and caused the October 7 attack. By giving the port to Hamas, this administration has embraced its own enemy, Qatar, in place of its true allies, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan. (I listed all the Qatari terrorist-sponsoring anti-U.S. activity, and Qatar's connections with Iran, in my latest piece.)
The UAE and Saudi Arabia now realize that any engagement with this administration is hopeless. They will try to wait out President Biden, while moving further toward the other bloc, the bloc of multipolarity: Russia, China, and Iran.[1]
Russian President Vladimir Putin (front right) shakes hands with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani at the Kremlin (Source: Rferl, March 27, 2018)
Chinese President Xi Jinping holds talks with Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Aal-Thani, emir of Qatar, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, January 31, 2019. Prior to the talks, Xi held a welcome ceremony for Tamim at the Great Hall of the People. (Xinhua/Li Tao, January 31, 2019)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (left) welcoming Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani (right) at the presidential palace in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2022. (Credit Image: ©️ Iranian Presidency via ZUMA Press Wire)
Why did this happen, and what will be the repercussions?
First of all, it should be stressed that this was an American surrender that shows America's weakness to the world. What all anti-U.S. elements will take away from this tragic episode is not that America stands by its human values to support and care for the population of Gaza, but rather that America is weak and that this is why it is granting the port to Qatar and Hamas.
Why is it doing this? First, Israel failed to finish the job within a month or maximum two, which is the time span that the U.S. and the West can tolerate. Hamas, as always, used the Palestinians in Gaza as human shields, thus turning them, through inhumane cruelty, into unarmed and unwitting fighters on its side.
As a result, the West has attacked only Israel, forgetting even about October 7 and the hostages. All that mattered was the tragic human casualties among the Gazan civilian population. Theoretically, the West could adhere to its human values and to international laws of war and say that Hamas's savagery turns civilians into human shields and that therefore we continue to stand by Israel. But such a scenario is a hopeless dream.
Second, as the war continued, and with it the human toll, Israel did not provide the administration with the political horizon it so badly needed to justify its support for Israel – namely, that all these tragic casualties were for the sake of a peace agreement after the war.
Netanyahu wouldn't give it to the administration. Not that his argument – that one cannot speak about a peaceful solution before Hamas is ended – is invalid. In principle, it is valid: One cannot talk about a peace agreement while Hamas continues to exist. But the administration needed a different message for the upcoming presidential election, a message to counter all the protests against it. Netanyahu disregarded this partisan American need, and would not give the administration what it required.
So, the administration had no choice but to focus on humanitarian aid to mitigate the consequences of Israel's battle against Hamas, with its cost in human tragedy. The easiest and most convenient way was to hand this port initiative over to Qatar, which means Hamas.
Repercussions: Weakness Breeds Violence
The Biden administration believes that this small, seemingly insignificant step would grant it a second-rate achievement for November (if not a ceasefire and an agreement, then at least an end to the humanitarian tragedy) that will allow it to eke out a Democratic victory. In reality, its betrayal of its true ally will produce the opposite result.
First of all, via humanitarian aid, Qatar, namely Hamas, will maintain control of the population.
With this small step, the U.S. is surrendering the population into Hamas's hands. As a result more Israeli soldiers will be killed, as well as more Palestinian. And that will cause a wider conflagration.
But the American weakness will breed violence on a far larger scale. All the anti-U.S. forces in the region will now understand that America is weak and fails to stand by its allies – and thus the time is right to throw them out of their bases across the Middle East.
The clash on Israel's northern border will escalate all the way to a comprehensive war with Hizbullah.
The Houthis will intensify their attacks. All of Iran's proxy militias will escalate their attacks on American bases in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan, and Iran will continue to claim that they are acting independently (which is a joke).
Come November, the Biden administration will be faced with a total regional war – not only against Israel but also against America. (And of course it will have no political achievement to show in the Middle East with regard to the war.)
What can we expect to see on the global scene? As a result of America's weakness, as demonstrated in Gaza, Russia will expand its war in Ukraine, with open threats about a nuclear war if NATO reacts. And China will escalate its violent pressure against Taiwan, and against the Philippines in the South China Sea.
Nothing succeeds like success. Nothing fails like failure. The Israeli and American failure in Gaza will set off a total war just before the election. All the anti-U.S. forces will think that this is their time and their chance. America is weak and will not dare to enter into world wars, particularly before the election.
Handing over the port to Qatar, i.e. Hamas, is a small, seemingly insignificant step for one man, President Biden, but one giant leap towards total war.
*Yigal Carmon is Founder and President of MEMRI
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William
A.Galston
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s much-discussed speech on Israel last week captured two contradictory sentiments among Democratic supporters of Israel: fear for the Jewish nation’s survival and deep misgivings about its conduct in Gaza. Although Hamas’s strategy of using civilians as human shields is a war crime under international law, the Israel Defense Forces’ destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure raises questions about proportionality, and no decent person can view images of starving children without revulsion. At a minimum, Israel has a responsibility to help facilitate an international effort to avoid famine in Gaza. Mr. Schumer was right to call on Israel to do more, provided measures can be devised to prevent Hamas from diverting aid.
Mr. Schumer was also on solid ground when he criticized the presence of extreme right-wingers in the Israeli government, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Both have used rhetoric and pushed policies that raised tensions between Palestinians and Israelis on the West Bank while undermining Palestinian institutions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought them into his cabinet because, having made himself unacceptable to centrist parties, he had nowhere else to turn to build a governing coalition. He has tried to restrain their most extreme behavior by restricting their authority, but with limited success.
Many Israelis agree that Mr. Netanyahu has placed his political survival above other considerations—such as reducing social discord—that should have taken priority. This helps explain why a January poll found that only 15% of Israelis want him to continue as prime minister after the war—and why the current government would lose its majority and suffer devastating losses if elections were held tomorrow. Few Israelis want it to last until late 2026, the statutory date for new elections.
Still, Mr. Schumer went too far when he called for a new Israeli election “once the war starts to wind down,” an earlier timetable than most Israelis are ready to endorse. Besides, he was wrong to raise the issue at all. Israel is a sovereign nation with robust if imperfect democratic institutions. It isn’t a banana republic, as Mr. Netanyahu said in his tart response on CNN.
Unlike in the U.S., the timing of Israel’s elections is shaped as much by political as by legal considerations. Israelis have the right to decide when to hold elections, free from external pressure, which Mr. Schumer unwisely threatened in his eagerness to unseat Mr. Netanyahu.
The majority leader also misreads Israeli public opinion. Like many U.S. politicians, he seems unaware of the vast changes in Israeli sentiment since the collapse of the Oslo accords in 2000. The gravamen of his speech was the familiar call for a two-state solution, which Jewish Israelis reject by a margin of about 2 to 1, even if accompanied by U.S. security guarantees and a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia. “Call me an optimist,” Mr. Schumer said in his speech. Others would be less generous.
Israeli sentiments about the war in Gaza are no less challenging for American liberals. Nearly three-quarters of Jewish Israelis favor extending military operations to Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold, where more than a million Gazans have taken refuge. Two-thirds of Jewish Israelis polled in February opposed more humanitarian aid for Gaza “at this time,” even if delivered through organizations unrelated to Hamas or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The U.S. should disregard this sentiment, but our leaders should try to understand why it has taken hold.
A slight majority of Jewish Israelis polled in February even favored expanding hostilities to include a northern front against Hezbollah, as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has urged. In this respect, Mr. Netanyahu has been a moderating influence.
During the two decades since the second intifada, Mr. Netanyahu managed to convince Jewish Israelis that he could ensure their security by containing Palestinian ambitions for a state, gradually normalizing Israel’s existence, and striking deals with Arab governments that feared Iran more than they despised Israel. Because this strategy seemed to be working during the Trump administration, he lulled his people—and himself—into a false sense of security that lasted until the Oct. 7 massacre.
Trapped between the failed hopes of the left and the right, many Israelis are unsure of the path forward. In the short term, they support measures that make them feel safer. But they won’t forgive Mr. Netanyahu for the overconfidence and inattention that brought them to this moment—or for his refusal to accept responsibility for it.
After the war ends and an official commission of inquiry issues its report, Israelis may well be in a mood to think anew about the policies that would best serve their country's long-term interests. Until then, advice from American leaders such as Mr. Schumer will fall on deaf ears.
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Terrorist Plotting NYC Attack Stopped at Border
(RepublicanReport.org) – Illicit drugs, illegal migrants, trafficked persons, and terrorists continue flooding across the nation’s borders in increasingly alarming numbers. The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service reported more than 3.2 million encounters in 2023. Stunningly, the CBP has already encountered nearly 1.24 million individuals in fiscal year 2024 as of March 18. Recent reports indicated that agents stopped a foreign terrorist at the border who was plotting an attack on New York City.
On March 17, media outlets reported that CBP agents captured a Lebanese migrant while he was attempting to cross the border into the United States in Zone 24, near El Paso, Texas, on March 9. Officials transferred Basel Bassel Ebbadi to the El Paso Sector Hardened Facility (EPT-EHF) for “further processing and investigation.” Shortly after his arrival, the 22-year-old admitted to being a member of Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group.
Medical officials at the EPT-EHF asked Ebbadi why he attempted to cross into the United States. He responded that he was “going to try to make a bomb” once he gained entry. Personnel immediately placed him in isolation and contacted Tactical Terrorism Response Team (TTRT) investigators. Officers from the Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF) later joined TTRT agents to question Ebbadi.
Ebbadi told TTRT and JTTF investigators that he originally planned to travel to New York City and later travel around the country. He also admitted that he spent roughly seven years training with Hezbollah and guarded weapons storage sites for the terrorist group for an additional four years as an active member.
Ebbadi later changed his story and claimed he was captured after he fled Lebanon and Hezbollah. He told investigators he “didn’t want to kill people” anymore. However, he said, “Once you’re in [Hezbollah], you can never get out.”
News outlets reported that internal CBP documents showed that Ebbadi was marked for deportation. However, it remains unclear where they plan to send him.
Copyright 2024, RepublicanReport.org
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No matter how much evidence of corruption is revealed and no matter how many times the entire Biden family lies the equally corrupt DOJ will make sure they escape prison and impeachment.
Therefore, it depends upon "We the people" to vote 'The Man' out of office, garner enough votes in a smashing election and subsequently impeach him.
If found guilty, Trump could pardon him as an act of compassion, and that would also return some honor to our judicial system.
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Tony Bobulinski: Joe Biden Was ‘the Brand’
Excerpts from the written testimony of Hunter Biden’s business partner.
These are excerpts from the written testimony of Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, submitted to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Tuesday. Mr. Bobulinski is scheduled to testify before the committee Wednesday. Joe, Hunter and Jim Biden have disputed some of Mr. Bobulinski’s allegations.
I want to be crystal clear: From my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was “the Brand” being sold by the Biden family. His family’s foreign influence peddling operation—from China to Ukraine and elsewhere—sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.
Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.
If there is no evidence of corruption—if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper—then why are they so dishonest about it? Not just slight misrepresentations of fact but deep untruths about the entire corrupt enterprise.
Hunter Biden gave his transcribed interview to the House Oversight Committee on February 28 and lied throughout his testimony. Here are just three key examples of his perjury:
1. In Hunter’s transcript (Page 42), he states, “I officially began to do work for CEFC when the—when I received a retainer from CEFC in early—or spring of 2017.”
Why, then, did Hunter yell at CEFC Executive Director Zang in front of his entourage as I sat right next to him in New York City on Sunday May 7th, 2017? Hunter was adamant that he was owed the rest of the $20 Million CEFC had committed to paying for the work he had claimed he had done in prior years.
2. On Page 48 of his transcript, Hunter is asked, “He’s never interacted with any of your business associates. Is that correct?” The “He’s” is a reference to Joe Biden.
Hunter responds, “Yes.”
Hunter arranged the meeting between his father and me at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017. The sole reason Hunter wanted me to meet his father was because I was the CEO of Sinohawk, the Bidens’ partnership with CEFC. I was a business associate. In his transcript, Hunter confirms that that meeting with Joe took place and incriminates his Uncle Jim for perjury by confirming it.
3. Hunter also lied to the Committee about important details concerning his money demands and threats to CEFC on July 30 and July 31, 2017. He leveraged his father’s presence next to him in that infamous text in order to strong-arm CEFC into paying Hunter immediately, and in the process defrauded the partners of Sinohawk Holdings LLC and Oneida Holdings LLC. The threat worked, as a few days later the Chinese wired $5 million dollars into a company of which Hunter owned 50%. It’s important to remember that the CEFC considered this money an interest-free loan to the “Biden family,” and planned to send more. I have the email from CEFC to prove it.
Jim Biden also lied extensively throughout his transcribed interview before the Oversight Committee on February 21, and ironically, Hunter Biden—in his own testimony as outlined above—confirmed that Jim Biden perjured himself:
1. Jim has been selling “plausible deniability” for so many years he can’t tell truth from the lies. On Page 100 of his transcript, he is asked: “Do you recall having a meeting with Hunter Biden, and Tony Bobulinski and Joe Biden?”
Jim’s response: “Absolutely not.”
The Committee was so shocked by his perjury they tried to ask the question again in a slightly different way:
“It’s your testimony here today that meeting never took place?”
Jim responds, “Yes sir,” “that I was present for.”
The Committee tried again: “Do you recall whether you were at the bar with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski and Joe Biden?”
Jim responds: “That I know did not happen.”
Jim adds further, “But my brother was never there.”
On Page 134, delusional Jim Biden reiterates his untruthful answer again after the Committee showed him messages confirming I met with Joe Biden.
Jim Biden states, “Joe Biden never met with Tony Bobulinski.”
That is just a flat-out lie.
2. On Page 124 of his transcript, Jim Biden states, “It was Hunter Biden, myself, Gilliar. I don’t know. It was the five. Okay? And everybody was 20 percent. Okay? You know what was never executed. It was never signed.”
Jim was then presented with a fully executed copy of the Oneida Holdings operating agreement that he and I had both signed along with Hunter Biden, Mr. James Gilliar and Mr. Robert Walker. On Page 132, Jim tries to claim he was not a member of Oneida Holdings.
Jim is so dedicated to his lies that he describes the Oneida document, a large legal document signed by the Biden business partners, as something that I might have come up with after drinking a “quart of gin” (Page 124). It’s absurd.
3. Jim Biden further lies by claiming “Bobulinski was trying to usurp and replace Hunter Biden.” (Page 123)
Hunter Biden, Robert Walker, James Gilliar and Jim Biden asked me to step in as CEO of the business. I did not ask them. I tried to walk away from Sinohawk multiple times only to be convinced to stay on, including on one occasion by Jim Biden himself. The company was controlled by a Board of which the 4 of them could out-vote me on anything. They had control of the company. . . .
Why is Joe Biden blatantly lying to the American people? . . . If he were doing nothing wrong, why go through this insane exercise of obstructing and denying obvious facts?
The reason is because the Biden family’s profiting of tens of millions of dollars from our strategic opponents and corrupt individuals and entities around the world—without delivering any goods or services and while putting in minimal effort and work—causes Americans to rightly question any policies from this administration that apparently benefit those same strategic opponents and corrupt individuals and entities. Just read the latest motion by the Department of Justice related to Hunter Biden’s criminal indictments in California; the DOJ states that he made large sums of money for very little work.
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Don’t blame Israel for the surge in anti-Semitism
The idea that letting Hamas off the hook will ease the plight of American Jews being targeted by left-wing Jew-haters is as illogical as it is shameful.
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN
For liberal Jewish critics of Israel, the post-Oct. 7 world has been difficult to navigate. The international campaign to smear the defensive war being waged against terrorists bent on both the destruction of the Jewish state and the mass slaughter of its people has put them in a corner. The wave of Jew-hatred that has spread across the globe, and specifically in the United States in the streets and on college campuses, has targeted them and their children as much as any other sector of Jewish society.
Worst of all, it’s not their traditional political foes on the right or even Donald Trump who is doing this. It is, instead, their longtime allies on the left who are responsible. They have embraced a virulent form of antisemitism but believe that their hatred is justified by woke ideologies like critical race theory and intersectionality that brand Israel and the Jews as “white” oppressors.
Rather than acknowledge this, some liberals find it easier to point to Israel for their troubles.
Internalizing hatred
That’s the conceit of a recent column in The Forward by Rob Eshman that is noteworthy not so much because of its spurious arguments, but because it is just the latest example of how a considerable number of Jews have always responded to antisemitism. Instead of acknowledging the truth about those who seek to single out the Jews and their state for discrimination and violence, there are always going to be some who internalize this hatred and seek to blame the victims for being targeted.
Eshman is far from the first to claim that Israel’s allegedly bad behavior is endangering Jews. But in the wake of the Oct. 7 mass murders, rapes and other atrocities by Hamas terrorists who openly call for Jewish genocide, it takes a particularly delusional mindset to think that the open contempt for Jewish rights and safety that has become mainstream discourse in America in recent months can be rolled back by Israelis treating those trying to kill them more gently. To imagine, as he does, that the mobs on the streets of America’s cities and college campuses chanting for the Jewish state’s destruction (“from the river to the sea”) or for terrorism against Jews wherever they live (“globalize the intifada”) can be made less dangerous if only Israel could act in a manner that would generate more sympathy from its liberal critics is not only wrongheaded. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about why Israel is being bashed for its post-Oct. 7 conduct.
Eshman says he doesn’t want to rationalize or excuse anti-Semitism and wants open acts of anti-Semitism to be condemned. He also accepts that there are some people out there who wish Jews ill no matter what they do. Still, he insists that Jewish actions—and in particular, Israeli military tactics—can impact the amount of anti-Semitism that nice American Jews who want to be loved by the left, and seen as friends and colleagues, are experiencing. And, as foolish as his argument may be, it probably reflects the way many American Jews are feeling right now.
Acceting the lies about Israel
The first flaw in his reasoning is the way he accepts without much argument the smears of the Israel Defense Forces’ counter-offensive in Gaza. Once the big lie that Israel is conducting genocide against the Palestinians has been accepted, then all is lost. If, instead of mimicking corporate media pundits like The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof, he did some actual reporting about how Israel fights, he would know that far from conducting a “brutal approach to civilian casualties” that deserves the world’s condemnation, the IDF takes more care to avoid harm to non-combatants than any other modern army in recent history. Honest journalists are pushing back against the fake statistics produced by Hamas, not blindly accepting them.
To even go down this road when attempting to cope with antisemitism is a mistake. Those who demonize Israel and treat its every measure of self-defense as illegitimate are not really interested in the details of the fighting in Gaza any more than they care about those of any other war that has been fought in recent history. For all of the attempts to hype the carnage in the Gaza Strip as some sort of historic barbarity, what is happening there is nothing when compared to the toll of deaths and displacement caused elsewhere in places like Syria, let alone the Chinese government’s genocidal campaign against Muslim Uyghurs.
The only reason anyone cares about the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza is because the Jews can be blamed for them, even if they are happening in the course of a defensive war started with murder, rape, torture and kidnapping by the people who now claim to be its chief victims.
Jews don’t cause anti-Semitism
The problem with the attempt to blame Israel for the targeting of American Jews is more fundamental. As in every past outbreak of antisemitism, the cause is never anything the Jews do or don’t do. Jews have been hated for being rich and for being poor; for assimilating and for standing apart. But the attempt to look within for the reason why Jews are hated is always a fool’s errand. Anti-Semitism is always about the anti-Semites.
The notion that Eshman and liberals like him grasp at—that a kinder, gentler Israeli would be less hated—is as tragically blind as those who thought previous foes who sought the end of Jewry could be appeased.
After all, the so-called progressives didn’t even wait until Israel began its push into Gaza to begin flipping the narrative from one about a Hamas war launched against Israel to one about Palestinian victimhood. Nor do those who spread falsehoods about Israelis conducting a “genocide” bother much with the actual facts about what the IDF is doing on the ground.
Going soft on Hamas won’t silence the anti-Semites. It will just encourage them to believe that their fantasies about erasing Israel are that much closer to coming true.
Some on the Jewish left want to carve out a position where they can retain their liberal bona fides while not crossing over to the camp of Jewish anti-Semites and anti-Zionists, such as those who are part of the Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow groups that have trafficked in blood libels against Jews for the last decade. Like Eshman, they say that support for a ceasefire now and an end to the war followed by pressure on Israel to accept a Palestinian state is the proper response to Oct. 7, as well as a way to tamp down the storm of antisemitism. Eshman thinks that a push for a “just compromise” with the Palestinians that would empower the very forces that are responsible for the Oct. 7 pogroms is the answer. That is something that the overwhelming majority of Israelis think is not just unwise but sheer madness.
The problem with this line of thought isn’t just its lack of realism or a desire to wish away an intractable conflict that is rooted in pure hatred of Jews. He quotes the left-wing Israel author Yuval Harari with approval when he says that the real struggle is not the obvious existential one against those who seek the death and displacement of Jews. Instead, he seeks to revive the divisive arguments about judicial reform that tore Israel apart last year as the Jewish left tried to spin its own desire to hold onto unaccountable power as one of enlightened Jews resisting the benighted right-wing and religious Israelis, who win elections but should still be ruled by their left-wing betters.
Eshman and Harari both seem to think the problem is not Hamas but right-wing Jews who see a “contradiction” between Jewish and Palestinian rights. Like previous generations of Jews who tried to bargain their way out of being targeted, they see the issue as one in which “bad Jews” are doing things for which the “good Jews” are being unfairly blamed.
Nevertheless, the problem is that the Palestinians—both the “moderates” and Hamas—all define their rights in a way that denies those of the Jews. For them, it is a zero-sum game and always has been. It is only liberal Jews who have tried—and failed—to wish this reality away. That was the conceit behind the colossal failure of the Oslo Accords and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza in the summer of 2005 that ultimately made the slaughter of Oct. 7 possible.
Yet rather than confront that reality, Eshman prefers to pretend that more trading of land for terror, as Israel did in the past, would somehow do the trick this time, even if doing so now is not just immoral but an invitation to more mass slaughter. He sees Israel’s determination to eliminate Hamas and those American Jews who support that rational goal as the reason why anti-Semitism has become such a problem.
This is as shameful as it is illogical.
Israel and its supporters are in no way responsible for the anti-Semitism we are witnessing in the United States. The Jew-haters who support the Islamist war against Jewish life are the only ones to blame.
Liberal Zionists cannot have it both ways. They can’t claim to be for peace while calling for a ceasefire that will leave the greatest enemies of peace—Hamas—still standing and ready to make good on their pledges to repeat the devastation of Oct. 7. They can either stand with Israel against leftists who are ideologically opposed to Jewish rights or they can join the anti-Zionists who seek to legitimize left-wing anti-Semitism.
What’s more, they need to understand that their efforts to undermine Jewish self-defense by blaming Israel are only encouraging Hamas and its apologists. It is liberal Jews who, even after the calamity that took place in southern Israel seek to judge the Jewish state, are in the wrong. It is they who, whether intentionally or not, are aiding the efforts of the terrorists to win this war and making it even less likely that Palestinians will ever undergo the sea change in their political culture, which might eventually make a compromise solution possible.
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