President Biden’s new demand that Israel ease up in its war on Hamas is a perilous and nonsensical cave to the growing anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party.
Nonsensical, because it endorses the utterly false notion that Israel’s being callous about the lives of ordinary Gazans.
Perilous, because the pressure to switch now to a “lower intensity” phase (as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan put it last week) in fact is a push to give up on destroying Hamas and allow it to regroup and gather strength.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in his trip to Jerusalem this week, made it sound better: Israel “has every right to defend itself” but “protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is both a moral duty and a strategic imperative.”
Hel-lo: Israel has been doing just that since the counterattack to Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities began.
The IDF warns Gazans of the areas it will be hitting, and provides ample evacuation time — even as Hamas does its level best to make sure that civilians stay in place, the better to maximize casualties.
Israel’s forces have engaged in surgically precise maneuvers like the entry into al-Shifa hospital, where soldiers went in with translators and medical teams and cleared the medical facility/Hamas operational base one hallway at a time.
Even their bombing is done to minimize civilian casualties.
That’s despite the best efforts of the media to paint it as the opposite.
Witness CNN, claiming in a recent story that the “unguided munitions” Israel is using “are typically less precise and can pose a greater threat to civilians, especially in such a densely populated area like Gaza” — before admitting, way down in the same article, that Israel in fact (and per the US government) is using these weapons carefully, with results “similarly precise to a guided munition.”
That slander lines up neatly with Biden’s recent “indiscriminate bombing” slur, debuted at a donor dinner, in which he threatened Israel in the same breath with loss of support.
It’s becoming painfully clear that the president is bending to the anti-Israel prejudices of his party’s left, even as the Jewish state fights for its survival.
He’s accepting — and reinforcing — the false narrative pushed by a terrorist organization and its enablers here in America.
When it comes to Biden’s political convenience, moral courage goes out the window.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
