President Joe Biden recently met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the exchange was incredibly revealing.
While it didn't reveal anything about Israel's resolve to take out Hamas, the terrorist government of Gaza that massacred over a thousand people on October 7th, breaking a long-running ceasefire, what it did do is show where Biden's motivations truly lie. In short, it's not pretty or reassuring.
Hamas Leaves the 'Ceasefire Now' Lunatics Looking Like Abject Idiots
President Biden last week pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale down the Israeli military operation in Gaza, stressing he is not in it for a year of war, two U.S. officials told Axios.
Why it matters: Biden's comments during the two leaders' call last Friday reflect the growing U.S. concern about the continuation of the war and the president's desire to see it end long before the November elections.
A Biden adviser told Axios the White House is very concerned about losing young voters, many of whom are opposed to the president's policy on the Gaza war.
That is a shocking admittance of what is actually driving American foreign policy under the current administration. It's not a desire to do what is right in support of allies. It's not even a desire to execute a long-term security strategy that benefits the United States, of which the elimination of Hamas as a destablizing force in the Middle East clearly would. Rather, every position that is being taken is being taken for political reasons.
Compare Biden telling Israel that he's "not in it for a year of war" to the constant pronouncements to Ukraine that the United States will be there "as long as it takes." Clearly, the administration sees a political win in backing Ukraine, but what if there wasn't one to be had? Given how Israel is being treated, it's logical to assume Biden would be telling Volodymyr Zelensky to pound sand as well.
For all the talk about moral clarity that Biden and his defenders have spouted over the last several years, they don't really have any. It was all manufactured for political gain. Telling the Ukrainians their fight is just while essentially demanding the Jews surrender to terrorists and perpetual massacres because it might harm Biden with the youth vote proves it. There's no actual center or America-centric strategy. There is only the current president's re-election woes.
What does this say about the future of the United States, as well? Are we really at a place where a tiny minority of deranged terrorist simps get to dictate foreign policy? That certainly doesn't bode well for future decision-making.
Once again, I'd encourage Israel to ignore the noise. They've come this far, and they are going to get chastised either way. They might as well finish the job. Biden is a paper tiger with no political capital anyway. He has no leverage, not overseas and not with his own nation's Congress. Let him fret, and I for one sincerely hope Isreal destroying Hamas helps cost him the 2024 election. That would be poetic.