The Israel-Hamas war poses an existential threat to Biden’s reelection bid

For President Joe Biden, it’s all about November 2024. The Israel-Hamas war came as an unwelcome diversion that has forced the Biden campaign to confront an unexpected and largely new problem: major division within the Democratic Party. 

Biden’s clumsy efforts to appease the pro-Palestinian wing of the party while maintaining his declared solidarity with the Jewish state proves it’s impossible to straddle the fence on such a hot-button issue. And despite Biden’s insistence that Israel has the right to defend herself, when forced to choose between offending the Palestinians or offending our closest ally in the Middle East, he routinely chooses the latter.

At a private fundraiser last week, Biden told donors that Israel was losing the support of the international community over its indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians. This refrain is nothing new. It’s been expressed repeatedly by Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and other administration officials since the war began.

The Biden administration is holding Israel to an impossible standard. As the IDF tries to adhere to the new U.S.-imposed rules of engagement, Israeli troops are paying the price. And Israelis are left wondering just whose side America is on. 

The typically unflappable Israeli journalist Caroline Glick highlighted Biden’s remarks in a recent podcast titled, “Biden has declared war on the Netanyahu government.” Responding to Biden’s comment that “Hamas does not represent all Palestinians,” she pointed out that 75% of Palestinians support Hamas. Among Palestinians who live in the West Bank, who don’t have to live under the “boot of Hamas” on a daily basis, support grows to 86%, Glick said.

She also noted that many Gazan “civilians” are part-time members of Hamas. They work for the terrorist group one day and go to their regular job the next. Currently, Hamas has employed Palestinian women to work as “sighters,” she said. When these women see IDF troops, they inform Hamas. 

Particularly disturbing to Glick was Biden’s renewed call for a Palestinian state. A two-state solution has been offered to Palestinians many times, and they have repeatedly rejected it. They want a one-state solution, a Palestinian state that extends from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

The long and bloodsoaked history of relations between the Jews and the Palestinians has proven that the two peoples cannot peacefully coexist. A two-state solution is simply impossible. 

We hear the Israelis repeatedly referred to as colonizers and occupiers by the pro-Palestinians. And, yes, there is a case to be made that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jews did “colonize” the land that Palestinians had inhabited for 1,300 years. But the validity of these charges depends entirely on how far back into history one cares to go. Jews were violently expelled from Israel, their ancestral home, in the sixth century BC. 

Following the Holocaust, the brutal reign of terror that resulted in the genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews, the United Nations understood that Jews needed a home where they could live in peace. The result was the establishment of a Jewish state. Since then, Arabs have sought to destroy Israel in three major wars, and each time Israel has prevailed. 

Since the dawn of history, territorial disputes have been settled on the battlefield. 

The Sioux Nation had inhabited the great plains of North America for several thousand years when they were displaced by American pioneers during the great westward expansion of the 1800s. It was tremendously unjust and cruel. But no one refers to midwesterners as colonizers. Nor do the conquered Native Americans continue a campaign of guerrilla warfare against their “oppressors.” 

Like it or not, war is part of life. And displacement is part of war. According to the New York Times, “Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.”

The Times notes: “In 2001, 40 million people were displaced from their homes because of armed conflict or human rights violations. … World War II displaced 40 million non-Germans in Europe, and 13 million Germans were expelled from countries in Eastern Europe.” 

In a recent segment, HBO’s Bill Maher drives the point home as only he can, telling his audience: “History is brutal, and humans are not good people. History’s sad and full of wrongs but you can’t make them unhappen because a paraglider isn’t a time machine. People get moved, and yes, colonized. 

“Nobody was a bigger colonizer than the Muslim army that swept out of the Arabian desert and took over much of the world in a single century. And they didn’t do it by asking,” Maher reminded us. “There’s a reason Saudi Arabia’s flag is a sword. Kosovo was the cradle of Christian Serbia, then it became Muslim. They fought a war about it in the 90s but stopped. They didn’t keep it going for 75 years.” 

So why do the Jews continue to be demonized? I came across the best answer yet from Tablet Magazine’s Liel Leibovitz: “It should be obvious by now that so many of the creeps who purport to weep for Palestine don’t really care about Palestinians, dead or alive, or about Israelis, or about the historical and moral intricacies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they want is an excuse to indulge in something deeper, more libidinal, ancient, and indeed erotic—hating Jews.”

More significantly, why is the Biden administration so intent on putting time limits on the war, holding Israelis to a higher standard than the Geneva Convention requires, and keeping the prospect of a two-state solution alive?

The answer is, sadly, political. This conflict is fracturing the Democratic Party, and the longer it continues the more it poses an existential threat to Biden’s reelection chances. Indeed, from now until Election Day, we can assume that all U.S. foreign policy decisions will be dictated by their anticipated effect on Biden’s reelection bid. 

 

A previous version of this article appeared in the Washington Examiner.

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1 thought on “The Israel-Hamas war poses an existential threat to Biden’s reelection bid”

  1. I chalk some of it up to simple envy–everybody hates the Jews because of how they seem to prosper in even the most adverse conditions through history, not seeing that they do it through hard work, personal sacrifice, doing jobs nobody else will (this is how so many got into finance, they were the ones who stepped up to do the work when everyone else thought handling money was “unclean” in the Middle Ages) and being resourceful turning other people’s trash into treasure.

    Examples:
    1. The 1948 Israeli Air Force was built from everybody’s garbage, cobbled together and upgraded with better than original parts wherever possible–you saw Bf109s, B-17s and Spitfires all flying side-by-side bearing the Star of David.
    2. Much of Israel’s domestic fighter production started as license-building various French Mirages. When the French cut that off because they wanted to leghump terrorists, Israel started by illegally ontinuing and then developed teir own better version, the Kfir.
    3. Similarly, they had a package to refit obsolescent F-4 Phantoms up to almost F-15 level, but DC stepped in and told them “you guys spike the Kurnass 2000 program or no more Eagles or Vipers for you.” So instead of giving US some of that money because the Kurnass program used American engines and many other items, many of the countries Israel was targeting as their market bought deep-discounted Fulcrums and Super Flankers and sent their money to the Kremlin instead.

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